A technical review and comparsion between OpenStack and VMware

1. OpenStack vs VMware vCloud

2. Personal Profile:
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Roozbeh Shafiee
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Cloud and Virtualization Architect
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Technical Manager at innfinision Cloud Solutions
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Roozbeh.Shafiee@innfinision.net
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Innfinision.net

3. innfinision Cloud Solutions:
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Providing Cloud, Virtualization and Data Center Solutions
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Developing Software for Cloud Environments
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Providing Services to Telecom, Education, Broadcasting & Health Fields
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Supporting OpenStack Foundation as the First Iranian Company
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First Supporter of IRAN OpenStack Community

4. OpenStack vs VMware vCloud innfinision.net
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IT Managers Important Points
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OpenStack Pro/Cons
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VMware Pro/Cons
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Technical Compare
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Non-technical Compare
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Who Should Use OpenStack ?
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Who Should Use VMware ?
Agenda:

5. IT Managers Important Points
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6. The important points for IT managers in organizations and companies to
manage infrastructure services are:
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Easy to use
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Management tools & Optional web interfaces
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Easy to find skills and support
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Entry cost and maintenance, The lower the better
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Integration with other platforms
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Other points by you
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7. OpenStack Pro/Cons
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8. The advantage of OpenStack by our experiences at innfinision:
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The most successful Open Source project after Linux kernel
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Support from many OEMs and OS vendors
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Interoperability with many components, just pick your
favorite one and plug it in
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Standard and well accepted APIs
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9. The disadvantage of OpenStack by our experiences at innfinision:
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Very complex to setup and troubleshoot
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Although common code base, might differ from implementations
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Need high numbers of management nodes
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High skills required to run the cluster
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10. VMware vCloud Pro/Cons
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11. The advantage of VMware vCloud by our experiences at innfinision and
our customers advises:
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Feature rich (vSphere HA, vMotion, DRS, I/O control)
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Very large ecosystems
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All os vendors make it supported and certified under ESXi
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ESXi can be downloaded and used freely
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12. The disadvantage of VMware vCloud by our experiences at innfinision and
our customers advises:
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Per core license - expensive
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Proprietary platform
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ESXi can not be APIs accessed - need to buy licenses
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Most of applications are based on Windows
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13. OpenStack at a Glance
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15. VMware vCloud at a Glance
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17. Technical Compare
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18. Hypervisor:
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OpenStack supports variants of hypervisor and container such as
KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XEN, Docker,
LXC
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VMware vCloud suppors ESXi as the only and default hypervisor
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19. Customer and operations access :
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OpenStack native dashboard, 3rd parties dashboards, CLI
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VMware Windows clients, vCloud Director (EOL’d)
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20. Storage:
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OpenStack Default non-persistent images. Pluggable Cinder:block
volumes, Ceph, Several vendor SAN
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VMware VMFS over SAN and iSCSI
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21. Network:
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Traditional switching and Software Defined Network
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VMware traditional switching infrastructure, SDN with additional
products
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22. Image management:
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OpenStack Glance Image Service, support all popular image formats
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VMware Catalogs & templates, OVF import
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23. Management System:
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Nova (Cluster Controller)
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VMware vCenter
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24. High Availability:
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Nova for VMs HA; OpenStack HA project for infrastructure
components
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VMware vCenter Heartbeat
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25. APIs:
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For OpenStack based on Open REST APIs, compatibility with
Amazon EC2 & S3
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For VMware is Proprietary, mostly only under Perl and Powershell
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26. Non-technical Compare
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27. Costs:
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For OpenStack everything is free but Some might charge for a
maintenance fee for enterprise support
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In VMware the costs contains License + Maintenance fee
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28. Industries :
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OpenStack is for cloud management platform for large providers,
carriers and large outsourcers
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VMware is for virtualization for enterprises
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29. Skills:
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For OpenStack high-end skills required, including system and
network
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For VMware, basic system administration is needed
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30. Expansion :
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No actual limitation on OpenStack (might be handy create different
Availability Zones)
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Max 32 physical nodes on VMware vCloud, though not
recommended
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31. Migration:
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OpenStack any to any through built-in qemu tools
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VMware converter for P2V and other virtualization formats
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32. Flexibility:
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OpenStack primarily created for Linux, Windows supported on the
same infrastructure
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Great guest OS support and large ecosystem on VMware vCloud
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33. Documentation and Support:
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OpenStack active community and vendors support
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VMware commercial telephone/web support
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34. Certifications:
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Certification by training companies such as Mirantis & Red Hat
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All Certifications by VMware company
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35. Who Should Use OpenStack ?
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36. If you are a large company or ISP with hundreds of VMs and
networks being destroyed and created daily and have budget of
having more than 15 physical nodes to start, go for OpenStack
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37. Who Should Use VMware ?
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38. If you need certified traditional workloads (ex: Oracle, SAP,
Microsoft Dynamics, ...) and you have money and also you want all
the point-and-click features, this is a no-brainer decision go for
VMware
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39. Roozbeh Shafiee
Roozbeh.Shafiee@innfinision.net
innfinision.net
Thank you