4. AZ Logical Architecture
Controller 1 Controller 2 Controller 3
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Controller Nodes (Controller Tier)
- User and Admin Dashboard
- OpenStack® Service and
Orchestration
- OpenStack API Endpoint
- Instance Security
- Networking
- Monitoring, Metrics, Live Stats
Hypervisor Nodes (Computing Tier)
- Managed by Cloud Controllers
- Host Projects or Tenants
- Run the VM Workload
- Utilizes Virtual Networking
- Consumes Cloud Storage
- Scales to 100s of Nodes
Controllers Nodes
5. Scale-out
West AZ
OPENSTACK & AWS APIs
OPENSTACK UNIFIED CLI
HA SERVICE ORCHESTRATION
UPDATE SERVICE
24X7 CLOUD OPERATIONS SUPPORT
HARDWARE
Compute Networking Storage Identity
Dashboard
East AZ
OPENSTACK & AWS APIs
OPENSTACK UNIFIED CLI
HA SERVICE ORCHESTRATION
UPDATE SERVICE
24X7 CLOUD OPERATIONS SUPPORT
HARDWARE
Compute Networking Storage Identity
Dashboard
Europe AZ
OPENSTACK and AWS APIs
OPENSTACK UNIFIED CLI
HA SERVICE ORCHESTRATION
UPDATE SERVICE
24X7 CLOUD OPERATIONS SUPPORT
HARDWARE
Compute Networking Storage Identity
Dashboard
Self-Contained managed set of
resources
- Computing
- Storage
- Network
- Identity
Geographically dispersed or
same location
On-demand multitenant platform
Availability Zone (AZ)
6. Enhanced Dashboard
User and admin access
Self-service provisioning
Identity
Integration of live
statistics and historical
statistics
Cloud metrics
Custom branded
Cisco Metapod Enhanced Dashboard