1. Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud
Solution Introduce
& Crowbar Demo
Peter Liu
NGCS Solution Architect
Peter_Liu2@Dell.com
Jan 2012
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2. Agenda
• Introduction on OpenStack
• Dell & OpenStack
• Dell’s OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
– Reference Architecture
– Crowbar
• Dell’s Crowbar Demo
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3. Introduction on
OpenStack
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4. 1st Day of Openstack
DELL provides hardware platform for Openstack from
1st day.
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5. Out of that, an initiative grew…
DELL develops Openstack deployment and operation
toolkit for Openstack, and contributes to community.
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6. And grew into a thriving community
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7. What is OpenStack?
• OpenStack is
– a big community
– A stack of open source software (Apache 2.0 license)
• Provides an operating platform / toolkit
for orchestrating clouds.
• Contains a collection of open source projects that are community-maintained
– Compute (code named “Nova”)
– Storage (code named “Swift”)
– Imaging Service (code named “Glance”)
– Others in work (Network as a Service, Volume as a Service, etc)
• OpenStack’s basic requirement: “Clouds must be simple to implement and
massively scalable”
• Open Standards and versatility:
– Amazon APIs are supported
– Multiple hypervisors (Xen, KVM, Release name Release date
VMWare, Hyper-V, etc. Austin October 21, 2010
Bexar February 3, 2011
Cactus April 15, 2011
• www.OpenStack.org
Diablo September 22, 2011
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8. Cloud Taxonomy
Software as a IT as a Platform as a Infrastructure as a
Everything as a Service
Service Service Service Service
Admin Software
Web Services & APIs Self Service Portal
SSO
Customer Management
Entitlement, rights Billing Metering
Information Service Management
LDAP/A
Infrastructure Software
D
Legacy Management
Ser Gov/Workflow Workload Lifecycle
Monitoring
Automation Management
Intelligent Resource
Reporting
Orchestration Platform Provisioning
Analytics
Manager
Securit
y
Abstraction Software
Data
OS Operating System Application Run-
Store
Hardware Virtualization Time Virtualization
Virtualization
IPS
Physical
Compute Switch Storage
Firewal
Network
l
HVAC Power Facility
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9. But we still have work to do!
Software as a IT as a Platform as a Infrastructure as a
Everything as a Service
Service Service Service Service
Admin Software
OpenStack APIs OpenStack Dashboard
SSO
Customer Management
Entitlement, rights Billing Metering
Information Service Management
LDAP/AD
Infrastructure Software
Legacy Management
Workload Lifecycle
Ser Gov/Workflow Automation Monitoring
Management
Orchestration Intelligent Resource Manager Crowbar
Reporting
Analytics
Keystone
Abstraction Software
Data
OS
Ubuntu Operating System Application Run-
Store
Hardware Virtualization Time Virtualization
KVM
Virtualization
IPS
Physical
Nova
Nova Switch
Glance Swift
Swift
Firewall
Quantum
HVAC Power Facility
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10. Dell and
OpenStack
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11. Dell and OpenStack To-Date
• First Solution Launched: July 2011
– The market’s first OpenStack Cloud solution featuring
hardware, software, and services
• Only Tier 1 hardware/solutions provider at
announcement
– The most history with OpenStack
• Contributions
– Development of Crowbar software
› Crowbar open sourced. Download at www.dell.com/openstack
– “BootStrapping OpenStack Clouds” technical whitepaper
› 1 out of 3 visitors downloading
– Video, press releases, event sponsorships, etc
• Key partnerships
– Rackspace, Citrix, and more
• Dell experts active in OpenStack community
www.Dell.com/OpenStack
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12. Dell’s Approach to OpenStack
Current Status: Future Strategy:
Earliest Participator Primary Solution Provider
• OpenStack Partner
• First solution to mkt Ecosystem
• Build operational model • Dell Contributes to
• Experiences from
OpenStack
customer
engagements community and projects
• Single operator clouds • Dell Service offerings
• Public, Private, Hybrid
• Expanded markets
DELL is open to work with partners in community and build
Openstack ecosystem in China.
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13. Dell OpenStack-
Powered Cloud
Solution
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14. Openstack Deployments are Complex
DELL provides Reference Architecture and Crowbar
to simplify the Openstack Deployment.
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15. Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution
The Market’s First OpenStack Cloud Solution / Reference
Architecture
HW + SW + Services
HW
• PEC6100 Servers
Reference
• Storage and compute
Hardware Architecture
• PowerConnect 6248
LAN
Configuration Min of 6 nodes
• OpenStack Installer
(Crowbar)
Software • OpenStack cloud SW
• Other SW elements
installed by Crowbar
Software
Operating
• Ubuntu 10.10 (Host)
• Windows (Guests)
System
• Linux (Guests) Solution includes:
Between 6 and 60 nodes:
Hypervisor KVM, Xen • PowerEdge C6100, c2100
• Onsite HW Install • Two sleds per server
Deployment
• Onsite SW Install • Fully populated drives
• Whiteboard session & • PowerConnect 6248 LAN
Services training (via RCB)
• Installation automation SW
• HW: Dell ProSupport • Reference architecture
Support • SW: OpenStack support • Sample application
(via RCB)
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16. 16
C
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n Hardware Choices – Nova & Swift
i Compone 2100 6100 ½ 6100 Full 6100 +
d nt Pop SAN
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Base 2U, 12+2 drives 2U, 12 drives 2U, 12 drives 6U, 60 drives
n
1 system: 2 sleds: 4 sleds: 4 sleds:
i 12 core, 18 ram 24 core, 24 ram 48 core, 48 ram 48 core, 48 ram
a
Normalized 2100 6100 ½ Pop 6100 Full 6100 + SAN
6U
Cores 36 72 144 48
Spindles 36 36 36 60
(3½”)
Spindles/ 12+2 6 3 15
Host
DIMMs 54 72 144 48
RAM 432 576 1,152 384
Cost Lowest Moderate- Moderate- Highest
Low High
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17. Dell’s Crowbar: deployment toolkit and
ongoing operation model
Mission: “A Zero-Touch Cloud Installer”
Servers in boxes to fully functioning cloud in under 2 hours
• Fast & Flexible
– Bare metal install including BIOS & RAID config
– Choose how the system is configured via “barclamps”
• DevOps Embracing
– Ongoing Operations Model (DevOps for Clouds) for continuous integration
and management
– Leverages and wraps Opscode Chef
– Integrates Nagios and Ganglia monitoring tools
• Open
– Not specific to OpenStack – can be used with other applications
– Not restricted to Dell hardware
– Apache 2 licensed
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18. Dell’s Crowbar: Adding Value to OpenStack
Crowbar Architecture
• Deploys multi-node OpenStack
clouds onto bare metal Dell
PowerEdge C servers in less than two
hours vs. days manually
• Functionality includes
– BIOS config, RAID config, Network
discovery, Deployment of Nagios and
Ganglia monitoring tools, and more
• Continuous integration
• Modular design (core + barclamps)
• Use cases beyond OpenStack
– Hadoop, VMware Cloud Foundry
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19. Crowbar Components
• Crowbar was developed by Dell to address OpenStack installation challenges & ongoing
management complexities
– Leverages solutions work and open source components into an integrated suite
• At a high-level, the operational challenges Crowbar addresses include: node discovery,
network configuration, BIOS update/config, provisioning of ops services (DNS, NTP,
etc), and mapping application configuration into the available infrastructure
–Sledgehammer: Configures BIOS for nodes in OpenStack environment
–Barclamp: Configures networking, defines roles and recipes for nodes in Openstack
environment (services, applications)
Moving forward, the vision is for Crowbar to manage large production environments
Strategically for Dell, Crowbar:
• Creates good will with development partners and customers by reducing their install
and operational time-to-market lag time
• Promotes “works best on Dell” by integrating with our server and network hardware to
speed deployments
• Reduces effort required to gain and service customers with faster, more accurate
deployments
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20. Crowbar Barclamp Function Mechanism
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21. Enabling DevOps with Crowbar
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22. Crowbar management & monitoring UI
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23. DreamHost Expands Cloud and Storage
Services with Dell OpenStack Cloud
Challenge
DreamHost was in need of a flexible, open source
cloud platform for their public cloud compute
Solution
DreamHost uses Dell hardware for its core business
—shared hosting, dedicated hosting and virtual
private server hosting—as well as its emerging
businesses.
For its OpenStack cloud, DreamHost is using the
Crowbar barclamp for Nova. The company is
writing its own barclamp for its Ceph storage
solution.
“If Dell tried to have a sales Benefits
• Took advantage of Dell’s OpenStack
person sell us, we probably
reference architecture and deployment
wouldn’t have bought it. Dell framework
solved a problem that we had. • Saved 4-6 months of software development
And when Dell solved that work
problem, our engineers thought, • Leveraged cloud and scale-out servers and
‘We’re going to use this.’” reference architecture
• Realized business advantages of leasing
Ben Cherian, general manager of emerging
with Dell Financial Services
technologies, DreamHost
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24. Diablo and Crowbar 1.2
Crowbar Added Features in v1.2:
Central feature was OpenStack Diablo Final barclamps (tag “openstack-os-build”)
Improved barclamp packaging
Added concepts for “meta” barclamps that are suites of other barclamps
Proposal queue and ordering
New UI states for nodes & barclamps (led spinner!)
Install includes self-testing
Service monitoring (bluepill)
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25. Crowbar Demo
Q&A
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26. Thank you!
For more info:
WWW.Dell.com/OpenStack
RobHirschfeld.com
jbgeorge.net/
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