In this session, we will discuss how we build a flexible OpenStack cloud from the ground up to support multiple engineering development workloads at Intel Open Source Technology Center. We will provide a reference architecture that includes hardware and software components and recommendation on how to deploy an OpenStack Cloud from scratch, meeting our flexible compute, storage and networking requirements. We will share the architectural and design decision that we have made in implementing such solution. We will provide insight knowledge and details of the hardware components that we have chosen for this cloud, how to calculate BOM (bill of material), operating efficiency (power consumption, battery backup) , cloud capacity and how this architecture can be scaled from an initial 30 nodes cluster to 100+ nodes cluster.
After this session, the attendees will learn how to deploy an OpenStack Cloud that support an engineering development workload, in particular: (1) how to plan/architect for an OpenStack deployment including finance; (2) how to select hardware components including power consumption; (3) how to design the network architecture including VLAN setup; (4) how to successfully install an OpenStack Cloud.