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Server configuration file

At the time this documentation has been written, Eucalyptus and Amazon EC2 supported 5 different types of Virtual Machines to instantiate. These differ from one-another by CPU, memory and disk characteristics. Eucalyptus allows the modification of these characteristics. The 5 VM types and their associated default characteristics inside Eucalyptus are:

  1. m1.small: 1 VCPU, 128 MB RAM, 2 GB Disk
  2. c1.medium: 1 VCPU, 256 MB RAM, 5 GB Disk
  3. m1.large: 2 VCPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB Disk
  4. m1.xlarge: 2 VCPU, 1024 MB RAM, 20 GB Disk
  5. c1.xlarge: 4 VCPU, 2048 MB RAM, 20 GB Disk

Configuring the server part is done by using the following options:

An example of a valid configuration is the following:


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The DIET Team - Ven 18 nov 2011 18:13:39 PST