OpenStack for VMware Admins - VMworld vBrownbag 2013

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Colin McNamara CCIE#18233

Chief Cloud Architect

OPEN@NEXUS


My Perspective

CCIE / VCP / OpenStack Contributor

Core - OpenStack Manuals

Co-Founder – OpenStack Training

Linux user since 98

VMware user since 99


What I am going to talk about

NOT getting into a vendor war Talk to VMware and Cisco if you want that

Why OpenStack (and why VMware)

OpenStack Compenents and Use


Industry is shifting


Client server apps – The new mainframe


Built Differently

40% of mobile apps built on cloud

“Enterprise Apps” Like SAP shifting

Constructed of loosely coupled services

Reliability / Availability / Security provide by the App


How are these built, and what do they run on


Classic Applications

Server Virtualization

VDI Application

Consolidation

Management

Client / Server apps

Different platforms, Different workloads

PublicEnterprise Virtualization Open Clouds

EDA/HPC Apps

BYOD File Services

“Cloud” Apps

BYOD File Services

Research Apps

Your Local Datacenter Remote

Tools (Boto/Asguard)


Small amount of apps on Cloud Platforms

App Distribution

Modern AppClassic Apps


But what about OpenStack?


OpenStack Development Ecosystem: 500+


Community Developed


Lines of code (ohloh)

Nearly 600,000 Lines of Code


OpenStack Vision


OpenStack = History in brief

NASA Launches Nebula Built by and for Fed Govt Chris Kemp

March 2010 Rackspace Open Sources

Swift (Cloud File)

May 2010 NASA Open Sources

virtualization software - Nova

June 2010 OpenStack Formed

April 2011 – Essex Released

August 2012 – VMware acknowledges existence

Now – Cooler then Amazon ;)


OpenStack Cloud Operating System


OpenStack Capabilities and Projects

Compute Provision and manage large pools of on-demand computing resources

Object Storage

Petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear

Block Storage

Volumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers for more advanced systems like NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta

Networking Software defined networking automation with pluggable backends

Dashboard Self-service, role-based web interface for users and administrators

Shared Services

Multi-tenant authentication system that ties to existing stores (e.g. LDAP) and Image Service


OpenStack / VMware Rosetta Stone

Compute(Nova) vSphere / ESXi

Object Storage(Swift)

NFS Data Store (Kinda)

Block Storage(Cinder)

iSCSI storage – VNX / NetApp / Nexenta

Networking(Neutron) Distributed vSwitch / NSX

Dashboard(Horizon) vSphere UI

Shared Services

(Keystone)Active Directory