Implementation of a private cloud: A case study

Abstract

Availability of Cloud environment setup is sometimes difficult at personal level for a researcher, especially a beginner. In this case, open source tools, softwares can help a great deal to build and deploy a private cloud. Deploying cloud for research purpose is quiet time consuming due to scattered information and variety of options. In this paper, an attempt has been done for providing collective information of various measures to deploy a private cloud. In-depth analysis of different real-time errors during installation of a cloud setup along with solutions is also reported in this paper. This attempt will certainly helpful in minimizing the time and efforts to setup the cloud and makes deployment easier. Open source operating system (OS) Ubuntu-12.04 long time support (LTS) and OpenNebula cloud computing framework are used for deployment of this private cloud. © Springer India 2014.