Cloud Computing: Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
May 16, 2014
Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: Timothy Prickett Morgan.
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside of a company or enterprises that share capacity on a public cloud, the ups and downs across time zones and workloads should all balance out.
This is precisely what Microsoft executives recently told EnterpriseTech was one of the key benefits of hyperscale cloud computing, and added that this was something that very few companies in the public cloud arena could offer. (Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, and Microsoft Azure has massive scale for sure, and IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace Hosting, and a bunch of others are working on it.) Even with excess capacity, all cloud builders need to be able to get more capacity online relatively quickly, whether it is the internal IT department or your public cloud provider…
To give potential customers an idea of how quickly cloud capacity can be brought up on bare metal, commercial Linux distributor Canonical, which provides support for the Ubuntu Server variant of Linux, and AMD, which peddles the SeaMicro line of microservers, recently put the Ubuntu OpenStack variant of the popular open source cloud controller through the paces. The benchmark tests that the two companies ran, which were revealed at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, showed a cluster of machines could be configured with a whopping 75,000 virtual machines in 6.5 hours using the combination of management tools from both vendors…
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