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
Country Type of Involvement
151
124
100
77
Service Ecosystem Cloud Cloud
175 29 28 23 18 Provider Vendor Consumer Operator
Company Size Industries
Information Technology 60%
16% More than 10,000 employees
5,001 to 10,000 employees
37%
1,001 to 5,000 employees
7% Academic / Research 15%
501 to 1,000 employees
101 to 500 employees
8%
21‐100 employees
4% 1‐20 employees Telecommunication 10%
11%
17% Government / Defense 3%
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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
Diablo
Type Stage 5%
94 Trunk
92 8%
106 Essex
Grizzly
15%
On Premise 25%
84
35 Private Version
Hosted
Private 15 37
Production Proof of Dev/QA
Hybrid Public Concept Folsom
47%
Features Components
Nova 181
Dashboard 134
Glance 171
Object Storage 94 Keystone 169
Horizon 153
Snapshotting to new images 94
Quantum 147
Live Migration 89 Cinder 121
EC2 Compatibility API 66 Swift 103
Ceilometer 20
S3 Compatibility API 46
Heat 16

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

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

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

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

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