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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

AWS signup and first login


In order to use the OpenNebula integration with EC2 AWS, you need to register an account at http://aws.amazon.com/, and sign up for S3 and EC2 services.

  1. On the main page, click on the Sign Up button at the top (it's free); you will be directed to the following screen:

    If you already have an account at amazon.com (for example, if you bought books on amazon.com/.uk/.de/.it) you can use the same credentials for logging into AWS.

    If you are a new user, you will be asked for personal details, and a valid credit card. In order to increase the protection of your account, you may be interested in using the AWS Multi-Factor Authentication available in both a software edition for Android/iPhone/BlackBerry, and as a hardware OTP generator (http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/).

  2. After completing the registration process correctly, you will receive a confirmation e-mail.

  3. Once you have received the e-mail, you may log in to AWS Management Console by clicking on the My Account/Console link...