{"id":162,"date":"2015-07-30T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-07-31T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T23:27:28","slug":"opennebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"OpenNebula"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"OpenNebula<\/a>

OpenNebula 4.10 dashboard, running on 4-compute 5-store cluster<\/p><\/div>\n

This could have been the first article of this blog.\u00a0OpenNebula is a modular cloud-oriented solution\u00a0that could be compared to OpenStack, driving heterogeneous infrastructure, orchestrating storage, network and hypervisors configuration.<\/p>\n

In the last 7 months, I’ve been using OpenNebula with Ceph to virtualize my main services, such as my mail server (200GB storage), my nntp index (200GB mysql DB, 300GB data), my wiki, plex, sabnzbd, … pretty much everything, except my DHCP, DNS, web cache and LDAP services.
\nA few before leaving Smile, I also used OpenNebula and Ceph to store our system logs, involving Elasticsearch, Kibana and rsyslog-om-elasticsearch (right: no logstash).<\/p>\n

This week, some customer of mine was asking for a solution that would allow him to host\u00a0several Cpanel VPS, knowing he already had a site dealing with customer accounts and billing. After refusing to use my scripts deploying Xen or KVM virtual machines, as well as some Proxmox-based setup, we ended up talking about OpenNebula.<\/p>\n

\"OpenNebula<\/a>

OpenNebula 4.12 dashboard, running on a single SoYouStart host<\/p><\/div>\n

The service is based on a single SoYouStart dedicated host, 32GB RAM, 2x2T disks and a few public IPs.
\nSadly, OpenNebula is still not available for Debian Jessie. Trying to install Wheezy packages, I met with some dependency issues, regarding libxmlrpc. In the end, I reinstalled the server with the latest Wheezy.<\/p>\n

From there, installing Sunstone, OpenNebula host utils, registering localhost to my compute nodes and my LVM to my datastores took a couple hours.
\nThen, I started installing centos7 using virt-install<\/em> and vnc<\/em>,\u00a0building cpanel, installing csf, adding my scripts configuring network according to nebula context media, … the cloud was operational five hours after Wheezy was installed.
\nI finished by writing some training support (15 pages, mostly screenshots) explaining the few actions required to create a VM for a new customer, suspend his account, backup his disks,\u00a0and eventually\u00a0purge\u00a0his resources.<\/p>\n

\"OpenNebula<\/a>

OpenNebula VNC view<\/p><\/div>\n

At first glance, using OpenNebula to drive virtualization services on a single host could seem overkill, to say the least.
\nThough\u00a0having a customer that don’t want to know what a shell looks like, and when even Proxmox is not an acceptable answer, I feel confident OpenNebula could be way more useful than we give it credit for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This could have been the first article of this blog.\u00a0OpenNebula is a modular cloud-oriented solution\u00a0that could be compared to OpenStack, driving heterogeneous infrastructure, orchestrating storage, network and hypervisors configuration. In the last 7 months, I’ve been using OpenNebula with Ceph to virtualize my main services, such as my mail server (200GB storage), my nntp index […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unetresgrossebite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}