White Paper - Hyperconverged Cloud Architecture with OpenNebula and StorPool

The Hyperconverged Cloud Architecture with OpenNebula and StorPool provides a blueprint to aid IT architects, consultants, administrators , and field practitioners in designing and deploying a hyperconverged cloud infrastructure. In this architecture, nodes combine computing, storage, and virtual networking functions to achieve better efficiency and simplified management. The Hyperconverged Cloud Architecture is a helpful guide for companies seeking to launch fast, easy-to-use, and cost-effective clouds. This document describes the architecture of a complete IT infrastructure, including storage, computing, networking, and cloud orchestration. There are additional components in the open cloud ecosystem that are not part of the reference architecture but are nonetheless essential to consider when designing a cloud, such as configuration management and automation tools for managing cloud infrastructure and large numbers of devices.