A small number of public cloud providers have a metadata service that allows virtual machines to configure themselves. We launched ours a few months ago. Today we are announcing that we have made it easier for customers to share images between FlexiScale, AWS and Eucalyptus, and thus have also made it easier to move servers [...]
Ok, only one particular type of cloud – snow clouds. We haven’t been able to get into to our offices since Monday due to snow (up to four feet in places). Many of our staff can’t actually get out of their houses. Our intrepid operations director, Tabs, attempted to reach the office today, but had [...]
Have any of the following ever happened to you? You don’t actually need all of your servers on 24/7, but whilst you try to remember shut them down at the end of the day, you keep forgetting; You need to organise a reboot for 3am to complete an upgrade, and really don’t fancy staying up [...]
Just a quick post to let anyone interested in FreeBSD on FlexiScale that the clever guys at Hybrid Logic have written a really easy guide on how to get it up and running, which is available here. We’d add that once you’ve used Luke’s method once, you can use FlexiScale’s “Make Image” functionality to produce [...]
Today, as part of the FlexiScale 2.2 release, we have rolled out a feature called Image Verification. Images often need to make a call-out to the image vendor on boot, for instance to obtain licence keys. One challenge image vendors have is to determine whether that call-out comes from a real image, or someone impersonating [...]
