Private Cloud Deployment Using Eucalyptus

Abstract

Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems) is an open source package for building cloud computing infrastructures. It supports KVM/Linux and Xen for hypervisors. It also includes the Rocks cluster distribution for cluster management and is API compatible with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2 — Amazon's cloud computing interface). All this added with a huge support community makes it an apt choice for setting up and building cloud computing infrastructures. The project’s objective is to setup and build a private cloud using Eucalyptus. The private cloud will be capable of allocating and releasing resources on-demand, thereby utilizing the idle resources in an organization. Managing resources with Eucalyptus will eliminate the need to setup separate computer clusters. The resulting setup will be a complete Virtual Computing Environment (VCE –as defined by VMware) with a capability of scaling-up and down. Also a User Friendly Web Interface would be developed which would enable users to use the software without any difficultly and problems.