Building Blocks for IBM Bluemix Private Cloud with Red Hat

Cloud Overview: IBM Bluemix Private Cloud with Red Hat Building Blocks

Every IBM Bluemix Private Cloud with Red Hat starts with a cluster of controller and compute nodes:

• Each cloud starts with two dedicated controller-only nodes and dedicated Vyatta gateway firewalls
• The base cluster starts with three Standard-Plus compute nodes OR three I/O Optimized compute nodes

Additional building blocks:

• Dedicated Gateway Firewalls (2 included by default)
• Up to 10 Gbps of network connectivity
• You can add compute nodes (or additional ones): Standard-Plus or I/O-Optimized
• You can add SSD block storage (backed by Ceph)
• You can add object storage (Swift)

Expansion Compute Nodes

Expansion compute nodes address your workload’s requirements for faster I/O ephemeral, more RAM, or larger ephemeral storage. I/O-optimized expansion nodes allow better coverage of specific instance types and workloads. Compute types are grouped into Availability Zones for easy targeting of workloads to the appropriate compute type.

Expansion Storage Nodes

• You can add SSD Block Storage
• You can add Object Storage