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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from   Mastering OpenStack Design, deploy, and manage clouds in mid to large IT infrastructures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463982
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chandan Dutta Chandan Dutta
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying OpenStack - The DevOps Way 3. OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services 4. OpenStack Compute - Choice of Hypervisor and Node Segregation 5. OpenStack Storage - Block, Object, and File Share 6. OpenStack Networking - Choice of Connectivity Types and Networking Services 7. Advanced Networking - A Look at SDN and NFV 8. Operating the OpenStack Infrastructure - The User Perspective 9. OpenStack HA and Failover 10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting - Running a Healthy OpenStack Cluster 11. Keeping Track of Logs - ELK and OpenStack 12. OpenStack Benchmarking and Performance Tuning - Maintaining Cloud Performance

Understanding the art of clustering

Do not be afraid to claim that clustering actually provides high availability in a given infrastructure. The aggregation of the capacity of two or more servers is meant to be a server cluster. This aggregation will be performed by means of the accumulation of several machines.

Do not get confused between scaling up, which is also called vertical scaling, and scaling down, which is also known as horizontal scaling. The horizontal scaling option refers to adding more commodity servers, unlike the vertical scaling option, which refers to adding more expensive and robust servers with more CPU and RAM.

This makes it imperative to differ between the terminologies of high availability, load balancing, and failing over, which will be detailed in Chapter 9, OpenStack HA and Failover.

Keep this in mind that for any of the previously mentioned terms, their configuration results always start...

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