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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

Using a VDC


To use a VDC we have to cope with the standard client-side requirements of OpenNebula, except that we will not directly use an XMLRPC endpoint; we will need to point the CLI utilities to the oZones proxy.

Command line access

In order to use a VDC through the command line:

  1. The VDC administrator will need to define the following environment variables, inside his ~/.profile file, to connect to our odinVDC:

    export ONE_XMLRPC=http://ozones.local/odinVDC
    export ONE_AUTH=$HOME/.one/vdc_auth
  2. The vdc_auth file will contain the login credentials of the VDC administrator:

    odinadmin:odinpass

Now try to issue some of the standard OpenNebula CLI utilities such as:

$ oneuser list 
  ID     GROUP        NAME             AUTH             PASSWORD 
   2    odinVDC       odinadmin       core               77cb2959a4d9b[..]

You should see only your VDC administration account, and you can start creating any user account you may want, which will have access only to their VDC resources.

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