
access the CloudSystem Console or Portal, the login information entered is checked against the
user attributes stored in the database.
Alternatively, you can use an external authentication directory service (also called an enterprise
directory) to provide a single sign-on for groups of users instead of maintaining individual local
login accounts. Examples of an authentication directory service include Microsoft Windows Active
Directory or OpenLDAP (LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
For more information, see Security in CloudSystem (page 22) and Manage users and groups
(page 52).
OpenStack technology
CloudSystem software leverages the capabilities of multiple OpenStack technologies. Because of
this underlying functionality, you can use OpenStack CLI and API to configure compute resources,
and provision and deploy these resources to a cloud.
Table 1 OpenStack clients used in CloudSystem
CapabilityServiceClient
Create, configure, and assign storage volumes and
volume types
Block storage managementCinder
Create, configure and store imagesImage managementGlance
Create users and manage user roles and credentialsIdentity managementKeystone
Configure Private (and External) networksNetwork managementNeutron
Manage virtual machine instances, flavors, and
images and deploy instances to a cloud
Compute resource managementNova
For additional information on installing and using the OpenStack CLI with CloudSystem software,
see the “Command line interfaces” appendix in the HP CloudSystem 8.0 Installation and
Configuration Guide at Enterprise Information Library.
The CloudSystem Portal is based on the Openstack Horizon client. Not all OpenStack features are
supported in this version of CloudSystem. For information on limitations, see Limitations on support
for OpenStack CLI commands (page 204) and Limitations on support for OpenStack functionality
in the CloudSystem Portal (page 210).
CloudSystem Foundation at a glance
HP CloudSystem allows you to prepare private cloud resources and deploy virtual machine instances
into this cloud. In CloudSystem Foundation, you use CloudSystem Console to configure cloud
resources for deployment. This includes creating images, establishing shared and private networks,
and configuring block storage. End users use the CloudSystem Portal to provision and manage
VMs, storage, and networks. This work includes managing virtual machine security, attaching
volumes, and launching virtual machine instances.
When you provision new subscriptions from CloudSystem Enterprise, new virtual machines, block
storage volumes, and networks are provisioned in CloudSystem Foundation. These resources are
visible in the CloudSystem Portal. If you modify them from the CloudSystem Portal, the changes
will not be reflected in the Enterprise Marketplace Portal.
CloudSystem Foundation components
CloudSystem Foundation is the platform that you use to manage both Foundation and Enterprise
appliances. Foundation includes the following components, which run on virtual machine appliances
on the management cluster or hypervisor.
CloudSystem Console Web-based user interface for administrative tasks, including
managing and monitoring the cloud and releasing resources
18 Concepts and architecture
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