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As enterprise cloud usage grows, operators struggle to maintain a low-cost, monolithic infrastructure while satisfying users’ increasingly-specialized requirements and usage demands.

Most cloud operators understand the value of OpenStack (Nova) flavors in mitigating this issue, but some struggle to effectively utilize this feature because:

• They lack an adequate process and automation for flavor lifecycle management
• They look at tenant requirements in a siloed fashion and lack a big picture focus on the larger need to offer specialized, but standardized configurations
• On the other extreme, they make the mistake of trying to standardize too much without permitting the degree of specialization needed for different use-cases (the 'everything must be the same!' mantra)
• They have sub-optimal flavor geometries that do not maximize use of available resources

In this session we'll look at how to design flavors to prevent these problems.