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The ec2-migrate-bundle tool migrates only S3-based AMIs, which are for launching instances with ephemeral instance storage mounted as the root volume. If your root device type is EBS, that isn't going to help you. AMIs for EBS-backed instances are stored as EBS snapshots. Here are instructions for moving an EBS-based AMI between regions.
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HP does indeed offer a vulnerability scanning service as part of its Enterprise Security Services. Their whitepaper seems to imply that it's required.
Unfortunately, HP's web site is in a persistent state of disarray, (and has been for years) and information is rather hard to find. But it seems that they do indeed offer (and mandate) this service.
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Calculating cloud-costs is simple on the surface, but complex once you get to the spread-sheets.
The simple part is you need to know 5 things:
How many servers you need
What their duty cycle is (probably 24/7 from the sounds of it)
What kind of IO you do
How much space you consume
What kind of bandwidth you need to the internet (or VPC if you're doing ...
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An EBS volume can only be used by one EC2 instance at one time. You may detach the EBS volume from one EC2 instance and attach it to another, but cannot attach it to more then one EC2 instance at the same time, please refer to Amazon EC2 FAQs for more information. For example, what I have mentioned is answered here: ...
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http://www.vmdkhosting.com offers uploading of VMDK/VMware images, or shipment of USB drive(s), and exclusively support VMware.
It appears they do not allow storage appliances though (Nexenta, FreeNAS). So if you are just uploading a normal VM they are probably your best bet.
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If your database is MySQL, MS SQL, or Oracle, you're much better off using an RDS instance rather than trying to roll your own using EC2 and EBS. RDS functions like a cloud-based version of a DB server and greatly simplifies configuring and maintaining a scalable, fault-tolerant database. The underlying OS is completely managed for you so you can't SSH ...
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In terms of immediate performance gains, like gravyface mentioned, I wouldn't expect a huge gain, however separating the your database and application onto two servers gives you a large amount of flexibility when it comes to scaling your environment in the future, since you have the ability to grow resources for either the application or the database as ...
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MAAS is just a provisioning approach that operates in units of physical servers rather than virtual machines. It's also a terrible acronym.
Openstack is a cloud computing management platform. In this context, you'd use MAAS to build the foundation for a cloud solution like Openstack.
Are you building a cloud service?
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I believe the reason amazon uses the GPU geared towards crunching numbers is because that's what you would use a server GPU for. There isn't a monitor hooked up to the server so the graphics portion of the GPU isn't all that relevant. When you remote into a server and/or stream, from a graphics point of view, to a large extent you are at the mercy of your ...
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This is one of the most common pitfalls when configuring for the first time an host.
The documentation states:
Before adding a host check that you can ssh to it without being prompt for a password
You can simply check for DNS configuration problems trying to connect to the remote host using the same hostname you would add with the onehost create ...
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Shared hosting is bad for small sites. The downsides is, you are sharing resources with other people you don't know. This can load to server instability and security issues.
The time is to move is when
you are ready to address the above concerns
you need to do more outside a basic LAMP Stack
you have the money to afford a nicer hosting solution
It's ...
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Straight from one of Cloudability's public support pages:
... there is no API for that information so today we have to collect the
information by scraping the billing/invoice pages via the Rackspace
portal, hence the need for the credential. We're working with
Rackspace on a better way to access the data but for the time being
that is the only ...
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EBS volumes are like block devices. Most systems and software are not prepared to share block level devices. In "real life" that would be equivalent to one hard drive connected to two or more machines. Ever see that? I have not since I worked on IBM mainframes. And even when I did do programming on data shared between machines, it required a lot just to ...
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There are 2 types of EC2 instances:
(a) Instance Store - This type of instance has it's root volume on a hardware hard drive. You cannot stop this type of instance, it can only be terminated. When terminated, all data on that hard drive is lost.
(b) EBS-backed - This type of instance has it's root volume on an EBS volume. EBS volumes are persisted and ...
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Create an EBS volume and attach it to your instance. After you install your services (e.g. Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc) move the respective files to your EBS storage.
For example, I run Ubuntu on my instances and therefore all of the necessary configuration information for each service is contained in a respective directory under /etc (e.g. /etc/apache2, ...
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First, check if the actual university, college or institution has an internal/private cloud offering...
Next, have you considered Amazon EC2?
In either case, you would be the one to provide the remote desktop option on the resulting platform. NoMachine is a good option for this.
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