CloudStack Conference Public Clouds Use Cases

Service Provider Show case
“Public Clouds”
Sebastien Goasguen
#CCCEU | #CloudStackWorks

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Public Cloud Technology Choices
Xen Server
KVM
ESX
HyperV
Bare Metal
Network Isolation Tech
94%
11%
OS Used to Run CloudStack
11%
VLAN
5%
26% 58%
Security Groups
Compute Tech.
34% 31%
16%
3% 6%
CentOS
Ubuntu / Debian
RHEL
Oracle
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Public Cloud Technology Choices
9%
9%
3%
3%
12%
3%
12%
15%
9%
36%
3%
6%
3%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Swift
SolidFire
RiakCS
Other
NFS
Nexenta
NetApp
Local Storage
3PAR
GlusterFS
EMC
Dell EquaLogic
Ceph
Storage Tech (Primary and / or Secondary)

Public Clouds from Around the Globe
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Datapipe
United States
Use Case - Datapipe

Use Case -Datapipe
• Managed Service Provider
working to be Tier-1 (and
possibly Tier-2) support for your
organization
• Have ACS Zone everywhere we
have DC point-of-presence
• 7 different Geo
• Over 1600 instances
• Over 500 customers
• Nexenta, Solidfire storage
• RHEL, Xen
“It works well and the API is stable
and well documented“

Cloud.ca
Canada
Use Case - Datapipe

Use Case – Cloud.ca
Based in Montreal, CloudOps
engineers and operates hybrid clouds
for e-business, providing 24x7
support for global clients.
White-label multi-cloud console.
RBAC, showback, VPC, Projects,
SSL offload on Netscaler, Solidfire
primary, SWIFT secondary + object
storage. ACS 4.4.1 + XS 6.2
Multi-level RBAC console, ACS-4.4-
contributed SSL services, default use
of VPC for n-tier apps and projects for
DevOps

Kumo
Colombia
Use Case - Kumo

Use Case –Kumo
1
• 4.2.1 ACS version with XenServer
hypervisors running 6.2.
• Storage running on the main
commercial storage arrays (3par,
Compellent, NetApp)
• HA Network infrastructure protected by
high-end security appliances
(Checkpoint firewalls + Tipping Point
IPS)
Cloud Servers
Desktops
as a Service
Cloud storage
for unstructured
data
Disaster
Recovery
Kumo Mail Desktop´s Backup Server´s Backup
Kumo is a specialized Cloud
Computing Services Company
based in Colombia with three
Datacenters located in Bogota,
Medellin and Miami for
attending the Latinamerican
region.

LeaseWeb
Netherlands
Use Case - LeaseWeb

Use Case –LeaseWeb
• LeaseWeb is a quality hosting
provider offering hosted
infrastructure solutions for a
global market.
• 10+ CS 4.x installations
(worldwide)
• Thousands of instances.
• Clients use this for simple VM
hosting to enterprise apps and
elastic setups.
• Ubuntu, KVM, Nexenta
storage, 40Gbit on all
hypervisors
Wei Zhou committer on
CloudStack

PCextreme
Netherlands
Use Case - PCextreme

Use Case P
-PCextreme
PCextreme B.V. is a Dutch
Hosting provider which provides
a public cloud
offering based on CloudStack.
ACS with KVM on Ubuntu 14.04.
1500 instances
SuperMicro hardware using AMD and
Intel based hypervisors w/ 256GB of
memory each.
A 36-node Ceph cluster spread out over
two racks. Both 3TB 7200RPM disks as
well as 480GB SSDs.
Using the storage tiering in CloudStack
we can deploy on HDD or SSD.

Exoscale
Switzerland
Use Case - Exoscale

Service Provider show-case
• Simple, scalable and safe
cloud services in Switzerland
• 3 datacenters
• Compute, Object storage,
PaaS and a full fledge
marketplace
• Apache CloudStack 4.3+
• Since 2011: cloud.com. Now
building and patching CS on
our own
• KVM + basic networking stack
• Scale: 13M+ API calls monthly
Exoscale contributions:
• Collectd module
• Canary checks
open source on Github

ikoula
France
Use Case - ikoula

Use Case –iKoula
Own DataCenter located in France,
gathering:
-more than 5000 dedicated servers
-8000 virtual machines,
-hosting thereby almost 6000 client’s
data.
•Cloudplatform based on cloudstack
4.2
•Xen Server 6.2
•10gb network
•3 advanced networking zones
•1 basic networking zone
•3 zones in France
•1 zone in US
• Cloudscreener France Best
Performance cloud solution
• Mixed workloads of public,
private and hybrid cloud

Use Case – British Telecom
Deliver managed network IT
services for more than 6,500
large corporate and public sector
customers
Over 24,000 employees working
across 170 countries
• Citrix CloudPlatform
• Netapp storage for primary and
secondary
• VLAN isolation, VPC
• Over 10 zones in different geo
• Thousands of instances
“Engender a belief that the
product can be thought of as
"carrier" / "weapons" grade
in terms of solidity.”

Use Case – Evry / Coreix / ControlCircle

Use Case -Evry
Largest IT company in Norway.
• Citrix CloudPlatform 4.3.0
• XenServer 6.2.5
• NetApp NFS Storage, Cisco
Nexus 10GbE Network
Terbolous (Erik Weber on
the mailing list)

Use Case –Coreix
Managed Colocation, Dedicated
Server and Cloud provider based
in London.
“Cloudstack enabled us to provide a
reliable and adaptable system to our
clients via a powerful API; far
superior to a previous expensive
and limited commercial platform “

Use Case –Control Circle
• Cloudstack Advanced Networks with
VPCs 4.3.1 , netapp NFS VLANs
• XenServer or Vmware workloads
• 10 GigE network
ControlCircle is a leading provider
of managed and cloud-based
services to enterprises and on-line
businesses on a global basis
Len Bellemore on the list
and hosting the CloudStack
user group.

Ninefold
Australia
Use Case - Ninefold

Use Case –ninefold
• CloudPlatform v3.07b
• XenServer 6.1
• 3 x data centres, 10 x CS environments
• VM root VDIs backed by raided local
disk
• Custom bespoke VLAN provides cross
zone communication as pure layer 2 n/w
• Configuration management using Chef
Ninefold is a high performance Ruby
Rails app hosting platform that takes
the pain out of deploying your app
“We use CloudStack Inception: our
CloudStack management servers run on
VMs in a master CloudStack environment.”

But you really want to play with Docker !
So use one of these public clouds
and get on with it 
Sebastien Goasguen @sebgoa

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