In this presentation we share our experience of getting Safe Swiss Cloud up and running with CloudStack. It includes a basic introduction to the CloudStack architecture.

1. SafeSwissCloud.ch
CloudStack: Overview and Report
Prodosh Banerjee, Managing Partner
11 June 2013 Swiss Cloud Day

2. Who are we?
B2B web, mobile and cloud solutions ...
... with integrated cloud infrastructure

3. Safe Swiss Cloud
Our infrastructure runs on CloudStack ...
... and is the basis for:
www.safeswisscloud.ch!

4. Agenda
1. Background: why CloudStack?
2. What is CloudStack?
3. Features
4. How is Anolim using CloudStack?
5. Demo
6. What next?

5. 1. Background
2012:
Tried out OpenStack, OpenNebula and
a few other technologies.
Started looking for better options that
were mature and easier to manage.
Enter CloudStack ....

6. 1. Background
End of 2012:
After a test project with CloudStack ….
… converted most of our infrastructure
of dedicated servers to CloudStack
Just worked - easy and painless

7. 2. What is CloudStack?
“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.”
Source:
h*p://projects.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html

8. 2. Who is using CloudStack?
Source:
Chip
Childers:
h*p://www.slideshare.net/chipchilders/cloudstack-­‐dc-­‐meetup

9. 3. CloudStack Features
Compute orchestration
Network-as-a-Service
User and account management
A full and open native API
Resource accounting
First-class User Interface (UI)
“CloudStack is a
turnkey solution that
includes the entire
"stack" of features
most organizations
want with an IaaS
cloud.”
Source:
h*p://projects.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html

10. 3. CloudStack Features
Source:
h*p://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-­‐US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html-­‐single/InstallaCon_Guide/index.html

11. 3. CloudStack Features
Source:
h*p://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-­‐US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html-­‐single/InstallaCon_Guide/index.html

12. 3. CloudStack Features
Source:
h*p://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-­‐US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html-­‐single/InstallaCon_Guide/index.html

13. 3. CloudStack Features
h*p://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-­‐US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html/InstallaCon_Guide/large_scale_redundant_setup.html

14. 3. CloudStack Features
h*p://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-­‐US/Apache_CloudStack/4.0.2/html/InstallaCon_Guide/large_scale_redundant_setup.html

15. 3. CloudStack Features
Source:
h*p://www.slideshare.net/chipchilders/cloudstack-­‐dc-­‐meetup
10.1.1.1
Web
VM
1
10.1.1.3
Web
VM
2
10.1.1.4
Web
VM
3
10.1.1.5
Web
VM
4
Virtual
Network
10.1.1.0/24
VLAN
100
Virtual
Network
10.1.2.0/24
VLAN
1001
10.1.2.31
App
VM
1
Virtual
Network
10.1.3.0/24
VLAN
141
10.1.2.24
App
VM
2
10.1.3.24
DB
VM
1
Virtual
Router
Customer
Premises
IPSec
or
SSL
site-­‐to-­‐site
VPN
Internet
Monitoring
VLAN
Virtual
Router
Services
• IPAM
• DNS
• LB
[intra]
• S-­‐2-­‐S
VPN
• StaCc
Routes
• ACLs
• NAT,
PF
• FW
[ingress
&
egress]
• BGP
Load
Balancer
Unified
mulC-­‐Cer
virtual
network

16. 4. How Is Anolim Using CloudStack?
Swiss based cloud Infrastructure
High Availability solutions
Production: client deployments
Development servers

17. 5. Provisioning a VM with the GUI

18. Trust

19. 6. What next?

20. 6. What next?

21. So, who can you trust?

22. 6. What Next?
Safe Swiss Cloud focus!
Privacy for organizations
More Swiss based cloud Infrastructure
HA as a Service
File Clusters as a Service

23. 6. What Next?
CloudStack!
Version 4.1 just released
Version 4.2 in feature freeze

24. 6. What Next?
Prodosh Banerjee, Managing Partner
Anolim GmbH - http://anolim.com
Safe Swiss Cloud – http://safeswisscloud.ch
Apache CloudStack - http://cloudstack.apache.org
What sort of cloud services do you need?
Come and talk to me in the break or drop me a line