OpenStack from POC to a full production deployment in 2
weeks - Customer Success Story
Date: June 5 2017
Grisha Sokolovsky, VP Business Development
Daniel Vaknin, Cloud Solutions Architect
TeraSky Ltd.
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IT Operations Challenges By New
Demands
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Software Defined DC
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Two different Paths
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SDDC Landscape
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What SDDC Do For Us?
• Agility• Automation & Scaling up or down becomes a trivial matter
- Self-Service for users; frees IT for other projects
- Cloud ready: Public, Private or Hybrid
• Resilience• SDDC “exists” at a layer above, insulting from issues at lower
layer
• With proper design, Zero-downtime solutions are easily
achievable
• Standardization• We can ensure that multi-site environments are standardized
resulting in greater ease of management and scalability
OpenStack as SDDC
• Basic components (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance…)
• Cloud Operating System
• Future Data Centre – API based
Am I ready for OpenStack ?
Customer Description and Challenges
• Big media organization - creating media boxes and
streaming TV application (“TV in the cloud”)
• Long time to market
• Rapid tenant deployment – ~270 instances per tenant
• Automatic deployments with Heat Templates (HOT)
Customer
Solution
Private cloud based on Red Hat OpenStack
Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage
Project Methodology
• Delivery Framework
• Sprints:
Hardware assurance / Infrastructure validation
Basic deployment
Adding Ceph, Swift, SSL, etc.
Adding post-deployment automatic tasks
Running post deployment tests
OpenStack Architecture
3 Controllers, 12
Computes, 5 Ceph OSD,
3 Swift nodes,
VLAN/VXLAN networks
From POC to Production
Other Aspects
• Centralized Logging – fluentd, Elasticsearch, Kibana
• Performance Monitoring – collectd, Graphite, Grafana
• Ceph Monitoring and Administration - Calamari
• Cloud Management Platform – Red Hat CloudForms 4.2
Centralized Logging with
Kibana
Performance Monitoring with Grafana
Ceph Management with Calamari
Management and operations with CloudForms
Red Hat CloudForms
• Manage multiple clouds from a single view
• Self-Service portal
• Utilize HOT (Heat Orchestration Templates)
• Reporting, dashboards
• Chargeback
• Scale OpenStack from a dashboard
End-To-End Software Defined
• Why Red Hat OpenStack? Biggest and mostly
experienced contributor to the community
• Red Hat OpenStack R&D in Israel
• With TeraSky you get: Wide infrastructure knowledge and
skills, Professional Services and Support
• Red Hat is the market standard
Lessons learned from a successful
deployment
• Flexible – Customer can change the architecture during
the project…
• Hardware quality is very important
• Customer own infrastructure knowledge
• Cooperation between customer and integrator
• Working in a modular approach
Summary
• OpenStack also for medium-size customer
• Lack of experience and knowledge (still)
• IT usually overloaded with “Firefighting”
• TeraSky brings knowledge and experience
www.terasky.com
Thank
You