Accompanying slides to Matt Rechenburg's tutorial talk at LOADays 2013. Setting up an openQRM cloud to automate everything that's painful and time-consuming in running a modern, virtualized datacenter. Please see the openQRM 5.0 Admin Guide to setup your own private cloud computing/IaaS platform for free, using openQRM 5.0 Community Edition! => http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/adminguide

1. Slide 1
Automated Everything
Setting up an openQRM Cloud
LOADays 2013, Antwerp/Belgium

2. Slide 2
Hello, audience! :-)
Matt Rechenburg
Bonn, Germany
CEO openQRM Enterprise GmbH
openQRM project lead

3. Slide 3
About this workshop
o 3 hour hands-on tutorial
o A look at what makes an admin‘s life hard - and how to get over it
o Demonstration: Setting up an openQRM Private Cloud
o Automating it all: DNS, IP & Config Management, Monitoring, HA, Billing
o Self-Service Cloud Portal - Handing over day-to-day operations to your users

4. Slide 4
We all know the technical pain.
o Network Access. DNS. IP Addresses.
Storage. OS Installs. Configuration.
Backup. Security. Updates. Patches.
High-Availability Disasters.
Monitoring. Alerting.
Documentation. Compliance.
o …….

5. Slide 5
Technical aspects to deal with:
o Lots of systems, applications, admin tools and scripts to use and maintain
o Unstandardized HW and SW stacks, lots of customization, „Shadow IT“
o Choosing the right tool, avoiding black boxes, vendor barriers and dead-ends
o Admin‘s best friend - Hardware failure

6. Slide 6
And we all know corporate politics pain.
o Repetitive manual tasks, leading to
demotivation and human errors
o Rigid processes, outdated
documentation
o Inflexible Corporate Policies, long-
term contracts, waiting periods
o IT being blamed for business
deficits

7. Slide 7
We‘re dealing with
long-established complexity.

8. Slide 8
There‘s a way out!
o Argument for a cultural change! Tear down barriers!
o Avoid black-boxes, embrace Open Standards, Open Source
o (Re-)Design your infrastructure for failure and eliminate SPOFs
o Take physical and virtual machines under control - run a Private Cloud
o Establish IT Self-Service for your users
o Automate all the things!

9. Slide 9
Don‘t worry, just take the jump!

10. Slide 10
DEMO:
Setting up an
openQRM Private Cloud
Please download the
openQRM Admin Guide for all use cases and setup instructions:
http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/adminguide

11. Slide 11
Pain #1:
Deployment/Config of System/Apps

12. Slide 12
Pain #2: IP and DNS Management

13. Slide 13
Pain #3: Monitoring & Alerting

14. Slide 14
Want to try out yourself?
Feel free to experiment yourself, using the GPLv2 licensed
openQRM Community Edition.
It is available for download at:
http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/community-edition.html

15. Slide 15
You need to go the extra Enterprise mile?
Automate, rationalize and integrate even more, using the extended
Commercial openQRM Enterprise Edition.
More Information:
http://www.openqrm-enterprise.com/enterprise-edition.html

16. Slide 16
Additional Enterprise Edition features
o LDAP authentication for centralized user management
o Fine-grained permission and role administration
o Cloud Zones – manage globally distributed, decentralized datacenters
o Fully automated IP space, network and VLAN management
o Support for bonding of network interfaces
o Hardware fencing for reliable high-availability
o Out-of-Band management (IPMI) to save power consumption and cost
o i-doit CMDB integration for automated DC documentation

17. Slide 17
Cloud Zones

18. Slide 18
Role Administration

19. Slide 19
IP Management [1]

20. Slide 20
IP Management [2]

21. Slide 21
IP Management [3]

22. Slide 22
Questions?

23. Slide 23
Thanks for your time!
Contact
openQRM Enterprise GmbH
Berrenratherstr. 188c
50937 Köln
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 221 995589 – 10
Fax: +49 (0) 221 995589 – 20
E-Mail: info@openqrm-enterprise.com
Web: www.openqrm-enterprise.com
All third-party images remain sole property of their respective owners. If the use of any
of these images unknowingly offends copyrights please tell us and we‘ll remove them.