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Posted by: Imran Hossain Shaon | November 27, 2011

Managing images in Eucalyptus is generally done by Euca2ools distributed by Eucalyptus team. All users may upload and register images (depending on access granted to them by the Eucalyptus administrator), but only the admin user may ever upload/register kernels or … Continue reading ...

Posted by: Imran Hossain Shaon | November 27, 2011

To create image we will need a raw HDD for the virtual machine. So, set as much space as you need. Get Ubuntu 11.04 Server downloaded from here, To start the installation process, boot a KVM instance with the OS … Continue reading ...

Posted by: Imran Hossain Shaon | November 27, 2011

For installation three two PC (Server1 and Server2) is needed for the cloud purpose and one PC is for client which will also be serving for creating KVM images. Server2 and the client machine should have VT enabled as we … Continue reading ...

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Posted by: Graziano Obertelli | November 22, 2011

Eucalyptus has a long history of listening to our community. You asked for Eucalyptus to have a life of its own, and Eucalyptus Systems was born. You asked for a different license (GPL) and you got it. You asked for easier ways to install Eucalyptus and so we packaged Eucalyptus for the main linux distributions, we delivered UEC and we created ...

Posted by: Eucalyptus Professional Services | November 18, 2011
Companies choose to deploy Eucalyptus clouds for a large number of reasons, including but not limited to:

  • IT consolidation,
  • software development and testing,
  • remote desktop hosting,
  • high performance computing (HPC), big data, and analytics,
  • "cloud bursting" web and other dynamic, loosely coupled applications, 
  • business continuity / disaster recovery (BC /...
Posted by: Eucalyptus Professional Services | November 16, 2011
Multiple Hypervisor Options


Eucalyptus supports Xen, KVM, and VMware hypervisors. This provides companies with the ability to choose the underlying hypervisor they need based on cost, features, and performance requirements. This also allows companies to deploy multiple hypervisors in the same environment without the need for multiple management interfaces for the users of the system. Thus, some...
Posted by: Marten Mickos | November 9, 2011

Many times I am asked about the typical use cases for Eucalyptus and who our users and customers are. When the Eucalyptus open source project launched in 2008, many of our early adopters were academic and research institutions, as is typical with new technologies. Since then, Eucalyptus usage has spread to innovative tech companies, large enterprises, and government agencies. Below is a quick summary of common uses cases and some relatively new Eucalyptus users.

Scalable Web...

Posted by: Eucalyptus Professional Services | November 9, 2011
On-Demand, Self-Service IT Provisioning

Eucalyptus clouds can be configured so that users can connect to a Eucalyptus cloud, provision a server from a list of available images and configuration options, and have that server deployed within minutes without any human interaction from a member of an IT staff.

Infrastructure Integration

Eucalyptus clouds are designed to be able to overlay existing...

Posted by: Graziano Obertelli | November 8, 2011

One thing I can say for sure: there is no time to get bored here at Eucalyptus. If you like big challenges and you have it to take them on, consider joining our team: I'm extremely pleased to say that Greg just did so.

If you are at Cloud Expo in Santa Clara or in the Bay area, come and...

Posted by: Rich Wolski | November 7, 2011

It is really great to be able to welcome Greg Dekoenigsberg to Eucalyptus. We have always been admirers of the way in which Fedora operates as a community-managed Linux distribution. Greg's leadership is as evident in the quality of the software as it is in the enthusiasm with which Fedora users and contributors interact within its community.

Eucalyptus will certainly benefit from Greg's insights and thoughtful approach to community engagement. Open source software has really been...

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