OpenNebula Techday USA 2015 – The OpenNebula TechDays are full day events to learn about OpenNebula with a hands-on cloud installation and operation workshop, and presentations from community members and users. These events are targeted at cloud architects, data center admins, systems admins, systems integrators, DevOps architects, and solutions architect. The emphasis is to find local speakers and users to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences using OpenNebula.

Sponsors

Location

The TechDay will be held at

Microsoft New England R&D Center

1 Memorial Dr #1
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States

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Microway designs and builds systems for High Performance Computing (HPC). Our state-of-the-art clusters are deployed by the most prestigious public and private institutions in the world. Our client list includes Fortune 500 enterprises and government research laboratories; from small colleges to the largest academic institutions.

Microsoft Research New England (MSR-NE) was founded in July 2008 in Cambridge, Mass. The New England lab’s mission is to become a leader in the interdisciplinary approach to basic research by uniting traditional mathematical sciences such as theoretical computer science, machine learning, physics, and mathematics itself with other sciences, including social sciences such as empirical economics, sociology and psychology, and the biological and biomedical sciences.

Call for Speakers

Send us an email at events@opennebula.org if you are interested in speaking at this TechDay and:

• Sharing cloud use cases and deployment experiences
• Introducing new integrations and ecosystem developments
• Describing other related cloud open-source projects and tools

Registration

Register for this Event

The number of seats is limited  to ensure there is plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact. We encourage everyone to register as early as possible.

Agenda and Speakers

Agenda includes a hands-on cloud installation and operation workshop, and presentations from OpenNebula community members and users.

9:00-13:00: Hands-on Workshop

Javier Fontán, OpenNebula Core Developer This hands-on tutorial will give an overview of how OpenNebula is used to build and operate private clouds. The attendees will build, configure and operate their own OpenNebula cloud.

Contents

• An introduction to cloud computing with OpenNebula
• The architecture of the cloud
• Planning and installing OpenNebula
• Configuration and basic usage

Audience

The target audience is devops and system administrators interested in deploying a private cloud solution, or in the integration of OpenNebula with other platform.

Skills Gained

• Describe the features and benefits of using virtualization and clouds
• Describe different architectures for a cloud that can be deployed with OpenNebula
• Deployment and basic configuration OpenNebula
• Basic operation of an OpenNebula cloud instance

Prerequisites

No prior OpenNebula skills are required, but participants should have working knowledge of virtualization, networking and Unix/Linux systems.

Material

The workshop includes hands-on exercises to be performed using attendee’s wifi-enabled laptops with VirtualBox installed. The attendees will build, configure and operate their own OpenNebula cloud.

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 17:00: Presentations

14:00 – 14:15: An Introduction to OpenNebula

Ignacio M. Llorente, Project Director at OpenNebula We’re moving into a world of open cloud — where each organization can find the right cloud for its unique needs. A single cloud management platform can not be all things to all people, there will be a cloud space with several offerings focused on different environments and/or industries. The OpenNebula commitment to the open cloud flows directly out of its mission — to become the simplest cloud enabling platform — and its purpose — to bring simplicity to the private and hybrid enterprise cloud. OpenNebula exists to help companies build simple, cost‐effective, reliable, open enterprise clouds on existing IT infrastructure. The OpenNebula project is really vendor‐agnostic and completely driven by users needs with features that meet real demands. The session will introduce the OpenNebula project from different perspectives, ranging from its historical milestones and main contributors to its most relevant users and the size of their cloud deployments.

14:15 – 14:30: Bringing Private Cloud Computing to HPC and Science

Ignacio M. Llorente, Project Director at OpenNebula HPC-optimized clouds provide access to flexible and elastic scientific and technical computing to solve complex problems and drive innovation. The talk will describe the most demanded features for building HPC and science clouds, and will illustrate using real-life case studies from leading research and industry organizations how OpenNebula effectively addresses these challenges of cloud usage, scheduling, security, networking and storage.

14:30 – 15:15:High-Availability HPC with OpenNebula

Eliot Eshelman,Vice President at Microway, Inc Microway provides traditional on-premises HPC compute systems as well as hybrid HPC systems that burst into the public cloud. Eliot will describe one of Microway’s internal clusters which uses OpenNebula for High-Availability of the HPC resources. OpenNebula allows us to be more flexible and to achieve better uptime.

15:15 – 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:15: Hyperconvergence and OpenNebula

Varadarajan Narayanan, CEO at Megam Systems Storage is often the bottle neck for virtualised infrastructure where customer is locked in with proprietary and expensive SAN like solutions. Hyperconvergence seems to be promising where commodity hardware can be used to provide scalable , fault tolerant infrastructure. Combining Opennebula platform with a distributed storage solution bundled with  caching with high speed SSDs seems to be good idea to offer a high performance hyperconvergent  solution. Pros and cons of distributed and centralised storage systems and performance comparison are studied here.

16:15 – 16:45: Future of Information Storage with ISS SuperCore and Ceph

Alex Gorbachev, Intelligent Systems Services Inc. The time is ripe for high speed resilient software defined storage solutions with unlimited scalability. ISS has been working with the leading open source projects and developed a commercial high performance solution that is able to grow forever without performance limitations. In the session we will share foundation principles of Ceph architecture, as well as our design to deliver this storage to traditional SAN storage consumers.

16:45 – 17:00: Open Space

This is a session for attendees to gather and discuss passionate questions, burning ideas, features, integrations or any topic of their choice, in an informal and tech-friendly environment, with other passionate and interested people. There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in one of the meeting rooms where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots.