How to reinstall SUSE Cloud

This post refers to SUSE Cloud 5.
I have a test environment consisting of four nodes: 1 admin node, 1 control node and 2 compute nodes.
While you are trying to set up your cloud environment you could be facing different issues from time to time, some of them will require to install the cloud from scratch because of misconfiguration or other causes.
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Installing SUSE Cloud using SUSE Manager

This post refers to SUSE Cloud Deployment Guide Version 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Currently, we have a cloud 5 test environment with three nodes.
Setting up the cloud using SUSE Manager to provide update repositories can lead to frustrating errors, a little mistake in the docs is responsible for the premature abortion of the install script.
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SUSE Cloud: How to limit the range of dynamically allocated VLANs

This article refers to the SUSE Cloud 5 documentation. The Deployment Guide recommends to stick with the defaults when you want to deploy a cloud infrastructure. But how do you integrate a new cloud into an existing infrastructure, especially if you have to limit the VLAN ranges used by the cloud? Continue reading

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