OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing: This book will teach you to build and maintain a cloud infrastructure using OpenNebula, one of the most advanced, highly scalable toolkits for GNU/Linux. Walks you through from initial planning to advanced management techniques.

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Take advantage of open source distributed file-systems for storage scalability and high-availability
Build-up, manage and maintain your Cloud without previous knowledge of virtualization and cloud computing
Install and configure every supported hypervisor: KVM, Xen, VMware
Step-by-step, focused on Ubuntu/Debian distributions, but with general how-to working with every GNU/Linux distribution

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OpenNebula is one of the most advanced and highly-scalable open source cloud computing toolkits. If you ever wanted to understand what Cloud Computing is and how to realize it, or if you need a handy way to manage your messy infrastructure in a simple and coherent manner, this is your way. OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing guides you along the building and maintenance of your cloud infrastructure, providing real-world examples, step-by-step configuration and other critical information. The book keeps you a step ahead in dealing with the demanding nature of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure management using one of the most advanced cloud computing toolkitsñ OpenNebula. The book takes you from a basic knowledge of OpenNebula to expert understanding of the most advanced features.The book starts with a basic planning of hardware resources and presents the unique benefits of the supported hypervisors; you will go in deep with day-to-day management of virtual instances, infrastructure monitoring and integration with Public Clouds like Amazon EC2.With this book you will be able to get started with fast and cheap configuration recipes, but also go deeper for a correct integration with your existing infrastructure.You will deal with well-know virtualization technologies like Xen and VMware, but also with the promising KVM technology integrated in the Linux kernel. After the basic infrastructure set-up, you will learn how to create and manage virtual instance via both command-line and web interfaces, and how to monitor your existing resources.At the end, the book acquaints you with integrating your local infrastructure with external Cloud resources but also publishing your resources to others via common API interfaces.

Who is this book for?

If you are a GNU/Linux system administrator with no experience with virtualization or cloud computing but eager to learn about it, or you are thwarted by your current virtualized infrastructure, this book is for you. You are expected to have some basic knowledge of GNU/Linux, with knowledge of basic package management tools and system configuration.

What you will learn

Plan your hardware infrastructure and keep resources and hardware under monitoring
Install OpenNebula, from sources or binary distribution and configure it on your front-end host
Install and configure KVM, Xen and VMware ESXi on your hosts, building from sources when needed
Integrate with existing NAS/SAN infrastructure or provide flexible and scalable storage with distributed file-systems
Manage your day to day virtual instances via both command-line and web interfaces
Monitor your infrastructure continuously using OpenNebula
Extend your cloud with resources from remote Cloud providers using standard API interface
Provide Cloud resources to external facilities through standardized API interfaces

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NK Aug 31, 2012

Book is very compact in size, taking into account so much of content about OpenNebula. Last two years I have been installing, configuring and running OpenNebula for the research with few dozens of servers. The book has very helpful theoretical and mostly technical content.For my work I referred to online documentation, blogs, OpenNebula forum and mailing lis. Finally, Giovanni Toraldo made an excellent work, collecting all of the content needed for very beginner to industry expert for set up, manage ad maintain OpenNebula cloud. It is very nice to have all content in one place. Book makes very easy to understand cloud internals, not only for OpenNebula but for all existing open source cloud solutions.Also, I found "Tips and tricks" boxes very useful. They remind me easy traps which beginner can fall into during initial set up. Notes in the boxes are very handy, since it might save your days of digging down to the problem, reading forum posts or Googling. Latter was the case for me. So, content of the book requires keen attention, especially notes boxes.It is great to have a book like this where author shares his insight experience and knowledge about open source project. Usually, thorough explanation of software modules, script and interaction between parts are not explained in the documentation, and almost impossible to find. This book includes in depth explanation of parts of the OpenNebula, such as image transfer manager, hooks, Ganglia integration and etc. I highly recommend this book for everyone getting into the cloud, regardless of their level of experience.

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C. Moeller Oct 01, 2012

If you have been looking into understanding, and seeing how to setup your own cloud solution, this is a great book. The book starts with an overview of OpenNebula, then into all the different things you'll have to consider when starting, and setting up Open Nebula. You'll learn how to everything up, what hardware you should consider, and how to install extra applications that it easier to interface and use OpenNebula, as well as how to administer and manage your datacenter, once it is setup.If you have been interested in cloud computing, and would like to see how to set it up using an open source solution like OpenNebula, this will be a great book to get you setup and working.

Javi Jul 23, 2012

This book provides a good reference for anyone that wants to learn about OpenNebula-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The book covers the different scenarios that you can have within an IaaS cloud. Thus, it can be used to just get a general introduction and deploy a testing infrastructure; or to plan and deploy a production infrastructure.Since the information is structure as a guide, it is easy to follow and learn how to manage OpenNebula. Moreover, every time that a related technology is mentioned, like GlusterFS, Glanglia, or Amazon Web Services, it goes with an explanation of how to install and configure it to ensure the integration with OpenNebula.I found particularly interesting the last two sections, where it is explained how to go beyond the limits of you private cloud by using resources offered by public clouds (such as Amazon Web Services). In addition, it details the way to convert your private cloud into a public one and how to manage, from a centralized place, a large infrastructure as a federation of clouds.

Stefan Freitag Jul 06, 2012

From 2006 to mid 2012 I was working in the field of Grid Computing and also administered a small high performance compute cluster at a university. One of my aims concerning this cluster was the virtualization of all physical machines. Then I heard of Cloud Computing and OpenNebula in particular. Cloud Computing implies very often virtualization and OpenNebula seemed to be a solution to the question "how do i manage the virtual machines".To sum up, I started very early with OpenNebula and accompanied its development over a long time. Unfortunately I had to shift my focus, so that I missed newer developments in OpenNebula, e.g. the cloud operations center "Sunstone". Hence, I am quite happy that Giovanni took the time to write this book! From my point of view, it is written for beginners as well as experts. Giovanni describes not only the internal architecture of OpenNebula with its core components, but also the basic ideas of virtualization and storage management. Beginners learn how to setup Xen-, KVM-, or VMware ESXi-based compute resources and how to integrate them into OpenNebula. Experts interested in shared storage solutions will find information about GlusterFS and MooseFS.

Rodrigue Chakode Aug 27, 2012

PACKT Publishing [1] recently contacted me for reviewing the Book "OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing" [2] written by Giovanni Toraldo. Despite my agenda these last months and the size of the book (315 pages), I accepted this proposition.I like OpenNebula that I worked with more than three years during my PhD. From the version 1.2 the first one I downloaded in 2009, the software has been significantly improved. However, I was often frustrated that this nice software lacks of a handbook for learning tips and tricks to easily set up the clouds required for my experiments. That's, among other reasons, why I accepted to review this book.Globally, I really enjoyed reading the book. Well written, it covers the major aspects of OpenNebula. The author starts by introducing the basics of the virtualization technologies (e.g. Xen, KVM, VMware) so to help the reader to understand what OpenNebula is and how it works along with those virtualization technologies. The author then provides a step-by-step guide for installing the software. I particularly appreciated how the storage of virtual machine images as well as the applications' data are addressed. Two examples are provided with GlusterFS [3] and MooseFS [4], two major distributed file systems. The author goes deeper into various other OpenNebula's features such as Virtual Network Management, Web Management, Monitoring, coupling with public clouds [5] (e.g. Amazon EC2). I also appreciated the fact that he provides relevant examples for illustrating the functionalities that are introduced.I have some minor criticisms about the book however. I think that lacks of some conceptual considerations, to address for example situations where we need to build custom clouds based on OpenNebula. Indeed, instead of basis IaaS clouds, many people are often interested in building custom clouds. A scientist for instance will be mainly interested in how to customize OpenNebula to prototype the new models of clouds he is designing. Unfortunately, the book just briefly introduces the contextualization as well as the OpenNebula's APIs (OCCI, XML-RPC) that are two relevant features for addressing such a need. May be that will be covered in the next edition of the book.[...][...][...][...][...]

OpenNebula 3 Cloud Computing: This book will teach you to build and maintain a cloud infrastructure using OpenNebula, one of the most advanced, highly scalable toolkits for GNU/Linux. Walks you through from initial planning to advanced management techniques.

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