stoney cloud: Demo-System Installation

Overview

The stoney cloud builds upon various standard open source components and can be run on commodity hardware. The Demo-Node installation consists of one node with the following software-stack installed:

• The Linux kernel based virtualization technology.
• An OpenLDAP Directory Server for the storage of the stoney cloud user and service related data with the web based management VM-Manager interface and the Linux kernel based virtualization technology.

Prerequisites

The following items and conditions are required to be able to install and configure a stoney cloud environment:

• A dedicated server which fulfils the following requirements:
  • 64-Bit Intel with VT-Technologie (AMD is not tested at the moment, but it should work).
  • 8 Gigabyte Memory (more is better).
  • 130 Gigabyte up to 2 Terabyte disks (for the first RAID-Set, the 2 Terabyte restriction applies).
    • For the mass storage (where the virtual machines are stored) we recommend a second RAID-Set configured as RAID6-Set with battery backup.
  • One physical Ethernet Interfaces.

Limitations

During the installation of the Gentoo Linux operating system, the first physical Ethernet Interface ist automatically configured with DHCP. This means, you need a working DHCP Server. The virtual machines running on the stoney cloud Demo-System are NATed. This means, you can not access the virtual machines from externally.

Installation

Skipping Checks

To skip checks, type no when asked:

 Do you want to start the installation?
yes or no?: no

Then manually restart the stoney cloud installer with the desired options. For example

/mnt/cdrom/foss-cloud-installer -c

Options:

-c: Skip CPU requirement checks
-m: Skip memory requirement checks
-s: Skip CPU and memory requirement checks