Hello Alvise, You will find some interesting piece of information about hardware dimensioning in this documentation : http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-ops/content/ Chapters 2 and 3 (maybe 4 and 5 too) will be useful. Regards, Bruno -- Bruno Semperlotti On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Alvise Dorigo <alvise.dorigo at pd.infn.it>wrote: > Dear forum members, > first of all forgive me if this is the wrong forum to post this question... > > I'd need some hint on hardware dimensioning for the several openstack's > components. In particular I'd like to install these components: > > 1. cloud controller (basic nova services + MySQL + Keystone + MQ, NO > quantum but only nova-network for now) > 2. marketplace (Glance) on a machine dedicated to distributed storage > (like Gluster) > 3. compute node(s) > 4. (optional) block storage (swift) > > AFAIK, the controller and the compute need 2 (fast) NICs. > The controller doesn't need too many CPUs and/or RAM and/or local disk. > The compute node(s) need(s) as many CPU and as much RAM as the number of > VMs are supposed to run on. > The 'Gluster' machine need as much disk as needed by the VMs and by the > number of virtual images. > > Is there some more important detail I need to know in order to do a good > design of my hardware topology ? > > many thanks in advance, > > Alvise > > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.**openstack.org<OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org> > http://lists.openstack.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/** > openstack-operators<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20130602/6682a055/attachment.html>