OpenStack for the Enterprise

Lukas Lundell, Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Introduction

Lukas M. Lundell
Email: lukas@nutanix.com
Twitter: @LukasLundell
Web: LukasLundell.com
Current: Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix
Background: Datacenter Architect for Accentures R&D group,
Accenture Technology Labs. Designed, built, and managed Tier 3
and Tier 4 datacenters and associated infrastructure for federal
government, retail, and financial services clients.
Nutanix Background

Incorporated in 2009
$72M raised from top-tier VCs
Core team from Google, Facebook, VMware, NetApp,
Oracle, Citrix, Accenture, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco
100% worldwide channel model
Fastest growing infrastructure company of past decade
Over $80+ million annual revenue run rate
Nutanix sells a 2U hyperconverged appliance.
Nutanix 2U Appliance
A building block for OpenStack private cloud

Compute
4x Independent server compute nodes
8x Intel CPUs (64 cores)
Up to 1TB of RAM
1 2 3 4

Dual 10Gbit Ethernet

Each Nutanix appliance includes 4-nodes of storage and compute.

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Nutanix NDFS
The Nutanix Distributed Filesystem (NDFS)

The Nutanix Distributed File System is a scale-out distributed file system

designed for virtualization workloads. NDFS delivers fault tolerance, high
performance, scalability and reliability for server and desktop virtual machines.

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NDFS Linear Scale-out Performance
Scale-able OpenStack with NDFS

A converged platform in which compute and storage can be

independently scaled via the use of CPU- and storage-heavy nodes
Virtual Machines

in the same cluster.

Number of Nutanix Nodes

The Nutanix Distributed File System performance scales linearly as new blocks and
nodes are added to the cluster. These new nodes are self-discovered with the Avahi
protocol and added to the cluster with zero downtime. Nutanix delivers a simple model
for scaling your OpenStack deployment.

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Nutanix NDFS
Key features of NDFS

Scale-out distributed file system

VM data locality
Flash and HDD autotiering
In-memory cacheing
Compression
Deduplication
Cinder-plugin for snapshots and volume management
Nova + Glance integration for NDFS Fast-clones
Swift integration
Fault tolerance and reliability
Autohealing

NDFS is the most feature-rich distributed filesystem for

OpenStack and any private cloud environment.

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Nutanix and Hypervisors
Nutanix is designed to be hypervisor agnostic. Nutanix enables customer choice
with their OpenStack implementation.

Source: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix
 NUTANIX NDFS

Nutanix provides a 2U appliance pre-imaged with OpenStack. This appliance

includes the award winning Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS).
Nutanix + OpenStack
Video of OpenStack and Nutanix.

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Nutanix + OpenStack
Why OpenStack and Nutanix are a winning combination.

Simplicity
The same great platform that simplified your virtualization deployment can
simplify the compute and storage deployment for key OpenStack services
(Glance, Nova, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, and Swift)

Scale-out Fabric
Nutanix provides a single fabric for data storage that integrates seamlessly
with OpenStack services. NDFS-based storage is easy to provision, manage,
and operate at scale.

Award winning NDFS Distributed Filesystem

Nutanix NDFS enables a full set of enterprise storage features including Elastic
Deduplication, Compression, In-Memory and Flash-based Caching, VM-Data
Locality, intelligent Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Snapshots, Fast
Clones, and Live Migration. No other filesystem provides OpenStack with all
of these capabilities.

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Customers who know how to scale
Forward thinking companies whove embraced our distributed systems tech.
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