Eucalyptus Community Cloud

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud (ECC) is a sandbox environment in which members of our community can testdrive and experiment with Eucalyptus, a software framework for cloud computing. The Eucalyptus software implements what is commonly referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Community members can launch their own isolated collections of virtual machines instances and exercise the full capabilities of the latest version of Eucalyptus (currently v2.0.2).

This community cloud is hosted at Coresite (http://www.coresite.com/) within their Los Angeles facility, resides on HP (http://www.hp.com) equipment, and is accessible via InfoRelay's (http://inforelay.com) networking fabric. Once connected, you will be able to utilize command-line tools, use third-party software that interacts with Eucalyptus, build images, and run these images, etc.

We invite community members to signup and testdrive Eucalyptus via our Community Cloud!

• Status Updates for the Eucalyptus Community Cloud
• Sign up for the Eucalyptus Community Cloud
• Service Level Agreements and Restrictions
• Architectural Information
• Maintenance Window
• Supporters of the Community Cloud
• Case Study: Installing the Eucalyptus Community Cloud

Status Updates for the Eucalyptus Community Cloud

To have timely status update on the Eucalyptus Community Cloud, you can follow EucaCloud on twitter or you can check the latest tweet on this page. Our Community Cloud forum is also another good place to look for status updates or to post your question about the ECC.

Sign Up for the Eucalyptus Community Cloud

To use the Eucalyptus Community Cloud, you must first become a member of our Community. All you need to do is to create an account on our Open Source Web Site. Once you have an community account, you can register for an account on the Eucalyptus Cloud Administrative GUI (https://ecc.eucalyptus.com) -- simply click on the "Apply" for account link.

We require that you use the same username and password for your community account. In the near future, the account management infrastructure for both the Eucalyptus Community Cloud and the Eucalyptus Open Source Website will be unified. Additionally, we have plans to incorporate OpenID, which will allow you to access Eucalyptus services and other web-based services using the same digital identity.

Post your comments: http://open.eucalyptus.com/forums/eucalyptus-community-cloud
Signup for email notification: http://groups.eucalyptus.com/group/CommunityCloud

Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Restrictions

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud is offered on a best-effort basis for users to testdrive Eucalyptus and experiment with their own virtual machine instances. The Community Cloud is not being provided as a community-based cloud hosting service. As such, the Community Cloud is not designed to provide support for production systems, nor should it be used in this manner.

Our goal is to provide a stable and robust IaaS service, via the Eucalyptus OpenSource Software, to be used by community members to learn about, to experiment with, and to research cloud-based services. Another one of our goals is to incorporate the most advanced features available. Consequently, as we work to achieve these competing goals, some unexpected downtime and system reconfiguration is to be expected. We will take steps to minimize such interruptions and will utilize our maintenance window for system reconfiguration.

Restrictions

Since the Community Cloud is an open-environment designed to facilitate experimentation, we have placed a number of restrictions on the resources provided. These restrictions are designed to maximize the number of community members that benefit from the system and to minimize the adverse effects of experiments gone awry. These restrictions include:

• the maximum lifetime of an instance is 6 hours
• the maximum number of simultaneous running instances per user is 4 instances.
  (When there is more than 4 instances, instances will be randomly terminated until only 4 instances remain.)
• the maximum allocation of an elastic IP is 6 hours.
• the maximum lifetime of a Walrus bucket is 3 weeks.
• the maximum size of a Walrus bucket is 5GB.
• the maximum lifetime for an EBS volume is 3 weeks.
• the maximum size of an EBS volume is 5GB.

If you have a particular project in which these restrictions unnecessary hampers your productivity, please let us know. We may be able to arrange an appropriate accommodation. (Simply send email to ecc-administrator@eucalyptus.com.)

Architectural Information

The Eucalyptus Community Cloud is one component of our Cloud Infrastructure that is hosted at CoreSite. Within this environment, we have 60 HP SL2x170z that serve primarily as compute nodes and 4 HP SL170zG6 that serve primarily as front-end nodes. The environment has been configured to allow us to use the infrastructure for multiple cloud environments in a dynamic fashion. Based upon current needs, we can shift compute nodes from one cloud environment to another.

* The default VM Type is: m1.small. To select a different VM Type, using the "-t" option with the euca-run-instance command.

Maintenance Window

From time to time, Eucalyptus Systems will need to perform system maintenance or reconfiguration on the physical and the cloud infrastructure. We have selected the first and third Friday of the month from 4pm - 5pm PT (2300-2400 GMT) as our maintenance window. Although we will not always utilize the maintenance window, users should plan for possible system downtime during these maintenance windows.

Supporters of the Eucalyptus Community Cloud

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  Eucalyptus Systems: Provides overall system maintenance, supports the IaaS environment, and, of course, supplies the Eucalyptus software that implements the IaaS service.
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  CoreSite: Provides colocation services, which includes rack space, power, and environment controls. These colocation services are being provided as part of CoreSite's CloudCommunity.
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  Hewlett Packard (HP): Provided a grant of computing equipment in which the Eucalyptus Community Cloud utilizes.
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  InfoRelay Online Services: Provides network bandwidth that connects the Eucalyptus Community Cloud to the Internet and provides inter-site connectivity.
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  Dasher Technology: Provided consulting and deployment services associated with the HP SL6000 hardware solution.