Installation Guide

CloudSystem Foundation components
• CloudSystem Foundation is the IaaS solution used for provisioning virtual machine instances.
Management tasks for both Foundation and Enterprise are performed from Foundation’s
CloudSystem Console. Foundation includes the following components, which all run on virtual
machines on one or more management hypervisors:
◦ The Foundation base appliance contains the core services and functionality of the
CloudSystem Console. The CloudSystem Portal, OpenStack services, OO Central and
supporting CLIs also reside on the Foundation base appliance.
– The SDN (Software Defined Networking) appliance is the control center for the network
infrastructure of the Foundation base appliance. When the OpenStack Neutron
service needs to define a new router or a plugin on the Foundation base appliance,
the request is sent to the SDN appliance.
CloudSystem Foundation automatically creates the SDN appliance after the
Foundation base appliance is installed and the Cloud Networking settings are saved
in the CloudSystem Console.
– The network node appliances manage various network services, such as DHCP and
L3 (routing) services, for provisioned virtual machines and provisioned virtual networks.
The SDN appliance manages the network node appliances as a cluster. When the
SDN appliance receives a request to create a new router, it creates the router in one
of the network node appliances.
Multiple network node appliances are created during installation, after the base
appliance is installed and Cloud Networking settings are saved in the CloudSystem
Console.
– A vCenter proxy appliance supports ESX configurations. OpenStack Nova and
Neutron agents reside in the vCenter proxy appliance, which acts as a proxy for the
ESX management hypervisor. The management hypervisor accepts each vCenter
Server cluster as one large compute node. This configuration allows your cloud to
take advantage of HA and load balancing features supported in vCenter Server.
The vCenter proxy appliance runs the OpenStack agents for up to 12 ESX clusters.
Foundation automatically creates the first vCenter proxy appliance when the first ESX
cluster is activated in the CloudSystem Console.
– The CloudSystem Console GUI supports administrative tasks, such as creating storage
templates, activating compute nodes, setting up networks, monitoring the Foundation
base appliance, and performing maintenance tasks on the appliance.
– The CloudSystem Portal GUI is accessed from a modified Foundation base appliance
URL by appending portal to the Foundation IP address. Example:
https://Foundation_IP/portal. Instances are created and managed from
this portal.
– HP Operations Orchestration (OO) Central provides the ability to run scripted
workflows on the Foundation base appliance. Access OO Central from the Integrated
Tools screen in the CloudSystem Console.
HP OO Studio provides the ability to edit the OO workflows. It has a separate installer,
which is included in the HP CloudSystem-OO-Studio-8.0.0.20 zip file.
See Preparing HP Operations Orchestration for CloudSystem Foundation (page 47).
CloudSystem Enterprise components
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