Comparing IaaS :VMware vs OpenStack vs Google’s GanetiGARL
No matter if you are a lonely system administrator or the CTO of the largest carrier in the World, getting to know what’s out there is a jungle. Is VMware still the lead? I’ve heard about OpenStack, how mature is that? And what this “Ganeti” I’ve never heard of?
In this presentation Giuseppe Paternò, CTO of GARL, gives a quick overview of the state-of-the-art in the IaaS and virtualization world. This is not a sales or marketing presentation: no vaporware, just pure and real experience from the field.
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.
Openstack - An introduction/Installation - Presented at Dr Dobb's conference...Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya
Slide was presented at Dr. Dobb's Conference in Bangalore.
Talks about Openstack Introduction in general
Projects under Openstack.
Contributing to Openstack.
This was presented jointly by CB Ananth and Rahul at Dr. Dobb's Conference Bangalore on 12th Apr 2014.
Comparing IaaS :VMware vs OpenStack vs Google’s GanetiGARL
No matter if you are a lonely system administrator or the CTO of the largest carrier in the World, getting to know what’s out there is a jungle. Is VMware still the lead? I’ve heard about OpenStack, how mature is that? And what this “Ganeti” I’ve never heard of?
In this presentation Giuseppe Paternò, CTO of GARL, gives a quick overview of the state-of-the-art in the IaaS and virtualization world. This is not a sales or marketing presentation: no vaporware, just pure and real experience from the field.
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.
Openstack - An introduction/Installation - Presented at Dr Dobb's conference...Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya
Slide was presented at Dr. Dobb's Conference in Bangalore.
Talks about Openstack Introduction in general
Projects under Openstack.
Contributing to Openstack.
This was presented jointly by CB Ananth and Rahul at Dr. Dobb's Conference Bangalore on 12th Apr 2014.
In this session, Lucian talks about monitoring CloudStack and its related components. What are the best practices and what do you need to track closely to ensure your cloud reliability.
Lucian is a long-time sysadmin and Apache Cloustack user and contributor. He has a background in hosting, virtualisation and datacentre operations, but is now working full time on Cloudstack.
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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 took place on 14th-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria and virtually. The day saw a hybrid get-together of the global CloudStack community hosting 370 attendees. The event hosted 43 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Virtualization using VMWare WorkstationHitesh Gupta
This presentation contains an introductory view of techniques in virtualization and its implementation using VMWARE Workstation. So, if you are a complete beginner in this field, you may find this useful. If you need an accompanying 70 page document file, please feel free to ask.
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I have used official VMWARE theme with permission and copyright information attached along with.
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Virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)Novell
As a technical preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 contains KVM, which is the next-generation virtualization software delivered with the Linux kernel. In this technical session we will demonstrate how to set up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for KVM, install some virtual machines and deal with different storage and networking setups.
To demonstrate live migration we will also show a distributed replicated block device (DRBD) setup and a setup based on iSCSI and OCFS2, which are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension.
We present initial results from and quantitative analysis of two leading open source hypervisors, Xen and KVM. This study focuses on the overall performance, performance isolation, and scalability of virtual machines running on these hypervisors. Our comparison was carried out using a benchmark suite that we developed to make the results easily repeatable. Our goals are to understand how the different architectural decisions taken by different hypervisor developers affect the resulting hypervisors, to help hypervisor developers realize areas of improvement for their hypervisors, and to help users make informed decisions
about their choice of hypervisor.
In this session, Lucian talks about monitoring CloudStack and its related components. What are the best practices and what do you need to track closely to ensure your cloud reliability.
Lucian is a long-time sysadmin and Apache Cloustack user and contributor. He has a background in hosting, virtualisation and datacentre operations, but is now working full time on Cloudstack.
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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 took place on 14th-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria and virtually. The day saw a hybrid get-together of the global CloudStack community hosting 370 attendees. The event hosted 43 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Virtualization using VMWare WorkstationHitesh Gupta
This presentation contains an introductory view of techniques in virtualization and its implementation using VMWARE Workstation. So, if you are a complete beginner in this field, you may find this useful. If you need an accompanying 70 page document file, please feel free to ask.
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I have used official VMWARE theme with permission and copyright information attached along with.
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Virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)Novell
As a technical preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 contains KVM, which is the next-generation virtualization software delivered with the Linux kernel. In this technical session we will demonstrate how to set up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for KVM, install some virtual machines and deal with different storage and networking setups.
To demonstrate live migration we will also show a distributed replicated block device (DRBD) setup and a setup based on iSCSI and OCFS2, which are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension.
We present initial results from and quantitative analysis of two leading open source hypervisors, Xen and KVM. This study focuses on the overall performance, performance isolation, and scalability of virtual machines running on these hypervisors. Our comparison was carried out using a benchmark suite that we developed to make the results easily repeatable. Our goals are to understand how the different architectural decisions taken by different hypervisor developers affect the resulting hypervisors, to help hypervisor developers realize areas of improvement for their hypervisors, and to help users make informed decisions
about their choice of hypervisor.
LCEU13: Securing your cloud with Xen's advanced security features - George Du...The Linux Foundation
Xen is a mature enterprise-grade virtual machine with many advanced security features which are unique to Xen. For this reason it's the hypervisor of choice for the NSA, the DoD, and the new QubesOS Secure Desktop project. While much of the security of Xen is inherent in its design, many of the advanced security features, such as stub domains, driver domains, XSM, and so on are not enabled by default. This session will describe all of the advanced security features of Xen, and the best way to configure them for the Cloud environment. When the audience leaves, they should have a general framework to evaluate the security of their system, know the key security features of Xen, and have a basic framework of knowledge to help them make sense of the documentation. This talk will *not* go into mind-numbing detail about specific commands to type or configuration options.
Leveraging VMware Technology To Build an Enterprise Grade Openstack Cloud - I...jgiardina
In this session, we will take a deep look into what a VMware vSphere backend can bring to an Openstack deployment. We will cover in detail:
Relationships between the Openstack components and how they relate to a VMware vSphere environment (Nova, Glance, Neutron, etc.).
The power of vSphere for backend operations such as performance, management, networking, high availability, etc.
Implementing VMware's advanced L2-L7 network features to provide services such as firewalling, load balancing, NAT, VPN, etc. in Openstack.
Using Openstack on top of an existing or purpose-built VMware infrastructure
Example architectures to create a fault tolerant and fully software defined Openstack cloud with VMware vSphere.
With VMware Cloud on AWS, not only can you consume VMware products on AWS, but you can also use AWS native services from virtual machines running within VMware Cloud on AWS. Come learn about our latest features and how you can take advantage of the best of both VMware and AWS for your environment. This session is brought to you by AWS Partner, VMware.
My view on VMware approach to Hybrid- and Software-Defined Infrastructure: NSX, Hybrid Cloud and OpenStack. Get the agility of a startup with the guarantees of Enterprise-class IT. Session delivered at asLAN Congress 2015 in Madrid on April 15th.
Real World Application Orchestration Made Easy on VMware vCloud Air, vSphere ...Nati Shalom
Looking for application orchestration in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment? You’ve got to hear about TOSCA orchestration. TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications), brought to you by the same people who brought us XML, enables you to seamlessly migrate your workloads across environments or build a hybrid deployment that runs simultaneously across the VMware cloud offering.
Join our Cloud Online Meetup to learn how Cloudify’s TOSCA-compliant orchestration can be your common management interface across the VMware cloud offering, OpenStack and heterogeneous cloud environments.
Speakers:
Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO at GigaSpaces, is a thought leader in Cloud Computing and Big Data Technologies. Shalom was recently recognized as a Top Cloud Computing Blogger for CIOs by The CIO Magazine and his blog is listed as an excellent blog by YCombinator. Shalom is the founder and also one of leaders of OpenStack Israel group, and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
Paco Gomez, Senior Solution Architect at VMware vCloud Air. Paco evaluates and integrates strategic solutions that help vCloud Air clients benefit from VMware's hybrid cloud and application services. Paco is a seasoned technologist, having extensive experience in diverse fields including mainframes, distributed systems, enterprise development, cloud computing, mobile, assistive technology, electrical engineering and embedded systems. Across his career, Paco has held positions in consulting, sales engineering
VMworld 2015: Just Because You COULD, Doesn’t Mean You SHOULD – vSphere 6.0 A...VMworld
This session discusses the lessons learned from VMware Professional Services Engineering during development of collateral for customers. It brings real world experiences to light, so that common issues can be addressed prior to deployment of the solution, rather than after the fact.
VMworld 2013: Virtualization Rookie or Pro: Why vSphere is Your Best ChoiceVMworld
VMworld 2013
Eric Horschman, VMware
Jeff Margolese, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Enabling Remote Employees with Horizon VDI and Avi NetworksAvi Networks
Watch webinar on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/vmware-load-balancer-horizon-bt
Enterprises are rushing to enable their remote workforce with virtual desktops and applications need a robust load balancing solution to deliver VDI quickly in any data center or cloud. Waiting to procure appliance-based load balancers or compromising with limited virtual load balancers is not an option for business continuity.
Avi Networks, Now a part of VMware offers The NSX Advanced Load Balancer which is a full-featured, multi-cloud, software-defined platform that delivers distributed load balancing with on-demand elasticity and pinpoint application and end-user analytics.
With Avi, VMware Horizon customers can deliver VDI in record time while simplifying their operations, reducing troubleshooting time, and saving costs.
Learn how to:
- Simplify your infrastructure and operations to deliver virtual desktops and apps
- Troubleshoot end-user experience issues with point and click simplicity
- Eliminate costly over-provisioning of load balancers and save costs for VDI deployments
- Deploy load balancing consistently for virtual desktops in any cloud environment
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
2. Personal Profile:
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Roozbeh Shafiee
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Cloud and Virtualization Architect
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Technical Manager at innfinision Cloud Solutions
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Roozbeh.Shafiee@innfinision.net
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Innfinision.net
3. innfinision Cloud Solutions:
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Providing Cloud, Virtualization and Data Center Solutions
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Developing Software for Cloud Environments
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Providing Services to Telecom, Education, Broadcasting & Health Fields
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Supporting OpenStack Foundation as the First Iranian Company
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First Supporter of IRAN OpenStack Community
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IT Managers Important Points
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OpenStack Pro/Cons
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VMware Pro/Cons
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Technical Compare
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Non-technical Compare
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Who Should Use OpenStack ?
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Who Should Use VMware ?
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6. The important points for IT managers in organizations and companies to
manage infrastructure services are:
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Easy to use
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Management tools & Optional web interfaces
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Easy to find skills and support
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Entry cost and maintenance, The lower the better
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Integration with other platforms
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Other points by you
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8. The advantage of OpenStack by our experiences at innfinision:
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The most successful Open Source project after Linux kernel
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Support from many OEMs and OS vendors
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Interoperability with many components, just pick your
favorite one and plug it in
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Standard and well accepted APIs
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9. The disadvantage of OpenStack by our experiences at innfinision:
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Very complex to setup and troubleshoot
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Although common code base, might differ from implementations
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Need high numbers of management nodes
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High skills required to run the cluster
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11. The advantage of VMware vCloud by our experiences at innfinision and
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Feature rich (vSphere HA, vMotion, DRS, I/O control)
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Very large ecosystems
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All os vendors make it supported and certified under ESXi
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ESXi can be downloaded and used freely
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12. The disadvantage of VMware vCloud by our experiences at innfinision and
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Per core license - expensive
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Proprietary platform
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ESXi can not be APIs accessed - need to buy licenses
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Most of applications are based on Windows
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13. OpenStack at a Glance
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18. Hypervisor:
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OpenStack supports variants of hypervisor and container such as
KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XEN, Docker,
LXC
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VMware vCloud suppors ESXi as the only and default hypervisor
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19. Customer and operations access :
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OpenStack native dashboard, 3rd parties dashboards, CLI
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VMware Windows clients, vCloud Director (EOL’d)
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20. Storage:
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OpenStack Default non-persistent images. Pluggable Cinder:block
volumes, Ceph, Several vendor SAN
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VMware VMFS over SAN and iSCSI
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21. Network:
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Traditional switching and Software Defined Network
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VMware traditional switching infrastructure, SDN with additional
products
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22. Image management:
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OpenStack Glance Image Service, support all popular image formats
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VMware Catalogs & templates, OVF import
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24. High Availability:
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Nova for VMs HA; OpenStack HA project for infrastructure
components
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VMware vCenter Heartbeat
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25. APIs:
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For OpenStack based on Open REST APIs, compatibility with
Amazon EC2 & S3
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For VMware is Proprietary, mostly only under Perl and Powershell
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27. Costs:
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For OpenStack everything is free but Some might charge for a
maintenance fee for enterprise support
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In VMware the costs contains License + Maintenance fee
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28. Industries :
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OpenStack is for cloud management platform for large providers,
carriers and large outsourcers
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VMware is for virtualization for enterprises
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29. Skills:
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For OpenStack high-end skills required, including system and
network
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For VMware, basic system administration is needed
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30. Expansion :
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No actual limitation on OpenStack (might be handy create different
Availability Zones)
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Max 32 physical nodes on VMware vCloud, though not
recommended
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OpenStack any to any through built-in qemu tools
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VMware converter for P2V and other virtualization formats
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32. Flexibility:
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OpenStack primarily created for Linux, Windows supported on the
same infrastructure
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Great guest OS support and large ecosystem on VMware vCloud
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33. Documentation and Support:
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OpenStack active community and vendors support
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VMware commercial telephone/web support
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35. Who Should Use OpenStack ?
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36. If you are a large company or ISP with hundreds of VMs and
networks being destroyed and created daily and have budget of
having more than 15 physical nodes to start, go for OpenStack
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37. Who Should Use VMware ?
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38. If you need certified traditional workloads (ex: Oracle, SAP,
Microsoft Dynamics, ...) and you have money and also you want all
the point-and-click features, this is a no-brainer decision go for
VMware
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