This document discusses the integration between SUSE OpenStack Cloud and Nutanix. The key points are: 1) The integration provides complete automation of deploying and managing virtual machines and storage through Nutanix APIs and drivers for Nova, Cinder, Glance, and Neutron. 2) It allows for multi-tenancy, micro-segmentation for security, and easy scaling of compute and storage resources by adding Nutanix nodes through Prism. 3) Customers can forecast and plan capacity needs and expansion based on workload monitoring through Prism and representation of Nutanix clusters in OpenStack.

1. SUSE OpenStack Cloud + Nutanix
Delivering Scalability, Automation and Ease of Use
Frank Rego
Director of ISV Partnerships
frego@suse.com

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Cloud Momentum
- 95% of businesses now use cloud computing
- 72% of enterprises are using Private Cloud
- “Cloud-first" strategies are the norm in 2017
https://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/cloud-computing-trends-2017-state-cloud-survey

3. Customers now expect:
- Instant services & solutions
- On-demand, mobile access
- Security & reliability

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Businesses need:
- Speed
- Agility
- A lead on the competition

5. Traditional IT
Evolution [mode 1]
Mission critical
Predictable, reliable
Technology silos
Slow to respond
Agile IT
Revolution [mode 2]
Innovation, disruption
Cloud native
Software Defined everything
DevOps
Bridging the Two worlds of IT

6. SUSE and Nutanix
Automated
Provisioning, One-
click, Ease of Use
Scalability, Multi-
tenancy,
Micro-segmentation
Start small, get up to speed quickly, scale out from there

7. SUSE Software-Defined Infrastructure
Our Open, Flexible Infrastructure Vision
Application Delivery
Custom Micro Service Applications
Kubernetes / Magnum
Physical Infrastructure: Server, Switches, Storage
Public Cloud
SUSE Cloud
Service
Provider
Program
Containers
SUSE CaaS Platform
Software Defined Everything
Storage
SUSE Enterprise
Storage
Networking
SDN and NFV
Virtualization
KVM, Xen, VMware,
and z/VM
Operating System
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Platform as a Service
Cloud Foundry
Private Cloud / IaaS
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Management
Operations, Monitor
and Patch
• SUSE Manager
• SUSE OpenStack
Cloud Monitoring
• openATTIC
Cluster
Deployment
• Crowbar
• Salt
Orchestration
• Heat
• Kubernetes

8. OpenStack Cloud
“OpenStack has grown into a de facto
standard platform for the private cloud
market.” *
One of the fastest growing open
source communities in the world.
- 70K members
- 656 companies
- 185 countries
* Forrester

9. SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Answers the data center challenges
SUSE OpenStack Cloud delivers:
− Flexibility to respond quickly & easily to new demands
− Increased agility, speed and efficiency
− An elastic platform for increased innovation
− Lower costs, faster ROI
− Greater control and security
− Self-service capabilities
− High quality services

10. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
Delivering the Full Value of OpenStack
Traditional IT Evolution Agile IT Revolution
- Rock solid infrastructure reliability
- HA from cloud infrastructure to VM or workload
- Non-disruptive upgrades
- Business oriented release cycle / longer support
- Widest hypervisor support
- Best interoperability
- Leading enterprise support for entire platform
- OpenStack Newton release
- Container-as-a-Service capabilities
- Docker orchestration, Kubernetes, Magnum
- Software defined infrastructure
- Manila and CephFS delivering unified storage
for production workloads
- Fastest deployment and easy management

11. SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 New Features
New Feature Why It’s Important
Built on OpenStack Newton code release Timely access latest cloud technologies in areas where
innovation is occurring at a rapid pace
Container orchestration, including Docker,
Kubernetes and OpenStack Magnum
Helping customers build new cloud-native applications fast
and supporting their DevOps initiatives
Delivery of non-disruptive upgrade capabilities Avoid downtime and service interruption when migrating to
new OpenStack releases
Additional high availability protection for virtual
machines and workloads
Easier for customers to move traditional or business-critical
applications to their private cloud
Integration of OpenStack Manila with CephFS Giving customers a unified storage system for block, object
and file access for production workloads
Improved scalability across multiple data centers Enable users to access, manage and control multiple
private clouds through a single user interface

12. Deployment
UI
Admin Server
SUSE
Linux
Chef Server
Crowbar
Software mirror
DHCP/TFTP
Control Node
SUSE
Linux
Database
Message queue
Identity
Image store
Cinder
Neutron
Dashboard
Scheduler
Other
SUSE Linux
OpenStack
compute +
VMware Proxy
SUSE Linux
KVM
OpenStack
compute
Cloud UI
IBM System Z
OpenStack
compute
z/VM
Hypervisor Choice and Support
Investment Protection and Enhanced Value
Xen
OpenStack
compute
Microsoft
SUSE Linux
OpenStack
compute +
AHV

13. SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Taking the pain out of OpenStack
"OpenStack is…consistently recognized
as overly complex to configure, deploy
and upgrade.“ 451 Research Feb 2015
SUSE OpenStack Cloud gives you:
− A pre-built solution you can start driving now
− Quality, reliability and performance
− Top class service, maintenance & support
− Excellent value
“The value proposition for using a
distribution writes itself.“ 451 Research Q3 2016

14. SUSE OpenStack Cloud History
- Founding member and platinum sponsor of OpenStack Foundation
- First to launch an “enterprise-grade” OpenStack distribution in 2012
- Focused on making SUSE OpenStack Cloud the best private cloud
solution for enterprise business
Best Software defined SolutionData Centre Cloud Vendor of the Year
IaaS Solution of the Year

15. SUSE OpenStack Cloud History
2012
First enterprise-grade
Distribution (Essex)
Automatic HA deployment
for Compute Nodes
Business oriented release cycle
Automatic HA deployment
for control plane
Kubernetes as a Service
Non-disruptive upgrades
Spanning 11
OpenStack releases
2017

16. Nutanix + SUSE OpenStack Cloud Integration
Complete automation with Nova,
Cinder, Glance, and Neutron
drivers:
• Establish network access rules,
setting up storage and launching VM
instances.
• Retrieve base or OS images and
maintain image data on the Nutanix
Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)
• Setup network topology using the
SUSE OpenStack Cloud dashboard
and manage via the Nutanix Prism
interface or Nutanix Acropolis APIs
SUSE OpenStack Cloud

17. Automation, Ease of Operation, Security
• Multi-tenancy
• Multiple workloads, business units, segregation, security
• Micro segmentation
• Fine-grained security policies assigned to data center applications, down to the workload level.
• Easily grow compute and storage resources
• Power on Nutanix nodes, add them to the Nutanix cluster via Prism one-click expansion,
automatically made available to SUSE OpenStack Cloud
• Forecast capacity needs of applications running in the SUSE OpenStack Cloud
environment
• Prism continuously monitors usage of CPU, memory, storage across cluster and accurately
predicts when cluster will run out of resources
• Precisely size future workload growth based on past, current and future
workload demands
• Recommends a capacity expansion schedule based on when and what infrastructure will be
needed
• Ensure applications are hosted on the correct AHV nodes across the
environment.
• Each Nutanix cluster is represented as one Nova-Compute object in SUSE OpenStack Cloud,
providing all the enterprise benefits of Nutanix AHV

18. SUSE-Nutanix Customer Examples
Managed IT services
• One of Europe's leading providers offering
businesses hosting, networks and communications
services to over 6,500 customers
• Hosting and outsourcing of critical digital
applications
• focus on comprehensive 360 ​​° service offering
combining cloud, Big Data and IoT projects with
the security solutions
• Moving to SUSE OpenStack Cloud for uptime,
security, support, ease of use
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Hosting services for public, private & hybrid cloud
• powered by NUTANIX
• focused on automation and fully turnkey
• Customers deploy virtual machines either on NUTANIX infrastructure or in the public
cloud from a single control panel
• Moving to SUSE OpenStack Cloud for stability, multi-tenancy, usability,
support

19. More Information
• SUSE and Nutanix Solution Flyer
• https://www.suse.com/docrep/documents/sxpzb9q
x3f/nutanix_suse_partner_solution_flyer.pdf
• SUSE OpenStack Cloud
• https://www.suse.com/products/suse-openstack-
cloud/
• Experience Nutanix the technology
that powers the world’s largest data
centers, at no cost.
• https://www.nutanix.com/products/community-
edition/
• SUSE and Nutanix Demo at SUSE
Kiosk S6

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