On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:10 AM, James Karanja <karanjamuhinja@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to add up onto what John has put:

Virtualization Hypervisor: VMware
Storage: EMC
Distribution: You can choose whatever you want or import the image

I also believe they use VMware vCloud™ Director for automation and provisioning.The VMware vCloud™ Director also adds a self service portal.

During the Cisco Expo 2011 there was a demo on how the Safaricom cloud works.

In regards to the Hypervisor multi-vendor claim by Sam, I think this adds a layer of issues especially when it comes to the provisioning and management.

Kindly visit http://vcloud.vmware.com/ for information on how VMware and their partners (network and storage) power the public clouds.

As John suggested look for a Safcom techie who works in the data center and he can expound on how the Safcom Cloud is built.

Regards,
James

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From: Samuel Wachira <wachirasam@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom cloud management howto
To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>

Good day.

From what i know:

Safaricom currently is only offering IAAS, they are still haggling with vendor licenses for SAAS and PAAS.

I believe that these issues will be sorted soon so that we can enjoy the full cloud offerings.

For IAAS, they provision Hardware specs and present the VM for you to install the O/S,App of your choice.

I think they have all the hypervisors in their Datacenters (I would, not trusting a single vendor, negotiation purposes etc)

Please correct me on this, if i am wrong.

./Sam

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:21 AM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:

read up on cisco vmware and emc (VCE) that should give you an idea. Unfortunately for actual implementation you need to sit down with a technicla person from there. For your own sanity dont talk to sales guys about deep technical stuff. Just ask to be referred to someone.
jgitau

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:20 AM, maina <dmaishe@gmail.com> wrote:

For virtualization they use vmware, though i dont have any more info just that.

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:27 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Curious, anyone here willing to share how Safaricom cloud is setup? I
> mean I tried googling and I can't find much technical information
> other than the normal crap that appear on business publication.
>
> For example, do they use xen for vitualization? What can be adjusted
> on the console, CPU, RAM, storage ? Is the storage local or shared?
> For example on EC2, you can set up a VM with storage on SAN or local
> to the instance? You able to change the firewall? Do you have
> ability to choose any distribution? For example, on EC2, one can
> choose go with either RedHat, Ubuntu or even export a local
> installation as EMI
>
> Anyway, I guess I asking for a technical introduction to Safaricom
> cloud. Got interested because a friend of mine is interested in using
> them and I couldn't seem to find anything except this link
>
> http://www.safaricom.co.ke/business/solutions-by-business-needs/grow-your-business/cloud-services
>
> Regards,
>
> Muriithi
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