VMCloud Architecture

We have chosen the OpenStack modules according to our requirements. Additionally we have customized one component and created another for our context logic.

Components used

• Keystone (Identity)

  • Multi-domain
  • Multi-region
    • Authentication token valid for every region
  • Federation
    • Integration with Tecnico ID (SAML)

• Neutron (Network)

  • Namespaces
  • High Availability
  • OpenVSwitch
    • Vlan Isolation
    • Traffic Filtering
    • QoS
  • BGP
  • VXLAN

• Nova (Compute)

  • Using KVM hypervisors

• Glance (Image)

  • Ceph backend

• Cinder (Block Storage)

  • Ceph backend

• Designate (DNS)

  • PowerDNS backend

• Horizon (Dashboard)

  • Customized
    • Panel for in-house Quantum module
    • Custom colors
    • Federation

• Quantum (IST Context Storage)

  • In-house
  • Holds additional information for our access and project creation management
  • API based, built in Django/Python