The Boston OpenStack user group was kicked off September 21st, 2011, hosted by Fidelity.

1. Welcome
Boston OpenStack User Group
Mark Collier
VP, Rackspace Cloud Builders & OpenStack at Rackspace
mark.collier@rackspace.com
Twitter: @sparkycollier

3. Let’s Get Started!

5. Enterprises are building clouds to...
Meet departmental resource needs & timelines
Control & monitor the entire environment
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Where is your enterprise on the path to cloud?
1. Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

6. Datacenters are being virtualized, Servers are rst
HYPERVISORS PROVIDE ABSTRACTION BETWEEN APPS AND HARDWARE (SERVERS)
HOST 1 HOST 2 HOST 3 HOST 4, ETC.
VMs
Hypervisor:
turns 1 server into many “virtual machines” (VMs)
(VMWare ESX, Citrix XEN Server, KVM, Etc.)
Hardware abstraction for each server
Better resource utilization for each server
1. Server Virtualization
Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

7. Next: Storage, Network... the building blocks
ABSTRACTION BETWEEN APPS AND HARDWARE
Virtualized Servers Virtualized Networks Virtualized Storage
Flexibility, Efficiency are key drivers
Resource pools for apps starting to form...
1. Server Virtualization
Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

8. But questions arise as the environment grows...
“VM SPRAWL” CAN MAKE THINGS UNMANAGEABLE VERY QUICKLY
APPS USERS ADMINS
How do you make your apps cloud aware? How to empower employees to self-service?
Where should you provision new VMs? How do you keep track of it all?
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1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

9. But questions arise as the environment grows...
“VM SPRAWL” CAN MAKE THINGS UNMANAGEABLE VERY QUICKLY
APPS USERS ADMINS
A Cloud Management Layer Is Missing
1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

10. Solution: OpenStack, The Cloud Operating System
A NEW MANAGEMENT LAYER THAT ADDS AUTOMATION AND CONTROL
Connects to apps Self-service
via APIs Portals for users
APPS USERS ADMINS
CLOUD OPERATING SYSTEM
Creates Pools of Resources Automates The Network
1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

11. openstack
C LO U D S O F T WA R E
TM
In summary.....
• Controls & automates pools of resources
• Efficiently allocates resources
• Empowers admins & users via self-service portals
• Empowers developers to make apps cloud-aware via APIs

12. What’s next?
Enterprise Private Clouds run
cloud operating systems...
Public Clouds run cloud
operating systems...
1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

13. Imagine having a Common Platform across clouds
Seamlessly transporting workloads
1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

14. A common platform is here.
OPENSTACK IS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE POWERING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUDS.
Public Cloud:
Private Cloud:
OpenStack powers
Run OpenStack
some
software
of the worlds largest
in your own corporate
public
data centers
cloud deployments.
1. Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation
Automation & Efficiency

15. openstack
C LO U D S O F T WA R E
TM
Why service providers are adopting....
• Originated by Rackspace and NASA
• Designed to scale cost effectively
• Emerging standard backed large ecosystem
• Open source

16. openstack
C LO U D S O F T WA R E
TM
...and why open source
• Faster innovation
• No lock-in
• Flexibility
• Standards through ubiquity

17. About OpenStack

18. OpenStack
•OpenStack Compute (Nova): Provision OpenStack
Compute: provision and manage large networks of
virtual machines
•OpenStack Object Store (Swift): Create petabytes of
reliable storage using standard servers
•OpenStack Image Service (Glance): Catalog and
manage large libraries of server images

19. Emerging Efforts
•Identity Management - “Keystone” incubated
•Networking - “Quantum” incubated
•Dashboard - incubated
•Load Balancers - in development
•Queueing - in development
•Database - in development
•Etc

20. Ecosystem is 100+ and Growing

21. Rapid Evolution - 3 releases in 2011
tomorrow!
Diablo:
Global scale
Cactus:
Service Provider
• Storage as-a-Service
Bexar: • Networking as-a-Service
Enterprise POC •
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Enhanced scheduling
Multi-network interface
• Multi-region support
• Scale for Service Provider • Network isolation
• Hypervisor agnostic
• Live migration
• Multi-tenant accounting
• Image integrity checks
• Scale for Enterprise clouds
• Performance enhancements
• Objects of unlimited size
• Support for IPv6
• Glance image registry

22. Some Stats
•1,200 active participants
•17 countries represented at Design Summit
•Nearly 50,000 downloads
•Worldwide network of user groups
•Active documentation community

23. How You Can Participate
•OpenStack Conference in Boston October 5th-7th:
http://bit.ly/openstackboston
•Website: www.openstack.org
•Mailing Lists: http://lists.openstack.org
•Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org
•Twitter: @openstack