August, 2013

Apache CloudStack (ACS) 4.2 & VMware vSphere

Apache Software Foundation

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Source: https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/apache/projects

Pod 1

Cluster 1

Host 2

ACS Architecture

Host 1

….

L3 switch

SecondaryStoragePod N

Zone 1

FirewallLoad Balancer

PrimaryStorage

L2 switch

….

Cluster N

ACS Management Server

Back Up DB

Management Server

MySQL DB

Replication

Load Balancer

InfrastructureResources

Management Server

ACS Hypervisor InteractionManagement

Server

XenServer

XAPI

• XenServer 5.6 and higher

• Incremental Snapshots

• VHD

• NFS, iSCSI, FC and Local disk

• Storage over-provisioning: NFS

vSphere

vCenter

HTTP

• vSphere 4.1 and 5.X

• Full Snapshots

• VMDK

• NFS, iSCSI, FC and Local disk

• Storage over-provisioning: NFS, iSCSI

KVM

Agent

• RHEL 6.0, 6.1 and Ubuntu 10.04

• Full Snapshots (not live)

• QCOW2

• NFS, iSCSI and FC

• Storage over-provisioning: NFS

OVM

Agent

• OVM 2.2

• No Snapshots

• RAW

• NFS and iSCSi

• No storage over-provisioning

ACS / VMware Integration

• Dynamic scaling of CPU & RAM

• Hot plug additional NICs to VM

• CPU/RAM overcommit

• DRS

• Full Clone support

• VM snapshots

• Improved volume snapshots

• Storage migration

• Zone-wide block storage

• Not Supported: Storage DRS?

• DVS support

• Cisco 1000v? and ASA 1000v

• PVLANs

Compute Storage Networking

ACS Management Server

vCenter