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04-15-2013, 03:58 PM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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What are needed for building a cloud?
Hi.
What software and hardware components are needed to build a small cloud upon stand-alone VMware ESXi hosts?
Experts please reply!
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04-16-2013, 07:19 AM #2Junior Guru
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a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.
JK
Any box with a duel core proc and at least 4GB of ram you get you started.
Find some spare boxes and install ESXi and see what you think.
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04-16-2013, 07:28 AM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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I mean to build a small resource pool distributed between multiple physical server and cloud servers (VMs) can be distributed across all resources just like what cloud server providers build, but in a very small scale which available resources are provided from a few physical servers.
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04-16-2013, 07:45 AM #4Junior Guru
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Ok, you need some type of shared storage.
A dell powervault or even a QNAP storage brick will do. If you are going low budget make sure you get at least 1GB nics. So if you are running your storage from iscsci or NFS you have the bandwidth.
A few member servers with 8GB of ram should be enough to get you going.
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04-16-2013, 07:53 AM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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What about software? Can I build the cloud using stand-alone ESXi hosts or I need an expensive software such as vCenter? What software will buld and manage resource pool in a way that VMs can distributed across resources of all member servers seemlessly?
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04-16-2013, 07:55 AM #6Junior Guru
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Vmware has had a good deal lately, 3 esx hosts 1 vcenter box for $1500.
There are other alternatives of course. Vmware is pretty easy to setup but so is hyper v. So it depends on what you are more comfortable with.
Vmware gives 30 day trials for their software.
If you are more a linux guy you could install a few CentOS boxes and play around KVM.
It's best to experiment and find out which ones you like.
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04-16-2013, 08:03 AM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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Can KVM and Hyper-V provide such a cloud platform in which a single VM can be distributed across multiple boxes seamlessly? What about CloudStack?
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04-17-2013, 07:45 AM #8Temporarily Suspended
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Hello, I would like to share one link with a similar discussion on webhostingtalk.com
Along with these all point use should also aware about its security. There are various types of cloud computing examples like private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud. Due to high volume data storage on your cloud you should have proper security to protect your precious data. I got an interesting article explaining about the same might can help you.
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