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.
