Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing -- Table of Contents -- Apache CloudStack Cloud Computing -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Apache CloudStack Architecture -- Introducing cloud -- Infrastructure layer -- Computing resources -- Storage -- Networks and security -- Use of switches in cloud -- Management layer -- Automation -- Orchestration -- Task Execution -- Service Management -- Understanding CloudStack modules -- Cloud deployment model -- Zones -- Pods -- Clusters -- Storage -- Primary storage -- Volumes -- Secondary storage -- CloudStack management server -- API layer -- Access control -- Kernel -- CloudStack operations -- Security check -- The virtual machine manager -- Server resources -- Installation -- Job result -- CloudDB -- CloudStack networking architecture -- Network service providers -- CloudStack network offerings -- Types of network in CloudStack -- Physical network -- Virtual network -- Isolated networks -- Shared networks -- L3 network configuration in CloudStack -- Access switches or L2 switches -- CloudStack virtual router -- Networking using CloudStack virtual router -- Firewall and F5 Load balancer -- Security groups -- Summary -- 2. Installing Apache CloudStack -- Pre-installation tasks -- Requirements -- Single node installation -- Preparing the OS -- Management server installation -- Building Deb packages -- Setting up the apt repo -- Adding the repository to the system -- Building RPM -- Creating yum repo -- Adding the repository to the system -- Back to management server installation.

Database installation and configuration -- Preparing Network File System share for storage -- Creating a separate NFS server -- Preparing the system VM template -- Multinode installation -- Management server installation -- Installing and configuring CloudStack MySQL database -- Installing additional management server -- Preparing the system VMs -- Keys and encryption -- Summary -- 3. Apache CloudStack Configuration -- CloudStack configuration -- Management server console -- Dashboard tab -- Instances tab -- Storage tab -- Network tab -- Templates tab -- Events tab -- Accounts tab -- Domains tab -- Infrastructure tab -- Projects -- Global settings -- Administrators -- Creating a domain -- Creating an account -- Service offerings -- Compute offerings -- Disk offerings -- Network offerings -- Infrastructure -- Basic Zone configuration -- Advanced Zone configuration -- Creating a template -- Creating a template using a running VM -- Importing a VM to CloudStack -- Creating a template using the Management console -- Preparing the hosts -- Summary -- 4. Apache CloudStack Networking -- Zones and their types -- Physical networks -- Basic zone -- Advanced Zone -- Guest traffic -- Isolated -- Shared -- Management traffic -- Public traffic -- Storage traffic -- Virtual networks -- Network offerings -- Virtual router -- System service offerings and virtual router -- Network in cloud -- Network services -- Public IP addresses -- Elastic IP address -- Security groups -- Using external devices with CloudStack -- Load balancing rules -- Elastic Load Balancer -- Network Address Translation -- Virtual Private Network -- CloudStack networking components -- NetworkGuru -- Network element -- Network managers -- Resources -- CloudStack networking flows -- Summary -- 5. Apache CloudStack Storage -- Primary storage -- System requirements and configuration.

Adding a primary storage -- Storage tags -- Secondary storage -- Adding a secondary storage -- Changing secondary storage IP address -- Changing the secondary storage -- Using OpenStack object storage (Swift) -- Volumes -- Creating a new volume -- Attaching a volume to Guest VM -- Detaching a volume from an instance -- Deleting a volume -- Snapshots -- Creating a snapshot -- Creating recurring snapshots -- Creating a volume from a snapshot -- Creating a template from a snapshot -- VM storage migration -- Summary -- 6. Service Offerings and Virtual Machines -- Introducing service offerings and virtual machines -- Compute offering -- Disk offering -- System service offering -- The complete process -- Accessing the VM -- Starting, stopping, rebooting, and destroying the VM instance -- Live migration of VMs between hosts -- CloudStack with different hypervisor -- Citrix XenServer -- Oracle VM -- RedHat Enterprise Linux (KVM) -- VMware vSphere -- Summary -- 7. Domains, Accounts, Projects, and Users -- Domain -- Root domain -- Domain and zones -- Creating a domain -- Accounts -- Creating an account -- Projects -- Projects and accounts -- Creating a project -- Adding members to the project -- Resource management in Projects -- Invitation setup -- Removing a member from a project -- Summary -- 8. High Availability and Scaling -- Ensuring high availability in CloudStack -- CloudStack infrastructure high availability -- CloudStack redundant virtual router -- CloudStack storage high availability -- Primary storage failure -- Secondary storage failure -- CloudStack and high availability -- CloudStack HighAvailabilityManager -- HighAvailabilityManager - the Queue -- High availability of applications running on Cloudstack -- CloudStack storage migration -- Scaling in CloudStack -- Counters -- Conditions -- Auto scale policy -- Auto scale VM profile.

Auto scale VM group -- Collector/Monitor -- Aggregator -- Trigger/alarm generator -- Trigger/alarm handler -- Summary -- 9. Extending Apache CloudStack and Performance Tuning -- Extending CloudStack -- Extending CloudStack networking -- Integrating NetScaler with CloudStack -- Functional requirements -- Guest network with NetScaler load balancer -- LB rule with public IP -- Assigning a VM to the load balancer rule -- Unassigning a VM from a load balancer rule -- Deleting a load balancer from a zone -- Load balancer with EIP in a basic zone -- When the VM is created -- When the VM is destroyed -- CloudStack with Nicira NVP -- Integrating Nicira NVP to CloudStack -- Enabling the network service provider in CloudStack -- Using Nicira NVP -- Integrating with OpenStack object storage (Swift) -- Customizing the CloudStack user interface -- Changing the API path -- Changing the session timeout -- Single sign on integration -- Integrating with LDAP for user authentication -- LDAP user provisioning -- The usage server -- Performance tuning -- Increasing the management server maximum memory -- Database buffer pool size -- Setting and monitoring the hosts' capacity -- Capping the resource usage -- Summary -- Index.