This document discusses VMware's approach to integrating their virtualization technologies with OpenStack. It emphasizes that VMware contributes to OpenStack projects while also competing to make VMware the best platform for running OpenStack. Specifically, it promotes using vSphere for compute (Nova), NSX for networking (Neutron), and vSAN for block storage (Cinder), arguing these provide the best features for reliability, ease-of-use, and management. It also describes how VMware technologies can help simplify and improve OpenStack operations through tools like vCenter and vCOps.

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VMware + OpenStack
VIO - VMware Integrated Openstack
Nov. 13, 2014
Phil Philbin, SLED SE – pphilbin@vmware.com
Confidential

2. VMware + OpenStack: No fork in the road…
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3. Embracing Customer Choice…
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OpenStack is a framework that provides the freedom to…
• Choose different technologies, while using a single cloud API + GUI
• Choose different deployment models (do-it-yourself vs. vendor solution)
OpenStack
Compute? Network? Storage?
Mgmt?
What SW/HW infrastructure technologies meets my
needs for advanced features, ease-of-use, cost
structure, scale, reliability, monitoring, performance,
SLAs, troubleshooting, etc?

4. OpenStack as a Framework
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The flexibility of the OpenStack framework…
• Vendor neutral + developer friendly API, with “plugin” architecture
• Enables custom coding + rapid iteration by in-house development teams.
OpenStack
vSphere NSX vSAN
Compute? Network? Storage?
vCenter Operations Mgmt?
Mgmt
…with the innovation, reliability, and ease-of-use of VMware
• Best-in-class software-defined datacenter (SDDC) technology, as
individual components or as an integrated software suite.

5. Embracing Customer Choice + OpenStack
VMware’s focus on SDDC allows VMware to embrace customer choice.
 Contribute to OpenStack
• Integrate VMware compute, network, storage SW with OpenStack.
• Make OpenStack better, helping customers succeed with their cloud effort.
 Like all OpenStack vendors, compete for your business.
• Show customers how VMware components helps them run a better cloud.
• Work with ecosystem to make sure it is easy to deploy OpenStack + VMware
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Our Goal: Make VMware the best and easiest way to run OpenStack

6. VMware Technologies and OpenStack
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
3rd-Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

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Is VMware Really Contributing to OpenStack?
VMware Contributions to core projects (“integrated”):
Havana Contributions: #7 (319 Commits)
Icehouse Contributions: #5 (424 Commits)
Juno Contributions: #6 (312 Commits)
Neutron
Nova Cinder
Docs Tempest Devstack
Statistics from: http://www.stackalytics.com/

8. OpenStack on vSphere Early Adopters
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9. Why OpenStack on VMware?
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
Third Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

10. Why OpenStack on VMware?
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
Third Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

11. Choosing a Compute Driver: Why vSphere for Nova?
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Technical:
• Purpose-built hypervisor platform provides
unmatched combination of reliability, security, and
performance.
• Availability features (vMotion, HA) and compatibility
testing protect critical production workloads.
• Advanced resource management (e.g., DRS,
SDRS) better utilizes HW, providing higher density
and avoiding “noisy neighbors”.
Operational:
• Enterprise-polished solution simplifies adoption.
• Enterprises already have the expertise.
• Vast array of VMware + Ecosystem tools to manage
the infrastructure layer
• Deploying OpenStack can be as simple as
deploying a single “controller” VM.

12. Why OpenStack on VMware?
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
Third Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

13. Choosing a Network Driver: Why NSX for Neutron?
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Technical Capabilities:
• First and most production-hardened network
virtualization solution.
• Doesn’t rely on physical network for VLANs,
FW, etc. Works with gear from any vendor.
• The technical “details” matter:
• Tunneling packet performance
• High-availability + scale-out model.
• “Distributed” network services.
Compatibility + Ecosystem:
• Works on KVM, XenServer, and ESX.
• Integrations with many HW Switch vendors to allow
NSX to manage physical workloads.
Operations:
• Troubleshooting tools to view how virtual networks
are built, impact of physical network failures.

14. Why OpenStack on VMware?
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
Third Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

15. Choosing a Block Storage Driver: Why vSphere for Cinder?
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Simple but Powerful:
• Single driver works with any vSphere
validated storage (NFS, iSCSI, FC)
• Leverages huge validation efforts
across many vendors.
• Includes VAAI array acceleration work
for snapshot, clone, etc.
Enables VMware “virtual SAN”:
• Provides shared storage leveraging
SDD/Hard-disks on the hypervisor.
• Low-cost storage devices, but with
accelerated by local SSD cache.
• SSD cache is configurable per-disk,
allowing extremely high IOPS for data
intensive workloads.
VMware vCenter Server
vSphere
VSAN
Hard
disks
SSD
…………….
SSD Hard
Hard
disks
disks
SSD
Distributed Storage
Aggregated Datastore

16. Why OpenStack on VMware?
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Tenant-Side
Admin/Operator-Side
Horizon
( Web Portal )
ESX &
vCenter
CLI Tools &
Automation
vCAC
Nova Neutron Cinder Glance
NSX
vCenter Datastores
3rd-party / vSAN
Cloud Operator Tools
(vCenter, vCOPs, Log Insight etc.)
Third Party Operator tools
(e.g., Puppet/Chef)
OpenStack or 3rd Party Component
VMware Component

17. Management Technologies with OpenStack
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Application Management:
• vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0
includes support for consuming from
OpenStack clouds, in addition to other
back-ends like vSphere, KVM, + AWS.
• Provides governance, policy, workflow,
and costing, which are not present in
OpenStack.
Infrastructure Management:
• vCenter and the NSX manager provide
base troubleshooting capabilities for
investigating issues at SW layer.
• vCenter Operations Management
(vCOPs) provides advanced visibility
into the relationships between different
elements, health monitoring, anomaly
detection, etc.

18. OpenStack on VMware Roadmap
Glance
(Image)
Cinder
(Block Storage)
Neutron
(Network)
Nova
(Compute)
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• Core L2/L3 networking and
Security Groups (via Nicira
NVP)
• “Beta” version of vSphere
integration
• support vCenter, vMotion,
HA, datastores, etc.
• First Production Ready
release of vCenter driver
• New vSphere datastore back-end, for
high efficiency boot + snapshot.
• Simplified image upload.
• SPBM for volumes
• vSAN+SPBM support for primary
disks
• OVA support for VMs
Grizzly
(Q2, 2013)
Havana
(Q4, 2013)
Icehouse
(Q2, 2014)
• Volume support using
vSphere datastores with
any 3rd-party storage array.
• Support for in-kernel ESX
vswitch via NSX, seucirty
groups, LBaaS and stateful
FWaaS capabilities.
• Integrated DHCP and metadata
service, scalability improvements.
CI Testing
• vCenter driver is tested against all
Nova changes using Tempest tests
• Similarly NSX Neutron plugin is tested
against all Neutron changes

19. VIO beta and Hands On Labs:
Sign up for the VMware Integrated Openstack (VIO) beta:
• www.vmware.com/products/openstack/
Also available as a Hands-on-Lab:
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• http://labs.hol.vmware.com
• HOL-SDC-1420 - OpenStack with VMware vSphere and NSX

20. Successfully Deliver & Operate OpenStack in Production
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Simplified
OpenStack
Operations
• Common
OpenStack admin
tasks automated
from vCenter
• vCOPs integrations
for monitoring &
troubleshooting
OpenStack
• LogInsight
integration for
diagnostics across
dozens of
OpenStack service
logs
No OpenStack
PhD Required!
• OpenStack
delivered as a
Virtual Appliance
• Simple Install from
vSphere Web Client
• Configure
OpenStack using
familiar clusters,
datastores
• OpenStack
automatically
deployed with HA
& Scale-out
architecture
Enterprise Grade
OpenStack Cloud
• Robust, proven
foundation –
vSphere, NSX &
VSAN
• Differentiated
OpenStack cloud
with rich infra
features
• OpenStack code
hardened and
tested by VMware
Single Vendor
Support
Unified VMware
Support for
• OpenStack code
• Underlying Infra
Products
• Installation &
Operations
Products
• Upgrades/patches

21. Questions?
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