Table of Content
Concepts
- What is CloudStack?
- What Can CloudStack Do?
- Deployment Architecture Overview
Cloud Infrastructure Concepts
- About Regions
- About Zones
- About Pods
- About Clusters
- About Hosts
- About Primary Storage
- About Secondary Storage
- About Physical Networks
Accounts
- Installation
- Accounts, Users and Domains
- Using an LDAP Server for User Authentication
User Services Overview
- Service Offerings, Disk Offerings, Network Offerings, and Templates
User Interface
- Log In to the UI
- Using SSH Keys for Authentication
Using Projects to Organize Users and Resources
- Overview of Projects
- Configuring Projects
- Creating a New Project
- Adding Members to a Project
- Accepting a Membership Invitation
- Suspending or Deleting a Project
- Using the Project View
Steps to Provisioning Your Cloud Infrastructure
- Overview of Provisioning Steps
- Adding Regions (optional)
- Adding a Zone
- Adding a Pod
- Adding a Cluster
- Adding a Host
- Add Primary Storage
- Add Secondary Storage
- Initialize and Test
Service Offerings
- Compute and Disk Service Offerings
- Creating a New Disk Offering
- Network Throttling
- Changing the Default System Offering for System VMs
Setting Up Networking for Users
- Overview of Setting Up Networking for Users
- About Virtual Networks
- Network Service Providers
- Network Offerings
Working With Virtual Machines
- About Working with Virtual Machines
- Best Practices for Virtual Machines
- VM Lifecycle
- Creating VMs
- Accessing VMs
- Stopping and Starting VMs
- Assigning VMs to Hosts
- Virtual Machine Snapshots for VMware
- Changing the VM Name, OS, or Group
- Appending a Display Name to the Guest VM’s Internal Name
- Changing the Service Offering for a VM
- Resetting the Virtual Machine Root Volume on Reboot
- Moving VMs Between Hosts (Manual Live Migration)
- Deleting VMs
- Working with ISOs
Working With Hosts
- Adding Hosts
- Scheduled Maintenance and Maintenance Mode for Hosts
- Disabling and Enabling Zones, Pods, and Clusters
- Removing Hosts
- Re-Installing Hosts
- Maintaining Hypervisors on Hosts
- Changing Host Password
- Over-Provisioning and Service Offering Limits
- Hypervisor capabilities
- VLAN Provisioning
Working with Templates
- Creating Templates: Overview
- Requirements for Templates
- Best Practices for Templates
- The Default Template
- Private and Public Templates
- Creating a Template from an Existing Virtual Machine
- Creating a Template from a Snapshot
- Uploading Templates
- Exporting Templates
- Creating a Windows Template
- Importing Amazon Machine Images
- Converting a Hyper-V VM to a Template
- Adding Password Management to Your Templates
- Deleting Templates
Working With Storage
- Storage Overview
- Primary Storage
- Secondary Storage
- Working With Volumes
- Working with Snapshots
Working with Usage
- Configuring the Usage Server
- Setting Usage Limits
- Globally Configured Limits
- Limiting Resource Usage
Managing Networks and Traffic
- Guest Traffic
- Networking in a Pod
- Networking in a Zone
- Basic Zone Physical Network Configuration
- Advanced Zone Physical Network Configuration
- Using Multiple Guest Networks
- IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks
- Reserving Public IP Addresses and VLANs for Accounts
- Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC
- About Multiple IP Ranges
- About Elastic IP
- Portable IPs
- Multiple Subnets in Shared Network
- Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLAN
- Security Groups
- External Firewalls and Load Balancers
- Global Server Load Balancing Support
- Guest IP Ranges
- Acquiring a New IP Address
- Releasing an IP Address
- Static NAT
- IP Forwarding and Firewalling
- IP Load Balancing
- DNS and DHCP
- Remote Access VPN
- About Inter-VLAN Routing (nTier Apps)
- Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud
- Persistent Networks
Working with System Virtual Machines
- The System VM Template
- Accessing System VMs
- Multiple System VM Support for VMware
- Console Proxy
- Virtual Router
- Secondary Storage VM
System Reliability and High Availability
- HA for Management Server
- Management Server Load Balancing
- HA-Enabled Virtual Machines
- HA for Hosts
- Primary Storage Outage and Data Loss
- Secondary Storage Outage and Data Loss
- Limiting the Rate of API Requests
Managing the Cloud
- Using Tags to Organize Resources in the Cloud
- Changing the Database Configuration
- Changing the Database Password
- Administrator Alerts
- Customizing the Network Domain Name
- Stopping and Restarting the Management Server
Setting Configuration Parameters
- About Configuration Parameters
- Setting Global Configuration Parameters
- Setting Local Configuration Parameters
- Granular Global Configuration Parameters
CloudStack API
- Provisioning and Authentication API
- Allocators
- User Data and Meta Data
Tuning
- Performance Monitoring
- Increase Management Server Maximum Memory
- Set Database Buffer Pool Size
- Set and Monitor Total VM Limits per Host
- Configure XenServer dom0 Memory
Troubleshooting
- Events
- Working with Server Logs
- Data Loss on Exported Primary Storage
- Recovering a Lost Virtual Router
- Maintenance mode not working on vCenter
- Unable to deploy VMs from uploaded vSphere template
- Unable to power on virtual machine on VMware
- Load balancer rules fail after changing network offering
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