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. It is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution. In this webinar, participants will learn: Completely new way to manage Apache CloudStack with service provider, reseller and customer views. Reliably collecting performance metrics from guests running inside Cloud stack How to render Cloud Stack Tenant UI with ActOnCloud User Interface Generate Detailed Billing Usage Reports for different cloudstack accounts How to manage multiple cloudstack instances How to perform capacity planning for Zones inside Cloud stack How to autoscale VMs in VPC without depending on Hardware based loadbalancers How to group VMs and apply policies and rules to govern and optimize them Managing hybrid cloud. Also if you are tired of seeing the old UI? You can find here the next generation mobile responsive interface to manage your cloud stack.

1. Secret Techniques to Manage
Apache CloudStack
Webinar #3
Madan Ganesh V
Founder & CEO
madan@actonmagic.com
10-Aug-2016
@actonmagic

2. ActOnCloud
DevOps
Engineer
AWS
IBM Softlayer
DigitalOcean
IT Manager/
CIO/ Operations Team
• Self Service
• Single Pane of Glass
• Pricing/Charge Back
• Compliance & Security
• Approval
CloudStack

3. Agenda
 CloudStack Introduction (5 mins)
 Challenges in CloudStack (20 mins)
 Right way to manage CloudStack – Demo (20
mins)
 Q & A (10 mins)

4. Pointers
 We will cover the Q&A at the end
 Recordings of this webinar will be made
available next week
 More content available at
www.actonmagic.com/blog
 Write to cloud@actonmagic.com for comments
and feedback
 Follow us @actonmagic
 Start your trail at www.actoncloud.com

5. Who uses
CloudStack?
http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html

6.  when something happened. it is hard to figure out whats happening
 User Interface for service providers
 Would be nice to have some guidelines on what parts are necessary to
monitor, and how to monitor.
 Is there really Amazon EC2/S3 API support? For some reason the
interaction with my billing system (…) and the CloudStack API is extremely
slow and very CPU intensive (a few minutes to generate a single invoice for
one month). I am not sure if it will scale.
 The error logs are to hard to parse and find what's wrong with the
environment
 * Backup and Recovery of VMs in CloudStack is very inconsistent and slow
on KVM. * Need java applet style uploads into CloudStack stores (something
like vCloud) * Logging and control of the underlying infrastructure is
immature * Needs progress bars in UI for longer running tasks with details
displayed * Bunch of other stuff that could be improved .....
CloudStack Customers Said!

7.  Monitoring of virtual machines Integrated
performance monitoring of virtual machines
and physical hosts.
 usage monitoring, graphs, UI customization
 Console Proxy needs to be faster. I hear this
all the time from our customers. Automated
Zone failover and/or Region failover has been
another big - repeated request. Better
monitoring, down to the VM level.
CloudStack Customers Said!

8. Diagnostic
• Why did the
CloudStack go
down?
• Why did we run out
of capacity?
• Why do we have so
many un-utilized
hosts?
• Why did a customer
leave?
Descriptive
• What is my capacity
utilization at
cloudstack level &
datacenter level?
• What is the co-
relation between VM
usage and Storage
usage ?
• What are unused
storage and
compute service
offerings?
• What are my
account level,
management server
level, infrastructure
level alerts?
• What is my Budget
vs Spend?
Predictive
• When should I
procure additional
storage or server
capacity?
• When will I meet my
ROI?
Prescriptive
• What should I do to
avoid a system
down?
• What should I do to
save 20% cost on
my infrastructure?
• What should I do to
increase my profit
margin?
• What should I do to
keep my customer
VM’s happy?

9. IT / DevOps Story

10. DevOps Phase/Pre
Production
• Continuous
Integration
• Build Update
• QA
• Provisioning &
Deployment
• Performance
Tuning
• Approvals
• Quotas
Production
• Monitoring
• Security
• Backup
• Upgrade
• Autoscale
Optimization
• Monitoring
• Bandwidth
Optimization
• Autoscaling
• Budget Tracking
• Multi-cloud
Visibility
• Schedule
Operations
Scale
• Autoscaling
• Batch Processing

11. Cloud Operations
Story

12. Root Account
• Datacenter View
• Monitor System VMs and User
VMs
• Capacity Planning
• CloudStack Account Usage View
• 360-degree view of infrastructure
and users
• Detailed Resource Views
• Self-Service to onboard users
• Billing
• Manage Multiple Cloudstack
User Account
• Provision one or more VM(s)
• Monitor my VM
• Control Bandwidth Usage
• Autoscale VMs
• Snapshot Management
• My Usage Bill
• Approval Workflows
• Budget
Operations Teams Use cases

13. • Managing Multiple CloudStack(s)
• Capacity Planning
• CloudStack Account/Customer View
• Provisioning VMs
• Datacenter View
• Deploying and Monitoring agents
• Usage Reports
• Billing
• Resource Groups
• Cloud Audit

14. Join CloudStack Meetups

15. http://www.actonmagic.com/blog/category/apache-cloudstack/

16.  Recordings of this webinar will be made
available next week
 More content available at
www.actonmagic.com/blog
 Write to cloud@actonmagic.com for
comments and thoughts
 Start your trail at www.actoncloud.com
THANK YOU!

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