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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

OpenStack Compute - Choice of Hypervisor and Node Segregation

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln

Once the orchestrator has evaluated the instruments that should be integrated on the stage, we still need the players to accomplish the song. All we need are worker horses that do the job of hosting our virtual machines.

The compute nodes should be separately deployed in the cluster, as it forms the resources part of the OpenStack infrastructure. The compute servers are the heart of the cloud computing service, as they provide the resources that are directly used by the end users; it becomes imperative, then, to give attention to the fact that compute node resources should not be overlooked in terms of processing power, memory, network, and storage capability.

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