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This is mainly for me to dream what would be if I could get together enough hardware.

So the question is how to build a cloud on a budget and whether open source is stable enough.

I found OpenStack which looks promising.

Are there any suggestions on how to setup a cloud which can support 10-20 live instances
Is it possible to build a heterogeneous cloud, mixing machine types?

Ive done a good amount of work in the cloud(Amazon's and IBM's) but I have never fully understood what is necessary for a setup like that to work.

studiohack
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madmaze
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The fun thing is that you can start with 2 machines, where both could even be VMs on the same hardware. Have a look at OpenNebula http://www.opennebula.org/

You will not have the scalability, but the same management interfaces. And from there it's just making more resources available to the management node...

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If you're familiar with Amazon's EC2 have a look at Ubuntu Cloud http://www.ubuntu.com/business/cloud/overview

I've just started playing with it, but from everything I can gather it is very scalable, well supported and is easy to set up.

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