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 […]
CloudStack European User Group – October 2014 | Event Roundup
Our Autumn meetup saw us back at Trend Micro, which is becoming a home from home for us! Great to see the guys there again and many thanks for hosting another great meeting. As usual a good turn-out for the group and some really interesting discussions. Once we’d all settled Giles kicked off with the […]
Public CloudStack Packages
ShapeBlue , today, announced that we will be publicly hosting our public CloudStack repository and SystemVM templates. But why have we decided to do this ? Access to our CloudStack product patches Part of ShapeBlue’s CloudStack Software Engineering services, we provide a product patching service to our customers where we take an official CloudStack release that our […]
Shellshock and CloudStack
Shellshock is the family of bugs in the Unix Bash shell which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system potentially allowing an attacker to gain full access to that system. The bug (CVE-2014-6271) was first disclosed on 24 September 2014, upon closer inspection of the code, related vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, and CVE-2014-7187) were […]