OpenStack from POC to a full production deployment in 2

weeks - Customer Success Story

Date: June 5 2017

Grisha Sokolovsky, VP Business Development

Daniel Vaknin, Cloud Solutions Architect

TeraSky Ltd.

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IT Operations Challenges By New

Demands

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Software Defined DC

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Two different Paths

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SDDC Landscape

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What SDDC Do For Us?

• Agility• Automation & Scaling up or down becomes a trivial matter

- Self-Service for users; frees IT for other projects

- Cloud ready: Public, Private or Hybrid

• Resilience• SDDC “exists” at a layer above, insulting from issues at lower

layer

• With proper design, Zero-downtime solutions are easily

achievable

• Standardization• We can ensure that multi-site environments are standardized

resulting in greater ease of management and scalability

OpenStack as SDDC

• Basic components (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance…)

• Cloud Operating System

• Future Data Centre – API based

Am I ready for OpenStack ?

Customer Description and Challenges

• Big media organization - creating media boxes and

streaming TV application (“TV in the cloud”)

• Long time to market

• Rapid tenant deployment – ~270 instances per tenant

• Automatic deployments with Heat Templates (HOT)

Customer

Solution

Private cloud based on Red Hat OpenStack

Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage

Project Methodology

• Delivery Framework

• Sprints:

Hardware assurance / Infrastructure validation

Basic deployment

Adding Ceph, Swift, SSL, etc.

Adding post-deployment automatic tasks

Running post deployment tests

OpenStack Architecture

3 Controllers, 12

Computes, 5 Ceph OSD,

3 Swift nodes,

VLAN/VXLAN networks

From POC to Production

Other Aspects

• Centralized Logging – fluentd, Elasticsearch, Kibana

• Performance Monitoring – collectd, Graphite, Grafana

• Ceph Monitoring and Administration - Calamari

• Cloud Management Platform – Red Hat CloudForms 4.2

Centralized Logging with

Kibana

Performance Monitoring with Grafana

Ceph Management with Calamari

Management and operations with CloudForms

Red Hat CloudForms

• Manage multiple clouds from a single view

• Self-Service portal

• Utilize HOT (Heat Orchestration Templates)

• Reporting, dashboards

• Chargeback

• Scale OpenStack from a dashboard

End-To-End Software Defined

• Why Red Hat OpenStack? Biggest and mostly

experienced contributor to the community

• Red Hat OpenStack R&D in Israel

• With TeraSky you get: Wide infrastructure knowledge and

skills, Professional Services and Support

• Red Hat is the market standard

Lessons learned from a successful

deployment

• Flexible – Customer can change the architecture during

the project…

• Hardware quality is very important

• Customer own infrastructure knowledge

• Cooperation between customer and integrator

• Working in a modular approach

Summary

• OpenStack also for medium-size customer

• Lack of experience and knowledge (still)

• IT usually overloaded with “Firefighting”

• TeraSky brings knowledge and experience

www.terasky.com

Thank

You