Hi all,
I recently spent some time investigating this with my good colleague Andy Grimm. I had some initial issues in creating a RHEL6 image for KVM which would boot from EBS. Boot from EBS (sometimes referred to as bfEBS) is a new feature in Eucalyptus 3.X which allows a cloud administrator to back an instance with an EBS volume, thus giving persistence in the VM. This feature is present in AWS.
Below are some of my steps I...
I’m excited for our first #eucalyptus-classroom session on freenode on Monday (noon Eastern US time). Expect it to be the first of many.
The topic for this first meeting is Eutester, which is the new Eucalyptus harness for writing test cases. This is A Big Deal, since Eutester is based on boto and paramiko, which are also compatible with AWS. For users who are planning to script interactions between Eucalyptus and AWS, Eutester will be absolutely invaluable. We’re also going to be...
Installing dependencies on system
- Check that Python 2.6 or greater is installed, in my case (Ubuntu 11.10) Python 2.7 is installed by default
- Install python setup-tools and python-virtualenv
apt-get install python-setuptools python-virtualenv git
Creating your virtualenv and installing required modules
- First create a...
The International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) will commemorate its first 20 years with a special proceeding containing the best 20 papers. Rich Wolski, and Steve Fitzgerald, respectively founder and CTO, and VP of Technical Services at Eucalyptus Systems, will each have 2 papers published in that proceeding. Rich will have...
I am working on this Nilgiri project lately aiming to provide a flexible environment of managing private cloud or hybrid cloud to the end users as well as for the sysadmins to make managing cloud simpler than ever. So, someone … Continue reading ...
I started making some notes on how EBS volume creation can be tracked and troubleshot in Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus 3.X + btw). I figured this would make a good blog post, so I’ve just dumped all the information into here and I’ll let Google do the rest 
I’ll update it as I go along and provide more hints in the troubleshooting section, this will also make it into the Eucalyptus Knowledge Base,...
Tomorrow, Eucalyptus Chief Talent Officer and Co-Founder, Woody Rollins, is going to be running an IRC meeting on #eucalyptus-meeting on freenode. The topic: Eucalyptus Culture and Talent. It’s a discussion with company and community about how we build and maintain a strong community-centric culture, and it looks like it’s going to be a regular thing.
I’m pretty excited. If you have any questions about Eucalyptus, come on by. Tuesday the 20th, 1pm Eastern US time, 10am Pacific....
I often sit at my desk, with my eyes closed, hands rubbing against a face in desperate need of a shave, contemplating a dilemma. We face the challenge of building a support organization that can scale to meet our customer’s needs and I can’t help but think we’re missing something. Something that can redefine how we engage with our customers, something that can make their experience that much more meaningful. And just as I feel like I’ve reached my wits end, in walks Graziano with the perfect...
And we’re hiring lots of folks. If you’re a cloudy person, we probably have a place for you — including positions that can be based anywhere. We are becoming a truly distributed organization.
Have a look at our jobs page. Any particular questions, feel free to ask.
We (cpt_yesterday, gholms and obino) left Silicon Beach (aka Santa Barbara home of Eucalyptus) on Thursday and drove up to Santa Clara for my first PyCon.
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