The document discusses the evolving landscape of enterprise data centers, highlighting VMware's dominance and Microsoft's increasing presence in virtualization. It emphasizes the benefits of integrating OpenStack and SUSE Cloud, including hybrid cloud architecture and seamless virtualization across different environments. Key takeaways focus on development, management, and optimization of workloads within virtualized infrastructures.

2. Enterprise
data
center
already
heavily
virtualized

3. VMware
dominates,
Microso9
gaining

4. VM
VM
VM
VM
metering
Self-­‐service
Provisioning
&
Management
monitoring
VM
Server
Virtualiza;on
to
the
cloud

5. Simplicity.
Affordability.
Agility.
Nirvana
Security...?
Reliability...?
Complexity...?
Investment...?
Control...?

7. vCLOUD

8. No
vendor
lock-­‐in
Supports
hybrid
cloud
architecture
Accelerated
;me-­‐to-­‐market
and
innova;on
Ecosystem
of
cloud
solu;ons
Ease
of
integra;on
Benefits
of
Open
Cloud
Compu;ng

9. Source:
Google
Trends
April
2014

10. OpenStack

11. Why
OpenStack?
API
API

12. Why
OpenStack?
API
API

13. vCLOUD

14. Administra8on
Server
Control
Node
Customer
Center
• SLES
• Database
• Message
queue
• Self-­‐Service
Portal
• Image
Repository
• Centralized
Tracking
• Scheduler
• Iden;ty
and
Authen;ca;on
• Storage
Crowbar
+
PXE
Boot
• SLES
• Chef
server
• Crowbar
• So9ware
mirror
• TFTP
• PXE
Server
Compute/
Storage
Node
Compute/
Storage
Node
Compute/
Storage
Node
SUSE
Cloud

15. SUSE
Cloud
Support
for
Windows
OpenStack
Integra8ons
Networking
Compute
Windows
Storage
Server
Network
SUSE
Cloud
• Leverage
investments
in
exis;ng
Microso9
infrastructure
• Advanced
Hyper-­‐V
features
like
live
migra;on,
snapsho]ng,
replica
• Windows
Server
/
Hyper-­‐V
Server
2008
R2,
2012
/
R2
Windows
Compute
Data
Center

16. • Leverage
investments
in
exis;ng
VMware
infrastructure
• Advanced
features
like
live
vMo;on,
HA,
dynamic
resource
scheduling
• VSphere
5.1
SUSE
Cloud

17. OpenStack
Numbers
Parameters
Components
Days
Hours
SUSE
Cloud
1229
11
2

18. • Development
and
test
done
on
open
source
hypervisor
• Developers
create,
start,
delete
VMs
as
needed
• Move
to
proprietary
hypervisor
for
produc;on
• Seamless
transfer
of
images
Control
Node
Compute
Nodes
KVM
KVM
ESXi
ESXi
Use
Case
–
Dev/Test

19. • Align
workload
with
specific
servers/hypervisors
depending
on:
• Applica;on
so9ware
cer;fica;ons
• License
agreement
• Manage
all
instances
through
a
single
pane
of
glass
Control
Node
Compute
Nodes
ESXi
Hyper-­‐V
Hyper-­‐V
KVM
Use
Case
–
Workload
Op;miza;on

20. Takeaways
1
2
3
4
5
6
7