Bringing NetApp Data ONTAP & Apache CloudStack Together

David La MottaTechnical Marketing Engineer@virtualcrusader

Bringing NetApp Data ONTAP & Apache CloudStack Together

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Clustered Data ONTAP, goodness for the cloud

Orchestrating storage management via the Virtual Storage Console – demo!

Pedal to the metal: deploying CloudPlatform on FlexPod

Agenda

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Clustered Data ONTAP, goodness for the cloud

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Apache CloudStack

Clustered Data ONTAP®

The best storage for the cloud

Non-Disruptive Operations Upgrade Data ONTAP software

Scale and load balance

High Performance and Scale

Storage Efficiency

Multi-Tenancy

DBVDIMessagingERP

Clustered Data ONTAP™

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Snapshot™ Point-in-time copies that write only changed blocks. Minimal performance penalty.

Virtual Copies (FlexClone®)Near-zero-space, instant “virtual” copies. Only subsequent changes in cloned data set get stored.

Thin Provisioning (FlexVol®)Create flexible volumes that appear to be a certain size but are really a much smaller pool.

RAID 6 Protection (RAID-DP®)Helps protect against double disk failure with little performance penalty.

DeduplicationRemoves data redundancies in primary and secondary storage.

Thin Replication (SnapVault®/SnapMirror®)Make data copies for disaster recovery and backup using a minimal amount of space.

Clustered Data ONTAP Storage Efficiency

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Orchestrating storage management with the Virtual Storage Console - demo

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Virtual Storage Console

− Long history

− Orchestration software VMware XenServer RHEV

And now Apache CloudStack

− Similar at its core

Background – History

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NetApp and CloudStack Overlapping Terminology

NetApp CloudStack

Volume Volume

Snapshot Snapshot

Primary Site Primary Storage

Secondary Site Secondary Storage

Cluster Cluster

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NetApp and CloudStack Overlapping Terminology

NetApp CloudStack

Volume: NFS volume Volume: VM disk, root or data

Snapshot: volume snapshot Snapshot: VM backup

Primary: SnapVault primary site Primary Storage: hosts VMs

Secondary: SnapVault secondary site Secondary Storage: templates, ISOs

Cluster: collection of NetApp controllers Cluster: collection of hypervisors

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What the integration consists of:

− Backup & Recovery (VMware, MySQL)

− Storage Provisioning (v1 only NFS)

− Resize, destroy, dedupe

− Storage analytics

− API Integrated

Integration Details

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Strategic alignment – First enterprise-class storage vendor to provide deep integrations

How is the integration being delivered:

− UI / API Plug-in

− Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 & 8.2.1

− RPM Installer

NetApp Integration into ACS / CCP continued

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Key highlights: − Easily deployed & managed

− Implements ACS Storage API

− ACS / CCP 4.3

Future Integrations (?)− VM cloning offload

− SAN

− Backup / Recovery for XenServer

Integration Details continued

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Live Demo

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Pedal to the metal: deploying CloudPlatform on FlexPod

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Delivered as Cisco Validated Design (CVD)

− Design and Deployment Best Practices

− Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2

− CloudPlatform 4.2.1

− vSphere 5.1

− Cisco UCS Manager 2.1 MR2

CloudPlatform on FlexPod Solution

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Multi-tenancy through Storage Virtual Machines

Live migration and failover testing

Leverage Citrix integration with UCS Manager

Other tools used in CVD:

− Cisco NetScaler 1000V Load Balancing

− NetApp OnCommand Balance, VSC for vSphere

− Citrix User Profile Manager on NetApp CIFS / SMB 3.0

Release date: December 2013

CloudPlatform on FlexPod Solution

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Citrix is now part of FlexPod co-operative Support Lab

Customer calls only one company and escalation to other technology partner co-ordinated in the background

Strong relationships among best-in-class alliance partners

FlexPod®

Hypervisor / OS

Applications

VMware

Redhat

SAP®

Oracle®

VMware®

Ecosystem partners providing application support

Ecosystem partners providing hypervisor/ OS support

Ecosystem partner actively participating in Cooperative Support Lab

Citrix

Citrix®

Microsoft®

Microsoft

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NetApp Winning Strategy

Goal Be the storage of choice for the CloudStack / CloudPlatform deployments

Strategy

Develop differentiated integrations Develop CloudPlatform on FlexPod solution Enable You to win opportunities

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Summary

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Summary

Clustered Data ONTAP lends itself beautifully to operate and scale in the cloud

Orchestrating storage management via the Virtual Storage Console

Citrix CloudPlatform CVD demonstrated from a practical view how to get there

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Q & A

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Get in touch with David:

− david.lamotta@netapp.com

− @virtualcrusader

Citrix CloudPlatform on FlexPod CVD

− http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi51_cp421.pdf

Resources

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Appendix

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CloudPlatform Plugins Screen

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Main Screen

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Storage Controllers

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Primary Storage

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Provisioning Primary Storage

Cloud admin-driven Primary / Secondary storage provisioning

− Single-step provisioning

− Ensure best practices compliance

− Fast and error-free

− Configuration flexibility to easily meet tenant SLA needs

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Primary Storage Details (Secondary is similar)

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Storage Analytics – Aggregates

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Storage Analytics – Volumes & Dedupe

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Quickview Operations

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Configurable User Settings

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VM Backup

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Scheduled Volume Backups

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Backup MySQL DB