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OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing

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OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing

Overview of this book

OpenNebula is one of the most advanced and highly-scalable open source cloud computing toolkits. If you ever wanted to understand what Cloud Computing is and how to realize it, or if you need a handy way to manage your messy infrastructure in a simple and coherent manner, this is your way. OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing guides you along the building and maintenance of your cloud infrastructure, providing real-world examples, step-by-step configuration and other critical information. The book keeps you a step ahead in dealing with the demanding nature of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure management using one of the most advanced cloud computing toolkitsñ OpenNebula. The book takes you from a basic knowledge of OpenNebula to expert understanding of the most advanced features.The book starts with a basic planning of hardware resources and presents the unique benefits of the supported hypervisors; you will go in deep with day-to-day management of virtual instances, infrastructure monitoring and integration with Public Clouds like Amazon EC2.With this book you will be able to get started with fast and cheap configuration recipes, but also go deeper for a correct integration with your existing infrastructure.You will deal with well-know virtualization technologies like Xen and VMware, but also with the promising KVM technology integrated in the Linux kernel. After the basic infrastructure set-up, you will learn how to create and manage virtual instance via both command-line and web interfaces, and how to monitor your existing resources.At the end, the book acquaints you with integrating your local infrastructure with external Cloud resources but also publishing your resources to others via common API interfaces.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
OpenNebula and Why it Matters?
Index

Why use an external Cloud provider?


We surely know that managing an IT infrastructure requires resources and skills, for example, planning, choosing the hardware, waiting for the delivery process, environmental control inside the data center, hardware maintenance, and so on.

Often there are chances that you may need more flexibility other than having a virtualized infrastructure: to withstand a peak demand period during a new product presentation on a world expo or as a result of unexpected multiple hardware failures.

Also, relying on an external Cloud provider may provide the following benefits:

  • Cost-effective resources: You pay for what you use (usually price per hour, without the requirement of a long-term commitment), without infrastructure and hardware maintenance overhead

  • Instant Elasticity: You can request for multiple instances of multiple sizes at any time (more or less), and even for a few hours

  • Security: Most Cloud providers undergo many industry-recognized certifications and audits...