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Madan Ganesh Velayudham Founder, CEO ActOnMagic

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Prescriptive Analytics for Apache CloudStack

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+Agenda

n  Introduction

n  Different Stages of Analytics

n  Cloudstack Community’s concerns (2014)

n  Demo Time n  Intelligent Performance Tagging

n  Capacity Planning

n  Usage Analytics

n  Q & A

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2014

+n  when something happened. it is hard to figure out whats happening via

reading management-server.log

n  User Interface for service providers

n  Would be nice to have some guidelines on what parts are necessary to monitor, and how to monitor.

n  Is there really Amazon EC2/S3 API support? For some reason the interaction with my billing system (…) and the CloudStack API is extremely slow and very CPU intensive (a few minutes to generate a single invoice for one month). I am not sure if it will scale.

n  The error logs are to hard to parse and find what's wrong with the environment

n  * Backup and Recovery of VMs in CloudStack is very inconsistent and slow on KVM. * Need java applet style uploads into CloudStack stores (something like vCloud) * Logging and control of the underlying infrastructure is immature * Needs progress bars in UI for longer running tasks with details displayed * Bunch of other stuff that could be improved .....

Cloudstack Customers Said!

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n  Monitoring of virtual machines Integrated performance monitoring of virtual machines and physical hosts.

n  usage monitoring, graphs, UI customization

n  Console Proxy needs to be faster. I hear this all the time from our customers. Automated Zone failover and/or Region failover has been another big - repeated request. Better monitoring, down to the VM level.

Cloudstack Customers Said!

+ Different Stages of Analytics

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What is my churn rate? What is the co-relation between VM life-cycle and Storage lifecycle? What is my capacity utilization? What are my zero-revenue making storage and compute products? Am I on track with my revenue numbers? Who are my valuable customers?

Why did a customer leave? Why did the CloudStack go down? Why did we run out of capacity? Why do we have so many un-utilized hosts?

What will happen to our capacity if we want to double of customers? What will happen if I change my product price? What will happen if I remove a server from the pool?

What should I do to increase my profit margin? What should I do to save 20% cost on my infrastructure? What should I do to keep my customer happy? What should I do to avoid a system down?

In the context of CloudStack

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+Demo Time

n  Intelligent Performance Tagging

n  Capacity Planning

n  Usage Analytics

+Prescriptions…

+VM Performance Monitoring & Tagging

+Service Provider View

+Detailed Usage

+What-if Analysis

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