Mitch Denny has released his PowerShell Snap-in for GoGrid up on CodePlex.
GoGrid is very similar to the Amazon EC2 offering except that right now it is the only one to offer Windows 2003/2008 hosting using this on-demand model.
Create a GoGrid Windows 2008 Server
Mitch shows this example for creating a basic GoGrid Windows 2008 server from PowerShell
Add-GoGridServer -Credential $credential ` -Name DemoServer ` -Image w2k8_32_base ` -Memory 1GB ` -IPAddress 173.1.23.194
Out of the box, the Snap-in supports 13 Cmdlets.
- Add-GoGridLoadBalancer
- Add-GoGridServer
- Delete-GoGridLoadBalancer
- Delete-GoGridServer
- Get-GoGridImage
- Get-GoGridIPAddress
- Get-GoGridLoadBalancer
- Get-GoGridOption
- Get-GoGridServer
- Get-GoGridServerPassword
- Restart-GoGridServer
- Start-GoGridServer
- Stop-GoGridServer
Interestingly GigaSpaces teamed up with GoGrid in a
joint offering that enables enterprises to migrate existing and new Java, J2EE, .Net and C++ applications to a cloud computing infrastructure with an hourly pay-per-use pricing model.
Mitch mentions Amazon’s upcoming Windows offering. He is planning a snap-in when it is announced. I looked at integrating PowerShell and Amazon SimpleDB. I will kick the tires on Amazon’s EC2 Windows in the Cloud API once it is ready.
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Of course that means your app can run in a cloud. The monolithic application we have at SmartOrg needs way more room in terms of cpu and memory than virtualization can offer.
Given the clouds promise, this could be an ideal answer to provisioning and scaling Saas