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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

Chapter 4. Choosing Your Storage Carefully

After having introduced and carefully described every hypervisor supported by OpenNebula, in this chapter, we will discuss another key component of your cloud infrastructure, The Storage.

Besides the database used by the OpenNebula daemon, separate storage is required for running virtual machines and to maintain an Image Repository that is used to bootstrap the newly created virtual machines.

The default folder used for storage is /var/lib/one or $ONE_LOCATION/var. A separate folder will be created for each configured virtual machine. The folder name is an incremental ID, which will contain the automatically generated configuration files for the current hypervisor and images that belong to the current virtual machine.

The images of the Image Repository are saved in a separate folder, named images.

Along with raw CPU power and available memory, the type and quality of your storage will affect the speed of deployment, migration, and day-to-day operations...