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Date: Thu Mar 28 21:19:18 2013
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## Open Source Cloud Computing: Apache CloudStack
-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.
+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.
-CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to
deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds.
+CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to
deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds. What's that *mean*,
exactly?
+
+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:
+
+- Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere.
+- Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud.
+- Provides a native [API](http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/).
+- May provide an Amazon S3/EC2 compatible API (optional).
+- Manages storage for instances running on the hypervisors (primary storage)
as well as templates, snapshots, and ISO images (secondary storage).
+- Orchestrates network services from the data link layer (L2) to some
application layer (L7) services, such as DHCP, NAT, firewall, VPN, and so on.
+- Accounting of network, compute, and storage resources.
+- Multi-tenancy/account separation.
+- User management.
+
+In short, organizations can use Apache CloudStack to deploy a full-featured
public or private IaaS cloud.
### Apache CloudStack History
