REPORT Dufour_Idiap-Com-01-2015/IDIAP HAVC-II - Idiap Private Cloud (Technical Inside-Out) Dufour, Cédric corosync debian high-availability kvm libvirt linux pacemaker qemu virtualization EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2014/Dufour_Idiap-Com-01-2015.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-Com-01-2015 2015 Idiap July 2015 Virtualizing resources – servers, storage, networks – is now part of every IT departments life. The benefits of virtualization no longer need to be demonstrated and, when played upon in a large scale, provide both the saddle and spurs with which the Cloud mantra has been riding towards its success. This document shall describe how Idiap took advantage of its infrastructure to build its own virtualization farm, which shall (shamelessly) be referred to as Idiap Private Cloud.