Red Hat's combination of Ceph and OpenStack provides an optimized solution for enterprise clouds. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is optimized to run OpenStack on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Ceph Storage provides scalable, flexible storage and fully integrates with OpenStack for block, object, and image storage. Using Ceph and OpenStack together from Red Hat provides technical integration, product integration, support from a single vendor, and an integrated development process.

1. CEPH & OPENSTACK
Red Hat's Winning Combination for Enterprise Clouds
Rahul Vijayan
Senior Solutions Architect
Bangalore

2. AGENDA
 Why OpenStack?
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
 Overview
 Red Hat Ceph Storage
 Overview
 “Better Together”
 Resources
 Q&A

3. IT Operations is Being Challenged By New Demands

4. Application demands are becoming more complex
IMMEDIATE PERVASIVE AWARE
CLOUD MOBILE INTERNET OF
THINGS
BIG DATA AUTOMATION ABSTRACTION
These New Demands Are Forcing a Shift in Application
Design
Application requirements are becoming more diverse

5. Existing infrastructure is not designed to do this!
Data has become too large
 We're producing vast amounts of data, exponentially!
 Way past the ability of traditional systems & applications
 Scaling UP no longer works. Scaling OUT is a necessity
lService requests are too large
 More and more client devices coming online
 Mobile phones, tablets, etc.
 Much harder to maintain service to customers
lTraditional applications and infrastructure were not written to cope with this
level of demand
IT Operations Must Adapt

7. OpenStack: Framework for the Cloud
 Needs to access x86 hardware resources
 Needs an operating environment, hypervisor, services
 Leverages existing code libraries for functionality

8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
 It is dependent on the underlying Linux
 Optimized and Co-Engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

9. A typical OpenStack cloud is made up of at least 9 core
services + plugins to interact with 3rd party systems
These services run on top of a Linux distribution with a complex
set of user space integration dependencies
 Red Hat adds optimization's in OpenStack and Linux
 Virtualization – guest performance, reliability, & Windows
 Security - SELinux enforcing guest isolation
 Network – SDN/OVS performance optimized
 Storage – Ceph integration, vendor plugins, performance
 Ecosystem – Certification of hardware, storage, & networks
Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
Optimized Enablers for OpenStack
Red Hat
Supported Guests
OpenStack
KVM
RHEL
Hardware

10. Why Red Hat?
All the value of community OpenStack and...
 Enterprise hardened code
 Co-engineered and integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 Graphical Installer ensuring production-ready deployment
 Live orchestrated system upgrades with Director
 3 year “production phase” software lifecycle
 World-class global support
 Worlds largest OpenStack partner ecosystem
 OpenStack training, certification, and professional services
 Integrated with a trusted solution stack
 Including Red Hat Ceph Storage

12. TRADITIONAL STORAGE
IS INFLEXIBLE
Using traditional, proprietary storage appliances:
 Capacity is purchased one large appliance at a time
• Requires large investment, disruptive “forklift” upgrades
 Hardware is specialized and expensive
• Cost and capacity do not scale evenly
Traditional storage appliances are not likely to be deployed and
managed by cloud builders
STORAGE APPLIANCE
COMPUTE
NODE

13. STORAGE SHOULD SCALE
WITH COMPUTE
Using standard, readily-available servers:
 Capacity can be purchased incrementally
• Saves money and increases efficiency
 One vendor can provide both storage and compute nodes
• Increases purchasing power
Storage can be deployed by cloud builders instead of faraway storage
admins in different departments
COMPUTE
NODE
STORAGE
NODE

14. OVERVIEW:
RED HAT CEPH STORAGE
Powerful distributed storage for the cloud and beyond
OpenStack
Built from the ground up as a next-generation
storage system, based on years of research and
suitable for powering infrastructure platforms
TARGET USE CASES
Cinder, Glance & Nova
Object storage for tenant apps
Object Storage for Applications
Swift and S3 API
Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable
Offers enterprise-ready interfaces for block and
object storage for the enterprise
Customer Highlight: Cisco
Cisco uses Red Hat Ceph Storage to deliver
storage for next-generation cloud services
Media and Archival

15. VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE
CEPH BLOCK DEVICE
(RBD)
Keystone API Swift API Cinder API
Glanc
e
API
Nova
API
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
RED HAT CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
Hypervisor
OPENSTACK
Full integration with Nova, Cinder and Glance
Single storage for images and ephemeral and
persistent volumes
Copy-on-write provisioning
Swift-compatible object storage gateway
Full integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform
Provides both volume storage and object
storage for tenant applications
Reduces provisioning time for new virtual
machines
No data transfer of images between storage
and compute nodes required
Unified installation experience with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
FEATURES BENEFITS
The most widely deployed1
technology for OpenStack
storage
1 http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

16. OBJECT STORAGE FOR TENANT
APPLICATIONS
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
Unstructured data storage for
distributed, cloud-native
applications
APP
FEATURES BENEFITS
APP APP APP
CEPH OBJECT GATEWAY
(RGW)
RED HAT CEPH STORAGE CLUSTER
S3 API
OPENSTACK
S3 APIS3 APIS3 API
Compatibility with S3 and Swift APIs
Fully-configurable replicated or erasure
coded storage backends
Cache tiering pools
Multi-site failover
Supports broad ecosystem of tools and
applications built for the S3 API
Provides a modern hot/warm/cold storage
topology that offers cost-efficient
performance
Advanced durability at optimal price

17. BETTER TOGETHER

18. Voted #1 Storage for OpenStack
Source: 2015 User Survey: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-users-share-how-their-deployments-stack-up

19. Better Together
lTechnical integration
 Red Hat Ceph Storage clients are included in RHEL OpenStack
Platform
 Red Hat Ceph Storage driver configuration can be performed by the
RHEL OpenStack Platform director
lProduct integration
 Matching product life cycle support which avoid different
procurement cycles and support complexities.

20. lComprehensive cloud platform support from a single, trusted
vendor
 Linux Operating System (kernel, networking, etc)
 Hypervisor (KVM)
 Storage
 OpenStack cloud platform
lIntegrated build and QA processes
 Able to find and fix complex bugs more quickly
 Delivered in a consistently packaged manner
Better Together

21. OEMs and IHVs ISVs
Cloud Service ProvidersSystem Integrators
Channel PartnersManaged Service
Providers
 Over 275+ certified partner members
 Over 900 certified solutions
 Over 4,000 RHEL certified compute servers
 Over 13,000 applications available on RHEL
 Large catalog of Windows certified applications
WORLDS LARGEST CERTIFIED ECOSYSTEM

22. lRed Hat Enterprise Linux
lRed Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform
lRed Hat Ceph Storage
lOpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat
lRed Hat CloudForms
“FICO has reduced time to value for
developing analytic solutions by up to
70%...”
-Tony McGivern, CIO, FICO
 Runs FICO analytic cloud in hybrid
mode, using OpenShift Enterprise
and OpenShift online
 Runs all OpenShift on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform
 Uses Red Hat Ceph Storage for all
OpenStack enterprise storage
Customer Success

23. lLearn more about RHEL OpenStack Platform
redhat.com/openstack
lLearn more about Red Hat Ceph Storage
redhat.com/storage
lLearn about our certified OpenStack partner ecosystem
connect.redhat.com
lCome meet us!
OpenStack Summit, Tokyo 10/27-10/30
RESOURCES

24. THANK YOU
rahul.vijayan@redhat.com

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