1. OPENSTACK DO'S AND DON'TS
OpenStack Round Table Lunch
Amsterdam
Frederik Bijlsma
BU Manager, Cloud BU EMEA
11th September 2013
@fbijlsma
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3. WORKLOADS ARE SHIFTING TO CLOUD TYPE
TRADITIONAL
WORKLOADS
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CLOUD
WORKLOADS
Stateful VMs, application = VM
Big VMs: vCPU, vRAM, storage inside VM
Application SLA = SLA of VM
SLA requires enterprise virtualization
features to keep VMs highly available
Lifecycle measured in years
VMs scale up: add vCPU, vRAM, etc.
Applications not designed to tolerate
failure of VMs
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Stateless VMs
Small VMs: vCPU, vRAM, storage separate
Application SLA <> SLA of any one VM
SLA requires ability to create and destroy
VMs where needed
Lifecycle measured in hours to months
Applications scale out: add more VMs
Applications tolerate failure of VMs
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4. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX OPENSTACK PLATFORM
DESIGNED FOR CLOUD WORKLOADS
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Modular architecture
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Designed to easily scale out (based on Software components)
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Based on (growing) set of core services
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Designed for Cloud Workloads
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6. RED HAT + OPENSTACK
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Red Hat offers an OpenStack distribution under subscription
Build on well established principles and discipline established
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Enterprise grade distribution and rich ecosystem
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Early Adopter Program to work with Key Customers / Partners
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7. Red Hat OpenStack Partner Ecosystem
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8. RED HAT OPENSTACK TIMELINE
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9. RED HAT'S OPENSTACK LEADERSHIP
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10. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX OPENSTACK PLATFORM
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6 month cadence
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Roughly 2 months AFTER upstream
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Initially 1 year lifecycle
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Time to stabilize, certify, backport etc.
Will increase lifecycle over time based on upstream stability
and customer requirements
Hardware and application certifications from RHEL carry over
to RHEL OpenStack Platform
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Consistent ecosystem of partners
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11. VISION FOR A RED HAT OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
MIGRATE TO OPENSTACK & OPEN VIRTUALIZATION
Shared Services
based on
OpenStack
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12. OPENSTACK DO'S AND DON`TS
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Classify IT Landscape
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Workloads (Application Ready for OpenStack?)
Data Security Tiers
Greenfield or Brownfield installation?
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“Manager of Managers” required – otherwise double effort
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Compare Software Support Models
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Look for experiences Implementation Partners
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