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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

The Xen installation


Xen has been the first open source hypervisor available on Linux. Nowadays, it is probably the most used hypervisor by many IT businesses with tons of guides and howtos available on the Web.

It supports full virtualization using the native CPU extensions like KVM with very similar performances (Xen uses a patched QEMU as well). It also supports the plain old paravirtualization, which works only on supported OS (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Novell Netware), but the virtualization overhead is lower providing more raw performance and scalability than full virtualization.

Unfortunately Ubuntu 10.04 does not include any pre-built binary packages for Xen, but Debian 6.0 does. So our first approach to Xen will be a fast and easy installation on a Debian Squeeze using Debian packages.

Installing on Debian Squeeze through standard repositories

You should make a clean Debian Squeeze install using the same partitioning advice as stated in the previous chapter.

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