OpenStack UpdateInfrastructure as a Service

May 23nd 2012Rob Hirschfeld, Dell

• Dell has been a part of OpenStack since inception• We have had an OpenStack-powered Cloud

solution in market for nearly a year.• We are seeing substantial field interest with

installed OpenStack clouds in the teens with a backlog of orders.

• Our solution includes:– hardware, software, consulting, – operations best practice (DevOps), – and ecosystem partners.

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What is ?

Cloud Infrastructure Software (like Amazon Cloud)• Apache 2 Open source– Community developed: International, Multi-Vertical– Dedicated Foundation overseeing governance

• Delivers software, control panels, and APIs required to securely orchestrate a massive-scale cloud– Virtual workloads (like “EC2”)– Object Storage (like “S3”)– Coming: Block & Networks

• Multiple Integrated Components

Use Cases

• Markets– Hosting & Telco– Financial– Academic & Government (NASA was a founder)– Web & SaaS

• All Geographies• Reasons for Adoption

– License Avoidance (open source)– Scale Architecture (no SANs, no clusters)– Pace of innovation– Market Buzz – expectation of ecosystem

Investment Risk & Return

• Risks– Fast Development Cycle (drives upgrade treadmill)– Security (due to lack of maturity)– Evolving/Missing Components (e.g.: network, block store)

• Safest Path– Private Cloud with Static Networks– KVM & Ubuntu getting heaviest developer focus – Object Store (Swift) is most stable & scalable

• Return on Investment– License costs (offset by needed expertise)– Uses “cloud optimized hardware”– Leverage growing ecosystem (hybrid cloud, tools portability, etc)

Community Health

OpenStack’s community is remarkably vibrant, well funded and rapidly expanding. It is no longer lead by any single vendor.• Prominent Adopters

– Private Cloud Solutions (Dell, Nebula, Piston)– Large public clouds & hosting companies (Rackspace, ATT, NTT,

Dreamhost, HP, Deutsche Telecom)– Web & SaaS Providers (eBay, Wikimedia, )– Government (NASA)– Major Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, RedHat)– Hardware Vendors (Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco)

• Substantial Contributors– Dev: Rackspace, HP, RedHat, Citrix, Nebula, Cisco, Canonical, Piston … – Ops: Dell has lead here with Opscode. Puppet joining.

2011

Feb 2011:Bexar

Release

Apr 2011:Cactus Release

Sep 2011:Diablo

Release

AustinFormation

BexarFirst Shared Code

CactusCommunityForming

WorkingPrototypes

EssexProduction Ready

Stable Foundation

Included in Ubuntu 12.04

Incubated/Partial: Network & Block Storage

2012

Nov 2010 Dec Feb Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec Feb Apr

Mar 2012:Essex

Release

Nov 2010:

Austin Release

DiabloWorkable Foundation

Solidify CommunityLoses VMware & HyperV

FolsomPlatform for Innovation

Core Platform for Innovation

Network aaServiceBlock Storage API

Public AdoptionMultiple Scale Deployments

Jun Aug

Oct 2012:FolsomRelease

Graphical Roadmap

Readiness Today

• Current Release: Essex– April 2012

• Strengths• Stability• Integrated Authentication (Keystone)• User Interface Dashboard (Horizon)

• Cutting Edge Opportunities– Networking Service Incubation (Quantum)

• Risks– Block Storage

Futures / Roadmap

• Next Release: Folsom– October 2012

• Major Trends– Networking Innovation– Block Storage– Deployment Standardization

• Areas to Watch– Ecosystem Growth– Distributions from New Operating Systems

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• Dell mission for OpenStack– Shorten customers time-to-value on OpenStack– Contributed open source “DevOps” installer

• What is Crowbar?– Dell lead Open Source Cloud Deployer Project– Not limited to Dell Hardware– Brings in “operations as code” approach– Supports multiple Operating Systems– Supports multiple Hadoop, OpenStack & others