OpenStack: 'There will be only one Ubuntu cloud'

The next version of Ubuntu will offer not one but two open source build-your-own cloud platforms: Eucalyptus and OpenStack. On Thursday, Canonical – the commercial operation that backs the Ubuntu Linux distro – officially announced that it would include OpenStack after offering Eucalyptus for a little over a year. But Jim Curry …

[Neoc]

Hmmm....

So...

At home I have a number of PCs - some running windows, some running Linux - with various functions; webserver, mailserver, fileserver, torrent box. One of the problems I've always had is that most of the time, the power of the H/W is underused except for short periods of extreme uses. Add to it the fact that if the box that the webserver (for example) runs on goes down, there goes my in-house webservice. Annoying.

A nice alternative would be to run a RAID-like array of H/W boxes, on which ran virtual machines (windows or Linux) which ran my services. This way, I could keep my services one to a "box" but would not loose said service if a power-supply decided to give up the ghost.

Seems to me we're possibly there. Can anyone point me to a cook-book to do the above?

[sola]

Home cloud

Nice idea but I don't see the need for Windows in this home-cloud environment.

Maybe your desktop but everything else is better served with Linux. If you don't need Windows only software, than even your desktop is better served with Linux.

I am not even sure that you can find a serious cloud software which runs on both Win and Linux. Openstack for example seems to have only a windows client.

Not to mention the Windows licence fees if you want to properly own it.

[Neoc]

<sigh> there is always one.

I am a strong Linux supporter (80% of my PCs run it)... but I am tired of these "you don't need windows" responses from Linux advocates.

Yes, in the real world I still need Windows. If only to keep the wife happy. Or to run some Windows-only software that Wine still doesn't handle properly (one in particular, which I like using, causes the Wine window to darken a freeze for a few seconds every so often). The fact that *you* don't need Windows is irrelevant to *my* problem. My problem *as stated* involved Windows, and simply telling me *you* see no need for it doesn't help the Linux cause - it just makes you sound as bad as the Apple/Microsoft fanatics who insist nobody needs anything other than a Mac/Windows machine.

[moonraker]

Try VMware HA

Yes there is. It's called VMware HA where you can use 2+ hardware to run multiple VMs and if one hardware dies HA will failover failed VM on adjacent hardware.

[Neoc]

Thank you

I'll look into it.

[amanfromMars 1]

Spooky Territory for Space Control Agents ..... a Shuttleworth Speciality Suite?*

Seems like what you are looking for, Neoc, and everyone needs to maintain continuity of servering/services/servering of services, is a Cloud Power Supply which doesn't drain away and/or phish your IP and ISP .... Intellectual Property and Internet Server Provision.

*And a NASA Code Hack? Houston, we have a problem. They're here, and have remote full access to Program Command and Control.

[Neoc]

Wow

aMfM - long time no read. ^_^

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

@Hmmm..

Xen is free, works well with linux and windows if you have a box with a VT capable chip - and can do a magic (well think it's clever) migrate between machines while they are running

[Chris 244]

You've got a loose box?

Loose d=>not fixed firmly in place

Lose d=>to suffer deprivation of

[Neoc]

D'oh!

Loose fingers made me lose the plot.

[Ken Hagan]

There's more than one way to do it

It doesn't make "much sense" to offer Gnome/KDE/Xfce desktops and Writer/Abiword choices either, but they do. Until /Canonical/, rather than OpenStack, start talking about dropping Eucalyptus, I'd say this was a non-story.