OpenStack for VMware Admins - VMworld vBrownbag 2013

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Colin McNamara CCIE#18233
Chief Cloud Architect
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My Perspective
 CCIE / VCP / OpenStack
Contributor
 Core - OpenStack Manuals
 Co-Founder – OpenStack Training
 Linux user since 98
 VMware user since 99

What I am going to talk about
 NOT getting into a vendor war
 Talk to VMware and Cisco if you want that
 Why OpenStack (and why VMware)
 OpenStack Compenents and Use

Industry is shifting

Client server apps – The new mainframe

Built Differently
 40% of mobile apps built on
cloud
 “Enterprise Apps” Like SAP
shifting
 Constructed of loosely
coupled services
 Reliability / Availability /
Security provide by the App

How are these built, and what do they run on

Consolidation
Management
Client / Server apps
Different platforms, Different workloads

Small amount of apps on Cloud Platforms
App Distribution
Modern App
Classic Apps

But what about OpenStack?

OpenStack Development Ecosystem: 500+

Community Developed

Lines of code (ohloh)
Nearly 600,000 Lines of Code

OpenStack Vision

OpenStack = History in brief
 NASA Launches Nebula
 Built by and for Fed Govt
 Chris Kemp
 March 2010
 Rackspace Open Sources
Swift (Cloud File)
 May 2010
 NASA Open Sources
virtualization software -
Nova
 June 2010
 OpenStack Formed
 April 2011 – Essex
Released
 August 2012 – VMware
acknowledges existence
 Now – Cooler then
Amazon ;)

OpenStack Cloud Operating System

OpenStack Capabilities and Projects
Compute
Provision and manage large pools of on-demand
computing resources
Object Storage Petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear
Block Storage
Volumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers
for more advanced systems like NetApp, Solidfire,
and Nexenta
Networking
Software defined networking automation with
pluggable backends
Dashboard
Self-service, role-based web interface for users
and administrators
Shared
Services
Multi-tenant authentication system that ties to
existing stores (e.g. LDAP) and Image Service

OpenStack / VMware Rosetta Stone
Compute
(Nova)
vSphere / ESXi
Object Storage
(Swift)
NFS Data Store (Kinda)
Block Storage
(Cinder)
iSCSI storage – VNX / NetApp / Nexenta
Networking
(Neutron)
Distributed vSwitch / NSX
Dashboard
(Horizon)
vSphere UI
Shared
Services
(Keystone)
Active Directory

Compute
computing resources
Block Storage
and Nexenta
Networking
pluggable backends
Dashboard
and administrators
Shared
Services