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On Demand Cloud Computing With AVX Instruction Set [closed]
I need an on demand (per hour pay or similar) cloud computing service with Windows (very high CPU load) with guaranteed AVX instruction set (or at least SSE4; newest Intel CPU's for AVX).
I've been ...
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How to build a L2 Ethernet with 1000 comupters?
We don't really have 1000 computers. I'm asking this question just because my brain is blocked here.
If I put a number of, say 1000, computer on a L2 Ethernet. Since most of L2 switch has only maybe ...
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List of Google Compute Engine Zones [closed]
I'm interested to see list of Google Compute Engine Zones.
So if you have gold / trial access, just run gcutil listzones and dump output here.
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error: unknown OS type hvm - help deploying VM - OpenNebula [closed]
I have the following errors when I try to create a VM:
Log:
Tue Mar 12 16:57:23 2013 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE.
Tue Mar 12 16:57:23 2013 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG.
Tue Mar 12 16:57:23 ...
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OpenNebula: Can't create a host - Could not resolve hostname
I'm having trouble launching a host in Open nebula. Is is because I can't merge the front end with hosts i.e start off with one server and build from there. Do I have to start with 3 or 4 servers?
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MAAS and openstack [closed]
I am confused how MAAS (Metal as a service) is different from Cloud? What is the difference or similarities between MAAS and openstack, are they both same or different
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Create an AWS HVM Linux AMI from an Existing Paravirtual Linux AMI
Is it possible to create a hardware virtual machine (HVM) AMI from an existing paravirtual (PV) AMI.
My initially thought was to start a new PV instance and use the ec2-create-image command to ...
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OpenTSDB metrics using data from sar, vmstat and iostat logs
I recently started exploring OpenTSDB for monitoring a cluster that we have in our development environment. As a newbie, I have not delved deep into it, but was wondering if anyone successfully used ...
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How can a cloud be created from virtualization or how is it different from virtualization?
I have heard that virtualization is the basis of Cloud,so If i have a machine with xen as virtualizing environment and many vms running on it,then can that be called as a cloud.
Is it true that vms ...
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Cloud hosting and single hardware point of failure? [closed]
From talking to sales I thought Rackspace Cloud was running on a SAN and compute nodes (as VMWare's offerings do), only to find out it doesn't, so when the host server goes down for maintenance all ...
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Does either Rackspace or AWS provide APIs for billing information?
By billing, I mean real-time usage and consumption statistics - the API for which can be used to generate custom reports, forecast expenditure, etc.
I see that AWS has the facility to generate custom ...
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Allow any ip to connect to Amazon Web Services RDS using MySQL
Is it possible to allow any IP to connect to a Amazon RDS instance using MySQL?
Explaining my scenario as requested in the comments:
Amazon RDS by default blocks all the incoming connections which ...
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How can I make Azure instances use as little RAM as AWS?
I'm comparing the small instances of Azure, Amazon and Rackspace, and noticed that the Amazon configuration appears to use less RAM than Azure. Can anyone explain why this is?
Would it be true to ...
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Rackspace Cloud and Plesk 11 Configuration
I am hoping someone here might be able to help me, as I feel I have spent the entire day pulling out my hair and searching Wiki's, KB's, and what seems like the entire internet for some more ...
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Why does Heroku warn against “naked” domain names?
I ran across this page in the Heroku docs...
Naked domains, also called bare or apex domains, are configured in DNS via A-records and have serious availability implications when used in highly ...
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Justification of Amazon EC2 Performance
I have a .jar file that represents a server which receives over TCP an image in bytes (of size at most 500 kb) and writes it file. It then sobels this image and sends it over TCP socket to the client ...
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what are the system requirements of vmware cloud director 1.5 [closed]
what are the system requirements of vmware cloud director 1.5.
Is it install on laptop for creating test environment
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EC2 Configuration
I am trying to create a server structure for my EC2 account. The design I have chosen consists of 2 instances running in different availability zones, elastic load balancer, an auto-scaling group with ...
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What are some common tagging strategies for EC2 in multi-team environments?
Given a company with multiple teams using EC2, what are some common or practical strategies for setting some TAG guidelines when instances or ami's are created so that resources can be more easily ...
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Cloudify - install-application: Application installation timed out?
Continue from this topic, I'm stopping at step 4:
cloudify@default> install-application --verbose -timeout 10 /usr/local/src/gigaspaces-cloudify-2.1.0-ga/recipes/apps/petclinic-simple
Validating ...
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MySql Data Loss - post mortem analysis - RackSpace Cloud Server
After a recent 'emergency migration' of a RS cloud server, the mysql databases on our server snapshot image proved to be days out of date from the backup date. And yet files that were uploaded ...
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Cloudify: bootstrap-localcloud: operation failed?
OS: Gentoo, CentOS
Version: 2.1.0
Follow the quick start guide, I got the below error when running bootstrap-localcloud:
cloudify@default> bootstrap-localcloud
STARTING CLOUDIFY MANAGEMENT
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Running KVM vms on top of vmware vms
Is it possible to run a KVM (not qemu) VM on top of a Linux VM running in VMWARE ESX 5?
Are there specific settings for that?
No care about poor performance.
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RemoteError: Remote error: NoMoreNetworks
I get this error when I try to start the machine. There are free IP addresses (both floating and fixed). I tried to look about it on the web, but no luck (there is an answer somewhere which doesnt ...
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Open source app to manage and run commands on cloud servers? [closed]
I'm creating a SaaS platform, and I need a component / library that can create, delete and store the connection details for cloud servers. It also needs to support executing shell commands on these ...
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Can my company benefit from cloud computing? [closed]
I have read Wikipedia articles, etc., but I have a small engineering firm. We're a machine vision integrator. For some reason, it was suggested that if we offered a "cloud" -- whatever that is -- that ...
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Server Cluster Design/Setup [closed]
OK So I am not sure if this is posted already but let me explain my goal and what I am trying to do. Really need some help on this as I am not really linux or server savvy yet. I know the basics with ...
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Minimum requirement for making single node cloud architecture [closed]
Hiee..
I do have only 2GB RAM 32 bit core2 duo intel processor @2.20 GHZ
is it possible for me to make (single node)cloud infrastructure using this configuration?
I need to make cloud ...
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How to reset connection pool in Azure (Error: max pool size was reached)?
I am getting the below error in my Azure website and am scrambling to fix it:
Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred ...
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Distribute the load all around the world
Let's say we're starting a project which is meant to be served all around the world
How am I supposed to distribute the database and server load, and increase (optimize) the service for large ...
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implementing a cloud environment [closed]
I want to demonstrate cloud computing on my personal computer. Is it possible to do by creating 3-4 instances of Vmware and try interconnecting them? As in couple of instance as server and the other ...
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Instance's deployment / post configuration for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
I am using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, it is easy to start with deploying Java based web app, which is great.
However, I want to install Memcached on every instance locally so they can be used for ...
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Is it possible to configure cloud without virtualization?
I have learned that cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services and virtualization is mandatory for cloud computing. I have also found in some places that there ...
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openQRM can't retrive data from mysql data base
installed openQRM ,PHP and MySQL correctly .first time it work properly after reboot openQRM can't retrive data data from MySQL database .it shows error in MySQL database, then i drop and create new ...
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Using Opennebula as an IaaS: Running benchmark accross all nodes, possibe?
Our current situation:
We have one Opennebula cloud infrastructure consisting of a cluster controller and 6 cluster nodes configured and working. All Nodes run debian instances on top of a kvm ...
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node visualization tool for cloud based deployments
I have a bunch of servers running in the EC2 infrastructure consisting of the normal types; load balancers, web apps, database servers, and syslog, backup etc.
We have the standard technical tools ...
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What components should I purchase at AWS? [closed]
This might sound silly question, but it is a real problem which I need help in regards.
Unlike "normal" VPS providers I used to such as linode.com and slicehost.com, at AWS they have all those fancy ...
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how does cloudstack-oss differ from cloud.com? [closed]
the commercial offering (cloud.com) differs only by support?
cloudstack OSS is licensed under GPL v3, is that good for commercial usage (unmodified binaries)?
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Data storage solutions for rapidly running out of space [closed]
I have 2 web servers (1 live and other backup), the issue I have is our storage is rapidly running out.
All the data on the server is used by our customers and new documents are uploaded to the ...
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what are the alternatives (OSS,commercial) for virtual machine life-cycle management? [closed]
likes of VMware lab manager:
desired feature list:
Self-Service: rapid-delpoy-VMs
configuration management: clone, snapshot VM
good to have:
hypervisor agnostic
storage lease
user access - ...
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Local load balancing and using cloud services when needed
Suppose a company has a set of web+data servers that are load balanced, but sometimes the application gets a burst that goes beyond server capabilities.
This would nicely mitigate the cost of cloud ...
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Cloud server vs VPS vs Dedicated for web App
So I am not very into servers and I have few questions of which I don't know where I can get answers from and I hope someone here could easly help me out.
So I have a web app currently hosted on ...
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Migration between OpenStack and RackSpace cloud
So I am deploying a OpenStack private cloud in my business. As I understand from research the OpenStack project was created by RackSpace and that their own cloud platform uses OpenStack.
So my ...
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Performance, Data Loss and Downtime - - Struck Between Dedicated vs Cloud Hosting [closed]
This is my situation...
Cloud Hosting - - disk I/O for my wordpress website (aka a database-driven website) is abysmal. But what's good about it is, there's no single point of failure, so very ...
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Cloud Linux with OpenGL acceleration?
We are thinking about launching some Linux server-side services which would greatly benefit of having real accelerated OpenGL available. Currently we are running normal server instances with Mesa ...
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EC2 security group settings are not allowing SSH access
So when I open port 22 and 80 in the default security group I'm not able to ping the domain. I've opened TCP, UDP, and ICMP to all and now it works but of course I need to find another solution. ...
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Using Load Balancer in Rackspace cloud for website HA
I have tested tomcat specific clustering with apache mod_jk and mod_proxy on ubuntu local VMs for our website high availability and load balancing. The real servers are hosted by Rackspace cloud ...
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Using ubuntu cloud-init to setup logging to splunk
I intend to start up ~100 EC2 spot instances using Canonical's Ubuntu images. I am using multipart cloud-init user-data to setup packages, scripts, etc.
I would like to know how I can tell rsyslog to ...
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AWS EC2 EBS Microinstance Storage and Djangostack
I'm moving my person webpage to an Amazon EC2 free (for now) micro instance, and want to clarify some things.
Since the micro instance does not have any "local storage", when i am installing apache, ...
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Why do cloud providers calculate per hour? Who turns off their servers anyway?
I'm not tech/unix/sysadmin ignorant, but i still can't understand why Amazon, Rackspace, Azure, GoGrid, Linode and these guys calculate their instances per hour used...
I have to ask... Who on earth ...
