vsphere with openstack
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How vSphere and OpenStack fit together to build a hybrid solution. In this presentation you will learn more about: - OpenStack - Legacy vs. Cloud native architectures and application deployments - OpenStack architecture compared to the vSphere architecture - Building hybrid solutions with vSphere and OpenStackTRANSCRIPT
vSphere with OpenStackFoundations For A Hybrid Solution
Created by: Cody Bunch
Modified Date: July 23, 2014
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A Tale of Two Workloads
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Workload Dictates Architecture
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Right Infrastructure for the Workload
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Traditional Workloads
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Traditional IT Design Principles
Stateful Services
Operator focused
Monolithic architecture
Steady-state/ Predictable
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Traditional Infrastructure Consumption Models
On-Premises Infrastructure Off-Premises Hosting
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Design Goal: Resilient Infrastructures
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Cloud Native Workloads
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Cloud Native Design Principles
Distributed architecture
Developer focused
Stateless Services
Unpredictable/ Spikey
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Cloud Consumption Models
Public Cloud Private Cloud
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Design Assumption: Fragile Infrastructures
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What’s Wrong with the Cloud?
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We Architect Cloud for Rapid Scale
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At Scale Chaos and Failures Are Inevitable
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So Design for Failure
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Designing For Failure
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Let The Application Handle It’s Own Resiliency
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Build Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Message Bus
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Focus on Scaling Horizontally
Use more pieces, not bigger pieces
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Choose Cattle Over Pets
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Embrace Automation and Cultural Change
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Where OpenStack Fits In
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Automation and Orchestration of IT Resources
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Including Hypervisors Like vSphere
• OpenStack Compute is a manager of hypervisors
• OpenStack can manage multiple hypervisors– https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix
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By Leveraging Various Open Source Projects
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In a Loosely Coupled Architecture
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To Deliver Self-Service IT Rapidly and At Scale
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Building A Hybrid Cloud
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• Best hypervisor for traditional workloads
• On-ramp from virtualized infrastructure to cloud
• Customers have existing investments in vSphere
• Customers want best-fit solutions
vSphere Is Foundational
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Co-existence: Infrastructure Silos
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Best-fit: Hybrid Solution
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Resources
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• Getting Started with OpenStack and VMware– http://docs.openstack.org/
– http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/page/1/?s=vmware&submit=Search
– http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOPbuXbsHCyr2afbJwu5JAXZ-5peJ0qCH
• The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook (Second Edition)– http://goo.gl/URVRbJ
Resources
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