OpenNebula 3 cloud computing : set up, manage, and maintain your cloud and learn solutions for datacenter virtualization with this step-by-step practical guide / Giovanni Toraldo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toraldo, Giovanni.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Open source : community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub. Ltd., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a step-by-step practical guide to get you started easily with openNebula. It guides you to build, maintain, and configure your cloud infrastructure, providing real-world examples in a simple and coherent manner. If you are a GNU/Linux system administrator with no experience with virtualization or cloud computing but eager to learn about it, or you are thwarted by your current virtualized infrastructure, this book is for you. You are expected to have some basic knowledge of GNU/Linux, with knowledge of basic package management tools and system configuration.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: OpenNebula and Why it Matters?; The core features; Standing on the shoulders of the giants; Xen; KVM; QEMU/KVM; Libvirt; VMware; Summary; Chapter 2: Building Up Your Cloud; Typical cloud hardware; CPU; Memory; Disk and RAID; Network card; Book conventions; Basic OS installation and partitioning; Commonly required configurations; Frontend software requirements; Host software requirements; Image Repository and storage; Networking; The oneadmin user

OpenNebula installation through sourcesRuby dependencies; OpenNebula installation through pre-built packages; Basic OpenNebula configuration; SSH public-key authentication; One daemon per oneadmin user; Self-contained installations; First start of oned; OpenNebula frontend configuration; MySQL backend configuration; Virtual network configuration; Image Repository configuration; Information Manager driver configuration; Virtualization Manager driver configuration; Transfer Manager driver configuration; Image Manager driver configuration; Hook system configuration; Managing users and groups

Local and remote user loginCreating custom groups with custom ACLs; Quota; Summary; Chapter 3: Hypervisors; Configuring hosts; The oneadmin account and passwordless login; Verifying the SSH host fingerprints; Configuring a simple DNS with dnsmasq; Configuring sudo; Configuring network bridges; Managing hosts in OpenNebula; Networking drivers; Configuring the fw support; Configuring the ebtables support; KVM installation; Enabling kernel samepage merging; Using an updated kernel in Ubuntu Lucid; The Xen installation; Installing on Debian Squeeze through standard repositories

Installing Xen through sourcesA suitable kernel with dom0 support - Debian Squeeze; A suitable Kernel with dom0 support - Oneiric backport; Checking if your current kernel has Xen support; Building a custom kernel with dom0 and domU support; Autoloading necessary modules; Onehost create for Xen hosts; Installing VMware ESXi; Required software on the frontend; Installing Libvirt with ESX support; Adding a oneadmin user with privileges; Summary; Chapter 4: Choosing Your Storage Carefully; How a transfer manager works; Non-shared storage through SSH/CP; Non-shared storage scripts

Shared storage through NFS on the frontendShared storage through NFS using NAS/SAN; Shared storage scripts; Shared storage through distributed file systems; Shared storage through GlusterFS; GlusterFS hardware requirements; GlusterFS server installation; Setting up a GlusterFS volume; Starting a GlusterFS volume; Accessing GlusterFS data; Tuning volume options; Operations on volume; Self-heal on replicated volumes; Overview of GlusterFS integration with OpenNebula; Shared Storage through MooseFS; MooseFS hardware requirements; MooseFS server installation through sources

MooseFS server installation through PPA

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613663856

9781280686917

128068691X

9781849517478

1849517479

OCLC:

823133597