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1. Title Text
Persisting Data in Your Cloud
with Cinder

2. Presenters
Kenneth Hui
Director of Technical Marketing
Platform9
Twitter: @hui_kenneth
John Griffith
Principal Engineer
SolidFire
Twitter: @jdg_8
IRC: jgriffith
Arun Sriraman
Software Engineer
Platform9

3. Agenda
• What is OpenStack?
• OpenStack Cinder Use Cases
• Platform9 and SolidFire
• Demo

4. Title Text
What is OpenStack?

5. Automation and Orchestration of IT Resources
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6. In a Loosely Coupled Architecture

7. To Deliver Self-Service IT Rapidly and At Scale

8. OpenStack Consumption Models
Public Cloud Private Cloud Distribution Private Cloud As A Service
Off-premises On-premises On or off premises
Shared infrastructure Dedicated infrastructure Dedicated infrastructure
No deployment required and
upgrades by vendors
Deployment and upgrades by
customer or vendor
Deployment and upgrades by
vendor
Operated by vendor Operated by customer Operated by vendor

9. OpenStack Vendors
Public Cloud Private Cloud Distribution Private Cloud As A Service
Dreamhost Mirantis Cisco
HP Helion Redhat IBM Blue Box
Internap SUSE Platform9
Rackspace Ubuntu Rackspace
Source: http://www.openstack.org/marketplace/

10. Title Text
OpenStack Cinder Use Cases

11. What Is OpenStack Cinder?
• Architected to provide traditional block-
level storage resources to other
OpenStack services
• Presents persistent block-level storage
volumes for use with OpenStack Nova
compute instances
• Manages the creation, attaching and
detaching of these volumes between a
storage system and different host servers

12. What you get
• Persistent Storage for use in your cloud
• Plug/Unplug across cloud resources
• Use it for a Data Store
• Use it for a Boot Image
• Cinder is where you’re high change rate data resides
• If you know AWS, think EBS

13. Just like you have with disks now
• BUT it scales AND it’s Automated AND it’s self service!

14. Winners
• Biggest adopter of Cloud are developers
• Moving faster and faster
• Need resources
• IT groups can’t keep up
• Traditional request/provisioning process is too slow

15. Development process
• I want to test some ideas with my app against Mongo and Centos
• Need a system for a day or so
• Not sure, as I experiment may need more/less storage, memory etc
• Hmm… wonder if this would work better on Ubuntu?
• I should benchmark this against that other approach

16. How I used to get gear
• Make a guess at what I need (guess on the high side)
• Submit the request to IT
• Wait….
• Wait some more….
• IT comes back and says “Can’t give you that Centos box with 8Gig of Ram,
but here’s a Windows server with 12Gig and no disk space”

17. How the developer feels

18. Using P9 and SolidFire
• I’ve got some unused quota in my cloud… let’s do this
• Spin up an Instance, load my software… hack at some code
• Hmm… would this benefit from higher perf storage?
• retype my volume to higher IOPS… much better
• I should try this using a different design with mysql
• Spin up another platform… hack at some code
• Ohhh… this is WAY better, tweak design, write my app

19. Using P9 and SolidFire
• Ok, app is looking good… should probably test this in a clean env
• Spin up an instance… run my tests… fix a few things… repeat
• Hmm… some of our customers use a different Linux distribution
• Spin up an instance… run my tests
• repeat…

20. Using P9 and SolidFire
•In the time it might have taken me to get the initial resource request:
• Tested my initial design in multiple configurations
• Tried a completely new design in parallel
• Finished my application
• Tested it on multiple platforms
Released an app that will make the company BILLIONS!!!

21. How everybody feels!

22. Title Text
Introducing Platform9 and
SolidFire

23. Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Enterprise-grade
OpenStack-as-a-Service
•Your servers host your data
•Platform9 hosts the OpenStack
controller as a Service, with a SLA
•We install, monitor, troubleshoot &
upgrade OpenStack
•For KVM / VMware / Docker

24. Platform9 Key Benfits

25. SolidFire and OpenStack
• The industry’s most comprehensive Cinder support
• Unparalleled combination of guaranteed
performance, high-availability and scale
• Established interoperability & partnerships with
industry leaders
"SolidFire has done a great job leading the Block Storage project in line with the OpenStack
philosophy of delivering a pluggable architecture with integration points for multiple vendors
and technologies. It's exciting to see more production implementations and configuration
options available to OpenStack users.”
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation

26. SolidFire and Cinder
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• Full SolidFire driver integration with latest OpenStack
software release
• Set and maintain true QoS levels on a per-volume
basis
• Create, snapshot, clone and manage SolidFire
volumes using OpenStack clients and APIs
• Bootable SolidFire Volumes
• Web-based API exposing all cluster functionality
• SolidFire integration with Cinder can be configured in
less than a minute

27. Platform9 with SolidFire
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• Platform9
Cinder Volume Node
•
Metadata
Updates
Orchestration
Commands
Users IT
Self-service Policy, Administration

28. Title Text
Demo

29. Title Text
Questions

30. Title Text
Thank You