OpenStack supports many different compute, storage and networking environments for various deployment models. Over the past 15 years, major investments went into building Fibre Channel storage infrastructures. Are you asking yourself “How can I extend OpenStack to utilize my existing FC SAN environment or does OpenStack block storage support FC storage?”
Attend this session to learn about an initiative supported by a group of tier-one, FC-SAN, vendors including Brocade, HP, EMC, and IBM, to make FC technology relevant in an OpenStack environment. Two new Fiber Channel blueprints and their implementations for the Grizzly release and beyond as well as considerations around managing FC SAN volumes and zones from an OpenStack orchestration perspective will be covered. If you are considering moving your dev/test or storage/backup or business applications to the cloud and extending your future FC private cloud environment to leverage OpenStack then plan on attending this discussion.
This session is a 201 level technical deep dive on the VMware/Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is a virtual networking platform powering many OpenStack production environments as the networking engine behind Quantum. In this session we’ll explore the distributed systems architecture of the NVP Controller Cluster, the core functionality and behavior of NVP’s primary system components, and the logical networking devices and security tools NVP produces for consumption. High availability deployments, and packet flows for common scenarios will be discussed. And finally, we’ll take a look at how the physical network fabric can be architected for NVP deployments.
Some of the session topics include:
System Components Review
NVP Controller Cluster Hypervisor Nodes NVP Gateway Nodes NVP Service Nodes
NVP Controller Cluster
Scale-out control plane & HA control and management channels
NVP enabled Hypervisors
Scale-out data plane
NVP Security Groups
NVP Logical Network Devices
Logical Switches
Logical Routers
QoS, NA T, Monitoring, Security
NVP Gateways
Scale-out & HA
Connecting to external networks
Physical network design with NVP
OpenStack has evolved quickly but it can be improved with management tools. We’ll explore dashboards and API management of OpenStack private clouds. We’ll compare the advantages of management at different layers--the cloud, the infrastructure and the applications.
In this panel, members from AMD, Arista, Brocade, EMC, HortonWorks, NetApp and Rackspace will discuss the Enterprise OpenStack ecosystem and speak about benefits and motives for making OpenStack a core part of their product offering.
Network virtualization has become a very hot topic over the last year. What began as an intriguing piece of technology is quickly becoming a fundamental requirement of scalable, next generation cloud infrastructure. Some of the top developers in this space including Big Switch Networks, Midokura, NEC, and NTT/Ryu
will join an industry panel to discuss the present and future of network virtualization software. Some of the topics that may be discussed include:
Use cases / reasons addressed by network virtualization technology
Current state of technology adoption
Emerging technologies (VXLAN, NVGRE, OpenFlow, etc.), hardware changes, Quantum development and integration, etc.
Impact of open source
Come join us to learn where network virtualization is going!
How do you design and deploy a hybrid cloud application service using Openstack, VMware Vcenter and HP Public Cloud Service? How do you automatically scale your multi-tier application to respond
to peak demand?
This presentation will focus on the architecture blueprint and best practices for designing a scalable hybrid cloud application service using Openstack API and HP Cloud technology components.
It will also highlight the following aspects:
-Application resource management
-Orchestration of an application deployment on top of Openstack cloud -Performance and Security considerations
RedHat has created it's own OpenStack distribution that is now in preview and still a bit rough around the edges, but promises to include what is needed to deploy & evaluate a truly & complete Open Cloud environment. In addition, Red Hat wants there to be a widely used open-source community developed PaaS model for the cloud which includes being open to participation by a community of peers.
To really create a open cloud environment and to make it useful, you need to complete the stack with an PaaS. Just getting a cloud environment up and running is no longer enough. The challenge that OpenStack faces is how to get people, applications and services working on OpenStack out of the box.
One approach to the problem is to combining all the necessary pieces that go into building an OpenStack cloud (compute, storage, networking, management) with a platform as a service (PaaS) into your OpenStack distribution.
OpenShift Origin project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive and widely-used open source license, which was selected so that the code would be available for use by the broadest range of
individuals and organizations. This is the same license chosen by the OpenStack project, for much the same reason. This license is already well known and understood by individuals and organizations already involved in cloud computing and in enterprise scale open source development.
In this session, I'll discuss RedHat's efforts with OpenStack, Fedora, & OpenShift Origin to create a more complete OpenStack distribution. Our community initiatives to ensure Origin easily and seamlessly integrates on any OpenStack distribution and how to you can add Origin into your own OpenStack distributions.
IBM has built its cloud strategy around OpenStack. As such IBM is investing to make OpenStack good enough for a broad range of customers. Likewise, IBM is providing proprietary value add via well designed OpenStack extension points and by building additional capabilities above the OpenStack IaaS.
This presentation will introduce IBM's new suite of cloud product offerings with a deep dive into some of the key areas which extend the open source projects. Likewise we'll describe the capabilities that are layered above OpenStack which can interoperate with other OpenStack compatible clouds, both on and off premises.
We'll show how IBM's breadth of technologies developed internally and acquired are being integrated into the OpenStack ecosystem. Finally, we'll introduce an online marketplace for everything OpenStack from free and open source images and scripts, to chef cookbooks, to commercial automation assets.
How can Hadoop take advantage of OpenStack and how can the OpenStack meet the needs of a demanding Hadoop cluster? In this session, we will briefly look at the Hadoop’s design decisions; come up with the best practices for deploying and running Hadoop on OpenStack and some of the challenges around it. We’ll also look at the ongoing work in the Hadoop and OpenStack community, and explore how we can make OpenStack a better platform for Hadoop and big data.
Using OpenStack in the context of a cloud service provider carries some considerations. A key differentiator is user experience and in order to provide as a service.
In this session we will discuss the key differentiations required from a portal, based on the target audiences of the platform, a reference architecture for the inclusion of business support services, key OpenStack components and how they are included in this architecture and some best practices for improving user experiences around OpenStack.
Here at NetApp, we've learned a few things lately about OpenStack.
We've seen a rapid rise in OpenStack interest and activity among our customers, prospects and partners. It's a wonderful reminder that the investments we’ve made over the past several years to enable NetApp solutions to be provisioned and managed smoothly within an OpenStack environment represent a tremendous opportunity to leverage the best of open source ingenuity combined with powerful storage and data management.
Along the way, we’ve accumulated a fair amount of tangible insight on the value of OpenStack, its evolution in the market, and the storage solutions being deployed with it. We’ve also found plenty of truth, myth, and folklore. Come hear as we review NetApp’s real-world discoveries about OpenStack and find out what myths need retiring as well as which truths need uncovering.
Flexibility and interoperability: They are important elements for adopting cloud computing and IBM believes that an Open Cloud Architecture and nimble open source technology translate into savings for our clients and will rapidly expand the cloud marketplace. IBM together with OpenStack will deliver open IaaS offerings for our clients and business partners. In this session, Angel Diaz, IBM VP Software Standards, Cloud Labs and HiPODS, highlights IBM commitment, vision, and offerings built on OpenStack, for all types of clouds. From simple to implement, to massively scalable, and feature rich, Client interest is accelerating at an impressive rate and Angel will highlight the top use cases IBM is addressing with their clients.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service, as exemplified by the success of commercial cloud computing service providers, has clearly proven to be the fastest way to develop and deploy elastic web applications. With the introduction of OpenStack, SDN and API’s for programmatic control over both physical and virtual infrastructure, an opportunity emerges for a completely new way to think about “infrastructure as a service” for both tenants and system administrators alike. This talk will focus on how we and others in the community are working with OpenStack and extending the Quantum network service to explore new ways to think about the delivery of network services and infrastructure management. While still in it’s early formative stage, this approach promises to bring new meaning and possibilities for infrastructure-as-a-service limited only by our own imagination.
In this session Intel focuses on continued momentum for Trusted Compute Pools in OpenStack, a graphical SWIFT object store benchmarking tool, and enhancements across compute, networking, and storage targeted for future OpenStack releases. The session will conclude with the latest developments in Intel’s own deployment and use of OpenStack for their hybrid cloud.
While it's still an evolving area, the industry now has a a few years of virtual networking under its belt. And with many production deployments, and standard abstraction layers like Quantum, OpenStack is leading the way. In this talk, I'll draw from my experience of hundreds of customers visited, hundreds of thousands of miles flown, and dozens of deployments to describe use cases, what works, what doesn't, and where things seem to be going.
I will also touch on VMware's progress on vSphere in OpenStack and our plans for VMware NSX, the industry's first unified network virtualization platform out later this year.
Networking challenges in data center and cloud environments have received significant attention by industry and standards organizations. The data center environment is dominated by the presence of software networking components (vswitches) in server hypervisors, which may outnumber by an order of magnitude the physical networking nodes. Bridging the gap between server based networking and existing network services is a significant challenge, since the ultimate goal is the design of end-to-end network services. When it comes to advanced L3 services and interoperability with existing managed VPN services, existing solutions rely on static routing and/or centralized routing mechanisms that cannot meet the requirements for resiliency and dynamic networking.
This talk will discuss a simple approach for this problem, which combines traditional control plane and routing protocol approaches with the flexibility of SDN architectures and Openflow. The mechanism relies on maintaining an Openflow interface to hypervisors and utilizing existing routing mechanisms when a scaled out data center deployment is required to federate a number of SDN controllers, or to interoperate with traditional MPLS/VPN network services without the need for dedicated gateways or complex OSS integrations.
From a deployment perspective, we will discuss how this approach can be easily integrated within the Openstack Quantum framework by requiring minimal modifications. The solution also enables the federation and interoperability of Openstack deployments at the network layer even across administrative domains as well as the extension of enterprise networks into Quantum managed networks.
The presentation will conclude with a live demo of the solution.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a hotbed of activity with established players as well as well-funded start-ups tackling the largely unsolved problem of large-scale network virtualization in cloud deployments. OpenStack Quantum provides the foundational interfaces to bring in SDN technologies to the OpenStack environment. The ultimate goal is to finally free applications from being aware of specific networking details (like ports, IP addresses etc) and at the same time reducing the operational costs of managing the switching fabric in the era of cloud and mobile computing. Companies have a variety of approaches and solutions to this. In this panel discussion, Dell will moderate a discussion with experts from Big Switch, Midokura Dell, and others, to talk about the evolution of this exciting new space and its relevance within the OpenStack context.
Executive Welcome:
Nnamd Orakwue, Vice President, Cloud, Dell
Panel Moderator:
Joseph B George, Director of Product Strategy for Revolutionary Cloud and Big Data Solutions, Dell
Panel participants:
How much for an Openstack Cloud please?
That's it! You're ready! You know everything there is to know about OpenStack.
It's architecture, features and a bunch of other cool stuff.
But finally: How much does an OpenStack Cloud cost?
During this talk, we'll work on two real production use cases to provide you with a detailed, yet simple, financial analysis that will help you budget your future cloud projects. We’ll present the case of a basic simple infrastructure and a second example will treat of a much more complex, high end platform.
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