How We Successfully Sold Public Cloud

Introduction: Key points Not limited to this Education and Training: Free Trials: Architecting: Implementing: BOAT Built Operate and Transfer: Fanatic Support: Price Discounts Conclusion: Further reading Introduction: In recent years, public cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations manage their IT infrastructure. It offers scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and numerous other benefits. However, selling public cloud solutions to businesses requires a strategic approach. In this blog post, we will explore the key factors that contributed to the successful sale of public cloud services, including education and training, free trials, architecting, implementing, BOAT (Built Operate and Transfer), and providing fanatic support. [Read More]

How I recruit Openstack Engineers - Part-I

Exploring Virtualization and Hypervisor Management Introduction Questions Exploring Virtualization and Hypervisor Management This session is checking the knowledge of Virtualization and Hypervisor. Some directly related to Openstack and few virtulization in general. Introduction As the demand for efficient and scalable infrastructure continues to grow, OpenStack has emerged as a leading open-source cloud computing platform. OpenStack engineers play a crucial role in designing, deploying, and managing virtualized environments powered by hypervisors. [Read More]

Debunking the Myth of Serverless Computing. The Importance of Baremetals

Introduction Why We Need Physical Servers for Running a Serverless Environment Foundation of Virtualization Resource Allocation and Scaling Hypervisor and Hardware Abstraction Backend Operations and Management Security and Data Protection Conclusion Introduction Serverless computing has gained significant popularity in recent years, promising developers the ability to focus solely on writing code without the need to manage server infrastructure. However, a closer examination reveals that serverless computing is not truly devoid of servers. [Read More]

Hyperscalers, Few Myths.

What is a hyperscaler Do I need it ? Myths Myth-01 Massive data centers are more efficient than smaller one. Myth-02 Fanatic Support Myth-03 Hyperscalers are redundant and they have better Uptime Myth-04 Flexibility Myth-05 Large product portfolio What is a hyperscaler In computing, hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system. The cloud service provider should have ability to facilitate their infrastructure propotionate to market demands. [Read More]

How did we upgrade our Public Cloud

Public Cloud Upgrade. Preparations Change Request Customer Engagement Executive management Resource planning Frequent Updates Stage your Upgrade Monitoring Day01 - Infra Upgrade Day02 - Tungsten Fabric (MW01) Day03 - VCP Components (MW02) Day04 - Dataplane - ZONE-01 Compute nodes (MW03) Day05 - Dataplane - ZONE-02 Compute nodes (MW04) QA Statistics References Public Cloud Upgrade. What is the scariest task, a cloud administrator may face, Public Cloud Upgrade. [Read More]

Ten Directive Principles for choosing a Cloud Provider.

Cloud! Cloud! Cloud! Reputation Technology & Roadmap Data governance and security Contracts & SLA Reliability & Performance Migration support Commercials & Discounts Support Exit planning Cloud! Cloud! Cloud! When everyone of your company stakeholders agrees to put all your applications on a cloud, next question is How can I choose my cloud provider?. Its an important thing while choosing a cloud provider. Not only, price there is few other things matters. [Read More]

KVM Guest creation & isolation, How ?

Preface Virtualization My Scenario Process Isolation Further reading Preface How can I make sure that,my virtual server is isolated from the neighbour in same compute host ? Almost all the cloud admins faced this question at least once in their career time. Customer is worrying about the privacy, security of their data. So, question is quiet natural. They completely trust you, but still question remains. How I am isolated from the neary by guests. [Read More]

Cloud is down !! Whats next?

It happend, What now ? Get into battlefield Monitoring Cell Engineering Cell Customer success Cell Administrative Cell You brought it back Post incident measures It happend, What now ? Its a nightmare for a every cloud provider. Even you take all the measures to prevent, it could be happen. Its called Disaster. You are serving a lot of customers, you have to protect their interests. Because they are also a service provider to their customers. [Read More]

Change network bandwidth of KVM Guest OS

Preface Some cloud providers, limited the Bandwidth based on Flavors. Which is part of their Business rules. So, Guest virtual machines wont be able to reach the limit which fixed in the Flavor using metadata. This tutorial will help you to change the Network BW without restarting the Guest virtual machine. List the Current virsh domiflist instance-0000be23 Interface Type Source Model MAC ------------------------------------------------------- tap973d62dc-4f bridge qbr973d62dc-4f virtio fa:16:3e:fb:24:e0 virsh domiftune instance-0000be23 tap973d62dc-4f inbound. [Read More]

Benchmarking Cloud using Rally

Preface Installation Create a Test Scenario Export the Test Results to HTML More Scenarios Preface Rally is a framework used to Validate multinode Openstack Deployment. Rally automates and unifies multi-node OpenStack deployment, cloud verification, benchmarking & profiling. Rally does it in a pluggable way, making it possible to check whether OpenStack is going to work well on, say, a 1k-servers installation under high load. Thus it can be used as a basic tool for an OpenStack CI/CD system that would continuously improve its SLA, performance and stability. [Read More]