So, the second post in this series and now a look at Eucalyptus Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and the Eucalyptus Storage Controller (SC) component which handles this.
What does it do?
The Storage Controller sits at the same layer as the Cluster Controller (CC), each Eucalyptus Availability Zone (AZ) or Cluster will have its own CC and SC. Within that AZ, the SC will provide EBS (Elastic Block Store) functionality via iSCSI (AoE is no longer used in 3.0 onwards) using the Linux...
I previously posted some information about the new User Console we’ve been working on at Eucalyptus Systems. There has been a lot of activity and we’ve shown it to a lot of users to get feedback. We will be releasing it officially very soon, but till then, you can run it yourself a couple of ways. You can build from source, which is very easy, or install nightly builds which we provide for RHEL 6 and...
Euca Monkey is an easy-to-deploy test tool designed for performing stress-test on Eucalyptus Cloud. The tool repeatedly generates and tears down 6 types of cloud user resources: running instances,...
After some discussion on the Eucalyptus Community Mailing list,
I'm happy to annouce I've had a crack at a python based plugin for sosreport.
Sosreport is a cool support data collection utility written in python and availble for RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian. It can collect
lots of useful...
Reblogged from GigaOM: The push to make Boston the de facto hub of big data will continue Thursday with the gala launch of the hack/reduce space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The historic space — in the old brick Kendall Boiler and Tank building — will be home to big data practitioners from academia, private and public industry. Hack/reduce, [...]...
Eucalyptus 3.2 is becoming ready. It is going to be out soon. But if you think, it’s too hard for you to wait till GA, there are two solutions for you to try out. You can check out nightly builds … Continue reading ...
Open Source Software Project… What is it good for?
It’s free! It’s for the community! It’s the future of software! It’s better than closed! Everyone is doing it! It drives innovation! It’s the way of Steve Jobs (huh?)…...
It doesn’t get much easier than this. Press Enter 7 times and have a complete Eucalyptus cloud installed and configured. Follow along as we explore this new installation option available with Eucalyptus FastStart 3.1.2 called “Cloud-in-a-Box”.
3 Simple Steps to install Eucalyptus Cloud
Today, October 26, 2012 Eucalyptus launched a new / updated version of the FastStart installer. FastStart is a self-contained installer for Eucalyptus. You download a single ISO, burn to a CD or DVD and have everything needed to install Eucalyptus in various configurations.
The standard installation would include 2 machines, one “Front...
Today we officially launch the next generation of FastStart, the quick deployment solution for Eucalyptus. We think it’s a pretty dramatic improvement to our previous version, and it’s certainly the easiest way to stand up your own AWS-compatible private cloud.
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