Cloud Computing with Eucalyptus Installing & Configuring Eucalyptus 2.0.0 on CentOS 5.5

After a long time... Yes, really after a long time but there is a reason to that. The reason is, I recently started working on Cloud Computing & relatively I'm pretty new to this area and hence was little busy understanding the concepts and preparing for some POCs & possible deployments.

In my opinion, overall getting started with Cloud Administration is easy if your UNIX, Virtualization &  Networking concepts are clear & strong.

 As my first cloud assignment I started working with an Open Source tool known as Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems) 

I found Eucalyptus very useful and though to share "Eucalyptus Installation & Configuration Documentation" with community for future reference.

Note: This document is a private document hence printing/downloading/copying of this document is restricted.

Before jump into "How-To" lets get introduced to the tool -

Eucalyptus is an open-source software platform that implements IaaS-style cloud computing using the existing Linux-based infrastructure found in the modern data center. It is interface compatible with Amazon's AWS making it possible to move workloads between AWS and the data center without modifying the code that implements them. Eucalyptus also works with most of the currently available Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), openSUSE, Debian and Fedora. Similarly, Eucalyptus can use a variety of virtualization technologies including VMware, Xen, and KVM to implement the cloud abstractions it supports.

Eucalyptus Feature Highlights:

Support for Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, and EBS)
Includes Walrus: an Amazon S3 interface-compatible storage manager
Added support for elastic IP assignment
Web-based interface for cloud configuration
Image registration and image attribute manipulation
Configurable scheduling policies and SLAs
Support for multiple hypervisor technologies within the same cloud

Benefits of Eucalyptus:

Build a private cloud that enables you to “cloud-burst” into Amazon AWS
Allows a cloud to be easily deployed on all types of legacy hardware and software
Customers can leverage the development strength of our worldwide user community
Eucalyptus is compatible with multiple distributions of Linux
Eucalyptus also supports the commercial Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Benefits of Eucalyptus for IT administrators:

Delivers a self-service provisioning IT infrastructure to end users that require IT resources quickly
Maintains existing infrastructure with no additional capital expense and reduces operating expense
Keeps critical data behind the firewall
Technology is an overlay to the existing hardware and software infrastructure, not a replacement
Avoids lock-in to a 3rd party public cloud vendor
Enables easy transitions back and forth between private and public clouds

Well, I hope now everyone know what the tool is all about, why to make use of it and benefits of deploying this tool. Now let's jump into document & have a happy Eucalyptus configuration.

Direct URL to Documentation - http://www.scribd.com/full/45951224?access_key=key-10u1jf5m7ld06ys640uf

Here you go, An Embedded Version -

Installing Configuring Eucalyptus 2.0.0 on CentOS 5.5

Hope this helps!

Currently, I'm working on a POC for building private cloud using tool known as "OpenQRM" and I'm almost completed it... I'm hoping to share a nice document on this subject soon! Till then enjoy & have a Happy Christmas!!!