Ceph - Easy Deployment by ceph-ansible

Posted on February 21, 2024

I used ceph-ansible to deploy several Ceph 15 (octopus) and Ceph 17 (quincy) environments on Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky 8 in the past, which worked well after some code changes. Recently I successfully deployed a Ceph 18 (reef) environment on Ubuntu 22.04 using ceph-ansible (again!). Overall it worked pretty well. I am sharing my steps in this article.

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CloudStack - Create Windows 11 VM instance on Ubuntu 22.04

Posted on February 18, 2024

—–IMPORTANT NOTICE: There are some changes after this original post——

Please refer to CloudStack - Create Windows 11 VM instance on Ubuntu (Update 2025.03)

The article CloudStack – VM with vTPM and Secure boot UEFI introduces how to create a VM with vTPM and UEFI on CentOS x host using Apache CloudStack. However, it does not work on Ubuntu releases [2]. This blog introduces how to create Window 11 VMs step by step.

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