Chargeback & Showback for OpenStack & Visibility into Virtual Infrastructure

Thank you Talligent (http://talligent.com/) & Arista (http://www.arista.com/en/) for sponsoring this group and this event.

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, eat & drink

• 7:00 - 7:10 - Introductions and Announcements

1. OpenStack Operations Best Practices using TalligentSanjay is Founder & CTO of Talligent, the Openstack billing and reporting solution.

You evaluated the OpenStack options, picked your favorite distribution, and launched your cloud. Interest is high, people are testing things out, but your visibility and control is limited. Plus, Horizon is not delivering the IaaS experience that customers expect.

Sanjay Mishra, CTO of Talligent, will discuss challenges and best practices for managing a multi-tenant OpenStack Cloud, including billing/chargeback, management reporting, self-service automation, and customer lifecycle management. Case studies include a public cloud built for the highly regulated financial services and healthcare industries as well as a large private cloud hosting 250+ tenants with widely varying needs. OpenBook by Talligent provides the visibility and control required for IaaS running on OpenStack, leveraging a deep integration with OpenStack components and a detailed historical record of configuration details and consumption metrics.

Sanjay is Founder and CTO of Talligent, the Openstack billing and reporting solution.

2. Visibility into the OpenStack Virtual InfrastructureRichard Whitney, Systems Engineer

Abstract:
From an application perspective the network should be a highly reliable transport mechanism providing transparent interconnection of storage and compute resources. Arista Networks and its software driven cloud networking operating system EOS® has extensive integration with the OpenStack Neutron project. By leveraging the Arista ML2 driver and Layer 3 service plugin, operators can automatically provision tenant networks across the physical infrastructure. Arista EOS® provides network operators visibility into the OpenStack Virtual Infrastructure allowing customers to track, manage and monitor the virtual resources. This combination provides a high performance OpenStack networking environment over VLAN and VXLAN based fabrics, and enhanced visibility into how the virtual tenant networks map onto the physical infrastructure. Come learn about this powerful network platform on which you can build your next generation cloud network...