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Hypervisor Capabilities in Apache CloudStack 4.3
The document discusses hypervisor selection for CloudStack 4.3, focusing on defining service offerings, compliance, and virtualization infrastructure. It compares several hypervisors, including XenServer, KVM, and vSphere, highlighting their features, advantages, weaknesses, and suitable use cases. The key steps for building a successful cloud environment are outlined, including defining success criteria, topology, storage options, and selecting preferred hypervisors.
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- 1. Hypervisor Selection inCloudStack 4.3 Understanding the choices available Build a Cloud Day – SCALE 12x Tim Mackey – XenServer Community Manager and Evangelist
- 2. Building a successfulcloud What are we trying to accomplish?
- 3. Service Offerings • Clearlydefine what you want to offer ᵒ What types of applications ᵒ Who has access, and who owns them ᵒ What type of access • Define how templates need to be managed ᵒ Operating system support ᵒ Patching requirements • Define expectations around compliance and availability ᵒ Who owns backup and monitoring © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 4. Define Tenancy Requirements •Department data local to department ᵒ Where is the application data stored • Data and service isolation ᵒ VM migration and host HA ᵒ Network services • Encryption of PII/PCI ᵒ Where do keys live when data location unknown ᵒ Need encryption designed for the cloud • Showback to stakeholders ᵒ More than just usage, compliance and audits © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 5. Virtualization Infrastructure • Hypervisordefined by service offerings ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Don’t select hypervisor based on “standards” Understand true costs of virtualization Multiple hypervisors are “OK” Bare metal can be a hypervisor • To “Pool” resources or not ᵒ Is there a real requirement for pooled resources ᵒ Can the cloud management solution do better? ᵒ Real cost of shared storage • Primary storage defined by hypervisor • Template storage defined by solution ᵒ Typically low cost options like NFS © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
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- 7. XenServer Guest Guest Driver front Driver front StandardLinux Distribution (dom0) xapi patches Driver back drivers qemu Xen Project Hypervisor Compute Networking © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy Storage
- 8. KVM (Linux +KVM only) Guest Guest Virtual driver Virtual driver libvirt Standard Linux Distribution KVM Module agent Compute virtio drivers Networking © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy qemu Storage
- 9. vSphere 5.1 –Managed by vCenter Guest Guest Virtual driver Virtual driver Service Console vCenter vmkernel Task Scheduler vNIC vSCSI vmklinux Compute Networking © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy drivers Storage
- 10. Linux Containers Namespace Container Namespace Container Cgroup Cgroup libvirt Standard LinuxDistribution Namesspaces Cgroups Compute Networking © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy KVM Module agent Storage
- 11. Microsoft Hyper-V Guest Guest Devices Devices VMBus VMBus Standard WindowsServer (parent partition) WMI VMBus Virtual SP drivers Hyper-V Hypervisor Compute Networking © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy Storage
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- 13. Flat Network –Basic Layer 3 Network Option XenServer vSphere KVM LXC Hyper-V Security Groups Yes- bridge No Yes Yes Yes IPv6 No No Yes Yes No Multiple IPs per NIC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Nicira NVP Yes No Yes No No BigSwitch VNS Yes No Yes No No Public Network 65.11.0.0/16 Security Group 1 65.11.1.2 65.11.1.3 65.11.1.4 65.11.1.5 DHCP, DNS © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy CloudStack Virtual Router Guest VM 1 Guest VM 2 Guest VM 3 Guest VM 4 Security Group 2
- 14. VLANs for PrivateCloud Option XenServer vSphere KVM LXC Max VLANs 800 254 1024 1024 4094 IPv6 No No Yes Yes No Multiple IPs per NIC Nicira NVP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Hyper-V No BigSwitch VNS Yes No Yes No No No Yes No Public Network/Internet Public IP 65.37.14.1 No MidoKura Guest Virtual Network 10.0.0.0/8 VLAN 100 No VPC Yes Yes Yes No Yes NetScaler Yes Yes Yes No Yes F5 BigIP Yes Yes Yes No Yes Juniper SRX No Yes Yes No Yes Cisco VNMC No Yes No No No © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy CloudStack Virtual Router DHCP, DNS NAT Load Balancing VPN Gateway 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.1 10.1.1.3 10.1.1.4 10.1.1.5 Guest VM 1 Guest VM 2 Guest VM 3 Guest VM 4
- 15. Beyond the VLAN– Network Virtualization Option XenServer vSphere KVM LXC Hyper-V OVS GRE tunnels Yes No No No No Nicira STT tunnel Yes Yes Yes No No MidoNet No No Yes No No VXLAN No Yes Yes No No NVGRE No No No No No Nexus 1000v No Yes No No No Juniper Contrail Yes No No No No Palo Alto Yes Yes Yes No No © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 16. Virtual Private Cloudand nTier Applications Feature PVLAN XenServer Yes - ovs vSphere Yes KVM ovs LXC No DC2 Hyper-V No DC1 DC3 VLAN 1 DC4 Web S2S VPN Router VLAN 2 App Private GW VLAN 3 DC5 DC6 DB © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 17. Delivering specific networkservices • KVM ᵒ IPv6 ᵒ Security groups ᵒ Large quantity of VLANs • vSphere ᵒ VXLAN required vSphere Enterprise Plus ᵒ Cisco Nexus 1000v and ASA 1000v require vSphere Enterprise Plus • XenServer ᵒ Security groups ᵒ Large quantity of VLANs ᵒ Juniper Contrail © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 18. Instances need ahome … Storage, Storage and more Storage
- 19. Primary Storage Options Feature Localstorage NFS SMB Single path iSCSI Multipath iSCSI Direct array Shared Mount Template format SolidFire Plugin NetApp Plugin Zone wide Ceph RBD Clustered LVM XenServer Yes Yes No Yes PreSetup No No VHD Yes Yes No No No vSphere Yes Yes No Yes No VAAI No OVA Yes Yes Yes No No KVM Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes QCOW2 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LXC Yes Yes No No No No Yes TAR No No No No No Hyper-V Yes No SMB3 No No No No VHD No No No No No © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy Host Host Primary Storage Cluster
- 20. Secondary Storage Options Option XenServer vSphere KVM LXC Hyper-V NFS Yes Yes Yes Yes No Swift(1) Yes Yes Yes Yes No S3compatible (2) Yes Yes Yes Yes No SMB No No No No Yes Host (1) Requires NFS staging area (2) Can be region wide, but must not have NFS secondary storage in zone Host Primary Storage Cluster Pod Secondary Storage Zone © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 21. Core virtualization capabilities Thelimits and features which matter
- 22. CloudStack Features Feature XenServer vSphere KVM LXC Hyper-V Disk IOStatistics Yes No Yes No Yes Memory Overcommit Yes (4x) Yes No No No Dedicated resources Yes Not with HA/DRS Yes No Yes Disk IO throttling No No Yes Yes No Disk snapshot (running) Yes Yes No No No Disk snapshot (pluggable) Partial Partial No No No Disk snapshot (Stopped) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Memory snapshot Yes Yes Yes No No Zone wide primary storage No Yes Yes Yes No Resize disk Offline Online Grow Online No No High availability CloudStack Native CloudStack No CloudStack CPU sockets 6.2 and higher Yes Yes Host count Yes Affinity groups Yes Yes Yes No Yes © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 23. XenServer 6.2 Feature Source codemodel Open Source (GPLv2) Maximum VM Density 650 (Linux) CloudStack VM Density 500 CloudStack integration Direct XAPI calls Maximum native cluster size 16 Maximum pRAM 1 TB Largest VM 16vCPU/128GB Windows Operating System All Windows supported by Microsoft Linux Operating Systems RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, OEL Advanced features supported ovs, Storage XenMotion, DMC © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 24. vSphere 5.5 (5.5 support added in ACS 4.3) Feature Source code model Proprietary Maximum VM Density 512 CloudStack VM Density 128 CloudStack integration vCenter Maximum native cluster size 32 Maximum pRAM 4 TB Largest VM 64 vCPU/1TB Windows Operating Systems DOS, All Windows Server/Client Linux Operating Systems Most Advanced features supported HA, DRS, vDS, Storage vMotion © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 25. KVM (RHEL/CentOS 6.5and Ubuntu 12.04) Feature Source code model Open Source (GPLv2) Maximum VM Density 10 times the number of pCores CloudStack VM Density 50 CloudStack integration CloudStack Agent (libvirt) Maximum native cluster size No native cluster support Maximum pRAM 2 TB Largest VM 160 vCPU/2TB Windows Operating Systems Windows XP and higher Linux Operating Systems Varies Advanced features supported None © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 26. Linux Containers Feature Source codemodel Open Source (GPLv2) Maximum container Density 6000 (theoretical) CloudStack container Density 50 CloudStack integration CloudStack Agent (libvirt), requires KVM for SVMs Maximum native cluster size N/A Maximum pRAM 2 TB Largest container 2TB Windows Operating Systems N/A Linux Operating Systems Kernel compatible distros © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 27. Microsoft Hyper-V Feature Source codemodel Proprietary Maximum VM Density 1024 CloudStack VM Density 1024 CloudStack integration CloudStack Agent (C# calling WMI) Maximum native cluster Size 64 Maximum pRAM 4 TB Largest VM 64 vCPU/1TB Windows Operating Systems All Windows supported by Microsoft Linux Operating Systems RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, OEL Advanced features supported None © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 28. Picking the “bestone” When to use which hypervisor…
- 29. KVM • Primary valueproposition: ᵒ Low cost with available vendor support ᵒ Familiar administration model ᵒ Broad CloudStack feature set with active development • Cloud use cases: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Linux centric workloads Dev/test clouds Web hosting Tenant density which dictates SDN options • Weaknesses: ᵒ Requires use of an installed CloudStack libvirt agent ᵒ Limited native storage options ᵒ No use of advanced native features © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 30. Linux Containers • Primaryvalue proposition: ᵒ Low cost with available vendor support ᵒ Familiar administration model • Cloud use cases: ᵒ Dev/test clouds ᵒ Web application hosting • Weaknesses: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Requires use of an installed CloudStack libvirt agent Requires KVM for system VMs No use of advanced native features First introduced in CloudStack 4.2 © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 31. Microsoft Hyper-V • Primaryvalue proposition: ᵒ Unlimited Windows Server VM licenses ᵒ Familiar Windows management paradigm • Cloud use cases: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Windows and Linux workloads Dev/test clouds .Net application web hosting Desktop as a Service clouds • Weaknesses: ᵒ Minimal use of advanced native features ᵒ First introduced with CloudStack 4.3 © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 32. vSphere • Primary valueproposition: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Broad application and operating system support Readily available pool of vSphere administration talent Large eco-system of vendor partners Many CloudStack features are native implementations Direct feature integration via vCenter • Cloud use cases: ᵒ Private enterprise clouds ᵒ Dev/test clouds • Weaknesses: ᵒ vSphere up-front license and ongoing support costs ᵒ vCenter integration requires redundant designs ᵒ Single data center per zone model © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 33. XenServer • Primary valueproposition: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Low cost with available vendor support Broad CloudStack feature set with active development Large CloudStack install base Direct integration via XAPI toolstack • Cloud use cases: ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ Linux centric workloads Dev/test clouds Web hosting Desktop as a Service clouds Large VM density and secure tenant isolation • Weaknesses: ᵒ Minimal use of advanced native features © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 34. What About MultipleHypervisor Support? • Networking ᵒ Ensure network labels match ᵒ Topology is intersect of chosen hypervisors • Storage ᵒ For system VMs to specific hypervisor type ᵒ Zone with primary storage limited • Operations ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ ᵒ vSphere Datacenter can not span zones Hyper-V may not be mixed with other hypervisors HA won’t migrate between hypervisors Capacity planning at the cluster/pod level more difficult © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 35. Tying it allTogether 1. Define success criteria 2. Select a topology which works 3. Decide on storage options 4. Define supported configurations 5. Select preferred hypervisor(s) 6. Validate matrix 7. Build your Cloud © Citrix 2014. More information at xenserver.org and follow me on twitter @XenServerArmy
- 36. Work better. Livebetter.