Session 1: Configuring physical server OS & networking

This hands-on lab is designed for VMware administrators who are considering KVM / OpenStack as an alternative hypervisor, but are either new to OpenStack or are concerned about the complexity of operating OpenStack.
Session 1 - Configuring physical server OS & networking
This session covers the pre-requisites of configuring servers to be managed by OpenStack & the KVM hypervisor:
1. Deploying the Platform9 host-agent onto servers
2. Enabling the "Platform9-onboarding" role to simplify KVM and OpenStack configuration. This replaces the manual steps required to deploy OVS, NTP and KVM kernel modules
3. Configuring host networking and global networking ;
a. Configure physical network interfaces
b. Create OVS bridge for external network
c. Configuring VLAN and VXLAN
Learn more how to manage OpenStack with Platform9 Always-on Assurance™: platform9.com/managed-openstack/