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IBM Spectrum Storage™ Integration with OpenStackTony Pearson
Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
IBM Corporation
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Abstract
This session will cover an overview of Software Defined Environments and the integration of IBM Spectrum Storage™ family with OpenStack solutions.
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This week with Tony Pearson
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Day Time Topic
Monday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How? (repeats Tuesday)
03:00pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options (repeats Wednesday)
04:30pm Data Footprint Reduction – Understanding IBM Storage Efficiency Options
Tuesday 10:30am Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How?
12:30pm What Is Big Data? Architectures and Practical Use Cases
01:45pm IBM Smarter Storage Strategy (repeats Wednesday)
Wednesday 09:00am New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less Management Lower Investment and Increased Performance
10:30am IBM Smarter Storage Strategy
12:30pm IBM's Cloud Storage Options
01:45pm IBM Spectrum Scale (Elastic Storage) Offerings
Thursday 12:30pm The Pendulum Swings Back -- Understanding Converged and Hyperconverged Environments
Friday 09:00am IBM Spectrum Storage Integration with OpenStack
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One Person – One Handheld Device
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OperatingSystem
Compute• CPU• DRAM
Storage• Persistent
Flash or Disk
Utilities• Passwords• Usage Statistics
Network• Wi-Fi• 4G-LTE
User / AdministratorRequirements
• Does this device have everything I need to run my applications?
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One Family – One Personal Computer
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User / Administrator
Users(Family members) Graphical User
Interface (GUI)Command LineInterface (CLI)
Wizards � Orchestration � Scripts
Storage• Do I have enough capacity to
store my family photos, videos and music? Do I need external storage for backups?
Utilities• Do I need to
control or monitor what my children see and do?
Network• Do I need to use
VPN to get to work? Do I need to filter what sites my children can access?
Compute• Do I have enough
CPU and Memory to play games?
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One Department – One Workplace
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SystemAdmin
Storage Area Network (SAN)
FlashDisk
Tape
Local Area Network (LAN)
Identity Management
UsageStatistics
Users
Spam FilterAnti-Virus Checking
FilewallWeb Cache
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One IT Department – One Datacenter
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NetworkAdmin
Users
SAN
LAN
StorageAdmin
Facilities
ServerAdmin
Applicationowners
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How is Software Defined Environment different?
Applications…� Business Requirements
Infrastructure…� Servers, Storage, Networks
Optimize Your ResourcesOptimize Your Resources
Automate Your Workloads Automate Your Workloads
Sim
plif
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Managem
ent
Sim
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Managem
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ComputeCompute StorageStorage NetworkNetwork
� APIs� Orchestration� Service Levels
� Standard Interfaces� Provisioning� Virtualization
ControlPlane
DataPlane
Facilities
ServerAdmin
StorageAdmin
Application Owner
NetworkAdmin
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Control Plane vs. Data Plane
Data Plane
Control Plane
Resource Pools and Quotas Quality of Service (QoS)
Service Catalog
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OpenStack IBM Cloud x86-only
IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack Foundation
OpenStack open source codecan manage IBM compute, network and storage resources OpenStack supports x86, POWER Systems and z System mainframe
IBM offers Cinder interfaces on most of its major storage products and Swift interfaces for object access
IBM Cloud is based on OpenStack open source code with value-added proprietary features from IBM
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack and IBM Cloud Orchestrator support a variety of server hypervisors
IBM Spectrum Control™ provide reporting, provisioning, trouble shooting and chargeback capabilities
VMware and Microsoft are entirely proprietary, but have a large market share for x86-based server infrastructure
IBM was VMware’s first OEM and joint development partner (since 1998) IBM Global Services is one of VMware’s largest customers
IBM and Microsoft agreement to offer SQL Server and .NET on IBM Cloud and IBM software on Microsoft Azure
“Some assembly required” Enterprise-ready out of the box
x86, POWER systems and z System mainframe Concerns about vendor lock-in
IBM is Focused on these Software Defined Environments
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Software Defined Control and Deployment
Administrator-Controlled Software-Controlled
How is it controlled?
• ProtecTIER appliance and gateway
• LTFS software with LTO tape drives
• IBM SpectrumStorage™ family
• XIV storage system• Elastic Storage
Server
Ho
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loyed
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Industry-Standard Hardware
• Software• Pre-built systems• Cloud services
• FlashSystem 900• Enterprise Tape drives
and libraries
• FlashSystem V9000• SVC/Storwize with
Intel QuickAssist• DS8000
Specialized Hardware• Co-processors• ASICs, FPGAs• Adapters
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IVIII
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Different Clients have a Different Focus
Cloud andManaged Service
Providers
• Focus on industry-standard x86 and OpenPOWER servers that can be quickly re-purposed
• Offer services based on advanced software that can be deployed as needed on existing industry-standard rack-optimized equipment
• Predictable, consistent performance
Focus:Industry-standard HW
Focus:SoftwareControls
• Focus on Software APIs to simplify, automate and control existing investments
• Use specialized hardware to provide optimal performance for mission-critical applications
Data Centers11
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OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers & cloud computing technologists working to produce an ubiquitous Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) open source cloud computing platform for public & private clouds.
http://openstack.org
OpenStack Cloud Management Software
Design Tenets…
•Scalability and elasticity are main goals
•Share nothing, distribute everything (asynchronous and horizontally scalable)
•Any feature that limits our main goals must be optional
•Accept eventual consistency and use it where appropriate
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
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One Dashboard – One Cloud
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Compute• Hypervisors• Virtual Machines• VM images
Storage• Volumes• Objects• File Systems
Shared Services• Identity management
for users/passwords• Usage Statistics
Metering
Network• Focused on
TCP/IP based networks
Users, Developers, Administrators
OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage and networking resources throughout a datacenter,
managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API
Dashboard• GUI and CLI interfaces• Orchestration • Private Cloud
• Public Cloud
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OpenStack terminology
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Compute Storage Shared Services Network
Nova• Hypervisors• VM instances
Glance• VM images
• Disk images
Cinder• Volumes
Swift• Objects
Manila• File systems
Keystone• Policy and authentication
services, users and passwords
Ceilometer• Usage Statistics
Metering
Neutron• VPN• Firewall• Load
Balancing
Heat• Orchestration,
coordinate the deployment of resources for
an application
Horizon• OpenStack
dashboard, a web application that runs on Apache
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OpenStack terminology – Compute
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Nova• Hypervisors• VM instances
x86 systems VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen,Docker, Linux Containers LXC
POWER Systems PowerVM, PowerKVM, Docker
z Systems z/VM, Docker, zKVM (TBD)
Glance• VM images• Disk images
Swift• Objects
File System
Amazon S3or
HTTP
Disk formats: raw, vhd, vmdk, vdi, iso, qcow2, aki, ari, ami
Container formats: bare, ovf, ova, aki, ari, ami
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OpenStack terminology – Storage
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Cinder• Volumes
Swift• Objects
Manila• File systems
Proposal: The File Share Service prototype, in a similar
manner to Cinder, provides coordinated access to shared or distributed file systems. The primary consumption of file shares would be across OpenStack Compute instances.
BlockLUN
Volume-on-file
Volume-on-object
Create, Delete and Extend volumes; take snapshots, images and clones; attach/detach from VM instances
Create and Delete containers and objects – Storing an object is like
“valet parking” your data
Object-on-file
Object-on-database
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OpenStack terminology – Telemetry
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Nova GlanceCinderSwift
Ceilometer• Usage Statistics
Metering
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OpenStack terminology – Network
Flat mode � All Instances are attached to a single Linux bridge
� IP addresses are injected into image on launch (from configuration file)
Flat DHCP � Similar to Flat Mode with DHCP for IP addresses
VLAN(default)
� A VLAN, Fixed IP Subnet and Linux bridge per tenant
� Switch must support 802.1Q VLAN tagging
Neutron• TCP/IP
based networks
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
� IPsec support
� Site-to-Site and Single-to-
Multi-site configurations
Firewall
� Separate FW service
� IP tables support
Load Balancing
� HA Proxy support
� Vendor specific framework in place
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Deliver Management Solutions
Perform Optimizations
Contribute Platform Support
� IBM Cloud Orchestrator � IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack� IBM PowerVC� IBM Spectrum Control
� Live upgrades� Security and authentication� OVF Images� Membership services� Globalization translation integration� QA enhancements� IBM DB2 support
� PowerVM, KVM, z/VM � IBM DS8000, Storwize, SVC, XIV� IBM Spectrum Scale� IBM SDN for VE, OpenFlow Switches
IBM OpenStack Platform
IBM Contributions
HEAT Orchestration
OpenStack IaaS APIs
TOSCA
Nova Cinder
DriversDrivers
Neutron
Drivers
IBM Unique Value
Swift
Drivers
IBM is committed to OpenStack with contributions and added value
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Get It Your Way: Software, Cloud Service or Pre-built System
Proven Technology, Open Standards, Modular AdoptionMore than $ 1 Billion Investment over next 5 years
Announcing IBM Spectrum Storage™ family
Management
InsightSpectrum Control™
GovernanceSpectrum Protect™
Block File and Object
FlexibilitySpectrum Accelerate™
UtilizationSpectrum Virtualize™
Elasticity Spectrum Scale™
PlacementSpectrum Archive™
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage CapabilitiesIBM Spectrum Storage™ family
IBM Spectrum Accelerate™
• Offers hot-spot free block-level access across internal flash and disk resources
• Thin provisioning, Space-efficient Snapshots and Remote Mirroring capability
• Based on technology from XIV Storage System
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
• Offers storage virtualization of over 300 different flash and disk systems
• Thin provisioning, Real-time Compression (RtC), FlashCopy and Remote Mirroring capability
• Based on technology from SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of products
Block
FlexibilitySpectrum Accelerate™
UtilizationSpectrum Virtualize™
Software Defined Environment
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XIV – Radical Simplicity but with Enterprise-Class features
Radical simplicity• Breakthrough GUI, CLI and Mobile
App
• OpenStack, IBM Cloud, VMware, Microsoft and RESTful APIs
Low-touch management
• No RAID groups
• Extreme ease of use across all functionality
• Create volume, resize volume, take snapshot, mirror volume
Self Tuning / Self Healing
• Ultra fast rebuild times
• No manual performance optimization
• No hotspots, no tuning
• Not even when adding capacity
Enterprise-class Software features
• QoS performance classes
• Thin provisioning and space reclamation
• IBM Hyper-Scale consistency and mobility
• Advanced reporting
• Data at rest encryption
• Performance acceleration with Flash cache
• Snapshots and remote mirroring
• Data migration from other disk systems
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3-15Modules
What’s Different about Spectrum Accelerate?
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12 SED1, 2, 3, 4, 6 TB
Optional SSD500, 800 GB
6 cores24-48 GB RAM
FCP Ethernet IB
FCP Ethernet IB
6-15Modules
Host SANHyper-Scale
Host iSCSI+ Mgmt
Internode
6-12 HDD1, 2, 3, 4 TB
Optional SSD500-800 GB
4-16 cores32-48 GB RAM
VMware ESXi 5.5
Ethernet
Ethernet
Host iSCSI+ Inter-node+ Management
Accelerate
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Virtualize Your Infrastructure
Virtual Server Infrastructure
Virtual Storage InfrastructureBuilt with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™Storage Hypervisor
Midrange and Entry-LevelStorwize V7000, V5000, V3000
IBM Spectrum Control™
EnterpriseSAN Volume Controller
FlashFlashSystem V9000
Virtualize
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I/O Group 0 I/O Group 3…
Volumes:Belong to one or more I/O Groups
Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB
Dynamically Expandable
Thin-Provisioned, Compressed
Cluster:1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)
Cache, Copy Services
Storage Pools:Managed Disks from 256 flash
and disk systems
Assign LUNs to Storage Pools
Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)Gold Silver Bronze
Storage Hypervisor – Terminology
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage CapabilitiesIBM Spectrum Storage™ family
IBM Spectrum Scale™
• Offers a global name space of file and object access storage
• Space-efficient snapshots, Information Lifecycle management (ILM), Active File Management (AFM) and remote mirroring
• Based on technology from IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
IBM Spectrum Archive™
• Extends IBM Spectrum Scale™ to IBM tape libraries, with LTO or Enterprise tape drives
• Drastically lowers the cost for long-term data retention
• Based on technology from IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
Software Defined Environment
File and Object
Elasticity Spectrum Scale™
PlacementSpectrum Archive™
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Spectrum Scale – Flexible File and Object Storage
FS1FS256. . .
Exabyte-Scale, Global
Namespace
One big file system or divide into as many as
256 smaller file systems
Each file system can be further divided into filesetcontainers
Flash and Disk LUNs are called Network Shared Disks (NSD) Metadata can be separated
to its own Pool or intermixed with data
Files can be migrated to Tape
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IBM Spectrum Scale™ – Supported Topologies
Twin-tailed
SAN
Internal, Direct-Attach
Shared PoolsFPO Pools
NSD Servers
� Access files on direct, twin-tailed or SAN attached disk
� Can export files to External and NSD clients
File Placement Optimization (FPO) Servers
� Access files on direct attached disk
� Exports files to other FPO servers
External Clients
• Access files via file and object protocols over IP network
TCP/IP
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NSD Clients
• Access POSIX files via SAN, TCP/IP or RDMA
TCP/IP or RDMA network
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IBM Spectrum Scale™ replaces other POSIX file systems
SAN
Direct-Attach
SAN-level Storage
JFS2
EXT4
NTFS
• Works like OS-specific POSIX file systems• No file transfers required between OS• Linux on x86, POWER and z Systems
TCP/IP or RDMA Network
Twin-tailed
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TCP/IP or RDMA
IBM Spectrum Scale™ as Object Storage
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SAN
OpenStack Swift Amazon S3
Amazon S3
OpenStackSwift
Object Store
Object Store Object-level Storage
Twin-tailed
Elastic Storage Server
TCP/IP Network
Network load balancer
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IBM Spectrum Scale – Tape options
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• For Spectrum Protect or HPSS
• HSM client is installed on Spectrum Scale cluster
• Spectrum Scale sends migrations copy to HSM sever
• HSM Server stores data in proprietary format
IBM Spectrum Protect/HPSS IBM Spectrum Archive
� Spectrum Archive is installed on select NSD servers of Spectrum Scale cluster
� Spectrum Archive migrates data directly to LTFS-format tape
Spectrum Scale Cluster
SAN
Spectrum Scale Cluster
SAN
HSM Client
HSM Server
IBM Spectrum Protect (and HPSS) support a variety of flash, disk, virtual and physical tape libraries and optical libraries
IBM Spectrum Archive eliminates a need for a TSM server, but is limited to LTFS-enabled tape libraries
DB
LTFSHSM
Spectrum Archive
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Exploring IBM Software Defined Storage CapabilitiesIBM Spectrum Storage™ family
Management
InsightSpectrum Control™
GovernanceSpectrum Protect™
IBM Spectrum Control™
• Offers Application programming interfaces (API) for OpenStack, IBM Cloud and x86-only environments like VMware and Microsoft
• Based on technology from IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
IBM Spectrum Protect™
• Offers Backup, Archive and HSM capabilities
• Extended to support Virtual and Cloud environments
• Based on technology from IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Unified Backup and Recovery Suite
Software Defined Environment
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Service Class Based Provisioning
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SAN
OpenStack Support for Volumes
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DS8000 XIV
Accelerate
FlashSystem900
IBM SpectrumAccelerate
Storage Hypervisor
SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
Hundreds of IBM and non-IBM flash and disk systems that
may not offer native OpenStack Cinder support
Virtualize
• Create, Delete and Extend volumes• Take snapshots (FlashCopy), images and clones• Attach and Detach to/from VM instances
Scale
Control
IBM SpectrumScale
Cinder• Volumes
IBM SpectrumControl
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OpenStack Support for Volume, File and Object
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Glance• VM images• Disk images
Cinder• Volumes
Swift• Objects
Manila• File systems
Global Name Space
Volume-on-file Object-on-file
• Create, Delete and Extend volumes• Take snapshots (FlashCopy) and clones• Volumes � Images, Images � Volumes• Attach and Detach to/from VM instances
• Create and Delete containers in account• Upload, Download and Delete objects• List containers or objects in a container• Display and update metadata
Keystone• Access control
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IBM Software Defined Storage
Data Plane
IBM Software Defined Storage
Control Plane
IBM for Software Defined Storage
Infrastructure should match application requirements
OpenStack manages large pools of resources through dashboard and API
IBM Software Defined Storage supports OpenStack environments
Scale
Control Protect
IBM ranked #1 in Software Defined Storage with
40% market share in 201436
VirtualizeAccelerate Archive
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OpenStack & Spectrum Scale
• OpenStack (as of Havana release) includes a Cinder driver
• Giving architects access to the features and capabilities of the industry’s leading enterprise scale-out software defined storage
• With OpenStack on Spectrum Scale, all nodes see all data
• Copying data between services, like Glance to Cinder is minimized
or eliminated
• Speeding instance creation and conserving storage space
• Rich set of data management and information lifecycle features
• Efficient file clones
• Policy based automation optimizing data placement for locality or performance tier
• Industrial strength reliability, minimizing risk
• Cinder driver provides resilient block storage, minimal data copying between services, speedy instance creation and efficient space utilization
Cinder Integration
Swift Integration
• Consolidate File and Object under a single shared storage infrastructure.
• Simplifies data management:
• Global namespace eliminates the physical client-to-server mappings
• Ideal platform to perform common storage management tasks, such as automated storage tiering and user transparent data migration
• Flat namespace eliminates the hassle of organizing data in a hierarchical namespace
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Cinder Support across IBM products
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OpenStack Cinder Support in Spectrum Control
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• Support for Cinder driver that enables storage provisioning based on Service Classes
• Enables provisioning for non-IBM devices that don’t support Cinder natively
• New services include copy management, compression and compliance management for SDS environments
• Snapshot / FlashCopy support
• Cinder scheduler support to align execution activities with change control windows
Hundreds of IBM and non-IBM flash and disk systems
BlockLUNCinder
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The Rise of Open Source: Linux and OpenStack
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1991
1993
1995
1998
1999
2000
2010
2013
The Linux kernel is developed to access large UNIX servers independent of an operating system
More than 100 developers contribute code to Linux
Broad hardware support rapidly ramps adoption
IBM, Compaq and Oracle publically announce support
IBM announces extensive Linux project
IBM announces $1B investment in Linux
Linux-based Android leads the worldwide smartphonemarket
94% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run Linux
15 million lines of code are contributed by 8,000 developers and 800 companies
2010
OpenStack project started by Rackspace and NASA as an open alternative to proprietary cloud software
2012
IBM, Rackspace, Red Hat, AT&T and others establish the OpenStack Foundation, today which boasts 9,500 individual members from 100 countries and 850 different organizations
Leading cloud technology companies as well as large ISVs choose OpenStack for their core business
2011
OpenStack participation grows rapidly in terms of contributors, members, followers and community
2013
IBM unveils both private IaaS and orchestrated cloud software based on OpenStack
OpenStack community grows to more than 15,000 people from 134 countries with almost 1,000 developers active in the current release
IDC predicts 2013 is “the year OpenStack goes commercial”
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Source http://www.stackalytics.com/
Essex
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Core Contributors: 1
Technical Contributors: 2
Commits: 9
Blueprints: 0
Projects: 6
Folsom
Core Contributors: 4
Technical Contributors:
18
Commits: 181
Blueprints: 9
Projects: 20
100
Grizzly
270
Core Contributors: 10
Technical Contributors: 38
Commits: 961
Blueprints: 35
Projects: 33
Havana
Core Contributors: 13
Technical Contributors:
85
Commits: 1595
Blueprints: 71
Projects: 48
380
Total IBMers
Key Contributions:
Chinese Translation
Nova Hygiene
Storage Enhancements
Total IBMers
Key Contributions:
Integration Tests
Crowd Sourced Translation
Membership Services
Key Contributions:
API Stability
Storage Enhancements
21% of Nova design features
Total IBMers
Total IBMers
Key Contributions:
Enterprise Security
Ceilometer
Quality Assurance
Icehouse
270
Core Contributors: 14
Technical Contributors: 107
Commits: 1722
Blueprints: 85
Projects: 61
Key Contributions:
Quality Assurance
Authentication & Security
15% of Compute features
Total IBMers
Juno
Core Contributors: 15
Technical Contributors: 109
Commits: 1669
Blueprints: 48
Projects: 78
Key Contributions:
Federated Identity
Block Volume Replication
Dashboard Enhancements
400Total IBMers
Kilo
400+
Core Contributors: 20
Technical Contributors: 116
Commits: 1994
Blueprints: 67
Projects: 106
Key Contributions:
Compute Enhancements
36% of Magnum commits
RefStack
Total IBMers
380
• As a founding and platinum member, IBM’s commitment to OpenStack is unparalleled
• 20 IBM employees are core contributors, as selected by OpenStack Project Technical Leadership
• 100+ IBM employees are active OpenStack contributors
• 400+ IBM employees are working on OpenStack initiatives
• IBM has been a leading contributor (top three) for each recent OpenStack release
• OpenStack is a fundamental part of IBM’s hybrid strategy, and aligns with our initiatives on Software Defined Environments.
OpenStack is Leading the Way for Open Cloud Infrastructure
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OpenStack – Releases
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• Tucson, Arizona is home for storage hardware and software design and development
• IBM Tucson Executive
Briefing Center offers:
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• Product demonstrations
• Solution workshops
• Take a video tour!
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About the Speaker
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior managing consultant for the IBM System Storage™ product line. Tony joined
IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings
on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, Tivoli storage software products, and topics related to Cloud
Computing. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads client workshops to help clients with
strategic planning for IBM’s integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products.
Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners
every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine, and #1
most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published in series of books, Inside System Storage:
Volume I through V.
Over the past years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware
and software products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and
software products.
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