http://blogs.plexibus.com It's easy if you know how Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:45:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In our previous posts on "Building an on-premise private cloud", we took our first steps by Installing Eucalyptus, a IaaS offering and then dove into Configuring Eucalyptus to look like an Amazon EC2 cloud. In this post, we will take the next step and that is uploading (to Walrus) and registering ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/06/22/eucalyptus-creating-and-registering-our-first-image/ In this series of posts on "Building an on-premise private cloud" we have so far: Installed Eucalyptus, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, and Configured Eucalyptus to start VMs with IP addresses from a private VLAN Before we jump into bundling, uploading, and registering images, let's first download and install Euca2ools. Euca2ools Euca2ools are command-line utilities to help: Manage ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/06/17/eucalyptus-euca2ools/ You can reduce your hardware infrastructure expenditure by using Eucalyptus to efficiently run and manage your virtual machines on existing hardware. This in turn effectively leads to larger energy savings - less physical machines equals less power needed to run the hardware. In my previous post on setting up a ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/05/26/eucalyptus-configuring-your-private-cloud-to-resemble-amazon-ec2/ There are a few Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings that available to download and use. Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are two such offerings. I ended up installing and experimenting with both Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. In this blog post, I'll detail my experience of installing and setting up Eucalyptus 1.6.2 on CentOS.For the sake of ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/05/19/eucalyptus-setting-up-a-private-infrastructure-cloud/ Ever since Appistry CloudIQ Maven plugin has been open-sourced on Google code, enhancements and features are being added regularly. A recent feature that was added was the update fabric/far version goal.Update fabric/far versionThe update fabric/far version goal of the Appistry CloudIQ Maven plugin automates the version update of the fabric/far ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/05/11/appistry-cloudiq-maven-plugin-update-fabric-far-version/ For some time now there has been a whole flurry of development around Java bindings for CloudIQ APIs. We have also been using it on internal and client projects quite successfully. While we know there is a lot of work that still needs to be done, we figured we would ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/04/26/appistry-cloudiq-java-bindings-for-cloudiq-apis/ I finally added some wiki pages around maven-cloudiq-plugin. And I will be continually adding to the wiki in the days to come. But I thought I would take a moment to give some background on the plugin and describe some of the goals. Origins... maven-cloudiq-plugin currently started off as a simple way ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/04/21/appistry-cloudiq-maven-plugin-birth-and-moving-forward/ I finally decided to bite the bullet and publish the work-in-progress maven-cloudiq-plugin code to Google code. Google Code and Mercurial While I did not spend a ton of time evaluating a public project hosting provider, some of key things I was looking for in a project hosting provider was: Must provide DVCS (distributed ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/04/20/appistry-cloudiq-maven-plugin-on-google-code/ The preview of CloudIQ Storage brings Amazon S3-like functionality to Managed Service Providers, organizations, and businesses. It opens up new possibilities with distributed, reliable storage of data and and importantly, computational storage. CloudIQ Storage exposes a RESTful interface that clients can use to store and retrieve files. Using cURL you ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/04/12/rest-esting-with-curl-file-handling/ There are times when you want to use an earlier version of a package in Ubuntu. Perhaps due to a bug in the latest bleeding edge package that is currently in use. Or maybe the behavior has changed in the new version and you want to revert to an older ... http://blogs.plexibus.com/2010/03/16/downgrade-a-package-in-ubuntu/