OpenStack’s remarkable progress, traction with users and vibrant community changed the course of computing. But that’s not enough to keep this thing going in the face of intensified competition and mounting complexity. Now we have to get big. That means extending what the cloud can be, embracing interoperability and engaging more diverse contributors. It means coming together to define what users need and making it strong enough to scale.
VP and Chief Technology Officer, Sam Greenblatt will deliver Dell’s perspective for how OpenStack is creating innovation in the enterprise today and in the future. Sam will be joined by Tim Yeaton, SVP Red Hat to discuss how Red Hat and Dell will collaborate to provide upstream contributions to OpenStack and how we will make enterprises of all types successful with OpenStack.
Rackspace deploys a lot of servers. Over the years we’ve developed a huge variety of tools that we leverage to automate bare-metal deployment on behalf of customers. Recently we’ve undertaken a project to add Ironic to our arsenal of bare-metal deployment tools.
Ironic is an OpenStack project which offers an API for bare metal provisioning. Ironic's first "customer" has been the TripleO project, which targets Cloud operators searching for a means of easily bootstrapping hardware in a trusted environment.
This session will discuss the challenges we have faced in adapting Ironic for use in a multitenant environment. Topics covered will include network isolation, hardware security, operational reliability and how we have harnessed Ironic’s flexible driver model to automate provisioning for our customers. This session will also include a discussion of the direction and scope of Ironic and where the boundary should lie between Ironic and Nova.
* Kyle Mestery - Neutron Core and Principal Engineer at Cisco
* Chris Wright - Red Hat SDN Team leader
* Dan Conde - Director of Products at Midokura
* Nils Swart - Director of Business Development and Strategy at Plexxi
Many enterprises are confused about what OpenStack is and how they will manage OpenStack deployments. OpenStack is the leading private cloud-enabled infrastructure, but there is another entire category of solutions called cloud management platforms (CMPs) that fill critical management gaps for cloud-enabled infrastructures.
In this session, you will learn how CMPs bring critical management capabilities like chargeback/showback, configuration and lifecycle management, orchestration, automation, and governance driven by IT-defined policies, and capacity and utilization reporting to your OpenStack deployment.
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Join this panel discussion to learn about storage options and formats within an enterprise OpenStack deployment. Panel members will discuss market awareness, adoption, and best practices for storage within OpenStack environments. This panel discussion will be recorded as a Speaking in Tech podcast, which is distributed by Europe's largest tech publication, The Register.
The analysts and media who cover OpenStack will offer direct, unvarnished feedback in this moderated panel. Come and join the conversation, covering questions like:
- Why do we keep talking about the "benevolent dictator vs technical meritocracy" question? Why do some think that OpenStack needs its own Linus Torvalds?
- The rumor mill tells us that vendors have a growing number of large deployments in production. But those customers have their vendors under strict NDA. Are we doing a disservice to the larger IT community by not alluding to those as-yet-unannounced OpenStack deployments?
- What are the top pet peeves media and analysts have when talking to vendors and users in the ecosystem? What do you wish we'd stop saying, and why?
- Why are vendors and enterprises drawn to OpenStack, and what is preventing greater adoption? This promises to be an engaging and frothy session.
Enter Cloud Suite is the first multiregional European cloud IaaS based on Openstack. In this talk, we take you through a journey from the core Openstack to an entire suite of cloud services, distributed across multiple regions in Europe, manageable by API or cloud management interfaces, under the EU Data Protection Law: computing, block storage, object storage, DNS, CDN, Hadoop: all of it, served “as a service”.
Storage is a foundational component of the cloud and choosing the right scale-out storage solution is critical as you architect and implement your OpenStack infrastructure. In this session, you will learn why Red Hat Storage Server is the right choice for your public, private, and hybrid clouds. We'll cover the integration of Red Hat Storage Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, its benefits, use cases, and a sneak peek at the roadmap.
OpenStack's unprecedented rise to fame rivals that of any iconic rock band in that OpenStack continues to release hit after hit including April's Icehouse release which continues to build on enterprise ready features. OpenStack is absolutely the most important foundation when building an Open Cloud and IBM is excited to help celebrate the successes of this latest release at the Summit, but are there new members joining the Open Cloud band? Join Dr. Angel Diaz, IBM VP of Open Technology and Cloud Performance Solutions, and Dave Lindquist, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure, to celebrate the role of OpenStack in the larger Open Cloud ecosystem and explore some of the new band members joining the movement.
Learn about Verizon’s experience Building OpenStack Clouds with Red Hat. Lunch will be provided.
In this fascinating presentation, HP Cloud Distinguished Engineer and OpenStack Foundation Director Monty Taylor, will discuss the unique perspective of HP Cloud regarding the impact of open source technology on future of cloud computing. Monty will review recent contributions and innovations by HP Cloud using OpenStack, preview future opportunities for developers and organizations using HP and OpenStack technology, and present ideas on leveraging OpenStack cloud solutions to achieve your objectives.
The Sahara project (ex. Savanna), integrated project in Juno under the OpenStack Data Processing program, provides users an ability to provision and manage Hadoop clusters on OpenStack, and has seen a great deal of progress, development, and changes during the Icehouse development cycle. The focus of the project is on two primary use cases: on-demand cluster provisioning and on-demand Hadoop task execution (Elastic Data Processing).
In this talk, we will provide an overview of project Sahara, its main goals and focus, and a tour of new features introduced in the Icehouse cycle. These features include: integration with Heat, basic API tests in Tempest, enabled asynchronous gate, and bunch of new Elastic Data Processing (EDP) features. We’ll also discuss new Hortonworks Data Platform plugin features, data-locality support, and the ability to use Sahara through the command line. Finally, we will discuss the roadmap for the Juno release.
After attending this session, you will have a good understanding for where Sahara is now and where it’s going, particularly with regard to the Unified Agent approach, on which we’re currently working on leveraging in Sahara
OpenShift by Red Hat, the open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), makes it easy to add a PaaS layer onto OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform. Come learn about the latest innovations in PaaS, and see how easy and beneficial it is to run OpenShift on top of OpenStack.
In this session, we will cover:
You'll walk away with everything you need to know to add a PaaS to your OpenStack deployment.
As virtualization and cloud computing moves forward, the traditional data center as we know it is being transformed - changing into a large, highly automated fabric of physical systems and virtualized services. Now controlled by software API’s and automation, past systems for managing the complexity of data center operations are being replaced by cloud platforms with new models driven by software, DevOps, analytics, and big data.
OpenStack is right in the center of this transformation. As a collection of loosely coupled services, not only is OpenStack creating a rich platform for building and deploying applications, it’s changing the way in which data centers themselves are operated. OpenStack is quickly becoming a new layer in the software stack in the data center, managing infrastructure below and orchestrating applications above.
And, as we know, OpenStack itself keeps evolving, introducing new services and capabilities with each new release. OpenStack is now playing a role orchestrating anything that can be deployed as a virtual machine including virtualized network functions (NFV) such as firewalls, VPN’s, and load balancers. Major ISP’s and others in the telecom industry are therefore looking to NFV to not only lower the operational cost of deployments and upgrades, but to also provide a basis for offering innovative new services to their customers. Lastly, these trends also intersect with the exploding interest in big data and network analytics. When combined, Openstack, NFV, big data, and analytics together are driving this transformation of the data center and change the very definition of infrastructure services across our industry.
Cloud service providers desire to provide differentiated levels of services to attract a variety of application workloads, including mission-critical, performance-sensitive, and best effort applications.
Join Robert Callaway of NetApp to learn how the OpenStack block storage service can be configured to offer multiple levels of storage services to cloud users using volume types, extra specs, and QoS specs. Robert will present real examples of service levels that represent collections of underlying storage capabilities and demonstrate how volume types can be leveraged from both Cinder and Nova to deliver differentiated capabilities to applications running on OpenStack.
Experience how to get the most out of OpenStack in this interactive hands-on learning session. Come explore as experts from HP will introduce you to, and guide you in discovering, the latest exciting advancements in OpenStack innovation from HP. You’ll see for yourself the promise of OpenStack technology and how to make it work for your own organization to deploy faster, manage easier, and speed delivering more agile, differentiating cloud services.
For the first time at OpenStack, Nebula takes the covers off of its revolutionary private cloud appliance. Nebula and OpenStack co-founder Chris C. Kemp, will talk about the journey from creating OpenStack to developing a revolutionary and fundamental new building block in the enterprise datacenter - the Cloud Controller. Nebula CTO and OpenStack founding engineer Vish Ishaya will talk in detail about how OpenStack's features are hardened, secured, and delivered, and how Nebula's unique delivery model allows customers to harness the innovation and openness of OpenStack with the ease of installation and operation that only an appliance can provide.
Dell and Red Hat have partnered for more than 14 years to bring customers value by collaborating on Red Hat solutions across Dell’s enterprise offerings. Now, Dell and Red Hat are co-engineering OpenStack cloud solutions for enterprise customers and service providers. These solutions are designed to remove complexity, stabilize OpenStack and its operating environment, and provide a risk-free way to effectively deploy private cloud computing—in any organization.
Join this session to learn how Dell and Red Hat are strengthening their long-standing collaboration and commitment to help you confidently embrace open cloud computing technologies. You’ll also learn how you can not only benefit from the co-engineered solutions, but from the partnership’s combined cloud expertise, enterprise innovation, and dedicated support and portfolio of services as well.
This is a ‘don’t miss’ session for learning more about the real world challenges industry experts have successfully addressed with OpenStack Cloud Computing. This moderated panel of experts will provide case studies and best practices developed from actual experiences in the field in a variety of industries. Learn from their accomplishments, struggles, and insights to be sure that your next OpenStack software implementation benefits from not only the latest theory, but also relevant real world experiences in the implementation of OpenStack technology.
Understanding the building blocks of a carrier-grade OpenStack as the key foundation of a state of the art NFV.
Foreman OpenStack Installer—project name “Staypuft”—makes it extremely easy to install and configure real-world production OpenStack environments. Foreman OpenStack Installer introduces a new user interface designed specifically for OpenStack, while using Foreman's robust capabilities to discover and provision bare metal hosts, orchestrate the deployment, and configure all OpenStack services and components.Using the intuitive wizard flow, Foreman OpenStack Installer lets you deploy complex, distributed, highly available layouts as easily as simple controller/compute or all-in-one layouts.
Come get a closer look as HP Cloud development partners showcase their latest OpenStack based tools, solutions and contributions. In this panel presentation, these pacesetters will present their newest offerings and explain how OpenStack is facilitating a new groundswell of ideas to power success in the cloud.
"OpenStack is not a state, it's a process." Seeing how quickly OpenStack evolves, one should consider that setting up a cloud infrastructure is never done. The more you wait to do your updates, the more difficult these updates become. Since the whole system and its API have, by definition, been exposed to a large number of users; one cannot leave a cloud without security and maintenance updates. OpenStack deployments should therefore be conceived as a chain of continuous integration platforms that allows the operator to validate ongoing evolutions and fixes automatically, providing him with enough evidence to let his cloud be continuously deployed.
This presentation will describe how eNovance sets up such a chain for its deployments, what the advantages and challenges we encountered along the way.
As industry leaders in networking and open source software solutions, Red Hat and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed-up to deliver a new high performing, carrier-grade NFV solution for network service providers. Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand NFV Platform integrates with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to manage orchestration of the cloud network for peak performance.
Network Functions Virtualization is the next critical step for Service Providers making the move to the Cloud. By de-coupling the network functions/ applications as software from the underlying hardware infrastructure, this move to NFV will provide a new foundation for Service Providers to reduce OPEX and to provide the ability to achieve unprecedented network elasticity and scalability.
This session will detail the benefits of NFV migration for network operators, and how they will benefit by this change in architecture. We’ll discuss the engineering collaboration between our two companies to provide the right NFV platform relying on OpenStack. In addition, we will discuss the ecosystem programs that both companies have developed to accelerate the adoption of NFV based on OpenStack technologies
Enterprise developers want the ability to easily develop and seamlessly deploy applications across a variety of cloud-based platforms. Sounds simple but in order to achieve this we will need open, and flexible architectures. In this session we will discuss the importance of open source technology for the enterprise developer and the role of Cloud Foundry and OpenStack.
Join Neela Jacques, executive director of the OpenDaylight Project, in a panel discussion with some of the key developers and contributors to OpenDaylight. The panel will cover:
The OpenStack Booth Crawl will be held on Monday after closing sessions. All attendees are invited to join us in the OpenStack Marketplace Expo Hall for drinks, snacks and games. This is a great time to mix, mingle and checkout the sponsor booths.
Partake in the new OpenStack Booth Crawl QR Code Challenge!
• New this year, we will host a fun challenge during the Booth Crawl Happy Hour on Monday, May 12. The grand prize winner will receive a Full Access Pass to the next OpenStack Summit in Paris (Nov 3-8, 2014) and a complimentary hotel room in Paris for 4 nights during the Summit.
• To be eligible to participate, you must first download the OpenStack Summit app on your mobile device and have an active Twitter account.
• Each of the participating groups will have a QR code, and your mission is to visit as many booths as possible during the happy hour and scan their QR codes.
• Each QR code scanned will reveal a new word, which will eventually make an entire phrase.
• To enter, tweet a screenshot of your phrase using the hashtag #OSChallenge by 7:30pm Eastern to be eligible to win a prize. You do not have to complete the entire phrase to be eligible. Winners will be ranked on how complete their phrase is within the contest timeframe.
• Once the grand prize winner is selected, the 5 next-best submissions will be mailed a package of OpenStack swag.
• All winners will be notified Tuesday, May 13 during Summit hours.
OpenDaylight is an open source platform for network programmability to enable SDN and create a solid foundation for NFV for networks at any size and scale. The community is comprised of hundreds of developers working across company lines to collaborate on an open, common architecture for SDN and NFV to pave the way for interoperability. Hydrogen is the first simultaneous release of OpenDaylight and is provided in three different editions - Base Edition, Virtualization Edition and Service Provider Edition - to help a wide array of users get up and running as quickly as possible. The platform includes a consistent set of APIs, expected systemic behaviors, and applications and supporting technologies that collectively increase interoperability and reduce risk of implementation and evolution. Because it is open source, OpenDaylight can be a core component within any SDN- and NFV -based architecture and allows enterprises, service providers, equipment providers and academia to begin to evaluate, commercialize and deploy SDN and NFV.
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On Monday, May 12, from 8 ‘til late, Piston invites you to join us for an uncommonly fine blend of soirée, splurge and spectacle, with a heaping dash of gentleperson-ly swagger. By now you know that no Piston bash would be complete without a few surprises...and while we can't give *everything* away, we can tell you that it will feature live music by the 6-piece Blair Crimmins Band and a late-into-the night set by Atlanta DJ legend Johnny D. Of course, there will be the usual unlimited supply of fine hand-crafted beverages as well as a host of late night snacks to fuel your wicked dance moves.
Transit will be provided to and from the Opera all night via bus starting at 7:45pm outside the Westin Peachtree Plaza (210 Peachtree Street • Atlanta, GA 30303-1745).
In this keynote, SolidFire, CEO Dave Wright will discuss his vision for the Next Generation Data Center. The time is now for OpenStack to deliver on its promise as a critical enabling technology in the transformation of how IT services are being delivered by service providers and enterprises globally. Customers and partners will join SolidFire on stage throughout this keynote to discuss the innovation happening across the OpenStack ecosystem to increase the agility, automation, predictability, and scale of IT infrastructure.
End-user delight is a key deliverable in today’s consumer-driven market. How does this change the expectations on operations, and how can we change our own methodologies to deliver a delightful experience to our clients, the application teams? Two years after deploying our first application on OpenStack Essex, our team is able to focus on increasing our own velocity delivering platform services with OpenStack as a reliable and invisible provider. This in turn provides the foundation for our application teams to iterate even faster.
With OpenContrail, virtual network workloads are able to leverage automation and policy-based IP network services within and across data centers and heterogeneous cloud environments. OpenContrail’s standards based interoperability means that virtual networks can be extended from the data center overlay to existing multi-tenant WAN environments. This is critical to support emerging application environments required to efficiently scale simplified, interoperable and elastic cloud networks.
After defining our reference architecture for OpenStack, we realized that many customers were still baffled by the apparent complexity of such deployments. This is the reason why we started conceiving simple and hassle free PODs, based on standard hardware, that can be setup and ready to go to production in a matter of days.
This presentation will explain the choices we made to build our first POD and what is coming up as we'll keep on adding more.
With almost 1600 participating developers from more than 165 organizations and a well-developed foundation with strong governance, OpenStack has the momentum and corporate support required to become a ubiquitous cloud-computing platform. Since OpenStack’s first release in October of 2010, the core technology has improved by orders of magnitude. In short, OpenStack has become the Linux of cloud computing and it is here to stay. However, even for the most advanced IT teams, deploying OpenStack has proven difficult.
During this session Hernan Alvarez, VP of Operations at Blue Box and Andreas Stollar, Senior Architect for Big Fish Games will share the challenges, highlights and best practices learned from Big Fish Game’s adoption of a hosted private cloud environment into their infrastructure operations. This presentation will cover:
• Deployment methodology and tooling that led to the purchasing decision of a hosted private cloud
• Considerations that went into a managed offering, and the decision factors between on-premise vs. hosted
• Ways to create seamless on-demand scaling to meet demand
• Designing architecture to adapt for unique and often changing technical requirements
• Effective methods for integration with existing legacy IT infrastructure
Hernan and Andreas will speak to how Big Fish is leveraging the techniques above as well as currently using their Hosted OpenStack Private Cloud to minimize their drain on IT resources while empowering over 500 worldwide developers to spend more time innovating.
Please join us for the real world discussion of production OpenStack challenges and triumphs.
In this brief talk we will present our framework for programmable seamless virtual clouds. We will show a video demonstration of our prototype running on top of multiple OpenStack deployments.
The Sahara project (ex. Savanna), integrated project in Juno under the OpenStack Data Processing program, provides users an ability to provision and manage Hadoop clusters on OpenStack, and has seen a great deal of progress, development, and changes during the Icehouse development cycle. The focus of the project is on two primary use cases: on-demand cluster provisioning and on-demand Hadoop tasks execution (Elastic Data Processing).
This presentation takes an in-depth look at Savanna’s EDP facilities. Since Savanna’s initial release, this key feature has been hardened and expanded to support streaming MapReduce and Java workflows, operation over private Neutron networks and execution on transient clusters. We’ll start with a description of EDP’s general concepts and a definition of terms, then its current status in Savanna, supported Data Sources, Job Types, data locality and the roadmap for the Juno release cycle.
Lastly, we’ll show a live demo of EDP to bring all of these concepts together. The demo will cover job and data source definition, job execution and collection of job results.
Have you heard about Inktank Ceph and are interested to learn some tips and tricks for getting started quickly and efficiently with Ceph? Then this is the session for you!
In this two part session you learn details of:
• the very latest enhancements and capabilities delivered in Inktank Ceph Enterprise such as a new erasure coded storage back-end, support for tiering, and the introduction of user quotas.
• best practices, lessons learned and architecture considerations founded in real customer deployments of Dell and Inktank Ceph solutions that will help accelerate your Ceph deployment.
The goal for MOC is to foster interoperability and innovation amongst insterested parties and the opportunity to explore new computing models.
We will also cover use cases for applications deployed on the MOC cloud, ranging from Big Data analytics, PaaS and others
With the participation of several key Boston universities such as Harvard, Boston University, MIT and North Eastern, UMass and other parthers MOC will evolve into a large scale open cloud infrastructure.
Dell and Red Hat have partnered for more than 14 years to bring customers value by collaborating on Red Hat solutions across Dell’s enterprise offerings. Now, Dell and Red Hat are co-engineering OpenStack cloud solutions for enterprise customers and service providers. These solutions are designed to remove complexity, stabilize OpenStack and its operating environment, and provide a risk-free way to effectively deploy private cloud computing—in any organization.
Join this session to learn how Dell and Red Hat are strengthening their long-standing collaboration and commitment to help you confidently embrace open cloud computing technologies. You’ll also learn how you can not only benefit from the co-engineered solutions, but from the partnership’s combined cloud expertise, enterprise innovation, and dedicated support and portfolio of services as well.
This session will discuss how todays software defined enterprises need agile networks, and discuss the shift toward disaggregation of the operating system from networking hardware and its key benefits. We will also take a closer look at how Open Networking can help enable Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Virtual Overlay (NVO).
Take a break with Red Hat to test drive Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Talk to some of our curriculum managers and engineers about Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and our courses.
Do you see OpenStack as a strategic part of your private cloud strategy, but face the usual hurdles of using open source software in an enterprise environment? Learn how the Dell IT Emerging Technologies team overcame similar challenges using OpenStack to create a private cloud-based lab for rapid technology incubation and experimentation. We will share best practices and tips + tricks.
OpenStack Swift already covers a broad range of use cases and fulfill requirements by operators and users - be it different authentication backends, support for 3rd party APIs or using different storage backends.
However, in some cases you might need a functionality that is currently missing in Swift. Swift uses wsgi middlewares for basic and optional functionalities which makes it easy to extend and make it fit to your needs.
This talk will give an overview on how Python wsgi middlewares are working in general and how to use them. After that a summary of already existing 3rd party middlewares for Swift will be given and we will have a look how to write your own Swift proxy server middlewares and tests to fulfill your needs. At the end you should be able to start writing your own middlewares based on the shown examples.
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Don't miss out on the party of the year! Sponsored by HP and featuring the popular swing band - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!
All Summit attendees are invited for an evening of fun, food and drink at The Atlanta Event Center Opera. This is a free event and will fill up fast!
Your Summit badge or Summit registration will be required for entry
Transportation will be provided from the OpenStack Summit Atlanta Congress Center to The Opera House and back to OMNI and Westin Hotels.
Look forward to seeing you there!
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In this session, we will present the state of the art in open source cloud management and cloud broker platforms. You’ll learn how to manage the monitoring and deployment of your applications across OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, oVirt, and more—all from a single, unified management interface.
Whether as a public cloud or as private Infrastructure-as-a-Service, OpenStack is probably not the only cloud or virtualization platform you are using. If you’re managing applications across heterogeneous virtualization, IaaS, and public cloud services, things can get complicated in a hurry.
By open sourcing the CloudForms Management Engine, we are creating a level playing field where people can participate to extend and integrate tightly with an open, vibrant, community-developed cloud management platform. Dave will present the project, its community, and how you can get involved.
Last year at HP we undertook a programme of performance measurements on Swift running on a variety of hardware. We measured the CPU burden and I/O rates of individual Swift processes under a variety of conditions, ranging from idle (i.e. no external PUT/GET activity) to very high transaction loads. We used the getput tool to impose loads on our test hardware, and we concentrated our measurements on PUTs of small objects of 1KB and 4KB. We used collectl to gather performance data. Some of the hardware that we tested is currently in use in our production public Swift, and some of it is hardware that we plan to put into production. We were particularly interested in optimising the balance between CPU, RAM and I/O for component Swift services (proxy, object and container/account). In this presentation we will summarise the performance measurements themselves, outline our conclusions and show that with the appropriate hardware you can realise significant improvements in Swift transaction rates.
NetApp has been polishing and expanding its OpenStack integration over the last five OpenStack releases. Join Rob Esker to learn how NetApp has combined its rich set of storage efficiency, data protection, and security features for critical enterprise requirements with the power of OpenStack. Discover how to consistently meet stringent SLAs for classic application infrastructures delivered “as a service” and deploy native cloud applications in a manner that is scalable, efficient, and cost effective.
Whether you require block storage, object storage, or OpenStack’s upcoming file share service, Rob will demonstrate the value of NetApp over a “do-it-yourself” storage experiment that uses the lowest common denominator of components.
Discover how, together, OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform, and NetApp® Data ONTAP®, the world’s #1 storage operating system, are greater than the sum of their parts.
Introducing Manila: the new OpenStack file share service. Manila is a community-driven project that presents the management of file shares (for example, NFS and CIFS) as a core service to OpenStack. Manila currently works with NetApp, Red Hat storage (GlusterFS), and IBM GPFS (along with a reference implementation based on a Linux® NFS server).
In this session, Robert Callaway of NetApp will join representatives from Red Hat, EMC, Mirantis, and IBM to:
· Introduce the Manila file share service
· Provide an overview of Manila, from design principles to use cases
· Describe Manila's architecture and APIs
· Demonstrate an OpenStack deployment with Manila to show how easy it is to configure the service, create and delete file shares, and attach file shares to instances
You will leave this session with an understanding of Manila, its ideal use cases, how to deploy it in an OpenStack (Icehouse) environment, and the plans for its future.
Ryan Floyd with Storm Ventures will moderate a Customer panel to discuss building a use case for OpenStack. Listen to their perspective on various different cloud deployments, understand the criteria used in defining what their cloud stack required and the TCO measurements employed. They will also discuss the roadblocks within their organizations they came across and how they moved beyond them.
Enterprise deployments of OpenStack have a specific set of requirements, including high availability, predictable performance, and a scalable and repeatable deployment model that is as fast as or faster than the business. Jon Benedict of NetApp will discuss the process, considerations, and lessons learned from multiple OpenStack deployments on NetApp storage, including:
· How to deploy the RHEL OpenStack Platform with NetApp clustered Data ONTAP as a means of tackling enterprise requirements (featuring Red Hat)
· How eBay supports a variety of OpenStack use cases on NetApp
· How NetApp IT uses OpenStack in its internal infrastructure for development
Today, many people still mistakenly see OpenStack and VMware as either/or alternatives, while in reality OpenStack provides a promising route for organizations already standardized on enterprise-grade VMware products who want to offer cloud services to their developers using developer-friendly and vendor neutral APIs.
This talk will provide an overview of VMware’s contributions to OpenStack and highlight real-world deployments where enterprise customers are leveraging OpenStack on top of VMware vSphere® + NSX™ to build rich OpenStack clouds on top of their existing IT infrastructure.
The OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors has created a work group to analyze the gaps between OpenStack and Enterprise IT private cloud requirements. The ‘Win the Enterprise’ work group is chartered to analyze the features, capabilities and services in OpenStack against the Enterprise Private Cloud requirements and create an action plan to address them. In addition to the technical analysis, the work group is chartered to analyze the market environment, identify awareness/perception issues amongst end-users, developers and influencers (ex. Analysts) and define an action plan to address as well.
Please join in the discussion and shape the direction of the work group.
More details are available here: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Win-The-Enterprise
You can only look at slides so much in one day! This deep-dive demo will show you how VMware technologies like VMware vSphere®, NSX™, Virtual SAN™ and more integrate with OpenStack. The demo will show how VMware helps you build a powerful OpenStack cloud that provides rich features and enterprise-grade management while enabling your developers to leverage standard OpenStack APIs + tools.
Enterprises are looking to cloud technologies and solutions as a way to drive an innovation agenda for their businesses and customers. As was true before for enterprise IT, there is no one-size-fit-all; organizations have different sets of requirements for different types of applications and open, hybrid cloud solutions offer the agility and flexibility needed to meet those business requirements. Join Bill Hilf, VP of product management, HP Cloud, to learn why open and hybrid matters and what business leaders can do today to lead their organizations on a successful and cost-effective cloud journey. He will also discuss how HP is deeply using open source to build its next gen cloud architecture and product portfolio, along with the essential elements of security, compliance and reliability in a hybrid cloud environment.
Recent advancements in OpenStack capabilities have made the cloud better tuned to enterprise needs by introducing much more flexible network designs and networking services, with the tradeoff of making the cloud more complex.
In this session we will describe how we can leverage the power of the new networking advancement without exposing the complexity to the end user. We will present alternative approaches and their tradeoffs for automating the deployment of a typical n-tier enterprise application that include multi-tenant environment, separate network for admin and applications, cross region network, attach a floating IP, setup security groups etc. all through a combination of Heat, TOSCA, Chef, Puppet, and more.
How has the OpenStack User Experience (UX) group contributed to the OpenStack Community over the past year? In this session, you'll get to hear how the UX group is helping to shape features and improve the overall user experience in OpenStack and verifying that designs are meeting target end users needs. We will give highlights of our progress in the following areas:
- Understanding the OpenStack users
- Requirements gathering
- Interaction design
- Design support during development
- Usability testing and feeding results back into new requirements
We will also discuss the recent efforts, which builds on Dave Neary’s previous work, to develop a set of personas to help the development community align with their users'’ needs and tasks. We'll review the methodology used to develop the personas, insights from the user interviews, and the personas created from the effort. Finally, we will provide recommendations and examples for how the community can effectively use the personas during their own planning, design, development, and testing efforts to improve the overall user experience.
VMware has been working closely with key members of the OpenStack ecosystem to make sure enterprise-grade technologies like VMware vSphere® and NSX™ are fully supported and easy to use with all leading OpenStack distributions.
Come to this session to see several quick "lightning talks" from leading OpenStack vendors including Canonical, Mirantis, Red Hat, and SUSE highlighting how their OpenStack distros work well with vSphere and NSX and how they are working with VMware to help make customers successful with OpenStack.
Want to learn how OpenStack works on VMware vSphere® and NSX™? All you need is your laptop!
We have created an online lab for you to quickly learn about OpenStack and VMware integrations without any software download and install. The lab walks you through guided steps that illustrate how OpenStack Nova and Cinder work with vSphere and how Neutron is working with VMware NSX. The lab is taken online from a browser and is self-paced requiring about 60-75 minutes to complete. We will have VMware OpenStack experts on hand to answer any questions you may have. So bring your laptop and join us for this exciting lab session.
While some developers may find it silly to create tests they know will immediately fail, this is actually the first step of test-driven development. Test-driven development not only results in better code, it also reduces those late night surprises when it comes to deploying the software. All developers know that they should adopt test-driven development practices, so why are so few actually doing it? The short answer is that it sucks writing tests. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate some of the tools that make test-driven development [somewhat] bearable on OpenStack environments. In this talk, join Hart Hoover as he:
Abstractions in compute, networking, and storage are paving the way to agility and efficiency in the software-defined data center. In this highly automated environment, stakeholders require governance and assurance mechanisms that keep pace with the infrastructure. These mechanisms must be applicable across the entire infrastructure and, as such, cannot be tightly coupled with any data schema, subsystem, or vendor. An open policy framework must emerge to allow IT stakeholders to maintain business and regulatory compliance at the pace of the software-defined data center.
In this talk we describe Congress: a system for declaring, auditing, and enforcing policy in heterogeneous cloud environments. Congress includes a data model to expose policy-significant cloud component data to the policy engine. It leverages a declarative policy language that balances expressibility with enforceability. It prevents policy violations, where possible, and corrects violations after the fact if not.
With the introduction of VMware® Virtual SAN™ , VMware has for the first time released a storage product specifically designed for the type of workloads that run best on OpenStack. Virtual SAN’s revolutionary simple architecture delivers the performance and simplicity you expect from OpenStack while retaining all of the rich features that vSphere is famous for. In this session, we will discuss the architecture of Virtual SAN and how you can deploy Virtual SAN clusters in support of your OpenStack workloads.
UPDATE
PLEASE ARRIVE TO THIS SESSION BETWEEN 1:00 - 1:15 PM - AND DON'T FORGET YOUR LAPTOP!
You will need to copy files onto your laptop prior to the start of the session.
If you wish to follow along on your own laptop you will need the following: (optional - you can also watch on the main screen):
- an absolute minimum of 8GB RAM but 16GB RAM required for a full cloud setup
- 16GB of spare disk
- a recent VirtualBox pre-installed (ideally 4.3)
- an ethernet port (for fast copying via a gigabit switch) (and cable if you have one!)
- a recent version of Vagrant pre-installed (preferably >= 1.6.0 but definitely >= 1.5.4)
See you soon!
Description
Automation of OpenStack deployment is rapidly maturing, with many approaches now available. However the matter of ensuring that automated deployments are highly available remains to some extent the white elephant in the room - everyone wants reliable infrastructure, but setting it up often still requires complex manual work.
In this practical hands-on session, we touch upon architectural considerations arising from the goal of building an OpenStack cloud with HA infrastructure, and walk through usage of an implementation which automates deployment of Pacemaker / DRBD / HAProxy via Chef cookbooks, orchestrated by Crowbar in order to provide the cloud operator with a relatively simple and pain-free experience.
Please note! Attendees wishing to follow along with the practical content presented in the workshop should bring their laptops with VirtualBox and Vagrant 1.5.4 pre-installed, and stop by the SUSE booth (D11) any time Monday through Wednesday to pick up VirtualBox images. When you visit the booth, please bring your laptop along!
It’s not all fun and games in cloud land – application portability? Cross-cloud replication and bursting? That’s a tough one. These are hard issues with serious implications that we’ll examine in detail, digging into the subtleties between simply implementing a cross-cloud API and actually using it to get real work done. We’ll provide some simple demonstrations of how an application designed for one cloud might not work on another out of the box, and some easy ways to leverage multiple clouds with your existing OpenStack apps. Finally, we’ll wrap up with a set of recommendations on how to architect your application from the ground up to be hybrid cloud friendly.
