Abstract:

This paper introduced the application range of the private cloud, discussed the characteristics of the self-developed and business and open source solutions, and analyzed the main advantage of the open source solution, then compared the mainstream projects of the open source cloud computing, such as Eucalyptus, OpenStack, OpenNebula and Nimbus, studied the structure of OpenStack mainly. Based on this, this paper presented the construction example of private cloud computing platform based on OpenStack, which major processes included configuration of base environment, components installation of Nova, Glance, Swift, Keystone and Horizon, deployment of virtual machines, and finally discussed the platform application examples in the cloud computing software testing.

Key words: private cloud, open source system, OpenStack, KVM