Panel: How To Select an OpenStack Distribution That’s Right For You

OpenStack distributions seem to be all the rage these days. At last count, the number of Icehouse and Juno based distributions were in the double digits. OpenStack distributions are gaining preference in the market because they provide pre-packaged OpenStack installers and automation, add reference architectures to simplify the infrastructure choices, and add enterprise class support… Continue reading Panel: How To Select an OpenStack Distribution That’s Right For You

Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health

Monitoring your Swift cluster health OpenStack Swift is an object storage solution with a focus on availability, even if parts of the cluster are not accessible. There are a bunch of mechanisms inside Swift to protect stored data and ensure a high availability. However, this comes not for free. Swift itself assumes that there will… Continue reading Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health

Challenges and advantages of a highly distributed cloud that also heats homes

Cloud&Heat Technologies, formerly known as AoTerra, combines two different businesses. It sells hardware that utilizes the excess heat of computers to provide warm water and heating to the buildings it resides in. The sold clusters run in commercial and residential buildings all across Germany and altogether comprise the Cloud&Heat cloud. On one hand the talk… Continue reading Challenges and advantages of a highly distributed cloud that also heats homes

Powering up eBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood

Powering up EBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood. Summary: eBay Inc. has one of the largest deployments of Openstack clouds and has been at the forefront of deploying Openstack in several environments that include eBay MarketPlaces and PayPal production, development and QA environments. We address the problems and solution we developed in support…Full session… Continue reading Powering up eBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood

Delivering an end-to-end Automated and Carrier-class NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) Use Case

Managed Services is a top use-case for which all global telcos want to improve operational efficiency and accelerate time-to-market. However, there are challenges in simplifying and automating end-to-end service delivery, including secure Day-0 provisioning of the customer premise devices, pervasive and secure connectivity to the data centers / POPs / COs, and elastic scaling and… Continue reading Delivering an end-to-end Automated and Carrier-class NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) Use Case

Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Time Warner Cable runs “stock” Neutron with ML2 and VxLAN at a scale of hundreds of nodes in multiple data centers. Today many who are standing up an OpenStack Clouds prefer Nova-Network over Neutron or, at best Neutron with a flat networking. Reasons are largely stated as Neutron complexity, maturity, performance, bad experiences during testing,… Continue reading Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

VXLAN is a point to point, UDP-based “tunneling” protocol, that enables L2 encapsulation over an L3 “undernet”, while also allowing up to 16 million Virtual Networks. One challenge with deploying VXLAN is that by default VXLAN requires multicast support for Broadcast, Unknown and Multi-cast packets. Often this is not possible in customer networks. An alternative… Continue reading Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node