4. #CloudstackCephDay
Collaborative environment for:
all things Apache CloudStack
Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
Case studies & user stories
To showcase complementary technologies
To share ideas & problems with other users
The aims of the CloudStack EUUG
5. #CloudstackCephDay
13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(group chairman)
13:30 “passing the torch” and CloudStack 4.11 release - Wido den
Hollander (PcExtreme) & Mike Tutkowski
14:10 Billing the Cloud - Antoine Coetsier (Exoscale)
14:50 What’s new in CloudStack 4.11 - Paul Angus (ShapeBlue)
15:30-16:00 BREAK
16:00 Building a software-defined cloud with CloudStack - Boyan Ivanov
(Storpool)
16:40 What is Managed Storage? - Mike Tutkowski (Netapp Solidfire)
17:20 Closing notes with the Ceph guys
17:30 pub
Todays Agenda
6. #CloudstackCephDay
• CloudStack European User Group
• CloudStack User Group Germany
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group
This group is one of many…
8. #CloudstackCephDay
4.9.3 released - September 2017
4.9.x is an LTS branch
4.10 released – September 2017
4.11.0 released 14 Feb 2018
4.11.x is an LTS branch
4.11.1 in planning
Releases
9. #CloudstackCephDay
More than 250 new capabilities
New host HA framework
New certificate authority framework
Integration with Prometheus
Cloudian Hyperstore (S3) connector
Deeper integration with Nuage SDN
Layer 2 networking capabilities
4.11 Release
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-
notes/en/4.11.0.0/
10. #CloudstackCephDay
What didn’t make the press release
Major refactor of virtual router
Moving towards “zero downtime upgrades”
4.11 Release
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-
notes/en/4.11.0.0/
11. #CloudstackCephDay
Nearly all of the 4.11 features were
contributed or instigated by users
#VendorLess
What excites me about 4.11
12. #CloudstackCephDay
Citrix changed the
XenServer licensing
model
So, this happens:
https://xcp-ng.org/
https://github.com/xcp-
ng
XCP-NG
18. #CloudstackCephDay
“Once the hype &
conversation moves
on from Cloud
orchestration to other
things such as
containers, CloudStack
will start to be taken at
face value as the
reliable, scalable, easy
to install platform that
it is”
Giles Sirett, 2015
CloudStack – the best kept secret in the
cloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiJRnJ_34w
19. #CloudstackCephDay
WARNING: commercial and community blur approaching:
http://Packages.shapeblue.com currently running at 800
product downloads per month. Month on month, showing 5%
growth
ShapeBlue is NOT the official project download site
(http://download.cloudstack.org)
It’s coming true
20. #CloudstackCephDay
WARNING: commercial and community blur approaching:
New *private* CloudStack clouds coming this year (with
company revenue for size):
Large online retailer ($ 8 billion)
One of the largest physical retailers in US ($12 billion)
Storage products company ($ 2 billion)
National/state Broadcaster (unknown)
Cyber security company (c. £250 million)
Its coming true
23. #CloudstackCephDay
Take Apache Cloudstack seriously
See through the hype
Give it the credit it deserves
Try it !
Existing users
Share your story
Be proud of your CloudStack usage
Engage with the community
Please help us
25. #CloudstackCephDay
Let the community help you by joining a mailing list
Help
Be helped
Get social
#cloudstackworks
Specific calls to action
28. #CloudstackCephDay
Collaborative environment for:
all things Apache CloudStack
Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
Case studies & user stories
To showcase complementary technologies
To give a strong voice for feedback to Apache developer
community
No pitching !
The aims of this group
29. #CloudstackCephDay
Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett
Leveraging VMware Storage I/O Control in CloudStack - Mike Tutkowski,
Netapp/Solidfire
Policy-Driven SDN in CloudStack – Sigert Goeminne, Nuage Networks
[Break]
Cloudstack and NFV - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue
CloudStack-UI - origin, purpose, roadmap and architectural notes - Ilya
Zolotukhin /Ivan Kudriavtsev, Bitworks
Monitoring CloudStack and Components - Alexander Stock, Bit.Group GmbH
Running Cloudstack with IPv6 – Wido Den Hollender, PCExtreme
Pub for questions !!
Todays Agenda
30. #CloudstackCephDay
• CloudStack European User Group
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group
This group is one of many…
33. #CloudstackCephDay
Networking
Fixes to ACLs, S2S VPN, Private Gateways, Redundant VRs and other optimizations
Nuage VSP SDN Plugin got a lot of improvements and some new features
Database
MySQL connector changed
DB optimizations and improvements
Storage
Enabled fast snapshots for managed storage using XenServer
Fixes for some RBD issues
Fixes multiple Swift object store issues
Improved VMware disk implementation
Hypervisor
Support for XenServer 7
Support for VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5
Support for Ubuntu 16.04 as KVM host
4.10 Release
34. #CloudstackCephDay
Usability
Added user defined roles
Added configurable root volume size for KVM
Lots of localization improvements
Added CentOS 6.x guest OS mappings for VMware
Operations
Added Out-of-band power management for hosts (EG: IPMI, iLO, DRAC, etc.)
Miscellaneous
Use non-blocking SSL handshake in NioConnection/Link
Added memory utilization to listVirtualMachines
Multiple fixes related to usage
4.10 Release
39. #CloudstackCephDay
Let the community help you by joining a mailing list
Help
Be helped
Get social
#cloudstackworks
Specific calls to action