.. Copyright 2010 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. Multi-Node Nova =============== When you move beyond evaluating the technology and into building an actual production environemnt, you will need to know how to configure your datacenter and how to deploy components across your clusters. This guide should help you through that process. Bare-metal Provisioning ----------------------- To install the base operating system you can use PXE booting. Deployment Technologies ----------------------- Once you have machines with a base operating system installation, you can deploy code and configuration with your favorite tools: * Puppet * Chef Types of Hosts -------------- A single machine in your cluster can act as one or more of the following types of host: Nova Services * Network * Compute * Volume * API * Objectstore Other supporting services * Datastore * Message Queue