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The MicroCloud snap drives three other snaps ({doc}`lxd:index`, {doc}`microceph:index`, and {doc}`microovn:index`), enabling automated deployment of a highly available LXD cluster for compute, with Ceph as the storage driver and OVN as the managed network.

During initialization, MicroCloud scrapes the other servers for details and then prompts you to add disks to Ceph and configure the networking setup.

At the end of this, you’ll have an OVN cluster, a Ceph cluster, and a LXD cluster. LXD itself will have been configured with both networking and storage suitable for use in a cluster.
MicroCloud starts with a single node, requires 3 nodes for {ref}`high availability <exp-microcloud-ha>`, and can scale to 50-node clusters. During initialization, MicroCloud scrapes the other servers for details and then prompts you to add disks to Ceph and configure the networking setup. At the end of this, you’ll have an OVN cluster, a Ceph cluster, and a LXD cluster. LXD itself will have been configured with both networking and storage suitable for use in a cluster.

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I /think/ that "node" should be avoided in user visible docs, like on LXD. Member(s) is how those are referred to, in LXD at least.

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I was working from the "What scale is a MicroCloud?" section of the product page, but it makes sense to me to use consistent terminology across the documentation. What do you think @mionaalex ?


(exp-microcloud-lxd)=
## LXD cluster
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