Building a Cloud

[Nett]

Hello all,

I'm planning to build a cloud with some large VPS (or dedi maybe).

What type of software is the best? I'm currently looking at OpenStack and CloudStack.

Do you know any providers that provide free private networking or VLAN (preferably with inter-datacenter connectivity)?

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

 

[trewq]

Any decent data centre will set your servers up on their own vlan if you ask.

 

[maounique]

I recommend CloudStack we tried both and this one came as a winner due to being more compact and integrated. 

As for VLANs accross DCs, that will be a tough one, but you can always bridge some interfaces with a GRE tunnel to do it yourself, but this is not something just any VM can do. If you get a dedi, though, that is much easier provided that the DC does not have some weird routing and segmentation.

You can build stripped down versions of clouds such as with XenServer or Proxmox, start with that and then build up. 

However, wont be a complete cloud without some SAN storage or at least some iSCSI/NFS and achieving usable throughputs accross DCs will not work in 99% of the cases.

 

[Nett]

I have got an offer from a VPS provider that offers me 5 VPS - 1 Host, 2 Hypervisors, 2 Storage

They all come with 10Gbps internal networking

Is that setup good?

 

[tchen]

Isn't that one big SPF on the controller node?

 

[perennate]

Well, we (Luna Node) provide private network with unmetered 1gbps connectivity. In Scranton we'll also be providing virtual router and floating IP addresses option.

 

[Navyn]

I will suggest Cloudstack  full of features.