OnApp uses RabbitMQ with vCloud Director for bi-directional synchronisation. Unfortunately, with vCD you can only add one AMQP server, so the use of the Shovel plugin is helpful if you already have an AMQP server set up in vCloud Director for a third party. A standard...
At OnApp, our engineers are available to perform a full remote installation of your OnApp cloud. After you request a remote installation, our enablement team will ask you to provide information by completing a ‘deployment template’. Here we will discuss some of...
OnApp has supported single sign-on since v3.3, using either SAML, or using OAuth – the open standard for authorization. In this article, we’ll take a quick look at OAuth and why you should consider using it for your OnApp cloud. OAuth enables third party providers,...
Which hypervisor is best for your cloud: Xen or KVM? It’s one the questions guaranteed to come up in conversations with new OnApp customers, as well as with existing clients. In this blog, I wanted to provide more detail on the two open source hypervisors...
In this article we’ll take a look at how to manually migrate a Linux virtual machine into OnApp from any destination environment, using an exported raw disk image. First let’s fetch the image from FTP. In this example this image has been exported from a VMware...
One of the main reasons people look to move a physical workload into a public cloud is so they don’t have to procure new hardware when they want to expand their project – when they need to provision new instances to accommodate additional load. Another common...