Self-service and automation using OpenStack for VMware vSphere

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Platform9

Private Clouds Made Easy

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• Speakers

• Platform9 Overview

• Platform9 Managed OpenStack

• vSphere Integration

• Use Cases

• Architecture

• Demo

• Interoperability

• Advanced Automation

Agenda

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• Happy to take questions anytime

• Twitter: @Platform9Sys

• Chat panel on GoToWebinar

• Feel free to ask!

Logistics

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Speakers

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Sirish Raghuram

• Co-founder, CEO at Platform9

• Previously: Staff Engineer at VMware (12 years)

Ken Hui

• Director of Technical Marketing at Platform9

• Previously: Cloud Solutions @ EMC,

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Speakers

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Amrish Kapoor

• Software Engineer at Platform9

• Architected vSphere integration

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• Team

• Founded 2013 by early VMware engineers

• US based: Sunnyvale, CA / SLC / NY

• Product Availability

• Generally Available for KVM: Jan 2015

• Generally Available for vSphere: Aug 2015

• Excerpts

• Backed by Redpoint Ventures & Menlo Ventures ($14.5M in 2 rounds)

• Customer deployments globally in 2 quarters of sales

Platform9 Overview

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• Software developers want cloud infrastructure

• Complexity barrier to private clouds in Enterprise

• Difficult to install & tune for production

• Nightmare to operate —> projects stuck in POC

• Lack of integration with existing investments

• No support for diverse virtualization platforms

• KVM, vSphere, Docker

Problem

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Platform9’s mission is to make private clouds easy for any enterprise at any scale

Manifesto

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OpenStack-as-a-Service

• Enterprise’s servers host their data

• Platform9 hosts the OpenStack controller as a Service, with an SLA

• No need to install, monitor, troubleshoot or upgrade OpenStack

Platform9 Managed OpenStack

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Key Benefits

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Now Generally Available for VMware vSphere!

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• Platform9’s Beta for VMware vSphere

• Jan 2015 - Jul 2015

• 10 beta participants from across the US and UK

• Validated across Computer Software, Marketing Automation, Media, Higher Ed and Service Provider verticals

Ramp from Beta to GA

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• Streamline VM Provisioning

• Central library of images

• Flavors specify CPU, memory, disk and resource policies

• Tenants, users, quotas

• Self-service accelerates innovation, reduces manual processes

• Infrastructure automation patterns

• Scale-out applications

• Unified management for vSphere and KVM / Docker

OpenStack Use Cases for vSphere

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Architecture

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Platform9 vSphere Gateway

Metadata Updates

Orchestration Commands

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vCenter

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Self-service Policy, Administration Persistence, Updates, Monitoring, HA

Stateless, lightweight

VM Operations

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• Onboarding Platform9 with existing vSphere

• Interoperability of vSphere and OpenStack

Demo

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• Discovers vSphere environment • Clusters, datastores, portgroups

• Template images, VM Instances

• Periodic refresh

• Benefits • Seamless on-ramp for existing

environments

• OpenStack is 100% interoperable; no restrictions on vSphere operations

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VM VMVM VM VM

100% Interoperability w/ vSphere

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• Storage

• Any datastores visible to vCenter are compatible

• Network

• Any portgroups visible to vCenter are compatible and registered as OpenStack networks

• Compatible with vDS

• Compatible with NSX, deeper integration coming

• Integration with Cisco APIC coming

Compatibility: Any Storage, Network

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• OpenStack controller services are delivered via SaaS model

• Scales automatically “behind the scenes”

• vSphere Gateway deployed per vCenter Server

• Stateless design: state is in the controller

• Multiple vCenters: multiple gateways

Scaling up and down w/ vSphere

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• VM placement automation, considers workload tier and capacity availability

• Automatic application sizing using Heat

• Supports cloud native application design, akin to AWS CloudFormations

• Auto-scale up based on increased VM resource utilization

• Auto-scale down based on decreased VM resource utilization

Automation: Infrastructure as Code

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• Auto-scaling using resource alarms (Ceilometer) and application templates (Heat)

Demo

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Summary

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How Platform9 Compares

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SaaS /

Compatibility: Hypervisors, HCL, Storage, Network,

Platform9

Complex, Professiona

Existing private cloud platforms

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• Generally available for VMware vSphere

• Simple, lightweight

• 100% interoperability with vSphere, seamless integration with existing environments

• Compatible with any storage and network

• Simplest solution to streamline provisioning, accelerate development

• Straight fit for existing vSphere environments

Summary

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