This paper is for cloud service providers, hosts, and enterprise IT organizations who are looking to build their own cloud infrastructure, the decision to use a cloud for the delivery of IT services is best done by starting with the knowledge and experience gained from previous work. This reference architecture outlines a private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud setup using Red Hat* Cloud Foundations on Intel® Xeon® series processor-based servers. Using the contents of this paper, which include detailed scripts and screen shots, should significantly reduce the learning curve for building and operating your first cloud computing infrastructure.