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What is the cloud On-Demand Self-Service
Broad Network Access
Resource Pooling
Rapid Elasticity
Measured Service
What is the cloud? The Cloud is AWESOME
The Cloud is OSSM O – On-demand
S – Self-Service
S – Scalable
M – Measurable Credit to Dave Nielsen for OSSM
What kind of clouds? SaaS
PaaS
IaaS Compute
Storage
Networking
SaaS
PaaS
IaaS
What is CloudStack? Free (as in speech, and beer) Infrastructure as a Service implementation that supports multiple hypervisors, complex network and firewall configuration, high-availability, and complex multi-tenant offerings.
What do IaaS Cloud Platforms really do? Manage HA

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Editor's Notes

  • #20 Zone is typically a datacenter Pod is typically a rack Cluster is a hypervisor/hardware-homogenous collection of compute nodes.