I've read a couple of articles that Eucalyptus doesn't support bootable EBS yet. This is a problem since you can't make a backup form an instance like you a able on Amazon cloud or Rack Space Cloud.
If you ever reboot the physical Ecalyptus sever that's running the node controller the instance is gone along with all your settings. Are there any alternatives to Eucalyptus or is just the only game in town when it comes to open source cloud?
Is it possible to download a Amazon EC2 image and have it run on a local (Ubuntu powered) Eucalyptus? If that's possible how?
I will eventually build a local could based on Ubuntu 10.10 but until then I would like first to start the development on the Amazon EC2 and when I get my hardware to move that EC2 image to my local machine.
My department is implementing an Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. I have done the testing and am quite comfortable with the 4 pieces, CC/SC, CLC, WS, NC. Looking at various documents below it appears the the Storage Controller and Cluster Controller (eucalyptus-sc and eucalyptus-cc) are always installed on the same system. My question is this: can I install the storage controller and the cluster controller on separate systems?
How does storage works with the ubuntu enterprise cloud?
If I have two disks (on separate machines) with free space 10gb and 20gb, can I have a VM running with 30gb of disk space?
I intend to do some virtualization with either of the two technologies: Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and VMWare.
I would like to know the advantages (e.g. main features missing in the other one, long-run, financial advantages, support...) of using the Ubuntu Enterprise cloud compared to VMWare.
Thank you.