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0:00of First Look at Apache 419 which is the
0:04uh latest release of Apache cloudstack
0:06from the Apache cloudstack Community uh
0:08speaking today is myself Giles I'm the
0:11CEO and founder of shape blue the
0:12cloudstack company I'm also a PMC member
0:16of and a committer in Apache cloudstack
0:18and I chair the cloudstack European User
0:21Group
0:22Marco yes uh welcome guys to the webinar
0:28so I am technical manager at shap Blue
0:31and also cloudstack committer a long
0:34time we work with cloudstack so that's
0:37it let's go g cool okay thank you
0:40Marco Okay uh what we're going to talk
0:42about today uh we are G to talk about
0:46the actual release uh of Patrick Cloud
0:48419 some information about that and
0:51we're then going to focus on a number of
0:54the key new features now to make it
0:56clear we are not we haven't got time to
0:59cover all of the new features of Apache
1:01Cloud 419 it's a big release these
1:05features are things that Marco and I
1:07like and we think are significant uh and
1:09that we've focused on but there's a lot
1:11more to explore around 419 than just
1:13what we're showing you today we'll do a
1:16live demo of some of those features and
1:18hopefully time permitting we'll uh we'll
1:20have time for some some questions at the
1:23end so the actual release itself I mean
1:26we're speaking today today's uh Friday
1:28the 2nd of February
1:302024 and literally this morning uh the
1:34vote concluded and 419 is is ready for
1:38for release by the community as we're
1:41speaking it hasn't officially been
1:42released because the announcement hasn't
1:43gone out but I guess by the time anybody
1:45sees this which will probably be
1:47something like the 5th of February 2024
1:49you will have heard that 419 has has
1:51been released uh 419 has been a massive
1:54effort by the whole Apache cloudstack
1:57Community people coming from lots of
1:59different organ organizations
2:00contributing features the count we saw
2:03was
2:043155 total new features improvements and
2:07Bug fixes uh out of those 26 specific
2:11features um we're going to cover in
2:14detail I think eight today they they're
2:16just the the the the most significant
2:18ones we think but there are as I said
2:20earlier a lot of other features for
2:22people to look at 419 is a LTS release
2:26long-term support release from the
2:28cloudstack community so it will be
2:30supported by the community for a period
2:32of 18 months from its release which will
2:34take us to August uh there's a typo
2:37there August 2025 not 2024 just to make
2:41that
2:43clear okay let's start talking about
2:46some of the features uh and I think Mark
2:49and I both think this is probably the
2:52most significant feature if not that
2:54it's the biggest feature in 419 is just
2:56the timing of this uh this has been in
2:59in in progress for for months and months
3:01and months but obviously I think anybody
3:04watching this probably has been
3:05following what's going on with broadcom
3:07and VMware and we can openly share that
3:10you know the number of people looking to
3:12migrate to cloudstack with something
3:14like KVM underneath it uh has gone up
3:18exponentially in in the last six weeks
3:20or so since broadcom made their
3:21announcement and what we've now got in
3:25419 is the ability to migrate an
3:28instance a VM okay from the VMware
3:32hypervisor to KVM okay now that can work
3:36in one of two ways as most people I'm
3:38sure know cloudstack can manage through
3:41Venter it can manage a VMware
3:43environment and you can actually convert
3:45directly a managed VMware uh data center
3:50instances in there directly to KVM
3:52instances in your Cloud stack
3:54environment or optionally you can just
3:58point it at an ex external Al V Center
4:00give it the config the credentials you
4:02need for that V Center and Cloud set
4:04will go off and contact that
4:06Venter bring in the the the VM and
4:09convert it to to KVM on the flight this
4:12is a really really powerful feature and
4:14it's one that a lot of organizations
4:16have been crying out for for some time
4:18but as I said you know with what's going
4:19on with VMware in the industry at the
4:21moment the timing is great the timing is
4:23absolutely great for
4:25this we actually look at what it does uh
4:28it's down you can see there we've got
4:31the menu command import export instances
4:33that was already there for some existing
4:35functionality which let you import uh VM
4:39VM external VMware instances but now you
4:42can convert them including their discs
4:44networks and any configuration of a
4:46VMware uh VM into a KVM instance in
4:50Apache Cloud State it's an admin only
4:53feature uh theoretically it could be
4:56some things made available to users but
4:58that would be an interesting uh
5:00discussion I think I think for for
5:02service providers and operators to have
5:05uh it takes existing VMware instances or
5:08VMS from an ex external ventor like I
5:11mentioned earlier behind the scenes it's
5:14using uh V vert V Tov to actually do the
5:17conversion it chooses a a host a KVM
5:21host on which to do that conversion uh
5:24and then goes through all of the steps
5:26required to migrate the V the the VR
5:30uh it discs it networks it
5:31configurations to uh to KVM uh quite
5:36interestingly uh for Linux instances as
5:39as in the the guest OS they can actually
5:41be done while whilst they're running uh
5:44Windows instances we know need to be
5:46stopped uh to to run this
5:48process there's a few restrictions all
5:51of this I believe is going into the 419
5:54documentation uh and those restrictions
5:57are around the the destination KVM host
5:59that you're aiming for uh there's the
6:02list of supported uh dros that that we
6:06the functionality can actually point at
6:08and there's a couple of sort of
6:09prerequisites for a bunto auntu sorry uh
6:13it doesn't install MBT MBD kit uh so
6:17that needs to be installed by by the
6:18Admin first and for Windows guests uh
6:23you you need to install the uh Vero
6:25drivers prior to using this tool to push
6:29ABM instances onto it hugely powerful
6:32Tool uh very very
6:35exciting okay uh in the same area uh
6:40although I think this is a completely
6:42different work done by uh a different
6:44set of people uh We've now got the
6:46ability to import existing KVM VMS as
6:51cloudy instances this was sort of always
6:54possible and I me Marco will will will
6:56nod when I say this but you know this
6:58was a convoluted process before you had
7:00to create a template based on the on the
7:03machine and then create a create an
7:05instance based on that template it was a
7:07it was a very convoluted process you've
7:09now got
7:10straightforward uh UI and API
7:12functionality to get external KVM uh
7:16instances and bring them under Cloud STX
7:19control uh it can come in from a for it
7:23can uh use a number of different sources
7:27uh the important thing is that the
7:29machine end up uh within KVM clusters in
7:33in aache Cloud State different places
7:36you can just point it at a remote KVM
7:38host give it its address give it some
7:40credentials and it will go and find uh
7:42the VM off that host uh you can use a
7:45qcal 2 image from either shared or local
7:49storage just point it at that image off
7:51you go uh and you can also use it it's a
7:55weird one this to actually get unmanaged
7:57instances that are already in a
7:59cloudstack KVM cluster you might have
8:01some other instances that are on the
8:03side so lots of different options very
8:06simple UI or accessible by the API and
8:09this like all of these admin sorry these
8:12migration tools more than likely people
8:14are going to be accessing this via the
8:15API via Cloud monkey they're going to be
8:18batching things up in in into scripts
8:20instead of just uh using the user
8:23interface and here's an interesting
8:25point with this uh which is you know
8:28this is primarily designed people who
8:29are using cloudstack environments and
8:31they want to well they're building a new
8:33one and they want to bring in existing
8:36uh KVM machines but what this does open
8:38up is the ability for people to start
8:41considering using Apache cloudstack
8:43basically just as a KVM management layer
8:46not necessarily thinking of it as a
8:48cloud layer but just thinking of it as a
8:49virtualization management platform which
8:51is a use case for cloud stack we haven't
8:54seen uh very much in in the
8:57past okay the next uh new feature is
9:01cloudstack DRS uh and the name of this
9:05feature is DRS it doesn't have a longer
9:07name and the reason it doesn't have a
9:09longer name is that there is a large
9:11virtualization vendor that has a
9:13trademark which is uh related to
9:16distributed resource scheduler uh so CL
9:20isn't allowed to call it that but CL is
9:21allowed to call it DRS and you probably
9:24guessed what this does uh this is about
9:27being able to balance
9:29instances across your host estate within
9:32a within a cluster or across your entire
9:34Cloud
9:35environment uh there's not a lot to see
9:38with this I'll talk you through the
9:39configuration options because the whole
9:41point of this is It's just something
9:43that sits quietly in the background
9:44making sure that your infrastructure
9:46your computer infrastructure is being
9:48used as as efficiently as
9:50possible uh it automatically moves
9:53instances between hosts it relies on the
9:57underlying uh host migration uh
10:00framework which was already there in
10:02cloudstack it can be set up globally or
10:05on a per cluster basis so if you've got
10:08you know different sort of hosts
10:09different sort of policies you're
10:11requiring at cluster level you can do
10:13that and it supports two very simple
10:15algorithms okay balanced where it's
10:19going to try and balance the workloads
10:21I.E the instances as evenly as possible
10:25or as evenly as you specify across all
10:27of the hosts in a cluster or condensed
10:29which is basically the opposite where
10:30it's going to try and squash everything
10:32into as fewer hosts as
10:34possible
10:36uh why would you use those two different
10:39ones well balancing is is you know is
10:42about spreading the load uh it's about
10:46increasing uh or reducing contention
10:49issues it's about giving yourself
10:52effectively a little bit more
10:53distribution from an AJ a viewpoint but
10:56obviously the down side of balance is
10:58your you're using more hosts uh and
11:01you're using more power in those hosts
11:03so balanced is what we expect what we
11:05see with with DRS is what people use uh
11:08most often in in production environments
11:11but if you're in a sort of staging or a
11:14test Dev environment power consumption
11:17poost consumption might be might be the
11:19most important thing or the ability to
11:22concentrate instances so you can do some
11:24maintenance on some other host in which
11:27case you choose the condensed algorithm
11:29and it's doing the opposite DRS is
11:31running in the background and it's
11:32constantly evaluating based on some
11:35metrics how it can squash as many
11:37instances into into as fewer hosts as
11:40possible as I say this this runs
11:42automatically there's not a lot to to
11:45see uh there's two two main areas you've
11:48got these I think there's six global
11:50settings that's all you need to do to
11:52get this running and then at cluster
11:54level you can go manually kick off DRS
11:57uh at cluster level there's a there's a
12:00a new area of the the cluster screen
12:02where you can do that and these settings
12:04are basically choose whether you want
12:06balance imbalanced uh whether it's
12:08enabled what intervals it's using and
12:11then some metrics around what what
12:13amount of imbalance is is is tolerated
12:16uh how often you want it to run that
12:18sort of thing click enable off it goes
12:21and it's going off it's evaluating per
12:24cluster level what state things are in
12:27against uh the amount of balance or
12:29imbalance you want and then it will just
12:31live migrate uh machines uh around the
12:34house and it's hypervisor agnostic it
12:37works on any hypervisor uh that Apache
12:40Cloud stack can work
12:43with Okay next major new feature uh vnf
12:48appliances uh this has been long coming
12:51uh I think many of you have followed in
12:52recent releases of cloud set there's
12:54been a lot going on in in the networking
12:56space uh for those of you don't know
12:59what a vnf is uh virtual Network
13:01function this is the idea about you know
13:04rather than using a physical device you
13:06can take a virtualized network deplo uh
13:09Appliance whether it's a whatever it is
13:11a router a firewall a one accelerator
13:14whatever and deploy that into your Cloud
13:17stack environment and use the network
13:19functions of that now in theory that's
13:23been possible and a lot of users of
13:24cloud stack are basically spinning up
13:27instances with a template for some sort
13:29of Appliance but then management of of
13:33those
13:34appliances uh being able to map the
13:37network interfaces for those appliances
13:40being able to get to the admin area of
13:42that Appliance and then for for service
13:45providers being at a track that people
13:46are using those appliances so you can
13:48bill for them has always been a pain
13:50because it's been a a bit of a a bit of
13:53a hack to to get this working but 419
13:56now has uh built in vnf Appliance
14:00support and here's some of the use cases
14:02uh if you're connecting you know Branch
14:05zones that sort of thing you might want
14:07to use uh sdwan devices to support
14:12sd1 uh W optimization the these are all
14:15things that the cloud Virtual Router
14:17can't do right so you you need a vnf to
14:19do those and now the point is you can
14:22now deploy those vnfs directly in Cloud
14:25stack uh using pfSense or microti
14:28firewalls Cisco ASA firewalls this might
14:31be for compliance reasons right so
14:32you've got a tenant in your Cloud uh for
14:35some regulatory reason you has to use a
14:37Cisco ASA because they have to tick a
14:39box with some government Authority you
14:41can now set up a vnf appliance template
14:44Cisco ASA and users can deploy that uh
14:47in your Cloud stack environment so what
14:51this actually this functionality allows
14:52people to do is to deploy and configure
14:55the vnf appliances in cloudstack and
14:57cloudstack goes off it requ it
14:59configures all of the required network
15:01interfaces for the appliance uh it also
15:04sets up rules that allow you to get
15:06through or your users to get through to
15:08access the uh the the admin side of the
15:12appliance uh those appliances are based
15:16on templates that the admin will create
15:18and uh in the demo later we'll we'll
15:21we'll talk you through how you create
15:22those templates and then create appli
15:24deploy appliances based on those
15:26templates usage is all recorded by the
15:29cloud usage server so you can build for
15:32for usage of these things uh and you
15:35know you can do again all of this like
15:37anything with Cloud stack you can you
15:39can uh do this through the API or
15:41through the through the
15:44UI on the template side just a couple of
15:47screenshots uh specific things when you
15:50create a vnf template you have a load of
15:53extra settings that you don't have in a
15:55normal cloudstack template and that's
15:57around the interface management you can
16:00add as many interfaces as the appliance
16:02needs and then you can add key value
16:05pairs that get pushed into to the
16:07Appliance things like the uh the
16:10password the the address for the uh for
16:14the admin interface that sort of thing
16:16that license information uh that's
16:18another one that as a service provider
16:20you you could push
16:23in okay uh right another major milestone
16:27for cloudstack is cloudstack now
16:30supports uh object
16:32storage and particularly in the service
16:36provider space nearly every service
16:38provider we know using cloudstack also
16:40wants to deliver object storage to their
16:42customers and traditionally there's been
16:45no integrated way of doing this with
16:48Cloud people have gone and had to use
16:50other Solutions we've had some vendors
16:52who have done some sort of UI
16:53integration into Cloud State but we've
16:55never had any good integration and the
16:57the sort of holy Grail really is that
17:00people can in the cloud set UI and API
17:03they can create buckets they can add
17:06data into those bucket objects in into
17:09those buck read those buckets like they
17:11were doing Amazon with with with S3 and
17:13we've now got that with uh with
17:15cloudstack 419 so what's actually being
17:19created is this piece in the middle
17:21which is the CL cloudstack object
17:23storage framework because of the you
17:26know the concept of cloudstack of it you
17:28know keeping its scope relatively tight
17:31Cloud stack isn't wasn't ever going to
17:33provide its own object storage mechanism
17:36so what cloud Stack's got here is a
17:38framework which allows easy connection
17:42of any object storage any S3 uh
17:45compliant object storage at the back so
17:47we're starting with providers for minio
17:50the seph provider is being uh created by
17:53one of our good friends in the community
17:55as as as we speak but we expect actually
17:58I know of some other vendors who are now
18:00looking at creating providers all of
18:03that is abstracted from the end user the
18:05end user just goes to cloudstack and
18:08sees buckets adds data to them reades
18:10data from them uh deletes files do does
18:13whatever they want to do the fact it's
18:15being provided by a third party Object
18:18Store that's academic that's completely
18:20abstracted away from the user so again
18:22it's that framework model which is very
18:24similar to the backup and Recovery
18:26framework we've had for a few years
18:28we're not doing Cloud isn't doing the
18:30heavy lift we let somebody who's got uh
18:34an established product do that but Cloud
18:36just presents it as one uh unified
18:40API uh so as I say yeah we've got
18:43providers for minio and sefs in progress
18:45there is also a simulator uh provider
18:48that can be used if if anybody's playing
18:49around with this and hasn't actually got
18:51an object store there is also an object
18:54browser a UI browser in the cloudstack
18:57UI so you can you you can browse all of
18:59the the the objects in a bucket uh admin
19:02configures the actual uh object storage
19:05provider itself and that technology at
19:08the back minio seph whatever is doing
19:11all of the hard work so it's doing all
19:13of the storage management the
19:14replication security backup cloud Stacks
19:16just giving people an interface into
19:19that it supports most common features
19:22you know quotas for buckets encryption
19:24versioning uh bucket policy public
19:27private that can all reconfigured
19:29through cloudstack and it that then gets
19:31backed off to the to the
19:33provider couple of screenshots there so
19:36you see over on the left as well as
19:38volumes and volume snapshots in storage
19:40we've now got buckets this would be a
19:41user creating this they can create a
19:43bucket specified cryption versioning Etc
19:46and off they go and then we've got an
19:48object browser which would let them uh
19:51uh drag and drop files in and out of it
19:54obviously when they create the bucket
19:56they also get an end point or pre-signed
19:58end point so they can actually access it
19:59as as as proper object storage as
20:03well cloudstock cloudstack snapshot copy
20:07oh I could hardly say that Marco it's
20:09quite a long- winded one right uh this
20:12is a weird one because actually there's
20:14not a lot to see here and it's arguably
20:17a very minor feature uh the reason Marco
20:20and I have selected it is because is a
20:22minor feature which actually lets you do
20:25some very significant things and really
20:28all this is is the ability for cloud
20:32stack now when it takes a a
20:34snapshot uh and that could be any type
20:37of snapshot to automatically copy that
20:41to a second Zone okay that doesn't sound
20:44massive and it's not a massive piece of
20:46functionality but that does open up all
20:49sorts of options for cloud stack around
20:51disaster recovery and Disaster Recovery
20:53as a service in fact I forget who it was
20:56somebody did a talk I think it was was
20:58Alex at the Clack conference in uh
21:00November in Paris about a solution he
21:04had got for Disaster Recovery as a
21:06service using this feature which was
21:08which was was coming at the time and
21:11with a little bit of thinking at both
21:12ends in terms of what you do with that
21:15snapshot copy how you would recover from
21:17it this is a very basic disaster res
21:20recovery Sol Disaster Recovery as a
21:23service solution just by having this
21:25snapshot copy I mean it's uh not a lot
21:28to see I mean that's uh taking a new
21:31snapshot on the left you've just now got
21:33this new option where you can also copy
21:34it to a zone for recurring snapshot the
21:37same or you can go and press a button
21:38and copy an existing snapshot so you end
21:41up with a copy of that snapshot in a
21:43second Zone second availability zone so
21:46that's opening up a lot of stuff around
21:48Disaster Recovery as a
21:50service and there's a little bit more
21:52detail I think that diagram will be in
21:55the 419 documentation about exactly how
21:58it's doing that us it's using the the
22:00secondary storage VM to actually do the
22:03the the the heavy shift of the
22:06copying okay scheduled instance life
22:09cycle operations
22:11uh why we didn't have these earlier I
22:14don't know but this is you know a very
22:16simple idea which is to be able to
22:18create a schedule against an instance uh
22:21or multiple schedules against an
22:23instance and perform some sort of life
22:26cycle operation on that schedule
22:28classic example I need to reboot all my
22:31database servers at midnight after
22:33they've been patched bang off you go
22:35create a schedule midnight these servers
22:38at the moment it supports start stop
22:40reboot and then the forced options
22:42around all of those also opens up ideas
22:46around power saving right I mean yes
22:49Cloud stack has got autoscaling and that
22:51would really be the way of scaling up
22:53and down according to demand but if
22:55you've got demand you know is
22:58happening at specific times of the day
23:01you could do it arguably a more
23:03old-fashioned way which is to set
23:04schedules against machines and shut them
23:06down at certain times of the day it's
23:07saving power if you're a consumer of a
23:10cloudstack cloud and it's being charged
23:12hourly you're going to save yourself
23:13money right uh but yeah this is just the
23:16idea that you can set schedules multiple
23:18schedules against an instance uh to
23:21actually uh undertake any of those
23:26actions okay nearly there with the
23:28features that Marco and I have chosen o
23:30or2 authentication just to make life
23:33people uh easier for people uh again
23:36this is a framework there's an O or2
23:39authentication framework has been
23:41created which would allow any O2
23:44provider as long as uh a provider could
23:47be written for it uh to be used for
23:50authentication in in Cloud St at the
23:53moment there's support for Google and
23:55GitHub I believe but we're EXP expecting
23:58other community members other users to
24:00to create some other providers that that
24:01suit them in the future uh plugins I say
24:05only for for Google and GitHub at the
24:07moment very very simple to configure uh
24:11and you see from the screenshot there
24:13you can now sign in with GitHub we could
24:14sign in with Google it's worth
24:17mentioning I mean one of the reasons I
24:20mean o 2 is obviously a secure
24:22authentication mechanism but one of the
24:25drivers for people towards o 2 is is
24:27bringing in user data at registration at
24:31the beginning uh so you know when you're
24:33signing up for something it's great
24:34because it takes all your information
24:35from GitHub from from Google or wherever
24:38and brings it in at the moment that
24:40isn't supported in uh the cloud set
24:43integration and the reason that isn't
24:45supported is cloudstack does not have
24:47self-registration uh it hasn't ever uh
24:51and it doesn't for security reasons that
24:53might be something that changes in the
24:54future in which case the O2 stuff would
24:57would would uh quickly evolve to to to
25:01uh to work with that but because cloud
25:03has no self sign up you can't use o ool
25:06to for self sign up because there's no
25:07concept of self sign
25:09up okay there the the features that
25:12Marco and I really liked the look of I
25:14think we've gone through about eight uh
25:16there uh We've also got some other ones
25:20which didn't you know we also really
25:22like but didn't really have time to go
25:24through in sort of detail today um and
25:27again you I think 36 in total we still
25:29haven't got all of them just let me
25:31highlight some of these uh there's a new
25:33feature for granular storage management
25:36of secondary storage so you can actually
25:38get down to file file level on secondary
25:41storage uh to to manage that storage
25:44through the cloudstack UI and API you
25:47can now shut cloudstack down safely okay
25:50and it will clear out its cues clear its
25:52jobs and uh shut its down itself down in
25:55a graceful way and I know anybody who
25:58supports a cloudsight environment and
25:59regularly has to restart Services
26:01they'll be thankful of that we've got a
26:04new dashboard you'll see that straight
26:05away when we when we do the demo uh
26:08capsi which is the cppy provider for
26:10Cuban
26:1180s uh that's been more tightly
26:15integrated with the uh cloudstack cuber
26:18service so they're now aware of each
26:20other so in the Clack Cuban 80s service
26:23you can see all of your Cuban 80s
26:26clusters not just the ones created
26:28through the Cuban at service we're now
26:30supping Vere 8 uh which is great
26:33although how long we'll need to continue
26:35to cons to support VMware for I don't
26:37know that's anybody's guess at the
26:39moment uh we've got uh some new storage
26:42providers uh the guys over at AT&T I
26:45hope they don't mind me name checking
26:46them I'd like to say thanks uh they've
26:48contributed support for HP Primera and
26:51pure flash array uh which is fantastic
26:53storage platform obviously they're
26:55they're using so we've now got managed
26:56storage for for both both of those
26:58there's a new more flexible model for
27:01for for tags uh for host and storage
27:04pools uh and the store poool guys uh
27:09have have created kbm host ha
27:11specifically for store poool and there
27:14there's more than that list so you know
27:16if you've got one action after you've
27:18watched this uh watch this webinar go
27:21away look at the release notes go and
27:22have a look at the the full list of new
27:24features because we certainly haven't
27:25covered them all today
27:29okay I think it's probably time for for
27:31a demo uh we're working I think to using
27:35release candidate three or release
27:37candidate 4 because the official uh
27:39release hasn't actually hit the streets
27:42although it probably has by the time we
27:43finished doing this webinar uh Marco and
27:46we're going to go through uh some of the
27:48headlines the VMware to KVM migration uh
27:51KVM import vnf appliances and cloudstack
27:55object storage
27:58over to you Marco let's start showing
28:01the last feature you talk about it's the
28:05AL 2 authentication so uh let me
28:08navigate with with as a user to do
28:13something inside the cloud stack so I am
28:15already authenticated with jiub in that
28:18case so in the login page of cloud stack
28:22just click and I am inside of cloud
28:26stack and so I manage and now that's the
28:30shortest demo ever right
28:33Marco it's really easier and and so you
28:37have here the new UI it's amazing why G
28:41is really you have our our information
28:44about your environment consolidate in
28:47the dashboard page so here you have the
28:50number of instance and volum is gas
28:53Network compute storage everything on
28:57that page right yeah that's the user
29:00dashboard you've got there Marco right
29:02exactly yeah this is the user dashboard
29:04yeah yeah and there's also a I guess
29:07when you log on as admin later we'll see
29:09the new admin dashboard as well let me
29:12show a feure here it's a as a user let's
29:17Object Store it's a very interesting
29:20feature so it's already connected and
29:23created the provider here using
29:26Mino so
29:28let me just create a test
29:32one here okay okay and with one giga I
29:38make it public gios
29:40okay so which you
29:43want Alex is talking here so here I have
29:48the bucket I can browse so and wead a
29:51file for
29:53example let me just get a file to put
29:56inside that there maybe an image
30:00so got it yeah here is the
30:05image
30:06so I can add a power
30:15value and N Load so here I am and if I
30:19navigate to
30:21this I get the link to use as a p let me
30:24copy
30:25this address
30:28open a
30:31new and so it's downloaded here you know
30:36that was that was the pre-signed link
30:38you Ed right yeah yes it's very very
30:41easy
30:42to to use it and for example using
30:45application or something to user
30:47download in in the application layer so
30:50it's a really cool uh features feature
30:55so um
30:58from uh let let's talk a little bit
31:00about
31:01vnf I think it's interesting feature you
31:04have here a user wi navigate to the
31:07network has a new Option here is z vnf
31:09Appliance so I I already have a PF sense
31:14created here I can go to there and so I
31:18have the end points to to manage
31:21directly in the PF sense UI to for
31:25example go inside
31:28and I think
31:30admin it's h PF sens is I don't remember
31:35password maybe it's it no
31:38password I forgot to do password by the
31:41way very secure Mar Cloud stack Cloud
31:45stack I think it is yeah it
31:50is so I can get the control as a user of
31:54my own Fire Control and set up it as as
31:57I want for example if I do some load
31:59balance or some specific uh rule for the
32:02firewall something else I can C Direct
32:05on thef sense it not support on the PF
32:08sense for example go here if if my
32:14provider let can let available to me for
32:16example others like Flex one and microti
32:21and C quaza F5 big IP load balancer and
32:27others it's AOS of and these are
32:30templates that the cloud admin has
32:32created based on those particular images
32:35of those vnfs right yeah just to show a
32:37little bit how it works for example you
32:39explain in the presentation about the
32:41network setup and there stuff that is H
32:45it's set on the template right so when
32:48you can go here for example I want two
32:51Nicks of three Nicks for this uh this uh
32:56let me get a another one think plate is
32:59a micro tick here okay so I get this
33:03three one two Ls here because it two l
33:08so the one and the L number one okay so
33:12here I can select who will be the Lan my
33:16network with the name one and the
33:20Lan so and that Network there that
33:23you're choosing that's just a cloudstack
33:24network right an L2 Network or
33:28related with theet the network that the
33:31vnf appliance need needed to be related
33:34with the cloud stack
33:36Network as well right Define a name
33:41firewall Z2 and so it's
33:46like and create a virtual machine so
33:50it's very simple yeah and that what
33:52that's doing so people know that that's
33:54going in creting a new instance of the
33:56side as you specified it's using the
33:58template but it's then doing these ex
34:00extra bits which is configuring uh all
34:03of the interfaces as you've specified
34:05it's giving the user the endpoint for
34:07administration uh and importantly it's
34:10letting service providers build for for
34:13usage of that Appliance right exactly it
34:17it let the users uh have uh uh is free
34:22to select the the appliance they needed
34:25to specifically use for example and use
34:28as a service then so we just install and
34:31use it and config configure as they want
34:35you know they us no needed to not not
34:37not depending off physical Appliance to
34:39the dad or or the service provider to
34:42the D dad by themselves you know it's a
34:44really cool feature as well okay so G
34:48let's explain a little bit now about
34:51some Administration stuffs
34:53here I think you have for example a nice
34:57f with dis advant of BR vmir many user
35:01want to an alternative to VM right
35:06correct Marco I was gonna say before you
35:08do could we have a quick look at the the
35:11template side of the
35:13vnf yeah for sure yeah you've show
35:16you've shown us the user experience
35:18right which is very simple but I guess
35:19you need to configure let me take this
35:22PF sense here just to show the settings
35:26so the user here now can for example uh
35:30select the NX uh the the vnf needed to
35:34Havey win is created if you need to add
35:38another one you have a specific uh
35:40window here uh to do that and also so
35:44you can for example set the method to
35:47access the end point the port the vendor
35:50the version what is the default web
35:53password and web user not to only that
35:57about the password for example you can
35:59select you can also inform the users the
36:03SSG uh password also the user the user
36:08the SSG user for example to it's it's
36:12it's just to show to the user the
36:14default information the default
36:16credential and the the instance is ready
36:19to the instance the vnf appliance
36:22created you be set you know that's it
36:26and then creating a new template similar
36:29to creating an existing it's a very
36:32similar G so uh they you can see it's
36:35like a h a template the uni difference
36:39here is select the vnf so as a template
36:43type okay and if you do that it then
36:45gives you all the options for the
36:46network interface and the parameters
36:48that are going in once this is created
36:50you go to the should the should the
36:52templating so set the the the
36:55information you you want to about the
36:57vnf get it well let's go to the this is
37:02a you know previously you have the
37:05VMware injection G where it's possible
37:08to get a v spere cluster inject inside
37:12Cloud stack so now the community
37:16extended this functionality for other
37:19interesting things uh basically related
37:22with realy Community get this there is a
37:25many user want to migrate from VMware to
37:28others platforms so and Cloud stch now
37:32it's a very strong platform to help
37:35users that needed to reduce these costs
37:38related with VMware so the VMware you
37:41continue using for example you have the
37:43manager manager existence like before
37:46that so that functionality has been
37:47there for years anyway that's the
37:49ability to bring in from a existing V
37:51center right yeah when I select for
37:54example V more I can also now migrate
37:58existing instance VMware instance to KVM
38:04yeah so you have we have two options
38:08here for example if I have a
38:13cluster configured registered in Cloud
38:17stack I can select existing cluster here
38:21and so I can select the Zone yeah the
38:24data center yeah to list the instance so
38:29the will be here so there in there
38:31instances that are already managed by
38:33cloudstack it's already controlling the
38:36Venter but you're going to change the
38:38hypervisor type of those instances from
38:40VMware to KVM right exactly in the user
38:44case in in this scenario for example
38:46exactly to get
38:48uh V VM more viral machine and convert
38:52it in a KVM virtual machine I think it's
38:55a really interesting feature for the
38:58user also it's possible to manage for
39:01example if I don't have the V you're
39:03connected with cloudstack is not managed
39:05the class is not managed by Cloud stack
39:08so you need to just insert the
39:10credentials here the VMR V Center host
39:14you have a typo here but you need to fix
39:16it after so uh the V Center data center
39:20the username password and then
39:23connecting list it's very easy basically
39:27any any VMware VM that's in a V sensor
39:30we can whether it's in clat or or
39:33external clat we can point at it get the
39:35VM convert it to KVM and it goes into a
39:38kbm clust yeah yeah yeah it's a it's a
39:41very interesting feature here for
39:43example I have some uh instance VM or
39:46instance ruining and on this cluster
39:49here I select okay so let me get this
39:52first one here is a rock Lenox 64 oh
39:56let's let's get the Microsoft Windows
39:59here
40:01import it's important message here
40:04ruining Windows VM need to be I mention
40:09that before yeah yeah let me get this
40:13power on Rock Linux here so it is
40:18important to say G first a warning here
40:23it's if you one to convert a
40:28VMware virtual machine into a KVM
40:31instance it's better to do that with
40:35powered off instance okay but Linux you
40:38can do it but the time you be longer
40:43than I sto it uh virtu instance okay so
40:47it's possible but maybe not recommended
40:50and take will take long yeah exactly
40:52it's possible but it's not recommend
40:53exactly for example let me Define a name
40:55here for for this instance this this
40:57field here it's a the display name you
41:00showing into the cloud stack you have
41:03another type of here is not a host name
41:06it's a the instance host name so you'll
41:11be fix it after you can Define the VMR
41:15uh the the instance host name here to be
41:19registered in internal
41:21DNS also you have you have uh Al it's
41:25possible to select a domain and a
41:28project and account it's a multitenant
41:31platform you need to do the stuff as
41:34well also have two options here to
41:38select a KVM host class to perform the
41:43conversion so I have two hostes in this
41:46cluster so but if you don't select this
41:50you'll
41:51be randomic to do that random okay yeah
41:55exactly that's that's that's the host
41:58that's not the destination host that's
42:01the host that's actually going to do you
42:02perform the process with using vert v2v
42:07yeah which is I guess pretty CPU
42:09intensive yeah exactly because you
42:11needed to do a lot of conversion Etc
42:13memory intens usage as well Etc this
42:17this second options here is to select
42:21where you want to use as a temporary
42:26store of the copy you can select the
42:30second storage or primary storage so if
42:34you select for example primary storage
42:37you have a list here and if you select
42:39the second you'll be us using the defa
42:42secondary storage one if you know don't
42:45select anything you'll be use the
42:47secondary storage to do
42:48that okay so as this VM is power on and
42:54you have a 512 megabits of memory so
43:00it's important to say
43:02that as the VM you will be converted
43:05into a
43:06KVM I can select any computer offering
43:10but it's important to check about the
43:13capacity the the the Intensive how much
43:16intensive memory for example the
43:19application you have running inside the
43:22the VM you need so it's important to
43:24take attention on this detail
43:27okay so let me select this one and so
43:31there is another options about a network
43:34all duplicate Mac address you can
43:37maintain the same Mac address you use
43:40you are using in the uh VM instance but
43:46it's important for example for
43:48application that requires the license
43:51requires the mech address to to own for
43:54example it's a or some entry in the DNS
43:58something like that you I'm guessing
44:00it's going to be pretty dangerous uh if
44:02you if you use it you don't need it
44:05that's why it's off by default right at
44:08the end you have here the network by
44:10default select the network the VM is
44:13running so or you can select another one
44:17you want you
44:18know and Lou sheet in background the
44:23process to convert yeah
44:26now I've SE I've seen this running and I
44:28know this webinar is going to be
44:30finished by the time that will be
44:31converted it's not an instant process
44:34right on the size of the machine not an
44:36instance process
44:37exactly in the same page here G about
44:40import and exporting since we have
44:43KVM so what can I do it's is very
44:47similar to the VMware process but you
44:52have it's more extensible for example I
44:55can I I already have my KVM cluster
44:58configurated into cloudstack so in that
45:02case I just
45:04select the Zone the Pod the cluster and
45:07so I have the list of instance not
45:12managed by cloudstack and the manager as
45:15well I can select for example this one
45:17to manage so let Marco let's just make
45:20that clear to because I understand this
45:21so this is you've got a KVM cluster in
45:25Cloud set it's got whatever you've got
45:27there six machines in it six instances
45:30but you've also got one that is an
45:32independent kbm instance nothing to do
45:34with cloud and all you're doing here is
45:36pulling that into cloud is that correct
45:39and it's there is many options here D
45:41the first options is manage or manage
45:44existing instance into Cloud stack you
45:46already have for example the cluster KVM
45:49cluster configure add inside Cloud stack
45:52and then you can manage and manage
45:53instance the second option is
45:56is I'm Mist there you
45:59go the danger of uh the danger of using
46:03Mac the same Mac address right exactly
46:06that yeah uh important instance from
46:09remote KVM that's the point you want to
46:12to to to explain right J you need to
46:15define the host here the username hoot
46:19for example the password and we where
46:24will be the temporary uh path to store
46:28the Keo file in the Des in the in the
46:32Target Hol in that case and then you
46:35select here where which zone you want to
46:40uh import the instance yeah okay so that
46:44is that's where you've got just a KVM
46:46host nothing to do with Cloud stack
46:48nothing related with go and get an
46:51instance that's why you need credentials
46:52there because Cloud doesn't know yeah
46:54bang bring it into CL okay get
46:56that other option is for example if you
46:59have some cluster configured in your
47:02Cloud stack you can import key code to
47:06image from the local storage disk for
47:10example but you have also the the the uh
47:13you can also select it from the shared
47:16storage for example and and select the
47:21dis you want and import instance from
47:23the
47:24file nice feature right great features
47:28some
47:29great good is there anything else you
47:31were going to demo today
47:33Marco um I think you cover everything
47:37maybe a snapshot copy it's a it's a very
47:42easy I think it's a simple feature you
47:45have for example when you select
47:47something take instant you can select
47:50for example the
47:52volume and it's a oops it's a
47:57snapshot instance volume snapshot this
48:00one I no it's not here G
48:05sorry snap instance in
48:10storage volum
48:13is take a snapshot ah yes here you
48:16define a name and you can select it the
48:20snap shop you be always created in the
48:23ACH Zone and then can select the
48:27additional one it's very simple you know
48:29yeah it's very simple but you know I
48:32mentioned this when I was talking
48:33through the slides but Alex had uh done
48:36with that which is some work he was
48:37doing with a customer I think which was
48:40around the idea that you can then around
48:43put some scripting around the end of
48:45that to actually use that as the
48:46foundation of Disaster Recovery as a
48:48service so it's a simple feature that
48:50enables a lot of other stuff the part
48:53the interesting part in here in theover
48:55scenario for example the user can Define
48:58their policies no need to be uh rigid
49:02policies that from the vendor for
49:04example yeah yeah I get it I get it
49:08thank you very much uh we have a a few
49:10few questions I think probably best we
49:13won't take those because we needed to uh
49:15to keep this down to time so we'll we'll
49:16follow up with some questions on a blog
49:18or or something like that uh thank you
49:22people for for for listening this to to
49:24to this today thank you Marco for for
49:26the demos uh look out for cloud 419
49:29release announcements which will be next
49:31week uh download the release notes you
49:34know what's there uh and we look forward
49:36to to speaking to you all about uh your
49:38experiences with 419 so thanks for
49:40listening thank you
49:46[Music]
49:53guys

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