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New Server Status and Metric Views l CloudStack Feature First Look
Overview
In CloudStack 4.17 a brief overview of the status of various services can be retrieved. This includes information on the Management Server(s), the Database and the Usage…
May 16, 2022/by Daan HooglandIn CloudStack 4.17 a brief overview of the status of various services can be retrieved. This includes information on the Management Server(s), the Database and the Usage…

Support for VMs Having Multiple SSH Key l CloudStack Feature First Look
As SSH is the most widely used way to access remote machines, CloudStack provides users with the ability to specify an SSH Key to be added to the list of authorized keys of a virtual…
April 26, 2022/by David Jumani
CloudStack European User Group 2022 Virtual Event Roundup
Taking place on April 7th, 2022, The CloudStack European User Group was a virtual get together for the European CloudStack Community, hosting 260+ attendees from 25 countries. The…
April 25, 2022/by Jamie Pell
Telia Utilises CloudStack and ShapeBlue to Maintain a Market-leading Position in the Baltics
The rate of change in the TELCO industry has accelerated over the last few years as customers demand more innovation and faster time-to-market to support their business initiatives.…
April 12, 2022/by Ivet Petrova
CloudStack Integrations: LINBIT – Open-source SDS Solution
Apache CloudStack is the leading open-source cloud orchestration platform used by many of the world’s largest public and private clouds. It is a multi-hypervisor, multi-tenant,…
April 1, 2022/by Ivet Petrova
Automating Infrastructure with CloudStack and Terraform
Apache CloudStack is one of the most commonly used IaaS platforms, orchestrating infrastructure and maximizing the benefits of cloud computing. Many large enterprises already use…
March 28, 2022/by Harikrishna Patnala
CloudStack vs. OpenStack Comparison – What you need to know before choosing a cloud management system
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is recognized as facilitating speed-to-market and for its ability to drive business agility. When a company demands specific answers to a business…
March 21, 2022/by Marco Sinhoreli
Apache CloudStack 4.16.1.0 Release – Deep Dive
Apache CloudStack 4.16.1.0 is the latest maintenance release as part of the LTS 4.16.x releases. It contains more than 150 fixes and improvements since the 4.16.0.0 release. In…
March 21, 2022/by Suresh Anaparti
Improvements to VM and Volume Migration | CloudStack Feature First Look
Migration of resources such as virtual machines and volumes is essential functionality for cloud operators, enabling them to load balance or perform maintenance operations on underlying…
February 7, 2022/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
January 5, 2022/by Harikrishna Patnala
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…
November 24, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
November 19, 2021/by Pearl d'Silva
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.…
November 15, 2021/by Giles Sirett
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…
October 22, 2021/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
October 8, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
October 5, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
October 4, 2021/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
August 13, 2021/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
August 11, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
July 30, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
July 23, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
July 19, 2021/by David Jumani
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…
July 19, 2021/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
July 8, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
July 6, 2021/by Harikrishna Patnala
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…
June 30, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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,…
June 17, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
June 9, 2021/by Suresh Anaparti
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…
June 8, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
June 3, 2021/by Ivet Petrova
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…
May 25, 2021/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
May 12, 2021/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
May 11, 2021/by Rohit Yadav
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…
March 25, 2021/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
March 19, 2021/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
March 4, 2021/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
January 26, 2021/by Suresh AnapartiHey 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…
December 21, 2020/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
December 15, 2020/by David Jumani
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…
November 30, 2020/by Harikrishna PatnalaCloudStack 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…
November 26, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
November 19, 2020/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
November 19, 2020/by Suresh Anaparti
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…
November 16, 2020/by Giles Sirett
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…
November 3, 2020/by Harikrishna PatnalaI 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…
November 2, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
October 22, 2020/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
October 21, 2020/by Abhishek KumarFrom 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…
October 13, 2020/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
October 2, 2020/by Daan Hoogland
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…
October 1, 2020/by Ivet Petrova
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…
September 9, 2020/by David Jumani
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…
September 8, 2020/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
August 10, 2020/by Abhishek Kumar
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,…
August 7, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
May 21, 2020/by Alеx MattioliHello, 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.…
May 12, 2020/by Andrija Panic
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…
April 29, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
April 29, 2020/by Nicolas VazquezIn 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…
April 29, 2020/by Nicolas VazquezThe 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…
April 29, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
April 29, 2020/by Nicolas Vazquez
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…
April 29, 2020/by David JumaniI 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…
April 24, 2020/by Abhishek Kumar
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,…
April 24, 2020/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
April 20, 2020/by Pearl d'Silva
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…
March 10, 2020/by Steve Roles
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…
January 30, 2020/by Giles SirettEducation IT specialist Oakford Internet Services (OIS) announced today that the latest version…

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…
December 29, 2019/by Giles Sirett
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…
December 13, 2019/by Giles Sirett
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…
December 4, 2019/by Andrija Panic
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…
November 8, 2019/by Steve Roles
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…
October 15, 2019/by Giles SirettIn 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,…
October 2, 2019/by Steve Roles
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…
August 28, 2019/by Nicolas VazquezIn 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.…
July 23, 2019/by Andrija PanicIn 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…
July 20, 2019/by Giles SirettIt 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…
June 25, 2019/by Boris Stoyanov
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…
June 20, 2019/by Steve RolesOn 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…
April 25, 2019/by Andrija Panic
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…
April 24, 2019/by Abhishek Kumar
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…
April 4, 2019/by Andrija Panic
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 &…
March 22, 2019/by Steve Roles
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…
March 19, 2019/by Steve Roles
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…
March 8, 2019/by Giles SirettLet 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.…
February 19, 2019/by Giles Sirett
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…
February 14, 2019/by Rohit YadavThe 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…
January 28, 2019/by Andrija PanicHi 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…
January 1, 2019/by Giles Sirett
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…
December 21, 2018/by Giles Sirett
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…
December 19, 2018/by Steve Roles
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…
December 3, 2018/by Nicolas VazquezThis 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…
November 5, 2018/by Boris StoyanovWhat 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,…
October 20, 2018/by Giles Sirett
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…
October 1, 2018/by Steve Roles
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…
September 26, 2018/by Steve Roles
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…
September 18, 2018/by Giles Sirett
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…
August 28, 2018/by Giles SirettWe 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…
August 16, 2018/by Giles Sirett‘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…
July 16, 2018/by Rohit YadavCloudStack 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…
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