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Since my last article about Fuel last June 2013, Mirantis have made great progress. It’s now a good time to review the current status of the recently released Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 Tech Preview which comes with many new features like complete integration with vCenter and NSX. They’ve also released on Dec 18, 2014 a reference architecture for a deployment integrating with VMware vCenter and NSX. The first time I tried Fuel, I used VMware Fusion to host it. This time, I have a full 3-node vSphere/vSAN cluster up and running which I’ll be using in this article. So it will be a lot closer to a production environment but I won’t be implementating the reference architecture cited above which require bare metal servers for some components and NSX. In this test, everything will be virtualized, which is exactly how VMware Integrated OpenStack VIO is architected. ...

If you tried to deploy OpenStack by yourself there a huge probability it failed and you may have given up after multiple unsuccessful tries. Some Linux distribution like Redhat or Suse are packaging everything for you to make things easy but today we’ll look at another alternative from Mirantis a company that just got a new round of financing from Redhat, SAP Ventures and Ericsson. This company offers an easy way to build up an OpenStack cloud environment, Fuel 3.0. ...