Open Stack

You can setup Nova and Swift in VMs in VMWare Workstation or
Virtualbox to see how the pieces fit together, you can even setup 4+
VMs to see Swift balance or 3+ VMs to see Nova do it's network thing.
As long as you don't intend to use it for real world loads, it
virtualizes just fine.

A good testbed system for storage would probably be 1 proxy and 4+
storage nodes with as many hard drives in the storage nodes as you
have.  A good testbed for Nova would be one or two management nodes
(so you can separate glance or rabbit onto it's own machine to see how
that works) and 2+ compute nodes (so you can see how network
separation and instance balancing works).  If you want to try out the
VLAN mode you'll need a tagged VLAN capable switch, something like the
HP ProCurve 1810G-24 switch.  If you don't have the option to do
tagged VLANs in your colo environment, you may want to stick to
testing the flatdhcp and flatdhcp HA options.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mister IT Guru <misteritguru at gmx.com> wrote:
> Good Evening All,
>
> I'm decided to look more into open stack, and generally the capabilities and
> how to operate an open stack cloud.
>
> 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.
>
> 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;
>
> * How many machines do I need at a minimum to get up a working cloud
> environment, run and managed by a open stack setup?
>
> 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.
>
> Any hints and tips would be very much appreciated.
>
> Mister IT Guru -- misteritguru at gmx.com
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>
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