Synopsis: There is no easy answer or magic solution for Architecting your private cloud. OpenStack is flexible and can be designed in many ways so architecting your cloud correctly is extremely important. The goal of this talk is to provide guidance on how to start thinking about your private cloud architecture. We will cover the following in this talk:
1. Build with the end in mind
2. To Swift or not to Swift
3. Architecture examples and thoughts for the following environment sizes:
a. 1-20 physical nodes
b. 20-100 physical nodes
4. Performance Considerations and Bottlenecks
4. Lessons Learned
5. Q/A and Community Input
