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Hyper-converged Infrastructure for OpenStack

Leander Yu

Bigtera Limited.

How Do You Build a SDDC

◢Servers

◢Network switches

◢Storages

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Need a software to manage the resources

Why OpenStack

◢Agility

◢Availability

◢Efficiency

◢Self-service

◢Open source with driving innovation and robustness

● 250+ supporting organization and 11,000+ individual members

◢Commodity hardware with no vendor lock-in

◢De facto standard for private cloud

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Get Your Hand Dirty

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Challenge of OpenStack Deployment

◢ 5~7 physical machines are minimal requirement

◢Network

◢Storage

● For VM and applications

● Capacity plan

● Redundancy

● SLA

◢ In return you get one compute node

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It only make sense in large scale deployment !?

How about ROBO

◢A full set of OpenStack is way too much

◢HCI is good for ROBO but…

● It’s another system

● Can’t talk to OpenStack infrastructure built in headquarter

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Value of HCI

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Gartner: HCI grows 79% to $5bn in 2019.

◢HCI vs. to Traditional Storage infrastructure:

Less acquisition

cost

Less operation

cost

Less maintenance

cost

Introducing OpenStack HCI

Powered by AIC, Bigtera and Gemini

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HCI Appliance for OpenStack

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Company Introduction

◢About AIC

AIC is a leading provider of both standard OTS (off-the-shelf) and OEM/ODM server and

storage solutions. With expert in-house design, manufacturing and validation capabilities,

AIC’s products are highly flexible and configurable to any form factor, standard or custom.

◢About Bigtera

Established in year 2012, Bigtera is a disruptive innovator of industry-leading enterprise

software-defined storage solutions. Bigtera’s mission is to empower enterprise customers

with the freedom to define their storage infrastructure.

◢About Gemini Open Cloud (GOC)

Gemini Open Cloud (GOC) is a management layer on top of OpenStack to enable

Enterprise IT to improve their efficiency and lower their cost by moving applications to the

Cloud and operate as Services. GOC also leverages our own PaaS capabilities to deliver

turnkey solutions in the area of IT, Video Surveillance, Big Data, and Disaster Recovery.

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Product Highl ight

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True HCI with De Facto Standard

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Semi-HCI v.s . True HCI

◢Semi-HCI

● Compute and storage are in different physical node but in the same chassis

● Compute and storage are in the same node but there are dedicated control

nodes

◢Challenge of semi-HCI

● Resource is not optimized

● Flexibility and reliability

◢ True HCI

● Each node can be compute, storage and control nodes

◢Benefit

● Simple - better flexibility and reliability

● Fully optimized resources

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Infrastructure That Fits Applicat ions

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Infrastructure That Fits

◢Application requires not only local disk but also SAN or NAS

● Solution now is to purchase another storage devices

◢Bigtera OpenStack HCI allow your to provision SAN, NAS even Object

storages from storage resources in HCI

● No external storage device is required

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Simple architecture to lower CPAX and OPEX

Software Defined

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Everything is Software Definable

◢Define your compute resource

● CPU, RAM

◢Define your network

● #NIC, Switches

◢Define your storage

● Virtual disk, SAN, NAS and object storage devices

● Standard protocol (CIFS,NFS, iSCSI, FC)

● IO QoS

● Redundancy

● Cloud backup and restore

● Multi-tenant

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Defined multiple datacenter in the same HCI

Interoperable Between Datacenters

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Interoperable

◢Build a stretch cluster with other datacenter

◢Remote DR

◢Multi-region object storage service with single name space support

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Bigtera storage

SiteA

DR site

HW team SW team

Real-time replication

10 Gbits/sec, 0.2 ms*

10 Gbits/sec, 0.2 ms* 10 Gbits/sec, 0.2 ms*

Recap

◢ True HCI with de facto standard

◢ Infrastructure that fit your application

◢Everything is software definable

◢ Interoperable between datacenters

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Full features SDDC in one single box

There are more…

◢Seamless migrate from legacy

◢Backup/restore to Amazon S3

◢Object storage full context search and

indexing

◢ Full flash

◢Consolidate Bigtera HCI solution for VMware

◢Scale-out with pure storage nodes

◢ Log archiving with full context search and

indexing add-on

◢…

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