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Mastering OpenStack

You're reading from   Mastering OpenStack Design, deploy, and manage clouds in mid to large IT infrastructures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463982
Length 470 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chandan Dutta Chandan Dutta
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Omar Khedher Omar Khedher
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing OpenStack Cloud Architectural Consideration FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying OpenStack - The DevOps Way 3. OpenStack Cluster – The Cloud Controller and Common Services 4. OpenStack Compute - Choice of Hypervisor and Node Segregation 5. OpenStack Storage - Block, Object, and File Share 6. OpenStack Networking - Choice of Connectivity Types and Networking Services 7. Advanced Networking - A Look at SDN and NFV 8. Operating the OpenStack Infrastructure - The User Perspective 9. OpenStack HA and Failover 10. Monitoring and Troubleshooting - Running a Healthy OpenStack Cluster 11. Keeping Track of Logs - ELK and OpenStack 12. OpenStack Benchmarking and Performance Tuning - Maintaining Cloud Performance

Segregating the compute cloud

As your cloud infrastructure grows in size, you need to devise strategies to maintain low latency in the API services and redundancy of your service. To cope with unplanned downtime due to natural forces or based on the hypervisor capability itself, the operator must plan for service continuity.

OpenStack Nova provides several concepts that help you segregate the cloud resources. Each segregation strategy brings in its own advantages and shortcomings. We must have a discussion to understand the tools available with an OpenStack cloud operator to manage the need for scale and availability of compute servers.

Availability zones

The concept of Availability Zones (AZ) in Nova is to group together compute nodes based on fault domains: for...

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