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SUSE® OpenStack CloudHow SUSE OpenStack Cloud helped

transform i-Layer's Service Provision

Gareth Chillingworth

Director

I-Layer Ltd

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Introduction

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Journey through the Clouds

Introduction to i-Layer

Our relationship with SUSE

Artizan Cloud

SUSE’s OpenStack offering

Benefits realised through SUSE OpenStack

Demonstration

Conclusions

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About i-Layer Ltd

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Background

Solution Consulting

• Procurement Services

• Co-Location

• Cloud Service provision

Infrastructure Implementation specialists

Business Support

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Why SUSE for i-Layer?

Enterprise Class solutions

Proven reliability

Broad systems compatibility

Extended support coverage

Implicit Openness

No “lock-in” approach

Innovation Leaders

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Evolution to Cloud Service provision

Historic business infrastructure implementation & support

Early deployments of on-premises virtualisation solutions

Natural path to Cloud for all our clients

Built to address demand

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Artisan Cloud

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Successes, Expansion and augmentation

Trusted first step for many client businesses to “their” Cloud

Platform flexibility seized by client base

Success development of Hybrid Cloud opportunities

● Expeditious delivery out paces internal IT for ITIL-heavy clients

Confidence inspiring platform stability (SUSE)

Performance gains through Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Resource utilisation benefits through Kernel SamePage Merging (KSM)

High VM uptime through KVM LiveMigrations on share storage hosts

Solution growth across connected European data centres

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Artisan Cloud, anatomy of ours

● Nodes

● Networking

● Storage

● Management

● Billing

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Compute Nodes

● IBM BladeCentre

● IBM xSeries Rack Servers

● Resilient and reliable OS

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Networking Topology (Physical)

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Networking Topology

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Network Interfaces

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Shared Storage

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Client Networks

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The Result:Communities of Hybrid Cloud

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Glass Ceiling

“Pets orientated Cloud” intrinsically rigid

Client abstraction from actual VM management

Increasingly overhead intensiveNetworking provisioning

Storage management & growth

Hands-on “managed” VM builds

Liaison as 3rd party with hosted client’s clients

Protracted problem detection

Fault resolutions

De-centralised management issues

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…and errant client workloads!

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SUSE

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SUSE Comment

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Journey through the Clouds

Introduction to i-Layer

Our relationship with SUSE

Our experience with Cloud to date

SUSE’s OpenStack offering

i-Layer’s implementation of OpenStack, business benefits

Demonstration

Conclusions

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Forward with SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

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SUSE OpenStack experience

What differs?

Similarities found?

Build Experiences

Benefits to our client base

Benefits to us

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Similarities

Nodes

Networking

Network Interfaces

Shared storage integration (NFS)

Management

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Network Topology

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Network Interfaces

Bond aggregated multi-

Network VLAN tagging

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So what IS different?

>The sublime Automation<

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Demonstration

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Old versus New: process transition

Demonstration (possibly video, possibly live) of the differences in

provisioning now versus then for our client base.

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Questions?

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Conclusions

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SUSE OpenStack 6 – Operational Conclusions

Rapid deployment through automation

Greater ease of management

Transformation of our client’s experience

Immediacy of resource availability for in-house cloud users