Three Important Use Cases for an On-Premise Private Cloud

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Three’s a Cloud: Three Important Use Cases for an On-Premise Cloud

Paul Weiss

Senior Cloud Engineer

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Agenda

• Eucalyptus Overview

• High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud

• Scalable Web Services

• Dev / Test in the Cloud

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Eucalyptus Overview

Most widely-deployed software platform for on-premise IaaS clouds

25,000+ cloud starts to date and growing

AWS-compatible, enterprise-deployed

Deep cloud partner and AWS ecosystem

Open source developed

Gartner-recognized as major IaaS provider

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Eucalyptus IaaS

• An enterprise open source, on-premise cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform

• The most widely deployed software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service Clouds

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Eucalyptus IaaS

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Who Uses Eucalyptus?

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Eucalyptus Use Cases

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Eucalyptus & HPC in the Cloud

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Why HPC in the Cloud?

HPC in the Cloud HPC Clusters

HW Configuration Flexible Fixed

SW Configuration Configurable by user Managed by a System

Administrator

Access Root privileges User privileges

Maintenance Overhead User does system

configuration / maintenance

Done by a System

Administrator

Performance Resources shared with

other cloud instances on the

same server

Bare metal performance

Nominal Cost Per Core Lower Higher

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FutureGrid

• High performance test bed for scientists

• Distributed

• NSF funded

• 5000 cores

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FutureGrid

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FutureGrid Architecture

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Red Cloud – Cornell University

• Launched Oct 27, 2011

• Developed by Cornell – Center for Advanced Computing

• Flexible computing and data analysis resource for Cornell University researchers

• 96 cores

• 384 GB RAM

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Red Cloud Configuration

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• Configuration

• Total

– 96 cores, 384GB RAM in 8 servers

• 8 Servers

– 2.7 GHz Xeon E5620 CPU’s (2 x 6 cores)

– 48GB of RAM (4GB/core)

– Maximum virtual server size:

• 12 coresm 48GB RAM

• 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnect

• Storage

– 7.5TB

– Accessible by virtual servers via 10Gb iSCSI

• Software

– Eucalyptus 2.0.3 (Open Source)

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Red Cloud – Subscription Based

Cornell Users $500/core year*

Other Academic Institutions $750/core year*

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• A core year is equal to 8585 hours

• Each subscription account includes 50GB of storage

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Why Red Cloud? • Predictable, Reproducible, Reliable Performance

– Published hardware specifications (CPU, RAM, network) and no oversubscription

• No Hidden Costs

– No cost for network traffic in or out of cloud

• Fast Access to Your Data

– Fast data transfers via 10Gb Ethernet in or out of the cloud – Free!

• Expert Help Available

– System, application and programming consulting are available

• Easy Budgeting with Subscriptions.

– No billing surprises!

• Amazon API Compatible

– Migrate when your requirements outgrow Red Cloud

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Eucalyptus & Scalable Web Services

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Puma.com

• All puma.com hosted from Eucalyptus

• 3.5 million page views per month

– 500 hits per second

• Multiple zones for redundancy

– Critical applications have multiple instances in multiple zones

• ~3 minutes to start new instance

– From start to fully configured

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How they do it! • Total

– 80 cores, 320GB RAM in 10 servers

• 10 NC machines

– 2.13 Ghz L5360 CPU’s

– 32 GB RAM

• 2 Eucalyptus Zones

– Each Zone has 5 node controllers

• KVM

• Running in Managed mode

• Small images 5 or 6 GB

– Software installed on the fly

• Merlin

• Puppet

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Applications

• Moving to Ruby on Rails

• Site is Ruby on Rails CMS

• Redis for Ruby cache

• Legacy Java, Tomcat and PHP

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Management Tools

• Merlin – Ruby on Rails WebUI

• Munin – network resource monitoring

• Icinga – fork of Nagios

• Puppet – automation

• Syslog - logging

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Why Dev / Test in the Cloud?

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Disconnected tools, servers, people

Slow build and release cycles

Multiple build and test systems across locations

Home-built systems are brittle, error-prone, and don’t scale

Difficult to manage build and test data, recreate after the fact

Difficult to audit processes, predict schedules

Time, money wasted on broken builds

Dedicated build/test servers not fully utilized

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Eucalyptus & Dev / Test

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Dev

Dev QA Release Ops

Automate & accelerate dev-test-deploy process

IT

IT

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Dev / Test Cloud

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IT

IT

Dev

Dev QA Release Ops

Development Cloud Automate any process on any resource

Dev Process

IT Resources

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Process and Control Issues

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Dev Process Dev

Siloed, slow, manual – high chance of errors

No end to end visibility

Process per team with no best practices

No closed loop analysis & reporting

Dev QA Release Ops

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Thank you.

Paul Weiss

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