Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud

Improved customer experience for OpenStack and Ceph

May 2018
AGENDA
● MARKET DYNAMICS
● CUSTOMER CHALLENGES
● SOLUTION FEATURES AND BENEFITS
● IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
● RED HAT PORTFOLIO POSITIONING
● GETTING STARTED

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MARKET DYNAMICS &
CUSTOMER CHALLENGES
TOMORROW’S DATA CENTER

Enterprises Hyperconverged
Data center and
infrastructure is demand open,
flexible, scalable software-defined
rapidly evolving are key enablers
solutions
 FEEDBACK FROM IT DECISION MAKERS

35% satisfied with 82% believe investing 95% believe more 64% say
vendor experience; in storage without agile storage organization most
34% satisfied with considering quality of solution could likely to use
solution flexibility consulting services benefit private cloud as
and global support is organization storage solution
short-sighted

Vanson Bourne Ltd: Storage: limitations, frustrations, and coping with future needs, Red Hat Storage Research results, September 2017
 CUSTOMER CHALLENGES
FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

● Putting more power on edge of network

● Making devices small and dense to fit hosted space

These challenges
exist as a set, not
individually. ● Simplifying and expediting OpenStack deployment for
NFVi

Multiply this
● Coordinating lifecycle for OpenStack and storage
set of separately
challenges by
5, 10, 20, 40
or more sites
● Managing budget/procurement with multiple vendors,
rising costs, training, and a complicated support matrix.

● Reducing power and cooling with too much hardware

DISJOINTED END-TO-END OPERATIONAL PROCESSES AREN’T
EFFECTIVE

BEFORE: 8 steps involving multiple teams:

Design new
infrastructure

Purchase Purchase
servers SAN or NAS

Configure servers Configure

on network SAN or NAS

Install Configure Deploy

OpenStack storage applications
 CONSOLIDATED END-TO-END OPERATIONAL PROCESS
RED HAT HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLOUD

AFTER: 4 steps completed by one single team

Install Red Hat

Purchase servers Configure servers
Hyperconverged Deploy applications
(single SKU POD) on network
Cloud

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INFRASTRUCTURE CONSOLIDATION & OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

TRADITIONAL
ARCHITECTURE
● Single budget for compute & storage
Network
● Single team managing infrastructure

Network ● Simplified planning & procurement

Compute
Compute ● Streamlined deployment & management
Storage
Storage ● Single support stack for compute & storage
Network

SAN or
NAS

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 CUSTOMER CHALLENGES MET
FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

Putting more power on edge of network

Making devices small and dense

Simplifying and expediting OpenStack deployment for NFVi

Network

Coordinating lifecycle for OpenStack and storage

Compute separately

Getting by with little or no trained technical staff.

Storage
Managing budget/procurement with multiple vendors, rising
costs, training, and a complicated support matrix.

Reducing power and cooling with too much hardware

 USE CASES FOR HYPERCONVERGED DEPLOYMENT

Edge Edge Edge

CDN CDN CDN
● Edge sites hosting content for
low-latency delivery

● Remote POPs running virtual

network functions
Remote
Micro Data POP
● Micro data centers capturing Center (NFV)
IOT telemetry fo real-time
processing

Micro Data
Center Remote
Metro Data Center
POP
(NFV)
RED HAT HYPERCONVERGED CLOUD -
OVERVIEW
 TRADITIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF
OPENSTACK & SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE

3 controller/monitors + 3 compute nodes

3 storage nodes

3 storage, 3 controller/monitors, and 3 compute (e.g. 9) nodes

plus Red Hat OpenStack Platform director
CONTAINERIZED, HYPERCONVERGED DEPLOYMENT USING RED
HAT HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLOUD

3 controllers/monitors and 3 computes/OSDs nodes

6 hyperconverged nodes and Red Hat OpenStack Platform director

KEY SOLUTION FEATURES
● Full support for Nova compute and OpenStack Storage services
● OSP director as single orchestration and lifecycle manager
● CPU resource management to prevent degraded performance
● Resource management via Ceph containers and Nova tuning
● Reduced minimum OSP+Ceph cluster size to 6 nodes.
● Scalability to 30 nodes (support for larger sizes available on request)
● Container-based deployment based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13
IMPLEMENTATION

Type SKU (per node) End of Life Includes

Red Hat Hyperconverged

RHEL (for OSP and guests)
Infrastructure for Cloud
Standalone OpenStack
(up to 72TB, with RHEL
Ceph
Guests), Premium
Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure for Cloud V10:
Red Hat Hyperconverged
December 16, 2019 RHEL (for OSP only)
Infrastructure for Cloud
Standalone OpenStack
(up to 72TB, without RHEL
Red Hat Hyperconverged Cloud Ceph
Guests), Premium
v13:
TBC
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Add-on for Red Hat
Add-On OpenStack Platform Ceph only
(up to 72TB, 1 node),
Premium
KEY CUSTOMER BENEFITS
● Tailored hyperconvergence for leading OpenStack and SDS products
● Ability to mix and match hyperconverged and non-hyperconverged nodes
● Savings from infrastructure consolidation, standardization, and price
● Smaller initial investment for PoCs
● Easier procurement via prepackaged product, SKU, and price
● Simplified deployment, management, and upgrades
● Streamlined purchasing and support via single vendor relationship
● Built-in reliability from use case-specific performance and QE testing
RED HAT HYPERCONVERGED PORTFOLIO

Red Hat Red Hat

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Hyperconverged Infrastructure
for Virtualization for Cloud

Technology Red Hat Virtualization Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Red Hat Gluster Storage Red Hat Ceph Storage

Use Case Remote Office / Branch Office NFVi

Small Data Center deployments Private Cloud

Workloads Mode 1 applications Mode 2 applications

VNFs
 HYPERCONVERGED OR STAND ALONE?

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure Red Hat OpenStack Platform +

for Cloud Red Hat Ceph Storage
Reduced footprint and overall operational effort Standard footprint and operational effort

Finite set of nodes for limited deployment Unlimited set of nodes for broad expansion

Streamlined high-efficiency for edge computing Flexibility in configuration and deployment at

possible expense of efficiency

Purchased and managed as single, supported Purchased and managed as two

product individually-support products

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SUMMARY
INFRASTRUCTURE CONSOLIDATION & OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY

● Smaller hardware footprint eases power & cooling,

deployment - reducing CAPEX capex

● Single supported stack is easier to train, manage, and

configure - reducing OPEX

● Hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies planning and

procurement

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