Top Use Cases for Virtualization with Intelligent Management

Organizations around the world have been enjoying the benefits of core compute virtualization for years. But it’s time for virtualization 2.0, which is – virtualization with intelligent management. IT managers and practitioners need to take control of the management complexity that comes with a growing IT infrastructure. VMware vSphere with Operations Management can help alleviate… Continue reading Top Use Cases for Virtualization with Intelligent Management

Building blocks for seamless integration of OpenStack into complex enterprise environment

Integrating OpenStack into an enterprise environment is challenging. A typical enterprise compute environment features tight security control; limited user privileges; and a slew of existing tools and systems for management, inventory, etc. In this talk, we will describe our modest attempt to integrate a multi-site OpenStack deployment into the compute infrastructure of a quantitative investment… Continue reading Building blocks for seamless integration of OpenStack into complex enterprise environment

Subnet Pools and Pluggable External IP Management in OpenStack Kilo

In Juno and before, the End User needed to know the specific subnet CIDR at the time of allocation. This made it difficult to automate the allocation of subnets – especially for external or other routable subnets. In OpenStack’s Kilo, Neutron adds Subnet Pools, allowing the Operator to define a network space from which tenants… Continue reading Subnet Pools and Pluggable External IP Management in OpenStack Kilo

OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

NEW – Deployment and Infrastructure Management for OpenStack “The visibility you have of an OpenStack platform will determine what management functions can drive your use cases of the platform” Successful Deployment & Management of OpenStack infrastrucutre makes light work of management functions such as Capacity Management, Compute Allocation, Platform Scaling, Resource Optimisation & ChargeBack. These… Continue reading OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs

Canonical’s “BootStack” offering has set the pace for fully managed OpenStack – we will build and manage an OpenStack on your premises for a low, fixed cost per server. Along the way we have learned a few things about hardware selection, management, openstack operations, and how to evaluate SDN and storage options quickly. We’re here… Continue reading Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs

The Easiest and Most Flexible Ubuntu OpenStack Installer

The OpenStack Autopilot offers both the easiest install of OpenStack but also the flexibility to choose between SDN, storage and hypervisor options from a wide range of vendors. Join the project leads for a walk-through of the management capabilities in the Autopilot – growing your cloud over time, upgrading from version to version of OpenStack,… Continue reading The Easiest and Most Flexible Ubuntu OpenStack Installer

Tacker: Virtual Network Function Life-cycle Management for OpenStack

NFV (Network Function Virtualization) represents a strong use case for OpenStack in the telco space. Up to this point, however, the NFV MANO (management and orchestration) working group has penciled in OpenStack as only a single component: the VIM (virtual infrastructure manager). In this talk, we will discuss OpenStack Tacker, a network service lifecycle management… Continue reading Tacker: Virtual Network Function Life-cycle Management for OpenStack

Platform as a Service (Kubernetes/Mesos + Openstack)

Openstack provides a really good and robust infrastructure as a service however doing Platform as a Service is the next challenge on the cloud architecture. Apache Mesos is a highly available resource management software for datacenters which can run on top of any cloud, physical server or container. Google Kubernetes is a cluster containter management… Continue reading Platform as a Service (Kubernetes/Mesos + Openstack)