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pache CloudStack is one among the highly visible
projects from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
The project focuses on deploying open source software
for public and private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds.
Listed below are a few important points about CloudStack.
ƒ It is designed to deploy and manage large networks
of virtual machines, as highly available and scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing
platforms.
ƒ CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to
offer public cloud services and by many companies to
provide on-premises (private) cloud offerings or as part of
a hybrid cloud solution.
ƒ CloudStack includes the entire ‘stack’ of features that
most organisations desire with an IaaS cloud -- compute
orchestration, Network as a Service, user and account
management, a full and open native API, resource

Apache CloudStack is yet another outstanding project that has contributed many

tools and projects to the open source community. The author has selected the

relevant and important extracts from the excellent documentation provided by the

Apache CloudStack project team for this article.

Apache CloudStack:

A Reliable and Scalable Cloud

Computing Platform

accounting, and a first-class user interface (UI).

ƒ It currently supports the most popular hypervisors —

VMware, KVM, Citrix XenServer, Xen Cloud Platform

(XCP), Oracle VM server and Microsoft Hyper-V.

ƒ Users can manage their cloud with an easy-to-use Web

interface, command line tools and/or a full-featured

RESTful API. In addition, CloudStack provides an API

that’s compatible with AWS EC2 and S3 for organisations

that wish to deploy hybrid clouds.

ƒ It provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform

to deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds.

Features and functionality

Some of the features and functionality provided by

CloudStack are:

ƒ Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM,

Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere