https://github.com/tlkh/hyperconverged-private-cloud-guide

A guide to building a hyper-converged private cloud on commodity hardware
https://github.com/tlkh/hyperconverged-private-cloud-guide

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A guide to building a hyper-converged private cloud on commodity hardware

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tlkh/hyperconverged-private-cloud-guide
• Owner: tlkh
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-11-04T03:46:41.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-01-23T14:51:02.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T15:55:40.423Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: ceph, cloud, debian, linux, proxmox
• Size: 85 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Hyper-converged Private Cloud Guide

The goal of this repository is to provide a comprehensive and beginner-friendly guide to building a hyper-converged private cloud on commodity hardware.

## Index

* [What is hyper-convergence?](#hyper-convergent-infrastructure)

* Hypervisor: Proxmox

* Storage: Ceph

* Networking: Linux Bridge

## What is hyper-convergence?

### TLDR

![sample architecture](images/hci-arch.jpg)

Hyper-convergent infrastructure means that all (most) datacenter components are in one standardised chassis. Instead of having separate storage (SAN) and compute clusters (virtualisation) clusters/node, every node serves a portion of both services.

### Advantages

* Lower complexity (one type of device/node)

* Higher resource utilisation (can utilise excess CPU previous locked away in storage nodes)

* Lower footprint (especially for smaller-scale deployments)

* Easy to gradually scale horizontally over time by adding new nodes

This takes the form of: 

* Software defined compute

* Software defined storage

* Software defined network

### Open-source Technologies involved

* Proxmox

* Ceph

* Open vSwitch