Dr Venu Murthy

submitted here ==>  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/consolidated-and-componentwise-log-dashboard-horizon

I was at the Chef conference the other day and while talking to a Sys Admin who would now prefer being addressed to as a DevOps person now, was ranting how they wanted to move away from the expensive VMware and implement OpenStack! There are several who have these smart plans but looking at the complexity involved in trying to understand why this is impossible, makes me to accept this ignorance. Firstly OpenStack is very close to me as it's written in Python :) Python continues to be the secret ingredient for success of things as ancient as Google, upto DropBox and now for "The Linux of the Cloud--OpenStack!" Before we start off lets understand what a Hypervisor is! A hypervisor or virtual machine monitor (VMM) is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines . In this again there are two types, Type 1 and Type 2 Type 1 (or native, bare metal ) hypervisors run directly on the host's hardware to control the h...

To get started first we do the following First check if curl is installed on our Ubuntu, if not, we install is using the following: -L if server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location. redo the requests on new place. -# for progress bar -O Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get. The remote file name to use for saving is stracted from teh given URL. wget is more like a predecessor of curl.