2. Overview
• So what is the “Cloud”
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Storage
• Amazon EC2
• OpenSolaris EC2 images
• SNIA’s CDMI
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3. What is the “Cloud”?
• A new business model • Implications:
> Don’t buy equipment > Cheaper?
> Rent it for only as long as > Drives down cost of
you need it administration
> Pay for only what you use > Scale out type of
applications
• Provider balances multiple
tenants • Myths
> Elastic demand of each is > Just another word for hosting
variable > Isn’t this just Grid?
> Optimize the usage across > Only new applications
all the demand loads to save > Not as secure
costs
> Bundle in the > Do I really want my data
“administration” of resources “public”
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4. Cloud Computing
• IaaS – Infrastructure as a • What about private clouds?
Service • Can they leverage what
> Roll your own “stack” in a they have and move to a
virtual machine
cloud paradigm for internal
> Pay for the resources you customers?
use
• PaaS – Platform • Can I utilize the cloud for
both legacy and green field
> Use a platform to write your applications?
apps that can then be hosted
in the cloud • What additional capabilities
• SaaS – Software can I take advantage of?
> Formerly called Application • What are the guarantees
Service Providers on my cloud storage?
> Can be built on PaaS or
IaaS
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5. A look at some existing Cloud APIs
• What are some of the offerings and their Data
Storage Interfaces?
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7. Getting Started with OpenSolaris EC2
Step One: Open an Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 account
Step Two: Access to OpenSolaris AMIs
Step Three: Provision OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2
Step Four: Get Support
More info at: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/start/index.jsp
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8. Some Interesting AMIs
• Security Enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMP
Stack AMI
> ami-e0b05389, ami-7a2a010e (Europe)
• Immutable Service Containers on OpenSolaris
2009.06
> ami-48c32021, ami-78567d0c (Europe)
• Drupal with AMP Stack Hardened OpenSolaris
> ami-d8614aac aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414
• SailFin AMI on OpenSolaris 2008.11
> ami-9df312f4
• Lots more info at: http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/
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9. What AMIs would be useful?
• Basic stacks that you would like to see supported by
Sun?
> (of course you can always roll your own)
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10. Other possibilities
• Amazon now offers a separate fully managed
instance of MySQL
> 5 sizes: 1.7 – 64 GB Memory, up to full 8 cores
> http://aws.amazon.com/rds/
• ZFS snapshot, backup to S3
> http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/
storage_utils.html
• OpenSolaris Dynamic Service Containers
> http://kenai.com/projects/dsc/
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11. Standards progress
• What about moving from cloud to cloud?
• How much do I redo interface code?
• What about Data Portability?
• OGF has produced a Cloud Computing standard
(draft) called Open Cloud Computing Interface
http://www.occi-wg.org
• SNIA has produced a Cloud Storage standard
(draft) called Cloud Data Management Interface
http://snia.org/cloud
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17. CDMI Containers
• CDMI uses hierarchies to enable simplified
management
> Data System Metadata can be specified on a container,
and inherited by all child objects.
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18. CDMI in Cloud Computing
A single cloud computing
infrastructure can implement
both the OCCI and CDMI
interfaces
The infrastructure abstracts the
configuration of the networking
and virtual machine details and
uses the standard interface
merely to define connectivity
A cloud computing client can
then utilize the interfaces to both
specify the data requirements
and then use that data for
guests
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20. What do you want to see in a Cloud
Computing or Cloud Storage interface
standard?
• Any projects on the horizon to use the cloud?
• Setting up your own cloud?
• “Bursting” capability out to the cloud?
• What would make using OpenSolaris easier for your
private clouds?
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21. For More Information
• SNIA Cloud API
> http://snia.org/cloud
• OpenSolaris on EC2
> http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/
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