Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 version of the approximate sex analysis

Mirantis, one of the benchmark companies in the OpenStack field, released the latest MOS 8.0 version in early March 2016. This paper tries to make some inductive analysis based on the public data.

1. Version Overview 1.1 overview

• Community version: Liberty, the default integrated components include ceilometer,Cinder,Glance,Heat,Horizon, Ironic (first support),Keystone,Murano (an application catalog, first-time support),Neutron (using Open vSwitch 2.3.1, enhanced L3 HA VRRP, support for IPAM, support for VLAN and tunneling two types of tenant networks, and VMware DVS),Nova (default support V2.1 API),Sahara, Swift, Kubernetes
• HYPERVISOR:UBUNTU/KVM libvirt 1.2.9; QEMU 2.0.0; Support for Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 KVM,RHEL7 KVM, XenServer and VMware vCenter
• ceph:0.94.5 Hammer (Enhanced on a large number of small object support and all SSD clusters)
• Tested Extensibility: 100 nodes, 1000 virtual machines
• SDN: Automates the integration of Opendaylight, Juniper Contrail 3.0, Bigswitch, Midokura, and PLUMgrid SDN solutions through a plug-in mechanism, as well as support for VMware NSXV.
• Installation configuration: Installed on the CentOS 7.1 x64 Fuel
• Internal component version:

  • Puppet 3.8.3

  • Mcollective 2.3.3

  • Cobbler 2.4.4

  • HA Proxy 1.5.3

  • Galera 25.3.10

  • RabbitMQ 3.5.6

  • Pacemaker 1.1.12

  • Corosync 2.3.4

  • MongoDB 2.6.10

  • MySQL 5.6.23 (Ubuntu)

• Overall architecture

1.2 Key new features 1.2.1 Bare metal service Management (ironic)

The MOS 8.0 is the first publicly released OpenStack release to support bare metal management services ironic, and bare metal management services provide bare metal resource provisioning and lifecycle management for cloud platforms. By using bare metal services, you can deploy high-load, performance-sensitive applications such as Cassandra,hadoop, NFV, and more in bare metal, while also combining with big data Services Sahara to improve single-machine performance for Hadoop clusters.

1.2.2 Keystone authentication method based on Fernet

MOS 8.0 pioneered the use of the newly developed Fernet-based Keystone authentication approach

1.2.3 introduces a new performance test package for improved stability

1. Tested networking, storage I/O and Ceph, and modified some bugs, such as Race condition while creating/deleting cinder volumes
2. Supports deploying RabbitMQ to separate nodes for improved performance
3. Automatic test coverage up to 70%
4. In the Liberty version, more than 1100 bugs have been fixed.

1.2.4 supports distributed OpenStack Controllers deployments for increased scalability and reliability

• Deploy OpenStack control nodes across enclosures to support tunnel-based networks

1.2.5 Kubernetes

• The new Murano Package
• IaaS automatically expands to Google Cloud
• True hybrid cloud support for automation

1.2.6 Cloud Foundry Support

Mirantis and Pivotal by partnering to enable MOS to support Cloud Foundry. (Source: Http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2407971/mirantis-and-pivotal-partner-to-support-cloud-foundry-on-openstack)

• One-click on MOS to deploy Cloud Foundry
• Applications in MOS Murano can be deployed to the Cloud Foundry
• MOS also supports other PAAs, including Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and other PAAs

1.3 Supporting private cloud ecosystems through partnerships

Category	Our Partners	The support that was done
Calculation	Canonical	Ubuntu
	Cisco	UCS devices
	Critix	NFV
	Cloudbase Solutions	Hyper-V
	Dell	PowerEdge Series Servers
	Hitachi	Store
	Hp	Proliant Series Servers
	Huawei	Storage, Ethernet switch
	Wave	Server
	Association	Thinkcenter Server
	Oracle	Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance storage
	Vmware	VMware Hypervisor
Store	Huawei,emc,hitach,solidfire,netapp, etc.	Enterprise Storage
Internet	6wind,a10 Networks, Akanda,appcito,arista network,avi networks,biarcabig Switch Networks,f5,huawei, etc.	SDN, switches, NFV, VPNs, and more

Mirantis in the ecosystem, its coverage of a wide range, done almost perfect!! There should be no better in the industry. Its coverage includes:

For more information, please read https://www.mirantis.com/partners/unlocked-partner-catalog/.

2. Major new Features 2.1Bare Metal Service Management (ironic)

Usage scenarios:

Create ironic node:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96sHkr1JQc&feature=youtu.be

2.2 Murano + Kubernetes + GCE support Hybrid cloud

Support for auto-scalable, container-based MOS + Google cloud Hybrid Cloud:

If the extension:

Currently only supported for extensions to GCE:

For more information, please read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LV54VUVeX0&feature=youtu.be

3. Personal reviews

1. Private cloud ecosystem, Mirantis did a good job! Mirantis is taking the "MOS as Cloud Controller + certified Third party components" route.

2. MOS 8.0 has been enhanced in terms of scalability, but for the scale already tested (hundreds of nodes, thousands of virtual machines), it should be said to be seriously inadequate

3. The Liberty version, the function optimization is not many, the stability has improved

4. There are still so many bugs.

5. Thanks to Mirantis for his persistent contribution to the community

6. Mirantis began exerting force on PaaS and Hybrid Cloud

7. Looking forward to the development of Mirantis and Ucloud joint ventures in China

Reference Documentation:

• https://www.mirantis.com/blog/announcing-mirantis-openstack-8-0-the-most-stable-openstack-distribution-on-the-market/
• http://www.umcloud.com/blogs/mirantis-openstack-8-0-overview/
• Https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-8.0/release-notes.html#new-features
• Https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-8.0/pdf/Mirantis-OpenStack-8.0-RelNotes.pdf

Mirantis OpenStack 8.0 version of the approximate sex analysis