How to tell if OpenStack infrastructure is right for you

April 3, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Sander Van Vugt.

Every major IT vendor wants to convince data center administrators that their infrastructure isn’t up-to-date without cloud. But do you really need cloud to be considered modern? And what kind of cloud? Cloud computing offers a maximum amount of versatility on servers. Deploying a server in a cloud environment is easy because it is automated. System administrators are no longer needed for the install. Instead, the user can automatically deploy one within minutes.

OpenStack is an open source cloud infrastructure. It has origins in the Linux kernel for operating systems, but doesn’t just fit Linux apps. An OpenStack infrastructure is open enough for integration with other platforms, such as Windows. Integration happens at two levels. At the lower level there are the compute nodes, which are the servers that host VMs — known as instances…

In OpenStack infrastructures, compute nodes can be anything: Linux, Windows and VMware vSphere platforms, for example. And at the upper level are the instances that need to be deployed for end users. Any OS can be rolled out using OpenStack at this level as well…

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