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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

What is AWS


Among all the Cloud providers around the world, we chose to detail Amazon Web Services as it is one of the first Cloud pioneers and is a well-established service running since 2006. They are the authors of the EC2 API, which nowadays has become a de facto standard for Cloud API.

In a few words, AWS is a bunch of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) manageable via remote API, ranging from networking, storage, and VM instances, to databases (both relational and document-oriented), content delivery network, and load-balancers. There are apps-related services available such as messaging queues and accounting/billing services.

Of all the services available in AWS, we will examine carefully the EC2 service, which will deliver to us VM instances as per our needs. There are other services and functions that interact with EC2 that are worth knowing:

  • Simple Storage (S3 ): This provides the basic, non-persistent image store for instances and can be used to archive snapshots or any data.

  • Elastic...