umf cloud pilot: architecturing an iaas offer for higher education
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A talk about the UMF Cloud PIlot, presented at the All Hands Meeting 2011 in York.TRANSCRIPT
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Summary
• background• the UMF Cloud Pilot• design decisions (so far)• business models and sustainability
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University Modernisation Fund
• £12.5 million from HEFCE to encourage uptake of shared services in HE– efficiency and value for money as key drivers
• channelled thru the JISC Shared Servicesand the Cloud programme– research and administrative computing– JANET Brokerage, DCC and Eduserv– 4 SaaS projects– RMAS, DARE and ESB– running until end of March 2012
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About Eduserv
• not-for-profit IT services company• best known in academia for OpenAthens and
CHEST• web hosting and development for
government sector• 20 year sustainable track record of growth
– >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services– 115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10– new datacentre in Swindon specifically for
education and the public sector
• charitable mission to encourage theeffective use of ICT in ‘public good’organisations
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UMF Cloud Pilot overview
• compute and storage cloud infrastructure• designed to address the major concerns of HEIs
– data remains in the UK at all times– operated for the long-term benefit
of the UK academic sector– integrated with the JANET network– lower the costs associated
with IT provisioning
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Community Cloud Infrastructure
• built to support the UMF Cloud Pilot and other initiatives– designed to support multiple cloud platforms and
sectors– will be price-competitive with other cloud providers
• UMF Cloud Pilot to run for 1 year– key outcome is to establish sustainable business
models– Eduserv investing for long-term
development of the service– post-funding (April 2012) Eduserv
will continue to operate the serviceon a commercial basis
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Delivered from
• our Swindon Data Centre– capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure– modular design– PUE efficiency design of <1.4– JANET backbone connectivity via
new JANET PoP
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Service levels and resilience
• operated by Eduserv– 24 x 7 systems monitoring and support– minimum 99.9% SLA
• desire to launch secondary site during 2012– support for automated replication of
data between sites– will deliver multi-site replication
and failover– equivalent to Amazon AWS
“Regions”
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Architected for scalability
• Cisco UCS blade infrastructure– dual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAM– designed to scale to >1,500 cores, 8 TB of RAM per ‘pod’– multiple ‘pods’
• Isilon storage– clustered NAS solution with near-SAN performance– scalable to 10PB usable
• connectivity– 2-tier Cisco switched network (core and
distribution)– fully resilient with no single point of
failure (including dual path toJANET PoP)
– all ports running at 10 Gbit/s
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Our offer
• vCloud Compute• OpenStack Compute• VM Storage• File Storage• JANET connectivity• all accessed via a self-service portal
integrated with the UK AccessManagement Federation
• … with possibility of long termtape archiving in the future
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Timescales
• now– vCloud Compute ‘lab’ environment for use by UMF-
funded SaaS projects
• by end of the year– pricing details (mid-October)– vCloud Compute general availability
• early 2012– self-service Web portal– OpenStack Compute availability– File Storage beta
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Design decisions
• Cisco UCS– good fit with other activities, options for offering
blade leasing
• Isilon– NAS with SAN-like performance, flexible capacity,
no single point of failure
• VMware– good fit with institutional vSphere services
• OpenStack– good backing from industry,
where OSS momentum seemsto be
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Business models / sustainability
• for us, ‘cloud’ is part of a spectrum that spans co-lo right up to highly managed services
• our cloud offer is geared to both the ‘institution’ and to ‘individuals’
• competitive pricing (<Amazon)• billing – credit card and invoice• policies for security, SLA,
privacy, etc.• announcing pricing mid-October
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vCloud pricing model
• ‘enterprise’ offer primarily for institutions (rather than individuals)
• virtual datacentre ‘tariff’ model• monthly commitment (compute and storage)• invoice-based billing• free introductory tier (probably lasting 2 or 3
months)• pay-as-you-go model to meet short term
requirements• note that vCloud will carry price
premium to meet VMwarelicensing costs
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OpenStack pricing model
• designed to appeal to individual researchers• pay-as-you-go (hourly) model• instance sizes comparable with Amazon• payment by credit card / Paypal• introductory free tier – 12 months of
a micro instance• be interested in views on a more
predictable ‘tariff’ model forresearchers?
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Storage pricing model
• priced both as part of ‘virtual datacentre’ tariff model and separately as pay-as-you-go
• looking at whether we price VM Storage and File Storage separately or have single storage offer and let Isilon migrate storage automatically
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Connectivity pricing model
• data transfer will be free (in and out)• public IP addresses above the standard allocation
(probably one per customer) will be charged on a monthly basis
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Concluding remarks
• we’d welcome feedback on:– the cloud platforms we support– integration with campus authentication– pricing and billing models– anything else…
• get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk(where we are also blogging our progress)
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Questions?
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