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CloudStack 101Paul Angus

Cloud Architect ShapeBluepaul.angus@shapeblue.com

@ShapeBlue@CloudyAngus

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What is ‘The Cloud’

Who uses Clouds

Why use Clouds

Setting the Scene

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(No, it’s not ‘Just like DropBox’)

IaaSOn-demand self-serviceElasticityScalabilityAPI integrationResource accounting

What is The Cloud?

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Public clouds (SPs/MSPs)General public can create or log into instances themselves

Private Clouds (Enterprises)Anyone who wants to be able to orchestrate their environment

Who Uses Clouds?

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On-demand self-service (simplicity)ElasticityScalability

Why Use Clouds?

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CloudStack is a hypervisor agnostic open source IaaS platform.

CloudStack orchestrates hypervisors and network appliances to give control simple to complex tasks

What is CloudStack

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The CloudStack UI

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Lots

What can you do with CloudStack?

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Create, start & stop virtual machinesCreate virtual machines from templatesCreate networks (normal or multi-tiered)Create/manage firewall rulesCreate/management network services such as load balancing, static NAT, VPNs, and auto scaling

More Specifically…

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Demo

Public Cloud

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Demo

Private – Production

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Demo

Private – Development

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Abstraction of Networks, Compute and disks so you don’t have to worry about it.It orchestrates the hypervisor layer

How does CloudStack do it

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Architecture

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Hypervisors

VMware ESXiCitrix XenServerKVM

Oracle OVMLXCBare metal (UCS)Hyper-V

What Can I Use?

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OS

Anything the hypervisor can run (pretty much)

What Can I Use?

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Hardware

Storage - NFS, iSCSI, FCoE, S3

Compute – commodity

Networking – Layer 2 switches (L3 for basic networks)

What Can I Use?