written by gunther gerlach-2009
This material covers the initial set up of an entire Cloud environment at Amazon Cloud infrastructure to run any web implementation solutions. This is the quickest answer that you may find out there, so let’s stat it!
We will cover all the steps to set up an entire environment in a cloud platform, from creating an user account at Amazon Web Services to creating and customizing Virtual machines (AMI), Virtual Storage Units, Virtual backups, Elastic IP’s, etc.
For all of you that don’t understand some of the acronyms used here, let’s just to look at them before to start:
Gunther Gerlach
written by gunther gerlach-2009
I have talked about virtualization and also about Cloud Computing but, what options are available to implement cloud computing Infrastructure implementations? Well, that is simple!
Hardware technologies for virtualization (hypervisor)
Hypervisor Virtualization has a layer (usually a thin Linux kernel shown here as a hypervisor or standard OS) that is loaded directly on the bare server. To allocate hardware and resources to the virtual machines (VMs), all hardware on the server must be virtualized. The next layer up shows each chip, board, etc. that must be virtualized so that it can be assigned to the VMs. Once in the VM itself, there is a complete copy of an operating system and finally the application or workload.
Gunther Gerlach
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
IaaS clouds make it very easy and affordable to provision resources such as servers, connections, storage, and related tools necessary to build an application environment from scratch on-demand. IaaS clouds are the underlying infrastructure of PaaS and SaaS clouds. A common characteristic of IaaS clouds is that they are more complex to work with but with that complexity comes a high degree of flexibility. So, these are generally lower level services in the grand scheme of things; not in a derogatory sense of course. You’ll be dealing with virtual machines, operating systems, patches, and various other issues. You’ll likely require some specialized help to make it all work well.
Gunther Gerlach
