Justin Giardina & Julien Anguenot OpenStack Summit Atlanta May 15 th , 2014

1. Leveraging VMware Technology to Build an Enterprise Grade OpenStack CloudIt’s Not Always About KVM! Justin Giardina & Julien Anguenot OpenStack Summit Atlanta May 15th, 2014

2. Agenda Use cases VMware benefits OpenStack + VMware A developer’s take

3. Who are we?

4. Justin Giardina ( @jgiardina ) CTO @ iland Open Source, Cisco, and VMware admin for many years Network geek at heart Cisco Champion, vExpert, Technical Advisory Boards Currently in charge of global cloud footprint and technical operations at iland

5. JulienAnguenot ( @anguenot ) Director of Software Engineering @ iland Python and Java veteran developer Open source and open standards advocate Currently building a cloud management platform, API and frontend for the iland cloud aiming at connecting VMware and OpenStack services

6. iland: cloud experts with years of experience 18 7 7 ISO 27001 & SSAE16 global data centers Years cloud& disaster recovery expertise Years delivering IT Services The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers (January 2014) Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Report (March 2012) IaaS Best of Breed Award VMworld 2013

7. VMware & OpenStack Use cases, technology, terminology

8. Religious Debate – No Thanks!

9. OpenStack on VMware Use Cases • Why it is interesting for us • Cloud Provider, SLA’s, Global footprint • Internal operations, Staffing, Efficiency • Leveraging investment in existing infrastructure • Don’t eliminate what you have • Use existing architectures and knowledge • Let developers be developers • Provide services that they are used to – SDK/API/ETC

10. Benefits of Using vSphere for an Enterprise • History, SLA, Support • VMware recognition in data center space • Support of verticals and compliance, i.e. Health Care and PCI • Operations • Scale, diagnostics, performance, troubleshooting • DRS, HA, SDRS, SIOC, OPS, Log Insight • Enterprise grade features for uptime, performance, and management • Fully software-defined network stack • NSX, vCNS, vSwitch

11. vSphere Basic Topology vCenter is the centralized management point for underlying resources and metrics

12. iland Pod Design Repeatable, multi-purpose, pod design Core components (vCenter, ESXi, Cisco UCS, Etc.)

13. iland ECS Pod Topology Centralized point for add-on services Services considered “clients” of centralized architecture

14. OpenStack Integration with vSphere Ceilometer Integration VMware and community support and VOVA Icehouse updates, Multiple Linux distro support

15. Mapping to OpenStack Relationships (Some loosely, this does not mean these are all integrated) VMware SSO / VMware Inventory Service Keystone vCenter Server / ESXi Nova vCNS / NSX Neutron vCloud Director Horizon vCenter / vCops / vChargeback Ceilometer vCloud Catalogs and Templates Glance vCenter / VM Virtual Disks (VMDK) Cinder vCAC / vCO / vFabric Heat Not Native (yet) - DBaaS Trove Not Native (yet) Object Storage Swift

16. VMware & OpenStack A developer’s take

17. VMware stack offering same benefits to developers?

18. Programming the VMware stack

19. First Impression • VMware programming was new to me until beginning of 2013 • Acronyms are confusing (vX, vStuff, vBlah, etc.) • Therefore documentation is hard to find • Java w/ VMware fist-class citizen • Religious debate again • Non homogenous API (acquisition of products, different API types, SDKs, etc.) • XML and old style object model based API (vSphere for instance) • Programming API is not an industry standard • Very few developers out there interested in programming the VMware stack • AWS preferred although extremely complicated and proprietary • Enterprise-limited developer community • Developer sandbox & staging for infrastructure are complicated and time consuming to setup and maintain but are critical for developers: Justin’s profile required 

20. First Impression is Not Always the Right One VMware technology is mature, stable, robust and full-featured API / SDK are well documented, covering the whole stack and easy to leverage from Java based applications API compatibility is fantastic Release cycle for major products is long enough to anticipate change on legacy applications. Beta program of VMware interesting for partners to give feedback as well as anticipate changes Applications built against VMware stack works extremely well. If well implemented, of course 

21. Leverage the VMware APIs: Iland cloud ECS portal Cloud management and monitoring portal leveraging vCloud Director, vSphere, vShield Manager. Billing,alerts, VMware specifics (tools, VDC)

22. VMware + OpenStack

23. What We Like About OpenStack Open and (to become) one of the standard API for the cloud ReST API are modern, consistent across components Abstracting low level stack to developers Interoperability w/ 3rd party applications Pluggable! Not vendor-specific Programming language and tooling agnostic (exit the religious debate) Documentation: Python is the documentation? Culture& Community!

24. Anticipated Challenges Resource pool vs instance-based models VMware vApp & OpenStack Neutron plugin for VCNS (In progress) Ceilometer: vSphere/ vShield Manager Gradually migrating our own proprietary API to OpenStack + extensions

25. Frontend Developers Iland ECS portal OpenStack Iland API Iland platform vCloud API vShield API vSphere API

26. OpenStack @ iland Cloud (1/2) • No Horizon frontend for end-users (iland admins only). ECS portal integration • Support of OpenStack in addition to vCloud Director abstracted out by our cloud management portal and API • Provide tooling for developers against the iland cloud • Saltstack, Ubuntu JuJu, etc. • Contributing code to OpenStack if / when it makes sense

27. OpenStack @ iland Cloud (2/2) In addition to infrastructure, processes, teams, etc. ECS platform to support vCloud and OpenStack: evolution versus revolution VMware backend and low level integration to remain the same Building an enterprise grade OpenStack offering powered by VMware and developer friendly

28. Thank You! Justin Giardina – jg@iland.com @jgiardina Julien Anguenot – ja@iland.com @anguenot iland @ilandcloud - iland is hiring! Presentation and helpful links online: http://tinyurl.com/ilandatl2014

29. Helpful links (1/2) vCenter Serverhttp://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-serverProgramming Resources https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html vCloud Directorhttp://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-directorProgramming Resources https://developercenter.vmware.com/web/sdk/5.5.0/vcloud-java vCNS (vCloud Networking and Security)http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-network-securityProgramming Resources https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vshield_55_api.pdf

30. Helpful links (2/2) VMware NSXhttp://www.vmware.com/products/nsxProgramming Resources http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/resources vCenter Operations Managerhttp://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations-managerProgramming Resources https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcops-pubs.html vCenter Log Insighthttp://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-log-insightProgramming Resources https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/log-insight-pubs.html