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infrastructure, such as when you run VMs to separate your control
services and physical infrastructure.</para>
<para>When you create a deployment plan, focus on a few vital areas
because they are very hard to modify post-deployment.</para>
because they are very hard to modify post-deployment. The next two
sections talk about configurations for:</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Disk partioning and disk array setup for scalability</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Networking configuration just for PXE booting</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<?hard-pagebreak?>
<section xml:id="disk_partition_raid">
<title>Disk Partitioning and RAID</title>
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However, the LVM partition is much smaller.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>You may find that you can automate the partitioning itself. For example, at MIT
they use Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) (<link
xlink:href="http://fai-project.org/">fai-project.org/</link>) to do the initial
PXE-based partition and install using some min/max and percentage-based
partitioning.</para>
<tip><para>You may find that you can automate the partitioning
itself. For example, at MIT they use Fully Automatic
Installation (FAI) (<link
xlink:href="http://fai-project.org/"
>fai-project.org/</link>) to do the initial PXE-based
partition, and install using a combination of min/max and
percentage-based partitioning.</para></tip>
<para>As with most architecture choices, the right answer depends on your environment.
If you are using existing hardware, you know the disk density of your servers and
can determine some decisions based on the options above. If you are going through a
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OpenStack Object Storage. All of these considerations and the input
from users help you build your use case and your deployment
plan.</para>
<para>For further research about OpenStack deployment, investigate the
<tip><para>For further research about OpenStack deployment, investigate the
supported and documented pre-configured, pre-packaged installers for
OpenStack from companies like <link
xlink:href="http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/openstack"
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xlink:href="http://www.redhat.com/openstack/">Red Hat</link>,
<link xlink:href="http://www.suse.com/cloud">SUSE</link>, and
<link xlink:href="http://www.swiftstack.com/"
>SwiftStack</link>.</para>
>SwiftStack</link>.</para></tip>
</section>
<section xml:id="provision_conclusion">
<title>Conclusion</title>