Creating my first cloud in 2007

Hi everyone,

In 2007, i have created for Fujitsu Québec what we call now a IAAS Cloud.  Yes IT was 5 years ago and this Project was called EVE ( for environnement virtuel d'exploitation ou d exploration , or in english virtual production or exploration environnement).

At this Time we use to work with vmware and Microsoft technology, so we did use hyper-v, scvmm 2008, and vmware infrastructure version 3.5. Vmware lab manager was not available at the beginning of the project. So first a little description of the hardware. 5 Fujitsu servers, 1 Fujitsu eternus SAN, fc 4 gb, 1 gb Network. 

But why did we use hyper-v, IT was releated to Microsoft evaluation products which were available in vhd only and licences delivered by MS were not convertible. So two hosts were dedicated to Microsoft, 2 for vmware, and last one was able to make dual boot and got enough internal Storage for external demo.

So we did have a virtual vcenter, ad, and scvmm. All the Lab was managed by scvmm. IT did have the advantage to give us a repertory of vm, virtual hardrive, and ISO. We Could also deliver to end user à web portal, with scvmm. This offer a self service Cloud to thé end user, we also have some automated script to create user accounts inside this active directory. Limitation where set at two levels ressources and Time of use.

This Lab. Was a great succès and did grow very fast, vmware was offering a more production oriented Lab., due to the market, and Microsoft was more test and demo oriented.

Thanks to Fujitsu for making this Lab a reality, 3 years Before the Cloud arrival.