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| - | ====== Personal Cloud Hosted Appliance ====== | ||
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| - | We have been asked many times about enabling personal users to host access to their own federated cloud of public/ | ||
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| - | Why would you want to do this ? There a number of reasons: | ||
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| - | * You can host your own private cloud using the build in FTP storage, your own FTP storage or using WebDav, SFTP or use an open source private cloud such as OpenStack Swift, giving privacy and security. | ||
| - | * Federate access to all private and public cloud storage and cloud data making it easier to manage and access. | ||
| - | * The service comes with a built in encryption service in which data can be encrypted prior to being stored on remote public clouds so it is can act as a security blanket for your data. | ||
| - | * It offers a secure abstraction for sharing link and password protecting files over and above what a cloud storage service provides | ||
| - | * It provides a WebDav Abstraction layer for data access in which you can access data from any of the Clouds mapped to your account over WebDav - great for working with WebDav enabled Apps that do not support your Cloud Data service. | ||
| - | * It can be used to backup data from one cloud to another or move and copy between different cloud services. | ||
| - | * A lot more ! See the [[http:// | ||
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| - | Why are we offering the ability to host your own personal federated cloud service ? As a company Storage Made Easy **concentrates on business and enterprise use** of our products rather than personal consumer use. | ||
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| - | We do however recognise that consumers appreciate and would like to the use the service, the **300,000+ users** on our hosted service let us know that. | ||
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| - | To that end we made the decision to scale back the hosting of our own cloud service for personal users over time and enable **personal users** to simply **host their own**, **for free**. Enabling access to host the Personal Cloud service is the first step on this journey. | ||
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| - | The Personal Cloud Appliance is pre-packaged software Appliance that encompasses the SME Personal hosted service that you use online except it is supplied to work with a single users account. | ||
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| - | The Appliance itself uses CentOS Linux as its base Operating System and is configured to be used with any hypervisor that work with OVF or VMWare images, this includes **Virtual Box, VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, and KVM**, as well as **OpenStack Glance** compute. | ||
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| - | This short overview will step you through how you can get up and running with hosting the SME personal cloud server using [[https:// | ||
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| - | The first step is [[https:// | ||
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| - | Once downloaded the Appliance is provides as a VMWARE image and an [[https:// | ||
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| - | Once the Appliance is download simply right click and choose to open the OVF with Virtual Box. | ||
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| - | The initial state of the Appliance is powered off. | ||
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| - | The default settings are the minimum requirement but feel free to change them to suite. | ||
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| - | With regards to networking, for this tutorial I chose to use the " | ||
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| - | Now you can simply boot up the SME software Appliance and once it has booted you will reach the following screen: | ||
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| - | This will take you to the login screen where you can enter the username and password you were provided in the emily registration. Once logged in you will be taken to the home screen. | ||
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| - | The first thing to do once logged in is to click on the username and and choose the ' | ||
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| - | Here you can first change your username | ||
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| - | and then your password | ||
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| - | The Appliance is configured to work with the default CentOS Vsftpd service which is configured as local storage so it is available to work with files out of the box. | ||
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| - | The Cloud Dashboard, available from the side menu, shows the configure providers and enables up to 10 other providers to be added. | ||
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| - | This ends the tutorial for configuring and setting up the Storage Made Easy Personal Cloud Appliance. The Appliance is available for strictly personal user from [[https:// | ||
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| - | If you are a company or ISP and would like to trial the **SME Enterprise Cloud Appliance**, | ||
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