vSphere with OpenStackFoundations For A Hybrid Solution

Created by: Cody Bunch

Modified Date: July 23, 2014

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A Tale of Two Workloads

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Workload Dictates Architecture

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Right Infrastructure for the Workload

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Traditional Workloads

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Traditional IT Design Principles

Stateful Services

Operator focused

Monolithic architecture

Steady-state/ Predictable

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Traditional Infrastructure Consumption Models

On-Premises Infrastructure Off-Premises Hosting

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Design Goal: Resilient Infrastructures

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Cloud Native Workloads

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Cloud Native Design Principles

Distributed architecture

Developer focused

Stateless Services

Unpredictable/ Spikey

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Cloud Consumption Models

Public Cloud Private Cloud

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Design Assumption: Fragile Infrastructures

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What’s Wrong with the Cloud?

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We Architect Cloud for Rapid Scale

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At Scale Chaos and Failures Are Inevitable

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So Design for Failure

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Designing For Failure

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Let The Application Handle It’s Own Resiliency

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Build Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems

Message Bus

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Focus on Scaling Horizontally

Use more pieces, not bigger pieces

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Choose Cattle Over Pets

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Embrace Automation and Cultural Change

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Where OpenStack Fits In

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Automation and Orchestration of IT Resources

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Including Hypervisors Like vSphere

• OpenStack Compute is a manager of hypervisors

• OpenStack can manage multiple hypervisors– https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix

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By Leveraging Various Open Source Projects

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In a Loosely Coupled Architecture

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To Deliver Self-Service IT Rapidly and At Scale

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Building A Hybrid Cloud

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• Best hypervisor for traditional workloads

• On-ramp from virtualized infrastructure to cloud

• Customers have existing investments in vSphere

• Customers want best-fit solutions

vSphere Is Foundational

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Co-existence: Infrastructure Silos

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Best-fit: Hybrid Solution

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Resources

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• Getting Started with OpenStack and VMware– http://docs.openstack.org/

– http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/page/1/?s=vmware&submit=Search

– http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOPbuXbsHCyr2afbJwu5JAXZ-5peJ0qCH

• The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook (Second Edition)– http://goo.gl/URVRbJ

Resources

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