Welcome and CloudStack news – Giles Sirett, Chairman CSEUG

1. CloudStack European User Group
17 August 2017 - London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett

2. Thanks to today’s sponsors

3.  Collaborative environment for:
 all things Apache CloudStack
 Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
 Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
 Case studies & user stories
 To showcase complementary technologies
 To give a strong voice for feedback to Apache developer
community
 No pitching !
The aims of this group

4.  Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett
 Leveraging VMware Storage I/O Control in CloudStack - Mike Tutkowski,
Netapp/Solidfire
 Policy-Driven SDN in CloudStack – Sigert Goeminne, Nuage Networks
 [Break]
 Cloudstack and NFV - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue
 CloudStack-UI - origin, purpose, roadmap and architectural notes - Ilya
Zolotukhin /Ivan Kudriavtsev, Bitworks
 Monitoring CloudStack and Components - Alexander Stock, Bit.Group GmbH
 Running Cloudstack with IPv6 – Wido Den Hollender, PCExtreme
 Pub for questions !!
Todays Agenda

5. • CloudStack European User Group
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group
This group is one of many…

6. CloudStack news

7.  4.9.2 Released
 4.9.3 about to be cut (should be out very early Sept)
 4.9.x is an LTS branch
 4.10 released
Releases

8.  Networking
 Fixes to ACLs, S2S VPN, Private Gateways, Redundant VRs and other optimizations
 Nuage VSP SDN Plugin got a lot of improvements and some new features
 Database
 MySQL connector changed
 DB optimizations and improvements
 Storage
 Enabled fast snapshots for managed storage using XenServer
 Fixes for some RBD issues
 Fixes multiple Swift object store issues
 Improved VMware disk implementation
 Hypervisor
 Support for XenServer 7
 Support for VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5
 Support for Ubuntu 16.04 as KVM host
4.10 Release

9.  Usability
 Added user defined roles
 Added configurable root volume size for KVM
 Lots of localization improvements
 Added CentOS 6.x guest OS mappings for VMware
 Operations
 Added Out-of-band power management for hosts (EG: IPMI, iLO, DRAC, etc.)
 Miscellaneous
 Use non-blocking SSL handshake in NioConnection/Link
 Added memory utilization to listVirtualMachines
 Multiple fixes related to usage
4.10 Release

10. CSEUUG in Prague April 2017

11. CCC Miami

12. CCC Miami
 30 + Cloudstack talks
 Free bootcamp training
 Hackathon
 Cloudstackcollab.org

13. Leveraging VMware Storage I/O
Control in CloudStack
Mike Tutkowski, Netapp Solidfire
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