3. What is The Cloud?
(No, it’s not ‘Just like DropBox’)
IaaS
On-demand self-service
Elasticity
Scalability
API integration
Resource accounting
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4. Who Uses Clouds?
Public clouds (SPs/MSPs)
General public can create or log into instances themselves
Private Clouds (Enterprises)
Anyone who wants to be able to orchestrate their environment
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6. What is CloudStack
CloudStack is a hypervisor agnostic open source IaaS
platform.
CloudStack orchestrates hypervisors and network appliances
to give control simple to complex tasks
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13. How does CloudStack do it
Abstraction of Networks, Compute and disks so you don’t
have to worry about it.
It orchestrates the hypervisor layer
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15. What Can I Use?
Hypervisors
VMware ESXi
Citrix XenServer
KVM
Oracle OVM
LXC
Bare metal (UCS)
Hyper-V
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16. What Can I Use?
OS
Anything the hypervisor can run (pretty much)
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17. What Can I Use?
Hardware
Storage - NFS, iSCSI, FCoE, S3
Compute – commodity
Networking – Layer 2 switches (L3 for basic networks)
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Notas del editor
I get asked a lot what is cloud – is it dropbox?Self service – means not the techies supporting the environmentElasticity – can grow and shrink the number of VMsScalability – 50 thousand nodes in ZyngaAPI - controllableResource account – who’s used what internal or external billing
Service providers – public create instances themselves and pay per-instance per-hour depending on the size of offeringAdd services such as vpn extra ip addresses backup etc.MSP add their own value-add
Service providers use cloud technology to provide instances in a more dynamical way
Create Advanced Zone environment which has multiple accounts and Templates:Windows templatesCentOSCentOS with http
It’s down to your imagination(time/budget)
Simple stuff but it’s then about what you do with these building blocksYou don’t need to be able to configure cisco routers and switches or be a vmware/xenserver/kvm guru
Create VM as a user (windows)EnablerdpCreate userCreate port forward to RDP on windowsLoad balancer ruleFirewall ruleLog in.