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Openstack For The Enterprise: Lukas Lundell, Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Nutanix sells a 2U hyperconverged appliance that provides both compute and storage resources for running OpenStack. The appliance includes SSDs and HDDs for storage, as well as CPUs and RAM for compute. It uses Nutanix's Distributed File System (NDFS) to provide a scalable storage fabric for OpenStack services like Glance, Nova, Cinder and Swift. NDFS offers features like data locality, flash/HDD tiering, caching, deduplication, and integration with OpenStack volume and image management. According to Nutanix, their solution simplifies OpenStack deployment while providing scalability, high performance storage, and flexibility to run on various hypervisors.

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Openstack For The Enterprise: Lukas Lundell, Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Nutanix sells a 2U hyperconverged appliance that provides both compute and storage resources for running OpenStack. The appliance includes SSDs and HDDs for storage, as well as CPUs and RAM for compute. It uses Nutanix's Distributed File System (NDFS) to provide a scalable storage fabric for OpenStack services like Glance, Nova, Cinder and Swift. NDFS offers features like data locality, flash/HDD tiering, caching, deduplication, and integration with OpenStack volume and image management. According to Nutanix, their solution simplifies OpenStack deployment while providing scalability, high performance storage, and flexibility to run on various hypervisors.

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OpenStack for the Enterprise

Lukas Lundell, Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix


Introduction

Lukas M. Lundell
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @LukasLundell
Web: LukasLundell.com
Current: Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix
Background: Datacenter Architect for Accenture’s 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

Storage
8x 400GB SSDs
16x 1TB HDDs
4x virtualized storage controllers

Compute
4x Independent server compute nodes
8x Intel CPUs (64 cores)
Up to 1TB of RAM
1 2 3 4
Network
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 who’ve embraced our distributed systems tech.
Thank You!

Please come visit our booth to ask any questions


and learn more.
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