The document discusses building complete private clouds using Apache CloudStack and Riak CS, highlighting their roles in leveraging existing infrastructure and improving agility through composable resources. It emphasizes the transition from traditional to cloud workloads, detailing the benefits of open-source solutions in IaaS environments. Additionally, it outlines the architecture and use cases for Riak CS, presenting it as a reliable and scalable storage solution integrated with CloudStack.

1. BUILDING COMPLETE PRIVATE
CLOUDS WITH APACHE
CLOUDSTACK + RIAK CS
John Burwell
(jburwell@basho.com | @john_burwell)
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2. Who Am I
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Consulting Engineer @ Basho Technologies
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Member, Apache CloudStack PMC
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Ran operations and designed automated provisioning for hybrid
analytic/virtualization clouds
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Led architectural design and server-side development of a SaaS
physical security platform
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3. ... but I submitted a ticket.
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4. Shifting Role Of IT
From Cost Center
To Business Opportunity
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5. Wednesday, October 23, 13

6. Agility
Exploitation Requires Rapid Execution
Infrastructure management must be delegated
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7. Agility
Exploitation Requires Rapid Execution
Infrastructure management must be delegated
Infrastructure Must Become Boring
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8. Composable Infrastructure
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Resource Pooling
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Rapid Elasticity
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Self Service
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Metering/Charge Back
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9. Got It ... Why Go Private?
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Leverage existing infrastructure investment
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Customization and Control
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Regulatory/Security Requirements
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Cost
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10. Doesn’t vSphere/
XCP/XenServer
already do that?
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11. Traditional Workload
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Fault tolerant
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Management
Reliable
Specialized hardware
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IT managed provisioning
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Static scale out model
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Network
Hypervisor
Cluster
Hypervisor
Cluster
Shared

12. Storage

13. Traditional Workload
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Fault tolerant
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Management
Reliable
Specialized hardware
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IT managed provisioning
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Static scale out model
Network
Hypervisor
Cluster
Hypervisor
Cluster
Shared

14. Storage
Focused on resource consolidation not agility
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15. Software Is Eating Hardware
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Moore’s Law has pulled fault tolerance up the stack
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Commodity Hardware
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Reduced cost
Services more workload types
Dynamic resource allocation
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16. Software Is Eating Hardware
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Moore’s Law has pulled fault tolerance up the stack
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Commodity Hardware
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•
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Reduced cost
Services more workload types
Dynamic resource allocation
Specialized Hardware Reduces Agility
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17. Cloud Workload
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Reliable
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Fault Tolerant
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Self-Service provisioning
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Control Plane - Dynamic
scale out model
Rack
Rack
App
App
Commodity Hardware
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SDN
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Object

18. Storage

19. Cloud Workload
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Reliable
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Fault Tolerant
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Self-Service provisioning
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Control Plane - Dynamic
scale out model
Rack
Rack
App
App
Commodity Hardware
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SDN
Object

20. Storage
Resource optimization increases agility
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21. Reality
Traditional
Workload
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Cloud
Workload

22. Complete Private Cloud
+
Compute Services
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Object Storage
Services

23. What Is Apache CloudStack?
§Open source software that deploys
and manages large networks of
virtual machines, as a highly
available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
cloud computing platform.
§CloudStack is a Top-Level Project at
the Apache Software Foundation.
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24. What Is Apache CloudStack?
§Open source software that deploys
and manages large networks of
virtual machines, as a highly
available, highly scalable
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
cloud computing platform.
§CloudStack is a Top-Level Project at
the Apache Software Foundation.
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25. Apache CloudStack Users
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26. Anatomy Of CloudStack
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Management Server Farm
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VM
Network
Host
Collection of clusters in the same failure boundary
Primary
Storage
A grouping of hosts and their associated storage
Hosts
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Collection of pods, network offerings and secondary storage
Cluster
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Host
Pod
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VM
Zone
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Management and provisioning tasks
Cluster
Secondary
Storage
Cluster
Servers onto which services will be provisioned
Primary Storage
CloudStack Pod
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VM disk storage
Network
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CloudStack Pod
Logical network associated with service offerings
Zone
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Secondary Storage
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Template, snapshot and ISO storage
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27. Primary Vs Secondary Storage
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Random access read/write
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Write once/read many
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Changes often
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Append only
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Zone Scoped
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Zone or Region Scoped
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Focused on throughput
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Focused on reliability
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28. Primary Vs Secondary Storage
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Random access read/write
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Write once/read many
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Changes often
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Append only
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Zone Scoped
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Zone or Region Scoped
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Focused on throughput
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Focused on reliability
Secondary Storage is the lifeboat.
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29. What Is Riak CS?
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Simple, reliable storage of large objects accessed using the S3 or Swift
API
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Objects are stored in buckets with a unique key
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Multi-tenant security model with per object ACLs
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Usage Accounting and Reporting
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Open Source (Apache2 Licensed)
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30. What Is Riak CS?
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Simple, reliable storage of large objects accessed using the S3 or Swift
API
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Objects are stored in buckets with a unique key
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Multi-tenant security model with per object ACLs
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Usage Accounting and Reporting
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Open Source (Apache2 Licensed)
Your Own Private S3
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31. Anatomy Of Riak CS
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S3/Swift API Proxy + Riak key-value store
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Peer-to-Peer Design: Any node can service any read or accept
any write request
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Maintains multiple replicas (default 3) spread across multiple
nodes
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Ops Friendly
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32. Anatomy Of Riak CS
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S3/Swift API Proxy + Riak key-value store
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Peer-to-Peer Design: Any node can service any read or accept
any write request
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Maintains multiple replicas (default 3) spread across multiple
nodes
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Ops Friendly
Horizontally scaleable storage on
commodity hardware
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33. Riak CS Use Cases
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Secondary Storage for VM snapshot and template data
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Database Backup Storage
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Serving Static Content
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Application Log Storage
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34. Achieving Commodity Reliability
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Create a zone per power source/backbone network connection
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Establish independent primary storage in each zone
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Utilize intra-datacenter block-level replication between zones
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Distribute Riak CS nodes evenly across zones
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35. The Complete Private Cloud
Traditional