Using this you can utilize API’s similar to the commercial cloud providers such as Amazon etc and use whatever Hypervisor you see fit. now part of Citrix, this tool may prove useful to those of you that run your own private cloud. It even allows for provisioning of systems that do not support virtualization , with the requirement that you have a physical server with IPMI 2.0.
CloudStack™ – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud Software Platform
Cloud.com is a pioneer of next generation cloud computing solutions that enable simple and cost effective deployment, management, and configuration of cloud computing environments, regardless of where they are deployed. Extending beyond individual virtual machine images running on commodity hardware, CloudStack provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering virtual datacenters as a service – delivering all of the essential components used to build, deploy, and manage multi-tier and multi-tenant cloud applications in a simple to install software package.
Core Features:
- Multi-Tenant cloud computing platform
- Compatible with Commodity or Enterprise Components
- Broad Hypervisor Support (Xenserver, KVM, VMware vSphere)
- Scalable Architecture (manage thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests)
- High Availability configurations to provide automatic fail-over for virtual machines
- Easy-to-Use AJAX-enabled web interface
- Configurable to deploy public, private and hybrid clouds
- Virtual Networking to segment network traffic into VLANs
- Robust API
- Amazon EC2 Compatibility layer
- Written in Java for proven reliability
- Ability to define service level definitions with specific resource footprints
- Open Source, available under the GPL version 3
