Does your Infrastructure Zone Match Your Application Workload?

Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Cloud Solutions Architect, SolidFire

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Expectations / Agenda

• Cloud Market Overview

• Dual Workloads

• Demo

Cloud Market Overview

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Business Strategy:Leverage early success in SP/Telco into greenfield on-premise clouds on the path to the hybrid cloud end game

SP/TelcoClouds

Cloud Platforms(General Purpose)

Grow with success of design wins

2010–2013

1

HybridClouds

Cloud Federation(Connect Apps & Infrastructure)

De facto end state – manage apps across hybrid clouds

2014–2017

3Cloud Solutions

(Greenfield Clouds)

Deliver Enterprise solutions, leverage integration

to XenDesktop & NetScaler

2012–2015

2

On-Premise Clouds

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Citrix Cloud Solutions

Open Source Xen Hypervisor

Amazon Proprietary Orchestration Software

Networking StorageCompute

XenServer

CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack

CloudPortal Business Manager

ESX KVM Hyper-V

Self-Service Delivery

Cloud Orchestration

Virtualization

Raw Resources

Workloads

INFRA-STRUCTURE

DEV & TEST

DISASTERRECOVERY

BYOPLATFORM

APPS &DESKTOPS

MOBILEAPPS

YOURSERVICE

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200+ Large Scale

Production CloudsIn Deployment

Production siteswith over

40,000+Servers

Deliver Every WorkloadAre you matching your workload to your infrastructure?

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Two fundamental types of application workloads

Expect reliability

Back-up everything

HA, Fault tolerance

Admin control recovery

SAP, Oracle, AutoCAD, Exchange

Design for failure

Ephemeral resources

Multi-site redundancy

Self-service recovery

Big Data, HPC, Social, Gaming

Think Server Virtualization Think Amazon Web Services

Traditional workloads Cloud workloads

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Designing a traditional application workload zone

vCenter / XenCenter

Hypervisor Cluster

Hypervisor Cluster

Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)

Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)

Hypervisor

Storage

SAN

Networking

L2 VLANs

Network Services

Load Balancing Firewall

Multi-tier Apps

Multi-tier VLANs OVF

vSphere or XenServer EnterpriseTraditional Application Availability Zone

VPN

Failure is not an option – 99.999 uptime required

Hypervisor Cluster

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Designing a cloud application zone

Hypervisor

Storage

Local EBS

Networking

L3 SDN based L2 Elastic IP

Network Services

Security Groups ELB

Multi-tier Apps

3rd Party Tools

XenServer Advanced

GSLB

CloudFormation

Software Defined Networks (e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)

Cloud-Native Availability Zone

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Object Storage

Object Store

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CloudStack

CloudStack Supports Both Workloads

Software Defined Networks (e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)

Cloud-Native Availability Zone

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Server Racks

Object Storage

Virtualization Management Server

Hypervisor Cluster

Hypervisor Cluster

Hypervisor Cluster

Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)

Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)

Traditional Application Availability Zone

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Demo

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CloudStack Benefit: Time to Value

• Apache CloudStackᵒ DevCloudᵒ Apache CloudStack Mailing Listsᵒ Apache CloudStack Getting Started Docs

• Build CloudPlatform In a Hourᵒ Single management host, non-production POCᵒ Use CloudPlatform Quick Installation Guide

• Build CloudPlatform In a Dayᵒ Multiple hosts, production qualityᵒ Use CloudPlatform Installation Guide

• Build CloudPlatform - Cisco Validated Designᵒ Multiple Hosts, production reference architectureᵒ Cisco & NetApp hardwareᵒ Use Cisco CVD: FlexPod with CloudPlatform

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Conclusions

• Cloud Market Overview

• Dual Workloads• Benefit: Deliver Every Application –

Now and Future

• Demo

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Questions?

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