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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

Ganglia PHP web frontend usage


Now, our effort in configuring Ganglia will be rewarded, having an unique interface reporting resource usage for both physical and virtual servers, beautifully left open on a big monitor inside our NOC.

Open your browser and point it to https://front-end:444/ganglia, and you will hopefully find our Ganglia web frontend home page, as follows:

In the header at the top, you will see the date of the last refresh, with a Get Fresh Data button on the right-hand side, to gather updated statistics.

Under this, the two drop-down menus are used to select the time frame of the displayed statistics (Last hour, day, week, month, year, and so on) and to select the sorting of the objects displayed (by name, by host up, by host down, and so on).

On the bottom part of the header, there is the hierarchical breadcrumb trail of the current page. Starting from the main grid, we can dig into available clusters and hosts.

For the grid (the sum of all clusters) and each of the available...