Archive for the ‘ubuntu’ Category

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Eucalyptus

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) is powered by software from Eucalyptus Systems, and provides an open source software infrastructure for implementing on-premise cloud computing. UEC makes it extremely easy and fast for system administrators to set up, deploy and manage a cloud environment. Users familiar with elastic compute environments will be able to build similar infrastructure behind their firewall, avoiding any regulatory and security concerns that prevent many enterprises from taking advantage of cloud environments.

Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will also be available on the Amazon EC2 environment as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from 29 October. Having the same images available on UEC or on Amazon’s public cloud means that work done can be deployed in either environment which improves portability and flexibility for users.

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Canonical Ubuntu Project Landscape

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Canonical Ubuntu Project Landscape simplifies the process of managing Cloud environments by allowing you to manage them as you would physical machines. Users can now start, stop, manage and monitor Ubuntu instances on the Amazon EC2 cloud environment from within Landscape. Manage and Monitor instances of Ubuntu from within Landscape Landscape works equally well with preconfigured Ubuntu images on Amazon EC2 or manage your own custom images. Manage Virtual Cloud instances and your physical systems on the same page in Landscape

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Ubuntu Cloud

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

As part of its upcoming 9.10 release, Ubuntu GNU/Linux is set to integrate a number of new cloud technologies.

One of the efforts will include a cloud software appliance store to help expedite setup and deployment of private clouds.

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Eucalyptus, KVM and Ubuntu Server

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Eucalyptus – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon’s EC2, S3, and EBS interfaces, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.

The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is powered by Eucalyptus, an open source implementation for the emerging standard of EC2. This solution is designed to simplify the process of building and managing an internal cloud for businesses of any size, thereby enabling companies to create their own self-service infrastructure.

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Ubuntu on Amazon EC2

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon – Beta programme now open

Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon gives you the power of Ubuntu combined with the flexibility of Amazon’s cloud computing service. Ubuntu’s modularity, virtualization capabilities, range of applications and optimised performance make it the perfect solution if you’re deploying applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing (EC2) cloud.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/ec2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide

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VMware Server, VMware Tools & X/Ubuntu

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

VMware Server VMware Tools & X/Ubuntu

  • enable root
  • disable ipv6
  • check gcc is at same version that was used to compile your kernel
  • run vmware-config-tools.pl

If you are using VMware Server on a Wi-Fi notebook remember to use NAT networking instead of bridged networking for your VMs !

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Red Hat RHEL, CentOS, OEL 4 & 5 SAN filesystems go readonly !

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Apparently there is a problem in the kernel used in Red Hat RHEL 4&5, CentOS 4&5, OEL 4&5, SUSE, Ubuntu 7 and other GNU/Linux distributions that causes EXT2 EXT3 filesystems that are residing on SANs to randomly go read-only !

However if you are using kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21+ or  2.6.22+ you should be ok !

See Red Hat

See VMware

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VirtualAppliances.net are now using Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 LTS and OVF

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

http://VirtualAppliances.net/downloads/

VirtualAppliances.net appliances feature an upgrade to their base distribution, using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition, which will be supported by Canonical until 2013.

All of the 32 bit Appliances are using Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough Operating System) which provides a kernel optimized for virtual appliance use.

VMware OVF (Open Virtual appliance Format) images are now available for VMware ESX and ESXi in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

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