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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/26/2012 06:56 AM, Alberto Molina Coballes wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Alberto! Welcome to the OpenStack community :)

> I'm a teacher at a sysadmin academy and we are planning to deploy a
> private cloud with OpenStack for educational/training purposes. We are
> currently selecting the optimal hardware configuration for our needs
> and I'm asking for some help to the list.

Cool, sounds good.

> Using [1] as a reference, we are clear about hardware specifications
> of compute nodes (4 nodes with 2 processors), but we aren't about the
> best solution for node controller and optimal storage:
>
> Option 1:
>
> 1 server with 2 HD in RAID1 (nova controller, nova volume, glance,
> ...) + 1 SAN iSCSI
>
> Option 2:
>
> 1 server with 12 HD in RAID5/6 (nova controller, nova volume, glance, ...)
>
> We are excited about the possibilities that a private cloud brings to
> us and we don't want to fail in this critical step, so any help will
> be really appreciated.

Option 1 might be easier to set up and work with. Not sure about costs, 
though...

For small setups like this, you might want to use the Filesystem Glance 
storage driver targeted at the local filesystem and use the SAN+isci for 
the volume operations only.

This would make it a bit easier to diagnose issues and administer Glance.

Also, don't forget about MySQL, RabbitMQ and keystone. You need to put 
those on the controller node too! :)

Best,
-jay