Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC edition v2.0 – Maverick

V2.0 of Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC edition is out. This covers UEC on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, based on Eucalyptus 2.0. Please download the PDF and post your comments.

PDF version of Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC Edition

We have just released the PDF version of “Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC Edition, V1.0” and you can download it from https://cssoss.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/book_eucalyptus_beginners_guide_uec_edition1.pdf.  Please help us enhance the book by posting your suggestions as comments here.

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Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC Edition

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to UEC and its components
2. Installation & Configuration
3. Web Interface
4. Image Management
5. Instance Management
6. Storage Management
7. Network Management
8. Security
9. Troubleshooting
10. Euca Commands
11. Hacks

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[Eucalyptus Beginner’s Guide – UEC edition] Chapter 6 – Storage Management

Chapter 5 Instance Management

Chapter 7 Network Management

Storage Controller

Storage Controller is the component of Eucalyptus that provides persistent block storage compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Block Store. euca2ools or EC2 commands can be used to manage these volumes. Here are a few euca commands for managing the volumes