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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

Managing hosts in OpenNebula


For each hypervisor supported by OpenNebula, we will describe the necessary steps to install and configure it. Knowledge about them is highly recommended but it is not needed to achieve a working virtualization host. Having experience with at least one hypervisor helps a lot for better understanding of how things work (and how they don't). The suggested hypervisor for newcomers is KVM as will be outlined later, because it is easier to set up.

To use a particular host on our OpenNebula cluster, it is required to register that host in OpenNebula using the following onehost command:

onehost command [args] [options] 

The command with relevant available options is as follows:

$ onehost create hostname im_mad vmm_mad tm_mad vnm_mad

The hostname is the name of the remote host, which should be managed by the current OpenNebula frontend. It should be a correctly configured domain name (try to connect to it through ssh oneadmin@hostname). The parameters present in the command...