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<p> <h2 id="open-source-cloud-computing-apache-cloudstack">Open Source
Cloud Computing: Apache CloudStack</h2>
-<p>Apache CloudStack is a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation
(ASF). The project develops open source software for deploying public and
private Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds.</p>
-<p>CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to
deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds. </p>
+<p>Apache CloudStack is a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation
(ASF). The project develops open source software for deploying public and
private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.</p>
+<p>CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to
deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds. What's that
<em>mean</em>, exactly? </p>
+<p>Apache CloudStack is a Java-based project that provides a management server
and agents (if needed) for hypervisor hosts so that you can run an IaaS cloud.
Some, but not all, of the features and functionality provided by CloudStack:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, and/or VMware ESXi with
vSphere.</li>
+<li>Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud.</li>
+<li>Provides a native <a
href="http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/";>API</a>. </li>
+<li>May provide an Amazon S3/EC2 compatible API (optional).</li>
+<li>Manages storage for instances running on the hypervisors (primary storage)
as well as templates, snapshots, and ISO images (secondary storage). </li>
+<li>Orchestrates network services from the data link layer (L2) to some
application layer (L7) services, such as DHCP, NAT, firewall, VPN, and so
on.</li>
+<li>Accounting of network, compute, and storage resources. </li>
+<li>Multi-tenancy/account separation. </li>
+<li>User management.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>In short, organizations can use Apache CloudStack to deploy a full-featured
public or private IaaS cloud.</p>
<h3 id="apache-cloudstack-history">Apache CloudStack History</h3>
<p>The CloudStack project began as a project of a start-up known as VMOps in
2008. The company eventually changed its name to Cloud.com, and it released
much of the source to CloudStack in May 2010 under the GNU General Public
License version 3 (GPLv3). </p>
<p>Cloud.com was purchased in July 2011 by Citrix, and the remainder of
CloudStack's code was released (again, under the GPLv3) in August 2011. Citrix
released CloudStack 3.0 in early 2012.</p>
