Hardware

• Designing the Hardware Stack for Your OpenStack Cloud

  • Seed Cloud Host: Boot seed VM, Deploy UnderCloud, DHCP, Backup and Restore Services

  • Under Cloud Controller: Manager of OverCloud, DHCP & NW Boot Service to OverCloud

  • OverCloud Controller: Runs OpenStack Services: Nova, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Heat, Neutron & Horizon

  • Compute: Run VM workloads, provide ephimeral storage for VMs

  • Swift: Store Glance images, instance snapshots, target for limited Cinder vol backups and VM object storage

  • Cinder: Persistent block storage for VM instances & volume snapshots