OpenStack is an open-source, scalable platform for building public and private clouds. Bare metal provisioning in OpenStack means a customer can use hardware directly, deploying the workload (image) onto a real physical machine instead of a virtualized instance on a hypervisor.

Log in to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard. Open the project you want to manage. From the menu, select Access & Security and then select the API Access tab. Click Download OpenStack RC File and save the file in a convenient place.

In OpenStack dashboard, navigate to Applications > Catalog > Environments. Select Deploy Environment from the Actions drop-down list next to the environment you want to deploy. It may take some time for the environment to deploy. Wait for the status to change from Deploying to Ready .

Step-By-Step

1. Install VirtualBox.
2. Download Mirantis OpenStack.
3. Download the Mirantis VirtualBox Scripts.
4. Copy the Mirantis OpenStack ISO to the /iso directory.
5. Edit the config.sh if needed.
6. Run the launch.sh file in a console, such as Terminal on Mac OS X.
7. Wait for the script to completely finish.

How to use the OpenStack CLI tools on Windows

1. Step 1 – Installing WinPython. Use the latest stable WinPython installer to download and install WinPython.
2. Step 2 – Setting environment variables in session.
3. Step 3 – Install OpenStack CLI.
4. Step 4 – Using the OpenStack CLI.

The Best Infrastructure for OpenStack: VMware vSphere and vSAN. Side-by-side OpenStack benchmarking conducted by a third-party technical validation firm shows that infrastructure based on vSphere with vSAN performs better than a similar Red Hat stack built upon KVM and Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS).

Installing WinPython. Use the latest stable WinPython installer to download and install WinPython.

OpenStack Horizon is a web-based graphical interface that cloud administrators and users can access to manage OpenStack compute, storage and networking services.