User and Deployment of OpenStack survey conducted during March 2013

1. Openstack User Committee
Havana Summit
Tim Bell, Ryan Lane, JC Martin
user‐committee@lists.openstack.org

2. Initial committee scope
• Define bylaws [1]
• Define users
• Present user needs
• Present aggregate stats
• Expand user group structures

3. Committee Structure

4. Users

5. Consumer

6. Operator

7. Ecosystem Partner

8. Distribution Provider
or Application Vendor

9. Current status
• Initial members selected (with NDA signed)
• Mailing list created [2]
• Structure being defined [1]
• Collecting data with foundation
• Conducted an initial user survey

10. Strategic priorities for 2013
• Complete formation
• Expand membership
• Form comprehensive view of community
• Set up communication pathways
• Provide metrics

11. References
1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jM
VHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqEToyo/edit
2. user‐committee@lists.openstack.org

12. 414 survey responses
16%
7%
8%
4%
11%
17%
37%
More than 10,000 employees
5,001 to 10,000 employees
1,001 to 5,000 employees
501 to 1,000 employees
101 to 500 employees
21‐100 employees
1‐20 employees
Company Size
Information Technology 60%
Academic / Research 15%
Telecommunication 10%
Industries
Government / Defense 3%
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175 29 28 23 18
Country
124
100
77
151
Service
Provider
Ecosystem
Vendor
Cloud
Consumer
Cloud
Operator
Type of Involvement

13. Common Further Enhancements
• Simplify installation and configuration process
• Rolling migrations with N‐1 compatibility
• Documentation–archive old content, end‐user guide,
problem guide, …
• Security such as SSL options everywhere
• Horizon lacks latest feature support, admin functionality
and more attractive theme
• High availability out‐of‐the‐box for OpenStack components
and VM restart
• Active Directory integration

14. Foundation Priorities
• Ensure compatibility across different
implementations
• Stability/Hardening of existing functionality
• Establish certification program
• Encourage training for different skill sets
• Support user groups, especially outside U.S.

15. 197 Deployments
Type
35
Hosted
Private 15
Hybrid
37
Public
106
On Premise
Private
Trunk
8%
Grizzly
15%
Folsom
47%
Essex
25%
Diablo
5%
Version
84
92
94
Production Proof of
Concept
Dev/QA
Stage
134
94
94
89
66
46
Dashboard
Object Storage
Snapshotting to new images
Live Migration
EC2 Compatibility API
S3 Compatibility API
Features
181
171
169
153
147
121
103
20
16
Nova
Glance
Keystone
Horizon
Quantum
Cinder
Swift
Ceilometer
Heat
Components

16. KVM
71%
ESX
8%
Xen
8%
Xenserver
5%
Lxc 5%
Hyperv 3%
Other
29%
Hypervisors
LVM
36%
NFS
19%
Ceph RBD
13% Netapp
10%
GlusterFS
8%
SAN/HP 5%
Windows 4%
EMC 3%
Solidfire 2%
Other
32%
Open
Vswitch
39%
Linux
Bridge
31%
Cisco
11%
Hyper‐v
5%
Nicira
5%
Brocade 3%
Ryu 2%
big switch 2%
NEC 2%
Other
19%
Storage Drivers
Network Drivers
SQL
55%
LDAP
34% PAM
8%
KVS
3%
Other 11%
Identity Drivers
150
62
33
JSON XML Both
API Format
Detailed Features

17. Nova Scale of 98 Non POC Deployments
1‐100
52%
101‐500
18% 501‐1,000
8%
1,001‐5,000
8%
5,000‐10,000 3%
> 10,000 6%
Unspecified 5%
Other
30%
Instances
1‐50
71%
51‐100
8%
101‐500
9%
501‐1,000 2%
>1,000 4%
unspecified
6%
Other
29%
nodes
1‐100
51%
101‐500
21% 501‐1,000
4%
1,001‐5,000
12%
5,001‐10,000
3%
>10,000
4%
unspecified
5%
Other
16%
cores

18. 0‐10
49%
11‐100
19%
100‐500
5%
More than
500
5%
unspecified
22%
Other
10%
Cinder Scale of 59 Non POC Deployments
TeraBytes of block storage

19. Swift Scale of 47 Non POC Deployments
0‐10
43%
11‐100
15%
100‐500
8%
> 500
11%
unspecified
23%
TeraBytes of object storage
1‐10,000
40%
10,001
To 100,000
13%
100,001 to
1 million
9%
1 M to 100 M
4%
100M to 500 M
4%
unspecified
30%
Other
17%
Number of objects

20. Survey is still opened:
https://www.openstack.org/user-survey
Survey discussions on:
user-committee@lists.openstack.org