The 'Untold' OpenStack Enterprise Customer Stories Audience: Beginner Topic: User Stories Abstract: A real, unedited & uncut look into the untold stories of HPE’s enterprise customer journeys in OpenStack over the past 8 months. Alex and Anthony will take the audience through a number of Australian and NZ based customers and their previously untold journey in OpenStack looking at both their use cases, positives, negatives and how challenges were overcome. Wrapping up, we will take a quick look at the new features of Helion OpenStack 4.0 and what makes it truly ‘enterprise grade’. Speaker Bio: Anthony Rees & Alex Tesch, HPE Alex & Anthony have been working with Open Source enterprise technologies for the better part of 15 years and have presented at events such as the OpenStack Summit in Austin and LinuxCon NZ. OpenStack Australia Day Government - Canberra 2016 https://events.aptira.com/openstack-australia-day-canberra-2016/

1. OpenStack® Summit Austin 2016The ‘Untold’ OpenStack® Enterprise
Customer Stories
Alex Tesch
Cloud Consultant
Anthony Rees
Cloud Consultant

2. About Your Presenters
Alex Tesch
– Presenter at both the Austin and Barcelona OpenStack Summits,
OpenStack Day Sydney and LinuxCon NZ.
– Working with OpenStack since Grizzly in 2013.
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Anthony Rees
– Presenter at both the Austin OpenStack Summit, OpenStack Day
Sydney and LinuxCon NZ.
– Working with OpenStack since Icehouse.

3. History
HPE’s history of OpenStack involvement
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4. OpenStack releases are every 6 months
HPE’s involvement in OpenStack
– Helion OpenStack 1.0 was release in 2014 on Juno
– Current version is Mitaka based.
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Austin Bexar Cactus Diablo Essex Folsom Grizzly Havana Icehouse Juno Kilo Liberty Mitaka Newton
Helion
OpenStack
v4.0
Helion
OpenStack
v3.0 & v3.1
Helion
OpenStack
v2.0 & v2.1
Helion
OpenStack
v1.0

5. Community Contributions
See HPE’s contributions to the OpenStack community
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6. Untold Stories
Customer Use Case, Challenges and War Stories
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7. The tale of two banks in Australia
Technology driving a culture change
– Application Developer IaaS
– As-a-Service LBaaS and DBaaS
– Business driver to move away from AWS
– A more cost effective platform
– High Availability
– Connecting two clouds | Around the World
– Support PaaS Initiates
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8. Bank
Australian Based Merchant Bank
– Continuous Delivery
– LBaaS:: Leverage LBaaS v2 and Auto-Scaling
– DbaaS:: Trove through our partner Tesora
– OpenStack-as-a-Service
– A managed OpenStack Cloud
– High Availability
– Dual Data Centres that are APRA approved
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OpenStack

9. Bank
Australian Based Merchant Bank
– Continuous Delivery
– LBaaS:: Leverage LBaaS v2 and Auto-Scaling
– DbaaS:: Trove through our partner Tesora
– OpenStack-as-a-Service
– A managed OpenStack Cloud
– High Availability
– Dual Data Centres that are APRA approved
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OpenStack

10. Bank
Australian Based Merchant Bank
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Site A Site B
Helion OpenStack
StorageCompute StorageCompute
– LBaaS
– DBaaS
– Self Healing
– One API

11. Bank
Australian Based Merchant Bank
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Sydney
London
New York
Hong Kong
OpenStack OpenStack
OpenStackOpenStack

12. Another Bank
North Australian Based Bank
– devOPS Culture
– Agile at Scale
– Infrastructure as Code
– PaaS:: Docker Containers
– Application development on Containers
– Continuous Delivery
– LBaaS:: Leverage LBaaS v2 and Auto-Scaling
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Stackato

13. Another Bank
North Australian Based Bank
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– Pilot environment only
– Multi Cloud
– OpenStack, AWS,
VMware
– Docker
– Native Docker support
– Auto Scaling

14. Insurance Group
Australian Based Insurer
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– OpenStack IaaS
– Continuous Delivery
– Cassandra Analytics
– CPU Pinning
– Host Aggregation OpenStack

15. Airline
Hong Kong Based Airline
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– Multi Cloud
– OpenStack, AWS, VMware
– Customer Portal
– Helion OpenStack
– on ESX and KVM
OpenStack

16. University
Australian Based University
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– Pilot Environment
– OpenStack
– Provide IaaS
– Moodle Workloads
– Education learning platform
– Docker
– Container Applications
OpenStack
Stackato

17. OnDemand TV
NZ based OnDemand TV application
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– Previously AWS
– Helion OpenStack
– Heat Orchestration
– 175 stack changes in 2 weeks
– OnDemand TV Streaming
– Olympic Games 2016
OpenStack

18. e-Commerce
NZ based Online e-Commerce
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– Working pilot in < 3 days
– Helion OpenStack
– 80+ Compute Hosts
– Dual Datacenters
– Auckland DC
– Wellington DC
OpenStack OpenStack
Auckland Wellington

19. Council Cloud Broker
NZ based local council
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– Local Council IaaS
– Reducing DC’s and Cost
– Delivering more for less to
rate payers
OpenStack
Local Council
Local Council
Local Council
Local Council
Local Council

20. Helion OpenStack 4.0
So…. What’s New ?
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21. Helion OpenStack 4.0
Based on the upstream Mitaka cycle
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– Released on the 25th of
October during the Barcelona
Summit.
– Proven upgrade path from
HOS 2 (Kilo) and HOS 3
(Liberty) releases).
– HA for DVR / SNAT (as a
default)
OpenStack

22. Helion OpenStack 4.0
Based on the upstream Mitaka cycle
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– DPDK / SR-IOV enabled
– Out-of-the-box integration
SDN integration (Nuage, NSX,
Midokura, ODL based
OpenSDN)
– Full integration between HEAT
autoscaling, Monasca and
LBaaS V2 using Octavia.
OpenStack

23. Helion OpenStack 4.0
Based on the upstream Mitaka cycle
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– Nova extra_specs related to
CPU pinning, NUMA affinity
and huge page memory
backing
– Cinder backup to Google
Cloud support
– CEPH upgrade from Firefly to
Hammer supported
OpenStack

24. Helion OpenStack 4.0
Based on the upstream Mitaka cycle
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– RHEL 7.2 supported as a
Nova hypervisor.
OpenStack

25. OpenStack® Summit Austin 2016
Thank You