The stoney cloud is an expandable multi-tenant Open Source Cloud Management solution with service providers as it's target audience.

Characteristics

• Turnkey solution to build public and private clouds.
• Runs unmodified Windows and Linux servers as well as desktops on commodity hardware.
• Persistent and non-persistent virtual machines.
• User friendly web interface to manage every aspect of your cloud.
• Backups configurable via web interface.
• Clear separation between the infrastructure, application and service layer.
• Integration and provisioning of the Zabbix Monitoring solution.
• Integration and provisioning of the Puppet Configuration Management solution.
• Multi-tenant capable (work in progress, see the Selfcare category for the current state of the development).

Overview

The following image gives an overview of the life cycle of a virtual machine, starting with the ISO file and ending with a persistent or non-persistent virtual machine.