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An OpenStack cluster today is a common need by many organizations, providing a cost-efficient extension to the public cloud infrastructure. Dell Technologies and Canonical have worked together to build a jointly engineered and validated architecture that details software, hardware, and integration points of all solution components. The architecture provides prescriptive guidance and recommendations for:
Dell Technologies and Canonical provide the support and services that the customers need to stand up production-grade OpenStack clusters.
Dell Technologies and Canonical designed this architecture guide for making it easy for Dell Technologies and Canonical customers to build their own operational readiness cluster and design their initial offerings.
This document provides a complete Reference Architecture for Charmed OpenStack (Ussuri) solution on Dell EMC hardware delivered by Canonical, including Dell EMC PowerEdge servers for workloads and storage and Dell EMC Networking.
This guide discusses the Dell EMC hardware specifications and the tools and services to set up both the hardware and software, including the foundation cluster and the OpenStack cluster. It also covers other tools used for the monitoring and management of the cluster in detail and how all these components work together in the system.
Dell Technologies and the authors of this document welcome your feedback on the solution and the solution documentation. Contact the Dell Technologies Solutions team by email.
Author: Andrey Grebennikov