[Openstack-operators] Advice on host dimensioning for Openstack installation

Bruno Semperlotti bruno.semperlotti at gmail.com
Sun Jun 2 16:47:02 UTC 2013


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


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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
>
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