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Nova/EucalyptusFeatureComparison

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Revision as of 17:56, 6 April 2012 by Kordless (talk)

This page attempts to enumerate how OpenStack, Eucalyptus and CloudStack compare.

General API Support

Feature Eucalyptus OpenStack
EC2 Query API (./) (./)
EC2 Soap API (./) X
OpenStack API / Rackspace API X (./)
SSL Between Components (./) X
Horizontal Component Scalability X (./)
Web-based UI (./) (./)
Command line interface (./) (./)

Amazon EC2 High Level Feature Support

EC2 feature Eucalyptus OpenStack
Shared AMIs (./) (./)
Parameterized launch (user-data) (./) (./)
Instance metadata (./) (./)
Public AMI's (./) (./)
Launch/Terminate Instance (./) (./)
Reboot Instance (./) (./)
Start/Stop Persisted Instance X (./)
Retrieve Console Output (./) (./)
Paid AMI's X X
Multiple Instance Types (./) (./)
Instance Launch Time (./) (./)
Elastic IP's (./) (./)
Availability Zones (./) (./)
Region Support (./) (./)
User selectable kernels (./) (./)
Elastic Block Store (./) (./)
Booting without a ramdisk (./) (./)
Windows Support X (./)
Reserved Instances X X
Auto Scaling X X
Elastic Load Balancing X X
CloudWatch X X
Virtual Private Cloud (IPSec) X X
Shared Snapshots X X
AMI's backed by EBS X (./)
Spot Instances X X
Sticky session in Elastic LB X X
cc1.4xlarge X X
Specify IP address for inst in VPC X X
Tags X X
Filters X X
Idempotent RunInstance Calls X X
Import keypair X (./)
SSL termination X X

Amazon EC2 API Compatability

Note: Info on Eucalyptus was provided entirely by doing a grep of the source code. The Eucalyptus repository is here: https://launchpad.net/eucalyptus. Info on CloudStack's CloudBridge EC2 Commands was provided from CloudStack's Cloud Bridge Guide: http://docs.cloudstack.org/@api/deki/files/165/CloudBridgeGuide.pdf. Eucalyptus and OpenStack's EC2 support is integrated into the respective code bases. CloudStack's support is provided by running a CloudBridge proxy server. Source code for the CloudBridge proxy is here: https://github.com/CloudStack/CloudBridge

EC2 API method Eucalyptus OpenStack
AllocateAddress (./) (./)
AssociateAddress (./) (./)
AttachVolume (./) (./)
AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress (./) (./)
BundleInstance X X
CancelBundleTask X X
CancelSpotInstanceRequests X X
ConfirmProductInstance X X
CreateImage X X
CreateKeyPair (./) (./)
CreatePlacementGroup X X
CreateSecurityGroup (./) (./)
CreateSnapshot (./) (./)
CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription X X
CreateTags X X
CreateVolume (./) (./)
DeleteKeyPair (./) (./)
DeletePlacementGroup X X
DeleteSecurityGroup (./) (./)
DeleteSnapshot (./) (./)
DeleteSpotDatafeedSubscription X X
DeleteTags X X
DeleteVolume (./) (./)
DeregisterImage (./) (./)
DescribeAddresses (./) (./)
DescribeAvailabilityZones (./) (./)
DescribeBundleTasks X X
DescribeImageAttribute (./) (./)
DescribeImages (./) (./)
DescribeInstanceAttribute X X
DescribeInstances (./) (./)
DescribeKeyPairs (./) (./)
DescribePlacementGroups X X
DescribeRegions (./) (./)
DescribeReservedInstances X X
DescribeReservedInstancesOfferings X X
DescribeSecurityGroups (./) (./)
DescribeSnapshotAttribute X X
DescribeSnapshots (./) (./)
DescribeSpotDatafeedSubscription X X
DescribeSpotInstanceRequests X X
DescribeSpotPriceHistory X X
DescribeTags X X
DescribeVolumes (./) (./)
DetachVolume (./) (./)
DisassociateAddress (./) (./)
GetConsoleOutput (./) (./)
GetPasswordData X X
ImportKeyPair X X
ModifyImageAttribute (./) (./)
ModifyInstanceAttribute X X
ModifySnapshotAttribute X X
MonitorInstances X X
PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering X X
RebootInstances (./) (./)
RegisterImage (./) (./)
ReleaseAddress (./) (./)
RequestSpotInstances X X
ResetImageAttribute (./) X
ResetInstanceAttribute X X
ResetSnapshotAttribute X X
RevokeSecurityGroupIngress (./) (./)
RunInstances (./) (./)
StartInstances X X
StopInstances X X
TerminateInstances (./) (./)
UnmonitorInstances X X