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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

Moving data around different AZ


Each EBS volume is available only to instances in the same Availability Zone. If you need to move data around different Availability Zones, you need to use the Snapshot function to create a new copy on the correct AZ, and then delete the old one.

  1. Select the volume to be snapshotted.

  2. Create a new snapshot using the Create Snapshot button in the Volumes section. The operation will be queued and executed without downtime; check for completion in the Snapshots section.

  3. Next, in the Volumes section, use the Create Volume button as before, but this time select the snapshot created before, select the AZ where you want this volume to be available, and click on Yes, Create.

    The size of the new volume should be sufficient to contain all the data captured by the snapshot.

  4. Once the disk has been created, you can attach it to a running instance as before.

    Tip

    Attaching indefinitely

    Sometimes operations get stuck during EBS attaching, depending on various issues on the Amazon side...