Running software within VMs is nothing new, and that's not the primary sell for Openstack. It's the ability to automate and orchestrate VMs and the management of those VMs that makes cloud computing interesting. You should be able to lose an instance, and simply not care. Design the site to be resilient, and use Openstack and Chef/Puppet/CFengine/etc to configure them.<br>
<br>I've been demoing our proof of concept a number of times internally, and one of the things that gets folks attention is the ability to nuke a VM, and simply move the service to another VM, and see that the service is up and running within 2-3 on the new node. Of course, in a prod environment, you can put these behind a load balancer to make things more seemless. When you start talking about multiple cloud environments across multiple data centers, things become more interesting.<br>
<br>There are a lot of things that you can do to demo a cloud environment. You don't necessarily have to look at just Openstack to get ideas. You can get ideas from EC2 as well.<br><br>Good luck,<br clear="all">Warren<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Stephen Liu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:satimis@yahoo.com" target="_blank">satimis@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span>Hi Diego,<br><br>I have OpenStack installed and running on a VM of VirtualBox for testing. However I have no idea how to use it. On the VirtualBox there are servers running on other VMs as well, also for testing.<br>
<br>Actually this is NOT a new technolgy similar to server adminstration the later of which has been existing for sometimes. There are software for such adminstration. But I'm interested finding a new approach making use of OpenStack to do such a job.<br>
<br>Thanks for the link which is a Spanish website.<br>Mi español no es bueno.<br><br>I have browsed it a while.<br><br>Muchas gracias<br><br>Atentamente<br>SL</span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px">
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Stephen Liu <<a href="mailto:satimis@yahoo.com" target="_blank">satimis@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org</a>> <br>
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</font> </div><div><div class="h5"> <br><div>It's not clear for me if you are looking for an architectural blueprint or a success case. There are a lot of architectural blueprints to scale
Openstack, but honestly finally we had to build our own Reference Architecture :-( <div>
<br></div><div>If you are looking for a success case, may be one of our customers could fit your needs. He has an on-demand Virtual Private Cloud subscription service with a good bunch of servers:<div><div><br></div><div>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.hostalia.com/cloud-dedicado/" target="_blank">http://www.hostalia.com/cloud-dedicado/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hostalia is brand of ACENS, a Hosting Provider of the Telefónica Group. Basically the customer choose in a wizard the number of compute nodes, storage size and public IPs and in 30' you have your own private cloud ready to go. His customers are running a very heterogenous set of application and services.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are working with some providers worldwide to deliver similar services based on Openstack. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Diego</div><div> -- <br><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Times"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:13px" align="left">
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<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div>Hi all,<br><br>I have been hunting for examples/demonstration applying OpenStack in Data-Centre where there are hundreds of server running with different application without much result. Could any folk on the list shed me some light? TIA<br>
<br>During searching I found;<br><br>Quantum<br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum</a><br><br>It is a side project of OpenStack. It aims for Data-Center application.<br>
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