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
Us
vCenter
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Self-service Policy, Administration Persistence, Updates, Monitoring, HA
Stateless, lightweight
VM Operations
Webinar: Easy Button for VMware Private Clouds w/ Platform9
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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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