Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud

Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud is needed for Deploying Rackspace Private Cloud Software or unofficial Dev Stack. Here is guide. Another old article is quite related to this article named Preparation of your Ubuntu to get ready for Private Cloud as a warm up guide.

Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud

The basic reason to write a separate article for preparation of your Ubuntu  to get ready for Private Cloud, has various reason, which most new users are not aware of. These are explained first :

• You are already a Ubuntu User – There is no problem except you need to know how the things will be done as a preparation of your Ubuntu to get ready for Private Cloud. This is the default situation, because all need to use Ubuntu to proceed to use OpenStack, Rackspace Private Cloud Software, Dev Stack etc.
• You are a Mac OS X user – You need to run Ubuntu using VMware plus the above.
• Windows PC users – You can dual boot with Ubuntu in case your CPU poorly or not at all support VMWare softwares or use some other method to run Ubuntu, which we have not tested for this situation.

Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud : The Fundamentals Which Must Be Clear

Clearly know, despite Rackspace Private Cloud Software is Free Software for Private Cloud, except real Bare Metal (that is a data center setup), it is actually impossible to use Private Cloud due to the need of very high system spec :

That is the reason why, there is a cheaper solution for us, named Dev Stack :

Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud : For your mental health

Rackspace Private Cloud Software will erase all data, be cautious. Dev Stack is the best solution (that is the actual intention for writing this article for Preparation of Your Ubuntu to Get Ready for Private Cloud), but it needs a bit UNIX CLI skill. For Mac OS X, VMWare Player or Fusion will run quite nicely without any problem, you can basically run on any newer Mac Book Pro. For Windows PC, however the spec varies and success is some what dependent on spec. Installing OpenStack on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will itself take hardly 10 – 15 minutes.

So do the preparation of your Ubuntu to get ready for Private Cloud, as the next article will be a real tutorial guide for Private Cloud Setup.