The document is a presentation by Sco$ Sanchez and Niki Acosta discussing OpenStack and its appeal to users and administrators, highlighting key desires such as predictability, control, and efficiency. They outline the advantages of OpenStack over other systems like VMware and AWS, emphasizing cost-effectiveness and increased hardware utilization. The document also briefly touches on implementation and operational aspects of OpenStack, including design, installation, and maintenance.

1. Sco$
Sanchez,
Director
,
Strategy
Niki
Acosta,
Cloud
Evangelist
Intro
to
OpenStack®

2. Sco$
Sanchez
Director,
Strategy
@sco$sanchez
Niki
Acosta
Cloud
Evangelist
@nikiacosta

3. What
Users/Developers
Want
1
Predictable
2
Easy
3
Fast

4. What
Administrators
Want
1
Control
2
Reliability
3
Visibility

5. True
or
False?
OpenStack
is…
• A
VMware
replacement
• Great
for
every
applicaTon
and
problem
• A
product
• Easy
to
operate
at
scale
• PaaS
• A
way
to
make
cheap
infrastructure
amazing
• Delicious
with
Bacon
• ...
?

8. § Moved
from
AWS
and
SoWLayer
§ Data
and
analyTcs
powering
billions
of
daily
requests
§ Grew
capacity
by
“over
5x
for
the
same
cost”
§ Moved
from
VMware
§ Enabled
DevOps
and
rapid
app
development
§ “Increased
efficiency
of
hardware
uTlizaTon
by
over
60%”
§ Moved
from
VMware
and
AWS
§ Hadoop/analyTcs
and
streaming
media
§ “Much
more
cost
effecTve
than
AWS”
and
saved
6
months
versus
DIY
OpenStack

13. To
Build
and
Operate
it
yourself:
• “Trunk”
code
-­‐-­‐
roll
your
own
• Free
or
licensed
soWware
packages
(Ubuntu,
Red
Hat,
MiranTs)
To
“just
use
it”:
• Public
cloud
(Rackspace,
HP)
• Hosted
private
cloud
(Rackspace,
Bluebox)
• “As
a
Service”
in
your
data
center
(Cisco
via
Metacloud
team)
How
to
Get
OpenStack

14. Design,
Engineer
Architect
Plahorm
InstallaTon
24X7
Monitoring
Problem
MiTgaTon
Maintenance
CoordinaTon
Plahorm
Updates
Capacity
Planning

16. Sco$
Sanchez
Director,
Strategy
@sco$sanchez
Niki
Acosta
Cloud
Evangelist
@nikiacosta
DISCUSS.