Introduction; Audience; What Is Openstack - Qlogic 3400 series User Manual

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Introduction

This chapter describes the audience for this guide and outlines the OpenStack
architecture.

Audience

This guide is intended for OpenStack (Juno, Kilo, Liberty, and Mitaka) users who
want to configure virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) with the QLogic
3400/8400/45000 Series Adapters.
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What is OpenStack?

The OpenStack project is an open source cloud computing platform that supports
all types of cloud environments and works as infrastructure as a service (IAAS).
The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of
processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, which
users manage through a web-based dashboard, command line tools, or
representational state transfer (REST) APIs.
At the time of publication, support for the 45000 Series Adapters is limited to
the FastLinQ QL4521x 25GbE Adapters.
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