Eucalyptus 3 (&3.1)

Eucalyptus 3 Product Overview – Govind Rangasamy

Eucalyptus 3+ Main design goal v3.0 (Enterprise Cloud) was to support Enterprise Private/Hybrid IaaS Cloud Scenarios. – Integrate with on prem LDAP/Active Directory services.. Untill v3.0 Enterprise cloud was different branch from open source version (latest open source before this was 2.0.3) v3.1 brings enterprise and community clouds into single source tree. With Paid support for enterprise edition and GNU General Public License version 3 for open source version.

New Features 3+ For Cloud users – Administrators – Application developers/users For Cloud Fabric Developers (Cloud Architectects) (v3.1)

For Cloud Users - I High Availability IaaS – Each Eucalyptus cloud component is replicated and deployed as an active- passive service Cloud Controller, Cluster Controller, Walrus, VMware Broker and Storage Controller – eucalyptus eucalyptus – how-high-is-it-in-highly-available-eucalyptus how-high-is-it-in-highly-available-eucalyptus Better Machine Image support. – Windows images – Fully compatible with Amazon Machine Images – AWS Compatible Authentication – VMWare Images can be easily converted (tools provided) Better Support for various Linux Distributions. – V3.0 broke support for some versions. V3.1 fixed those issues – Centos 5 and 6, RHEL 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.04, and Ubuntu 12.04

For Cloud Users - II Heterogeneous Hypervisor Management – Mixed hypervisor cluster – vSphere™*, ESX™*, ESXi™*, KVM and XEN – self-service management portal to manage clusters VMWare hypervisor virtualization support – New Component – VMWare Broker which sits between CC and hypervisor SAN Integration – SAN storage arrays to improve performance and reliability, dynamic allocation and de-allocation for storage elasticity. – Also support for direct-attached storage (JBOD storage) * Available for enterprise customers

For Cloud Users - III Amazon EBS like storage volumes. – Fully persistent virtual machine instances – Boot from EBS drives.. Rapid Instancing – Faster Instance starts using copy-on-write (Multiple VM instances within a single node controller boot really quickly) Enterprise Ready Identity Management – Role-Based Access Control mechanisms for virtual resource pools – Integration with Active Directory/LDAP – compatible with the Amazon IAM API. Flexible Accounting, Chargeback and Quota Management

For Cloud Users - IV Enterprise Ready Identity Management – compatible with the Amazon IAM API. Cloud Usage Pattern Analysis Self-service portals – Admins and Eucalyptus partners can provide custom portal for managing and reporting Virtual resources – provides robust collection of web services to build self-service interfaces.. FastStart – Deploy Eucalyptus in <30 mins.. – The free version assumes a certain configuration 1 machine for Controllers (and other services) 1 or more machines for VM nodes Deploys host OS, virtualization (KVM) components, Cloud components etc in an easy step setup.. – Support for Custom Configurations is available for enterprise users

For Cloud Fabric Developers v3.0 Open Source (available on Github) – Accepting community feedback, changes Major Refactoring of the code. – Plugin Module Package Architecture. Allows extensions to Eucalyptus without changing the existing codebase. Automated Quality Assurance Framework – 500,000 individual tests already performed on v3.1

Eucalyptus 3 Product Overview – Govind Rangasamy