Zero to NovaA VMware Admin’s Month of Openstack

Thom Greene@tbgree00

Four Phases of the Journey

Initial excitement

Stumbling and fumbling

Regrouping

Nova Novice

Initial Excitement

Learning something new is always fun

Jump in and run

Leverage your network

Photo by Stefano Maffulli

Prepare to Stumble

SDDC is a whole new way to think about infrastructure

Linux is hard for me, no easy graphical installer

A good guide is great… unless you skip a line

Tips for Regrouping

Brush up on Linux, VI at the very least

Learn the lingo and relate it to your existing knowledge set

Invest in a book OpenStack in Action by Cody Bumgardner

Install Devstack in your home lab

VMware Integrated Openstack if you have resources

Finally… What is Openstack?

Open source cloud operating system which consolidates compute, storage, and networking

Multiple individual projects

Public cloud experience in a private datacenter

Intended for elastic, resilient apps. Fewer availability and management options for individual VM uptime by default (HA/FT/Resource Groups/vSphere snapshots)

Very Basic Overview

Keystone centralizes authentication

Nova manages compute

Cinder manages block storage

Neutron manages Software Defined Networking

Horizon Dashboard brings it all together

VMware Integrated Openstack

All availability options of VMware and deployment options of Openstack

There are a LOT of requirements to test it out Dedicated compute cluster with three hosts 56 vCPU, 192 GB RAM, 600 GB

HDD Extra resources for NSX if you choose to use it over vDS

Check out HOL-SDC-1620

What’s the Next Step?

Fully implement VMware Integrated Openstack as proof of technology

Keep learning Linux

Interested in consuming more than creating