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Opensource for Cloud Deployments – Risk – Reward – Reality John Gormally Enterprise Relationship Manager Citrix Networking and Cloud Team Open source cloud infrastructure platform Massively scalable elastic architecture Designed for both public and private clouds Open API enables interoperability Technology agnostic and broad multi-vendor support OpenStack – An Open Way to Build Cloud/ OpenStack Projects OpenStack Compute Nova OpenStack Image Service Glance OpenStack Object Storage Swift RISK Horizontally scalable Technology agnostic Standard and extensible API Open source option with commercial alternatives Standard hardware OpenStack Design Philosophy Future Proof Flexible Cost Effective Risk – Factors Legal challenges Intellectual Property Building and Supporting Costs for long term Support and maintenance 70+ companies, 100s of developers OpenStack Community Reward Asynchronous eventually consistent communication: RabbitMQ message queue? RESTful API Horizontally and massively scalable: Use local storage to run VM Hypervisor agnostic: support for XenServer, KVM, ESX, Hyper-V, etc. Hardware agnostic: commodity hardware OpenStack Compute Data distributed evenly throughout system Hardware agnostic: commodity hardware, RAID not required OpenStack Object Storage No centraldatabase Scalable to multiple petabytes, billions of objects Account/Container/Object structure: ideal for virtual disk images, static data, CDN, not a file system, no nesting Replication: N copies of accounts, containers, objects? RESTful API Image registry and delivery service RESTful API Store virtual disk images in various backend storage systems OpenStack Object Storage, Amazon S3, file system, read-only HTTP store Store image metadata in a registry OpenStack Image Service Native Flat and VLAN based network isolation Network Connectivity as a Service to provide more flexibility API for Layer 2 operation Multiple vendor plugins OpenStack Networking Dashboard Volume as a service Load