Red Hat CloudForms: Architectural overview

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Red Hat® CloudForms (announced at the Red Hat Summit 2010) builds on Red Hat Cloud Foundations (announced at the Red Hat Summit 2011). CloudForms delivers an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud solution with the following components:

  • CloudForms cloud engine
  • CloudForms application engine
  • CloudForms system engine
  • CloudForms cloud services

This paper provides a high-level overview of Red Hat's new CloudForms hybrid cloud-management technology, including covering several concepts, such as:

  • NIST standard definitions.
  • Red Hat's cloud strategy and description.
  • Example and workflow of a CloudForms deployment.