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 […]
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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 […]
How to stop and start Openstack on Ubuntu ?
This article will demonstrate that how to stop and start the Openstack services on Ubuntu when you have done the installation through the devstack method. If you followed the devstack method for deploying the openstack, there are some set of scripts will be available to perform the stop and start openstack services without much pain. […]
How to Deploy Openstack on Ubuntu ?
Deploying openstack on Ubuntu is very easy if you use the devstack method. DevStack is not general openstack installer but it will help us to reduce the manual configuration for first time deployment. Let’s follow the easiest method to understand the openstack deployment and other functionality. Here I have chosen Ubuntu as my base operating system/Hyper-visor. Why I should […]
Openstack Tutorial – History of Private Cloud
The whole world is buzzing on the cloud and cloud related technologies. Would you like to know the history of the cloud ? Let’s see. The private cloud has been started with Eucalyptus & Opennebula around 2003-2008 period and these both cloud software are almost similar to Amazon AWS (Pubic cloud). In 2009, NASA require cloud computing […]