Nowadays, Catalan Academic and research institutions can enjoy self-service cloud infrastructure in order to meet their application needs in a flexible pay per use mode. An self-service platform is available for managing servers, networks and assigned storage from the Universities Consortium Data Centers, allowing users access to a customizable infrastructure with an orientation towards the so-call virtual DC.

1. From Private Cloud to IaaS Public services for
Catalan R&E community
jordi.guijarro@csuc.cat
@jordiguijarro
@cloudadms
Berlin, 03/12/2014

3. Agenda
 IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn
 Cloud oriented...
– Why?
– Final architecture and our installation coords.
 Squeezing resources
– Host Level
– Network Level
– Storage Level
 Service details
 Myths & Facts
 Some conclusions

4. New Catalan Universities services consortium (formerly known as CESCA)
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OUR SERVICES

6. Focused to Research and Education agents
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7. Focused to Research and Education agents
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8. CSUC data center services
Baseline Scenario
DC housing and physical
dedicated servers
Managed Servers (VM's
included)
Target Scenario
Virtual Data Centers
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Hybrid Solutions

9. Infrastructure evolution
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Opportunity?
New hardware MGMT model!

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IaaS and CSUC
As an ICT services provider:
- Specific needs for science and education
environments.
- Data Center Services evolution.
- Pay per use model.
As a technological challenge:
- Knowledge and 'expertise' in new technologies.
[ALWAYS!!!]
- Design and deployment of a new systems
architecture.

12. Available IaaS solutions on premise
Alternatives: Proxmox, Ganeti, Ovirt, Archipel, Enomaly, OpenQRM...
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13. ¿Why NOT Openstack for CSUC?
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14. ¿Why NOT Openstack for CSUC?
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¿Why OpenNebula for CSUC?
Opennebula offers the possibility to:
 Manage a modular private
cloud as a right evolution
from common virtualization
platforms.
 Offer open and interoperable
Cloud Public services.

16. Installation Coords – Opennebula 4.8
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 Hosts size (cores mem) : 16 64/128GB
 HW Vendors : DELL, HP, Supermicro,...
 Hypervisor : KVM
 Phy. Nodes OS : Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 LTS
 Storage - NetApp FAS – NFS (Datastores [SATA, SAS o FC])
 Network HW and SDN: Gigabit Ethernet and OpenvSwitch
 Workload: Individual VMs, Elearning platfoms, Development
platforms, HPC Workload tests, VDI platforms.
 Interfaces: Sunstone + EC2 , OCCI
 Authentication - Core + x509
 S.O Virtual Machines: CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu Server LTS,
Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2012
 Accounting and Billing:: ONE reporting and oowwnn ddeevveellooppmmeenntt..

17. Architecture and software ecosystem
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Host Level
 Hyper-Threading ( ¿Yes o NOT? )
MV 16 CPU – HT On MV 8 CPU – HT Off
No Hyper-Threading Hyper-Threading

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HOST level
CPU Parameter
A predefined templates model determines the real
assigned CPU to the VM provisioned.

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Network Level
Some additional features:
- Openflow: filtering by contextualization, MAC-Spoofing and
IP-Spoofing prevention,...
- Netflow Export
- Public addresses quotes, ACL's by public network, QoS
- ...
For the cloud user:
- New virtual private networks in self-service mode.
- Firewall config rules.
- DHCPless.
- Advanced monitoring capabilities.

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Storage Level
 Use of qcow2 images: Yes or Yes.. (in our case still
over NFS)

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Storage Level
Use of qcow2 images: Yes or Yes.. (persistent and not
persistent)
+ qcow transfer driver (snapshotting)

24. Multizone environment : Extra VALUE!!!
http://saltstack.com/community
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25. Sunstone + API's for cloudadmins available
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26. Sunstone + API's for cloudadmins available
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27. Corporate website details available
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Slide ois – Iaas
+ Info en la web
http://www.csuc.cat/es/investigacion/infraestructura-en-la-nube

28. All packaged but what about prices and costs...
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- Consolidation factor.
- Usage expectatives.
- ... still competitive?

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PRICES (PAY PER USE)
PREDEFINED TEMPLATES MODEL

31. Cloudification process

32. Cloudification process
MYTH

33. Cloudification process

34. Cloudification process
MYTH

35. Cloudification process
HYPERVISOR IS NOT RELEVANT!!!!

36. Cloudification process
HYPERVISOR IS NOT RELLEVANT!!!!
MYTH

37. Cloudification process

38. Cloudification process

39. Cloudification process
ALWAYS ON?
Several patterns
Marc Cluet (@lynxman)

40. Cloudification process
JUST HYBRID?

41. Conclusions
It is in your hands!
ALWAYS ON? ONEFLOW, ONEGATE

42. Conclusions
It is in your hands!
ALWAYS ON? ONEFLOW, ONEGATE
SLICE THE CARROT? VDC FEATURES

43. Conclusions
It is in your hands!
ALWAYS ON? ONEFLOW, ONEGATE
SLICE THE CARROT? VDC FEATURES
JUST HYBRID? Put OPENNEBULA in
their lives (TECHDAYS)

44. Conclusions
It is in your hands!
ALWAYS ON? ONEFLOW, ONEGATE
SLICE THE CARROT? VDC FEATURES
JUST HYBRID? Put OPENNEBULA in
their lives (TECHDAYS)
GO TO 4.8 OR ABOVE
AND BE VIRAL!

45. DDaannkkee!!
TThhaannkkss!!
GGrraacciiaass!!
GGrrààcciieess!!
jordi.guijarro@csuc.cat
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@cloudadms
QUESTIONS?

46. MEGHA Working Group
MISSION
TO PROMOTE
the development of
innovation in Cloud
Computing technologies
within the scope of the
institutions affiliated to
RedIRIS.
TO ACT AS A CATALYST
for the application of
open and interoperable
Cloud technologies in
other areas in which it
can influence, such as
business in government.
http://www.rediris.es/activida
des/index.html.en
OPEN
INTEROPERABLE
PROMOTION
USE CASES
TESTBED
IDENTITY

47. IRIS-CLOUD Agents