Apache CloudStack Meetup - Monitoring and Storage Performance

Agenda:

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Registration, Pizza & Beer

6:30pm - 7:30pm: Guaranteeing Storage Performance in CloudStack by Mike Tutkowski

This session will introduce the basics of primary storage in CloudStack. Additionally, I discuss the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud and how by leveraging the latest enhancements to CloudStack, storage administrators can deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. I'll review the CloudStack enhancements in detail, outline the management benefits they provide and discuss common go-to-market approaches.

About Mike Tutkowski

Mike Tutkowski, a member of the CloudStack PMC, develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.

7:30pm - 8:30pm: Intro to Zenoss by Andrew Kirch

This session will introduce monitoring CloudStack with Zenoss, and the CloudStack ZenPack. I will cover in detail what you get out of monitoring CloudStack with Zenoss. Additionally I will cover installation of Zenoss, interacting with our community and Q&A.

About Andrew Kirch

Andrew D Kirch is the Community Manager at Zenoss, a software development company specializing in Unified Monitoring with 130 employees, headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company offers an open source network and systems monitoring product called Zenoss Core, and a commercial product called Zenoss Service Dynamics. The company has over 35,000 users in over 180 countries. Customers include major organizations such as Chic-fil-a, Huntington Bank, Netflix, SunGard, Accenture, NASA, FIS Global, and many more.

As Community Manager, Andrew works directly with product users every day. He has over 10 years of experience as a Systems/Network Administrator, with specialization including SNMP and network monitoring. Prior to working at Zenoss he was principal at a unified communications VAR focused in the Midwest. In his spare time he puts computer crackers in prison.

8:30pm - 9:00pm: Q&A and Networking