Migrating your infrastructure to OpenStack - Avi Miller, Oracle

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Thinking of Migrating your Traditional
Infrastructure Management to
OpenStack?
Avi Miller: Product Management Director
OpenStack Australia Day 2017

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Creating a cloud infrastructure
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Challenges Involving OpenStack Adoption
• Deployment is perceived to be difficult
• Concerns over downtime during implementation and maintenance
• Rapidly changing solution – how does an enterprise mitigate risk?
• Understanding how to integrate OpenStack with existing business
requirements and practices
• Concerns involving interoperability Issues
• Finding resources with the right skills to implement, deploy and maintain
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Where to begin?
• OpenStack delivers a number of services for creating private cloud
infrastructure – begin by mapping services available to your datacenter
• What does your current infrastructure look like? Begin with an inventory:
– Bare metal, virtualized, containers, all of the above?
– Deployment and provisioning; systems management
– Networking topology
– Storage solutions – what vendors are you using today
– Identity management
– ISVs and IHVs
• What workloads should you target for your first phase of deployment?
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Example of Workloads Deployed in OpenStack
1. Software development / Test / QA / CI
2. Web services and e-commerce
3. Network Functions Virtualization
4. Storage / Backup / Archiving
5. Big Data Analytics / Data Mining
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Listed in the order of highest to lowest in production
http://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf

Compute Services
• Multiple options for compute services
– Bare metal
• Ironic (Technology Preview)
– Virtualization
• KVM
• Oracle VM Server
• Hyper-V
– Containers
• Docker
• LXC
Note: Automation in deployment options is still evolving.
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Bare metal, virtual machines or containers

Managing Compute Nodes
• Overcommitting memory
– Can lead to big performance problems
– Not supported under Oracle VM Server
• Oracle Database
– CPU overcommit with RAC is unsupported – you can receive node evictions
• Ephemeral Storage
– If you do not use shared (CEPH) backend you cannot live migrate instances
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Networking with Neutron
• Best Practices
– Use Distinct Physical Networks if at all possible
• Management
• API
• Guest (Tunnel)
• Storage
• External
• Known Issues
– Large Deployments
• Neutron Gateway or Network node
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Storage with Cinder and / or Swift
• Cinder
– Default storage is LVM
• For optimum performance and management you actually need an array (ZFSSA, FS1)
• Swift
– Backend file system does matter
• Optimize storage nodes for inode and dentry caching
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MySQL and High Availability
• Known issues
– Large OpenStack deployments require significant amount of performance from the
backend MySQL database
– Bottlenecks communication between services
– Implemented MySQL Cluster to help mitigate the issue, but it still exists
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Identity Management with Keystone
• Known Issues
– Today UUID tokens are the default, which go into the MySQL database, the token
table needs to be monitored and managed
– Emerging - Fernet tokens do not use the same process
• This will be the standard beginning with Newton
• Available in Mitaka – we will migrate to this at some point
• Integration with identity management like Active Directory, LDAP
– In most cases will require engineering effort to work properly
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Upgrades and Migrations to OpenStack Infrastructure
• Docker vs RPM based distro
– How does Docker help with upgrades and migrations?
– RPM distro involve hundreds of packages and dependencies
– Docker simplifies this from an upgrade/migration perspective
– Allows us to focus on individual services
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Case Study: Oracle Product Development IT
Building a cloud infrastructure to support devops at Oracle
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Oracle Product Development IT
• Oracle PDIT moved 14,000 VMs from traditional IT infrastructure to
OpenStack Cloud in two datacenters
– Goal: 150,000 VMs by end of CY2017 in 8 data centers
• Why transition to cloud ?
– Transforming IT to a self service organization
– Translating everything IT provided to DevOps to self service
• Change DNS name, change network, Add firewall, Remove firewall, storage services,…….
• DevOps are used to working with API
– Supplying an API to them versus doing it for them. A huge library of services with
OpenStack API http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref.html
• Although initially skeptical of the Open Source, internal DevOps customers were very excited with
the rich set of services with the extensive API in OpenStack
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Transitioning Obstacles
1. Fear of failure by many in IT’s internal staff
– Skepticism and lack of confidence: OpenStack is new and it will fail. We will need to
add layers of IT people to correct errors
– Industry statistics >75% of OpenStack private clouds fail within one year
–How it was addressed?
• Set-up a separate test environment, for the IT org only, that they could use to get used to OpenStack
and test out any control plane changes.
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Transitioning Challenges
• Biggest Challenge: Mindset and cultural change
– Internal Customers: Mentality of HW Ownership and Control.
• In the traditional IT infrastructure the Business Units purchased the infrastructure HW and had
control on which HW their VMs were running
• In cloud - they do not control or know where their VMs run. Fear of
– Giving-up control on their infrastructure HW and transitioning from the physical to logical world
– Depending on the pool of resources (that are up all the time)
• What won them over?
• Extensive education on how to adopt to the changes and benefits
• Little change in the approach for DevOps – it is still API based
– Availability of very large and flexible choice of OpenStack API services
– Less manual intervention and automation
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Cultural Change

Transitioning Challenges
• Biggest Challenge: Cultural Change
– Quota
• Legacy: Largely defined by ownership of hardware.
• Private Cloud: Ownership transitions from physical to guaranteed allocations.
– Tools
• Huge investment over the years in the legacy tools used to set up the environment in a certain way
• Transition to OpenStack tools that provide, out of the box, tools which are superset to legacy
– Different than what they were used to.
– Understanding of multi-tenant and how it can be applied to their environment.
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Cultural Change (Cnt’d)

Transition Challenges
• Mix of early adopters and skeptical late followers
– Majority (over 50%) were immediately interested in consuming new API end points.
Saw the advantages of multi-tenant environment.
– However a few smaller groups insisted on adding an abstraction layer to make it look
like their legacy environment (just a web interface for service tickets and a farm of
hypervisors)
• More education, compromises until these groups and management saw the evidence of benefits
• Take away:
– Different degree and different timelines for adoption within different groups. Need to
make a compromise and provide an interim step for some of them
• until they are convinced with evidence from the early adopters to justify the change
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Technology adoption

Traditional IT Infrastructure
• A lot of manual interaction
– Web interface but for creating service
tickets (not self service)
• Lack of flexibility
– Legacy VM was very primitive with rigid
disk and 4 hrs to provision
OpenStack Cloud
• Storage for VM any size and resize
by the end user within 30 seconds
• Cinder allows multiple back-end
solutions
– Premium charge customers can get
connected to ZFSSA for high IOPS and
performance
– Customers needing storage and lots of
storage (majority of the customers)
could use CEPH
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Examples of Automation and New Services: Storage

Traditional IT
• Lead time of a few days to weeks to
provision VLANs, subnets, firewalls
OpenStack Cloud
–Instant self service to Dev Ops.
OpenStack API for
• Create/delete networks, subnets, ports, routers
• Load balancers, firewalls, security groups
• VLANs, VXLANs, GRE
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Example of Automation and New Services: Networking

Traditional IT
• Separate teams and owners for
– Servers
– Networking
– Storage
• Network IT staff knows how to
directly manage the networking
hardware (switch, router)
OpenStack Cloud
• Team members need expertise in
both server and networking to
diagnose issues
– With SDN the demarcation is blurred
between servers and networking
– Storage is also more integrated with
servers and networking
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Operational – Resources

General Comments
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• Elasticity and Demand
– Cloud computing offers better elasticity
than traditional infrastructure models.
• Require more attention to capacity
management to ensure resources are
available as service demands scale
• Chargeback or Showback
– Accounting decision
• Should not impact your operations
– Provides insight into IT resource
consumption to the lines of business.
• Help to control cost, justify consumption and
demonstrate business value
• Staffing you will need
– Cloud architect
• Works with the OpenStack distro provider
and datacenter architects to design the
control plane.
– Service Transition
• Install and configure cloud services based on
design specs.
• Develop operational procedures appropriate
to the design.
– Cloud operator
• Day-to-day management and responsible for
performance and capacity monitoring,
troubleshooting and security.
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Cloud Elasticity, Chargeback and Staffing
https://www.openstack.org/assets/path-to-cloud/OpenStack-6x9Booklet-online.pdf

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