Eucalyptus Community Cloud

Eucalyptus Open Source v2.0.3

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud (ECC) is a sandbox environment in which members of our community can testdrive and experiment with Eucalyptus, a software framework for cloud computing. The Eucalyptus software implements what is commonly referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Community members can launch their own isolated collections of virtual machines instances and exercise the full capabilities of the latest version of Eucalyptus.

This Community Cloud is hosted at Coresite within their Los Angeles facility. It resides on HP equipment, and is accessible via InfoRelay's networking fabric.

Once connected, you will be able to:

• utilize command-line tools
• use third-party software that interacts with Eucalyptus
• build images
• run your images
• and more

Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Restrictions

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud is offered on a best-effort basis for users to testdrive Eucalyptus and experiment with their own virtual machine instances. The Community Cloud is not being provided as a community-based cloud hosting service. As such, the Community Cloud is not designed to provide support for production systems, nor should it be used in this manner.

Our goal is to provide a stable and robust IaaS service, via the Eucalyptus OpenSource Software, to be used by community members to learn about, to experiment with, and to research cloud-based services.

An additional goal is to incorporate the most advanced features available. Consequently, as we work to achieve these competing goals, some unexpected downtime and system reconfiguration is to be expected. We will take steps to minimize such interruptions and will utilize our maintenance window for system reconfiguration.

Restrictions

Since the Community Cloud is an open-environment designed to facilitate experimentation, we have placed a number of restrictions on the resources provided. These restrictions are designed to maximize the number of community members that benefit from the system and to minimize the adverse effects of experiments gone awry. These restrictions include:

• the maximum lifetime of an instance is 6 hours
• the maximum number of simultaneous running instances per user is 4 instances.
  (When there is more than 4 instances, instances will be randomly terminated until only 4 instances remain.)
• the maximum allocation of an elastic IP is 6 hours.
• the maximum lifetime of a Walrus bucket is 3 weeks.
• the maximum size of a Walrus bucket is 5GB.
• the maximum lifetime for an EBS volume is 3 weeks.
• the maximum size of an EBS volume is 5GB.

If you have a particular project in which these restrictions unnecessary hampers your productivity, please contact the ECC administrator. We may be able to arrange an appropriate accommodation.

Architectural Information

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud is one component of our Cloud Infrastructure that is hosted at CoreSite. Within this environment, we have 60 HP SL2x170z that serve primarily as compute nodes and 4 HP SL170zG6 that serve primarily as front-end nodes. The environment has been configured to allow us to use the infrastructure for multiple cloud environments in a dynamic fashion. Based upon current needs, we can shift compute nodes from one cloud environment to another.

¹The default VM Type is: m1.small. To select a different VM Type, using the "-t" option with the euca-run-instance command.

Maintenance Window

From time to time, Eucalyptus Systems will need to perform system maintenance or reconfiguration on the physical and the cloud infrastructure. We have selected the first and third Friday of the month from 4pm - 5pm PT (2300-2400 GMT) as our maintenance window. Although we will not always utilize the maintenance window, users should plan for possible system downtime during these maintenance windows.

Supporters of the Eucalyptus Community Cloud

Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems provides overall system maintenance, supports the IaaS environment, and, of course, supplies the Eucalyptus software that implements the IaaS service.

CoreSite

CoreSite provides colocation services, which includes rack space, power, and environment controls. These colocation services are being provided as part of CoreSite's CloudCommunity.

Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard provided a grant of computing equipment in which the Eucalyptus Community Cloud utilizes.

InfoRelay Online Services

InfoRelay Online Services provides network bandwidth that connects the Eucalyptus Community Cloud to the Internet and provides inter-site connectivity.

Dasher Technologies

Dasher Technologies provided consulting and deployment services associated with the HP SL6000 hardware solution.