Re: [Openstack] hardware specifications for a little private cloud

2012-03-26 Thread Jay Pipes
On 03/26/2012 06:56 AM, Alberto Molina Coballes wrote: Hi all, Hi Alberto! Welcome to the OpenStack community :) I'm a teacher at a sysadmin academy and we are planning to deploy a private cloud with OpenStack for educational/training purposes. We are currently selecting the optimal hardware

Re: [Openstack] hardware specifications for a little private cloud

2012-03-26 Thread Everett Toews
One other thing you'll want to consider upfront w.r.t a hardware purchase is whether or not you want to support live migration. http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/admin/content/configuring-live-migrations.html For this you'll need a large amount of shared storage (usually via NFS)

Re: [Openstack] hardware specifications for a little private cloud

2012-03-26 Thread Alberto Molina Coballes
2012/3/26 Razique Mahroua > > Hello Alberto, > I would advise you to deploy as much as node as you can, and dedicate > separate services. That would bring you the possibility to extend your > knowledge on HA mechanisms, and really understand how services interact each > other. Yes I know, but

Re: [Openstack] hardware specifications for a little private cloud

2012-03-26 Thread Razique Mahroua
Hello Alberto,I would advise you to deploy as much as node as you can, and dedicate separate services. That would bring you the possibility to extend your knowledge on HA mechanisms, and really understand how services interact each other.Let's say you spawn an instance from the api server, while it

[Openstack] hardware specifications for a little private cloud

2012-03-26 Thread Alberto Molina Coballes
Hi all, I'm a teacher at a sysadmin academy and we are planning to deploy a private cloud with OpenStack for educational/training purposes. We are currently selecting the optimal hardware configuration for our needs and I'm asking for some help to the list. Using [1] as a reference, we are clear