UMF Cloud Pilot

UMF Cloud Pilot

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umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk

What is the UMF?

• University Modernisation Fund• £12.5 million from HEFCE to encourage uptake of

shared services in HE– efficiency and value for money as key drivers

• channelled thru the JISC Shared Servicesand the Cloud programme– research and administrative computing– JANET Brokerage, DCC and Eduserv– 4 SaaS projects– RMAS, DARE and ESB– running until end of March 2012


What is the UMF Cloud Pilot?

• compute and storage cloud for HE and FE• infrastructure as a service (IaaS)• designed to address the major concerns of HEIs

– data remains in the UK at all times– operated for the long-term benefit

of the UK academic sector– integrated with the JANET network– lower the costs associated

with IT provisioning

• a ‘community cloud’ for education• built on our Community Cloud

Infrastructure


Delivered by Eduserv

• not-for-profit IT services company• best known in HEIs for OpenAthens and CHEST• web hosting and development for government• 20 year sustainable track record of growth

– >3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services– 115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10– new datacentre in Swindon specifically for

education and the public sector

• charitable mission to encouragethe effective use of ICT in‘public good’ organisations


Delivered from

• our Swindon Data Centre– capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure– modular design– PUE efficiency design of <1.4– 10 Gbit/s JANET backbone connectivity via

new JANET PoP


Hardware

• Cisco UCS blade infrastructure– dual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAM– initial deployment will scale to >1,500 cores, 8 TB of RAM

• Isilon storage– clustered NAS solution with near-SAN performance– initial deployment will scale to 10PB usable

• connectivity– 2-tier Cisco switched network (core and

distribution)– fully resilient with no single point of

failure (including dual path toJANET PoP)

– all ports running at 10 Gbit/s


Our offer

• vCloud Compute• OpenStack Compute• VM Storage• File Storage• JANET Connectivity

all accessed via a self-service portalintegrated with the UK AccessManagement Federation with possibilityof long term tape archiving in the future


Typical use-cases

• vCloud Compute– good fit with local vSphere provision– burst capacity at times of high demand– DR facility

• OpenStack Compute– research computing– undergraduate teaching


Timescales

• now– vCloud Compute ‘lab’ environment for use by UMF-funded

SaaS projects

• Jan 2012– vCloud Compute general availability

• April 2012– self-service Web portal– full billing infrastructure– OpenStack Compute availability– File Storage beta

• …beyond– storage ‘preservation’ tier– multiple datacentres


Pricing models

• 2 pricing models– PAYG (pay for what you provision/use)– Virtual Datacentre (pay for what you reserve)

• in mobile phone terms, PAYG vs. Pay Monthly• why PAYG?

– flexibility

• why Virtual Datacentre?– predictability


Billing

• PAYG billed monthly in arrears against pre-registered credit card

• Virtual Datacentre billed monthly or annually against pre-registered credit card or by invoice– annual tariff billed in advance– discounts of up to 30% for annual

commitment– over-usage billed at PAYG rates


Pricing

• 3 key principles– return on investment by/for the community– sustainability– competitive

• prices just announced• all prices quoted ex-VAT• we will offer an ‘introductory tier’

( but only for institutions)


Concluding remarks

• we’d welcome feedback on:– the cloud platforms we support– pricing and billing models– anything else…

• get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk(where we are also blogging our progress)

Questions?




vCloud Compute PAYG (Linux)£/hour 1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU 8 vCPU 24 vCPU

0.5 GB £0.012 £0.014 £0.015 £0.016 £0.017

1 GB £0.024 £0.028 £0.031 £0.032 £0.034

2 GB £0.048 £0.056 £0.062 £0.065 £0.067

4 GB £0.096 £0.112 £0.123 £0.130 £0.135

8 GB £0.192 £0.224 £0.246 £0.259 £0.269

16 GB £0.383 £0.448 £0.492 £0.519 £0.538

48 GB £1.150 £1.345 £1.477 £1.556 £1.615


vCloud Compute PAYG (Linux)£/month 1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU 8 vCPU 24 vCPU

0.5 GB £8.75 £10.23 £11.23 £11.84 £12.28

1 GB £17.50 £20.45 £22.47 £23.67 £24.56

2 GB £34.99 £40.91 £44.94 £47.34 £49.12

4 GB £69.98 £81.81 £89.88 £94.68 £98.25

8 GB £139.96 £163.63 £179.75 £189.37 £196.50

16 GB £279.92 £327.26 £359.50 £378.74 £393.00

48 GB £839.77 £981.77 £1,078.51 £1,136.22 £1,179.00


vCloud Compute PAYG (Windows)£/hour 1 vCPU 2 vCPU 4 vCPU 8 vCPU 24 vCPU

0.5 GB £0.014 £0.017 £0.018 £0.019 £0.020

1 GB £0.028 £0.034 £0.037 £0.039 £0.040

2 GB £0.057 £0.067 £0.074 £0.078 £0.081

4 GB £0.114 £0.134 £0.148 £0.156 £0.162

8 GB £0.228 £0.268 £0.295 £0.312 £0.324

16 GB £0.456 £0.536 £0.591 £0.623 £0.648

48 GB £1.367 £1.608 £1.772 £1.870 £1.943


OpenStack Compute PAYGLinux £/hour Linux £/month Windows £/hour

Micro (0.5GHz+1GB)£0.014

£10.12£0.017

Small (1GHz+2GB)£0.038 £27.43 £0.047

Medium (2GHz+4GB)£0.091

£66.69£0.113

Large (4GHz+8GB)£0.205

£149.51£0.254

Extra large£0.436

£318.26£0.541

XL high memory£1.308

£954.78£1.622

XL high CPU£0.456

£332.52£0.565

XXL (24GHz+48GB)£1.367

£997.56£1.695


VM and File Storage PAYG

• 6.7p per GB per month (£828.34/TB/year)• VM Storage is billed according to the average

provisioned storage over the billing period (one month).

• File Storage is billed according to the average utilised storage over the billing period (one month).


Connectivity PAYG

• JANET Data transfer: Free• 1st public IP address: Free• Additional public IP addresses: 0.5p per IP

address per hour


vCloud Compute Virtual Datacentre Very Small Small Medium Large Very Large

CPU Reserved (GHz)

10 20 40 80 200

Memory Reserved (GB)

20 40 80 160 400

Storage (TB) 1 4 10 20 50

Public IP addresses

1 1 2 4 10

Approx Virtual Machines

15-30 30-60 60-120 120-240 240-500

Total price / month £440.00 £990.00 £2,080.00 £4,080.00 £9,980.00

Total price / year £5,070.00 £10,940.00 £21,790.00 £45,740.00 £93,120.00


Introductory Tier

• for new institutional customers– a small Virtual Datacentre for two months

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