Lightning Talk by Harshal Pimpalkhute, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, A10 Networks, at OpenStack Silicon Valley (OpenStackSV), 9/16/14

1. aCloud Services Architecture
OpenStack Integration
Harshal Pimpalkhute| Sr. Product Marketing Manager | A10 Networks
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2. The Evolution of Networking for Cloud IaaS
Rapidly emerging cloud frameworks: Open, Vendor and Carrier specific
NFV SDN
Decouple
NW Data &
Control
Automated
Policy
Virtualized
Resources
Cloud
ADCs must integrate with evolving cloud
frameworks for consistent policy enforcement
& dynamic L4-7 services
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Service provider function
virtualization
(Example: CGN)
Network virtualization
(Example: VMWare NSX)
Infrastructure
virtualization
(Example: OpenStack)
Virtualized
Services
ADCs are best suited for automated security and policy enforcement

3. The Evolution of Application & Security Services for Cloud IaaS
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Dynamic
Static
Dedicated
Infrastructure:
Manual Policy
Management
Shared Virtual
Infrastructure:
Discrete and
Manual Policy
Management
Cloud IaaS
Shared Infrastructure
with automated
Policy enforcement
Silo Multi-tenant/Shared
Policy Enforcement
Infrastructure
ADC is critical for policy enforcement and SLAs

4. Automation & Policy Enforcement for Cloud IaaS
Automation & Policy Enforcement Needs
 Consistent policy and security enforcement
 Dynamic L4-L7 Services
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 Automated provisioning
 SDN/Cloud Integration
 Elastic scalability
DMZ
Public IaaS MSSP
DC
Services Controller
SDN Controller
Cloud Orchestration
Policy Enforcement
Application Services and
Security
 Ex: aGalaxy
SDN and Networking
 Ex: Cisco ACI/APIC, VMware
NSX, etc.
Compute and Storage
 Ex: OpenStack, VMware
VCO, Microsoft SCVMM

5. Introducing aCloud Services Architecture
Pay-as-You-Go
Licensing
Cloud & SDN Integration
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High Performance, Virtualized
and Hybrid Appliances
On Demand Licensing
SDN and Cloud Orchestration
Integration
Agility
 Dynamic L4-L7 Services
 Multi-tenancy Support
 Programmability; API-driven
Reduced TCO
 Operational Efficiencies
 Metered Consumption
 Reduced Resource Consumption
Choice of Form
Factors
Automation
 Automated Service Provisioning
 Rapid Scale Up Scale Down
 Integration with Cloud and SDN

6. SDN and Cloud Orchestration Integration
SDN and Cloud Orchestration Integration
Centralized policy
enforcement
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Integration with OpenStack,
VMware vCloud Director*,
Microsoft SCVMM
Automated network
segmentation and security
Overlay Support: VXLAN and
NVGRE; Integration with IBM SDN
VE, Cisco APIC*, VMWare NSX*,
Reduced provisioning overhead,
time and cost
Programmability: RESTful aXAPI,
Smart Templates; aGalaxy
Achieve automation, operational agility, and reduced TCO
* In planning phase

7. aCloud: OpenStack Integration
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Horizon Dashboard Client Application
Features:
 Neutron Integration
 LBaaS in OpenStack
A10 ACOS Appliances
Physical, HVA and Virtual
A10
LBaaS Driver
REST API
Nova Cinder Neutron
OpenStack Cloud APIs
Compute Storage Networking

8. aCloud: OpenStack Integration
Nova Cinder Neutron
Compute Storage Networking
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OpenStack Cloud APIs
Horizon Dashboard
A10 ACOS Appliances
Physical, HVA and Virtual
Client Application
A10
LBaaS Driver
REST API

9. aCloud: OpenStack Integration
LBaaS Neutron Advanced Service Plugin
Message Queue Asynchronous
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Driver 1
Driver 1
LBaaS Driver 2
Agent
Driver 2
A10 LBaaS Driver
LBaaS Neutron
Extension Rest API
Core API Synchronous
NOVA
(Compute)
CINDER
(Block Storage)
Neutron
REST
SWIFT
(Object Storage)
Client
Application
Horizon
(Dashboard)
REST
REST
Glance
(Image Service)
Keystone
(Authentication)

10. Thank you
For your time
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