Rock over to the GUI, click on the instance your interested in. Get the ID of the volume from the Volumes tab. For example 4bedcf64-5526-4777-bac1-98c638c32116 Jump into MySQL client and run this query:

So the path to your volume’s…

Problem Sometimes CloudStack decides that IPv6 is the right thing to bind to and doesn’t bother with IPv4. Which in the fullness of time will probably be the norm but it’s not where we are today so most of us…

I love graphing stuff. So here’s how to graph the number of different types of VMs running on CloudStack. By the end you should have something pretty like this on your Cacti. I’m assuming you already have Cacti installed and…

Goal: Install L2TP VPN client on Ubuntu 12.10 and connect to remote access VPN pre-configured in CloudStack Install the required packages (as root user or sudo)

Launch “L2TP Ipsec VPN Applet” from your Application/Internet menu. A new applet should…

Heres a handy piece of Python that will output a few totals of instances running in CloudStack. It’s handy for Nagios monitoring or some Cacti graphing. Figures include: VMware instances XenServer instances Virtual routers System VMs I don’t have any…

OK, lets run through the database tables and steps involved and changing your CloudStack vCenter username and/or password. I generally like to stop cloud-management service before changing like this. Tables involved cloud.host cloud.host_details cloud.cluster_details Log into your CloudStack management node…