eva florence 2012 ~ open low-cost ha cluster cloud
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In the last few years, one of the main problems of the cultural heritage institution is the progressive reduction of the investments. The hardware maintenance and licensing costs greatly affects IT budget. Virtualization addresses the need to streamline and consolidate infrastructure, even if the license costs remain high for commercial clouds. Open source solutions allow you to implement virtualization cloud which performance and functionality are suitable for the masses, without the constraints of hardware certifications and proibitive licenses costs. Our infrastructure allowed us to build a ha virtualized environment using commodity hardware, regardless of specific products or manufacturers. Based on the interaction between a common linux kernel module and a software-based storage pool, is managed by an intuitive web interface. The system provides adequate performances provisioning services like web pages, OPAC, digital resources showcase, cataloging tools, library management, mail, etc. Cristiano Corsani Giovanni ToraldoTRANSCRIPT
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Open low cost HA cluster cloud
Cristiano Corsani – system engineer - IT department - Florence National Library
Giovanni Toraldo – OSS solutions architect at Libersoft
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
BNCF services
SBN - national cataloguing system
OPAC - online public access catalogue
WWW - our web interface
Digital data access - public access to our digital storage
Internal services - library management and Intranet services
Cultural Heritage Ministry has progressively reduced the investment
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
BNCF data center costs
Open Source – reduce costs of:
SOFTWARE: development and maintenance
LICENSING: server, apps and 250 workstation
Virtualization cloud – reduce costs of:
HARDWARE: maintenance and electricity costs
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Virtualization
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Commercial solutions
Hypervisor license - depends on CPU and/or memory
Orchestrator license - live migration, HA, backup, …
Certified hardware – limited hardware supported
Centralized storage system – needed for HA
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Our Open solution
Open hypervisorit comes with Linux kernel in standard distro
Orchestratorlive migration, ha, backup, … intuitive and web based
Commodity hardwareonly very low requirements needed
No centralized storage systemspecial network filesystem is used instead physical storage
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Compare
Commercial Our Open
Hypervisor license 4000€ + 12000€/year ---
Centralized storage+ FB lan
5000€ ---
Hardware 20000€ << 20000€
Installation + Maintenance
500€/day 500€/day
3x Sun Fire (2 x quad-core Xeon, 24GB RAM, 2 x 500 GB SATA2)
3 HOSTS 6 CPU 72GB RAM 1TB Storage
Our Open Cloud is: open, simple, easily scalable and affordable
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Open details
Virtualization (OpenNebula and Proxmox)
Massive long-term storage for digitalized resources (GlusterFS)
Migration to Open Source desktop/server platforms. (Ubuntu and MooseFS)
Giovanni Toraldo, OSS solutions architect in LiberSoft
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Open hypervisor
Freely available: on your GNU/Linux distribution;
Enterprise-ready: powerful mix of enterprise features and a rich set of partners.
Support: widest range of hardware without hassles (Thanks Linux!)
High-performance: top-level virtualization benchmarks for Windows and Linux workloads.
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Open VM management software
OpenNebula Adaptable: highly modular. Proven: massive scale production
environments; Interoperable: XML-RPC, EC2, OCCI
Proxmox Easy to deploy: ISO installer or from bare
Debian Easy to use: centralized web management
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Low-end hardware requirements
The simplest virtualization host is... your laptop: CPU with virtualization extensions; A bunch of available memory A bunch of available disk space
Use your workstations to prepare VM before starting them in production.
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Focus on storage
Shared storage is not an option for live migration and High-Availability.
A good storage solution: Availability: the sky should not fall on our heads; Scalability: we add new bricks when needed; Price.
Common choice is to use a dedicated NAS/SAN (NetApp, EMC, QNAP and so on).
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Our choice: GlusterFS
GlusterFS is an open source distributed network filesystem.
How it works? Aggregate available disk space on your
hosts; Replicate data: HA and prevent data-loss; Data available via LAN with standard
protocols: FUSE, NFS, CIFS.
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
GlusterFS advantages
Scalability: to Petabytes and beyond! Affordability: use commodity hardware; Flexibility: deploy in any environment; Linear performances: no degradation; HA: replicate data on multiple places; Unified namespace: like a folder on a
local disk
Low cost cloud for BNCF EVA Florence 2012
Credits
Cristiano Corsani – system engineer - IT department Florence National Library
Email: [email protected]
Giovanni Toraldo – OSS solutions architect at Libersoft
Email: [email protected]