CEPH & OPENSTACK Red Hat's Winning Combination for Enterprise Clouds

Rahul Vijayan

Senior Solutions Architect Bangalore

AGENDA

Why OpenStack?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Overview

Red Hat Ceph Storage

Overview

“Better Together”

Resources

Q&A

IT Operations is Being Challenged By New Demands

Application demands are becoming more complex

IMMEDIATE PERVASIVE AWARE

CLOUD MOBILE INTERNET OF THINGS

BIG DATA AUTOMATION ABSTRACTION

These New Demands Are Forcing a Shift in Application Design

Application requirements are becoming more diverse

Existing infrastructure is not designed to do this!

Data has become too large We're producing vast amounts of data, exponentially! Way past the ability of traditional systems & applications

Scaling UP no longer works. Scaling OUT is a necessity

lService requests are too large More and more client devices coming online

Mobile phones, tablets, etc. Much harder to maintain service to customers

lTraditional applications and infrastructure were not written to cope with this level of demand

IT Operations Must Adapt

OpenStack: Framework for the Cloud

Needs to access x86 hardware resources

Needs an operating environment, hypervisor, services

Leverages existing code libraries for functionality

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

It is dependent on the underlying Linux

Optimized and Co-Engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A typical OpenStack cloud is made up of at least 9 core services + plugins to interact with 3rd party systems

These services run on top of a Linux distribution with a complex set of user space integration dependencies

Red Hat adds optimization's in OpenStack and Linux

Virtualization – guest performance, reliability, & Windows

Security - SELinux enforcing guest isolation

Network – SDN/OVS performance optimized

Storage – Ceph integration, vendor plugins, performance

Ecosystem – Certification of hardware, storage, & networks

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

Optimized Enablers for OpenStack Red Hat

Supported Guests

OpenStack

KVM

RHEL

Hardware

Why Red Hat?

All the value of community OpenStack and...

Enterprise hardened code

Co-engineered and integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Graphical Installer ensuring production-ready deployment Live orchestrated system upgrades with Director 3 year “production phase” software lifecycle

World-class global support Worlds largest OpenStack partner ecosystem

OpenStack training, certification, and professional services Integrated with a trusted solution stack

Including Red Hat Ceph Storage

TRADITIONAL STORAGE

IS INFLEXIBLE

Using traditional, proprietary storage appliances: Capacity is purchased one large appliance at a time

• Requires large investment, disruptive “forklift” upgrades

Hardware is specialized and expensive

• Cost and capacity do not scale evenly

Traditional storage appliances are not likely to be deployed and managed by cloud builders

STORAGE APPLIANCE

COMPUTE

NODE

STORAGE SHOULD SCALE

WITH COMPUTE

Using standard, readily-available servers: Capacity can be purchased incrementally

• Saves money and increases efficiency

One vendor can provide both storage and compute nodes

• Increases purchasing power

Storage can be deployed by cloud builders instead of faraway storage admins in different departments

COMPUTE

NODE

STORAGE

NODE

OVERVIEW: RED HAT CEPH STORAGE

Powerful distributed storage for the cloud and beyond

OpenStack

Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system, based on years of research and suitable for powering infrastructure platforms

TARGET USE CASES

Cinder, Glance & Nova

Object storage for tenant apps

Object Storage for Applications

Swift and S3 API

Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable

Offers enterprise-ready interfaces for block and object storage for the enterprise

Customer Highlight: Cisco

Cisco uses Red Hat Ceph Storage to deliver storage for next-generation cloud services

Media and Archival

VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE

CEPH BLOCK DEVICE

(RBD)

Keystone API Swift API Cinder API Glance

API

Nova

API

CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY

(RGW)

RED HAT CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER

Hypervisor

OPENSTACK

Full integration with Nova, Cinder and Glance

Single storage for images and ephemeral and persistent volumes

Copy-on-write provisioning

Swift-compatible object storage gateway

Full integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Provides both volume storage and object storage for tenant applications

Reduces provisioning time for new virtual machines

No data transfer of images between storage and compute nodes required

Unified installation experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

FEATURES BENEFITS

The most widely deployed1 technology for OpenStack storage

1 http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

OBJECT STORAGE FOR TENANT APPLICATIONS

CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY

(RGW)

Unstructured data storage for distributed, cloud-native applications

APP

FEATURES BENEFITS

APP APP APP

CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY

(RGW)

RED HAT CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER

S3 API

OPENSTACK

S3 API S3 API S3 API

Compatibility with S3 and Swift APIs

Fully-configurable replicated or erasure coded storage backends

Cache tiering pools

Multi-site failover

Supports broad ecosystem of tools and applications built for the S3 API Provides a modern hot/warm/cold storage

topology that offers cost-efficient performance

Advanced durability at optimal price

BETTER TOGETHER

Voted #1 Storage for OpenStack

Source: 2015 User Survey: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-users-share-how-their-deployments-stack-up

Better Together

lTechnical integration Red Hat Ceph Storage clients are included in RHEL OpenStack

Platform

Red Hat Ceph Storage driver configuration can be performed by the

RHEL OpenStack Platform director

lProduct integration Matching product life cycle support which avoid different

procurement cycles and support complexities.

lComprehensive cloud platform support from a single, trusted vendor

Linux Operating System (kernel, networking, etc) Hypervisor (KVM) Storage

OpenStack cloud platform

lIntegrated build and QA processes Able to find and fix complex bugs more quickly

Delivered in a consistently packaged manner

Better Together

OEMs and IHVs ISVs

Cloud Service Providers System Integrators

Channel Partners Managed Service Providers

Over 275+ certified partner members

Over 900 certified solutions Over 4,000 RHEL certified compute servers Over 13,000 applications available on RHEL

Large catalog of Windows certified applications

WORLDS LARGEST CERTIFIED ECOSYSTEM

lRed Hat Enterprise Linux

lRed Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform

lRed Hat Ceph Storage

lOpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat

lRed Hat CloudForms

“FICO has reduced time to value for

developing analytic solutions by up to

70%...”

-Tony McGivern, CIO, FICO

Runs FICO analytic cloud in hybrid mode, using OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift online

Runs all OpenShift on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Uses Red Hat Ceph Storage for all

OpenStack enterprise storage

Customer Success

lLearn more about RHEL OpenStack Platform

redhat.com/openstack

lLearn more about Red Hat Ceph Storage

redhat.com/storage

lLearn about our certified OpenStack partner ecosystem

connect.redhat.com

lCome meet us! OpenStack Summit, Tokyo 10/27-10/30

RESOURCES

THANK YOU

rahul.vijayan@redhat.com

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