(SCALE 12x) OpenStack vs. VMware - A System Administrator Perspective

OpenStack
vs
VMware

A
System
Administrator

Perspec2ve

Dmitri
Zimine,
StackStorm

New
tools
vs
Enterprise
Suites

DevOps
for
Infrastructure
.next

•  Reliable,
repeatable,
tested
automa2on

•  Infrastructure
as
a
code

•  Good
engineering
prac2ces

Versioning,
TDD,
CI,
CD,
refactoring…

•  High
eﬃciency
and
agility

at
scale!

Ef<iciency
boost

ITIL

Entrprs

10,000:1

100:1

Servers
per
Admin

Ef<iciency
boost

ITIL

Entrprs

100:1

DEVOPS

1000:1

Servers
per
Admin

10,000:1

New
generation
of
tools

1.  OpenSource

2.  Support
infrastructure
as
code

3.  Leverage
social
coding

#1.
OpenSource

It’s
not
about
“free”:

• Control

• Agility

• Bug?
ﬁx
it!
Feature?
Build
it!

• Share
(see
“Social)

#2.
Infrastructure
as
code

• Full
API
for
automa2on

• Deﬁni2ons
and
conﬁgs
in
Git

• Support
TDD,
con2nuous
integra2on,

con2nuous
deployment,
refactoring…

#3.
Social
coding

Engage
community

to
create

and
exchage
content

• Boosts
produc2vity

• Rewards
contributors

• Fuels

#1
and
#2

New
generation
of
tools

1.  OpenSource

2.  Support
infrastructure
as
code

3.  Leverage
social
coding

4.  More
demanding

Stories

OpenStack
vs
VMware,

compare
and
contrast

Story
#1

Troubleshooting

Story
#2

API
and
UI

Story
#3

Scheduler
and
AfAinity
Rules

Custom
scheduler
<ilter

Story
#4

Heat
Templates

and
vCAC
Blueprints

OpenStack
Heat
Template

VMware
vCAC
-‐
blueprint

VCAC
-‐
artefacts

h]ps://communi2es.vmware.com/thread/470692

Story
#5

Put
it
all
together

GAP

10%

OpenStack,

Devops,

DIY
tools,

Promise
of
10x

90%

VMW,

Tradi2onal
IT,

Enterprise
Suites

Product
needs
to
change

•  OpenStack
becomes
Enterprise
class

•  More
like
vSphere

•  Easier
to
use

Ease
of
use…
to
whom?

Ease
of
use…
to
whom?

•  Depends

– Who
you
are

– What
you
know

– What
you
trying
to
do

Ease
of
use…
why?

•  It’s
not
about
forcing
OpenStack

into
enterprise

– To
make
10x
more
admins
busy

•  It’s
about
bringing
Devops
to
enterprise

– And
gegng
10x
eﬃciency
gain

Horses
vs
Tractors

1890
-‐
40-‐50
labor-‐hours
required
to

produce
100
bushels
(5
acres)
of

wheat
with
gang
plow,
seeder,

harrow,
binder,
thresher,
wagons,

and
horses

1930
-‐
15-‐20
labor-‐hours
required

to
produce
100
bushels
(5
acres)

of
wheat
with
3-‐bo]om
gang

plow,
tractor,
10-‐foot
tandem

disk,
harrow,
12-‐foot
combine,

and
trucks

Horses
vs
Tractors

40-‐50
labor-‐hours

15-‐20
labor-‐hours

Horses
vs
Tractors

4x

•  Vendors:
stop
building
horse
wagons

– Because
they
are
“easy
to
use”

•  Sys
admins:
learn
to
drive
tractors

– even
if
are
clumsy:
driving
is
good
skill

Products
DO
need
to
change

•  Power
tools
for
power
users

•  Support
Infrastructure.next
and
devops

•  VMWare

•  Cisco,
EMC,
NetApp,
BMC,
F5…

•  Or
else…

OpenStack
and
vSphere
at
PayPal

Source:
"Marriage
of
Openstack
with
KVM
and
ESX
at
PayPal"

OpenStack
Hong
Kong
2013,
h]p://bit.ly/1bmw0qY

Sys
admins
need
to
change

•  Power
tools
require
power
users

•  Pick
new
skills,

Or
else
…

THE
BIGGEST
WINNERS:

STARS
AND
SUPER
STARS

One
machine
can
do
the
work
of

<ifty
ordinary
men.

No
machine
can
do
the
work

of
one
extraordinary
man.

-‐
Elbert
Hubbard

Automation
keeps
the
best
part

•  More
demanding

•  More
crea2ve

•  More
fun

Transformation

•  Main
drivers:
eﬃciency
and
agility

•  “Devops”
movement
shows
how
to
get

there

•  Products
will
support
“devops”,
or
die

•  Sys
admin
job
will
change
–
demanding,

crea2ve,
fun

Winners

•  Vendors
who
got
it
right

•  Star
and
super
star
sys
admins

Shape
your
world

The
best
way
to
predict
the

future
is
to
create
it

-‐
Abraham
Lincoln

We
want
to
hear
from
you

•  VMware

-‐
PMs,
Customer
Advocacy

•  Openstack
developers

•  Startups
like
us
-‐
@Stack_Storm

•  Me
-‐
dz@stackstorm.com

References

•  Infrastructure
as
code,
detailed
slideshare
on
comparing
coding
vs.
infra

as
code
by
Patrick
Debois
h]p://www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/code-‐but-‐not-‐as-‐we-‐know-‐it-‐
infrastructure-‐as-‐code

•  Blog
on
Infrastructure
as
code
vs.
automa2on
from
Kiel
of

Thoughworks:
h]p://kief.com/infrastructure-‐as-‐code-‐versus-‐automa2on.html

•  Mistral:

h]ps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mistral

•  Ken
Hui
of
Rackspace
on
VMware
and
OpenStack:

h]p://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2014/01/23/bridging-‐the-‐gap-‐
explaining-‐openstack-‐to-‐vmware-‐administrators-‐the-‐talk-‐track/
s

•  Servers
per
admin
stats
-‐
for
instance,
here:

h]p://www.computerworld.com.au/ar2cle/352635/
there_best_prac2ce_server_system_administrator_ra2o_/

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