Veritas Hyperscale for OpenStack offers enterprise data management solutions that address key challenges such as performance issues, cost efficiency, and operational agility. The platform provides predictable performance with quality of service and data management without overhead, allowing businesses to manage mission-critical workloads effectively. Veritas actively participates in the OpenStack community, contributing through approved blueprints and new drivers.

1. “Enabling OpenStack for the Enterprise”
Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack
Tarso dos Santos
Senior Technical Account Manager

2. The Veritas Portfolio of Enterprise Data Management Capabilities
ProtectionInsight
Availability
Data
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3. Enterprise
Vault &Information
Map
NetBackup
NetBackup
Appliance
VelocityeDiscovery
Platform
Data InfoScale
Availability
InfoScale
StorageResiliency
Platform
Data
Insight
Veritas
Access HyperScale
for OpenStack
The Veritas Portfolio of Enterprise Data Management Capabilities
File
Classification
Legal
Disposition
Unstructured
Data Visibility
Backup &
Recovery
Copy Data
Management
Software Defined
Storage for High
Performance
Workloads
Integrated PBBA
Distributed
File System
Archiving &
Retention
Business ResiliencyStorage QoS for OpenStack
SDS for
Unstructured Data
(Big Data, IOT,
Video)
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EV.cloud
& Backup
Exec

4. What are Organizations Looking For?
Capability to handle
mission-critical workloads
Move away from
technology lock-in
Common platform for
integration to take place
Enable IT environments
to be dynamic and fluid
Get services up and
running in minutes to hours
Cope with seasonal
changes with greater
flexibility and agility
Pay only for what’s
being used
Enterprise
Ready
Platform
Agnostic
Easy
Integration
Agility
Speed Scale
Cost
Savings
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5. Top Business Drivers for OpenStack Adoption
OpenStack User Survey April 2016
Source: openstack.org, 2016 Public User Survey
Link: https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf
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6. What Challenges Do Enterprises Face Implementing OpenStack?
How to Protect Cloud
Workloads
How to Get the
Performance that
Is Needed
How to Capitalise on
Cloud Economy
With Storage
 Lack of enterprise backup
solutions
 Existing solutions introduce
noisy neighbor
 Operational agility
 Better Use of Servers
Capacities
 Noisy neighbours inducing
over-provisioning
 Get performance when
needed
 Avoid storage waste
 Reduce HW investment
 Enterprise resiliency
according to real needs
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7. General Availability for Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack
Software Defined Storage
Designed for OpenStack
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8. Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack: Challenges Solved
Data Management
Without
Overhead
Predictable Performance
With
Quality of Service
Resiliency & Cost
Aligned To
Service Level Needs
 Automatic Point in Time
Copies
 Zero Impact Backup for
OpenStack
 360 Data Management
 QoS parameters aligned to
Tenants
 Avoid noisy neighbour
 Intelligent use of Flash close
to the Instances
 Resiliency defined by tenants
 Reduce HW needs with new
architecture approach
 Leverage commodity HW
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9. • Efficient shared hosting
• SLA variation per customer
• Simple management
• Flavours instead of silos
• High IOPS guarantees per flavor
• No back-up window necessary
• Back-up as service available
DevOps
DBaaS
cloud
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10. Issues with Traditional Software Defined Storage
Inst Inst Inst Inst
Inst
• Storage Utilisation
• Unpredictable Performance
• Noisy Neighbour
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11. DATAPLANECOMPUTEPLANE
HyperScale for OpenStack Architecture Advantages
Inst Inst Inst Inst
Inst
• Resiliency by SLA
• Compute Optimisation
• Quality of Service
• Higher Density Storage
Data Protection
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12. COMPUTE
PLANE
DATA
PLANE
Resiliency & Costs Aligned to Service Level Needs
Inst Inst Inst Inst
D D
Network switch
Full
Extend Flavours Properties
 # Reflection Targets
 MinIOPS & MaxIOPS
 # Copies
Reflection
 Writes are protected according to
policy definition
 Keep full copy of Instance plus 15
minutes delta changes
Episodic Data Sync
 Deltas merged within Data Plane
creating Point-in-Time copies for
Instances
PITPITPIT
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13. Predictable Performance With Quality of Service
Quality of Service
for Each Flavour
Avoid Noisy Neighbour Accelerate Performance
 Define minIOPS and
maxIOPS for each flavor
 Better resource sharing
 Maximize IO utilisation
 Avoid uncontrolled IO
affecting other workloads
performance
 Allow instances to run
anywhere without impacting
performance
 Use local SSD to accelerate
writes
 Provide data resiliency with
low latency
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14. -10
4990
9990
14990
19990
24990
10 60 110 160 210 260 310 360 410
IOPS
TIME (MIN)
BRONZE 1
BRONZE
Limit Max @ 1K
GOLD
Re-establish
To 20K
GOLD
Min @10K – Max @20K
SILVER
Min @5K - Max @10K
GOLD
Max Raised
@25K
SILVER
Re-establish to 10K
SILVER
Max Raised
@ 15K
BRONZE 4
BRONZE 5BRONZE 3
BRONZE 2
Total IOPS / Compute Node = 60K IOPS
GOLD
Impact of Noisy
Neighbours
Time
IOPs
Quality of Service Example
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15. Data Management Without Overhead
DATA
PLANE
COMPUTE
PLANE
NetBackup
Point in Time Copies
Every 15 Minutes
Zero Impact Backup
for OpenStack
Veritas 360
Data Management
 Optimised copies available
for recovery from the Data
Plane
 Launch new instances
 Orchestrated Snapshots
with timeline view
 Data protected from Data
Plane with no impact for
running instances
 Granularity to define what to
protect and when
 APIs for backup solutions
integration
 Out of the box integration
with Veritas NetBackup
 Simplify ecosystem
investment and
manageability
 Future integration with VRP,
Velocity & InfoMap
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16. HyperScale Data ProtectionDATAPLANE
Point In-Time Copies
 Automatically generated by
Episodic Data Sync process
NetBackup
 Define what Instances protect
based on Tenant, name and/or
status
External Storage Provider
 Independent server to offload
Instances images
Hydra
Re-Hydration
 Provide data upon server failure
 Live Migration
 Instances creation
Episodic
Data
Sync
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17. Integrating Storage Management with OpenStack
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18. Addressing an Open Source Market
What is Veritas doing
with Open Source
Projects like OpenStack?
 3 blueprints approved and implemented (Nova, Cinder, TripleIO)
 3 new drivers (Nova, Cinder, OS-brick)
 New Juju Charm for deployment on Canonical implemented
 New TripleO template for deployment on OSP in progress
 Robust CI for Cinder driver
 Active participant and sponsor for OpenStack Summit and other
local OpenStack conferences
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19. Summary: Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack Provides…
Data Management
Without
Overhead
Predictable Performance
With
Quality of Service
Resiliency & Cost
Aligned To
SLA Needs
“Enabling OpenStack for the Enterprise”
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20. Next Steps
 Visit our OpenStack Day booth
 For further information:
https://www.veritas.com/product/software-defined-storage/hyperscale-for-openstack