Storage Industry haven’t changed much prior to the Hypervisor’s revolution. But in last few years, the industry is facing heavy competition from new vendor’s innovation ideas, Quality of the product , seamless support and cost. SolidFire is one of the storage vendors who is re-writing the fundamental of SAN boxes. The traditional SAN arrays will […]
Openstack – Beginners Guide
Openstack is not just only about the internet buzz. It’s going to create new revolution on the IT infrastructure industry. How Openstack can do this since it’s just 5 years old ? Is it similar to VMware virtualization ? Oracle VM ? Redhat Virtualization ? Citrix Xen ? Not exactly. Openstack is an opensource project […]
Openstack – Configure Cinder Service (Testing Method)
Cinder is the default block storage service on Openstack. Cinder service manages the volumes , volume snapshots, and volume types. Prior to year 2012 , cinder was part of nova module in the name of nova-volume. To reduce the nova coding and improve the volume service, developers has separated the volume service from nova codes and […]
What’s New – VMware Integrated Openstack 2.0
The VMware’s global conference for virtualization and cloud computing “VMworld 2015” is completed in San Francisco today. In that conference , they have announced the most important release for “VMware integrated Openstack 2.0 (VIO 2.0)”. The first VMware integrated openstack (VIO) released in 2014. Since then VMware aggressively doing more enhancement on the Openstack part. VIO 2.0 […]
Private Cloud Debate – Openstack vs VMware
I am sure that many of the companies are still thinking that which is the best software for Private cloud solutions. The infrastructure market is changing rapidly in recent times. Once upon a time , mainframe was ruling in the market . Later on , Unix operating systems were kicked in to the market and operating systems […]
Download Pre-configured Cloud Images for Linux & Windows
Creating the cloud instance image is not a cake-walk. If you have followed the last article ,you would have felt the same. That could be the reason why the pre-configured cloud images are available in the internet. Openstack.org also states that “The simplest way to obtain a virtual machine image that works with OpenStack is to […]
How to create a custom image for Openstack ?
The virtual instance OS image can be created outside the openstack. By default openstack comes with small Linux foot print instance called cirros and we have tested it. But as a customer , I would like to put custom image in openstack for various requirement. In this article, we will create Ubuntu custom image using […]
How to access the Cloud instance using Key pair ?
If you are new to the cloud environment, You should know that how to use the key pairs to access the instances. The procedure remains same when you go for the public clouds like Amazon EC2 or Private clouds like Openstack. The ssh keys consists two parts. The first one is public key which is pushed […]
Launching the first Openstack Instance
This article will demonstrate that how to launch the first Openstack instance. In the previous articles ,we have setup the openstack software and gone through the openstack dashboard functionalities. In an order to launch the openstack instances, first we need to create the network security group, rules & key pairs to access the instances from other […]
Understanding the Openstack Dashboard
This article will help you to understand the functionality of the openstack dashboard. Dashboard will be used by administrators and tenant. For tenant or user , it will act like a self service portal where they can launch the instance , allocate the storage and configure the network resource within the limits set by administrator. Administrator […]