The document discusses PowerVC network and storage management. It provides tips for configuring Shared Ethernet Adapters and VLANs when using PowerVC. It also covers zoning best practices when using PowerVC with storage arrays. The document discusses how PowerVC uses OpenStack data sources and cloud-init to provision virtual machines and pass configuration information. It also addresses changing virtual machine PVIDs when using PowerVC-provisioned instances.
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This set of slides showcases how you can interact with PowerVC via its OpenStack-based REST APIs. It also demonstrates how to mimic the REST APIs made from your web browser in familiar command line utilities like curl.
Software-Defined Data Center Case Study – Financial Institution and VMwareVMware
In this case study, a large financial institution engaged the VMware software-defined data center team to create a three-to-five year forward-looking strategy document for its IT department. The overriding business driver for the institution was the need for a drastic reduction in IT OpEx Costs, at least a 50% OpEx annualized cost reduction over a three-year period. This presentation explains how VMware Accelerate Advisory Services established the necessary strategy, including a look at the “cloud reference architecture,” which addressed the: application plane, control plane, infrastructure layer, and management plan.
• Semplifica l’ambiente di virtualizzazione per i sistemi IBM Power
• Aumenta la produttività dell’amministratore di Sistema
• Consente di replicare e creare rapidamente nuove VMs
• In fase di rilascio nuove funzioni e capacità di ripristino
Session Description:
In this session, Ravi Described some use cases about harmonizing Ceph storage with Apache CloudStack for a CloudStack infrastructure setup. This includes using primary and secondary storage for CloudStack, synchronizing and rendering VM snapshots accessible across remote zones, fortifying storage for disaster recovery, and upholding client VM data backup.
Speaker Bio:
Ravichandran has 15+ years of technical expertise in Linux and Cloud solutions in Assistanz Networks Private Limited. Ravi is currently leading Business Development at Apache CloudStack consulting, Storage solutions and Stackbill CMP product.
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On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This set of slides showcases how you can interact with PowerVC via its OpenStack-based REST APIs. It also demonstrates how to mimic the REST APIs made from your web browser in familiar command line utilities like curl.
Software-Defined Data Center Case Study – Financial Institution and VMwareVMware
In this case study, a large financial institution engaged the VMware software-defined data center team to create a three-to-five year forward-looking strategy document for its IT department. The overriding business driver for the institution was the need for a drastic reduction in IT OpEx Costs, at least a 50% OpEx annualized cost reduction over a three-year period. This presentation explains how VMware Accelerate Advisory Services established the necessary strategy, including a look at the “cloud reference architecture,” which addressed the: application plane, control plane, infrastructure layer, and management plan.
• Semplifica l’ambiente di virtualizzazione per i sistemi IBM Power
• Aumenta la produttività dell’amministratore di Sistema
• Consente di replicare e creare rapidamente nuove VMs
• In fase di rilascio nuove funzioni e capacità di ripristino
Session Description:
In this session, Ravi Described some use cases about harmonizing Ceph storage with Apache CloudStack for a CloudStack infrastructure setup. This includes using primary and secondary storage for CloudStack, synchronizing and rendering VM snapshots accessible across remote zones, fortifying storage for disaster recovery, and upholding client VM data backup.
Speaker Bio:
Ravichandran has 15+ years of technical expertise in Linux and Cloud solutions in Assistanz Networks Private Limited. Ravi is currently leading Business Development at Apache CloudStack consulting, Storage solutions and Stackbill CMP product.
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On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.
[SC03] Active Directory の DR 対策~天災/人災/サイバー攻撃、その時あなたの IT 基盤は利用継続できますか? de:code 2017
大規模災害や管理者のオペレーションミス、標的型攻撃による管理者アカウントの乗っ取りなど、様々な理由で Active Directory や Azure Active Directory が正常に利用できなくなった場合に IT 管理者はどうすれば良いのか、事前に何を準備しておけば良いのかの対策について具体例を交えて紹介致します。
受講対象: Active Directory の設計と運用を担当するエンジニア
製品/テクノロジ: Microsoft Azure/アイデンティティ (AD/Azure AD)/クラウド/事業継続/運用/セキュリティ
渡辺 元気
NTTコミュニケーションズ株式会社
クラウドサービス部
主査
MySQL Enterprise Backup - BnR ScenariosKeith Hollman
A quick intro of what MEB is, but then a more hands-on approach to how to backup MySQL, what options are available and then how to restore accordingly.
WWPN determination for DS3000 DS4000 DS5000 DSS6000 DS8000 Storwize V7000 and XIV
How to work out where a WWPN is coming from.
How to predict what a WWPN will be.
SAID determination for PPRC links
IO Port Number determination
[SC03] Active Directory の DR 対策~天災/人災/サイバー攻撃、その時あなたの IT 基盤は利用継続できますか? de:code 2017
大規模災害や管理者のオペレーションミス、標的型攻撃による管理者アカウントの乗っ取りなど、様々な理由で Active Directory や Azure Active Directory が正常に利用できなくなった場合に IT 管理者はどうすれば良いのか、事前に何を準備しておけば良いのかの対策について具体例を交えて紹介致します。
受講対象: Active Directory の設計と運用を担当するエンジニア
製品/テクノロジ: Microsoft Azure/アイデンティティ (AD/Azure AD)/クラウド/事業継続/運用/セキュリティ
渡辺 元気
NTTコミュニケーションズ株式会社
クラウドサービス部
主査
MySQL Enterprise Backup - BnR ScenariosKeith Hollman
A quick intro of what MEB is, but then a more hands-on approach to how to backup MySQL, what options are available and then how to restore accordingly.
WWPN determination for DS3000 DS4000 DS5000 DSS6000 DS8000 Storwize V7000 and XIV
How to work out where a WWPN is coming from.
How to predict what a WWPN will be.
SAID determination for PPRC links
IO Port Number determination
Selecting an ERP package is no small task. Your decision will stand for decades and must be the right fit in terms of function, vendor capability, and implementation cost.
SR-IOV ixgbe Driver Limitations and ImprovementLF Events
SR-IOV is a device virtualization technology, it’s mainly used for improving network performance of virtual machines. However, SR-IOV has some limitations which come from hardware and/or driver implementation. For certain use case, such as Network Function Virtualization(NFV), those limitations are critical to provide services. Intel 10Gb NIC, Niantic(82599), has such limitations(e.g. VLAN filtering, multicast promiscuous) for NFV use case.
This presentation will show the limitations and issues and how they are being addressed, then explain how implements VF multicast promiscuous mode support in ixgbe driver and VF trust, iproute2 functionality enhancement.
This presentation was delivered at LinuxCon Japan 2016 by Hiroshi Shimamoto
VMworld 2013: What's New with VMware Workstation VMworld
VMworld 2013
Jason Joel - VMware
Kapil Kasetwar – VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
A Hyper-V Monitoring Plugin that allows you to control Hyper-V virtual architectures easily. For more information visit the following webpage: http://pandorafms.com/index.php?sec=Library&sec2=repository&lng=es&action=view_PUI&id_PUI=587
2689 - Exploring IBM PureApplication System and IBM Workload Deployer Best Pr...Hendrik van Run
IBM IMPACT 2013 presentation
This lecture will provide an overview of a combination of design, development, configuration and deployment best practices for IBM PureApplication System and IBM Workload Deployer captured from customer engagement experiences.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
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Speakers:
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Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Power vc for powervm deep dive tips & tricks
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PowerVC for PowerVM Deep Dive
Tips & Tricks
Benoît Créau
Aix System Engineer
@chmod666 chmod666org http://chmod666.org benoit.creau@chmod666.org
I’m also creating tools that can be useful for you, this includes an nmon grapher called nmon2graphite. One off my very popular tool is called lsseas. This one show details about the SEAS
I had the chance to participate in the writing of the lastest Redbook about PowerVC. This one is very complete and useful if you are a expert or a PowerVC beginner have a look on it !
My experience from the field after using PowerVC during one year since the very first release (I’m today using it in production)
1 – We will talk about how PowerVC is managing the Virtual I/O Server and particularly the Sharded Ethernet Adapters , you’ll see in this section that there a couple of things that are not so obvious and that needs to be clarified
2 – Same story for storage management, here I’ll only talk about what I really now. I’m using Storage Volume controller with San brocades switches and there are a couple of things to know on how configuration and using the Storage in PowerVC
3 – We will here details how the activation is working. You don’t need to know that to use powervc but it can be useful to know how it really works and what PowerVC is doing at the activation time
4 – I discover a couple of interesting things while using PowerVC, one of this thing is how disks PVID are managed
5 – As cloud it will be the official activation engine for AIX I’ll try here to give you some details on how it works and how to configure it (the documentation on the official website has a lot of missing things)
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Many customers have a slot numbering convention. In a PowerVC environment this slot numbering convention can’t be maintain.
One the image below (which is an output of the tool lsseas showing details about Shared Ethernet Adapter) you can see that this SEA was created with four VEA, a fifth one was added automatically be PowerVC
But what about buffer (as far as I know almost all customers change the SEA VEA buffer size)
As PowerVC is creating the Virtual Ethernet Adapter used by SEA for you, this one are created with default attributes
Prepare you Virtual I/O Servers before managing them with PowerVC
On the example on the screen you can see that you can use the chdef (I said chdef not chdev) to change the default value of the attributes of the Virtual Ethernet Adapters.
This is also applicable to any other devices (vscsi adapter, virtual fibre channel adapters and so on).
In the next version of the Virtual I/O Servers you can also use the rules.
Rules is a new command that allow you to define how adapters are created, but is also checking that this attributes are ok after during the life of the Virtual I/O Server.
Just run a rules –o diff and rules dash o deploy to check the attribute
I assume that most of you are using Shared Ethernet Adapter in sharing mode. Unfortunatly in the current version of PowerVC there is a bug. When PowerVC is removing the last vlan of a VEA it also remove the adapter if this one is not needed anymore). In the case of an SEA in sharing this one needs to have at least two VEA available to work …. And PowerVC keep at least only on VEA (if you reboot the virtual I/O Server at this the the sea will be in Define state) and you’ll have to correct this by hand
There is a way to disable this feature to keep the vlan on the Shared Ethernet adapter and to keep each VEA even if there is no vlan on it)
Restart PowerVC after doing this
Reminder any configuration of nova configuration (nova.conf and nova.conf for each host) require a reboot of the PowerVC services.
When you add a vlan on PowerVC you have to tell each SEA will be used (you can have differents seas for different network zones).
So be carefull :
- At vlan creation
- When adding host (I’m today using more than three hundred vlan, so when adding one host I need to check all my already define vlan to tell which sea will be used for which vlan).
- I have a script to automate this action (ask me if you want it)
Let’s now start with storage tips and tricks.
I’ll talk here about a full NPIV environement
I have analyzed how PowerVC is creating zone and it’s not so simple to understand.
The first thing is pretty easy is that obviously PowerVC will create at least one zone per Virtual fibre channel adapter.
So if you choose dual per vios with two Virtual I/O server you’ll have at least four zones
If you choose single per vios with two virtual I/O server you’ll have at least two zones
This setting are in the configuration of the connectivity group
There is also one hidden option in the Storage template this one is called “ use all available WWPNs for attachement”.
We will check in the next slide what is doing this option
We will study the case of an SVC with two node and one I/O group (but same thing apply to other storage array)
If you do no check the option :
The redundancy will be ok as each node will be zoned
You’ll only have one zone per WPPNs
There is not spot and you’ll be in a multi fabric environment
But you’ll get some warning on the SVC side (on the to have an ok state a wwpns must be zone on both SVC node), this is what we see on the image on the right
One WWPNS = One zone = One node
If you check the option you’ll be surprise …. Or you will be surprised iff you have a lot of front end port available on you storage array or on you SVC.
On the image below a SVC with 10 FE port is represented on the image
PowerVC will create zone on all the port and on all the node
So for one wwpns
5 ports fabric A on node A
5 ports fabric A on node B
EQUAL ten zones per wwpns !
I am asking myself who is doing that.
Maybe some customer have svc or san array with just 4 ports.
It is usefull only if you don’t have too many ports available.
If you are checking this option on a san array with a lot of front end ports …. You can have huge performance issue.
I made the mistake myself and the result was that VM where create with sixteen or even worse thrity two paths.
Check this option only if you exactly what it is doing on you storage array.
When you don’t check this option.
PowerVC is spreading the zone on each available front end ports by using an internal algorithm.
I don’t have all the details but the PowerVC developpement team told me that from end port will be choose depending on the number of available ports and depending on the name of the virtual machine.
Today PowerVC is just using the first four available ports on the SVC.
You can ask for a patch to use the others available ports
A few points to know about storage.
1 – If you are managing existing machines new luns will be automatically set in the default storage templates.
2 – If you are adding lun in a different storage template PowerVC will create the zones needed for this storage template at the time of creating this lun
3 – Be very very careful when creating VM, you can be stuck if you choose the wrong Storage template by this I mean:
- If the storage template you are choosing is creating two many zone you can’t change it. The VM will be stuck forever in this storage templates
4 – On the other side if you choose a storage template that is not creating enough zone you can add a lun in another storage template and zones will be created at this time (all the existing lun will use the new zones created).
What we call the datasource is the input the activation engine is using to configure the Virtual Machine at boot time
Both cloud-init and VSAE are taking this input to configure the Virtual Machine at the activation time
This is done by using Virtual I/O Server virtual optic devices