Few Questions

[Talk Jesus <ch...@talkjesus.com>]

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.

 

 

 

Re: Few Questions

[ilya musayev <il...@gmail.com>]

I'm not much into hosting jargon, but VPS if i'm not mistaken, means 
jailed linux env, i.e. lxc, docker container or chroot'ed environment 
that appears like a dedicated virtual server but shares resources and 
common drivers with its host.

Dedicated virtual server implies fully virtualized server - where 
everything down to the bios is emulated.

The "Cloud" is just a hype word marketing folks would like to apply, it 
has way too many meanings and unrealistic expectations - depends who you 
ask - to each, his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing


On 9/26/14, 1:19 PM, Talk Jesus wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
>
>   
>
>   
>
>