Achieve the benefits of shared infrastructure faster and easier with Mirantis and SolidFire. See how to *Take the guesswork out of deployment with an architectural overview of the Fuel deployment methodology *Overcome performance and growth challenges with the right storage architecture *Elastically scale your deployment as business needs demand *Power consolidation and simplified management with a single control plane for multiple hypervisors

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The Power of Automation
Rapidly Deploy an OpenStack Cloud
and Guarantee Performance

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Mirantis Fuel
It’s Open Source. It’s a Deployer.
And Everyone Loves an Open Source Deployer.

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Mirantis: Pure Play OpenStack

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A Leader in OpenStack Development

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Fuel: Making OpenStack Easier

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Fuel in Context: Web-Scale Distro

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Fuel Reference Architectures

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Roles Fuel Plays (on 1+ clusters)
• Automated MOS config/deploy on arbitrary infrastructure from
authoritative repositories.
• Automated deployment (via Fuel Plugins) of key OpenStack
components and partner drivers.
• Facilitated deployment of MOS-certified drivers (repo arch.).
• Node preparation for scaling.
• Routine access facilitation and security.
• Health check and logs aggregation for support.

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Fuel, Community, Partners
• OpenStack-Certified -> DriverLog
– CI-Tested
• Mirantis Unlocked Validated
– Reference Architecture Testing
– Manual integration w/runbook
– Inclusion in docs + runbook publication -> Partner Catalog
• Fuel Plugin Development and Validation
– Still More Testing
– Automated configure+deploy
– Fuel Plugins Catalog + Partner Catalog

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Try This at Home
• https://www.mirantis.com/products/mirantis-openstack-software/ - download
current MOS .iso
• https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-6.1/virtualbox.html - VB scripts
and docs
• https://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstackvmware-vapp-quickstart-kit/ - vApp
container for MOS/Fuel .iso

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Automated OpenStack Deployment
with SolidFire

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• Fully orchestrated
• IaaS/PaaS private clouds
• Infrastructure is enabler
• Charge-back/show-back
• IT self-service
• Multi-tenant environment
• Infrastructure is
revenue generator
• Support broader array
of cloud services
• Uptime and performance are
critical
ENTERPRISE
BUSINESS MODEL:
SERVICE PROVIDER
BUSINESS MODEL:
Same OpenStack, Different Needs
ENTERPRISE VS. SERVICE PROVIDER

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Basic Cinder w/ 3rd part storage

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WHAT IS SOLIDFIRE?

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FLEXIBILITY
CONTROL
MIXED WORKLOADS
TIME TO VALUE
SOLIDFIRE & OPENSTACK
Na5ve Mul5-­‐tenant Architecture, Best-­‐in-­‐class Integra5ons

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Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

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Self Healing High Availability
SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
• No single points of failure
• Automatic self-healing – restores
redundancy after failure
• Maintains all QoS settings regardless of
failure condition
• Non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades
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Guaranteed Performance to Every Application
Decreased
Performance
Noisy Neighbor
SolidFire QoS in Practice
500 IOPS
1000 IOPS
1200 IOPS
8000 IOPS

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Solution Benefits
• Cloud – De-Duplication typically scales with capacity
• VDI – Enables full-clones saving on compute
• Databases – Enables Test/Dev spinoffs and replica sets
Drives cost below the price of disk
In-line Data Reduction
5 – 10X Data Reduction
Always-on Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning

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SolidFire and Mirantis Fuel – Time to Value
RAPIDLY DEPLOY OPENSTACK ENVIRONMENTS
• One
bu'on
• Convenient
GUI
for
configura6on
informa6on
• Plugins
for
op6onal
configura6ons
• Automated
tes6ng
of
environment
• Single
deployment
pane
of
glass
• Health
Check
capability
SOLIDFIRE FUEL PLUGIN
• Configure
SolidFire
as
storage
automa6cally
• All
SolidFire
op6ons
exposed
• Matches
the
OpenStack
versions

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SolidFire
Fuel Plugin

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#1
ALL
FLASH
ARRAY
CC 2014 & 2015

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Proven in the World’s Most Demanding Data Centers
Service Providers Large Enterprise

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