Cloud Computing
CategoryEnabling Cloudstack Usage Server in 4.3
You should have the “cloudstack-usage” packages installed already.
In the CloudStack management portal go to > Global Settings then typ..
CloudStack 4.3 and LDAP Integration Setup
CloudStack 4.3 has change the way you configure Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration a bit and I wanted to do a more up to date tut..
CloudStack Collaboration Conference North America 2014 Videos Online
If you couldn’t make it out to CloudStack Collaboration Conference North America (CCCNA) 2014 this year like ..
Deploy Apache CloudStack with cldstk-deploy, now on Github.
CloudStack Deploy is a utility for making Apache CloudStack and KVM installations quick, easy and painless. Meant to be reusab..
CloudStack 4.3 cloud platform is now available
CloudStack 4.3 was released last week. There are plenty of new features and improvements added to what was already a great cloud platf..
V-Commander now supports Amazon AWS EC2
Embotics V-Commander is marketed as cloud management software but until version 5.0.x it’s only supported VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyp..
Automating Apache Cloudstack Deployments with Ansible
I wrote a post awhile back about using node.js, ansible, and python to do my apache cloudstack installation. Ansible is great but I basically used python to make using ansible a bit more easy since there are a few things with any ansible setup which needs to be remembered. One of those things is the ansible hosts that gets used.
Nodejs, Ansible and Cloudstack Deployment
This might be a strange combination but I was looking for an easier more repeatable way of installing and setting up the foundational comp..
Does the enterprise need open source cloud platform
This is a question that came up which made me wonder why does the enterprise really need an open source cloud platforms like Openstack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, etc. What I tend to hear is that our IT needs to be more like AWS, Rackspace or Azure but what does that really mean? When I dissect that response here is what I think about the open source cloud platform question in the enterprise. I make these statements purely from my experience and by defining the “enterprise” as the internal organizations of a business.
My New Years Resolution 2014
The new year has come and most people are making there resolutions clear as to what they plan on doing this time around. For some it may be a repeat of the old with small tweaks and for others a huge overhaul is needed in their life. I know you probably don’t want to read another persons goals for the new year but if you keep reading on that’s exactly what your going to get.