[one-users] Hybrid Cloud

[Daniel Molina]

Hi,

On 15 November 2011 17:53, Fatma Ghachem <fatma.ghacham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a study about the different infrastructure(IaaS) that would enable me
> to build hybrid cloud.I ended up  with OpenNebula.However I'm having couple
> of questions :
>
> Q1) Could I find any tutorial that explain the steps to begin build an
> hybrid cloud knowing that I didn't build any private cloud yet?
>
> Q2) I read in this tutorial
> http://opennebula.org/_media/software:ecosystem:hybrid_cloud_computing_with_opennebula_1.4.pdf
> that OpenNebula 1.4 enables the configuration of multiple EC2 site  is that
> information taken for granted with the lastest stable version of OpenNebula
> too?
>
> Q3)I would like to know what is the technical requirements or at least the
> minimal requirements to install an Hybrid  cloud with OpenNebula ? Will I
> need a VMWare virtual machine running Ubuntu 9.10  all runing on windows 7
> laptop   and that is it or it will need more than that please be specific?
>
> Q4)My final goal , in my research internship is to conceive a middleware
> that would verify fiability and provenance of data requested from public
> cloud back to the private cloud by using some function you defined to get
> information about or by impleminting tese function.I wonder if you have any
> ready made infrastructure or virtual machine that already built an hybrid
> cloud so that I can emulate it?
>
> Q5)In case I wanted to integrate my middleware how could this be possible?
> Since the middleware will have to  verify fiability and provenance of data
> requested from public cloud back to the private cloud it will need to get
> some ifnormation about the source that generated this data if possible  by
> using some function OpenNebula defined to get information about or by the
> possibility impleminting these function .For the case of EC2 for example , I
> would need  some kind of these functions :
>
> get_ec2_cert(): Retrieve the location on the filesystem where the user's EC2
> certificate is stored.
> get_ec2_pk(): Retrieve the location on the filesystem where the user's EC2
> private key is stored.
> get_ec2_url(): Retrieve the URL that should be used for sending EC2 API
> requests to.  but would appreciate to know more in depth on how to be able
> to "interface" data provenance middleware
>
> In case these is no such functions do I have the possibility to implement
> them? if yes how this could be possible?
>
> Q6) Is there any management GUI or interface that can manage the IaaS?
>
> I hope I made my self the clearest possible with the least knowledge I have
> so far .I would really appreciate if you could answer my questions.

You can find more information about Hybrid Cloud in the following links:
http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:introh
http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.0:ec2g

Also you can check the use cases of the Community Wiki:
http://wiki.opennebula.org/

Regards

> Thank you.
> Best Regards,
> Fatma
>
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