Please check out this PNG image from attachment or from Google docs: http://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1P3jdSddseG1oSYrtjREWcajizxmxoRIhUHCEw4sDi3k&w=771&h=624So, what I want to do is something like a private cloud storage solution.I belive the http servers and application servers should be set up on virtual VMs, but what about the Cassandra and Hadloop servers, should their be set up on VMs or directly on physical machines? If they should be set up on VMs, the data of Cassandra and Hadloop should be stored in local storage or a Storage Repository? Thanks,Dennis
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