1. Thorst en von Eicken
CTO Right Scale
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2. Fully aut omat ed on-demand
provisioning of comput e resources
1. Infinit e comput ing resources
2. Available on-demand
3. Pay per use
4. Delivered across t he Int ernet
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3. Comput e infrast ruct ure is
undifferent iat ed heavy lift ing
Demand is hard t o predict
Peak usage much higher t han average
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4. Applicat ions in t he Cloud
Plat forms in t he Cloud
Infrast ruct ure in t he Cloud
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5. Cloud
User
application CRM app
data Office apps
platform Communication apps
hardware
Examples: SaaS offerings
Salesforce.com
Google apps
Ebay
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6. Cloud
User
Rails
data platform Python
hardware Java
application .Net
Examples:
Google App Engine
Force.com
Rackspace Mosso
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7. User Cloud
data
Servers
application hardware Storage
Network
platform Load balancing
Examples:
Amazon Web Services
Flexiscale
GoGrid
and many more t o come
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8. Infrast ruct ure clouds
j ust provide
building blocks!
Right Scale: aut omat e server deployment
from server ready t o server in product ion
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9. Up-front cost s Dev & Test
hardware
load clone
time
Grid
Peak vs. average
load peak load
average load
mon tue wed thu fri sat sun time
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10. Aut omat ed infrast ruct ure cloud
infrastructure
On-demand provisioning, pay-per use
APIs allowing higher levels of aut omat ion
Aut omat ed configurat ion
From boot t o product ion on aut o-pilot
RightScale Cloud
Cloning/ replicat ion of set -ups Management
Platform
Aut omat ed management
Monit oring, alert s, SLAs -> act ions
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11. www.mysite.com
2x load balancers
Apache Apache 2x app servers
HAproxy HAproxy
Mysql mast er/ slave
App Srvr App Srvr
MySQL MySQL
master replication slave
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12. Scale-up
www.mysite.com
App server load > 50%
Maj orit y vot ing
Apache Apache
Add app servers
HAproxy HAproxy
Tie int o load bal & db
Scale-down
App Srvr App Srvr
App Srvr
1/array
App Srvr
N/array
App server load < 20%
Maj orit y vot ing
MySQL MySQL
master replication slave
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14. Load exceeds threshold
Additional servers operational
Additional servers terminated
Load drops below threshold
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15. ~8 cpu minutes
for each video
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16. in 3.5 days
80 t o 3500 servers
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17. www.mysite.com test.mysite.com
Apache Apache Apache Apache
HAproxy HAproxy HAproxy HAproxy
clone
App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr
App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr
1/array N/array 1/array N/array
MySQL MySQL MySQL MySQL
master slave master slave
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21. Up-front cost s Dev & Test
hardware
load clone
time
Grid
Peak vs. average
load peak load
average load
mon tue wed thu fri sat sun time
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22. Technology
Aut omat ion
Archit ect ures
Securit y
Redundancy / service level agreement s
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23. Regulat ory compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, SAS-70, ISO17799,
Needed:
Securit y audit st at ement s provided by cloud
vendors
St at us: when?
Not e Amazon s Securit y Whit epaper
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24. Value of SLAs
Monet ary damages
Definit ion of accept able service
Redundancy t hrough cloud-port abilit y
Shift resources!
wit hin a cloud
across clouds
No free lunch: cost s vary
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25. Amazon Web Services FlexiScale UK GoGrid
Linux & Solaris Servers Linux & Windows Linux & Windows
Servers Servers
Disk Volumes
Disk Volumes Disk Volumes
Persistent Storage
Load balancing
Work Queues
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26. Right Scale Cloud Management Plat form
Amazon Web Services FlexiScale UK GoGrid
Linux & Solaris Servers Linux & Windows Linux & Windows
Servers Servers
Disk Volumes
Disk Volumes Disk Volumes
Persistent Storage
Load balancing
Work Queues
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27. Primary deployment DR deployment
www.mysite.com dr.mysite.com
Apache Apache Apache Apache
HAproxy HAproxy HAproxy HAproxy
App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr
App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr
1/array N/array 1/array N/array
MySQL MySQL MySQL MySQL
master slave master slave
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28. LB1 LB2 LB3
App Srvr App Srvr App Srvr
MySQL MySQL
master slave
Zone 1 Zone 2
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29. How Similar are t he various Clouds?
It depends
Server persist ency, IP address mapping, load
balancing, disk volumes reassignment ,
Converging!
Right Scale approach: t emplat es and t ools
Same building blocks and libraries
Tools t o help bridge differences
(Not a lowest common denominat or approach)
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30. Servers on-demand
Disk Volumes on-demand
Mult iple dat acent ers
Reassign IPs / VIPs across dat acent ers
Mult iple geographies
Mult iple providers
Aut omat ion t ying it all t oget her
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31. Dashboard
w/ aut omat ion
Ready-t o-go applicat ion st acks
Fully cust omizable and ext ensible
Set -up help & support
Support for mult iple clouds
Aut omat ion driven by monit oring and
alert s
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