Granular Control of Dynamic Scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM
Currently, CloudStack allows admins to configure the dynamic scaling of CPU and RAM for the VMs using a global or zone level setting “enable.dynamic.scale.vm” and through a…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 Roundup – Virtual, November 2021
Taking place over 5 days (November 8 – 12), the CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 was the first virtual annual get-together of the Apache CloudStack community. The conference…
SystemVM template – Upgrade Improvements
When upgrading Apache CloudStack (ACS) to a newer version one must manually register new SystemVM templates before upgrading the packages. Failing to do so means having to roll…
What’s new in CloudStack 4.16
Apache CloudStack 4.16 is the latest release of the cloud management platform from the Apache Software Foundation and is a result of months of work from the development community.…
Adding Comments to CloudStack Objects | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack administrators are currently able to add annotations/comments on hosts, domains or virtual machines. This is useful as administrators may comment on the actions taken…
GSoC 2021 and Apache CloudStack: The Results
With 16,000+ participants from 111 countries and 715 open-source organizations participating, Google Summer of Code is one of the most popular programs which helps students enter…
CloudStack Stability and Reliability Enables KDDI to Deliver 99.999% Uptime to Their Enterprise Customers
Whilst agility and speed of service are key factors in choosing a cloud management platform, it is becoming apparent that the reliability of that platform is proving to be the vital…
Support for Custom Resource Icons in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature First Look
A CloudStack resource is typically identified by its name or description, and when creating and managing resources, zones are often named by their geographical location, team/company…
Import Virtual Machines in CloudStack
Since CloudStack 4.14 it has been possible to import virtual machines (VMs) from a vSphere cluster directly into CloudStack, which introduced the concept of managed and unmanaged…
Case Study: IndiQus and ShapeBlue Accelerating Cloud Growth in Emerging Markets
Data localisation is creating multi-million-dollar revenue opportunities for regional ISPs, data centers and telcos. Providing the monetisation and cloud management solutions to build…
Biggest Mistakes Which Providers Make When Pricing IaaS
When you launch any new type of service, one of the key challenges is getting your pricing right. In the case of IaaS providers, this is a crucial strategic step, determining your…
The C-level Perspective on Running Open-Source Cloud with Ceph and CloudStack
The cloud and hosting market has experienced a complete transformation during the last decade. While previously there was a range of mid-sized local cloud providers dominating the…
Rocky Linux and openSUSE Support in CloudStack
In December 2020, Red Hat announced major changes to the roadmap of its CentOS distribution, including the early end of life of CentOS 8 in December 2021. Due to this sudden and…
Enable Bulk Actions via the CloudStack UI
Want to start or stop a VM (Virtual Machine), or delete an offering in CloudStack? No big deal. However – what if you need to delete 20 offerings, or stop 20 VMs? Having to perform…
Pricing Your IaaS Offering the Right Way
There is currently enormous market demand for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), with organisations looking for the right solution to host their applications and workloads, build…
vSphere Datastore Cluster State Synchronisation
Apache CloudStack 4.15 introduced several new capabilities for vSphere, including support for datastore clusters. Following production use of the new features and feedback from…
Interview: The story of XCP-ng and its CloudStack Integration
XCP-ng is a high-performance enterprise-level virtualization platform backed up by an active open-source community. Based initially on XenServer it's the result of cooperation between…
How to Choose a Cloud Management Platform
As more and more companies build internal private clouds or enter the service provider market with public clouds, the more they will need the right set of tools to successfully build,…
Storage Plugin for Dell EMC PowerFlex | CloudStack Feature First Look
For primary storage, CloudStack supports many managed storage solutions via storage plugins, such as SolidFire, Ceph, Datera, CloudByte and Nexenta. There are other managed storages…
Virtual CloudStack European User Group (vCSEUG) – May 27, 2021
Thursday, May 27 was the first-ever vCSEUG, and the first time the community had met since February 2020 (the last pre-COVID meetup in Berlin). It was time to reconnect! We have missed…
Google Summer of Code – Meet the Mentors
16,000+ students, 111 countries, 16 years and 715 open-source organizations – this is Google Summer of Code! ShapeBlue and the CloudStack Community are happy to be part of this global…
Customising the CloudStack UI
A lot of work has gone into the CloudStack UI recently, and it is now a modern, role-based UI that not only gives a fresh look to CloudStack but also makes development and customisation…
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS Support Added to CloudStack
The latest version of XCP-ng - the opensource hypervisor based on XenServer - XCP-ng 8.2 was released in November 2020, and is the first long term support (LTS) version. As such it…
Apache CloudStack on RaspberryPi4 with KVM
IoTs have gained interest over recent times. In this article, Rohit Yadav, Principal Engineer at ShapeBlue, explores and shares his personal experience of setting up an Apache CloudStack…
L2 Persistent Networks and enhancement of Isolated Persistent Networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
When a network is created in CloudStack, it is by default not provisioned until the first VM is deployed on that network, at which point a a VLAN ID is assigned. Until then, the network…
VMware Migration Improvements | CloudStack Feature First Look
Migration of virtual machines between physical hosts or clusters is essential for cloud operators, allowing them to perform maintenance with little or no downtime, or balance compute…
Specify VR IP in Shared Networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
If you are a system engineer managing shared networks and deploying virtual machines with CloudStack, you should be aware that currently there is no option to assign a specific…
Telia Latvia use Apache CloudStack to accelerate move to Next Generation Telco
Telia Latvia was founded in 1992 as a telecommunications company with a focus on data communications and internet services. In 2009 they established one of the most modern data centres…
First Few Months at ShapeBlue
Great team!
Hey there, this is Suresh Kumar Anaparti, from Hyderabad, India. I was born and brought up in the “City of Destiny” (Visakhapatnam) and moved to the “City of…
Hey there, this is Suresh Kumar Anaparti, from Hyderabad, India. I was born and brought up in the “City of Destiny” (Visakhapatnam) and moved to the “City of…
Debian replaces CoreOS as CKS template | CloudStack Feature First Look
The CloudStack Kubernetes Services (CKS) uses CoreOS templates to deploy Kubernetes clusters. However, as CoreOS reached EOL on May 26th, 2020 we needed to find a suitable replacement…
CloudStack Kubernetes Service – Cluster Auto-scaling | CloudStack Feature First Look
Since the addition of CloudStack Kubernetes Service, users can deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in CloudStack. This not only makes CloudStack a more versatile and multifaceted…
vSphere Advanced Capabilities in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
CloudStack vSphere integration has not kept up with the evolution of vSphere itself, and several functions can be performed natively by vSphere much more efficiently than…
CloudStack vSphere integration has not kept up with the evolution of vSphere itself, and several functions can be performed natively by vSphere much more efficiently than…
Support Virtual Appliance OVA Templates in VMware | CloudStack Deep Dive
Vendors of virtual appliances (vApp) for VMware often produce ‘templates’ of their appliances in an OVA format. An OVA file will contain disc images, configuration data of the virtual…
Role Based Users in Projects | CloudStack Feature First Look
Projects have proven to be a boon in organizing and grouping accounts and resources together, giving users in the same domain the ability to collaborate and share resources such as…
Dynamic Roles Utility | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack has more than 600 APIs which can be allowed / disallowed in different combinations to create dynamic roles for the users. The aim of this feature is more effective use and…
ShapeBlue enables the University of Sao Paulo to deliver federated cloud services | Case Studies
The University of São Paulo (USP) is Latin America’s largest university and Brazil’s most prestigious academic institution. It produces more doctorate degrees annually than any…
Back in the community
Hello all, I’m Harikrishna, and I’m based in Hyderabad, India. I joined ShapeBlue few months ago and I’m very happy to be part of this amazing team.
I started my career with…
I started my career with…
Share ISO from UI | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack supports sharing templates and ISOs between accounts and projects through the API ‘updateTemplatePermissions’ and sharing templates through the UI. However, prior to…
CentOS 8 Support | | CloudStack Feature First Look
As of 2021, CentOS 7 will be receiving maintenance updates only, and is end of life in 2024. Considering this, it is important that CloudStack supports CentOS 8 as a KVM hypervisor…
Support for XCP-ng 8.x | CloudStack Feature First Look
XCP-ng (an open-source hypervisor based on XenServer) has been supported in CloudStack for some time, and support for XCP-ng 8.x will be available from CloudStack 4.15.
From an operational…
From an operational…
Secondary Storage Management | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
In CloudStack, secondary storage pools (image stores) house resources such as volumes, snapshots and templates. Over time these storage pools may have to be decommissioned or data moved…
Boot into Hardware Setup | CloudStack Feature First Look
Users and administrators sometimes need to change the boot order of a virtual machine (VM) so that they can (for example) force a VM to boot from an ISO. However, sometimes the proxied…
Human readable byte sizes | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack puts together many technologies to make managing large datacentres and its resources easy and efficient, but with many complex systems, it is not always evident what goes…
noVNC Console Integration | CloudStack Feature First Look
There are a plethora of ways to connect to a remote system, from command-line based protocols like SSH, to graphical user interfaces such as RDP. One of the simplest ways to connect…
Send hypervisor host name via metadata | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows admins to expose the hypervisor host name to a User VM instance either through Config Drive or Virtual Router, based on the user data provider chosen for the network…
CloudStack Kubernetes Service
For a while, the CloudStack community has been working on adding support for containers. ShapeBlue successfully implemented the CloudStack Container Service and donated it to the project…
Enable unmanaging of guest instances | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows CloudStack administrators to unmanage guest virtual machines (VMs) from their CloudStack infrastructure. Once unmanaged, CloudStack can no longer monitor, control,…
Hands-on
Why Alex Mattioli, former Director of Architecture for a global telecoms giant, chose to join ShapeBlue
Hello, I’m Alexandre Mattioli - a Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue. After a…
Hello, I’m Alexandre Mattioli - a Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue. After a…
KVM Rolling Maintenance | CloudStack Feature First Look
In a typical scenario prior to this feature, the administrator had to automate the process of setting hosts in maintenance before upgrading, usually using external automation tools.…
Enable PVLAN support on L2 networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
Private VLANs have always been partially supported in CloudStack (for shared networks only), in versions prior to 4.14. Administrators could set up Isolated or Promiscuous PVLANs by…
Direct Download agnostic of the storage provider | CloudStack Feature First Look
Introduction
In a previous post, ShapeBlue’s Boris Stoyanov introduced a feature for KVM which allows administrators to register templates and ISOs without needing secondary storage…
In a previous post, ShapeBlue’s Boris Stoyanov introduced a feature for KVM which allows administrators to register templates and ISOs without needing secondary storage…
Enable sending of arbitrary configuration data to VMs | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows the sending of arbitrary additional VM configurations to user VMs on CloudStack and is supported by KVM, XenServer and VMware hypervisors.
The administrator enables…
The administrator enables…
Hosts stuck in PrepareForMaintenance state | CloudStack Feature First Look
The process of setting a host into maintenance in CloudStack requires an administrator to ask for ‘prepare for maintenance’, either via API or through the UI on a host. When CloudStack…
VR Health Checks | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature introduces an easy and integrated way to check the health of virtual routers (VRs) within CloudStack. With the help of these checks, administrators can monitor VRs and…
Straight into the code
Hi - David Jumani here, maybe just a typical software engineer so far…
I studied Computer Science and Engineering, and after graduation I worked at some of the biggest virtualization…
I studied Computer Science and Engineering, and after graduation I worked at some of the biggest virtualization…
Improvements for Template Direct Download | CloudStack Feature First Look
For some time now, CloudStack has supported the direct download of user templates for the KVM hypervisor. This basically allows user to register a template (whilst bypassing secondary…
VM Ingestion | CloudStack Feature First Look
Apache CloudStack has proved itself to be a great cloud orchestrator and is probably one of the best open-source platforms available for deployment of new IaaS environments. However,…
A place for an individual
Hey there, my name is Pearl d’Silva, and I have recently joined ShapeBlue as a Software Engineer. I’d like to share my ‘two-cents’ and tell you about my experience at ShapeBlue…
CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) roundup – Berlin, February 27, 2020
Our late winter (almost spring) meetup saw us back in Berlin, hosted by iTelligence and Heinlein Support. The last CloudStack user group held here was June 2016, and we were looking…
Project Primate – a new UI for Apache CloudStack
There is currently significant effort going on in the Apache CloudStack community to develop a new, modern, UI (user interface) for CloudStack: Project Primate. In this article, I discuss…
SolidFire with CloudStack
Aside from traditional storage solutions, CloudStack has supported managed storage for some time. In this article, we will touch on SolidFire support in CloudStack 4.13 and lay out…
CloudStack & Ceph day, Thursday, October 24 2019 – roundup
On Thursday, October 24 2019 the CloudStack community joined up with the Ceph community for a combined event in London, and it was another super day! The meetup took place at Student…
OIS and ShapeBlue Announce Apache® CloudStack® v4.11 To Power CloudSchool Platform | Case Studies
Enables rapid development of cost-effective, scalable Cloud-based educational solutions
Education IT specialist Oakford Internet Services (OIS) announced today that the latest version…
Education IT specialist Oakford Internet Services (OIS) announced today that the latest version…
Machine Learning and Apache CloudStack | Case Studies
Introduction
In this blog we discuss applications of machine learning (ML) in datacenters and how that might integrate with Apache CloudStack (ACS). We also try to identify various…
In this blog we discuss applications of machine learning (ML) in datacenters and how that might integrate with Apache CloudStack (ACS). We also try to identify various…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference, back in Las Vegas, September 9-11, 2019
It’s taken me a couple of weeks to write this blog, and not because it took me that long to recover from a week in Las Vegas! The CloudStack Collaboration Conference is part of ApacheCon,…
Openvswitch with DPDK support on CloudStack – Part 2 | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
In my previous post, I described the new ‘Open vSwitch with DPDK support’ on CloudStack for KVM hosts. There, I focused on describing the feature, as it was new to…
In my previous post, I described the new ‘Open vSwitch with DPDK support’ on CloudStack for KVM hosts. There, I focused on describing the feature, as it was new to…
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 3
Introduction
In the previous two parts of this article series, we have covered the complete Ceph installation process and implemented Ceph as an additional Primary Storage in CloudStack.…
In the previous two parts of this article series, we have covered the complete Ceph installation process and implemented Ceph as an additional Primary Storage in CloudStack.…
Globo chooses CloudStack for its application development & system management platform | Case Studies
Globo.com is the Internet arm of GRUPO Globo, the largest media conglomerate in Latin America, with offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
It operates the largest vertical web…
It operates the largest vertical web…
Troubleshooting CloudStack Virtual Routers
Cloudstack’s multi-tenant virtualised networking model is one of its strongest features. Abstracting complex networking concepts and allowing simple UI/API configuration of networks…
European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day Roundup
Blog by Ivet Petrova, StorPool.
On June 13th, StorPool had the honour and privilege to host and organize the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Group together with…
On June 13th, StorPool had the honour and privilege to host and organize the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Group together with…
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 2
In the previous article we covered some basics around Ceph and deployed a working Ceph cluster. In this article, we are going to finish the Ceph configuration needed for CloudStack…
New year, new journey…
Hello all, this is Abhishek Kumar, currently the newest member of the ShapeBlue family. It's been over a month since I started working as a Software Engineer on Apache CloudStack at…
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 1
As well as NFS and various block storage solutions for Primary Storage, CloudStack has supported Ceph with KVM for a number of years now. Thanks to some great Ceph users in the…
Teamsun choose CloudStack to deliver private & hybrid cloud offerings | Case Studies
Teamsun (SHA: 600410), China’s leading integrated IT Service Provider, and ShapeBlue, The Cloudstack Company, today announced a new strategic partnership to develop private &…
CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) roundup – London, March 2019
Our first meetup of 2019 saw us at a new venue – Ticketmaster’s London HQ, and if you’re a music lover it certainly takes the prize for coolest meeting venue yet! Walls covered…
Transition from product to infra: first month at ShapeBlue
Anurag Awasthi shares his experiences after one month in the ShapeBlue Engineering team
Let me start by briefly introducing myself. I hold a bachelors and master’s in computer…
Let me start by briefly introducing myself. I hold a bachelors and master’s in computer…
Securing CloudStack 4.11 with HTTPS/TLS
Apache CloudStack is generally considered secure out of the box, however it does have the capability of protecting both system VM traffic as well as management traffic with TLS certificates.…
What’s coming in the new CloudMonkey 6.0? | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Background
The original CloudMonkey was contributed to the Apache CloudStack project on 31 Oct 2012 under the Apache License 2.0. It is written in Python and shipped using the Python…
The original CloudMonkey was contributed to the Apache CloudStack project on 31 Oct 2012 under the Apache License 2.0. It is written in Python and shipped using the Python…
One month at ShapeBlue
Andrija Panic shares some thoughts on joining the ShapeBlue team
Hi there, this is Andrija from… well, ShapeBlue! I’ve been working here for a month now and I thought that I’d…
Hi there, this is Andrija from… well, ShapeBlue! I’ve been working here for a month now and I thought that I’d…
Datacenter Services choose Apache CloudStack to deliver enterprise grade public IaaS cloud
Part of the CSN Group, DATACENTER Services believes that IT parties do not want to invest in IT Infrastructure. It is too expensive in terms of cash and knowledge. Therefore they offer…
University of São Paulo move to open source Apache CloudStack to power Latin Americas largest educational cloud | Case Studies
ShapeBlue, The Cloudstack Company, announced that they have been selected to help The University of São Paulo to rapidly scale and enhance their massive “Cloud USP” private…
CloudStack European User Group roundup – London, December 2018
There was a definite feel of Christmas in the air in London as we made our way to last Thursday’s (December 13) winter meetup of the Cloudstack European User Group (CSEUG), and that…
Openvswitch with DPDK support on CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
This blog describes a new feature to be introduced in the CloudStack 4.12 release (already in the current master branch of the CloudStack repository). This feature will…
This blog describes a new feature to be introduced in the CloudStack 4.12 release (already in the current master branch of the CloudStack repository). This feature will…
Integration Testing within CloudStack – Marvin
Integration testing - What it is and why SDLC needs it.
What is Integration testing? This is a type of testing where multiple components are combined and tested working together. There…
What is Integration testing? This is a type of testing where multiple components are combined and tested working together. There…
ASG uses Apache CloudStack to build CloudFactory that will help customers plan, deploy and manage internally or externally hosted clouds
ASG provides Global 5000 businesses with world-class professional services and software solutions for Metadata Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Content Management,…
CloudStack European User Group roundup – London, September 2018
Thursday, September 13 saw us back at the Early Excellence Centre, Canada Water, for the (late) Summer meetup of the CloudStack European User Group. As usual, a great turnout and representation…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference, Montreal, September 24 – 26
We’re here in Montreal for the CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and it’s been a fantastic event with more to come! We’ve had two full days of back to back talks over two…
ShapeBlue’s expertise helps DSS to design new CloudStack IaaS platform | Case Studies
Working with leading-edge technology presents its own unique set of issues. Even technology specialists can encounter problems when faced with designing and building business critical…
Networking KVM for CloudStack – a 2018 revisit for CentOS7 & Ubuntu 18.04 | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
We published the original blog post on KVM networking in 2016 - but in the meantime we have moved on a generation in CentOS and Ubuntu operating systems, and some of…
We published the original blog post on KVM networking in 2016 - but in the meantime we have moved on a generation in CentOS and Ubuntu operating systems, and some of…
ShapeBlue SA extends distribution agreement with NetApp
ShapeBlue SA are pleased to announce the extension of their distribution partner agreement for NetApp in South Africa, building out a successful relationship that started in 2014.
‘ShapeBlue…
‘ShapeBlue…
Secure Live KVM VM Migration with CloudStack 4.11.1 | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
CloudStack 4.11.1 introduces a new security enhancement on top of the new CA framework to secure live KVM VM migrations. This feature allows live migration of guest…
CloudStack 4.11.1 introduces a new security enhancement on top of the new CA framework to secure live KVM VM migrations. This feature allows live migration of guest…
ShapeBlue Security Advisory – Spectre and Meltdown patches in CloudStack 4.9 and 4.11
Overview
At the beginning of 2018 a number of vulnerabilities were discovered which allow malicious user space processes to read kernel memory and malicious code in VM guests to read…
At the beginning of 2018 a number of vulnerabilities were discovered which allow malicious user space processes to read kernel memory and malicious code in VM guests to read…
Software based agent LB for CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
Last year we implemented a new CA Framework on CloudStack 4.11 to make communications between CloudStack management servers it's hypervisor agents more secure. As part…
Last year we implemented a new CA Framework on CloudStack 4.11 to make communications between CloudStack management servers it's hypervisor agents more secure. As part…
Working towards CloudStack zero downtime upgrades
As most people know, Apache CloudStack has gained a reputation as a solid, low maintenance dependable cloud orchestration platform. That’s why in last year's Gartner Magic Quadrant…
How to deploy templates without using secondary storage on KVM
Introduction
ShapeBlue have been working on a new feature for Apache Cloudstack 4.11.1 that will allow users to bypass secondary storage with KVM. The feature introduces a new way…
ShapeBlue have been working on a new feature for Apache Cloudstack 4.11.1 that will allow users to bypass secondary storage with KVM. The feature introduces a new way…
ShapeBlue help Ascenty to design and build leading cloud platform for Brazilian market | Case Studies
The cloud is from a long time accepted as a mature technology utilised by companies of all sizes across the world to enable them to carry out their business smarter and faster. As a…
CloudStack & Ceph day, Thursday, April 19 | Roundup
On Thursday, April 19 the CloudStack community joined up with the Ceph community for a combined event in London, and what an event it was! The meetup took place at the Early Excellence…
CloudStack and the new XenServer licensing model
Citrix have announced that as of XenServer 7.3, the free version (including the 'opensource' version packaged by Citrix) will no longer have feature parity with the paid-for Standard version. Of the features which are restricted in the free version, a maximum pool size of 3 hosts and the removal of Xen Storage Motion are going to make the use of free XenServer to run production clouds pretty much untenable.
What’s new in CloudStack 4.11? | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Version 4.11 of Apache CloudStack has been released with some exciting new features and a long list of improvements and fixes. It includes more than 400 commits, 220 pull requests,…
CloudStack Usage Service | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
CloudStack usage is a complimentary service which tracks end user consumption of CloudStack resources and summarises this in a separate database for reporting or billing.…
CloudStack usage is a complimentary service which tracks end user consumption of CloudStack resources and summarises this in a separate database for reporting or billing.…
