In order to get the most out of a Eucalyptus deployment, we recommend that you create
a plan
that provides a complete set of features, performance, scaling, and resilience
characteristics
you want in your deployment.
To successfully plan for your Eucalyptus installation, you must determine two things:
- The infrastructure you plan to install Eucalyptus on: Think about the application workload
performance and resource utilization tuning. Think about how many machines you
want on your
system.
- The amount of control you plan to give Eucalyptus on your network: Use your existing
architecture and policies to determine the Eucalyptus networking features you
want to
enable: elastic IPs, security groups, DHCP server, and Layer 2 VM isolation.
This section describes how to evaluate each tradeoff to determine the best choice
to make,
and how to verify that the resource environment can support the features that are
enabled as a
consequence of making a choice.
By the end of this section, you should be able to specify how you will deploy Eucalyptus
in
your environment, any tradeoffs between feature set and flexibility, and where
your deployment
will integrate with existing infrastructure systems.
