IBM's Cloud Manager product now supports OpenStack on the z/VM hypervisor, allowing System z mainframes to be managed as part of an OpenStack cloud. Key features include supporting the launch, migration, and management of virtual machines on z/VM through the OpenStack APIs and dashboard. This provides customers with a standardized way to deploy and manage workloads across different platforms like x86, Power, and System z within a single OpenStack cloud.

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Emily K. Hugenbruch – Advisory Software Engineer
18 September 2014
OpenStack
and
z/VM

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4. OpenStack and z/VM
Background about z/VM
 A 40 year history
 Supports Linux, as well as other IBM Operating Systems like z/OS, zVSE, zTPF.
 Part of a 2-layer approach to virtualization with logical partitioning
 Strengths: memory overcommitment, I/O, ability to run hundreds to thousands of guests on a
single hypervisor
 Examples of workloads that we run: web servers, databases
 Examples of customers: banks, insurance companies, government agencies
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5. OpenStack and z/VM
Background about z/VM
Linux
vCPU
z/VM
vCPU vCPU
vCPU vCPU
z/VM
z/OS
Linux
LPU LPU
LPAR
LPU
Logical partition
Guest Virtual
Machines
Logical CPU
Hypervisor
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6. OpenStack and z/VM
Challenges for z/VM customers
 No native GUI interface for setting up/managing guests or applications, many customers
were writing their own
 Virtual machine sprawl
 Virtual configuration sprawl
 All system z shops have other platforms as well and they want solutions that manage across
the different platforms
 A standardized interface would make it easier to bring new applications to z
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7. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud and self-service
 System z customers tend to be worried about security and track their virtual machines very
closely for auditing purposes, even those used for development and test
 That process can be very time-consuming
 It also leads to extra virtual machines being left around, no one wants to give up a resource
if it takes a long time to get new machines
 Self-service for guest creation could save time/money, submit one request for a pool of
resources and let developers create what they need
 Of course this has to still have the security and auditing necessary
 System z customers are interested in the savings, but wary of the auditing and performance
implications of cloud
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8. OpenStack and z/VM
Architecture
 Use our existing xCAT support to provide REST API interfaces
 Minimize specialty code in OpenStack, since we're not yet in the community
 Take advantage of system z features (more on this later)
 Build the support into z/VM itself, although the supported configuration is for use with the
IBM Cloud Manager family of products
 Also there was a corporate directive for all IBM hypervisors to support OpenStack. There
were a few reasons for this:
– Continuity and ease of use of different IBM products. We're trying to make our portfolio
more uniform.
– IBM is dedicated to the Open Source community. This means that our Cloud Manager
controller node can control several different architectures.
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9. OpenStack and z/VM
The big picture
Cloud Manager with OpenStack Controller
SmartCloud additions
Controller node
Neutron
Cloud Manager UI Scheduler
Glance Cinder
OpenStack
Compute Node
Compute
Interface to
Services
z/VM
Hypervisor
Interface
LPAR
OpenStack
Compute Node
Hypervisor
Interface
Compute
Interface to
Services REST API
z/VM
LPAR
xCAT MN
SSH
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10. OpenStack and z/VM
The Big Picture
 Currently based on Icehouse
 All packaged with z/VM
 For service and support, you do have to buy IBM Cloud Manager products
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11. OpenStack and z/VM
Supported features - nova
● Launch
● Reboot
● Terminate
● Resize
● Pause
● Un-pause
● Live Migration
● Snapshot
● Fibre Channel
● Set Admin Pass
● Get Guest Info
● Get Host Info
● Glance Integration
● Config Drive
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12. OpenStack and z/VM
Supported features - neutron
● Right now the z/VM agent only supports Layer 2
● VLAN Networking
● Flat Networking
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13. OpenStack and z/VM
Supported features - cinder
● Attach Volume
● Detach Volume
● Right now support is only for storage in the IBM Storwize family/SVC
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14. OpenStack and z/VM
Advantages of OpenStack on z/VM
 Ease of installation:
– Instead of buying lots of extra products that you have to configure, you only need to
know:
• Disk configuration
• An IP address for OpenStack
• An OSA card address for OpenStack
– Installation and configuration of SMAPI, xCAT, and OpenStack is done automatically
 Because we own and configure the whole stack, we can take advantage of data sharing, like
having nova and glance share images
 We can also use system z special features, like our super-fast copy (Flashcopy) for copying
an image to a volume.
 Because we're supporting OpenStack APIs, it means that new applications written to use
them will work on z, no porting required
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15. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack
 System z support announced September 9, 2014, scheduled to release Friday, September
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 For managing system z instances from z, or for managing z from other platforms
 Supports
– openstack/KVM on RHELs 6.5/x86_64
– openstack/HyperV on Microsoft Windows 2012 (R2) x86_64 and HyperVServer 2012
(R2)
– openstack/KVM on ppcon (Power 8)
– PowerVM (via PowerVC)
 Linux images managed can be SuSE or Red Hat
 Features:
– Integrated Chef-based deployer
– IBM DB2 database software support
– Platform Resource Scheduler (PRS) for advanced placement
– Enhanced self-service portal that adds billing, approvals and resource expiration, among
other features
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/cvm/sce/
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16. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack
SmartCloud
Applications OpenStack
Applications
OpenStack icehouse
Gateway/federation
Cloud Admin
Horizon
Nova Drivers z/VM driver PowerVC
driver
KVM
ppc
IaaS
KVM
x86 Hyper-v vCenter zVM PowerVC
Cloud User
UI
Cloud Manager with
OpenStack Controller
IaaS
Adapter
VMWare
Adapter
vCenter
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17. OpenStack and z/VM
Similar products
 VMWare Integrated OpenStack
– Targeted to managing VMWare
– X86 only
– OpenStack support for vSphere, vCenter and NSX
 Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5
– Targeted to managing Red Hat
– Right now, only x86
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18. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack – Cloud user functions
 Projects
– Request access from login panel
– Request access to a project
 Images
– Request image deploy
– Set user VM parameters
(flavors, or CPU & memory )
 Instances
– Start/resume/stop an instance
– Review instance properties
– View CPU, Memory & Disk usage of an instance
– View Instance console logs
– Resize running instances
– Delete an instance
– Clone an instance
– Capture an instance
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/cvm/sce/
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19. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack – Cloud user functions
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/cvm/sce/
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20. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack – Cloud admin functions
 Configuration
– Cloud configuration to vCenter or
OpenStack
– Configure networks
– Configure LDAP environment
 Images
– Import and manage images
– Configure images for user
deployments
– Create and manage flavors
– Present users with simplified options
 Volumes
– Create, delete, capture, attach, and
detach volumes
 User / Project Management
– Create users and roles
– Create and manage projects
– Add users to projects as "Owner",
"User" and "Viewer“
– Expiration policies
 Approvals
– Configure Approval and Expiration
policies at the Cloud and Project levels
– Approve/reject new workload requests
– Approve/reject workload resize requests
 Utilization
– Configure to generate metering records
– Configure billing for charging accounts
and manage account assignment
– View capacity utilization
 Review event logs & failures
 Initiate Live Migrations to manage outages
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21. OpenStack and z/VM
Cloud Manager with OpenStack – Cloud admin functions
Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement/cvm/sce/
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22. OpenStack and z/VM
Summary
 IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack has new support for system z
– As of tomorrow, this support comes with z/VM
– Allows z to be managed from z or from different platforms
 The cloud journey at IBM continues!
Emily Hugenbruch
ekhugen@us.ibm.com
@ekhugen on Twitter
Ekhugen on IRC
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