Tag: openstack summit 2015

Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Time Warner Cable runs “stock” Neutron with ML2 and VxLAN at a scale of hundreds of nodes in multiple data centers. Today many who are standing up an OpenStack Clouds prefer Nova-Network over Neutron or, at best Neutron with a flat networking. Reasons are largely stated as Neutron complexity, maturity, performance, bad experiences during testing,… Continue reading Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

VXLAN is a point to point, UDP-based “tunneling” protocol, that enables L2 encapsulation over an L3 “undernet”, while also allowing up to 16 million Virtual Networks. One challenge with deploying VXLAN is that by default VXLAN requires multicast support for Broadcast, Unknown and Multi-cast packets. Often this is not possible in customer networks. An alternative… Continue reading Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

Manila: Taking OpenStack Shared File Storage to the Telco Cloud

Manila is the shared file system service and is an incubated OpenStack project since the Juno release. Manila allows tenants to manage shares, e.g., NFS exports, take snapshots, and adjust access rules – among other things. In this talk, we will present our lessons learned during an evaluation of Manila for use in a telco… Continue reading Manila: Taking OpenStack Shared File Storage to the Telco Cloud

Operating Ironic: Running A Young OpenStack Project In Production

Ironic is a Nova driver that allows you to deploy instances to bare metal servers without a hypervisor. Operating Ironic means you have all the normal operational issues of a normal OpenStack cloud, plus the issues of constantly dealing with hardware. Josh is an engineer on Rackspace OnMetal, a multitenant Ironic cloud. He has been… Continue reading Operating Ironic: Running A Young OpenStack Project In Production

End of the road – Facing current scaling limits within OpenStack

Most OpenStack projects get to the point where some part of the deployment, like Keystone, Nova, Horizon, or the AMQP-Broker restrict the entire undertaking. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to solve these issues by simply adding more powerful hardware. This session points out some of the critical bottlenecks your project may hit. It shows… Continue reading End of the road – Facing current scaling limits within OpenStack

OpenStack at MiMedia: Scalable Consumer Media

A summary/documentary about the application of OpenStack at a consumer startup company with requirements for scalable storage and retrieval of media such as photos and videos. Prologue: The Decision matrix in choosing a technology to fit our business needs. Chapter One: Building a PoC based on a reference architecture and learning the basics of OpenStack.… Continue reading OpenStack at MiMedia: Scalable Consumer Media

Vehera: Storage Made Easy: The Enterprise File Share & Sync Solution for OpenStack Swift

Storage Made Easy software appliance enables business to rapidly take advantage of OpenStack with support for a business ready Web File Manager, cloud drive integration into Mac, Windows, Linux Desktop’s, and also instant access to files via Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad and Windows Phone mobile clients, with full audit, security controls, LDAP integration and deep content… Continue reading Vehera: Storage Made Easy: The Enterprise File Share & Sync Solution for OpenStack Swift