Saturday, 17 May 2014

12 Cloud Management Tools And Hypervisors

Open Source and Cloud Computing together can be the most lethal combination. It's a mixture of functionality with easy availability! 

Open source and cloud computing are two of the biggest buzzwords in the technology world nowadays. While open source software, starting with operating systems like Android to network monitoring etc. are at the forefront of many enterprises, cloud computing makes for an essential part of almost all of them. Let's look at an amalgamation of the two though. Here are some open source cloud management tools that you may use!




Hypervisor: In the world of cloud computing, virtual machines are often very important tools. A hypervisor is a software, hardware or firmware that creates and runs these virtual machines. That is why these are also known as Virtual Machine Monitors.

1. Xen Hypervisor

2. KVM

3. OpenVZ

4. Lguest

These are type 1 hypervisors. Type 1 Hypervisors are those that run directly on a hosts hardware in order to control its resources without requiring additional operating systems.

Cloud Management: Cloud management tools can be of various types and qualities. These tools are meant to aid you in managing various activities while using the cloud. These tools are some of the best available in the open source world.

1. Juju

2. Deltacloud

3. jclouds

4. Libcloud

5. Ganeti

6. Chef

7. Puppet

8. Scalr

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