SUSE® OpenStack Cloud is an open source software solution that provides the fundamental capabilities to deploy and manage a cloud infrastructure based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. SUSE OpenStack Cloud is powered by OpenStack, the leading community-driven, open source cloud infrastructure project. It seamlessly manages and provisions workloads across a heterogeneous cloud environment in a secure, compliant, and fully-supported manner. The product tightly integrates with other SUSE technologies and with the SUSE maintenance and support infrastructure.
This guide is a supplement to the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Admin User Guide and SUSE OpenStack Cloud End User Guide. It contains additional information for admin users and end users guides that is specific to SUSE OpenStack Cloud.
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Gives an introduction to the SUSE® OpenStack Cloud architecture, lists the requirements, and describes how to set up, deploy, and maintain the individual components. Also contains information about troubleshooting, support, and a glossary listing the most important terms and concepts for SUSE OpenStack Cloud.
Guides you through management of projects and users, images, flavors, quotas, and networks. Also describes how to migrate instances.
To complete these tasks, either use the graphical Web interface (based
on OpenStack Dashboard, code name Horizon) or the
OpenStack command line clients.
Describes how to manage images, instances, networks, volumes, and track usage.
To complete these tasks, either use the graphical Web interface (based
on OpenStack Dashboard, code name Horizon) or the
OpenStack command line clients.
A supplement to the SUSE OpenStack Cloud Admin User Guide and SUSE OpenStack Cloud End User Guide. It contains additional information for admin users and end users guides that is specific to SUSE OpenStack Cloud.
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