An overview of different stages of analytics and various cloudstack concerns were discussed. Cloud Optimisation, Cost Optimisation, Monitoring, ChargeBack and Billing were demoes part of this session. How to extend the prescriptive analytics onto container, docker technologies is an interesting piece of presentation. Try ActOnCloud Free at www.actoncloud.com or write to insights@actonmagic.com for personalised demo.

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Madan Ganesh Velayudham
Founder, CEO
ActOnMagic
madan@actonmagic.com
Prescriptive Analytics for Apache CloudStack
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Agenda
n Introduction
n CloudStack Community’s concerns (2014)
n Different Stages of Analytics
n Use Cases
n Demo Time
n Intelligent Performance Tagging
n Capacity Planning
n Usage Analytics
n Q & A

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Who do we work with?
• Cloud Service Providers
• Managed Cloud Providers
• Customers of Cloud Providers

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n when something happened. it is hard to figure out whats happening
n User Interface for service providers
n Would be nice to have some guidelines on what parts are necessary to
monitor, and how to monitor.
n Is there really Amazon EC2/S3 API support? For some reason the
interaction with my billing system (…) and the CloudStack API is
extremely slow and very CPU intensive (a few minutes to generate a
single invoice for one month). I am not sure if it will scale.
n The error logs are to hard to parse and find what's wrong with the
environment
n * Backup and Recovery of VMs in CloudStack is very inconsistent and
slow on KVM. * Need java applet style uploads into CloudStack stores
(something like vCloud) * Logging and control of the underlying
infrastructure is immature * Needs progress bars in UI for longer
running tasks with details displayed * Bunch of other stuff that could be
improved .....
CloudStack Customers Said!

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n Monitoring of virtual machines Integrated performance
monitoring of virtual machines and physical hosts.
n usage monitoring, graphs, UI customization
n Console Proxy needs to be faster. I hear this all the time from
our customers. Automated Zone failover and/or Region
failover has been another big - repeated request. Better
monitoring, down to the VM level.
CloudStack Customers Said!

6. + Different Stages of Analytics

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• What is my capacity utilization at
cloudstack level & datacenter level?
• What is the co-relation between VM
usage and Storage usage ?
• What are unused storage and
compute service offerings?
• What are my account level,
management server level,
infrastructure level alerts?
• What is my Budget vs Spend?
• Why did the CloudStack go down?
• Why did we run out of capacity?
• Why do we have so many un-
utilized hosts?
• Why did a customer leave?
• When should I procure
additional storage or server
capacity?
• When will I meet my ROI?
• What should I do to keep my
customer VM’s happy?
• What should I do to avoid a system
down?
• What should I do to save 20% cost
on my infrastructure?
• What should I do to increase my
profit margin?
In the context of CloudStack

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Monitoring
Cloud
Optimization
Chargeback
Billing
Hybrid
Cloud
Connectors
Cost
Optimization
Prescriptive Analytics: Use cases
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CloudStack
CloudStack
Business
Portal
Cloud
Pla3orm
Data
Center
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Opera9ons
Team
Accounts
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Sales
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CMO
CIO
Solution Architecture

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Demo
n Intelligent Performance Tagging
n Capacity Planning
n Usage Analytics

11. +Prescriptions…!

12. +VM Performance Monitoring &
Tagging

13. Capacity Planning

14. +Service Provider View
Search

15. + Detailed Usage

16. +What-if Analysis

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For demos:
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Or
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Thank you
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