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From The CoalfaceReal Customer Use Cases

Paul AngusCloud Architect

[email protected]: @ShapeBlue

@ShapeBlue #CloudStack #CCCEU13

Real Customer Use Cases

How they’re using CloudStack

CloudStack Infrastructure

From The Coalface


Who am I

Cloud Architect with ShapeBlueWorked with CloudStack since 2.2.13Specialising in deployment of CloudStackand surrounding infrastructureOrange, TomTom, PaddyPower, Ascenty, BSkyBI view CloudStack from ‘What can cloud consumers practically do with it’ point-of-view

About Me


“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public & private clouds. They are the

leading global independent CloudStack / CloudPlatform integrator &

consultancy”

About ShapeBlue


From The Coalface

Use Cases


Test & Dev

Highly scalable public facing applications

High speed server resource deployment

Reduced reliance on corporate infrastructure teams

Use Cases


From The Coalface

In a real private cloud


Trader MediaOwns ‘AutoTrader’ which started in print mediaWebsite receives 10 million unique users per monthAn average of 833,000,000 page views per monthCloudStack environment is still in development


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Hits

Early Morning Lunchtime Late Evening

Burst Threshold

Traffic Profile(indicative)

Trader Media


‘Standard deployment’

Trader Media

DC1 DC2

HostsHosts

Hosts

HostsHosts

HostsHosts

MySQL

MySQL

CS Man

CS Man

LB

Hosts


Trader MediaDC1 DC2

HostsHosts

Hosts

HostsHosts

Hosts

F5

CS ManHosts

CS Man

CS Man

CS Man Hosts

F5

MySQL

Galera

MySQL

MySQL

F5

MySQL

Galera

MySQL

MySQL

F5


RightScale

Trader MediaCLOUD MANAGEMENT

Configuration ManagementAutomation Engine

Governance Controls


Paddy Power“If we haven’t yet done the marketing equivalent of running up and slapping you in the face, then please allow us to introduce ourselves. Paddy Power is Ireland’s biggest, most successful, security conscious and innovative bookmaker”


Paddy PowerFacts and figures

paddypower.com has 1.6 million users*

Annual revenue of $535m from online users*

CloudStack environment is still in development

*2012 figures


Environment Templates

Paddy Power

NOSQL

NEWAPP

Tomcat

NOSQL

NEWAPP

Tomcat

NOSQL

NEWAPP

Tomcat

NOSQL

NEWAPP

Tomcat

NOSQL

NEWAPP

Tomcat


Chaos Monkey / Simian Army (Problems as a Service)

Guest instances which are designedspecifically to disrupt or test elements to prove the robustness of the overall architecture.

Paddy Power


Faster transition from Development to Production

Paddy Power

Web

App

DB

Virtual Cisco ASA

Web

App

DB

Physical Cisco ASADevelpoment

ntierEnvironment

ProductionntierEnvironment


UK Satellite BroadcasterMobile viewing application has 3.26 million users51 million monthly streamed items12 million monthly streamed VOD viewsMobile Apps have a combined 6.3 million user base23 million weekly on-demand downloads


Security Groups -VPC Bottleneck

UK Satellite Broadcaster

WebTier

AppTier

CloudStack #͚Public %͚

DataTier

GW LB

VPC Router


Security groups in advancedzones


WebTier

AppTier

CloudStack #͚External %͚

CFTier

DataTier

MgmtTier

GW

LB

Security Group Separation

GWGW

GWGW


CassandraRequires anti-affinity of instances‘Snitch’ maps IPs to racks and data centers – requires control over IP addressing in conjunction with VM placement


110.100.200.105Data

cente

r oct

et

Rack (p

od)

octe

t Node oc

tet


Bursting to AmazonRequires VPN/direct link to maintain database consistencyUses Akamai



From The Coalface

Real Infrastructures


Logical management farm

CloudStack Infrastructure

Load Balancer Load Balancer

CS Manager CS Manager

MySQL MySQL

Deployment Server


Storage

Typical Hardware

Vendors

Protocols Speeds Arrangement

NetApp NFS 1Gb 1 Array per pod

Hitachi FCoE 40Gb converged 1 Array per zoneNexenta iSCSI 10Gb 2 Arrays per pod

SolidFire


Compute

Typical Hardware

Vendors No CoresInterface Speeds Hypervisors

HP 2x4 6x1Gb XenServer

Dell 2x8 2x10Gb ESXi

Cisco 4x10 8x1Gb KVMSuperMicro 4x8 12x1Gb

(LACP)


Networking

Typical Hardware

Vendors

Speed Arrangement

Cisco 1Gb Stacked

Juniper 10GbEtherchannel

(multi-chassis LACP)Arista 40Gb

(Converged)


Questions

?


Slides: www.slideshare.net/shapeblueBlogs: http://shapeblue.com/blog/Email: [email protected]: @CloudyAngusWeb: http://shapeblue.com http://cloudstack.apache.org/

Resources

http://www.slideshare.net/shapeblue

http://shapeblue.com/blog/



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From The CoalfaceReal Customer Use Cases

Paul AngusCloud Architect

[email protected]: @CloudyAngus @ShapeBlue

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