<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good Evening All,<div><br></div><div>I'm decided to look more into open stack, and generally the capabilities and how to operate an open stack cloud.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm in charge of about 200 collocated systems, and I think it would be a great idea virtualise the current environment, and then one I've got them running in my own cloud, begin to use the same tools to migrate the systems over Rackspace. - That's the dream anyway, to have some sort of hybrid cloud and a universal management console for the lot.</div><div><br></div><div>Before I get to that stage, I think I need to first get my own cloud up and running. Virtualisation I can do, migrating systems, I can do, running a cloud - that's new. I guess my first, and only question at this point would be;</div><div><br></div><div>* How many machines do I need at a minimum to get up a working cloud environment, run and managed by a open stack setup?</div><div><br></div><div>Basically, I want to setup a rig - just for my own understanding before I even begin to start of hosting a production environment in a cloud. Then I intend as a phase 2 to add more hardware, and test migrating VM between them, before finally phase three, which will be having a hybrid setup.</div><div><br></div><div>Any hints and tips would be very much appreciated. </div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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