Thinsy Internal Cloud Platform Software

Thinsy Internal Cloud Platform is software that enables QA, IT and Engineering Managers to provide Virtual Machines to their staff. A web based management console to the Virtual Machines is included. Thinsy Software enables you to build your own Virtual Machine service, similar to Amazon EC2. The difference is that you own the software, and it runs on your own hardware. Hence, there is no monthly bill

1. EnSpeed VM Orchestrator (Virtual Machine Management Server)
2. EnSpeed VMM with LiveSync (Virtual Machine Monitor a.k.a VM Server Software)

1. Web based management of Virtual Machines
2. Multi user capability built in
3. Different privilege levels for different users
4. Upload ISO images into the Orchestrator, and use it to create new Virtual Machines
5. Store Virtual Machine images (Virtual Appliances) in the Orchestrator
6. Download useful Virtual Appliances directly from the Thinsy website into your Orchestrator
7. Built in Nagios monitoring of Virtual Machine Servers. Get notification by email of failed servers

1. High Availability Backup for VMs to failover to a secondary VMM should the primary VMM server fail – all without SAN or NAS external storage.
2. Live Migration of powered up VMs from the primary VMM server to the backup VMM server.
3. VM Snapshots -- enables full backups, without powering off the VM
4. Daily Incremental backup of VMs – without powering off the VM.

Getting Started with Thinsy Internal Cloud Platform

Pre-requisites

1. VM Server Machine(s): One or more standard x86 servers equipped with CPUs that have the Intel VT technology, or AMD Pacifica technology
2. IP Addresses:
   1. Private IP Address range of 65536 addresses (The suggested range is 10.1.0.0 to 10.1.255.254 with a 255.255.0.0 mask)
   2. Two or three public IP Addresses (you can obtain these later in the process, when you want to make services available to the outside world)

Overview of the installation steps

1. Download two files. The EnSpeed VMM Plus Orchestrator ISO, and the EnSpeed VMM ISO file
2. Installing the Orchestrator and VM Server Software on the first Server Machine Burn the VMM Plus Orchestrator ISO onto a CD, boot from this CD, and install on the first VT enabled server machine. This server is now your VM Orchestrator. It also has the capability to run VMs
3. Installing the EnSpeed VMM VM Server Software on all other Server Machines, and register with the EnSpeed VM Orchestrator This step converts all other server machines to VM Servers that are managed by the Orchestrator created in Step 2 above

Detailed Installation Instructions

1. Download two files. The EnSpeed VMM Plus Orchestrator ISO, and the EnSpeed VMM ISO file
1. The EnSpeed VMM Plus Orchestrator ISO Click here to download the the EnSpeedVMM Plus Orchestrator ISO image file.
2. The EnSpeed VMM (VM Server) ISO Click here to download the the EnSpeedVMM iso image.


2. Installing the EnSpeed VMM Plus VM Orchestrator on your first VT enabled VM Server Machine Burn the VMM ISO onto a CD, boot from this CD, and install on the first VT enabled server machine
1. Burn the EnSpeedVMM-orch-2.2-0.iso on a CD. This is a bootable CD
2. Boot the two VT enabled servers with this newly burned CD, and install the VMM Plus Orchestrator. Instructions along with screen captures are at the VMM Install Guide
3. The VMM installs with DHCP enabled by default. Switch it to Static IP Address using instructions at http://www.thinsy.com/install_vmmserver.html#15
4. Use the IP Address 10.1.255.250 (Netmask 255.255.0.0) for the this machine. This is the IP Address of your first VM Server and Orchestrator
5. Use a browser to browse to the URL https://10.1.255.250/
6. The browser will complain about the SSL Certificate Validity. Click through to access the Orchestrator login page


3. Installing the EnSpeed VMM VM Server Software on all other VT enabled VM Server Machines Burn the VMM ISO onto a CD, boot from this CD, and install on all other VT enabled server machines that you want to use as part of your Internal Cloud Platform
1. Burn the EnSpeedVMM-2.2-0.iso on a CD. This is a bootable CD
2. Boot all other VT enabled servers with this newly burned CD, and install the VMM
3. The VMM installs with DHCP enabled by default. Switch it to Static IP Address using instructions at http://www.thinsy.com/install_vmmserver.html#15
4. Use the IP Addresses 10.1.255.220 and 10.1.255.249 (Netmask 255.255.0.0) for the additional VMMs


4. Add the additional VM servers to the VM Orchestrator Instuctions are available here



5. Download EnSpeed Virtual Appliances, and create VMs You can download Virtual Appliances directly from our website into your own Orchestrator, and use the Virtual Appliances to make VMs on your cluster. Instuctions available here

Useful Links

The md5sum of ThinsyInternalCloudPlatform-3.0-2.iso is 45052241e0a792b47383f12ef5c9b534

The md5sum of EnSpeedVMM-2.2-0.iso is a42c2142be1cf61c875b7bea4c3ad3dd