CloudStack Primary Storage
Paul Angus, Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue takes an interesting look at how to separate Cloudstack’s management traffic from its primary storage traffic. I recently looked at physical networking in a CloudStack environment and alluded to the fact that you cannot separate primary storage traffic from management traffic from CloudStack, but that it is still possible. […]
CloudStack European User Group – February 2015 | Event Roundup
Once again, Trend Micro played host to the CloudStack European user group. And this quarter with Giles Sirett ‘working’ at CloudStack Day – Brazil, Geoff Higginbottom CTO of ShapeBlue took to the stage to compare the event. The News As is customary at the user group, we kicked off with a roundup of news in […]
A primeira edição do CloudStackDay Brasil foi um sucesso!
Com 200 participantes presentes no auditório István Jancsó na USP e mais de 650 on-line, a comunidade CloudStack Brasil só tem motivos para celebrar. Foram cinco horas de debates, apresentações e palestras de representantes ilustres, nacionais e internacionais, da comunidade Apache CloudStack™: o CloudStack Day ficou marcado principalmente por apresentar casos reais de uso do […]
How to Deploy High Availability CloudStack with MariaDB Galera Cluster
As a cloud infrastructure scales to hundreds or thousands of servers, high availability becomes a key requirement of the production environments supporting multiple applications and services. Since the management servers use a MySQL database to store the state of all its objects, the database could become a single point of failure. The CloudStack manual recommends […]
XenServer Native HA with CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Update – Following community feedback, Timeout Settings have now been added to the script Update – The HA settings in this post also apply to XenServer 6.5.0 onwards Warning: If you have applied Hotfix XS62ESP1004 to your XenServer 6.2 infrastructure and have not enabled Pool HA, in the event of your Pool Master going down, […]
CloudStack and OpenStack – Chalk and Cheese?
At lot of advertising and commentators often say; that when comparing the open source cloud orchestration platforms CloudStack and OpenStack that they’re like chalk and cheese, but have you ever tried writing on a blackboard with cheese? CloudStack or OpenStack -Which one should you pick To give my view on the difference I’m going to […]
How to Build a CloudStack Test Environment using VirtualBox
Introduction If you are new to Apache CloudStack and want to learn the concepts but do not have all the equipment required to stand-up a test environment, why not use your existing PC and VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a cross platform virtualisation application which runs on OSX, Windows, Linux and Solaris, meaning no matter what OS […]
How to upgrade an Apache CloudStack Citrix XenServer Cluster
So you have a Cluster of Citrix XenServers and you want to upgrade them to a new version, for example to go from XenServer 6.0.2 to XenServer 6.2, or simply apply the latest Hotfixes. As this is a cluster that is being managed by CloudStack it is not as simple as using the Rolling Pool Upgrade […]
What’s new in CloudMonkey 5.3.0? | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
The Apache CloudStack community recently released CloudMonkey 5.3.0. In this post, Rohit Yadav Software Architect at ShapeBlue talks about this release and his work on the new server profile feature. For more information on CloudMonkey and its usage click here. At ShapeBlue we offer CloudStack infrastructure support and in doing so we rely heavily on tools such as CloudMonkey […]
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe
Last Chance To Register For Annual CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe CCC-EU returns November 19-21 in Budapest, and time is running out to register. CloudStack European User Group members receive a 50% discount on registration – only €175! Choose Attendee Registration and enter code CSEUG to receive the 50% discount. Click here to register: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-europe/attend/register The […]
