Abiquo Named Best Enterprise Solution at Cloud Computing World Series 2010

In this economy, the promise of cloud is mouth-watering for those looking to cut down on IT costs, but there are so many cloud computing offerings available that organizations are trying to just understand what solution is right for them. It must feel like sifting through a beach to find the one gold coin worth millions. You might find several silver dollars and hundreds of sand dollars, but that one golden nugget can’t be found easily. So where do organizations turn when their normal nugget detectors fail?

The Cloud Computing World Series is one of the best detectors out there. An independent panel of global judges looks at all the offerings in ten different categories, then determines the best each year.  The nominees can be open-source or proprietary, start-ups or goliaths, private or public; the judges only look at what the product can do for an organization today. The criteria is not based on revenue or roadmap features or other intangibles; the best are chosen for what they have today and how they stack up next to the competition.

Abiquo took home the prize for Best Enterprise Solution because the judges thought Abiquo was better than HP, Appirio and over 40 others at providing on-demand cloud computing with enterprise class features. This is what our customers have already been saying and it’s wonderful to have the independent confirmation.

Thanks to the Abiquo community and all of our supporters, we look forward to continuing to provide only the best!

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Cloud Computing World Series Shortlisted Abiquo for 2 Awards

The Cloud Computing World Series has shortlisted Abiquo for two (2) awards including Best Enterprise Solution and Best Virtualization Product or Service.   This is a real achievement since there was more competition in each award category than ever before.

Final award winners will be officially announced at the 2010 Cloud Computing World Forum event to be held on June 29th-July 1st at the Olympia Conference Center in London.  For more information on the awards, visit http://cloudwf.com/Awards/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138&Itemid=101

Other noteable awards and recognition which Abiquo has received include: RedHerring 100 award in Europe, Network World’s Top 10 Cloud Computing Vendors to Watch, and AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 Winner.  For a complete list of awards, visit www.abiquo.com/news-and-events/awards.php

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abiCloud 1.0.0 RC3 has been released

We’ve launched a new version of our product: abiCloud. The version is a new release candidate for 1.0.0. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

Fixed bugs

• [ABICLOUD-340] – Reset button never receives the ‘power on’ event.
• [ABICLOUD-352] – Unexpected error bundling images: Cannot recover from error.
• [ABICLOUD-356] – Power on events not received
• [ABICLOUD-367] – Tracer: problem with column virtualmachine

Improvements

• [ABICLOUD-346] – Add a ‘recalculate’ buton per datacenter to calculate the existing performance
• [ABICLOUD-363] – Change USER section name like GROUPS

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If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abicloud)

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abiCloud 1.0.0 RC2 has been released.

We are glad to announce a new release candiate for major version 1.0.0 of the abiCloud project, an open-source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure . Users can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures easily trough our impressive user interface. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

New Features

• Infrastructure:
  • Added “Cancel” button. Now, the user can cancel the deploy. [BETA]
    

Fixed bugs

• [ABICLOUD-262] – When a Virtual Machine does not start properly, the Virtual Machine stays in the hypervisor endlessly
• [ABICLOUD-295] – Change 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT title to 1.0.0-RCx
• [ABICLOUD-304] – GUI update on users view
• [ABICLOUD-307] – user-unfriendly error message when creating a volume without available storage
• [ABICLOUD-310] – “NULL” hypervisor name in event description
• [ABICLOUD-312] – Erroneous event message when deleting a VirtualDataCenter with VirtualAppliances
• [ABICLOUD-313] – I can’t change the virtual Machine name
• [ABICLOUD-314] – Clone Physical Machine, hypervisor port is not clonned.
• [ABICLOUD-315] – Better information when /opt/vm_repository is not well created
• [ABICLOUD-316] – Bad visualization when I have an image with a long description
• [ABICLOUD-323] – RIMP: error clonning disk, if the disk exist
• [ABICLOUD-325] – Appliance Manager doesn’t works on Windows
• [ABICLOUD-328] – Description text should word wrap in Virtual Machine information screen
• [ABICLOUD-330] – Problems in a special case in Apply Changes functionality
• [ABICLOUD-333] – I can’t modify the VDC name
• [ABICLOUD-334] – RIMP: no mount nfs repository
• [ABICLOUD-336] – Cannot upload virtual images
• [ABICLOUD-337] – Passwords in virtual-factory and vsm are not in sync
• [ABICLOUD-341] – IP pool is sorted lexicograph instead of numeric
• [ABICLOUD-342] – Resources are not released after bundling
• [ABICLOUD-343] – After bundling images, in infrastructure the bundled virtual image is still shown with red status
• [ABICLOUD-349] – IP selection overwritten if clicked save button
• [ABICLOUD-350] – AM: can’t download image
• [ABICLOUD-351] – I can’t delete an Image
• [ABICLOUD-353] – Cannot modify a running Virtual Appliance. It redeployes the removed node.
• [ABICLOUD-354] – Bundle fails and stays in unstable state
• [ABICLOUD-357] – Lost IPs when assigning DHCP leases
• [ABICLOUD-358] – The fileid of the Disk Section is indexed by the virtual image name, then 2 different images with the same name will share the latest file
• [ABICLOUD-359] – JDBC Exception when bundling an image several times
• [ABICLOUD-364] – Pagination say 1 of 0 pages
• [ABICLOUD-366] – Unnecesary power-on of virtual machines when bundling images

Improvements

• [ABICLOUD-60] – Hard Disk text box
• [ABICLOUD-201] – Everytime a virtual machine is created, it should have a name derived from the virtual image name
• [ABICLOUD-287] – Consider chaning omapi port from 7791 to 7911 (the default OMAPI port)
• [ABICLOUD-309] – New enterprises don’t have the ‘abispace’ default repository
• [ABICLOUD-317] – Signal with datacenters without virtualfactory (remote service)
• [ABICLOUD-319] – If there is no virtualFactory on the datacenter… stops the deployment
• [ABICLOUD-324] – Improvements on AM startup
• [ABICLOUD-329] – Refresh subscriptions
• [ABICLOUD-361] – The cursor on abicloud start
• [ABICLOUD-365] – “Upload” remote repository should not appears

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If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abicloud)

We are hiring!!!

We’re on the lookout for several engineers to help us build the best cloud computing platform on the market. Be part of the Barcelona development team that is passionate about building terrific tools, solving our customers’ challenges and giving back to the community trough open source licensing.

Open positions

• Java Architect
• Senior Java Developer
• Java Engineer
• Senior Flex Developer
• Virtualization Expert
• SysAdmin
• Q&A Testing Engineer

What we look for in every employee

Get it done

We value aptitude and attitude as well as experience. We value the ability to get things done with the highest standards.

There’s no I in culture

Our company is based around small, dynamic teams working with agile methodologies. You should work well with others, and treat teamwork and team achievement as the end goal.

You are our ambassador

On a personal level you should have good written and oral communication skills. Every employee is a spokesperson for the company at all times.

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Java Architect

Key Experience:

Core Java, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, Java Software Engineer/Architect

Tasks and responsibilities

• Develop standards and guidelines for the products
• Rollout and train guidelines to development teams
• Coordinate technical decisions
• Review and approve technical designs
• Manage the consistency, integrity and reliability of the architecture
• Advise senior management on current and future technologies
• You will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
• Strong Java Development experience (Spring Framework, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, Web Services, distributed computing).
• Experience developing software infrastructure products.
• Experience on product packaging and delivery
• Servlet container experience: eg Tomcat, JBOSS,
• Excellent OO and design skills.
• Familiar with software that manages huge of data
• Experience contributing to Open Source projects
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Hudson, Sonar, etc).
• Experience working with virtualization Technologies (Xen, VMware, KVM, Vbox, etc)
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Familiar with Web technologies like FLEX, AS3
• Experience working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience making Java applications to scale horizontaly.
• Experience leading teams of highly skilled engineers.

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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Senior Java Developer

Key Experience:

Core Java, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, Java Software Engineer/Developer

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science
• Strong Java Development experience (Spring Framework, Hibernate, JPA, Maven, JMS)
• Experience of product packaging and delivery.
• Servlet container experience
• Excellent OO and design skills.
• Familiar with Design Patterns.
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Hudson, Sonar, etc).
• Source code control experience (Subversion/CVS).
• Experience working with virtualization Technologies (XEN, VMWARE, KVM, Vbox, etc)
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Familiar with Web technologies like FLEX, AS3
• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience making Java applications to scale horizontally.

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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Java Engineer

Key Experience:

Core Java, Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, Java Software Engineer/Developer.

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science
• Excellent Java Development or any OO language skills
• Servlet container development experience
• Previous experience with Java frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA.
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Hudson, Sonar, etc).
• Source code control experience (Subversion/CVS).
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Familiar with Web technologies like FLEX, AS3
• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience making Java applications to scale horizontally.
• Experience working with virtualization Technologies (XEN, VMWARE, KVM, Vbox, etc)
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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Senior Flex Developer

We have 2 important opportunities available for highly skilled experienced senior flex/java developers to join the team. You should have more than 2 of years of development experience with Flex (client-side) and Java Developing (server-side) with a smattering of design and usability. It is equally important being formerly a hands on developer.

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science
• Strong Flex Development experience (BlazeDS)
• Experience of product packaging and delivery.
• Servlet container development experience
• Excellent OO and design skills.
• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Hudson, Sonar, etc).
• Source code control experience (Subversion/CVS).
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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Virtualization Expert

Key Experience:

VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science
• VMWARE, XEN, KVM, VirtualBox, Hyper-V (Installation and Administration)
• Storage Systems (OpenStorage, netApp, dell equalogic, etc)
• Network (Virtual Switch, network infrastructure, etc.)
• Programming skills (scripting, JAVA, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Experience on production environments (Hosting providers, big company datacenters, etc.)
• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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SysAdmin

Key Experience:

VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V Linux, OpenSolaris, Windows, scripting, etc.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Coordinate technical decisions
• Review and approve technical designs
• Manage the consistency, integrity and reliability of the architecture
• Advise senior management on current and future technologies
• Give support to the customers
• Maintain multiple services (web server, DNS, etc)
• Maintain and improve development environment
• You will report to the Chief Technology Officer

Key Requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science
• Virtualization technologies (Installation and Administration)
• Storage Systems (OpenStorage, netApp, dell equalogic, etc)
• Network (Virtual Switch, network infrastructure, etc.)
• Advanced skills on one of scripting language (bash, perl, python, ruby)
• Desired, basic programming skills (java, etc.)
• Experience on production environment (Hosting providers, big company datacenters, etc.)
• Desired, experience giving support on Help Desk environments
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)
• Excellent communication skills (English & Spanish)

Desired requirements

• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

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Q&A Testing Engineer

Key Experience:

JAVA and/or Flex, QA and Testing specialist

Tasks and responsibilities

• Test requirements and specifications for incorrect or incomplete information, assumptions and conclusions
• Apply that knowledge in the development and implementation of test plans, test objectives and test scheduling
• Organise and carry out functional and non-functional testing within an iterative Scrum-based development environment
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers and support engineers to correctly identify, prioritise and resolve issues
• Create, review and maintain robust automated regression and data-driven tests
• You will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer

Key Requirements

• Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment (Hudson, Sonar, etc).
• Experience testing infrastructure software.
• Experience testing web applications.
• Experience in performance analysis.
• Java
• Experience on product packaging and delivery
• Source code control experience (Subversion/CVS).

Desired requirements

• Experience working in a experience of working in an Agile environment.(Understanding of working in a Scrum team – sprints etc)
• Experience in Open Source environments (pe. Involved in an Open Source project or community)

At abiquo, you can expect a competitive salary package as well as the opportunity to join a terrific development team and challenge your technical skills. Moreover, we expect you to contribute in the company growth and internationalization processes.

If you are interested in this position, we invite you to send us your résumé to contact_(@)_abiquo.com highlihting on it your skills and talents.

abiCloud 1.0.0-RC1 has been released!!!

We are glad to announce a major release of a new version (1.0.0-RC1) of the abiCloud project, an open-source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure . Users can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures easily trough our impressive user interface. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

New Features

• Important changes in Appliance Library section:
  • Multi-enterprise management. Each enterprise has his own private repository and remote-repositories
  • Upload process to generate new Virtual Images from your computer to repository
  • Download process to catch a virtual image from repository to your computer
    
  • Design improvements in the usability
  • Now, Enterprise admins will be able to manage their enterprise’s repositories
• Bundled images:
  • Abicloud allows users to generate their own virtual images using virtual machines that are running on the platform
  • Management of master/slave images.
• Metering:
  • Developed an eventing system that stores the events generated in the application
  • Filter and show the eventing information
• Networking:
  • Now you can decide the initial private IP for generate private IP ranges
• Infrastructure:
  • Changed creation of physical machines process in order to avoid not necessary information
• VirtualBox:
  • Now abicloud supports the V. 3.0.0 API. Tested over v. 3.0.8.

Fixed bugs

• [ABICLOUD-51] – Open 3 appliance at the same time
• [ABICLOUD-69] – VM status does not match with current status of the Virtual Appliance
• [ABICLOUD-138] – Download image from remote repository is OK but appears some error
• [ABICLOUD-189] – The physical resources consumed by the virtual machine when a node is deleted when the virtual app is running are not roll back
• [ABICLOUD-193] – Problems with the vnc client
• [ABICLOUD-202] – PAE not supported in VirtualBox
• [ABICLOUD-204] – The SAVE button should not be enabled when the VA has not been modified
• [ABICLOUD-205] – Minor bugs/Improvements in Bundle
• [ABICLOUD-206] – I can’t update the physicalMachine information (HARD DISK)
• [ABICLOUD-209] – Error editing a storage pool
• [ABICLOUD-210] – Hard disk controller entry in OVF is not recognized
• [ABICLOUD-214] – Network card entry in OVF is not recognized
• [ABICLOUD-220] – End of download/upload notification event never arrives
• [ABICLOUD-223] – Enterprise Admin cannot manage his/her own repository
• [ABICLOUD-225] – Implement in the metering search view the correct view hiearchy for each role
• [ABICLOUD-226] – Show information of the item that generated the event in Metering
• [ABICLOUD-228] – An enterprise Admin CAN’T create enterprise
• [ABICLOUD-229] – An enterprise admin MUST access to Appliance library
• [ABICLOUD-231] – I can’t create PUBLIC appliances
• [ABICLOUD-232] – Problem adding a VirtualFactory in a DC created
• [ABICLOUD-236] – Clone Physical Machine, Hypervisor information is not clonned
• [ABICLOUD-237] – I can’t delete a DataCenter if exists VirtualDataCenters asigned on it
• [ABICLOUD-239] – When an image is downloaded from a repository the RAM assigned in DB i 0 instead of the RAM of the OVF
• [ABICLOUD-240] – Interface: “Delete Appliance” fail
• [ABICLOUD-244] – Enterprise Admins can create enterprises
• [ABICLOUD-245] – If a user is deleted, it’s not possible to create a new user with the same username
• [ABICLOUD-246] – Download events seems to work randomly
• [ABICLOUD-249] – Java process does not dead. Timers are still alive.
• [ABICLOUD-250] – Bundle with vBox
• [ABICLOUD-252] – Cannot edit virtual machine. Changes are ignored
• [ABICLOUD-254] – Deleting a virtual application from the virtual applications editor returns strange results
• [ABICLOUD-255] – Change the Virtual Appliance name when is running
• [ABICLOUD-258] – Cannot create new enterprises
• [ABICLOUD-267] – Cannot bundle image.
• [ABICLOUD-158] – Fix the Hypervisor value to show in the Create Virtual Datacenter popup
• [ABICLOUD-188] – AM: Wrong location for conf files
• [ABICLOUD-191] – Cannot deploy a KVM machine from Virtual datacenters screen.
• [ABICLOUD-207] – No error when the session is invalid
• [ABICLOUD-221] – It’s not easy to distinguish Master and Slave dependant images in the repository
• [ABICLOUD-222] – Upload does not show progress information on the screen
• [ABICLOUD-230] – Dashboard layout
• [ABICLOUD-247] – Edit Virtual Image does not populate the mandatory ‘description’ field
• [ABICLOUD-248] – The icon of a virtual image is not updated on database from repositories after download
• [ABICLOUD-253] – If you modify the name of a virtual machine clicking on the icon, the name is not changed in the lower information screen
• [ABICLOUD-256] – Date Filter
• [ABICLOUD-257] – Add new remote service: ok enabled but doesn’t works
• [ABICLOUD-260] – Error traces should be displayed with the full trace and with ‘CRITICAL’ severity
• [ABICLOUD-261] – VNC in a new tab
• [ABICLOUD-264] – Create events should contain all the information of the artifact created in raw text
• [ABICLOUD-265] – Cannot logout of the console if session timeout expires
• [ABICLOUD-266] – Chaotic behaviour of User Session
• [ABICLOUD-270] – If you delete a repository space, all the local master and slave images are deleted
• [ABICLOUD-271] – Clone Physical Machine doesn’t work
• [ABICLOUD-272] – Filters on Event Section can’t be erased
• [ABICLOUD-274] – idEnterprise in Bundle images
• [ABICLOUD-297] – Can not create Virtual Datacenter
• [ABICLOUD-98] – Rimp exceptions (and openwiseman exceptions I guess) are truncated.
• [ABICLOUD-167] – Downloaded image from repository is always VMware
• [ABICLOUD-173] – Wrong URL adding a repository makes the UI to stall
• [ABICLOUD-180] – Changes in the Apps Library images are persisted, but information does not change in the screen
• [ABICLOUD-190] – Openwsmand checks if still running in start method
• [ABICLOUD-216] – Categories in OVFindex.xml separator cannot be space, change to comma
• [ABICLOUD-227] – Spanish letter “ñ” doesn’t works
• [ABICLOUD-267] – Cannot bundle image.
• [ABICLOUD-275] – The scheduler has to discrimate the hypervisor technology
• [ABICLOUD-278] – Exceptions in AMSink are not inserted in the eventing system
• [ABICLOUD-280] – Cannot save a Virtual Machine. Raises an exception and start the deployment of the Virtual Appliance by itself
• [ABICLOUD-283] – If you delete a repository space and register it again, still ‘remember’ downloaded images
• [ABICLOUD-284] – When a wrong RS is added, an unexpected error from VA appears
• [ABICLOUD-285] – In the process: Create a duplicate RS, Delete the duplicate RS and trying to enter the originary one, an error is occurred
• [ABICLOUD-288] – If you upload a Virtual Image, the memory allocated by default is 99999999
• [ABICLOUD-289] – Delete a Physical Machine throws an exception. Can not delete its Virtual Machines
• [ABICLOUD-291] – If bundling a virtual appliance fails, it should recover from the error
• [ABICLOUD-294] – Error trying to shutdown two virtual applications at the same time
• [ABICLOUD-298] – Text fields in metering screen overlaped
• [ABICLOUD-300] – IP information on Physical Machine detail is truncated
• [ABICLOUD-301] – Chart of used CPU is not correct

Improvements

• [ABICLOUD-46] – Virtual Machine states
• [ABICLOUD-47] – Repository Space on Appliance Manager don’t show long strings
• [ABICLOUD-106] – AbiServer should use notifications to register new downloaded images on the ApplianceManager
• [ABICLOUD-151] – Show the hypervisor type for images in VirtualApp view
• [ABICLOUD-199] – Cannot have multiples Remote Access open at the same time
• [ABICLOUD-200] – Implement a ‘Copy to clipboard’ button besides the VRDP IP and port
• [ABICLOUD-233] – Create physical Machine should be the default option
• [ABICLOUD-234] – Default rack on physical Machine
• [ABICLOUD-235] – Filter by Location on Datacenter management
• [ABICLOUD-279] – Change ‘description’ field in Virtual Image to text type, or truncate to 255
• [ABICLOUD-64] – Deleting a virtual image
• [ABICLOUD-112] – Time out on Remote repository connection
• [ABICLOUD-147] – Different hypervisor instalation path on each physical machine
• [ABICLOUD-197] – UUID cannot be the name of the image. It’s not human readable

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If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abicloud)

Easy install with the new pre-configured ISO images

UPDATE: New 1.0.0RC1 pre-configured ISO images available!

From Abicloud 0.7.0 we introduced the Cloud Nodes images as an option to reduce the time to deploy a Cloud Infrastructure. In the new Abicloud 0.8.0 version, we have created a set of openSUSE 11.1 Distros with all the software and libraries you need to deploy a complete Abicloud Cloud Computing Infrastructure.

Abicloud Server Live Installer

An Abicloud Server Live Installer is an openSUSE 11.1 Distro with all the libraries and software bundled in such a way that the set up of a simple Abicloud Infrastructure as a Service deployment is a very simple process almost without any intervention. You have all you need to test drive the platform in a single ISO image. Besides, the linux distribution detects the existing hardware the first time it boots.

At this moment we have these images:

• Abicloud Server openSUSE 11.1 x86 32 bits with VirtualBox 2.2.4 [download] [torrent]: This image install all the software you need to set up an Abicloud Server and a VirtualBox Cloud Node.It’s the right image to test drive the platform if you only have a server available.
• Abicloud Server Lite openSUSE 11.1 x86 32 bits [download] [torrent]: This image install all the software you need to set up an Abicloud Server. It’s the right image to test drive the platform if you have more than one server. You can install it on virtual or physical server, and deploy a Cloud Node in a physical server.

Basically, the installation is a ‘next, next,next’ process, but if you need help this screencast will show you how to do it.

Cloud Node Live Installer

A Cloud Node Live Installer is another set of openSUSE 11.1 Distros with all the libraries and software bundled in such a way that the set up of a Cloud Node is a very simple process. And the linux distribution detects the existing hardware when it boots for the first time.

At this moment we have these images:

• VirtualBox – openSUSE 11.1 x86 32 bits [download] [torrent]
• KVM – openSUSE 11.1 x86 32 bits [download] [torrent]

Again, the installation is a ‘next, next,next’ process, and this screencast can help you.

In the Abicloud Community Wiki you can read the full installation process. Good luck!

Tags: bare-metal, cloudnode, images, iso, susestudio

abiCloud 0.8.0 has been released!

We are glad to announce the release of a new version (0.8.0) of the abiCloud project, an open-source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure . Users can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures easily trough our impressive user interface. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

New Features:

• Hard and Soft Limits. Control and limit the use of resources of your organizations
• Multi-Datacenter environment improvements. Manage more than one datacenter in your cloud infraestructure.
• Basic multi virtualization technology environments. Allow your users to create virtual appliance with one hypervisor or another

Improvements:

• Many usability and GUI improvements to facilitate the user experience.
• Basic Refresh button to recover from disasters
• Installation process.

Solved issues:

• ABICLOUD-186. ‘virtualmachine’ table keeps information of already destroyed virtual machines
• ABICLOUD-172. Deployment of a Virtual Image in a Virtual Datacenter with an Hypervisor not supported crashes
• ABICLOUD-170. Inconsistent libvirt installation procedure
• ABICLOUD-162. Deployment and undeployment of a virtual application should never stay in an infinite loop
• ABICLOUD-155. Cannot change the datacenter assigned to a virtual datacenter
• ABICLOUD-163. The url in the documentation button should link to abicloud community site, not abiquo community
• ABICLOUD-160. Change URI to URL in ‘Create Remote Service’
• ABICLOUD-157. Repository edition pop-up errors.
• ABICLOUD-154. Textbox allows to insert a long text that it’s smaller than the allowed size in the database
• ABICLOUD-153. If a ovfindex.xml is modified, and it’s reloded by the am, the older images still appear
• ABICLOUD-152. Product and Info information from ovfindex.xml is not displayed
• ABICLOUD-146. When the VirtualMachine is Paused, the PowerOn button shuold be blocked.
• ABICLOUD-145. Multi languaje server messages problem
• ABICLOUD-144. Server errors on english on flex client (When I select Spanish)
• ABICLOUD-143. The HD, RAM and CPU inputboxes not show the information correctly
• ABICLOUD-142. On Dashboard, the disabled section should be hide
• ABICLOUD-139. Rename AbiCloud.html to index.html
• ABICLOUD-135. Abicloud cannot recover the state of a node after a failed deployment of a Virtual Image
• ABICLOUD-131. Document how to set up a shared NFS repository in a Windows Environment
• ABICLOUD-130. When validating OVF XML documents and its invalid the error is not properly reported at the client
• ABICLOUD-129. RImp should work with more than one repository location at the same time
• ABICLOUD-120. Editable Package Management Window
• ABICLOUD-118. Disk allocation units
• ABICLOUD-114. .vdi disks created by VirtualBox on startup of a vm are not removed after a shutdown
• ABICLOUD-109. libvirtd needs netcat-openbsd to work.
• ABICLOUD-97. Application Server does not shutdown properly. kill -9 needed
• ABICLOUD-89. Prominent buttons for support & documentation
• ABICLOUD-76. I can delete a VSS
• ABICLOUD-57. Refresh error deleting an appliance
• ABICLOUD-17. Disabled input text on Respository object
• ABICLOUD-5. Better way to show Appliance logs
• ABICLOUD-3. Delete Appliance Logs

If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abiquo)

abiCloud 0.7.2 has been released!

We are glad to announce the release of a new version (0.7.2) of the abiCloud project, an open-source cloud platform manager which allows to easily deploy a cloud computing infrastructure . Users can create, manage and scale complext IT architectures in an easy and agile way. You can download it for Linux or Windows from sourceforge.

This version fixes some bugs and adds some features to the last version. These issues are listed below.

• ABICLOUD-130. When validating OVF XML documents and its invalid the error is not properly reported at the client
• ABICLOUD-133. Null pointer exception on KVM machine deployment

If you need support, you can get it from several sources:

• Documentation
• Forums
• IRC: (irc.freenode.net, #abiquo)

Preconfigured bare metal Cloud Node Images built with SuSestudio

From Abicloud 0.7.0 it’s mandatory to install an application in the servers where the hypervisors VirtualBox, XEN or KVM is executed (Yes, VMware ESXi does not need these small applications). The reason why we now need it is because these hypervisor lacks of some functionality provided by VMware ESXi. So we cover these lacks with our own software. Our goal is to make the dream of Virtual to Virtual (V2V) coming true thanks to our platform. Want to deploy your ESXi virtual images in XEN, KVM or VirtualBox? Abicloud can help with its V2V capabilities.

Some users reported that this change could make harder to deploy a new cloud system. So, we decided in the maintenance release 0.7.1 to offer pre-configured images with the hypervisors and our applications configured ready to run. But we wanted to go one step further: the user should not need to configure the operating system, the drivers, users, permissions… it should be as easy as possible. Almost a bare-metal version.

We have been using a service from openSUSE called SUSE Studio. SUSE Studio is a web front-end to customize and build your own personal distribution in as many ways you could possibly think off. There are other similar services and applications that helps you make custom distribution but none of them are as extensive in customization options as SUSE studio or as easy.

With this service, we created what we called Cloud Node Images. A Cloud Node Image is raw disk image with all the libraries and software bundled in such a way that the set up of a Cloud Node is a very simple process almost without any intervention. Besides, the linux distribution detects the exisiting hardware the first time it boots and expands itself to fill the drive.

At this moment we have these hypervisors and architectures available:

• VirtualBox – openSUSE 11.1 JeOS x86 32 bits [download] [instructions]
• KVM – openSUSE 11.1 JeOS x86 32 bits [download] [instructions]

64bit versions and XEN support will come in future releases. But if you want to test drive our platform, probably this is the fastest way.

You can download it from our community site, in the section Cloud Node Images. We hope this will help to make things easier to anyone who wants to test our platform. If you have some ideas, please let us know!

Tags: bare-metal, cloudnode, images, susestudio