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OpenIndiana Install on VMware Workstation

by Roger Lund October 3, 2020

written by Roger Lund

I was discussing Unix distributions with a bud on facebook. Hal Rottenberg

So I thought I would do a few posts on installs and results.

We are going to kick things off with OpenIndiana.

OpenIndiana is a free and open-source Unix operating system derived from OpenSolaris and based on illumos. Developers forked OpenSolaris after Oracle Corporation discontinued it, in order to continue development and distribution of the source code. Wikipedia

For the ease of installation, I am installing these in VMware workstation. I used freebsd as the OS when I made a new VM.

Lets go ahead and grab the media.

Download

Below I walk through the install process.

There we have it. I hope you enjoyed the post.

October 3, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Rob Eggers Named StorCentric Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

by Shawn Cannon September 5, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

Rob Eggers Named StorCentric Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

August 12, 2020

StorCentric today announced Rob Eggers has been named StorCentric Chief Financial Officer, effective August 10, 2020. Eggers will be responsible for managing all internal and external financial actions of the company, reporting directly to Mihir Shah, StorCentric CEO.

“I am very pleased to welcome someone of Rob’s caliber to the team. He stands among the industry’s most highly respected and accomplished financial leaders,” said Shah. “He will play a crucial role in the company’s continued success, market leadership, and rapid growth trajectory, especially in the months ahead which will include some of the most strategic initiatives and innovative product portfolio enhancements in StorCentric’s history.”

“This is indeed a critical time in the storage industry, as so many emerging trends and market demands are colliding and forcing organizations to reassess data management workflows and data security risks,” said Eggers. “I’m extremely proud to be joining StorCentric, an incredible team of passionate and talented individuals, from every corner of the company.” He continued, “It is a team that is dedicated not only to developing and delivering the most innovative data management solutions, but one that is likewise committed to providing the right solution for each and every customer’s unique IT challenges, business goals and regulatory requirements.”

Rob Eggers is a senior finance executive with 25+ years of experience and a deep understanding of corporate finance, investor relations (IR), manufacturing, and sales, focused primarily in high-technology and networking companies. Prior to StorCentric, Eggers served in various senior financial management roles for 18 years at Brocade, including Vice President of Finance during which he directed all aspects of financial planning and analysis, IR, and was instrumental in scaling Brocade to a $2.5B storage networking company. Prior experience includes financial leadership roles with IBM and Samsung. Eggers holds an MBA and a BS in International Finance from Brigham Young University.

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September 5, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Scale Computing Offers Acronis SCS Backup and Recovery Solutions on HC3 for Broad Range of US Public Sector Environments

by Shawn Cannon September 5, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

Scale Computing Offers Acronis SCS Backup and Recovery Solutions on HC3 for Broad Range of US Public Sector Environments

Provides backup and cyber protection on the HC3 for federal, state and local government, healthcare and education, including the most sensitive computing environments

INDIANAPOLIS, August 11, 2020 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, today announced it is offering Acronis SCS backup and disaster recovery solutions, as well as a cloud storage option, on the HC3 platform for US public sector customers, including federal, state and local government, public utilities, and education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations.

Seamless integration with Scale Computing’s HC3 infrastructure provides the unparalleled backup and cyber protection capabilities of Acronis SCS Cyber Backup and Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition on a simple, scalable platform that many public sector organizations already use. Built-in Active Protection against ransomware and unparalleled recovery flexibility ensure that, no matter the operating environment, public sector organizations’ critical systems remain operational and sensitive data stays safe.

The integration of Scale Computing HC3 infrastructure with Acronis SCS backup software solutions is more critical in today’s world than ever before. As more and more organizations have adopted remote work policies in response to COVID-19, related cyberattacks have jumped thirty percent, and the number of ransomware attacks on public sector entities is back on the rise.

“Scale Computing already enjoys a strong presence in the public sector,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “Now, by adding support for Acronis SCS and its best-of-breed ransomware protection and backup software, we are even better equipped to meet the security requirements and unique needs of a wide range of public sector organizations, including the most sensitive government environments — something that has become even more critical today with the increase in ransomware and other cyberattacks.”

“By delivering both our regular and hardened backup solutions on the Scale Computing HC3 infrastructure, Acronis SCS ensures our public sector customers have access to the highly secure environment and affordable, self-healing platform they need to not only survive in today’s complex cyber threat landscape, but thrive,” said John Zanni, CEO of Acronis SCS. “That combination is incredibly valuable for IT teams responsible for ensuring America’s mission critical systems and sensitive data stay protected, both in these unprecedented times and well beyond.”

Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition

Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition, the company’s backup software for federal government and utilities, is purpose built to provide operational assurance to sensitive ‘no internet’ air gapped environments, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems, Department of Defense weapons testing sites, development labs, training simulators, deployed tactical elements, and more. It is the only full-disk image backup and disaster recovery point solution available on the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL), is certified by Common Criteria, and is in process for FIPS 140-2 certification.

As a company that works closely with the US veteran community, including maintaining a workforce of twenty percent veterans and providing post-military IT job training and certifications to veterans via Acronis SCSVets, Acronis SCS has a unique understanding of public sector cyber protection needs and the critical importance of protecting sensitive government information and assets.

About Scale Computing

Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

About Acronis SCS

Acronis SCS is an American cyber protection and edge data security company exclusively dedicated to meeting the unique requirements of the US public sector. The company’s innovative and comprehensive cyber protection, backup and disaster recovery, anti-ransomware, and enterprise file sync and share software solutions ensure operational assurance and data security across America’s federal, state and local government, education, healthcare, and nonprofit computing environments. All Acronis SCS employees are US citizens.

September 5, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Zerto Customers Lead DR-to-Cloud Trend with Rapid Adoption of Azure

by Shawn Cannon September 5, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

Zerto Customers Lead DR-to-Cloud Trend with Rapid Adoption of Azure

Global Azure Adoption Doubles in 1H 2020 Across Several Verticals; Zerto Triples IT Resilience Footprint Across Federal Government and Public Sectors with New Customer Acquisitions

BOSTON – September 1, 2020 – Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, today announced cloud technology trends and positive growth among its customer base for the first half of 2020. Zerto’s customers are pursuing the disaster recovery (DR)-to-cloud trend with rapid global adoption of Microsoft Azure. Additionally, Zerto has tripled its global IT Resilience footprint across the federal government and public sectors with new customer acquisitions.

Azure Adoption Ascends

During the first half of 2020, global adoption of Microsoft Azure doubled across several verticals. Virtual machines protected to Azure using Zerto has doubled year-over-year with half of the consumption driven by the education, financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.

According to Gartner, Inc., “Cloud DR costs can be a fraction of the total costs for traditional DR sites.” In the 2019 Security and Risk survey, for more than 300 IT organizations worldwide, cloud-based recovery is the most popular choice across all levels of system availability.*

Innovation in the Public Cloud

Zerto customers also expanded their adoption among other public cloud providers. Earlier this year, Zerto announced integrations with AWS Storage Gateway and introduced support for Oracle and Google Cloud. The company also continues to make it easier for customers to adopt public clouds. A joint customer, QAD, a premier supplier of ERP software took advantage of the new Google Cloud and Zerto integration.

“With Google Cloud VMware Engine, we are able to quickly extend the enterprise class disaster recovery capabilities we have become accustomed to with Zerto to the Google Cloud,” says Scott Lawson, Director, IT architecture at QAD.

IT Resilience Footprint Grows

Zerto expanded its IT Resilience Platform footprint by more than 200% with new customers in the federal government and public sector in the first half of 2020. Additionally, Zerto experienced more than 200% increase in customer project implementation sizes among the legal, software and internet, and telecommunications sectors.

Key growth highlights include:

New customers in the federal government sector increased by more than 250%.
New customers in the public sector increased by 225%.
New customers in the insurance industry increased by 18% with the average customer project implementation size increasing by 20%.
The average new customer project implementation size in the legal and telecommunications industries nearly doubled.
The average new customer project implementation size in the software and internet industry more than tripled.
The average new customer project implementation size in financial services increased by 30%.

Customer Successes and Wins

In the 1H 2020, Zerto customers continued to build IT resilience and achieve results across multiple sectors and use cases:

Ritchie Bros., a global asset management and disposition company, leveraged Zerto to simplify DR, gain more control, and support data center migrations. To learn more, read the Ritchie Bros. case study here.
A leading chemical corporation leveraged Zerto to move DR operations to the Azure cloud and achieved new operational efficiencies. To learn more, click here.
A regional credit union strengthened its IT resilience by adopting a multi-cloud DR strategy using Zerto with both Azure and AWS. To learn more, click here.
New global customers using Zerto with Azure include Cairn Energy PLC, City of SeaTac, Grey County, and KIK Custom Products.

“We serve the people of Grey County, and because data serves the people, it needs to be available 24/7,” said Evan Davis of Grey County. “Zerto enabled us to easily make the move to Azure for more resilience. Now we have peace of mind that we can recover our data easily even in the midst of a disruption.”

ZertoCON was all About the Customer!

During ZertoCON 2020 Virtual Event in June, several customers spoke about their experiences and success with Zerto. Click here to access the following on-demand speaker sessions:

Rich Bailey, VP of IT operations, PruittHealth discusses “A Customer’s Guide to DR in the Cloud with Zerto and Microsoft Azure.”
Rodney Carlson, systems analyst, Horizon Bank shares his experience in “Modernize Your Backup with Zerto.”
Kent Pollard, senior technical architect, IFDS discusses “IT Resilience for Kubernetes and Containers.”
Jayme Williams, senior systems engineer, TenCate shares “A Tale of Two Ransomware Attacks: TenCate Uses Zerto to Recover from Ransomware in Minutes.”

In June, Zerto also honored KIND Snacks as the inaugural IT Resilience Innovator , a program that highlights IT leaders in disaster recovery, data protection, and cloud that are striving to protect their business from disruption.

“Organizations are increasingly recognizing that building IT resilience and leveraging the cloud for DR is critical not only for IT operations and business continuity but also for simplicity, greater efficiencies, and control,” said Coley Burke, CRO of Zerto. “We’re excited to see the momentum for our IT Resilience Platform across federal and public sectors and look forward to bolstering IT resilience across all customers for the second half of 2020.”

* Gartner, What I&O Leaders Need to Know About Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, Nik Simpson, 27 November 2019

About Zerto

Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by reducing the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted globally by over 8,000 customers, works with more than 1,500 partners and is powering resiliency offerings for 450 managed services providers. Learn more at Zerto.com.

September 5, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Natural Gas Agency Lights Up Transition to Cloud Backup with iland

by Shawn Cannon September 5, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

The Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia was looking to replace its tape based backup with a could solution. They chose iland Secure Cloud Backup with Veeam Cloud Connect. See the full press release below.

Natural Gas Agency Lights Up Transition to Cloud Backup with iland

Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia Replaces Physical Tape Backups with iland Secure Cloud Backup with Veeam Cloud Connect

Houston – August 13, 2020 – iland, a leading VMware-based cloud services provider for application hosting, data protection and disaster recovery, today announced the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia has selected iland Secure Cloud Backup with Veeam Cloud Connect to backup its workloads, transitioning from years of relying on physical tape libraries.

The Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia (the Gas Authority) is the largest non-profit natural gas joint action agency in the United States, serving 79 members in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee who meet the gas needs of more than 245,000 customers. Natural gas has become more important to many communities and customers and the Gas Authority is safely and reliably delivering gas supplies every day. Their team is dedicated to growing natural gas sales through multiple markets.

Senior System Administrator Jason Espinales-Osorio explained that as the company grew it was also expanding its physical tape libraries at a data center several miles from their office. Tape storage is one of the oldest and most difficult to access backup methods. Espinales-Osorio spent valuable time retrieving old tapes and preparing them for pickup by their tape backup vendor. Unfortunately, this time consuming task meant their tapes and data sometimes sat at the offsite location for weeks at a time.

It became evident that tape backup, with its limited amount of space and high level of maintenance, was quickly becoming cost prohibitive. Espinales-Osorio decided to proactively seek several cloud backup vendors and quickly discovered iland to be a leader in Backup as a Service (BaaS).

“We were using physical tape and retention that was clunky. I had to drive to our offices, take them out and prep them for our vendor. It was getting painful,” said Espinales-Osorio. “It was definitely time to explore cloud backups and iland was a natural fit for us.”

“An easy, cost-effective backup solution has never been more important for growing businesses, especially those with tight IT budgets and increased data availability needs,” said Brian Ussher, iland president and co-founder. “iland prides itself on being able to seamlessly transition organizations like Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia away from legacy hardware, while also providing the resources and proven technology necessary to scale and succeed.”

In iland’s Secure Cloud Backup integrated with Veeam Cloud Connect technology, Espinales-Osorio found an easy, cost-effective solution, allowing him to replace cumbersome tapes permanently. He quickly implemented a backup strategy that had direct integration and 100 percent compatibility with Veeam’s industry-leading backup and replication software supported by iland’s award-winning Secure Cloud Console.

“iland really allowed us to get ahead of the curve,” said Espinales-Osorio. “For the longest time, we were stuck in those old ways of doing things. iland has gotten us moving forward.”

Espinales-Osorio praised the ease of the iland Secure Cloud Console, which allows him to manage his backups and expand his retention from anywhere. He now has much more time to work on his day-to-day system administrative and network tasks without worrying about physical tapes.

“I spent so much of my time dealing with those physical tape backups because that was a priority for us. We needed to make sure that data was there. Now I’ve got more time to do more of my regular day-to-day tasks because we can automate and leverage the cloud to handle backups,” said Espinales-Osorio. “The ease of the console and expandability is critical. Now we can expand our retention policies with just an email, it’s amazing.”

About iland

iland is a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). They are recognized by industry analysts as a leader in disaster recovery. The award-winning iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics, and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of iland’s cloud services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas and London, UK, and Sydney, Australia, iland delivers cloud services from its cloud regions throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Learn more at www.iland.com.

September 5, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Leaseweb Global Achieves Double the Market Average in Growth

by Shawn Cannon July 1, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

Leaseweb Global announces that it has doubled the market average in its growth. The full press release can be found below.

Leaseweb Global Achieves Double the Market Average in Growth

Leaseweb Global announced a five-year growth in its global hosting infrastructure and related network capacity that is twice the market average. Through focusing on growing the company’s global presence, Leaseweb has seen a 22% increase in worldwide data center locations, a 55% increase in network capacity, and been able to leap in bandwidth from 5.5 to 10Tbps – all within the last five-years.

Following the launch of new locations in London and Sydney at the end of 2017, Leaseweb opened a data center facility in Miami last year, providing a springboard into South America, and bringing to 20 the total number of data center locations operating globally, with 80,000 servers under management. Most recently, Leaseweb completed the network expansion of its Amsterdam data center, enabling further growth and paving the way for applications that benefit from 100Gbps connectivity. Additionally, the acquisition of US-based managed hosting services companies, ServInt and NOBIS Technology Group, has given more end-users access to Leaseweb’s portfolio of solutions via its existing data centers.

As well as growing its data center location and services portfolio, Leaseweb extended its IaaS platform into Asia via Leaseweb Cloud, completing the full spectrum of its public and private cloud products available in the region. The company also enhanced its cloud backup and protection offerings, allowing the delivery of an easy-to-use, fast and reliable data protection solution for cloud and internet professionals. Moreover, Leaseweb began offering All Flash FAS storage across its cloud portfolio, reducing latency and increasing reliability for business-critical cloud applications.

“Businesses that operate worldwide, which take pride in their competitive edge, seek the kind of global hosting and infrastructure provider who can deliver best-in-class user experiences locally and reliably,” said Alexander Kalkman, CMO at Leaseweb. “This need feeds directly into our goal to grow globally as the first provider businesses turn to for the provision of cloud infrastructure that not only meets local requirements but offers a footprint to reach customers across borders. Looking forward, we are committed to a continued growth trajectory and delivering superior cloud hosting technology globally, engaging with our customers in a personalized, human-to-human manner—an approach unmatched by industry giants and highly valued by our customers.”

Leaseweb has seen success in the Adtech and March sectors, with customers such as Adjust, a mobile attribution and analytics company, leveraging Leaseweb’s ability to provide multiple private racks of dedicated servers across the globe, and Algolia, a distributed search-as-a-service API, chosing to work with Leaseweb due to its customer-centric and global mindset.

July 1, 2020 0 comment

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Press Release – Zerto Recognizes KIND Snacks as the Inaugural ‘IT Resilience Innovator’

by Shawn Cannon July 1, 2020

written by Shawn Cannon

Zerto announces KIND Snacks as its first ‘IT Resilience Innovator’. See the full press release below.

New IT Resilience Innovators Program Highlights Projects That Inspire Others to Think Differently About Disaster Recovery, Data Protection, and Cloud

Zerto Recognizes KIND Snacks as the Inaugural ‘IT Resilience Innovator’

Boston, June 30, 2020 – Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, has today announced that KIND Snacks, one of the most famous and fastest growing healthy snack brands, is the first organization to be recognized by Zerto as an ‘IT Resilience Innovator.’ This new program has been created to highlight organizations that seek to build a world of uninterrupted technology, move beyond traditional IT, and push the boundaries of digital transformation.

The IT Resilience Innovators program focuses on organizations and IT professionals who are adopting resiliency projects and initiatives to drive digital transformation and inspire others to think differently about legacy approaches to data protection. Through these projects, IT Resilience Innovators are ushering in the future of IT and setting their business up for success. They are leveraging new techniques and technology and leading the IT industry in the areas of disaster recovery, data protection, and cloud with the ultimate goal being to protect their business from any disruption.

KIND Snacks is being honored for its approach to resilience and disaster recovery, which it views as a strategic priority to keep its 24/7 business running. In 2019, the company reengineered and redesigned its ecommerce platform with a modernization initiative that has enabled them to remain agile and resilient in the face of COVID-19. From operations, to reporting, to packaging, their ability to quickly pivot in the changing market and accommodate shopper needs in real time during an unprecedented pandemic makes them stand out as an IT Resilience Innovator.

“On our journey to IT resilience we learned we can’t just protect one application – we need to protect the whole company from our ERP to everything else,” explained Joe Jbeily, senior manager, infrastructure and security operations at KIND Snacks. “We have one of the best teams available, and they’re putting us in a position to rely on our own tools to protect KIND and build a truly resilient organization.”

“To keep up with the changing demands of their customers, companies need to offer 100% uptime, and, to get there, they will have to look outside of traditional backup capabilities,” explained Avi Raichel, CIO at Zerto. “Unlike many other organizations that wait for a disaster to strike before investing in a disaster recovery solution, KIND has been prioritizing DR for years as a way to stay up and running in the event of a problem. It’s an approach that deserves recognition as an example of best practice.”

In an effort to continue teaching the IT industry about best practices and set standards around what it means to be IT resilient today, Zerto is opening the program to accept nominations from other companies that are demonstrating resilient operations. To see if your company qualifies and to find out more about the program, visit this link.

About Zerto

Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by reducing the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted globally by over 8,000 customers, works with more than 1,500 partners and is powering resiliency offerings for 450 managed services providers. Learn more at Zerto.com.

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July 1, 2020 0 comment

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Nutanix CE 101 – Getting Started and getting current.

by Roger Lund June 26, 2020

written by Roger Lund

I recently wrote about creating a Nutanix Cluster via cli. Nutanix Cluster Create Cli

Setting up a new Nutanix Cluster? These are the parameters.

cluster --dns_servers=172.16.30.30,172.16.30.32 -s 172.16.70.39,172.16.70.51,172.16.70.53,172.16.70.56 --cluster_name=lab2 --cluster_external_ip=172.16.70.60 create

I wanted to follow up with the next steps after login.

Now because I deployed the current version, I can’t show how to upgrade AOS or the Hypervisor. we can cover that in a later post.

Lets start!

Go to https://IPaddressordnsname:9440/

Go ahead and login with the defaults. admin and Nutanix/4u

Next, it will prompt you with a password change.

Now you need to login with a Nutanix Account.

Boom, we have a dashboard.

Lets go head and click the gear in the upper right.

Now on the left, Click upgrade software.

Click on Foundation.

Click on download.

Once done, go ahead and click on upgrade.

Then once that finishes lets click on NCC.

And lets click on download.

And then click on upgrade.

OK, now we are on a current version.

June 26, 2020 1 comment

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Repost : Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

by Roger Lund June 25, 2020

written by Roger Lund

I found this post when playing around with my Nutanix CE lab.

Change Gateway on Nutanix AHV cluster

by Bart Donders

Hopefully you will never need the information in this post. Lately, a wrong gateway was entered during the initial setup of a Nutanix cluster. Because the cluster was configured connected to a standalone switch, the typo was found when the cluster was already connected to the customers production network and was unreachable…

Luckily you can change the gateway with no need to bring down any component of the Nutanix cluster… That saves a lot of time… (The commands are not really Nutanix specific. I suppose the commands will work on all Linux like platforms, also.)

Just enter the following commands on the Controller VMs and the AHV nodes. Please don’t forget to make the necessary changes to the ifcfg-eth0 and the ifcfg-br0. Otherwise the changes will not be persistent after a reboot.

#Controller VM

sudo route add default gw xx.xx.xx.250
sudo route delete default gw xx.xx.xx.50
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

#Node
sudo route add default gw xx.xx.xx.250
sudo route delete default gw xx.xx.xx.50
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0

Thanks for the post Bart. I had made a typo. 🙂

June 25, 2020 0 comment

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