3 Simple Steps to install Eucalyptus Cloud – Cloud in a Box
It doesn’t get much easier than this. Press Enter 7 times and have a complete Eucalyptus cloud installed and configured. Follow along as we explore this new installation option available with Eucalyptus FastStart 3.1.2 called “Cloud-in-a-Box”.
3 Simple Steps to install Eucalyptus Cloud
- Download installation media – burn to CD/DVD
- Boot installation media – choose language and configure network – system will reboot
- Press “Enter” 7 times
Cloud-in-a-Box installs all of the required Eucalyptus Cloud components on a single machine. This is a great way to test Eucalyptus without the overhead of procuring extra hardware.
We will install our cloud-in-a-box on our VMware Workstation Virtual Cloud Sandbox we built in an earlier post.
Cloud-in-a-Box Installation (6:21 mins)
Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate your help.
I also want to ask you something else, in your video you have windows 7 and vmware run there, my question is whether it is sufficient to 4GB of RAM to install eucalyptus?. because in the video you will assign more than 4 GB of memory to the virtual machine where you run eucalyptus, which in my case is not possible. So I’d like to know what are the minimum requirements for the installation or that I recommend you based on my hardware configuration.
Thanks again for the help.
Hi Marcel,
Good question. On all of my machines I have a minimum of 8GB of RAM. I have never tried to install a Eucalyptus “Cloud-in-a-Box” or an all-in-one system on less than 8GB. If it works, it would be fairly slow, but depending what you are trying to learn, it might be OK.
Eucalyptus is very complex software and really requires much more resources than I’m giving it with even 8GB of RAM to function properly. Having said that, my little lab works fine for testing and learning.
I also use an SSD hard drive, sometimes two. This really improves the disk performance.
Do you have a machine with 8GB of RAM you could use for this lab? If not, once I verify that everything works as shown in the video, I could remove 1 4GB stick of RAM in my machine to see what happens.
But, you would be better off if you had a machine with 8GB of RAM.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
PW
Hi Marcel,
I’ve tested with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit and VMware Workstation 9.0.1. Everything was configured as in the cloud-in-a-box video/blog posting. All worked well.
I then removed memory so the machine only has 4GB of RAM. Everything worked.
Thanks,
PW
I think I will change my operating system to a 64-bit, and will try to install Eucalyptus as directed by your video.
I appreciate your help.
I’ve helped answer some questions I had.
Thank you again.
Hi,
I have installed cloud-in-box on my physical machine, but I don’t understand something. Eucalyptus should install in vm?, or vm should install after installing eucalyptus? or the both are right?
I just wonder how to install vms on it?
Hello Nadeen,
Eucalyptus “Cloud-in-a-Box” installed on a physical machine is all you need to do. All the components are installed on the single machine. In the article, we installed everything in a virtual machine for the lab for people that do not have a physical server.
Thanks,
Paul
Thank you for the help. Am unable to configure my network manually. Do we need to give the system ip address in the system-config-network. or whether i need to to setup the static ip address…
My system ipaddress
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.9.187.102
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.9.176.1
when i run the eucalyptus-frontend-config.sh, I was getting error saying use system- config- network and manually edit
Hello Anto,
Are you following the directions on the “Cloud-in-a-Box” blog? Are you installing in a virtual machine? If so, what networking mode is the virtual machine?
Thanks,
Paul
Thanks for the post,
I try to do all the procedure an installed the cloud in box in my vmware work station,
at the final step when i choose to replace the existing Linux option ,i gave next in few moments i get error, and says to report the bug, i dont know what to do help me plz
Waiting for u r reply
Hello,
What was the error? Are you using VMware Workstation or Player?
Hello Paul
Yes, I was following cloud-in-a-box: a Eucalyptus cloud with all components on a single machine instructions. I am learning this new concept and installing in vmware 9. I was trying to configure manually, I do not which option to be selected for Network Connection, I choose NAT, Whether I should choose Bridged?
I followed this manual for installing http://www.eucalyptus.com/docs/3.1/fs-3.1.1.pdf
Hello Anto,
You can use either NAT or Bridged. I choose NAT and preconfigured the NAT network so I could have better control of the lab.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
PW
My machine has 4GB RAM, i5 processor, 600 GB HDD. OS- WINDOWS 7(64 bit)
I have installed VMware player with CentOS 5.8(64 bit).
Is it possible to install Eucalyptus-cloud in a box with these requirements?
Hello,
Using the FastStart install will work with VMware Player and 4 GB of RAM. See an earlier post where I test this.
Thanks,
PW
Hi every one
i have installed cloud in box in 4 computers and they are intel core2do with 2 GB RAM installation is fine now i dont understand is how to access it from out side the network and on which pc download euca2ools i did add user so how i could access the user if any one could help me that will be great as i am student and my goal is to make private cloud on eucalyptus storage as a services and make client and then that client be able to login to my private cloud upload and download theire files. thanks
Hi Zabi,
Please review the documentation at
After reviewing, please let us know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Paul
Sir,
What is the minimum requirement for installing cloud in a box? I use a 32 bit machine with 2gb ram intel core 2 duo pocessor, Does it support!. my friends who are working on virtualization with 64bit. why does virtualization does not support 32 bit machine. what’s the difference?
Thanks
Hello Pavithra
You really need to use a 64 bit machine. In the blog we are running nested virtualization.
Thanks
Paul
Hi Paul,
I have been installed Eucalyptus 3.2 using fast start, I would like to run some application in my cloud, to set an example for my college work.
Can you give me suggestions and how should I proceed?
Thank you!
Hi Bruno,
Thanks for stopping by the site. As to applications for cloud, you could start with a simple, single server websever like Apache. Then from there introduce LAMP which you could do with separate servers. Other web service type applications like WordPress and Drupal are also great applications to run in the cloud.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks,
PW
Paul, Thank you for your reply,
Can you show me some tutorial how to implement any of these web applications within the eucalyptus?
I still have questions how to access the virtual machines created within the eucalyptus.
Thanks!