Tuning for Zero Packet Loss in Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 3

Posted on: July 18, 2017

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In Part 1 of this series Federico Iezzi, EMEA Cloud Architect with Red Hat covered the architecture and planning requirements to begin the journey into achieving zero packet loss in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 for NFV deployments. In Part 2 he went into the details around the specific tuning and parameters required. Now, in Part 3, Federico concludes the series with an example of how all this planning and tuning comes together!

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Tuning for Zero Packet Loss in Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 2

Posted on: July 13, 2017July 18, 2017

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Ready for more Fast Packets?!

In Part 1 we reviewed the fundamentals of achieving zero packet loss, covering the concepts behind the process. In his next instalment Federico Iezzi, EMEA Cloud Architect with Red Hat continues his series diving deep into the details behind the tuning.

Buckle in and join the fast lane of packet processing!

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Tuning for Zero Packet Loss in Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 1

Posted on: July 11, 2017July 13, 2017

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For Telcos considering OpenStack, one of the major areas of focus can be around network performance. While the performance discussion may often begin with talk of throughput numbers expressed in Million-packets-per-second (Mpps) values across Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) hardware, it really is only the tip of the performance iceberg. The most common requirement is to have absolutely stable and deterministic network performance (Mpps and latency) over the absolutely fastest possible throughput. With that in mind, many applications in the Telco space require low latency that can only tolerate zero packet loss.

In this “Operationalizing OpenStack” blogpost Federico Iezzi, EMEA Cloud Architect with Red Hat, discusses some of the real-world deep tuning and process required to make zero packet loss a reality!

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OpenStack Down Under – OpenStack Days Australia 2017

Posted on: June 26, 2017June 26, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

As OpenStack continues to grow and thrive around the world the OpenStack Foundation continues to bring OpenStack events to all corners of the globe. From community run meetups to more high-profile events like the larger Summits there is probably an OpenStack event going on somewhere near you.

One of the increasingly popular events is the OpenStack Days series. OpenStack Days are regionally focussed events sponsored by local user groups and businesses in the OpenStack universe. The are intended to be formal events with a detailed structure, keynotes and sponsorship.

This year’s OpenStack Days – Australia was held June 1st in Melbourne, Australia and Red Hat was proud to be a sponsor with speakers in multiple tracks!

Back to Boston! A recap of the 2017 OpenStack Summit

Posted on: June 19, 2017June 19, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

This year the OpenStack® Summit returned to Boston, Massachusetts. The Summit was held the week after the annual Red Hat® Summit, which was also held in Boston. The combination of the two events, back to back, made for an intense, exciting and extremely busy few weeks.

More than 5,000 attendees and 1,000 companies were in attendance for OpenStack Summit. Visitors came from over 60 countries and could choose from more than 750 sessions.

And of course all sessions and keynotes are now easily accessible for online viewing at your own leisure.

The Summit proved to be a joyful information overload and I’d like to share with you some of my personal favorite moments.

Using Ansible Validations With Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 3

Posted on: June 15, 2017June 15, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

Dave Costakos, Manager OpenStack Solution Architecture, North America

In the previous two blogposts (Part 1 and Part 2) we demonstrated how to create a dynamic Ansible inventory file for a running OpenStack cloud. We then used that inventory to run Ansible-based validations with the ansible-playbook command from the CLI.

In the final part of our series, we demonstrate how to run those same validations using two new methods: the OpenStack scheduling service, Mistral, and the Red Hat OpenStack director UI.

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Using Ansible Validations With Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 2

Posted on: June 12, 2017June 12, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

Dave Costakos, Manager OpenStack Solution Architecture, North America

In Part 1 we demonstrated how to set up a Red Hat OpenStack Ansible environment by creating a dynamic Ansible inventory file (check it out if you’ve not read it yet!).

Next, in Part 2 we demonstrate how to use that dynamic inventory with included, pre-written Ansible validation playbooks from the command line.

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Using Ansible Validations With Red Hat OpenStack Platform – Part 1

Posted on: June 8, 2017June 12, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

Dave Costakos, Manager OpenStack Solution Architecture, North America

Ansible is helping to change the way admins look after their infrastructure. It is flexible, simple to use, and powerful. Ansible uses a modular structure to deploy controlled pieces of code against infrastructure, utilizing thousands of available modules, providing everything from server management to network switch configuration.

With recent releases of Red Hat OpenStack Platform access to Ansible is included directly within the Red Hat OpenStack Platform subscription and installed by default with Red Hat OpenStack Platform director.

In this three-part series you’ll learn ways to use Ansible to perform powerful pre and post deployment validations against your Red Hat OpenStack environment, utilizing the special validation scripts that ship with recent Red Hat OpenStack Platform releases.

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What’s new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11?

Posted on: May 18, 2017June 6, 2017

August Simonelli, Technical Marketing Manager, Cloud

We are happy to announce that Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 is now Generally Available (GA).

Version 11 is based on the upstream OpenStack release, Ocata, the 15th release of OpenStack. It brings a plethora of features, enhancements, bugfixes, documentation improvements and security updates. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 contains the additional usability, hardening and support that all Red Hat releases are known for. And with key enhancements to Red Hat OpenStack Platform’s deployment tool, Red Hat OpenStack Director, deploying and upgrading enterprise, production-ready private clouds has never been easier.

So grab a nice cup of coffee or other tasty beverage and sit back as we introduce some of the most exciting new features in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11!

Using OpenStack: Building a Private Cloud with Managed Service Providers

Posted on: May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

Jeff Jameson, Manager, OpenStack & Cloud Infrastructure Marketing

Since 2011, when OpenStack was first released to the community, the following and momentum behind it has been amazing. In fact, it quickly became one of the fastest growing open source projects in the history of open source. Now, with nearly 700 community sponsors, over 600 different modules, and over 50,000 lines of code contributed, OpenStack has become the default platform of choice for much of the private and public cloud infrastructure.

This kind of growth doesn’t happen by chance. It’s because businesses and organizations alike have experienced *real* benefits, whether it be creating greater efficiency, faster time to market, automated infrastructure management, or simply saving them money, just to name a few.

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