CloudStack Concepts and Terminology

This is the Apache CloudStack installation guide. In this guide we first go through some design and architectural to build your cloud.

Concepts and Terminology

• What is Apache CloudStack?
• What can Apache CloudStack do?
  • Multiple Hypervisor Support
  • Massively Scalable Infrastructure Management
  • Automatic Cloud Configuration Management
  • Graphical User Interface
  • API
  • AWS EC2 API Support
  • High Availability
• Deployment Architecture Overview
  • Management Server Overview
  • Cloud Infrastructure Overview
  • Networking Overview
• CloudStack Terminology
  • About Regions
  • About Zones
  • About Pods
  • About Clusters
  • About Hosts
  • About Primary Storage
  • About Secondary Storage
  • About Object Storage
  • About Shared FileSystems
  • About Physical Networks

Choosing a Deployment Architecture

• Small-Scale Deployment
• Large-Scale Redundant Setup
• Separate Storage Network
• Multi-Node Management Server
• Multi-Site Deployment
• Choosing a Hypervisor
  • Hypervisor Support for Primary Storage
• Best Practices
  • Process Best Practices
  • Setup Best Practices
  • Maintenance Best Practices

Network Setup

• Basic and Advanced Networking
• VLAN Allocation Example
• Example Hardware Configuration
  • Dell 62xx
  • Cisco 3750
• Layer-2 Switch
  • Dell 62xx
  • Cisco 3750
• Hardware Firewall
  • Generic Firewall Provisions
  • External Guest Firewall Integration for Juniper SRX (Optional)
  • External Guest Firewall Integration for Cisco VNMC (Optional)
  • External Guest Load Balancer Integration (Optional)
• Management Server Load Balancing
• Topology Requirements
  • Security Requirements
  • Runtime Internal Communications Requirements
  • Storage Network Topology Requirements
  • External Firewall Topology Requirements
  • Advanced Zone Topology Requirements
  • XenServer Topology Requirements
  • VMware Topology Requirements
  • Hyper-V Topology Requirements
  • KVM Topology Requirements
  • LXC Topology Requirements
• Guest Network Usage Integration for Traffic Sentinel
• Setting Zone VLAN and Running VM Maximums

Storage Setup

• Introduction
  • Primary Storage
  • Secondary Storage
• Configurations
  • Small-Scale Setup
  • Large-Scale Setup
• Storage Architecture
  • Local Storage
  • ‘Traditional’ node-based Shared Storage
  • Clustered Shared Storage
  • Network Configuration For Storage
• CloudStack Networking For Storage
  • Small-Scale Example Configurations