ShapeBlue is a company that specializes in building public and private clouds using CloudStack. The document discusses several new features in CloudStack version 4.13 and 4.14 including constrained custom offerings, unmetered networks, OVA appliance support, zone-specific disk and compute offerings, hereditary tags on recurring snapshots, improved UI branding, and shared template support in the UI. It also outlines ShapeBlue's customers and provides an overview of backup and recovery functionality planned for CloudStack.
Giles Sirett: Introduction and CloudStack news ShapeBlue
Giles will talk about all that's new and happening within the Apache CloudStack community, and about new and future releases, exciting features, upcoming events and more!
KVM High Availability Regardless of Storage - Gabriel Brascher, VP of Apache ...ShapeBlue
Having High Availability enabled for KVM Hosts can improve greatly the QoS by handling (fence/recover) a problematic Host as well as re-starting its stopped VMs on healthy hosts. However, there is a limitation on CloudStack HA for KVM; it relies mainly on NFS heartbeat script checks. This Talk illustrates how CloudStack HA works for KVM hosts and it presents a way of improving its implementation in a way that KVM HA works with any storage system pluggable on KVM, not just NFS.
About Gabriel Brasher - https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Customising the CloudStack UI - CloudStack European User Group Virtual, May 2...ShapeBlue
This presentation focuses on customizing the new UI. It aims to teach administrators to tailor the UI aesthetics to their organisation's preferences. It also targets advanced users, training them to alter the layout of the UI, add, remove, or restrict resource actions from the UI (eg: deleting a VM) as well as provide an overview of how the new UI operates and how to manage it.
Abhishek Kumar is a Software Engineer at ShapeBlue. He has been involved with Apache CloudStack since 2018 and became a committer in 2020. At work, he spends most of his time working on the implementation of new features in CloudStack and fixing bugs. Outside of work, he loves to read and learn about technology, spend time at the gym and watch action-thriller movies.
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Cloudstack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform available under the GPLv3 license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest, leading edge features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers are working on and is supported by our open source community.
Using CloudStack a free and open source cloud computing software to build a private cloud. During the training attendees will be instructed on how to install Cloudstack to manage virtual infrastructure in a private cloud computing configuration. At the conclusion of the Build a Private Cloud section users will have the knowledge needed to create a simple private cloud computing environment.
Designing Lean CloudStack Environments for the Edge - IndiQus - CloudStack E...ShapeBlue
Rudraksh Kulshreshtha, from Indiqus presenting how to architect lean CloudStack deployments for Edge use cases.
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Boris Stoyanov - some new features in Apache cloudStackShapeBlue
A look at some new CloudStack features around VM deployment and configuration. These new features include: more sophisticated options for specifying pod and cluster while deploying a VM; running and retrieving diagnostics on the VR; sending additional configuration to VMs; and adding options to cleanup additional data disks when destroying a VM.
Paul Angus – Backup & Recovery in CloudStackShapeBlue
CloudStack users have long had to resort to using snapshots as a form of VM backup with varying success. In this talk Paul will explain features of the forthcoming backup and recovery feature.
Giles Sirett: Introduction and CloudStack news ShapeBlue
Giles will talk about all that's new and happening within the Apache CloudStack community, and about new and future releases, exciting features, upcoming events and more!
KVM High Availability Regardless of Storage - Gabriel Brascher, VP of Apache ...ShapeBlue
Having High Availability enabled for KVM Hosts can improve greatly the QoS by handling (fence/recover) a problematic Host as well as re-starting its stopped VMs on healthy hosts. However, there is a limitation on CloudStack HA for KVM; it relies mainly on NFS heartbeat script checks. This Talk illustrates how CloudStack HA works for KVM hosts and it presents a way of improving its implementation in a way that KVM HA works with any storage system pluggable on KVM, not just NFS.
About Gabriel Brasher - https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Customising the CloudStack UI - CloudStack European User Group Virtual, May 2...ShapeBlue
This presentation focuses on customizing the new UI. It aims to teach administrators to tailor the UI aesthetics to their organisation's preferences. It also targets advanced users, training them to alter the layout of the UI, add, remove, or restrict resource actions from the UI (eg: deleting a VM) as well as provide an overview of how the new UI operates and how to manage it.
Abhishek Kumar is a Software Engineer at ShapeBlue. He has been involved with Apache CloudStack since 2018 and became a committer in 2020. At work, he spends most of his time working on the implementation of new features in CloudStack and fixing bugs. Outside of work, he loves to read and learn about technology, spend time at the gym and watch action-thriller movies.
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Cloudstack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform available under the GPLv3 license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest, leading edge features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers are working on and is supported by our open source community.
Using CloudStack a free and open source cloud computing software to build a private cloud. During the training attendees will be instructed on how to install Cloudstack to manage virtual infrastructure in a private cloud computing configuration. At the conclusion of the Build a Private Cloud section users will have the knowledge needed to create a simple private cloud computing environment.
Designing Lean CloudStack Environments for the Edge - IndiQus - CloudStack E...ShapeBlue
Rudraksh Kulshreshtha, from Indiqus presenting how to architect lean CloudStack deployments for Edge use cases.
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Boris Stoyanov - some new features in Apache cloudStackShapeBlue
A look at some new CloudStack features around VM deployment and configuration. These new features include: more sophisticated options for specifying pod and cluster while deploying a VM; running and retrieving diagnostics on the VR; sending additional configuration to VMs; and adding options to cleanup additional data disks when destroying a VM.
Paul Angus – Backup & Recovery in CloudStackShapeBlue
CloudStack users have long had to resort to using snapshots as a form of VM backup with varying success. In this talk Paul will explain features of the forthcoming backup and recovery feature.
There is currently significant effort going on in the Apache CloudStack community to develop a new, modern, UI (user interface) for CloudStack: Project Primate. In this talk Paul discusses why this new UI is required, the history of this project and how it will be included in future CloudStack releases.
The CloudStack usage service is used to track consumption of resources in Apache CloudStack for reporting and billing purposes. This talk will give an overview of the service before diving deeper into how data is processed from the CloudStack database into the different usage types before being aggregated into billable units or time slices in the usage database.
Discover the story behind XCP-ng, the free community build of XenServer. Why we did it, and how we built it, from technical and community perspective. And finally, what's coming next.
The Future of SDN in CloudStack by Chiradeep Vittalbuildacloud
The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it.
The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends.
Bio
Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles.
Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com
Dag Sonstebo. Dag will give an overview of the pros and cons of working with KVM in a CloudStack environment, as well as diving deeper into installation, configuration, networking and storage options.
Sebastien Goasguen. With VM seemingly taking a back seat with containers coming back in fame, what is the role of CloudStack or OpenStack. In this talk Sebastien will briefly review the state of the art and bring some context around container orchestrators and how they relate to CloudStack. He will then discuss how containers orchestration can be easily integrated in CloudStack.
Cloud native apps running in containerised environments look set to change the way compute resources are consumed. However, this presents challenges to Cloud Service providers who have already invested heavily in IaaS offerings based on the virtual machine model. We will discuss these challenges, look at the services that end-users will demand and how major public cloud providers have overcome these challenges. We will then showcase an exciting new project that gives a simple method for operators to deploy Containers as a Service to their end-users, based on Apache CloudStack.
There is currently significant effort going on in the Apache CloudStack community to develop a new, modern, UI (user interface) for CloudStack: Project Primate. In this talk Paul discusses why this new UI is required, the history of this project and how it will be included in future CloudStack releases.
The CloudStack usage service is used to track consumption of resources in Apache CloudStack for reporting and billing purposes. This talk will give an overview of the service before diving deeper into how data is processed from the CloudStack database into the different usage types before being aggregated into billable units or time slices in the usage database.
Discover the story behind XCP-ng, the free community build of XenServer. Why we did it, and how we built it, from technical and community perspective. And finally, what's coming next.
The Future of SDN in CloudStack by Chiradeep Vittalbuildacloud
The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it.
The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends.
Bio
Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles.
Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com
Dag Sonstebo. Dag will give an overview of the pros and cons of working with KVM in a CloudStack environment, as well as diving deeper into installation, configuration, networking and storage options.
Sebastien Goasguen. With VM seemingly taking a back seat with containers coming back in fame, what is the role of CloudStack or OpenStack. In this talk Sebastien will briefly review the state of the art and bring some context around container orchestrators and how they relate to CloudStack. He will then discuss how containers orchestration can be easily integrated in CloudStack.
Cloud native apps running in containerised environments look set to change the way compute resources are consumed. However, this presents challenges to Cloud Service providers who have already invested heavily in IaaS offerings based on the virtual machine model. We will discuss these challenges, look at the services that end-users will demand and how major public cloud providers have overcome these challenges. We will then showcase an exciting new project that gives a simple method for operators to deploy Containers as a Service to their end-users, based on Apache CloudStack.
Paul Angus - CloudStack Container ServiceShapeBlue
A walkthrough of the recently released update to ShapeBlue’s CloudStack Container Service (CCS). This update brings CCS bang up-to-date by running the latest version of Kubernetes (v1.11.3) on the latest version of Container Linux. CCS also now makes use of CloudStack’s new CA framework to automatically secure the Kubernetes environments it creates.
CloudStack is one of the most successful Apache projects - but awareness of it remains poor. Giles will give an overview of the technology and explain his view on why CloudStack remains to "secret man" of Apache projects.
What will we cover: Hypervisor choices; KVM background; Installation and configuration – high level covering what you already find in the installation guides; Dive a bit deeper into networking – since this is where we see people sometimes getting stuck; Cover storage options and the need for clustered file systems; Management and troubleshooting.
Dag Sonstebo takes a closer look at how the CloudStack usage service is configured, how it processes data and how it can be queried and reported on. This talk is from the Apache CloudStack user group in Leipzig in November 2017.
What’s New in CloudStack 4.15 - CloudStack European User Group Virtual, May 2021ShapeBlue
Giles Sirett, Chairman CSEUG, PMC member, Apache CloudStack shared in-depth insight about the new features and functionalities in CloudStack 4.15. He also provided info on when 4.16 is expected, presented the new VP of Apache CloudStack, latest integrations of CloudStack, improvements in the UI, new OS supported, advanced capabilities of vSphere, OVF support, dynamic roles enhancements and more.
Find out more for Giles Sirett: https://www.shapeblue.com/shapeblue-leadership-team/
------------------------------------------
CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
------------------------------------------
About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
CloudStack - Top 5 Technical Issues and TroubleshootingShapeBlue
Cloudstack Top 5 technical issues and troubleshooting. Cloudstack is a mature product in use by companies world-wide. While being associated with CloudStack development for over 5 years, Abhi has come across some technical issues that once in a while affect the CloudStack deployment. This presentation is an effort to put together top 5 such issues, analyze their symptoms, see them from CloudStack architecture perspective and from the distributed nature of cloud orchestration, then look at ways to avoid them and finally be able to troubleshoot if they occur.
Building clouds with apache cloudstack apache roadshow 2018ShapeBlue
Talk given at Apache Roadshow, FOSS Backstage, Berlin, June 2018
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. This talk will give an introduction to the technology, its history and its architecture. It will look common use-cases (and some real production deployments) that are seen across both public and private cloud infrastructures and where CloudStack can be completed by other open source technologies.
The talk will also compare and contrast Apache Cloudstack with other IaaS platforms and why he thinks that the technology, combined with the Apache governance model will see CloudStack become the de-facto open source cloud platform. He will run a live demo of the software and talk about ways that people can get involved in the Apache CloudStack project.
Review issues with current CloudStack fencing mechanisms and high availability feature. Discuss new features developed for CloudStack, namely OOBM (out-of-band management) that allows for power management of the hosts and Host-HA that provides reliable mechanisms for investigation, recovery and fencing of a host. In the presentation, the speakers (also authors of the features) will demonstrate the features, discuss their design and implementation, and how they allow for reliable recovery/fencing of the host and host power management.
Flying to clouds - can it be easy? Cloud Native ApplicationsJacek Bukowski
Nowadays "cloud" and "microservice" terms are used all the time, even overused. Does any system must be the "microservices" deployed in the "cloud"? Definitely not! However once you see that your system may benefit from that architecture, the next question is how to get there - how to fly to the clouds?
Spring was always about simplifying the complicated aspects of your enterprise system. Netflix went to microservice architecture long before this term even was created. Both are very much contributed to open source software. How can you benefit from joint forces of the both?
JDD 2016 - Jacek Bukowski - "Flying To Clouds" - Can It Be Easy?PROIDEA
Nowadays "cloud" and "microservice" terms are used all the time, even overused. Does any system must be the "microservices" deployed in the "cloud"? Definitely not! However once you see that your system may benefit from that architecture, the next question is how to get there - how to fly to the clouds?
Spring was always about simplifying the complicated aspects of your enterprise system. Netflix went to microservice architecture long before this term even was created. Both are very much contributed to open source software. How can you benefit from joint forces of the both?
Paul Angus - CloudStack Backup and Recovery FrameworkShapeBlue
This presentation will demonstrate the long awaited Backup & Recovery Framework feature. The presentation will feature a real-world demonstration as well explain the design philosophy and how the feature has been built to be agnostic of the backend Backup and Recovery software in use.
Cloudstack dynamic roles give a true RBAC layer to cloudstack, giving a fully flexible & granular approach to security. Bobby talked through the new functionality and how to migrated existing Cloudstack environments
CloudStack provides versatile authentication methods to ensure secure access and identity management. This talk explores key authentication mechanisms within CloudStack, including LDAP, SAML, OAuth2, API keys, etc. LDAP integration enables centralized user authentication, while SAML facilitates single sign-on (SSO) across various services. OAuth2 ensures secure authorization for third-party applications, and API keys offer programmatic access to resources. Additionally, CloudStack supports Two-Factor Authentication for an extra layer of security, enhancing user verification through multiple verification steps.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
In this session, Kiran gives a talk about the rich ecosystem of tools (cmk, CAPC, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, csbench, mbx), that support Cloudstack.
Find out how the various tools work and how easy it is to integrate with Apache CloudStack.
This session provides a great way to speed up CloudStack adoption and improve performance by saving valuable time.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
Elevating Cloud Infrastructure with Object Storage, DRS, VM Scheduling, and D...ShapeBlue
In this session, Vishesh Jindal and Jithin Raju give a demonstration on Apache CloudStack's 4.19 marquee features - Object Storage, DRS, VM schedule & DRaaS.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
VM Migration from VMware to CloudStack and KVM – Suresh Anaparti, ShapeBlueShapeBlue
The support for migrating VMware instances, and importing KVM instances to a CloudStack-managed KVM environment has been added to CloudStack 4.19.
In this talk, Suresh provides the details about the import/migration process in CloudStack along with a demo, and discusses the future improvements.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
How We Grew Up with CloudStack and its Journey – Dilip Singh, DataHubShapeBlue
In this session, Senior IT Manager at DataHub Nepal, Dilip Singh, shares how DataHub grew up with CloudStack and details the journey the company had with the cloud orchestration platform.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
What’s New in CloudStack 4.19, Abhishek Kumar, Release Manager Apache CloudSt...ShapeBlue
This session gives a brief introduction to the new and exciting feature in the latest CloudStack LTS release, ie, 4.19.0. The discussion includes the details on the timeline of the CloudStack 4.19.0 release, overview of some of the marquee, new feature of the release – Object storage framework, KVM ingestion, Hypervisor agnostic simple DRS, CAPC aware CKS, OAuth2, DRaaS with Multi zone disaster recovery, etc and a summary of improvements added since the previous major LTS release of the CloudStack, ie, 4.18.0.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
CloudStack 101: The Best Way to Build Your Private Cloud – Rohit Yadav, VP Ap...ShapeBlue
Apache CloudStack is an open-source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. This talk gives an introduction to the technology, its architecture, its history and community.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack India User Group 2024 took place in Hyderabad on 23rd February. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, saw multiple sessions held about the cloud orchestration platform and its latest advancements.
How We Use CloudStack to Provide Managed Hosting - Swen Brüseke - proIOShapeBlue
Swen shows how proIO utilize Cloudstack to provide customers with managed hosting solutions and versatile public and private cloud solutions, mainly based on open-source software.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
In cloud computing environments, VMs require fast access to resources like storage and networking. The hardware that the VMs access is implemented in software and/or by passing through a dedicated hardware device. Software-based solutions consume extra CPU cycles, thus resulting in poor performance. Also, these require to expose a device-model to the guest, thus increasing the attack surface. Conversely, hardware passthrough provides better performance and security but can be expensive in terms of the number of physical resources, since each device is dedicated to a single VM. This talk focuses on how Vates is working on sharing hardware resources among VMs by relying on dedicated processors named Data Processing Units (DPU). More precisely, Vates work on offloading Xen hypervisor of storage emulation by relying on Kalray K200 DPU PCIe controllers, a hardware accelerator based on MPPA architecture.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Zero to Cloud Hero: Crafting a Private Cloud from Scratch with XCP-ng, Xen Or...ShapeBlue
Dive into the seamless integration of the Vates stack as the foundation for your CloudStack deployment. In this workshop, you’ll witness the power and simplicity of XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra. From a blank slate to a fully operational private cloud, Olivier guides you through each pivotal step. Learn how to streamline your cloud setup process and unlock the potential of a private cloud infrastructure that’s both efficient and easy to manage. Watch to discover how to transform bare metal into a cloud powerhouse in mere minutes.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
KVM Security Groups Under the Hood - Wido den Hollander - Your.OnlineShapeBlue
They are just a few clicks in the UI or a single API call, but how do security groups work at KVM hypervisor level? How do they filter traffic and what else do they do in addition to firewalling? What Anti-Spoofing policies are implemented by the security groups?
In this talk, Wido dives into the specifics of the security groups on the KVM hypervisor for both IPv4 and IPv6.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
How to Re-use Old Hardware with CloudStack. Saving Money and the Environment ...ShapeBlue
CloudStack allows you to use older hardware for a longer time in your cloud environment. By using older hardware for a longer time you can save money and the environment by not producing new hardware.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Use Existing Assets to Build a Powerful In-house Cloud Solution - Magali Perv...ShapeBlue
How to minimize the impact when it’s time to implement a cloud solution for automating internal workloads and delivering efficient solutions? Magali, Joffrey, and Grégoire present a case study of a successful hardware reuse project, including key metrics: Business objectives, Performance objectives and Financial objectives.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Import Export Virtual Machine for KVM Hypervisor - Ayush Pandey - University ...ShapeBlue
Ayush talks about his contribution as a GSoC Contributor, for implementing the Import-Export Instances feature for the KVM Hypervisor.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
DRaaS using Snapshot copy and destination selection (DRaaS) - Alexandre Matti...ShapeBlue
Apache CloudStack 4.19 introduces the capability for end-users to copy their root disk or volume snapshots to one (or more) ACS Zones without operator intervention. In this talk, Alex shows how this simple yet powerful new feature enables for end-users to control where their data resides and for operators to provide low-cost and robust DRaaS to their customers.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
A discussion on the common failures when using CloudStack taking instance deployment as an example. The session includes 15 specific failure scenarios, their causes, and possible mitigation steps.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Elevating Privacy and Security in CloudStack - Boris Stoyanov - ShapeBlueShapeBlue
In an increasingly interconnected digital landscape, safeguarding data privacy and ensuring robust security measures are paramount. CloudStack offers a dynamic ecosystem for deploying and managing cloud resources. However, to fully harness its potential, it is crucial to address privacy and security concerns effectively.
This presentation explores the realm of possibilities and demonstrates how CloudStack can enhance the privacy and security of your cloud deployments. Boris examines practical approaches to protect sensitive data, fortify communications, and secure your infra against emerging threats. Join us on a journey to discover how CloudStack can be your trusted ally in the quest for a more secure and private cloud environment.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Transitioning from VMware vCloud to Apache CloudStack: A Path to Profitabilit...ShapeBlue
In this session, Marco explores the potential of migrating from VMware vCloud to Apache CloudStack with KVM. VMware vCloud Suite is a robust cloud infrastructure and management solution that combines vSphere and vRealize Suite, providing automation and operations capabilities for traditional and modern infrastructure and apps. However, the transition to Apache CloudStack can offer enhanced profitability and competitiveness.
Marco delves into the benefits of Apache CloudStack, including its cost-effectiveness and open-source nature, and discusses how a gradual migration from VMware vCloud can reduce ownership costs, increase profitability, and enhance competitiveness. He also covers the practical steps and considerations in planning and executing this transition effectively.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Vishesh has been working on the feature hypervisor-agnostic DRS in Cloudstack. He briefly overviews the implementation and discusses the algorithms currently available and how they can improve resource allocation and workload balancing in virtualized environments. Additionally, Vishesh showcases a live demo of hypervisor agnostic DRS in action, highlighting its capabilities and effectiveness.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
What’s New in CloudStack 4.19 - Abhishek Kumar - ShapeBlueShapeBlue
This session gives a brief introduction of the new and exciting feature in the latest (upcoming) CloudStack LTS release, ie, 4.19.0. The discussion includes the details on the timeline of the CloudStack 4.19.0 release, overview of some of the marquee, new feature of the release – Object storage framework, KVM ingestion, Hypervisor agnostic simple DRS, CAPC aware CKS, OAuth2, DRaaS with Multi zone disaster recovery, etc and a summary of improvements added since the previous major LTS release of the CloudStack, ie, 4.18.0.
-----------------------------------------
The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023 took place on 23-24th November. The conference, arranged by a group of volunteers from the Apache CloudStack Community, took place in the voco hotel, in Porte de Clichy, Paris. It hosted over 350 attendees, with 47 speakers holding technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
2. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
A b o u t m e
Cloud Architect @ ShapeBlue
From Belgrade, Serbia
Apache CloudStack Project Committer and PMC member
Involved with CloudStack since 4.0.0-incubating
Interested in:
Cloud infrastructure architecture and engineering.
Virtualization, Storage and SDxx
Downtime:
Father to 2 princesses
Music, gym and hobby electronic
3. The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public
& private clouds. They are the leading
independent global CloudStack services
company”
A b o u t S h a p e B l u e
4. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s
5. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s
6. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s
9. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
• Ability to have constrained/bounded custom offerings
• Ability to have networks which aren’t charged for
• OVA Appliance support (extra data)
• Ability to Create a Storage compute, network, VPC Offering for specified
domain(s) and zone(s)
• Ability to set tags when creating a resource like a snap or a snap policy
• VMware 6.7 support
• Better support for UI branding
• DPDK Live migration & Offerings
• Multidisk OVA upload from local support
• ISO upload from local support
10. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Or simply go to:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.13.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html
11. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Constrained custom offerings
12. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Unmetered/system networks
• Useful for service networks such as
monitoring or backup networks which
you wouldn’t charge end users for.
13. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
OVA Appliance support (extraconfig)
14. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
OVA Appliance support (extraconfig)
• Cisco® ASAv
• Juniper® vSRX
• Cisco® vWAAS (wide-area-application-services)
• Riverbed® SteelHead CX
15. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Zone or Domain specific disk,
compute, network & VPC Offerings
• i.e. roll out new storage hardware zone by
zone. Disk and compute offerings can be
created to leverage this hardware and
scoped to zones.
16. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Hereditary tags on Recurring
Snapshots
• Allows tags to be set which will be applied
to future snapshots
17. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
18. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
19. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
• More flexible UI branding (simpler white labelling)
• Many UI tweaks and updates
• Shared template support in UI
• Allow live migration of DPDK enabled instances
• (some bugs!)
20. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Shared template support in UI
• Hidden away in the API, now exposed
in the UI.
Option (global setting) to enumerate
accounts/projects for users to select
from.
22. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
• Backup and Recovery*
• KVM Rolling Maintenance
• KVM DRS
• VR Health-checks
• System VM Management API
• VM Ingestion
• Direct Download for systemVM template (KVM)
• Primary Storage Agnostic Direct Downloads (KVM)
• CloudStack Kubernetes Service and CloudStack
Kubernetes Provider
23. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
24. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
KVM Rolling Maintenance
• Select a zone, pod or cluster
• Supply upgrade/patching scripts to KVM hosts
• Instruct CloudStack to run scripts on the hosts one by one in a
cluster, evacuating a host and putting it into maintenance
mode where necessary
25. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
KVM DRS
(an enterprise feature, without the enterprise price tag ☺)
• Iterative migration of guest instances to either:
• Balance host
• Pack hosts (defragment anyone?)
• DRS process simplified by
• Calculating the most effect guest instance to move*
• Live migrating it
• Checking to see if DRS threshold has be satisfied
• If not, calculate the most effect guest instance to move now
26. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
VR Health-Checks
• Router periodically running self checks
• Management servers periodically polling to ensure checks
have run and receive results
• Configurable thresholds set to avoid false positives
• Alerts raised when checks fail
• Automatic VR restarts when specified checks fail (optional)
27. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
VR Health-Checks
• Basic connectivity from management server to virtual router
• Basic connectivity to virtual router interfaces' gateways
• Free disk space on virtual router's disk
• CPU and memory usage
• Basic VR Sanity checks:
• dnsmasq/strongswan/haproxy/etc service running
• DHCP/DNS config sanity check
• Advanced VR Sanity checks:
• DHCP/DNS configuration matches mgmt server DB
• IPtables rules match mgmt server DB records
• HAproxy config matches mgmt server DB records
• VM network sanity checks
28. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
System VM Management API
• Enables granular management over systemVM templates
• Register many, change the “active” one at any time
• Define systemVM template during zone deployment
• no more pre-seeding of the template required
• Decouple ACS upgrades from systemVM upgrade
• Allow for easy setup of new/customized systemVM template
• Security patches, port opening, other customizations
29. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
System VM Management API
30. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
System VM Management API
31. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
System VM Management API
32. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
VM ingestion
• Take existing VMs from vSphere and “import” them into CloudStack
Prerequisites
• vSphere datacentre linked to a CloudStack zone
• The clusters, hosts and related “Primary Storage” already added to
CloudStack
• Networks* (with the same VLAN ID) pre-created in CloudStack
33. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
VM ingestion
• listUnmanagedInstances API
• importUnmanagedInstance API
• discover_networks.py helper script
• Automatic vSphere to ACS network mapping based on VLAN ID
• Automatic IP assigning with VMware tools in place*
• Not handling IPv6
• Automatic volumes migration if compute/storage tags don’t match to the
selected Offering*
34. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
VM ingestion - DEMO
35. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
• CloudStack Kubernetes Service (CKS = matured CCS)
• A plugin to create and manage Kubernetes cluster
• CoreOS templates for nodes, kubeadm for cluster
provisioning
• Offline installation of k8s and docker binaries on cluster
nodes for selected k8s version via ISO (uploaded by admin)
• Gracefully scale up or scale down
• Access kube.config for cluster for accessing k8s dashboard
• Delete cluster while removing nodes and k8s service
CKS + CKP =
36. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
• Backup and Recovery
• almost there..
• for real this time…
• Seriously!
37. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Vo l u m e s n a p s h o t s
• Not consistent across volumes
• A VM with separate disks for say; OS, logs and
data, will have each disk processed at different
times
• Only crash consistent within a volume
and they aren’t application aware
• A database will not be quiesced before snapshot is
taken
• Transaction logs won’t be processed
• VMware tools or XenTools may help with some
basics
38. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Vo l u m e s n a p s h o t s
• They can be very slow.
• Data has to be transferred from primary storage to
secondary storage
• In the case of vSphere, this data must go via the
SSVM to be compressed into a OVA while being
moved to secondary storage.
• CloudStack locks out other actions while a
snapshot is taking place. Workarounds have their
own issues.
39. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Vo l u m e s n a p s h o t s
• Restoration of a VM requires a number of steps
(and did I mention it’s slow)
• User must make a template from snapshot
(VM image copied via SSVM from one part of secondary
storage to another – 2x network transfers)
• User then creates VM from template
(VM image copied from secondary to primary to create
template on primary storage, then primary storage based
template copied to make actual VM. 2x network assuming
network based primary storage and 1x on-disk copy)
• To restore a VM ‘exactly as it was’ requires considerable
operator intervention
40. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists
Specifically:
• Support for:
• Operator created ‘policy based’ backups (RPOs)
• Scheduled backups (similar to snapshot scheduling)
• Ad hoc backups
• Backups as first class citizens
• ‘In-place’ restoration of entire VM including data disks
• Restoration of VM backup after original VM is destroyed
• Restoration of individual VM volumes (can then be attached to another VM)
• Full integration into the CloudStack usage service, recording both protected and
on-disk data metrics
B a c k u p a n d R e c o v e r y
41. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
@ShapeBlueShapeBlue.comThe Cloud Specialists
B a c k u p a n d R e c o v e r y
‘Policy Based’ Backups
• listBackupPolices external=true
Returns ‘template’ jobs.
• importBackupPolicy Creates a policy (with
a name and description) in CloudStack
and maps it to a Veeam template job.
ie.
GOLD – 6hr RPO
SILVER – 24hr RPO
BRONZE – 7 day RPO
42. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
@ShapeBlueShapeBlue.comThe Cloud Specialists
B a c k u p a n d R e c o v e r y
‘Ad-hoc’ & Scheduled Backups
• CloudStack will send command to carry
out an ad-hoc run of the policy based job
or create one as required.
• Ad-hoc and scheduled jobs will be driven
by CloudStack
• One VM to one Veeam job mapping allows
for simpler accounting and unified
incremental backups
43. C l i c k t o e d i t
The Cloud Specialists
ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists