In this talk, Vladi looks at the new Volume encryption option (due in CloudStack 4.18). He presents the new ability to use encrypted root and data volumes on different storage types, the benefits and the current limitations of the implementation.
Vladimir Petrov is a QA engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. He is using and testing Apache CloudStack for almost 3 years now. Currently working as a QA Engineer in ShapeBlue.
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CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 took place on 14th-16th November in Sofia, Bulgaria and virtually. The day saw a hybrid get-together of the global CloudStack community hosting 370 attendees. The event hosted 43 sessions from leading CloudStack experts, users and skilful engineers from the open-source world, which included: technical talks, user stories, new features and integrations presentations and more.
Mitigating Common CloudStack Instance Deployment FailuresShapeBlue
Session Description:
A discussion on the common failures when using CloudStack taking instance deployment as an example. The session includes 15 specific failure scenarios, their causes, and possible mitigation steps.
Speaker Bio:
For work, Jithin is a cloud architect at ShapeBlue. Jithin has helped organisations around the globe use commercial distributions of Apache CloudStack in the past 10 years.
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On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.
Cloud stack networking shapeblue technical deep diveShapeBlue
This document provides a technical deep dive into CloudStack networking. It describes the different physical networks in CloudStack including the management, public, guest, and storage networks. It explains basic and advanced networking configurations, security groups, network service providers, and the use of Citrix NetScaler for elastic IP and load balancing. Virtual private clouds (VPCs) and site-to-site VPN configurations are also covered. The document concludes with a discussion of future software defined networking integrations.
VMware ESXi - Intel and Qlogic NIC throughput difference v0.6David Pasek
We are observing different network throughputs on Intel X710 NICs and QLogic FastLinQ QL41xxx NIC. ESXi hardware supports NIC hardware offloading and queueing on 10Gb, 25Gb, 40Gb and 100Gb NIC adapters. Multiple hardware queues per NIC interface (vmnic) and multiple software threads on ESXi VMkernel is depicted and documented in this paper which may or may not be the root cause of the observed problem. The key objective of this document is to clearly document and collect NIC information on two specific Network Adapters and do a comparison to find the difference or at least root cause hypothesis for further troubleshooting.
KVM High Availability Regardless of Storage - Gabriel Brascher, VP of Apache ...ShapeBlue
Having High Availability enabled for KVM Hosts can improve greatly the QoS by handling (fence/recover) a problematic Host as well as re-starting its stopped VMs on healthy hosts. However, there is a limitation on CloudStack HA for KVM; it relies mainly on NFS heartbeat script checks. This Talk illustrates how CloudStack HA works for KVM hosts and it presents a way of improving its implementation in a way that KVM HA works with any storage system pluggable on KVM, not just NFS.
About Gabriel Brasher - https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/
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CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
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About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
CloudStack - Top 5 Technical Issues and TroubleshootingShapeBlue
Cloudstack Top 5 technical issues and troubleshooting. Cloudstack is a mature product in use by companies world-wide. While being associated with CloudStack development for over 5 years, Abhi has come across some technical issues that once in a while affect the CloudStack deployment. This presentation is an effort to put together top 5 such issues, analyze their symptoms, see them from CloudStack architecture perspective and from the distributed nature of cloud orchestration, then look at ways to avoid them and finally be able to troubleshoot if they occur.
VMware NSX provides a platform for deployment of software-defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) services across physical network devices in a way that is analogous to server virtualization.
Introduction to the Container Network Interface (CNI)Weaveworks
CNI, the Container Network Interface, is a standard API between container runtimes and container network implementations. These slides are from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Webinar, and explain what CNI is, how you use it, and what lies ahead on the roadmap.
This document summarizes CloudStack networking features and architecture. CloudStack provides orchestration of network services like IPAM, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and VPN. It supports various network isolation techniques including VLANs, L3 isolation, and overlay networks. The CloudStack virtual router provides default network services, and external devices can also be integrated. CloudStack networking supports advanced configurations including multi-tier networks, bring your own services, and software defined networking.
This document discusses clustering, high availability (HA), and software-defined networking (SDN) using Proxmox. It provides steps for breaking a Proxmox cluster and removing nodes. It also covers configuring HA using ZFS and Ceph storage pools, monitoring Ceph, and using Open vSwitch for SDN. The document proposes an SDN architecture with Proxmox involving core, inside, and EVPN zones connected via VXLAN and VLAN networks.
Red Hat OpenShift 4 allows for automated and customized deployments. The Full Stack Automation method fully automates installation and updates of both the OpenShift platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS host operating system. The Pre-existing Infrastructure method allows OpenShift to be deployed on user-managed infrastructure, where the customer provisions resources like load balancers and DNS. Both methods use the openshift-install tool to generate ignition configs and monitor the cluster deployment.
How To Monetise & Bill CloudStack - A Practical Open ApproachShapeBlue
This document outlines a presentation on monetizing and billing for CloudStack. It discusses what resources can be monetized in CloudStack including VMs, networks, storage, and services. It also covers possible billing models and processes including subscription, metering usage, rating usage, invoicing, payments, and dunning. The presentation provides examples of how to map resources to plans, collect usage data from CloudStack, and apply rates to generate invoices.
CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform that allows users to manage their infrastructure as an automated system. It provides self-service access to computing resources like servers, storage, and networking via a web interface. CloudStack supports multiple hypervisors and public/private cloud deployment strategies. The core components include hosts, primary storage, clusters, pods, networks, secondary storage, and zones which are managed by CloudStack servers.
This document discusses KVM virtualization and why it is considered the best platform. It states that KVM provides high performance, strong security through EAL4+ certification and SE Linux, and can save customers up to 70% on costs compared to other solutions. It also supports various operating systems and works with Red Hat products like OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing virtualization. Charts are included showing KVM outperforming VMware on benchmark tests using different CPU core counts.
Overview of Distributed Virtual Router (DVR) in Openstack/Neutronvivekkonnect
The document discusses distributed virtual routers (DVR) in OpenStack Neutron. It describes the high-level architecture of DVR, which distributes routing functions from network nodes to compute nodes to improve performance and scalability compared to legacy centralized routing. Key aspects covered include east-west and north-south routing mechanisms, configuration, agent operation modes, database extensions, scheduling, and support for services. Plans are outlined for enhancing DVR in upcoming OpenStack releases.
This document summarizes a workshop about using CloudInit to bootstrap cloud instances. CloudInit allows giving instances a user-data file on first start that can configure the instance. Examples shown include setting hostname, importing SSH keys, installing packages, executing scripts. The document provides advice to use existing recipes or write your own scripts in YAML or other languages to declare configuration.
ASA Firepower NGFW Update and Deployment ScenariosCisco Canada
This session will focus on typical deployment scenarios for the Adaptive Security Appliance family running FirePower Services. Also, a feature overview and comparison of the ASA with Firepower services and the new Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) image will be included with updates on the new Firepower hardware platform. Deployment use cases will include Internet Edge, various segmentation scenarios, and VPN. A configuration walk-through and accepted best practices will be covered. This session is designed for existing ASA customers and targets the security and network engineer. They will learn the benefit of a FirePower NGFW in network edge and Internet use cases
Full recorded presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfAgCSKPZo for Tetrate Tech Talks on 2022/05/13.
Envoy's support for Kafka protocol, in form of broker-filter and mesh-filter.
Contents:
- overview of Kafka (usecases, partitioning, producer/consumer, protocol);
- proxying Kafka (non-Envoy specific);
- proxying Kafka with Envoy;
- handling Kafka protocol in Envoy;
- Kafka-broker-filter for per-connection proxying;
- Kafka-mesh-filter to provide front proxy for multiple Kafka clusters.
References:
- https://adam-kotwasinski.medium.com/deploying-envoy-and-kafka-8aa7513ec0a0
- https://adam-kotwasinski.medium.com/kafka-mesh-filter-in-envoy-a70b3aefcdef
Session Description:
An early overview of the upcoming new and exciting features and improvements in the next major LTS release of CloudStack, 4.19. Abhishek Kumar, who will be acting as the release manager for the CloudStack 4.19, gives a quick recap of the major additions in the previous LTS release - 4.18.0, discusses the timeline for the 4.19.0 release and talks about the planned and expected new features in the upcoming release.
Speaker Bio:
Abhishek is a committer of the Apache CloudStack project and has worked on the notable features such as VM ingestion, CloudStack Kubernetes Service, IPv6 support, etc. He works as a Software Engineer at ShapeBlue.
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On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.
Session on CloudStack, intended for new users to CloudStack, provides an overview to varied audience levels information on usages, use cases, deployment and its architecture.
This document discusses rolling upgrades in OpenStack. It begins with an overview of rolling upgrades and how they allow distributed systems to be upgraded with minimal downtime. It then discusses sensitive points to consider for OpenStack rolling upgrades, including API and message queue version changes, database schema changes, and enabling communication between different service versions. Specific rolling upgrade processes are covered for KeyStone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, and Cinder. The document emphasizes upgrading components one by one to minimize impact and maintain service availability throughout the upgrade.
This document provides an overview and introduction to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses the VSAN architecture which uses SSDs for caching and HDDs for storage. It also covers how VSAN can be configured through storage policies assigned at the VM level. The document outlines how VSAN provides a software-defined storage solution that is hardware agnostic and can elastically scale storage performance and capacity by adding servers and disks.
Vitastor is a fast and simple Ceph-like block storage solution that aims to maximize performance for SSDs and NVMEs. It focuses on block storage with fixed-size blocks rather than Ceph's object storage model. Vitastor uses a monitor, Etcd, and OSDs like Ceph but without a separate CRUSH layer and with monitors that do not store data. It supports technologies like RDMA for low latency and high throughput. The presenter's experiments showed Vitastor had improved performance over Ceph in some tests but also experienced some integration and operational issues.
Tutorial: Using GoBGP as an IXP connecting routerShu Sugimoto
- Show you how GoBGP can be used as a software router in conjunction with quagga
- (Tutorial) Walk through the setup of IXP connecting router using GoBGP
Linux offers an extensive selection of programmable and configurable networking components from traditional bridges, encryption, to container optimized layer 2/3 devices, link aggregation, tunneling, several classification and filtering languages all the way up to full SDN components. This talk will provide an overview of many Linux networking components covering the Linux bridge, IPVLAN, MACVLAN, MACVTAP, Bonding/Team, OVS, classification & queueing, tunnel types, hidden routing tricks, IPSec, VTI, VRF and many others.
Secure Multi Tenant Cloud with OpenContrailPriti Desai
Building a secure multi-tenant cloud necessitates proper tenant isolation and access control. Key network and security functions must scale independently based on the dynamic resource requirements across each tenant. Additionally, On-demand and self-service provisioning are required for achieving operational efficiencies. Robust, dynamic and elastic software abstractions are imperative to support applications built to run such complex environments.
This slide deck covers:
• Architectural design choices
• Implementation blueprints
• Operational best practices
that have been made to build OpenStack cloud at Symantec.
Network Services provides concise summaries of key AWS networking services:
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows users to define their own virtual network space within AWS. A VPC Peer connects two VPCs privately. VPC Endpoints allow private connections between VPCs and supported AWS services.
Route53 is AWS's DNS service. Direct Connect provides dedicated private connectivity between on-premises networks and AWS.
CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that caches and delivers content globally via an edge network for fast performance. Configuring CloudFront involves specifying origins like S3 buckets and distributing files to edge locations worldwide.
This document summarizes CloudStack networking features and architecture. CloudStack provides orchestration of network services like IPAM, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and VPN. It supports various network isolation techniques including VLANs, L3 isolation, and overlay networks. The CloudStack virtual router provides default network services, and external devices can also be integrated. CloudStack networking supports advanced configurations including multi-tier networks, bring your own services, and software defined networking.
This document discusses clustering, high availability (HA), and software-defined networking (SDN) using Proxmox. It provides steps for breaking a Proxmox cluster and removing nodes. It also covers configuring HA using ZFS and Ceph storage pools, monitoring Ceph, and using Open vSwitch for SDN. The document proposes an SDN architecture with Proxmox involving core, inside, and EVPN zones connected via VXLAN and VLAN networks.
Red Hat OpenShift 4 allows for automated and customized deployments. The Full Stack Automation method fully automates installation and updates of both the OpenShift platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS host operating system. The Pre-existing Infrastructure method allows OpenShift to be deployed on user-managed infrastructure, where the customer provisions resources like load balancers and DNS. Both methods use the openshift-install tool to generate ignition configs and monitor the cluster deployment.
How To Monetise & Bill CloudStack - A Practical Open ApproachShapeBlue
This document outlines a presentation on monetizing and billing for CloudStack. It discusses what resources can be monetized in CloudStack including VMs, networks, storage, and services. It also covers possible billing models and processes including subscription, metering usage, rating usage, invoicing, payments, and dunning. The presentation provides examples of how to map resources to plans, collect usage data from CloudStack, and apply rates to generate invoices.
CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform that allows users to manage their infrastructure as an automated system. It provides self-service access to computing resources like servers, storage, and networking via a web interface. CloudStack supports multiple hypervisors and public/private cloud deployment strategies. The core components include hosts, primary storage, clusters, pods, networks, secondary storage, and zones which are managed by CloudStack servers.
This document discusses KVM virtualization and why it is considered the best platform. It states that KVM provides high performance, strong security through EAL4+ certification and SE Linux, and can save customers up to 70% on costs compared to other solutions. It also supports various operating systems and works with Red Hat products like OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing virtualization. Charts are included showing KVM outperforming VMware on benchmark tests using different CPU core counts.
Overview of Distributed Virtual Router (DVR) in Openstack/Neutronvivekkonnect
The document discusses distributed virtual routers (DVR) in OpenStack Neutron. It describes the high-level architecture of DVR, which distributes routing functions from network nodes to compute nodes to improve performance and scalability compared to legacy centralized routing. Key aspects covered include east-west and north-south routing mechanisms, configuration, agent operation modes, database extensions, scheduling, and support for services. Plans are outlined for enhancing DVR in upcoming OpenStack releases.
This document summarizes a workshop about using CloudInit to bootstrap cloud instances. CloudInit allows giving instances a user-data file on first start that can configure the instance. Examples shown include setting hostname, importing SSH keys, installing packages, executing scripts. The document provides advice to use existing recipes or write your own scripts in YAML or other languages to declare configuration.
ASA Firepower NGFW Update and Deployment ScenariosCisco Canada
This session will focus on typical deployment scenarios for the Adaptive Security Appliance family running FirePower Services. Also, a feature overview and comparison of the ASA with Firepower services and the new Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) image will be included with updates on the new Firepower hardware platform. Deployment use cases will include Internet Edge, various segmentation scenarios, and VPN. A configuration walk-through and accepted best practices will be covered. This session is designed for existing ASA customers and targets the security and network engineer. They will learn the benefit of a FirePower NGFW in network edge and Internet use cases
Full recorded presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UfAgCSKPZo for Tetrate Tech Talks on 2022/05/13.
Envoy's support for Kafka protocol, in form of broker-filter and mesh-filter.
Contents:
- overview of Kafka (usecases, partitioning, producer/consumer, protocol);
- proxying Kafka (non-Envoy specific);
- proxying Kafka with Envoy;
- handling Kafka protocol in Envoy;
- Kafka-broker-filter for per-connection proxying;
- Kafka-mesh-filter to provide front proxy for multiple Kafka clusters.
References:
- https://adam-kotwasinski.medium.com/deploying-envoy-and-kafka-8aa7513ec0a0
- https://adam-kotwasinski.medium.com/kafka-mesh-filter-in-envoy-a70b3aefcdef
Session Description:
An early overview of the upcoming new and exciting features and improvements in the next major LTS release of CloudStack, 4.19. Abhishek Kumar, who will be acting as the release manager for the CloudStack 4.19, gives a quick recap of the major additions in the previous LTS release - 4.18.0, discusses the timeline for the 4.19.0 release and talks about the planned and expected new features in the upcoming release.
Speaker Bio:
Abhishek is a committer of the Apache CloudStack project and has worked on the notable features such as VM ingestion, CloudStack Kubernetes Service, IPv6 support, etc. He works as a Software Engineer at ShapeBlue.
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On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.
Session on CloudStack, intended for new users to CloudStack, provides an overview to varied audience levels information on usages, use cases, deployment and its architecture.
This document discusses rolling upgrades in OpenStack. It begins with an overview of rolling upgrades and how they allow distributed systems to be upgraded with minimal downtime. It then discusses sensitive points to consider for OpenStack rolling upgrades, including API and message queue version changes, database schema changes, and enabling communication between different service versions. Specific rolling upgrade processes are covered for KeyStone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, and Cinder. The document emphasizes upgrading components one by one to minimize impact and maintain service availability throughout the upgrade.
This document provides an overview and introduction to VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN). It discusses the VSAN architecture which uses SSDs for caching and HDDs for storage. It also covers how VSAN can be configured through storage policies assigned at the VM level. The document outlines how VSAN provides a software-defined storage solution that is hardware agnostic and can elastically scale storage performance and capacity by adding servers and disks.
Vitastor is a fast and simple Ceph-like block storage solution that aims to maximize performance for SSDs and NVMEs. It focuses on block storage with fixed-size blocks rather than Ceph's object storage model. Vitastor uses a monitor, Etcd, and OSDs like Ceph but without a separate CRUSH layer and with monitors that do not store data. It supports technologies like RDMA for low latency and high throughput. The presenter's experiments showed Vitastor had improved performance over Ceph in some tests but also experienced some integration and operational issues.
Tutorial: Using GoBGP as an IXP connecting routerShu Sugimoto
- Show you how GoBGP can be used as a software router in conjunction with quagga
- (Tutorial) Walk through the setup of IXP connecting router using GoBGP
Linux offers an extensive selection of programmable and configurable networking components from traditional bridges, encryption, to container optimized layer 2/3 devices, link aggregation, tunneling, several classification and filtering languages all the way up to full SDN components. This talk will provide an overview of many Linux networking components covering the Linux bridge, IPVLAN, MACVLAN, MACVTAP, Bonding/Team, OVS, classification & queueing, tunnel types, hidden routing tricks, IPSec, VTI, VRF and many others.
Secure Multi Tenant Cloud with OpenContrailPriti Desai
Building a secure multi-tenant cloud necessitates proper tenant isolation and access control. Key network and security functions must scale independently based on the dynamic resource requirements across each tenant. Additionally, On-demand and self-service provisioning are required for achieving operational efficiencies. Robust, dynamic and elastic software abstractions are imperative to support applications built to run such complex environments.
This slide deck covers:
• Architectural design choices
• Implementation blueprints
• Operational best practices
that have been made to build OpenStack cloud at Symantec.
Network Services provides concise summaries of key AWS networking services:
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) allows users to define their own virtual network space within AWS. A VPC Peer connects two VPCs privately. VPC Endpoints allow private connections between VPCs and supported AWS services.
Route53 is AWS's DNS service. Direct Connect provides dedicated private connectivity between on-premises networks and AWS.
CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that caches and delivers content globally via an edge network for fast performance. Configuring CloudFront involves specifying origins like S3 buckets and distributing files to edge locations worldwide.
OpenStack and OpenContrail for FreeBSD platform by Michał Dubieleurobsdcon
This document provides an overview of running OpenStack and OpenContrail on the FreeBSD platform. It first discusses OpenStack components like Nova compute and network services. It then covers using OpenContrail for network virtualization, which provides overlay networking as an alternative to VLANs. This allows migration of virtual machines between physical servers while maintaining network isolation. The status of FreeBSD support for OpenStack compute and networking services is also summarized.
Network and Service Virtualization tutorial at ONUG Spring 2015SDN Hub
Tutorial at ONUG Spring 2015 on Network and Service Virtualization. The tutorial covers three converging trends 1) Network virtualization, 2) Service virtualization, 3) overlay networking for Docker and OpenStack. The talk concludes with pointers to the hands-on portion of the tutorial that uses LorisPack, and the operational lessons learned.
CloudStack Networking Overview - Jan 28, 2014Sheng Yang
Apache CloudStack provides basic and advanced networking models. The basic model uses L3 isolation and security groups, while the advanced model enables L2 isolation, IP management, firewalls, load balancing, and other features. Network offerings define networks for users, specifying isolation type, services, and virtual router configuration. Virtual routers are virtual machines that act as DHCP servers and provide routing, firewalling, load balancing, and other services within CloudStack networks.
VMworld 2013: vSphere Networking and vCloud Networking Suite Best Practices a...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Richard Cockett, VMware
Umesh Goyal, VMware Software India Pvt ltd
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
A brief introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Amazon VPC is a very important service that provides a logically isolated area of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
Toshiaki Hatano presented on integrating VXLAN support natively in Linux to address the VLAN ID limit in CloudStack. VXLAN allows for more isolated guest networks by using 16 million VXLAN network identifiers instead of the 4096 VLAN IDs. The implementation strategy is to initially target KVM hypervisors with Linux bridging, and add a VXLAN isolation method and VXLAN guest network driver while keeping most of the existing VLAN logic. This would allow CloudStack to provide larger virtual private cloud deployments with network isolation comparable to VLANs but without being restricted by the VLAN ID limit.
OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that provides services for managing compute, storage, and networking resources. Quantum is the networking component of OpenStack that provides APIs to virtualize networking and manage virtual networks. It abstracts the network configuration from underlying hardware and supports plugins for different vendors. Quantum provides advanced networking capabilities compared to earlier OpenStack networking through its network, subnet, and port abstractions and plugin architecture.
The document outlines the agenda for a user group meeting on AWS VPC topics. The agenda includes reviewing default and custom VPCs, NAT instances and gateways, VPC peering, flow logs, endpoints, VPN connections, Direct Connect, limits and pricing, and exam tips. It also lists past topics such as storage, compute, databases, and networking services, as well as upcoming topics such as Lambda, cost optimization, and machine learning.
CloudKC: Evolution of Network VirtualizationCynthia Thomas
This document discusses the evolution of network virtualization. It begins with an overview of using VLANs for network virtualization, which provides L2 isolation but has limitations around scalability and management. OpenFlow is presented as an early approach that uses a centralized controller but has performance impacts. The document then introduces network overlays using software-defined networking as a more advanced approach, allowing network services to be decoupled from physical network hardware for improved scalability, agility and fault tolerance. It provides an overview of using the Midokura network virtualization platform with OpenStack Neutron for network automation and management.
In this session, we will walk through the fundamentals of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). First, we will cover build-out and design fundamentals for VPC, including picking your IP space, subnetting, routing, security, NAT, and much more. We will then transition into different approaches and use cases for optionally connecting your VPC to your physical data center with VPN or AWS Direct Connect. This mid-level architecture discussion is aimed at architects, network administrators, and technology decision-makers interested in understanding the building blocks AWS makes available with VPC and how you can connect this with your offices and current data center footprint.
Presented by: Koen Biggelaar, Senior Manager Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services
Customer Guest: Jurjan Woltman, Architect, Wehkamp
CloudStack is open source cloud computing software that manages infrastructure for cloud services. It supports various hypervisors like KVM, vSphere, and XenServer for virtualization. CloudStack manages the network, storage, and compute nodes that make up a cloud infrastructure. It allows service providers to offer self-service virtual machines, storage, and networking to customers and enterprises to offer private clouds to employees without involving IT departments. CloudStack provides features like automatic configuration, graphical user interface, APIs, high availability, and supports multiple hypervisors. It divides infrastructure into zones, pods, clusters, and regions for isolation, redundancy and management.
The document discusses vCloud Networking concepts including external networks, organization networks, vApp networks, and network pools. External networks connect the organization to the physical network, organization networks belong to a tenant organization, and vApp networks are available to a single application. Network pools give users control over layer 2 networks and include port-group, VLAN, and vCD-NI (VMware's proprietary encapsulation protocol) types. The document also covers considerations for the physical network design and configuration of external and organization networks.
Cohesive Networks Support Docs: VNS3 Configuration for Amazon VPC Cohesive Networks
Use this VNS3 set up guide to get started in the Amazon Cloud (AWS) VPC public cloud environments.
About VNS3:
VNS3 delivers cloud networking and NFV functionality for virtual and cloud environments. The VNS3 virtual network security appliance includes a router, switch, stateful firewall, VPN support (IPsec and SSL), and protocol redistributor, and extensible NFV optimized for all major cloud providers. VNS3 cloud networks are configured and managed through the VNS3 Manager web-based UI or resetful API.
VNS3 is available in: Amazon Web Services EC2, Amazon Web Services VPC, Microsoft Azure, CenturyLink Cloud, Google Compute Engine (GCE), Rackspace, IBM SoftLayer, ElasticHosts, Verizon Terremark vCloud Express, InterRoute, Abiquo, Openstack, Flexiant, Eucalyptus, Abiquo, HPE Helion, VMware (all formats), Citrix, Xen, KVM, and more.
VNS3 supports most IPsec data center solutions, including: Preferred Most models from Cisco Systems*, Juniper, Watchguard, Dell SONICWALL, Netgear, Fortinet, Barracuda Networks, Check Point*, Zyxel USA, McAfee Retail, Citrix Systems, Hewlett Packard, D-Link, WatchGuard, Palo Alto Networks, OpenSwan, pfSense, Vyatta, and any IPsec device that supports IKE1 or IKE2, AES256 or AES128 or 3DES, SHA1 or MD5, and most importantly NAT-Traversal standards.
Developments to CloudStack’s SDN ecosystem: Integration with VMWare NSX 4 - P...ShapeBlue
VMWare NSX is a network virtualization platform that abstracts physical infrastructure and provides micro-segmentation. It originated from research on software defined networks at Stanford University. NSX was later acquired by VMWare. The latest release is NSX4, which is decoupled from vSphere and supports multiple hypervisors and containers. In CloudStack, NSX provides logical network segmentation and implements network services like DHCP, load balancing, NAT, and firewalls for virtual networks and VPCs through its API integration with the CloudStack management server. A live demo then showed how some of these NSX network functions work for VPCs in CloudStack.
This document discusses networking virtual machines in VMware environments. It covers virtual switch connections, port group policies, and networking IP storage using iSCSI and NAS. Specifically, it describes how to configure virtual switches, define different connection types (service console ports, VMkernel ports, virtual machine port groups), apply network policies like VLANs and security, and configure IP storage access through iSCSI software initiators and NFS.
6. What's a VPC?
● Has multiple meanings
● In CloudStack, a VPC is:
– A virtual router
– One or more isolated networks
– One or more virtual machine instances
– Associated services
● ACLs
● Source NAT
● Static NAT
● Port Forwarding
● Load balancing
● VPN
8. VPC Router
● Debian-based system VM
● CloudStack controlled/configured
● HAProxy load balancer
● iptables rules for ACLs, NAT, port forwarding
● 1 NIC one each isolated network, one on
public
● Gives customers a full datacenter experience
15. Current Limitations
● Advanced Zones only
● Load Balanced service offering only available on
one of your isolated networks
● Only one NIC/isolated network per VM instance
● Need to acquire separate IPs for Static NAT, Port
forwarding, etc
● Only Site to Site VPN, no remote access VPN
● No redundant router mode
16. Advanced: Roll your own VPC
● Create an instance
● Attach to multiple isolated networks and a
public network
● Configure instance as router
● Create template of instance to deploy
subsequent routers