| <section id="deployment_architecture_overview"> | |
| <title>Deployment Architecture Overview</title> | |
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| A CloudStack installation consists of two parts: the Management Server and the cloud infrastructure that it manages. When you set up and manage a CloudStack cloud, you provision resources such as hosts, storage devices, and IP addresses into the Management Server, and the Management Server manages those resources. | |
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| The minimum installation consists of one machine running the CloudStack Management Server and another machine to act as the cloud infrastructure (in this case, a very simple infrastructure consisting of one host running hypervisor software). | |
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| <textobject><phrase>basic_deployment.png: Basic two-machine CloudStack deployment</phrase></textobject> | |
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| <para>A more full-featured installation consists of a highly-available multi-node Management Server installation and up to thousands of hosts using any of several advanced networking setups. For information about deployment options, see Choosing a Deployment Architecture. | |
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