Provisioning
software-defined servers (Moonshot)
using HP Cloud OS
Mahalakshmi Balakrishnan, Architect
Adarsh Suparna, Architect
HP Cloud
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Agenda
 The Idea
 Provisioning software defined Compute using OpenStack
 The Proof… Use Case…
 Demo
 Q&A
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The Idea …
Develop an OpenStack based solution for seamless provisioning and management of
software defined servers along with virtualized servers using a unified dashboard
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Why Software-defined Servers?
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A new era of accelerated innovation
Forever changing how consumers and businesses interact, enabling new opportunities
Growing
Internet of Things (IoT)
2013
416,340 tweets
By 2020
30
(1)
Billion
23,148 apps
downloaded
Devices
400,710 ad
requests
60
sec
40
Trillion GB(2)
Today
Mobile
Apps
2000 lyrics played
on Tunewiki
1,500 pings
sent on PingMe
208,333 minutes
Angry Birds played
Pervasive
Connectivity
Smart Device
Expansion
Explosion of
Information
10
Million (3)
… for 8
Billion (4)
A new style of IT required for IoT solutions
(1) IDC Directions 2013: Why the Datacenter of the Future Will Leverage a Converged Infrastructure, March 2013, Matt Eastwood ; (2) & (3) IDC Predictions 2012: Competing for 2020, Document 231720, December 2011, Frank Gens; (4) http://en.wikipedia.org
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DATA
New style of IT required for IoT solutions
Extreme scale and optimal efficiency needed for unique, differentiated IoT solutions
Millions
Apps
Hundreds
Thousands
Devices/Users
Apps
Support
Business
IT
Billions
Performance
IT
Devices/Users
Business
Specialized & unbound
Virtualized & predictable
Today’s Servers
Per Year
$10-20 Billion
Datacenter build costs
(1)
8 to 10
(2)
New power plants
Source: HP internal analysis
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2 Million
(3)
US Homes of power used
The World without …
 Workloads from social media sites, search engines which are data intensive but not compute
intensive continue to use x86 server CPUs designed for compute-intensive enterprise applications thus
underutilizing compute capacity and wasting energy.

Administrators pay for the cost of a premium CPU although processor utilization levels is as
low as 20% or even less
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Administrators continue to use virtualization to address the low CPU utilization problem,
which does not adequately address the needs of scale-out applications and web serving
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IT administrators continue to manage, power and cool sheer number of devices in hyper
scale environment
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What is a Software-defined Server?
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The world’s first software defined server
A modern architecture engineered for the new style of IT
Moonshot Architecture
8:1 Scaling *
Software Defined Servers
Software Defined Servers
8x Efficiency *
Innovation Pace
3x Faster *
HP Moonshot System
*Source: HP internal analysis
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Servers tailored and tuned for specific workloads
Delivering on the promise of software defined servers
Workloads
Dedicated Hosting
Advanced
Web Front End MemCache Big Data
Desktop Infrastructure
Accelerators
And more…
Optimized
77%
(1)
Lower TCO for dedicated hosting
Revolutionary cartridge design enabling business breakthroughs
Source: HP internal analysis
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Faster innovation and unprecedented efficiency
Moonshot architecture - the essential foundation for the new style of IT
Hundreds of
servers
Scale
80%
77%
Less space
Less cost
$195M
Integrated
fabrics
Managed
as one
Max
work/watt
Source: HP internal research
(2)
Infrastructure savings per year
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Efficiency
89%
97%
Less energy
Less complexity
18,000
(1)
(3)
Less cars per year (CO2 equivalent)
The World with…

Workloads that are data intensive will use software defined servers with energy-efficient
CPUs
enabling optimal utilization of compute capacity at low energy

Compute cost will become proportional to CPU utilization

Extreme scale-out with optimal compute utilization will be enabled
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Management of devices in hyper-scale environment will be simplified for IT
Administrators due to the federated architecture with shared components for power, cooling, and management
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Provisioning Software-defined Servers
with HP Cloud OS
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HP Cloud OS based on OpenStack®
Industry’s first OpenStack®-based technology platform for hybrid delivery
Simplified delivery
Enhanced service
lifecycle
Optimized cloud workloads
• Simple and accelerated installation
and configuration process
• Model-based infrastructure topology for
multi-tier applications
• Enable workload portability across cloud
providers
• Centralize management of your cloud
environments
• Enable hybrid delivery model
• Model once, provision anywhere
• Cloud infrastructure health monitoring
• Workload aware provisioning
• Automated-live content distribution
(upgrades, patches, content)
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HP Moonshot with HP Cloud OS
Accelerate scale out, high density
server deployments
• Rapid bare metal provisioning
• Simplified OpenStack installation &
management
• Enable large scale workloads (i.e. web services)
• Lower total cost of ownership
HP Moonshot
Delivering leading server technology and Cloud OS together
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*Source: HP internal analysis
HP Cloud OS for Moonshot
Template-based software defined server provisioning
HP Cloud OS
Dashboard
Simple Instance
Glance Image
repository
Upload
PXE
Topology
Workload
Topology
Document
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HP Moonshot System
HP Cloud OS
Provisioning
Engine
Nova
Controller
Nova
Baremetal
Compute
Host
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Software defined
servers
IPMI
HP Cloud OS for Moonshot
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Setup and Installation
• Nova baremetal component is added to support HP Moonshot provisioning
• Quantum configuration and self service dashboard were updated
HP Moonshot Provisioning
• Nova baremetal component is customized to enable Moonshot Provisioning
• IPMI Power Manager is customized to support HP Moonshot
FLAT Network Support
• Single FLAT network created to support baremetal provisioning
• Quantum DHCP disabled as it conflicts DNSMASQ to support PXE booting
Auto-enroll of
Moonshot Servers
• New scripts were developed to discover and auto-enroll all servers in the
Moonshot System at one go to nova baremetal database
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HP Cloud OS for Moonshot
Nova Baremetal and
Quantum Configuration
Self Service Dashboard
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• Nova baremetal install script includes nova configuration files, new IPMI
dirver and auto-enrollment script
• Scripts to startup required service, install dependent debian packages, run
the DNSMASQ for PXE booting and configure PXE/tftpboot are also packages
with the nova barclamp
• Quantum install script includes script to disable Quantum DHCP, create single
FLAT network and to create subnet
• Region specific panels like flavor panel, image panel, quota panel were
customized to enable Moonshot provisioning
• Instances panel updated to embed serial console output of the Moonshot
instances
• The instances panel updated to reflect the correct IP Address assigned to the
Moonshot instance by the baremetal host
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Next Steps
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Synchronized release cadence to coincide with Moonshot releases
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Cloud OS for Moonshot is proposed to be available to all HP Moonshot customers
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Contributing nova-baremetal enhancements/features back to the community
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Closely working with the Ironic team to improve the Moonshot provisioning experience and
enable advanced networking for coexistence with virtualized environment
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Proposed to support provisioning of Standard x86 server along with Moonshot
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Demo
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Q&A
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