Webinar: OpenStack Benefits for KVM

Sirish Raghuram Co-founder, CEO,

Platform9

OpenStack Benefits for KVM Environments

Private Clouds Made Easy

© 2015 Platform9 Systems, Inc. Webinar: 7 Benefits of automating KVM environments w/ OpenStack

Speaker Bio

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Sirish Raghuram

• Co-founder, CEO at Platform9

• Previously: Staff Engineer at VMware (12 years)

• Technical and Management responsibility for multiple VMware products


• #1 platform for private clouds

• #2 open source project of all time

OpenStack Momentum

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What value can OpenStack deliver?

Forget the hype…


• This session speaks to KVM environments

• But OpenStack isn’t limited to KVM

• Upcoming session in April for VMware vSphere

• We’ll be using Platform9 for demos

• Private clouds made easy

• Several other ways to deploy OpenStack

Preamble

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© 2015 Platform9 Systems, Inc. @Platform9Sys

Platform9 Managed OpenStack:

• Your servers host your 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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• OpenStack database stores inventory information for all important objects

• Single place to search or perform operations, with the UI, API or CLI

• Easy access to Virtual Machine console

• Organize objects using Tags

#1 — Manage easily

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• Resource pooling

• Automates VM placement

• Intelligent placement based on resource utilization

• Automated IP Address Assignment

• Optionally, self-service provisioning

• Developers love this!

#2 — Reduce time to provision

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Resource Pooling

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• Create and reuse VM template images

• Customize images during provisioning

• Easily map VM instances to parent image

#3 — Reduce configuration sprawl

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• Segregate underlying infrastructure for different classes of workloads (or users!)

• By workload, hardware type, geography or organization

• Illustrations:

• Test/Dev vs Production

• Tier 1 vs Tier 2

• SSD vs HDD

#4 — Tier resources

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Resource Tiering

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Devops

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• Tightly control security configurations by using validated, trusted security groups

• Similar to AWS security groups

• Ref: https://community.hpcloud.com/article/managing-your-security-groups-135

• Reduce privileged access within your environment

• Tenants used to segment users: e.g. Operations vs Development

• Users have roles: e.g. Administrator vs Self-service

#5 — Enhance security

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https://community.hpcloud.com/article/managing-your-security-groups-135


• Intelligent, copy-on-write image caching

• Automatic reference counting of cached images

• Also improves provisioning time

• Especially valuable in dev/test automation

• Repeated setup and teardown of VM instances

#6 — Save storage space

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• Dynamically provision a software-defined-network

• Networking service (Neutron) interfaces with network system implementation

• Implementations: Open vSwitch, SDN vendors

• Also, provision isolated networks

• Penetration testing

• Performance isolation

#7 — Provision networks easily

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• Manage easily with UI, API or CLI

• Reduce time to provision

• Reduce configuration sprawl

• Tier resources

• Improve security

• Save storage space

• Provision networks easily

Recap — Key Benefits

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• These are 7 common ways OpenStack can benefit you

• Other, more strategic benefits too — webinar in May

• Have questions about these benefits or your readiness to adopt?

• Ask away!

• Prefer a 1:1 consultation? Send us a message

Summary

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Backup


OpenStack Architecture

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CLI / Tools Scripts Heat (Orchestration)

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