Eucalyptus Pumps Up Private Clouds

Eucalyptus Systems today released version 2.0 of the platform, which features increased scalability to support  "massive" private and hybrid clouds, as well as enhanced performance tuning and flexibility in deploying Eucalyptus without modification of a user's existing IT infrastructure.

More specifically, Eucalyptus says it has substantially increased the scalability of its software through increased back-end cluster scale improvements to support widescale private and hybrid clouds. In addition, Eucalyptus now supports the iSCSI protocol for EBS volumes, which it says can make overlaying a Eucalyptus cloud on top of existing IT infrastructure easier. This feature allows Eucalyptus users to situate the EBS controller machine anywhere on the cloud, including outside the broadcast domain of the cloud nodes.

Other enhancements include support for the KVM virtio abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualization drivers. Users can choose between emulated device drivers or direct kernel supported I/O devices via virtio for performance tuning.

Furthermore, Eucalyptus recently made alterations to open source website which are designed to ease patch submission, licensing, contribution tracking and documentation.