This document discusses setting up a first CloudStack environment and some common challenges for beginners. It covers planning considerations like choosing a hypervisor, storage options, and networking model. The document then addresses installation and basic configuration of CloudStack. Finally, it outlines some potential issues beginners may face, such as trouble with configuration files, network labeling, system VMs getting stuck, ISO file uploads failing, and more.

1. Setting Up Your First CloudStack
Environment with Beginners
Challenges

2. Agenda
❑ Apache CloudStack
❑Planning Your CloudStack Deployment
❑ Hypervisor selection (e.g., KVM, XenServer)
❑ Storage considerations
❑ Networking Selection
❑ Installation and Setup
❑ Basic CloudStack Configuration
❑ Challenges for Beginners

3. About Me
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BRACNet Limited
Love traveling, reading books and
Learning new Technologies

4. 🌐☁️ Apache Cloudstack
Open Source Cloud
Technology for building
IAAS( Infrastructure as
a service).
Highly Scalable and
easily deployable.
➢ Set up an on-
demand elastic
cloud computing
service.
➢ Allow end-users to
provision
resources

5. 📅Planning your Cloudstack setup
Choosing The deployment
Architecture
Planning your Network setup Choosing The hypervisor
Creating the appropriate
storage
User and Role Management Monitoring & billing

6. 💻🔍 Hypervisor selection
➢XenServer
➢vSphere
➢KVM
➢HyperV

7. 📦💽 Storage considerations
Choosing the right storage according to your deployments model.
NFS iSCSI CLVM

8. 🌐🛰️ Networking Selection
Basic
Advance

10. 🔧🛠️Getting trouble with db.properties
file

11. 🔧🛠️ Networking Configuration
➢Choosing the networking model Basic or Advance
➢Hard coded interface name on Cloudstack like , cloudbr0 and cloudbr1

12. 🔧🛠️ System VM Stuck at starting
➢ Network Label not defining
➢ Java Version mismatch
➢ Secondary storage is not attached successfully
➢ Cloudstack agent is not running successfully

13. 🔧🛠️ISO file uploading issue

14. Cloudstack Done