Running a Large OpenStack Infrastructure at IBM (Lessons Learned, Monitoring, Architecture

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Channel: OpenInfra Foundation · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Running a Large OpenStack Infrastructure at IBM (Lessons Learned, Monitoring, Architecture features IBM's Pablo Barquero Garro, Esteban Arias Navarro and Angel Tomala-Reyes. 

To promote innovation within IBM, the presenters set out to create the CloudFirst Factory, a one of a kind large multi-cloud OpenStack-based environment . Running on a total of 168 physical servers, the clouds received a substantial amount of use from the Cloud Foundry-based IBM BlueMix. The presenters will describe their experiences operating the environments with OpenStack Folsom and Grizzly releases as well as a production Folsom to Grizzly upgrade. This session also covers initial architecture decisions, the evolution of the same and the challenges in overcoming shortcomings in the original deployment.

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