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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

Installing Libvirt with ESX support


Most distributions do not include the support for VMware hypervisor in the Libvirt package, so we should probably recompile it.

Browse to http://libvirt.org/ and click on Downloads | Official Releases | HTTP Server and download the latest libvirt-x.x.x.tar.gz package. Unpack it on your frontend and install some required build-dependencies using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential gnutls-dev libdevmapper-dev python-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libnl-dev

In order to configure, build, and install use the following commands:

$ ./configure –with-esx
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig

Note

Libvirt should not be started as a daemon but it will be called directly by the VMware management scripts.

Adding a oneadmin user with privileges

A new user with administration privileges needs to be created in ESXi with the same UID and username as the oneadmin user of the OpenNebula frontend. A matching UID is required because of the storage limitations...