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Introduction to CloudStack:
How to Deploy and Manage Infrastructure-as-a-
Service Clouds with CloudStack




Geralyn Miller
CloudStack Evangelism
Citrix Systems
2


Agenda
• Overview of CloudStack (15 minutes)
• Demo of CloudStack (20 minutes)
• Q&A with Support (25 minutes)
3


CloudStack Background
• Open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, now under
  ASL 2.0 license
• A proven cloud platform
   – Developed since 2008 by Cloud.com
   – Acquired by Citrix in 2011
   – Version 3.0.1 available for download at
     www.cloudstack.org
   – Powering some of the world’s largest clouds today
4


CloudStack Users




 Telco and Service   Web 2.0 and   Enlightened
     Providers         Media        Enterprise
5




CloudStack Deployment Models




 Private Cloud   Hybrid Cloud   Public Cloud
6


What is CloudStack?
 CloudStack is a
 scalable,
 multi-tenant,
 open source,
 purpose-built,
 cloud orchestration
 platform
 for delivering turnkey
 Infrastructure-as-a-Service
 clouds
7


Feature Highlights
• Broad Hypervisor support
   —XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM
• Scalable architecture
   —Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests
• High availability
   —Configurations that provide automatic failover for virtual machines
• Virtual Networking to segment network traffic into VLANs
• Ability to define service level definitions with specific
  resource footprints
• Choice of interfaces
   — Web UI, command line, REST-based API
CloudStack Infrastructure Overview
•   Host is the basic unit of scale. Hosts
    run a hypervisor or are bare metal.

•   One or more hosts of same
    hypervisor type are grouped into a
    cluster. All hosts in cluster have
    access to shared (primary) storage.

•   One or more clusters are grouped
    into a pod, usually with an L2 switch
    (think rack).

•   One or more pods are grouped into
    an avaliability zone. A zone has
    access to secondary storage.

•   One or more zones is controlled by a
    management server.
Operational Integration
(OSS/BSS, Monitoring, Identity Management , Etc)




                               Resource Management
                                                     CloudStack Architecture




        Virtualization Layer
                                                                       9
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Developers Love CloudStack
• Open source (ASL 2.0)
• Written in Java
• Multiple APIs
   – Native CloudStack API
   – Amazon EC2 compatible API
• Customizable Web UI
   – Rich AJAX client interface
   – Built on HTML/JSP, CSS, Javascript, jQuery
• Active development community
   – http://www.cloudstack.org
   – Download binaries, source
Announcing…
CloudStack 3.0.1 and Apache
12


What’s Changed in CloudStack 3.0.1
•   First release licensed under Apache 2.0
•   Support for XenServer 6.0.2
•   Upgrade from 2.2.x version
•   Full support for VMWare vSphere 5.0
•   KVM supported as a part of the Basic install
•   Port 8096 closed and disabled by default on fresh 3.0.1 installs
•   Multiple physical networks in basic zone
•   Assign IP ranges to an account or domain
•   Minor API changes
•   Various bug fixes
13


CloudStack and Apache
• CloudStack 3.0.1 and all future versions will be licensed under Apache
  License 2.0 instead of GPLv3
• CloudStack has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation
  Incubator
• Turns CloudStack into a truly community run project with governance
  provided by the Apache foundation
• Why Apache?
    – Industry standard in OSS Foundations, “not controlled by Citrix”
    – 10+ years, 100+ projects, 800 developers
    – Well-known projects: Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.
• Citrix will deliver a full commercial of implementation of CloudStack
CloudStack Demo


Kirk Kosinski
Escalation Engineer
Citrix Systems
15


Questions?
IRC: #CloudStack on irc.freenode.net
Forums: http://cloudstack.org/forum/
Mailing lists:
http://cloudstack.org/discuss/mailing-lists.html
Email: gemiller@cloudstack.org
Twitter: @cloudstack

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Introduction to CloudStack

  • 1. Introduction to CloudStack: How to Deploy and Manage Infrastructure-as-a- Service Clouds with CloudStack Geralyn Miller CloudStack Evangelism Citrix Systems
  • 2. 2 Agenda • Overview of CloudStack (15 minutes) • Demo of CloudStack (20 minutes) • Q&A with Support (25 minutes)
  • 3. 3 CloudStack Background • Open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, now under ASL 2.0 license • A proven cloud platform – Developed since 2008 by Cloud.com – Acquired by Citrix in 2011 – Version 3.0.1 available for download at www.cloudstack.org – Powering some of the world’s largest clouds today
  • 4. 4 CloudStack Users Telco and Service Web 2.0 and Enlightened Providers Media Enterprise
  • 5. 5 CloudStack Deployment Models Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud
  • 6. 6 What is CloudStack? CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open source, purpose-built, cloud orchestration platform for delivering turnkey Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds
  • 7. 7 Feature Highlights • Broad Hypervisor support —XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM • Scalable architecture —Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests • High availability —Configurations that provide automatic failover for virtual machines • Virtual Networking to segment network traffic into VLANs • Ability to define service level definitions with specific resource footprints • Choice of interfaces — Web UI, command line, REST-based API
  • 8. CloudStack Infrastructure Overview • Host is the basic unit of scale. Hosts run a hypervisor or are bare metal. • One or more hosts of same hypervisor type are grouped into a cluster. All hosts in cluster have access to shared (primary) storage. • One or more clusters are grouped into a pod, usually with an L2 switch (think rack). • One or more pods are grouped into an avaliability zone. A zone has access to secondary storage. • One or more zones is controlled by a management server.
  • 9. Operational Integration (OSS/BSS, Monitoring, Identity Management , Etc) Resource Management CloudStack Architecture Virtualization Layer 9
  • 10. 10 Developers Love CloudStack • Open source (ASL 2.0) • Written in Java • Multiple APIs – Native CloudStack API – Amazon EC2 compatible API • Customizable Web UI – Rich AJAX client interface – Built on HTML/JSP, CSS, Javascript, jQuery • Active development community – http://www.cloudstack.org – Download binaries, source
  • 12. 12 What’s Changed in CloudStack 3.0.1 • First release licensed under Apache 2.0 • Support for XenServer 6.0.2 • Upgrade from 2.2.x version • Full support for VMWare vSphere 5.0 • KVM supported as a part of the Basic install • Port 8096 closed and disabled by default on fresh 3.0.1 installs • Multiple physical networks in basic zone • Assign IP ranges to an account or domain • Minor API changes • Various bug fixes
  • 13. 13 CloudStack and Apache • CloudStack 3.0.1 and all future versions will be licensed under Apache License 2.0 instead of GPLv3 • CloudStack has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation Incubator • Turns CloudStack into a truly community run project with governance provided by the Apache foundation • Why Apache? – Industry standard in OSS Foundations, “not controlled by Citrix” – 10+ years, 100+ projects, 800 developers – Well-known projects: Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc. • Citrix will deliver a full commercial of implementation of CloudStack
  • 14. CloudStack Demo Kirk Kosinski Escalation Engineer Citrix Systems
  • 15. 15 Questions? IRC: #CloudStack on irc.freenode.net Forums: http://cloudstack.org/forum/ Mailing lists: http://cloudstack.org/discuss/mailing-lists.html Email: [email protected] Twitter: @cloudstack