When it comes to OpenStack® and the enterprise, it’s critical that you can rapidly deploy a plug-and-play solution that delivers mixed workload capabilities on a shared infrastructure. Join Red Hat and SolidFire to see how Agile Infrastructure for OpenStack can help your cloud move at the speed of business.

2. § Deploy new applications and services faster
§ Provide more agile and scalable infrastructure
§ Increase application performance and predictability
§ Enable automation and end-user self-service
§ Raise operational efficiency and reduce cost
The IT
Innovation
Imperative
…driving the transformation of Enterprise IT globally

3. Public Cloud
Has Raised
the Bar
“The very nature and role of the corporate
IT function is being questioned, evaluated
and debated in a way that we haven't seen
in a very long time.”
- Chuck Hollis, VMware

4. Regardless of the name, desired outcomes are the same
“The
demands
of
this
NGDC-­‐
approach
are
now
being
felt
strongly
by
IT
organiza>ons
of
all
types;
so
much
so
that
one
can
see
data
centers
in
the
next
few
years
either
embracing
such
a
move
themselves,
or
buying
their
IT
services
from
someone
that
does.”
Mark
Peters,
ESG
Next
Genera*on
Data
Center
SoKware
Defined
Data
Center
Infrastructure
2.0
Cloud
Compu>ng
Private
Cloud
IT
as
a
Service
Agile Scalable Automated Predictable

5. Legacy Data Center
Single Tenant
Isolated workloads
Dedicated Infrastructure
Scale-up
Pre-provisioned capacity
Hardware defined
Project Based
Manual Administration
Next Generation Data Center
Multi-tenant
Mixed workloads
Shared infrastructure
Scale-out
Capacity on demand
Software defined
Self service
Automation
Addressing a new set of challenges…

6. Agile Infrastructure for OpenStack

7. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
OPENSTACK PLATFORM 4.0
OPTIMIZED FOR AND INTEGRATED WITH RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX

8. OPENSTACK PROGRESSION
Enterprise hardened
Red Hat OpenStack
technology
optimized for
and integrated with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Support
Red Hat ecosystem
certifications
3 year lifecycle
Bleeding edge upstream
OpenStack source code
Unstable community Linux
No certifications
Community support
Six month lifecycle
Bleeding edge upstream
OpenStack packaged as
RPMs
Enterprise Linux distros
(CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)
No certifications
Community support
Six month lifecycle

9. 0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
Red Hat
HP
IBM
Mirantis
Rackspace
RED HAT UPSTREAM FOCUS
Source: Bitergia hthttp://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno
Top Contributor to Juno Release
! Overall commits per company (aggregated) ! Closed Tickets per company (aggregated)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600 Rackspace
Red Hat
Mirantis
Canonical
HP

10. WORLD'S LARGEST OPENSTACK PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
OEMs and IHVs ISVs
Cloud Service ProvidersSystem Integrators
Channel PartnersManaged Service Providers
! Over 235+ members since launch in April 2013
! Over 900 certified solutions in partner Marketplace
! Over 4,000 RHEL certified compute servers
! Over 13,000 applications available on RHEL
! Large catalog of Windows certified applications
! Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network

11. RED HAT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Cloud Management – Alternative Virtualization – OpenStack

12. ▪ A series of pre-validated converged
infrastructure reference designs
▪ Modular design focus at all levels
▪ Built for dynamic IT-as-a-Service
consumption model
▪ Accelerating time-to-value for operators and
administrators deploying a functional cloud
infrastructure
▪ Supported by a complete ecosystem of
vendors, partners and community
SolidFire Agile Infrastructure
Compute
/
Networking
Cloud
Management
Stack
Orchestra>on
Layer
Applica>ons

13. SolidFire All-Flash Array
Scale-out high performance storage systems
designed for large scale infrastructure
§ Most Scalable All-Flash storage system
§ 4 – 100 nodes, 48TB – 3.4PB, 7.5M IOPS
§ Industry-standard hardware, 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC (Q3)
§ 20X performance of traditional SANs
§ 10X reduction in operational cost
§ Most complete enterprise feature set of any All Flash Array
§ Available below $3/GB

14. Flash for the Next Generation Data Center

15. Scale-Out
Architecture

16. Eliminating Noisy Neighbors with QoS
The Noisy Neighbor Effect
§ Individual tenant impacts other applications
§ Unsuitable for performance sensitive apps
SolidFire QoS in Practice
§ Create fine-grained tiers of performance
§ Application performance is isolated
§ Performance SLAs enforced
Noisy Neighbor
Performance 0
Performance 1
Performance 2
Performance 3
Decreased
Performance

17. Block Storage Built for OpenStack
§ SolidFire Cinder driver enables all OpenStack block
storage features
§ Ability to set and maintain true QoS levels
on a per-volume basis
§ Create, snap, clone and manage SolidFire volumes
directly
§ Run OpenStack instances on a SolidFire volume
§ Eliminates the need for extra management layers
between OpenStack and the storage system
§ SolidFire driver integrated into OpenStack, no
additional features / licenses required
Customer SuccessDeep OpenStack Integration Validated Interoperability

18. Software Defined pools of compute, networking & storage
Operational Benefits of AI
Agile
<30 minutes to provision from bare metal to OS
<30 minutes to install and configure OpenStack
Automated
Linear Scalability of compute & storage nodesScalable
Maintain consistent performance via guaranteed QoSPredictable
Integrated Efficiency with cluster wide dedupe & compression
27U rack footprint - 360 cores, ~1000 vCPUs, 250k IOPS, 40TBs
Efficient

19. Leading Converged Performance & Economics
Modular Design Extreme Density Operational Efficiencies
▪ 70 vCPUs per
compute node
▪ 15 compute / 5
storage nodes
▪ 1.5 CPU over
subscription rate
▪ 40TB capacity /
250,000 guaranteed
IOPS
• 50% lower cost
• 80% less footprint
• 3.5X IOPS per GB
• 100% API-enabled
• Native Multi-
Tenancy
• Cloud-Scale

20. AI for OpenStack
Logical
Framework
▪ Modularity at every level
▪ Built on vendor and
community best
practices
▪ Deep integration up the
management stack
▪ Support for 3rd Party
Tools

21. 5 Networks to segregate traffic
and provide security:
• Administrative Network
• Data Center Network
• OpenStack Service Network
• Storage Network
• Private network
AI for OpenStack Network Topology

22. Physical Network Layout to
Allow Scalability in Any Vector
• Add OpenStack Nodes
• Add SolidFire Nodes
• Add Upstream Bandwidth
• Add Racks
• Add Data Centers
AI for OpenStack Network Topology

23. Optimized for Mixed Workloads
Software Development Lifecycle • Test / Development
• QA, Staging, Production
• 3-Tier Apps
• Example: LAMP stacks
Large Scale Web Applications
Persistent Block Storage
Databases
• On Premise Versions of Amazon Elastic Block Storage
• Provisioned IOPS (e.g. pIOPS)
• Database Consolidation
• Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)
Sample Use Cases Examples

24. • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Certification Test Suite
• Tempest Test
• Deployment
– Provision from bare metal to operating system 17 nodes within 30 minutes
– Install and configure OpenStack on the same 17 nodes in less than 30 minutes
• Scalability
– Verify the ability to scale block storage and compute instances
– Dynamically add compute nodes into the environment
• Resource Agility
– Time to deploy 1000 Instances: 2.5 hours
– Time to delete 1000 Instances: 11 minutes
– Time to boot 1000 volumes as new Instances: 2.25 hours
– Time to delete 1000 instances and volumes: 17 minutes
Validated and Tested Use Cases

25. • Quality of Service (QoS)
– Demonstrate the QoS merits of the SolidFire storage system by showing multiple
applications running in parallel on the same shared storage infrastructure
• database
• file/web server
• general operating system IO
• readonly
• writeonly
• 80/20 mixed read/write
– Allow users to specify the IO requirements for a volume at create time
Validated and Tested Use Cases (Cont.)

26. SolidFire Agile Infrastructure
Self Service Converged Infrastructure for Dynamic IT Environments
• Best-of-Breed Design
– Leading technology across all layers of the stack to deliver a fully featured cloud
infrastructure solution
• True Scale-Out
– Allows for a more flexible and cost effective design as infrastructure expands
• No Lock-In
– Modularity at each layer of the stack eliminates threat of hardware or software lock-in
• Accelerated Time to Value
– Pre-validated solution drastically reduces complexity of adopting self-service cloud
infrastructure
• Guaranteed Performance
– With SolidFire’s unique QoS controls, AI can easily accommodate mixed workload
environments without compromising performance to any one application

27. • For more on building an OpenStack-powered cloud
infrastructure visit SolidFire.com/OpenStack
• For more on accelerating your OpenStack adoption with Agile
Infrastructure visit Solidfire.com/AI
• To see OpenStack and SolidFire in action, request a demo --
SolidFire.com/Get-Started
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