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JCH

How many VMs do they manage, and how many people are required to manage the OpenStack infrastructure?

JCH

What led to the decision to choose OpenStack at that time?

JCH

Are the VMs billed or is the service free? If they are billed, on what basis? And is this billing automated?

JCH

How is the lifecycle of the VMs managed?

MBA

Use of micro-segmentation (east-west isolation)? If yes, what technology?

MBA

Are VM deployments automated? (cf Aria Operations with automated processes).

MBA

Update cycle (security, updates, new features, etc.)? The level of complexity for carrying out these updates?

MBA

Is their VM architecture solely based on OpenStack or do they operate in a hybrid mode (multiple types of hypervisors)?

MBA

What is their level of satisfaction with the product, support, and OpenStack strategy in the long term?

MBA

What is the operational load (depending on the scope) to manage and maintain the OpenStack infrastructure?

MBA

Do they have a cost estimate for their OpenStack infrastructure (OPEX)?

MBA

Regarding security audits, is it possible to trace information about actions on VMs, hypervisors, etc.?

MDO

Ceph and HPC? How is Ceph used in the context of computation on HPC clusters?

MDO

How are Kubernetes clusters generated on OpenStack?

MDO

Average hardware lifetime?

MDO

How many people are required to manage CERN Ceph clusters?

LBO

Do their OpenStack clusters rely on homogeneous hardware?

LBO

Are they often confronted with solutions that do not support OpenStack as a hypervisor layer?

RFA

How do they manage OpenStack updates?

RFA

How do they manage bare metal deployment?

RFA

Redundant network infrastructure?