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2014-09-15 cloud platform master class
The Citrix Cloud Master Class on September 15th/16th, 2014, discussed the capabilities and architecture of the Citrix CloudPlatform, a flexible and scalable cloud orchestration platform. Key takeaways highlighted its comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality for managing private enterprise cloud deployments, multi-tenancy, and customer-proven production clouds. The session included details on the installation, configuration, and management of virtual machines, and emphasized the platform's agility and efficiency for dynamic business environments.
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2014-09-15 cloud platform master class
- 1. Citrix Cloud MasterClass September 15th/16th 2014 Important – Webinar Audio The audio for this webinar is available over VoIP. Just select the ‘Use Mic & Speakers’ option to listen to the webinar through your computers speakers. To listen using your telephone select the ‘Use Telephone’ option. For local numbers click the ‘additional numbers’ link. You will need to use the Access Code and Audio PIN. This webinar will be recorded
- 2. Building Private EnterpriseClouds with Citrix CloudPlatform Marc Trouard-Riolle Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, Citrix Systems Inc. September 2014
- 3. Tweet about thissession @citrix & @citrixcloud @mtrouardriolle
- 4. 5 Master ClassSummary Key Takeaways – Citrix CloudPlatform delivers comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality – Operations, service management & governance capabilities – Customer-proven production clouds driving real-world business – Citrix delivers the agility and efficiency demanded by dynamic businesses
- 5. 6 Agenda •What is CloudPlatform? • CloudPlatform Architecture and Infrastructure • Demo Environment • Installing & Configuring CloudPlatform • CloudPlatform Zones + Demo • Service Offerings, Accounts & Domains + Demo • Working with Virtual Machines + Demo • Working with Templates & ISOs • Quiz & Prize Giveaway
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- 10. 11 What isCloudPlatform? Multi-tenant cloud orchestration platform Open, Hypervisor agnostic, Massively Scalable Deploys on premise or as a hosted solution Runs both private enterprise workloads and cloud-native workloads Out-of-the-Box IaaS cloud delivery solution
- 11. 12 What doesCloudPlatform actually do? CloudPlatform abstracts the network, storage, and compute nodes that make up a datacenter CloudPlatform delivers these resources through a self-service portal as a simple-to-manage, scalable cloud infrastructure Users can setup their own computing resources including complex networking without any help from IT
- 12. 14 What isCloudPlatform? Massively Scalable Infrastructure Management • Tens of thousands of servers • Multiple geographically distributed datacenters Automatic Configuration Management • Guest Virtual Machine’s networking and storage settings are automatically configured • Managed pool of internal Virtual Appliances supports the cloud - Firewalling, Routing, DHCP, VPN access, Console proxy, Storage access & Replication - Simplifies Installation, Configuration, Ongoing management of a cloud deployment
- 13. 15 What isCloudPlatform? Graphical User Interface • An administrator's Web interface, used for provisioning and managing the cloud • An end-user's Web interface, used for running VMs and managing VM Templates • The UI can be customized to reflect the desired service provider or enterprise look and feel API and Extensibility • API gives programmatic access to all the management features available in the UI • API enables the creation of tools and new user interfaces to suit particular needs • API is maintained and is documented in the Developer’s Guide and API Reference • API fidelity with Amazon AWS
- 14. 16 CloudPlatform supportsMultiple Cloud Strategies Multi-tenant Public Cloud Private Clouds Public Clouds • Mix of shared and dedicated resources • Elastic scaling • Pay as you go • Public internet, VPN access Hosted Enterprise Cloud • Dedicated resources • Security • SLA bound • 3rd party owned and operated On-premise Enterprise Cloud • Dedicated resources • Security & total control • Internal network • Managed by Enterprise or 3rd party
- 15. 17 Key Benefitsof CloudPlatform Open No vendor lock-in. Open source and open standards enable a variety of choices in hypervisor, storage and network technologies and offer API fidelity with Amazon AWS Flexible The only platform that can enable both traditional enterprise and cloud-native workloads, battle-tested in real-world production environments Scalable Orchestrate tens of thousands of physical or virtual servers, across multiple geographically dispersed datacenters, all managed via a single pane of glass
- 16. 18 Open Platformoffers Wide Choice Hypervisor XenServer Hyper-V KVM VMware Bare Metal Block & Object Local Disk iSCSI Fiber Channel NFS Object Store Network & Network Services Network Type Isolation Firewall LB VPN Compute Storage Network
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- 20. 23 Monitoring theCloud Infrastructure
- 21. 24 User DrivenVirtual Machine Creation Wizards Select the Zone for your VM • Create from Template • Create from ISO Select the Operating System • Windows 8 • Windows 7 with MS Office Select the Computer Type • 1 Core, 1GHz, 4GB RAM • 4 Core, 2GHz, 8GB RAM Select the Network Type • Isolated • Shared
- 22. 25 Virtual PrivateCloud (VPC) Multi-tier Network Support for Complex Enterprise Applications Public Network/Internet Public IP 65.37.141.111 Private IP 10.1.1.112 DHCP, DNS User-data Public IP 65.37.141.112 10.1.1.2 Web VM1 10.1.1.3 Web VM2 NetScaler Load Balancer Private IP Juniper 10.1.1.111 SRX Firewall CCP Virtual Router CCP Virtual Router Virtual Network 10.1.1.0/24 VLAN 100 Virtual Network 10.1.2.0/24 VLAN 1001 10.1.2.21 10.1.2.18 10.1.2.31 Virtual Network 10.1.3.0/24 VLAN 141 App VM1 10.1.3.21 10.1.2.24 App VM2 10.1.3.45 10.1.3.24 DB VM1 CCP Virtual Router DHCP, DNS, User-data DHCP, DNS User-data, Source-NAT, VPN Public IP 65.37.141.115 Orchestrate complex n-tier applications & networks Uses VLANs for tier segregation and ACLs for security
- 23. 26 User VirtualMachine Management Start Stop Restart Destroy VM Operations 1 GB RAM 4 CPUs 4 GB RAM 200 GB 100 Mbps Change 2 CPUs 20 GB 20 Mbps Service Offering • CPU Utilized • Network Read • Network Writes • Disk Read • Disk Writes • CPU Utilized • Network Read • Network Writes VM Statistics VM Console Access
- 24. 27 User Volume& Snapshot Management Volume Volume Add / Delete Volumes Volume Template Create Templates Hourly Daily Now Weekly Monthly Schedule Snapshots View Snapshot History
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- 26. 29 250+ LargeScale Production Clouds In Deployment Production sites with 40,000+ Servers per Region Enterprise | Education | Government Service Providers | Telcos
- 27. CloudPlatform Architecture andInfrastructure
- 28. 31 CloudPlatform Architecture CloudPlatform consists of two parts • The Management Server • The cloud infrastructure that it manages Management Server
- 29. 32 CloudPlatform ManagementServer The Management Server • Provides the web user interface for the administrator • Provides a reference user interface for end-users • Provides the CloudPlatform API interface • Manages the assignment of Guest VMs to particular hosts • Manages the assignment of public and private IP addresses • Manages the allocation of storage to guests as virtual disks • Manages snapshots, templates, and ISO images • Provides a single point of configuration for the cloud Management Server
- 30. 33 CloudPlatform ManagementServer Physical Servers, Network & Storage Attached to CloudPlatform controllers Add an Orchestration engine Add a MySQL Database Add Business logic Add an API and UI Users and Administrators API and UI Administration (Business Logic) Orchestration Engine (Provisioning, Configuration & Scheduling) Servers Network Storage MySQL Cloud Database Compute Controller Network Controller Storage Controller
- 31. 34 VM VM VM VM VM VM Hypervisor Cloud Infrastructure - Host A Host is a single server Hosts provide the computing resources to run the Guest VMs Each Host has hypervisor software to manage the Guest VMs
- 32. 35 Cloud Infrastructure- Cluster A Cluster is a group of identical Hosts running the same hypervisor Each Cluster has dedicated Primary Storage Cluster Primary Storage
- 33. 36 Pod CloudInfrastructure - Pod A Pod is a group of Clusters With a Layer-2 switch Think of a Pod as a rack Layer-2 switch
- 34. 37 Cloud Infrastructure- Zone A Zone consists of one or more Pods and dedicated Secondary Storage Users can choose the Zone where their Virtual Machines are created Secondary Storage Zone
- 35. 38 Secondary Storage Zone Cloud Infrastructure - Zone The Pods & Secondary Storage are usually connected to a Layer-3 switch Each Pod is its own broadcast domain (network subnet) Layer-3 Switch
- 36. 39 Cloud Infrastructure- Zone A Zone often corresponds to a Datacenter
- 37. 40 Cloud Infrastructure- Zone Zones provide physical Isolation and Redundancy Zones can aid compliance with an organization’s data storage policies
- 38. 41 Cloud Infrastructure- Region Zones can be grouped into Regions Each with its own Management Server Regions allow higher availability and scalability US Region APAC Region EMEA Region
- 39. 42 Cloud Infrastructure– Primary Storage Each Cluster has its own private Primary Storage Stores the disk volumes for all the cluster’s VMs Allows VMs to move between hosts in the Cluster Cluster Primary Storage VM
- 40. 43 Cloud Infrastructure– Primary Storage Typically built using high performance hardware Shared Storage is normally recommended Examples: NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel Cluster Primary Storage
- 41. 44 Cloud Infrastructure– Secondary Storage Each Zone has its own Secondary Storage available to all hosts in the Zone Stores Templates, ISO images, Snapshots and must be NFS based Zone Layer-3 Switch Secondary Storage
- 42. 45 Cloud Infrastructure– Secondary Storage Region-wide Secondary Storage is Object Storage based Zone Layer-3 Switch Secondary Storage
- 43. 46 Typical CloudPlatformArchitecture Multi-site Enterprise Infrastructure Router MySQL Load Balancer L3 Core Switch Top of Rack Switch … … … … Servers Primary Mgmt Server Cluster Standby Mgmt Server Cluster Availability Zone 2 Object Store Pod 1 Pod 2 Pod 3 Pod N Cloud Operations Admin Availability Zone 1 MySQL
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- 45. 48 Demo Environment 10.200.41.1 192.168.10.1 Public-Guest Network (Advanced Zone) 192.168.10.12 192.168.10.15 192.168.10.21 192.168.10.22 192.168.10.23 192.168.10.24 192.168.10.11 192.168.10.8 Guest-Management Network (Basic Zone) Virtual XenServer vXS-01 Virtual XenServer vXS-02 Virtual XenServer vXS-04 Virtual XenServer vXS-03 Active Directory Citrix NetScaler VPX Internet Infrastructure Router NFS Server Management Server
- 46. Installing and ConfiguringCloudPlatform
- 47. 50 Management Server The Management Server gives the Administrator the ability to orchestrate the CloudPlatform environment through the administrative Web UI and APIs The Management Server is installed on one or more servers connected to a MySQL database Management Server
- 48. 51 Management Server A single Management Server can manage anywhere from 1 to 10,000 hosts in multiple Availability Zones, across multiple datacenters A Cluster of Management Servers can manage up to 100,000 hosts with a single pane of glass West Coast East Coast
- 49. 52 Management ServerRequirements The server that will run the management server and MySQL database must meet the following requirements: • Operating system: - Preferred: RHEL or CentOS 6.2, 6.3 or 6.4 64-bit - Also supported: RHEL 5.5 64-bit • 64-bit x86 CPU (more cores results in better performance) • 4 GB of memory • 50GB of local disk minimum; 500 GB of local disk recommended • At least 1 GB or better NIC • Statically allocated IP address • Fully qualified domain name (as returned by the hostname command) The management server may be placed on a virtual machine.
- 50. 53 Host/Hypervisor SystemRequirements The Host is where the cloud services run in the form of guest virtual machines Each host must meet the vendors’ minimum requirements: - Must support HVM (Intel-VT or AMD-V enabled) - 64-bit x86 CPU - 4 GB of memory - 16 GB+ disk for virtualization platform and VMs - Statically allocated IP address The latest hypervisor software hotfixes should be applied to all hosts All hosts within a cluster must be homogenous • The CPUs must be of the same type, count, feature flags and running the same hypervisor
- 51. 54 What arethe CloudPlatform System VMs? CloudPlatform uses several types of System Appliances (System VMs) to perform various tasks in the cloud • The Console Proxy System VM • The Secondary Storage System VM • The Virtual Router System VM The System VMs run on the same hosts as the Guest VMs CloudPlatform manages these System VMs, creating them, starting them and stopping them as needed, based on scale and immediate needs
- 52. 55 Console ProxySystem VM The Console Proxy has a role in presenting a console view via the web UI It connects the user’s browser to the VNC port made available via the hypervisor for the console of the Guest Both the administrator and end user web UIs offer a console connection
- 53. 56 Secondary StorageSystem VM Handles a variety of Secondary Storage activities • Importing (Registering) a new Template to a Zone (from a URL) • Exporting (Extracting) a Template from a Zone (to a URL) • Copying Templates between Zones • Copying a Template from Secondary Storage to Primary Storage when a VM is created for the first time on a particular Cluster • Snapshot backups
- 54. 57 Virtual RouterSystem VM The Virtual Router System VM is one of the most frequently used service providers Virtual Router Services offered can include • DHCP, DNS, LB, Port Forwarding, VPN, Static NAT, Source NAT, Firewall, Gateway, Network ACL, Security Groups, User Data There is one Virtual Router per network The end user can configure the Virtual Router using the CloudPlatform GUI or API
- 55. 58 The SystemVM Template Used to create all System VMs The template must be “seeded” to the secondary storage for each Zone before the Zone is created in CloudPlatform During setup a script copies the template from the internet repository into secondary storage, and seeds the mySQL database The zone must be seeded with a different template for each hypervisor Internet Secondary Storage Zone A system vm Secondary Storage system vm system vm Seeding Zone B
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- 57. 60 CloudPlatform Networking CloudPlatform Guest VMs communicate using a shared infrastructure They have the security and user perception that they have a private LAN Glenn-1 VM Glenn-2 VM Glenn-3 VM John Glenn Sally Ride Internet Ride-1 VM Ride-2 VM
- 58. 61 Two NetworkingModels – Basic Zone With Basic Zone Networking, all the Guest VMs share a single network Guest VM isolation is provided through Security Groups Glenn-1 VM Glenn-2 VM Glenn-3 VM John Glenn Sally Ride Internet Ride-1 VM Ride-2 VM Security Group Security Group
- 59. 62 Two NetworkingModels – Basic Zone Basic zone networking has tremendous scale (tens of thousands of VMs) Popular with service providers and for cloud-native application types Glenn-1 VM Glenn-2 VM Glenn-3 VM John Glenn Sally Ride Internet Ride-1 VM Ride-2 VM Security Group Security Group
- 60. 63 Two NetworkingModels – Advanced Zone With Advanced Zone Networking, Guest VM isolation is provided through VLANs Each account has its own isolated Guest network
- 61. 64 Two NetworkingModels – Advanced Zone Advanced Zone Networking offers many features • Virtual Private Cloud • Port Forwarding • Load Balancing • Network ACL • Source NAT • Static NAT • Gateway • Firewall • VPN
- 62. 65 Two NetworkingModels – Advanced Zone The practical limitations of VLAN switches limit the scalability of Advanced Zones
- 63. 66 CloudPlatform TrafficTypes There are four types of network traffic within CloudPlatform Network Traffic Type Public Guest VM Internet communications Guest Guest VM communications Management CloudPlatform Management Server and Host communications Storage Templates & snapshot transfers between Primary and Secondary storage
- 64. 67 CloudPlatform TrafficTypes Public traffic is generated when Guest VMs access the internet
- 65. 68 CloudPlatform TrafficTypes Guest traffic is generated when Guest VMs communicate with each other or gateway devices such as Virtual Routers
- 66. 69 CloudPlatform TrafficTypes Management traffic is generated when CloudPlatform’s internal resources communicate with each other
- 67. 70 CloudPlatform TrafficTypes Storage traffic is generated by the Secondary Storage System VM when Templates are transferred from Secondary to Primary storage or Snapshots are saved Primary Storage Secondary Storage VM Secondary Storage
- 68. 71 Basic ZoneNetwork Traffic Types A Basic Zone has only one physical network called the Guest network The single network carries 3 traffic types: • Guest • Management • Storage
- 69. 72 Advanced ZoneNetwork Traffic Types An Advanced Zone can have multiple physical networks The physical networks carry 4 traffic types: • Public • Guest • Management • Storage
- 70. Advanced Zone ZoneCreation Demo
- 71. Service Offerings Accounts,Users and Domains
- 72. 76 Disk offering Guest VM Network offering CloudPlatform Service Offerings Service offerings define a VM’s characteristics and capabilities 4 Types of service offering are created by the CloudPlatform administrator Compute offering Medium 1 x 1GHz Core 1 GB RAM Large 2 x 2GHz Core 2 GB RAM 5 GB 500 GB Small 1 x 500MHz Core 512 MB RAM 50 GB
- 73. 77 Compute Offerings Define the virtual hardware used to run guest VMs Includes CPU core count, processor speed and RAM size
- 74. 78 Disk Offerings Define the size of a Data Disk for Guest VMs created from a Template Define the size of the Root Volume for Guest VMs created from an ISO
- 75. 79 Network Offerings Describe the virtual router features available to VMs on a given guest network Examples are shared network, isolated network, NetScaler powered network
- 76. 80 System Offerings Used for configuring virtual infrastructure resources Only visible only to the CloudPlatform administrator
- 77. 81 Changing theCompute Offering used by a VM The compute offering used by a VM can be changed While the VM is Stopped, a user can change a VM’s Compute Offering to any available offering While the VM is Running, a user can change a VM’s Compute Offering with the following restrictions • The same or more Cores • The same or larger RAM (but only up to four times original size)
- 78. 82 Service OfferingLimits Service offering limits (e.g. 1 GHz, 1 core) are strictly enforced for core count For example, a guest with a service offering of one core will have the use of one core, regardless of how many cores are available Service offering limits for gigahertz are enforced only in the presence of contention for CPU resources • A single VM running on a Host will have the full clock speed of the CPU available to it • Multiple VMs running on a Host will use a weighting factor based on the clock speed in Service Offering to schedule CPU resources
- 79. 83 Compute OfferingTip A 2GHz processor may be slightly less than 2000MHz … maybe 1997MHz ! Since the hypervisor uses the actual MHz for provisioning, this will cause any offering needing 2000MHz to fail to find a suitable Host On XenServer check the actual CPU speed in /proc/cpuinfo
- 80. 84 Dedicated Resources When added to CloudPlatform, hardware resources can be dedicated to a specific Domain or Account Dedicating a Zone, Pod, Cluster or Host to a specific Domain or Account means that the Domain or Account will have sole access to the dedicated hardware Dedication can improve the scalability, security and manageability within a Domain or Account
- 81. 85 John.Glenn Alan.Tracy Sally.Ride Marketing Acme Corporation Accounts, Users and Domains Accounts typically represent a customer • For example an organization, a department or a person Accounts form isolation blocks • One account has no access to another account’s resources Users are the “Admins” for an account Can be more than one user per account • All account’s resources are shared between users Domains group accounts Domain-Admin can manage all of the resources of all accounts within the Domain Engineering Buzz.Aldrin
- 82. 86 Domains &Delegated Administration ROOT Sub-Domain Account X User 1 User 2 VM1 VM2 Account Y … Sub-Sub-Domain Account Z User 1 User 2 VM1 VM2 Every user can manage all VMs Every user can manage all VMs Admin Admin Admin Account Admin Account User 1 User 2 Admin Account Admin Account A VM1 VM2 Every user can manage all VMs Manageable by the ROOT-Admin Manageable by the Domain Admin Manageable by the Sub-Domain Admin
- 83. 87 Account &User Provisioning Accounts and Users can be provisioned by several means • Using the CloudPlatform GUI - Manually filling out dialog boxes - Using an LDAP or Microsoft Active Directory server • Using the CloudPlatform API LDAP user authentication is also supported
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- 87. Users, Domains &Service Offerings Demo
- 88. Working with VirtualMachines
- 89. 93 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM
- 90. 94 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO
- 91. 95 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style
- 92. 96 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style • Compute Characteristics
- 93. 97 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style • Compute Characteristics • Data Disk Size
- 94. 98 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style • Compute Characteristics • Data Disk Size • Affinity
- 95. 99 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style • Compute Characteristics • Data Disk Size • Affinity • Network / Security Group
- 96. 100 Creating VirtualMachines A user can make a variety of choices when deploying a new VM • The Zone to run the VM • Create with Template or ISO • Template Style • Compute Characteristics • Data Disk Size • Affinity • Network / Security Group • VM name
- 97. 101 Virtual MachinesNames Guest VMs have a Name and Group The CloudPlatform DHCP server will assign this name to the VM This name cannot be changed in CloudPlatform after VM creation If you don’t provide a name, CloudPlatform will create one for you
- 98. 102 Virtual MachinesNames Each VM can also has a Display Name It defaults to the name entered in the wizard This name can be edited by the user (when the VM is stopped)
- 99. 103 Internal VirtualMachines Names An additional VM name is used internally by CloudPlatform and is visible in the administrator console and the hypervisor management console CloudPlatform uses an internal VM naming structure for all VMs as follows • First letter is - i Guest VM (Instance) - r Virtual Router System VM - s Secondary Storage System VM - v Console Proxy System VM • Second digit is the account number (omitted for System VMs) - 2 admin - 3 First account - 4 Second account etc. • Followed by a cloud-wide VM number - 3 First VM - 4 Second VM etc. Examples
- 100. 104 Virtual MachineProvisioning Process User selects the Template, Service Offerings and clicks Launch VM CloudPlatform selects suitable Host where the VM will fit VM Template copied from Secondary storage to cluster’s Primary storage Zone Secondary Storage Cluster Primary Storage
- 101. 105 Virtual MachineProvisioning Process VDI for the VM is created from the Template as a linked clone VM is started on the selected Host using the newly created VDI Subsequent VMs created from same Template are also linked clones Zone Secondary Storage Cluster Primary Storage
- 102. 106 VM Lifecycle CloudPlatform provides Administrators and Users with complete control over the life cycle of all Guest VMs Down Created (Disk Image) Running Template (Disk Image) Destroyed Reset
- 103. 107 VM Status Instances = VMs = Workloads The Instances section shows the status of all VMs owned by the User The list can be filtered
- 104. 109 VM Control Quickview allows fast access to VM control function menu
- 105. 110 VM Control The owner of a VM can • Stop / Start / Reboot the VM • Destroy the VM • Reset the VM (Rebuild from Template) • Attach an ISO to the VM • Reset the VM password • Change the VM Compute Offering • Access the console of the VM • Add a disk volume to the VM • Take and view VM Snapshots • Change Affinity Groups • Recover a destroyed VM (Domain & Cloud-Admin) • Migrate a VM to another Host (Cloud-Admin)
- 106. 111 High AvailabilityVMs Compute Offerings may include High Availability (HA) for the VM HA enabled VMs are monitored by the system If the system detects that an HA VM is down, it will attempt to restart the VM CloudPlatform must be used to shutdown an HA VM, or else CloudPlatform will attempt to restart the VM
- 107. 112 Accessing VMs Using the CloudPlatform GUI to access the VM console • The CloudPlatform Administrator can access all VMs running in the cloud • The Domain Administrator can access all VMs running in their domain • A user can access any VM in their account Various protocols such as ssh or RDP can also be used for VM access
- 108. 113 VM DetailsTab Provides general details on a VM • Current state - Running - Stopped • Template used at creation • The OS Type (for optimization purposes) • Any attached ISO • Compute Offering used • Zone name • Domain • Account • etc. Direct VM control buttons also available
- 109. 120 Virtual MachineBest Practices Hypervisor agent tools should be installed on each Virtual Machine to facilitate • Guest VM Control (for example, controlled shutdown) • Live Migration • Dynamic scaling • Improved Performance using Paravirtualized Drivers • Live View (VMWare only) For XenServer install XenTools For vSphere install VMware Tools
- 110. 121 Account andDomain Usage Limits CloudPlatform provides several administrator control points for capping resource usage by users Some of these limits are global configuration parameters Limits may be set at the Account and Domain level
- 111. 123 Live StorageMotion Allows Live Migration of Virtual Machines across Clusters Moves a running VM, and its VDI, to a different Cluster Primary Storage Cluster 1 Primary Storage Cluster 2 VM
- 112. 124 Live Migratea VM disk volume Allows Live Migration of a Running VM’s VDIs to alternate Primary Storage The VM stays on the same Host Cluster Primary Storage SSD Primary Storage VM
- 113. Working with VirtualMachines Demo
- 114. Working with Templatesand ISO files
- 115. 129 Template TemplateTemplate VDI Templates A Template is file containing a Virtual Disk Image (VDI) of a boot disk It includes the operating system and optional application software When users launch VMs, they choose from a list of Templates to use as a base
- 116. 130 Templates EachTemplate is associated with a particular type of hypervisor CloudPlatform has a built-in CentOS Template that can be used for testing Templates can be imported into CloudPlatform by the Administrator or by Users A Template can be created from a VM already in CloudPlatform Templates can be designated Private or Public • Private Templates are only available to the user who created them • Public Templates are available to all users who have access to the Zone
- 117. 131 Registering (Importing)a Template Template file must be first placed onto a web server accessible by CloudPlatform • Maybe a little cumbersome, but an extremely flexible solution Using the Register Template wizard enter the following • Unique name for the Template (visible to users) • Description for the Template (visible to users) • URL to download the Template from • The Zone the Template will be available in • The hypervisor used in the creation of the Template • The data format of the Template upload file • The OS used in the Template
- 118. 132 Registering aTemplate Options • Can the Template be exported from CloudPlatform • Template has the password change script installed • Allows switching to another compute offering without stopping the VM • Template is available to all users who have access to the Zone • Template appears in the Featured list • Template is used to create a Router
- 119. 133 Supported TemplateDisk Formats XenServer VHD Format VMware – OVA Format For VMware Templates can define • Root Disk Controller type • The NIC adapter type • The Keyboard language KVM – QCOW2 Format
- 120. 136 ISOs Userscan boot VMs from a bootable ISO image and install an OS onto a VM Users can attach application install or data ISO images to VMs at any time ISOs are registered into CloudPlatform in the same way as Templates
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- 122. 138 Resources Learnhow to build your own cloud with new resources and support from Citrix: http://www.citrix.com/products/cloudplatform/resources-and-support.html CloudPlatform 90-day free trial: http://www.citrix.com/products/cloudplatform/try Master Class recording: In a follow-up email Follow us on Social Media -
- 123. 139 Citrix Education Fuel your talent with continuous learning. Citrix Education offers the following technical training for Cloud professionals: CCP-300: Implementing Citrix CloudPlatform 4.3 Powered by Apache CloudStack CXS-203: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration CPE-A26 Free Practice Exam Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration
- 124. 140 Master ClassSummary Key Takeaways – Citrix CloudPlatform delivers comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality – Operations, service management & governance capabilities – Customer-proven production clouds driving real-world business – Citrix delivers the agility and efficiency demanded by dynamic businesses
- 125. 141 Giveaway Prize Advanced Zones! VLANs are used as the isolation technology within which CloudPlatform Zone type?
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- 127. 143 WORK BETTER.LIVE BETTER.