Feature Tour

Overview

Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition is built on Eucalyptus -- an open source software infrastructure for implementing on-premise cloud computing using an organization’s own information technology (IT) infrastructure, without modification, special-purpose hardware or reconfiguration.

Eucalyptus turns data center resources such as machines, networks, and storage systems into a cloud that is controlled and customized by local IT. Eucalyptus is the only cloud architecture to support the same application programming interfaces (APIs) as public clouds, and today Eucalyptus is fully compatible with the Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure.

Eucalyptus enables virtualization of servers, network, and storage in a secure manner, thereby reducing the cost, increasing the ease of maintenance, and providing user self-service. The modular design of Eucalyptus enables a variety of user interfaces, bringing the benefits of virtualization technology to a broad range of users (admins, developers, managers, hosting customers) and provides a platform for service providers to devise profitable consumption-based pricing models.

Multiple hypervisors

Eucalyptus EE with vSphere® support homogenizes the multiple hypervisor technologies that you may have on your IT infrastructure -- Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, and ESXi, transforming your underlying virtualized environments into an on-premise cloud with a one-stop management console. Additionally, with Amazon Web Services interface compatibility, you and your software can now interact with your on-premise Eucalyptus EE cloud in exactly the same way as you would with an Amazon EC2 public cloud.

VMware Support

With Eucalyptus EE VMware support, turn your VMware-based virtualized environment into an Amazon AWS compatible on-premise cloud. You can also run your Amazon Machine Image (AMI) instances on your VMware-based hypervisors on-premise (Includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-enabled Eucalyptus applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2). This means that one can now seamlessly manage environments with multiple hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi) under one management console.

Hybrid Clouds and Cloud Bursting

The ongoing effort to develop public-cloud compatible interfaces is a unique advantage for users who intend to cloud-burst to other public-clouds (also known as hybrid clouds -- a private on-premise cloud, in this case, a Eucalyptus cloud, working seamlessly with a public cloud).

• Test, develop, and deploy on your on-premise Eucalyptus EE cloud and smoothly transition to a public cloud or vice-versa, without any modifications
• Quickly and easily build hybrid clouds with your VMware-based virtualization environment and other public clouds

EC2 Compatibility

Eucalyptus is the only cloud architecture to support the same application programming interfaces (APIs) as public clouds, and today Eucalyptus is fully compatible with the Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure.

With Amazon Web Services interface compatibility, you and your software can now interact with your on-premise Eucalyptus EE cloud in exactly the same way as you would with an Amazon EC2 public cloud.

Amazon AWS Ecosystem

Leverage the vibrant ecosystem built around AWS – RightScale, CohesiveFT, Zmanda and rPath are just a few of the partners that deliver solutions for Amazon AWS that in-turn work seamlessly with Eucalyptus.