Customer success Story: Red Hat Openstack production deployment, starting from POC and moving to a full production in 2 weeks, using CEPH, as a Software Defined Storage; CloudForms, as a Cloud Management Platform & a Self Service portal;OpenStack Platform Director or TripleO ,as a physical HW discovery and overcloud nodes deployment engine. Implementation of 3rdparty monitoring and control tools, based on Calamari, Grafana, Graphite and Kibana. Critical impact of wide infrastructure knowledge and skills, Professional Services and Support provided by Terasky and Red Hat. Importance of HW quality, Customer-Integrator-Vendor cooperation and a Modular approach for OpenStack successful and fast deployment”.

1. 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.

2. 2
IT Operations Challenges By New
Demands

3. 3
Software Defined DC

4. 4
Two different Paths

5. 5
SDDC Landscape

6. 6
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

7. OpenStack as SDDC
• Basic components (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance…)
• Cloud Operating System
• Future Data Centre – API based

8. Am I ready for OpenStack ?

9. 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)

10. Customer
Solution
Private cloud based on Red Hat OpenStack
Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage

11. 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

12. OpenStack Architecture
3 Controllers, 12
Computes, 5 Ceph OSD,
3 Swift nodes,
VLAN/VXLAN networks

13. From POC to Production

14. 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

15. Centralized Logging with
Kibana

16. Performance Monitoring with Grafana

17. Ceph Management with Calamari

18. Management and operations with CloudForms

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Summary
• OpenStack also for medium-size customer
• Lack of experience and knowledge (still)
• IT usually overloaded with “Firefighting”
• TeraSky brings knowledge and experience

23. www.terasky.com
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