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Building a Hybrid Cloud
1. 1
The Fast(est) Path to
Building a Private/Hybrid Cloud
Paul Mourani
RightScale
October 25th, 2011
2. 2#
RightScale
• World‟s #1 cloud management system
• Managing cloud deployments for 4+ Years – globally
• More than 45,000 users; launched over 3M servers
• Powering the largest production deployments on the cloud
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
3. 3#
What do we mean by “Cloud”?
• A cloud is a physical datacenter entity behind an API endpoint
• What does that really mean?
• Amazon Web Services is not a cloud
• EC2 is not a cloud
• Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, OpenStack are not clouds
• EC2 US-East, „my private cloud‟… these are clouds
• An availability zone is not a cloud (but it is part of one)
Think of a cloud as a “resource pool” accessed via an API
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
5. 5#
ServerTemplates are Server DNA
Cloud Agnostic
One Asset, Multiple Options
Public Cloud
“Web Server”
Private Cloud
Future Cloud
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
6. 6#
Why our customers are deploying Private and
Hybrid Clouds
Manage rogue use of public clouds
Control Conforms to security and compliance
Leverage existing resources
Flexibility Integrate w/ existing systems and processes
Use specialized hardware
Performance Configure systems to match workloads
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
7. 7#
Delivers Workload Deployment Freedom
Application Requirements Resource
Portfolio Filter Pools
App 1 Performance App 1 Private Cloud
App 2 Cost App 2
Virtual
App 3 Security App 3 Private Cloud
… Compliance …
Reliability Private Cloud
App N App N
Match your app to the right resource pool
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
10. 10#
Cloud Technology Stack for Applications
e.g. Web Apps, Dev/Test,
Applications & Data Self-Service, etc
Application Code
RightScale Cloud Middleware Automation
Management Platform OS Image
Public Private
Application Programming Interface
Virtual Servers & Networking
Cloud Infrastructure Software Cloud & Storage Controller
Hypervisor
Host Servers – CPU, Memory
Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Networking
Storage
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
11. 11#
Uniformly Managed across Diverse
Cloud Resource Pools
e.g. Web Apps, Dev/Test,
Applications & Data Self-Service, etc
Application Code
RightScale Cloud Middleware Automation
Management Platform OS Image
Public Private
Application Programming Interface
Rackspace Region
AWS EC2 Region
Virtual Servers & Networking
Virtual Servers & Networking
Private Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Software Cloud & Storage Controller
Cloud & Storage Controller
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Host Servers – CPU, Memory
Host Servers – CPU, Memory
Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Networking
Networking
Storage
Storage
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
12. 12#
Multi-Cloud Hot HA Example
Multi-Cloud looks similar to Multi-AZ… but there are additional problems to solve as some resources
are not shared across clouds
You need DNS management
Security is an issue as security
or a global load balancer
groups are Region-specific.
Images for cloud servers are
specific to the cloud/region.
You need to copy or replicate data
yourself as EBS snapshots are specific
to the source AZ. Getting the data out
requires a slave sync or taking LVM
snapshots and transferring the data.
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
13. 13#
Easy to Get Started
Create
myCloud
Account
Choose your
infrastructure
Install your
hardware
and register
Launch
Server
Templates
Automate, Integrate for
monitor & hybrid
manage clouds
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
14. 14#
Getting Started and Q&A
• Sign-up for myCloud
www.RightScale.com/mycloud
• Attend the RightScale User Conference
November 8-9th in Santa Clara, CA
www.RightScale.com/conference
• THANK YOU
paul@rightscale.com
Real Cloud Experience. Shared.
Notas do Editor
RightScale manages clouds Private cloud partners enable (Cloud.com, Eucalyptus) Together:Speed to implementationPurpose-built solutionIntegrated technologiesMarket view & business model alignmentAWS-compatible hybrid environmentsTwo support optionsOpen source: Free editionCommercial: Equivalent features, functionality and commercial offerings to that with RightScale & AWS
Differences to clarify from Multi-AZ…Don’t be fooled by similarity of appearance…Some resources are not shared across clouds (images, Elastic IPs and Snapshots)…These are problems you have to solve… Images we have made easyElastic IPsyou need a global load balancer somewhere… or use DNSHave to copy the data yourself for snapshots. You can have a replicating slave in the cloud…Or backups to a common place like S3 (constraint is that EBS snapshots are only good in the same AZ)To get a snapshot multi- cloud portable you 1) slave sync or 2) take LVM snapshots and upload the data somewhere