The Crowbar Web interface runs on the Administration Server. It provides an
overview of the most important deployment details in your cloud. This includes a
view on the nodes and which roles are deployed on which nodes, and on the
barclamp proposals that can be edited and deployed. In addition, the
Crowbar Web interface shows details about the networks and switches in your
cloud. It also provides graphical access to tools you can use to manage
your repositories, back up or restore the Administration Server, export the
Chef configuration, or generate a supportconfig
TAR
archive with the most important log files.
The OpenStack nodes represent the actual cloud infrastructure. Node installation and service deployment is done automatically from the Administration Server. Before deploying the OpenStack services, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 will be installed on all Control Nodes and Storage Nodes.
After the nodes are installed and configured you can start deploying the OpenStack components to finalize the installation. The components need to be deployed in a given order, because they depend on one another. The Pacemaker component for an HA setup is the only exception from this rule—it can be …