Posts Tagged ‘MyGSI’
Thursday, January 31st, 2013 by Michael Sheehan
Let’s say that you have fully configured a Cloud Server running on GoGrid. You’re so proud of your achievement that you want to share your configuration with your team or perhaps even with the GoGrid community. And let’s imagine that you or your company has developed a software solution that you’d like to monetize within a Public Cloud. Well, the process of creating and sharing a GoGrid Cloud Server Image (GSI) is easy and literally takes just a few minutes.
Similar to our previous “How To” article and video (“How to Select, Configure, & Deploy a GoGrid Cloud Server in Minutes”), the process of creating a GSI is straightforward and can be simplified into 3 easy steps:
1. Select
2. Save
3. Share
Before I show you how easy it is to create a GoGrid Cloud Server Image, here are some ways you might use it:
- To reduce setup and configuration times for new servers
- To enable rapid horizontal scaling of servers
- To create a back-up repository of your GoGrid servers
- To share your server configuration with your team for future cloud deployments
- To monetize a software solution
(more…) «How to Create a GoGrid Cloud Server Image for Rapid Scalability»
Tags: cGSI, cloud, Cloud Server, GoGrid, GoGrid Server Image, GSI, How To, MyGSI, PGSI, Private Image, Public Cloud, Public Image, Server Image
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Images, Public Cloud, Video | No Comments »
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 by Zane Williamson
One of the best open-source tools ever created and maintained is Cacti. Cacti can be used to monitor and log critical information for your servers, applications and other network devices. The monitored data can be graphed in a variety of ways and becomes a valuable resource when troubleshooting problems and projecting future resource utilization.
However, the initial configuration can take hours to complete, not including the server OS install process and pre-configuration.
Deploying Cacti Easily in GoGrid
To make this process a bit easier for GoGrid users, I have performed the routine installation of Cacti 0.8.6 along with the package requirements within a Community GSI (GoGrid Server Image). Also, I have added DenyHosts for added system level protection. The ssh_banner will provide the details of what was configured on the system. All that needs to be done is going into your account within the GoGrid portal, clicking on the Add button and filter for “Cacti”.
(more…) «Set Up a Cacti Monitoring Server in Minutes with this GoGrid Community Server Image»
Tags: Cacti, cGSI, Cloud Server, Community Server Image, GoGrid, How To, monitoring, MyGSI
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, General, GoGrid, How To, Images | No Comments »
Monday, March 14th, 2011 by Michael Sheehan
Last week we announced several updates to GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure services. One of the highlights of this update was the enhancement we made to the saving your GoGrid Server Images (MyGSI) process.
Up till now, saving your MyGSI has been a fairly simple 3-step process that was helpful for horizontal scaling, re-imaging of servers, disaster recovery, or setting up failover environments. Through the update, this process can now be completed in a single step.
We’ve created several helpful tutorials to help educate users on the new process. Please reference our video and text tutorials below or take a look at the MyGSI User Manual on the GoGrid wiki for more information regarding the new process.
Video Tutorial
Below is a video screencast on how to create a GoGrid Custom Server Image (MyGSI). (Direct YouTube link)
Text Tutorial
(more…) «MyGSI Update and Tutorials – Save Server Images in One Step!»
Tags: Community Server Image, Custom Server Image, GoGrid, GSI, How To, MyGSI, Screencast, Server Image, Update, Video
Posted in Cloud Computing, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Images, Screencast, Video | No Comments »
Friday, March 11th, 2011 by Michael Sheehan
Part of a new Engineering and Product initiative at GoGrid is the fact that we will be providing more frequent updates to our Cloud Infrastructure Services. These updates may take the form of new or updated features, bug fixes, or back-end enhancements. Our goal is to provide these updates and feature releases on a monthly basis (more information on our new agile software engineering process will be coming) so that we can answer customer requests and needs on an extremely timely basis as well as introduce revolutionary services to the Cloud Infrastructure marketplace.
Today (March 11, 2011), we released our March 2011 update (code name “Long Beach”). The major features and updates are listed below:
- Enhancement to the MyGSI Feature
- Usage Report
- Billing Improvements
- Ubuntu 10.04 Cloud Server Support
- Debian 5.0 Cloud Server Support
Please read on for details on each of the items listed above.
MyGSI Updates
About a year ago, we introduced a new feature called MyGSIs – customized GoGrid Server Images – and how easy it was to create and save a Server Image. Server images are helpful for horizontal scaling, re-imaging of servers, disaster recovery, or setting up failover environments. Until this update, we had a pretty straight forward 3-step process: 1) create a Sandbox Image, 2) configure your server, prep it, and run scripts, and 3) save the server to cloud storage.
(more…) «GoGrid Update: Save Server Image Enhancements (MyGSI), New Usage Report, Billing Improvements, Ubuntu & Debian Support»
Tags: billing, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Debian, Features, GoGrid, MyGSI, Operating System, Report, Ubuntu, Update, Usage
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Images, Linux, Operating System, Public Cloud, Release | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
Our software “elves” have been hard at work preparing the latest and greatest feature and service updates to the GoGrid cloud. We are excited about our December 2010 release as it is packed with enhancements and new and updated features to truly make GoGrid your choice for deploying Cloud Infrastructure or setting up a Hybrid Hosting environment.
Some of the noteworthy features and changes include:
- GoGrid Dedicated Servers in our East Coast Data Center
- Limited Time Promotion on East Coast Dedicated Servers and West Coast GoGrid Firewall
- GoGrid Image Sharing
- GoGrid Fortinet Firewall Ordering
- Increase Windows Sandbox Server Size
- Other Changes including Windows Patch Updates
Read on for more details on each of the items above.
GoGrid Dedicated Servers on East Coast
(more…) «GoGrid Updates for December 2010 – Dedicated Servers (East Coast), Server Image Sharing, and More!»
Tags: cGSI, cloud, cloud hosting, Community, Data Center, Features, firewall, Fortinet, GGDS, GoGrid, Hybrid Hosting, MyGSI, Patch, Sandbox Server, server images, sharing, Update, Upgrade, Windows
Posted in API, Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Datacenter, Dedicated Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Images, Microsoft, Operating System, Release, Webinar, Windows | No Comments »
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