OpenStack and Commercial Private Clouds Can Beat Public Cloud on Cost – 451 Research

Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/10/prweb13764156.htm

OpenStack and Commercial Private Clouds Can Beat Public Cloud on Cost – 451 Research
But your Private Cloud should be big enough, read more on this

Ubuntu 16.0 released with Full Container Support, Telco Grade OpenStack & Networking latency enhancements..

LONDON 13th October 2016: Ubuntu, the platform used in the majority of cloud deployments worldwide, today released version 16.10 with hybrid cloud operations, bare-metal cloud performance, the ability to lift-and-shift 80% of Linux VMs to machine containers, Kubernetes for world-leading process-container coordination, full container support in OpenStack, and telco-grade networking latency enhancements.

Network performance is a primary focus of this release, with updated versions of Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), OpenVSwitch (OVS) and virtualization technologies, all able to handle critical application traffic for lower latency and greater throughput. Ubuntu 16.10 and the corresponding updates to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS further enhance Ubuntu’s position as the leading private cloud infrastructure operating system, with OpenStack Newton, DPDK, enhanced OpenVSwitch and LXD machine containers alongside regular KVM based VM guests.

So that implies, No more manual DPDK installation, Recompile initrd to enjoy DPDK.. It's all built-in.. by default now.. 

Also Refined "Auto Pilot" - part of LandScape it self, 

which helps you to build "Fresh OpenStack Cloud effortlessly"..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as09TEW0-4Q

Read about Ubuntu 16.0 - full article @ below url

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/10/13/canonical-releases-ubuntu-16-10/

Also Ubuntu BootStack - You Cloud, We Manage (Ubuntu says)..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSTwyG7bbg

Install Newton release of OpenStack in CentOS (All OpenStack services in a vm)

Download Centos7 (x86_64 Release) -
Visit below URL (click any link download CentOS7 ISO)
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso

Create a VM (Min 4GB RAM or Higher), Use above ISO and install CentOS in vm.
Read every step on below "OpenStack All in one box Guide" & Execute Centos Steps from below guide.

https://www.rdoproject.org/install/quickstart/

or

https://communities.cisco.com/community/developer/openstack/blog/2016/12/03/how-to-stack-devstack-newton-on-centos-7-in-virtualbox-on-mac

OneOps is very promising "Cross Cloud Platform"..

http://www.oneops.com/about.html

It reminds me "VMware Cross-Cloud" - and now OneOps is OpenSource Alternative for it.. You can build your Enterprise applications effortlessly across various clouds.. use OpenSource "OneOps"

Openstack Days India 2016

http://openstackdays.in/

(Keynote, Workshops, Hackathon, Networking, Tech Updates)

8th & 9th July (Fri & Sat)

Openstack Days India 2016 will be held at Bangalore, J.N. Tata Auditorium, National Science Symposium Complex. IISc is about 35kms from the airport

does mirantis fuel do NIC bonding on compute,storage nodes while provisioning ?

the prime reasons why would one even consider cloud deployments tools like mirantis fuel  --are

1)ease of provisioning - saving time and reducing tedium

2)have a self learning mechanism for building new clouds which learn operational lessons from the problems occurred pm existing clouds which were once built .... 

for example: to ensure NIC redundancy -  one does bonding  - so does Mirantis fuel   do this automatically if free specify from dashboard?

follow this page to know more....

spanning tree portfast settings for PXE booting

In continuation to the previous page on Mirantis Fuel --  while we were setting up openstack  on HP DL 380 G7s  using Fuel - we observed that the nodes were timing out on DHCP during the PXE booting --  as with any Linux Kickstarts we recalled to set 'spanning-tree portfast ' on the cisco switch port use for PXE on the node - and we could resolve the timeout issues

Cheers!!