If you have never used OnApp before, the term Cloudboot probably means nothing. If you’re an existing OnApp customer, you may have seen this term around your OnApp interface, if it’s not something you are using already. So what is Cloudboot? Cloudboot is a...
Software Licensing can be difficult to manage in any large environment, and especially in a cloud environment. Software vendors are always playing catch up with infrastructure developments to ensure they are not losing out on licensing revenue. Cloud providers also...
OnApp clouds natively support both XEN and KVM compute resources, and it’s possible to migrate XEN VMs over to KVM by following the steps below. We support migrations for both Linux and Windows VMs, but in this guide we’ll cover the Linux migration process...
Now that cloud has matured, and become the default way to run a wide range of application workloads, many of the features that used to distinguish one cloud platform from another are pretty much standard for everyone these days. So does that mean all cloud platforms...
In a previous article, I covered the process of manually migrating a Linux VM into OnApp. This time, I’ll look at the process for Windows virtual machine images. We handle Windows migrations slightly differently than Linux. With Windows we create a template and...