Frank shares ideas on how to run OpenStack in production at scale and the best practices to help you get there

1. Success with OpenStack
Frank Weyns
Director, OpenStack International

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Frank: Open Source and OpenStack

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10
Data Centers
Worldwide on 4
continents
Rackspace by the Numbers, End of Year 2015
6,000+
Annualized Revenue$2.0B
69 100OF
THE
WE SERVE FORTUNE®
$684M Adjusted EBITDA
120+ COUNTRIES
100,000+
Physical Servers
Rackers 3,000+ Cloud Engineers
#1 Cloud Provider
For the World’s Top
1,000 eCommerce Sites
#1 in Managed Cloud
As Recognized by Gartner in
North America and Europe

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Why Rackspace for OpenStack
We make
OpenStack
SIMPLE
We eliminate complexities
by delivering OpenStack
“as a service” and backing
it with an industry-leading
99.99% uptime SLA.

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Our Customers: (And some of them are real
partners.)

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Back To OpenStack…..
• How many Nodes do you Run ?
– 1 (All-in-one)
– 10
– 100
– 1000 (Also for you !!!! Ask me after the presentation  )
– +10.000 (I have to stop here from Finance ….)

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So how do we do this ?

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OpenStack is complex: (sorry, it is.)

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Rules and Guidelines.
• If it does not run a production workload it does not make money.
• The world of 9-to-5 doesn’t exist.
– So everything needs 24/7 support, be prepared.
• Don’t reinvent the wheel. (But improve with feedback and code)
• Scale matters
• Know the difference between Pets and Cattle. (Workload)
– So everybody knows that Cattle has rights too.. (HA is important.)
• A dedicated team is a must.
– (May be the best kept secret in the world …)

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We don’t want to create this …..

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But This

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RACKSPACE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS – COMPUTE
• Our pre-integrated rack includes:
– 24 servers each with 2 x Intel 10-core processors
– 256GB of memory
– 2.8TB of RAID 10 SSD storage
– 2 x 10Gb HA-bonded network interfaces
– 2 x Top of Rack switches with 40Gb of HA-bonded
uplink connectivity.
• Available for customers hosting their private
cloud with Rackspace in the US, UK and ….
6x F06D (24 Nodes)
2x E5-2660v3
256GB DDR4-
2133
QCT/LSI 3008
HBA
6x 960GB SSD
4x 10G NIC
(X520)
2x Nexus 9372PX
1x WS C2960X-24-

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Or more specific ……

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And only like this…..
Small, medium and LARGE

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Best Practices.
• Configurations, not Customizations.
– Standard building blocks, and properly configured, suit 99% of the needs.
• Try to patch more then a 100 clouds on a night when every one is different
• Make OpenStack consumable in an easy way to your (internal) customers.
• Kiss, Don’t make it to difficult.
• Never forget the workload.
• Step-by-Step
• Sometimes two clouds are better than one (test, production etc..)

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Frank’s tips …. But shoot me and your questions …
• If you want to start/continue with OpenStack …
• Qualify your organization, team and yourself (Are you ready for OpenStack ?)
• Learn the architecture but not the details.
• Why OpenStack? Devops ? Workload ? A complete Vmware migration ?
• Be open to learn and change
• Again Workload is important, and yes some pets work nice on OpenStack
• People are the most important.
• Always work with a partner… And focus on your core business.
• (A good one adds value and not a lock-in.. And we also have partners ……)

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Thank you very Much
Go and Do OpenStack
Have Fun !!
Frank Weyns,
Let’s have a talk or call me at +31 6 41915353