OpenStack Management at
Hyperscale
Andrew Hendrickson, Verizon
Sanjay Mishra, Talligent
August 24, 2016
• Andrew Hendrickson, Verizon
• Sanjay Mishra, Talligent
Topics
• The Verizon Cloud Platform
• Hyperscale
• Why do this?
• Finding focus
• The Orchestration issue
• Challenges
• Managing hyperscale for cloud
• Facilitating self service
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Verizon Cloud Platform
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Define
• large scale cloud with built with
OpenStack
• defined by services – not
tenants
• give users ability to quickly
deploy and support applications
• a common interface for
infrastructure
• on-demand // self service
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Hyperscale
• it is large (relatively speaking)
• lots of instances
• lots of projects
• lots of users
• distributed
• elastic
• easy to use
• predictable
• tells you the truth
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Why VCP?
• The network is the most valuable
asset
• Get new features to customers faster
• Improve agility for developers and
suppliers
• Reduced costs – upstream and
downstream
• Distributed
• Disposable
• Dependable
FOCUS
is not easy
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First level
Secondary
TertiaryNFV
Stack
Infrastructure
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Challenges
• hype-rscale
• repeatable build – break
• community maturity
• resiliency in carrier grade
• user experience
• demonstrating Value
• operations ≠ operations
• organization
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Hands Free
• Version control everything
• Machine readable files
• No physical configuration
• Bare metal
• Servers
• Network gear
• The stack
• Web style serialization/delivery
• Declarative is fun
• Version control everything
• Bots
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Managing
Hyperscale
• Infrastructure
• Pre-requisites
• Storage
• Stack Build
• Monitoring
• Security
• Upgrade // patch
• Products
• Data Retention
• Identity
• Metering
• Self service experience
Facilitating Self-service
Self-service requirements
•Instant
•Real-time visibility
•Easy - Simple
•Distributed
•Fun
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Stakeholders
• Operators
• Project owners
• LOB managers
• Executives
• Utilization
• Capacity
• History
• Forecasts
• Service adoption
• Budget performance
• Tenant/customer size
KPIs
OpenStack Metering/Integration
• OpenStack Service APIs
• A note about Ceilometer
• Resolution
• Creating a historical record
• Metering at scale
• Reporting and Openbook APIs
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Results To Date/Lessons Learned
• User experience is key!
• Keystone v3/Authentication
• Tracking DBaaS/NFV
• SLAs
• Organizational/User buy-in
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Summary
• The Verizon Cloud Platform
• Hyperscale
• Why do this?
• Finding focus
• The Orchestration issue
• Challenges
• Managing hyperscale for cloud
• Facilitating self service
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Thank You
Andrew.Hendrickson@verizonwireless.com
Sanjay@Talligent.com
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OpenStack Management at Hyperscale

Editor's Notes

  • #15 Instant Provisioning Real-time Visibility – Cost and Consumption Simplified Service Request Distributed (not top down ticketing request process)