Cloud bursting with HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration: Matrix-to-Matrix, HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud, HP Cloud Services, and Amazon EC2

# An optional value used to pre-populate the DNS domain value in EC2 subnets
subnet.dns.domain=us-east-1.amazonaws.com
# Name of the EC2 key pair to use to access the provisioned servers
default.keypair.name=
# A filter file that controls which AMIs appear in the software inventory
provider.image.filters.file=ec2-image-filters.xml
# A file that defines the instance types to use and their characteristics
provider.instancetype.file=ec2-instance-types.xml
# A prioritized list of instance types to select based on logical server
# attributes (processor count and memory size) when the logical server
# definition does not indicate a specific instance type
instancetype.auto.selection.order=m1.small,m1.large,m1.xlarge
Value examples
The following table provides additional information about values in the Amazon EC2 pool properties file.
Value
Additional information
provider.api.endpoint
• The API endpoint of the Identity service for the cloud provider, with any version ID omitted.
• API end points are listed on the Regions and Endpoints page.
provider.region.id
• The id of the region (or availability zone) hosting services.
• Available regions are listed on the API keys page. For example:
az-1.region-a.geo-1
proxy.host
proxy.port
• The TCP/IP address and port, respectively, of a proxy server through which requests must pass
to access the provider endpoint.
•
These properties have empty values or can be commented out or removed if no proxy server is
required.
provider.account.accesskeyid
•
Identifies the cloud provider user account either using an access key or, when
provider.credential.type = password, a user name.
• The Access Key is listed on the Security Credentials page.
provider.account.mxpassword.key
• The name that identifies the secret user credentials (secret key or password) stored in the
secure password store using mxpassword. The value of this property is simply the
mxpassword.
•
The Secret Key is listed on the Security Credentials screen.
subnet.dns.domain
• An optional property that defines the DNS domain value listed for cloud subnets. For example:
compute.hpcloudsvc.com
default.keypair.name
• The name, registered with the provider, of the RSA public key pair to be used for server SSH
access.
• Key pairs are managed using the Security Credentials page.
provider.image.filters.file
• Defines the name of the XML format file containing rules used to filter listed software images.
•
See the "Image filter file" section for Amazon EC2.
provider.instancetype.file
• Defined for Amazon EC2 to identify the XML format file that defines instance types (cpu and
memory) that can be used to run servers.
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