Cloud solutions

FLOSS private cloud options

• Eucalyptus (KVM/Linux and Xen for hypervisors and Rocks cluster distribution for cluster management)
• OpenNebula (Xen, KVM, VMware and relies on elements like libvirt)
• OpenStack (XenServer/XCP, KVM, QEMU, LXC, ESX, ESXi)
• CloudStack (Oracle VM, KVM, vSphere and Citrix XenServer)
• OpenQRM (KVM/Linux, Xen, VMware, and Linux VServer)
• Sheepdog (KVM)
• Ganeti (Xen, KVM)
• Nimbus (Xen and KVM/Linux)
• Xen Cloud Platform
• Enomaly
• Abiquo
• Nimbula Director
• Deltacloud

Tools

• libvirt
• Deltacloud
• language specific lib's: Libcloud(Python)
• ocaml (not the dev lang)

References

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-cloud-anatomy/
• http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Management_Tools

Floss weekly

• Libcloud - floss3
• OpenStack - floss10
• Eucalyptus - floss2
• Deltacloud - floss
• http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly?page=99

Note to self:

Find details regarding: QEMU~KVM & LXC~KVM

• http://berrange.com/posts/2009/12/03/using-cgroups-with-libvirt-and-lxckvm-guests-in-fedora-12/
• http://berrange.com/posts/2012/01/17/building-application-sandboxes-with-libvirt-lxc-kvm/
• http://berrange.com/
• http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413