Does your Infrastructure Zone Match Your Application Workload? Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Cloud Solutions Architect, SolidFire
Does your Infrastructure Zone Match Your Application Workload?
Aaron Delp (@aarondelp), Cloud Solutions Architect, SolidFire
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Expectations / Agenda
• Cloud Market Overview
• Dual Workloads
• Demo
Cloud Market Overview
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Business Strategy: Leverage early success in SP/Telco into greenfield on-premise clouds on the path to the hybrid cloud end game
SP/Telco Clouds
Cloud Platforms (General Purpose)
Grow with success of design wins
2010–2013
1
Hybrid Clouds
Cloud Federation (Connect Apps & Infrastructure)
De facto end state – manage apps across hybrid clouds
2014–2017
3 Cloud Solutions
(Greenfield Clouds)
Deliver Enterprise solutions, leverage integration
to XenDesktop & NetScaler
2012–2015
2
On-Premise Clouds
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Citrix Cloud Solutions
Open Source Xen Hypervisor
Amazon Proprietary Orchestra8on So9ware
Networking Storage Compute
XenServer
CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack
CloudPortal Business Manager
ESX KVM Hyper-‐V
Self-Service Delivery
Cloud Orchestration
Virtualization
Raw Resources
Workloads
INFRA-‐ STRUCTURE
DEV & TEST
DISASTER RECOVERY
BYO PLATFORM
APPS & DESKTOPS
MOBILE APPS
YOUR SERVICE
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200+ Large Scale
Production Clouds In Deployment
Web 2.0
Service Providers and Telcos
Enterprise and Education
Production sites with over
40,000+ Servers
Deliver Every Workload Are you matching your workload to your infrastructure?
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Two fundamental types of application workloads
Expect reliability Back-up everything HA, Fault tolerance
Admin control recovery
SAP, Oracle, AutoCAD, Exchange
Design for failure Ephemeral resources Multi-site redundancy Self-service recovery
Big Data, HPC, Social, Gaming
Think Server Virtualization Think Amazon Web Services
Traditional workloads Cloud workloads
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Designing a traditional application workload zone
vCenter / XenCenter
Hypervisor Cluster
Hypervisor Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
Hypervisor
Storage
SAN
Networking
L2 VLANs
Network Services
Load Balancing Firewall
Mul8-‐8er Apps
Mul8-‐8er VLANs OVF
vSphere or XenServer Enterprise Tradi8onal Applica8on Availability Zone
VPN
Failure is not an option – 99.999 uptime required
Hypervisor Cluster
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Designing a cloud application zone
Hypervisor
Storage
Local EBS
Networking
L3 SDN based L2 Elas8c IP
Network Services
Security Groups ELB
Mul8-‐8er Apps
3rd Party Tools
XenServer Advanced
GSLB
CloudForma8on
So9ware Defined Networks (e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)
Cloud-‐Na8ve Availability Zone
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Object Storage
Object Store
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CloudStack
CloudStack Supports Both Workloads
So9ware Defined Networks (e.g., Security Groups, EIP, ELB,...)
Cloud-‐Na8ve Availability Zone
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Server Racks
Object Storage
Virtualiza8on Management Server
Hypervisor Cluster
Hypervisor Cluster
Hypervisor Cluster
Enterprise Networking (e.g., VLAN)
Enterprise Storage (e.g., SAN)
Tradi8onal Applica8on Availability Zone
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Demo
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CloudStack Benefit: Time to Value • Apache CloudStack ᵒ DevCloud ᵒ CloudStack Mailing Lists ᵒ Apache CloudStack Getting Started Docs
• Build CloudPlatform In a Hour ᵒ Single management host, non-production POC ᵒ Use CloudPlatform Quick Installation Guide
• Build CloudPlatform In a Day ᵒ Multiple hosts, production quality ᵒ Use CloudPlatform Installation Guide
• Build CloudPlatform - Cisco Validated Design ᵒ Multiple Hosts, production reference architecture ᵒ Cisco & NetApp hardware ᵒ Use Cisco CVD: FlexPod with CloudPlatform
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Conclusions
• Cloud Market Overview
• Dual Workloads • Benefit: Deliver Every Application –
Now and Future
• Demo
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Questions?
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