Hi everyone,
I'd like to set up a new cloud cluster using CS platform. I do have a few questions though if you don't mind. 1. Marketing "cloud hosting", "cloud vps" or "cloud dedicated servers" is essentially the same thing correct, except the typical CPU/disk allowance? Is that correct? 2. Is there such a general difference between a cloud vps or cloud dedicated here? My understanding is, there isn't but want clarification. For example, if I have a few old rackmount servers, can I throw this into the cloud cluster? If so, how is it that the cloud would use CPU/RAM from one box and the customer data on a separate storage box? This confuses me. For initial hardware, I have the following in mind. Please tell me if this looks reasonable to offer cloud hosting, cloud vps. I'm going off the small-scale deployment sample If I understand correctly, there are generally 3 boxes (aside core router/switches) 1. Management console that has CS installed 2. Storage server 3. CPU/RAM server Is this correct? I won't be using VMWARE either but would like to offer typical shared hosting with cPanel, reseller hosting with cPanel/WHM, VPS options (Xen, KVM, OpenVZ) and dedicated servers if viable with CS. My initial intended deployment: CS Management Server - Quad Core Xeon, 8GB RAM, RAID SSD drives for redundancy (approx. 128GB) - Centos 7 64bit (if this isn't supported yet, 6.5v) Storage Server - Document says NFS, but is FreeNAS storage server ok? - 2x Quad Core Xeon, 16GB RAM, RAID 10 drives (preferably 5 + 5 or maybe just 2 + 2 to start) - should a storage server require SSD for optimal performance or is this overkill? Computing Nodes - I assume this is where all the CPU/Memory comes from? If so, - 32GB RAM - 2x Hexacore Xeons w/ Turbo - anything else? Sorry for the long list. Just want to make sure I have a full understanding before tackling this setup. Thanks.
