FAQ

Elastic computing provides the ability to bridge both local and remote computing resources as a single secure global computing infrastructure.

Cloud computing touches upon just about every aspect of a modern internet centric IT environment and can be described as the architecture of internet based systems. Cloud computing represents the complete computing stack from software to hardware. It has no system boundaries. No physical or geographic limitations, internal composition or ownership of its components. Cloud computing is the next logical step in development, deployment and management of software. Simply put, it’s “internet centric software”.

Cloud Bursting allows you to automatically scale to sudden and extreme spikes in demand by enabling a hybrid cloud computing model which combines both private data center resources and remote cloud resources such as Amazon EC2

A VPC is a method for partitioning a public computing utility such as EC2 into a quarantined virtual infrastructure. A VPC may encapsulate multiple local and remote resources to appear as a single homogeneous computing environment allowing you to securely utilize remote resources as part of a seamless global compute infrastructure.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Yes. ECP enables the creation of both private and public computing clouds using your existing data center resources.

Currently we support virtualization via the Libvirt API

A toolkit provided by RedHat to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other Operating Systems)

Libvirt supports:
• Xen hypervisor on Linux and Solaris hosts.
• QEMU emulator
• KVM Linux hypervisor
• LXC Linux container system
• OpenVZ Linux container system
• Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems

Libvirt provides:
• Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates
• Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL
• Local access control using PolicyKit
• Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS
• Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage

Enomalism is the previous name for The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform. Over the next few months we will be transitioning to our new product name.

We currently support two methods of deploying virtual machines: Creating new ones from scratch, or downloading pre-packaged machines from a VMCast source.

To get a listing of machines from a VMCast, click on Repository then Manage Repository. From there click the yellow refresh icon beside the "ECP VMCasting Released Appliances Feed". This will refresh the VMCast feed and allow you to download a machine from the Remote Repository tab. If you want to install a machine from scratch use the VM Creator feature.

Once you have purchased a support plan, you will receive an email notification with log-in credentials welcoming you to Enomaly. Go to the Support Plan Log-in page under the support menu and enter your login information for access to our help desk management system.

If you are concerned about licensing the Elastic Computing Platform under an open source license because your company does not wish to contribute any customizations back to the community, Enomaly offers Enterprise ECP, an enterprise version of the Elastic Computing Platform. Enterprise ECP may be licensed separately under our Enterprise License Agreement. Enomaly developed the Enterprise version to keep customizations that are particular to your business confidential.

Yes this is possible, and has been functional since 2.1B2.

Xen, by default in most Linux distros, is not configured to work properly with ECP. Please see our troubleshooting section to properly configure Xen.

It is possible to use OpenVZ. Currently we have a test machine running, but the Libvirt OpenVZ support is lacking. Therefore, for the time being we recommend not using OpenVZ. We plan to increase our support of it soon. Anyone interested in helping to support OpenVZ, please contact us. If you're feeling adventurous and wish to use it, visit the Libvert site for help with any questions or problems.

Do a "make uninstall" on the snapshot version of Libvirt and roll back to the Ubuntu packages by running

apt-get uninstall Libvirt0 Libvirt-bin python-Libvirt; apt-get install libvirt0 libvirt-bin pytho-libvirt

Edit the XML machine definition under the new VM (while it's turned off) and remove the line and reference to the CD-ROM device.

Click on Manage Repository and click the yellow update arrows on each of the default repos. This will populate your remote repository with the newest modules and virtual machines.