Introducing the Synnefo open source IaaS cloud platform

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Synnefo is an open-source IaaS stack that exposes OpenStack-compatible APIs and uses Google Ganeti plus KVM for VM management. The talk explains its architecture components (Django, Ganeti, KVM, RADOS), its networking approach for IPv4/IPv6 and scaling thousands of isolated VLANs, and its unified, content-addressable storage strategy for files, VM images and live disks enabling thin provisioning and live migration without NAS/SAN. It also covers production experience from running the ~okeanos public cloud on commodity hardware and current industry/Open Source deployments.

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