Eucalyptus
is an open source software framework for cloud computing that implements what is commonly referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus software provides users with the ability to run and control isolated collections of virtual machine instances with many EC2/S3-compatible tools.
Walrus
is a storage service included with Eucalyptus that is
interface compatible
with
Amazon S3
. Walrus allows users to store persistent data, organized as buckets and objects. We are proud to announce
CloudBerry Explorer
support for
Walrus
.
Full description of installation / configuration of Eucalyptus is outside of this article scope, and we suggest that you check out
Eucalyptus
website for more details.
To register your Walrus accounts go to File | Walrus Accounts in the program menu. This will open the dialog you are already familiar with. You will have to specify Service Point, Access and Secret key and click ok.
For the
Service Point
take the IP address and the port number of your Eucalyptus installation and add /services/Walrus to the end. Don’t use http:// at the beginning. You should have something like this:
10.10.15.149:8873/services/Walrus
Note
: This is a default Service Point and it could be modified using Walrus config files.
To find the connection data login to your Eucalyptus Management console and whole on the
Credentials
screen scroll down to Query interface credentials section. Click
Show keys
button. Basically
Query ID
is
Access Key
and
Secret key
is what it says.
Your new Walrus account will become available in the list of other accounts. Now you can create buckets and copy file to / from your Walrus account just like you would to Amazon S3 account.
Note:
It is worth mentioning though that Eucalyptus used to provide a test bed for those who wanted to explorer its functionality not installing the software locally. Due to the popularity of the test bed the service is temporary unavailable as Eucalyptus team is moving it to more powerful hardware. I suggest that you visit their
website
later to check for announcements.
CloudBerry S3 Explorer
is a Windows freeware product that helps managing
Amazon S3
storage and
CloudFront
. You can download it at
http://cloudberrylab.com/
CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO
is a Windows program that helps managing
Amazon S3
storage and
CloudFront
. You can download it at
http://cloudberrylab.com/
It is currently in beta and free for all users. You can download it at
http://cloudberrylab.com/
Like our products? Please help us spread the word about them.
Learn here
how to do it.