Eucalyptus Features (1.0)

Supported ¶

• Easy installation
  • Rocks-based "almost-one-button" binary install

• Administration
  • Adding users, adding/listing images, adding/deleting nodes, adding/deleting clusters

• EC2 compatibility:
  • In terms of command-line tools:
    • ec2-describe-images (currently lists admin-provided images)
    • ec2-add-keypair (key pair generation & upload) and ec2-describe-keypair
    • ec2-run-instances and ec2-terminate-instances
    • ec2-describe-instances

Unsupported ¶

• Installation
  • Rocks-independent binary install
  • Experts-only source install

• Administration
  • Listing/deleting users, deleting images

• Amazon EC2 incompatibilities:
  • User-selectable images (bundle & upload)
  • User-selectable kernels
  • Elastic IP addresses
  • In terms of command-line tools:
    • ec2-authorize (firewall control)
    • ec2-bundle-vol (image creation)
    • ec2-register and ec2-deregister (image registration with EC2)
    • ec2-upload-bundle & ec2-delete-bundle (image upload/removal to S3)