vbrownbag @ vmworld - apache cloudstack (acs) & vsphere
DESCRIPTION
This is a short introduction to the Apache Software Foundation and Apache CloudStack running on VMware vSphere. It will be presented at the vBrownBag sessions of VMworld 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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August, 2013
Apache CloudStack (ACS) 4.2 & VMware vSphere
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Good
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Bad
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Source: https://www.ohloh.net/orgs/apache/projects
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Pod 1
Cluster 1
Host 2
ACS Architecture
Host 1
….
L3 switch
SecondaryStoragePod N
Zone 1
FirewallLoad Balancer
PrimaryStorage
L2 switch
….
Cluster N
New in ACS 4.2 – Regions• Regions hold multiple zones• Geographic Scalability &
Resilience• Management Server per Region• Object Storage Region Wide
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ACS Management Server
Back Up DB
Management Server
MySQL DB
Replication
Load Balancer
InfrastructureResources
Management Server
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ACS Hypervisor InteractionACS Management
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
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ACS / VMware Integration
• Dynamic scaling of CPU & RAM
• Hot plug additional NICs to VM
• CPU/RAM overcommit
• HA & DRS
• vSphere VM snapshots & thin provisioning
• Improved ACS volume snapshots
• Storage live migration
• Zone-wide block storage
• Not Supported: Storage DRS – planned for 4.3
• Nicira NVP support (Layer 2 & 3 today)
• DVS support
• Cisco 1000v and ASA 1000v
Compute Storage Networking
ACS Management Server
vCenter