The document discusses the architectural considerations for hybrid cloud solutions using vSphere and OpenStack, highlighting the distinct requirements of traditional versus cloud-native workloads. It emphasizes the importance of designing for failure, focusing on resilience, automation, and the management of hypervisors. Additionally, it provides resources and guidelines for integrating OpenStack with VMware to optimize existing IT investments.

1. vSphere with OpenStack
Foundations For A Hybrid Solution
Created by: Cody Bunch
Modified Date: July 23, 2014

2. A Tale of Two Workloads
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Workload Dictates Architecture
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4. Right Infrastructure for the Workload
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5. Traditional Workloads
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Traditional IT Design Principles
Stateful Services
Operator focused
Monolithic
architecture
Steady-state/ Predictable

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Traditional Infrastructure Consumption Models
On-Premises Infrastructure Off-Premises Hosting

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Design Goal: Resilient Infrastructures

9. Cloud Native Workloads
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Cloud Native Design Principles
Distributed architecture
Developer
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Stateless Services
Unpredictable/
Spikey

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Cloud Consumption Models
Public Cloud Private Cloud

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Design Assumption: Fragile Infrastructures

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What’s Wrong with the Cloud?

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We Architect Cloud
for Rapid Scale

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At Scale Chaos and Failures Are Inevitable

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So Design for Failure

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Let The Application Handle It’s Own Resiliency

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Build Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems
Message Bus

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Focus on Scaling Horizontally
Use more pieces, not bigger pieces

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Choose Cattle Over Pets

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Embrace Automation and Cultural Change

23. Where OpenStack Fits In
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Automation and Orchestration of IT Resources

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Including Hypervisors Like vSphere
• OpenStack Compute is a manager of hypervisors
• OpenStack can manage multiple hypervisors
– https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix

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By Leveraging Various Open Source Projects

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In a Loosely Coupled Architecture

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To Deliver Self-Service IT Rapidly and At Scale

29. Building A Hybrid Cloud
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30. • Best hypervisor for traditional workloads
• On-ramp from virtualized infrastructure to cloud
• Customers have existing investments in vSphere
• Customers want best-fit solutions
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vSphere Is Foundational
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Co-existence: Infrastructure Silos

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Best-fit: Hybrid Solution

33. Resources
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34. • Getting Started with OpenStack and VMware
– http://docs.openstack.org/
– http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/page/1/?s=vmware&submit=Search
– http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOPbuXbsHCyr2afbJwu5JAXZ-5peJ0qCH
• The OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook (Second Edition)
– http://goo.gl/URVRbJ
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Resources
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