1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,920 now that we've looked at the uh the the catalog stuff quite a bit i mean you guys you know being 2 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:11,080 a management platform there's actually a lot of management options you know actually as as i 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,760 always kind of tongue-in-cheek put it actually doing things that uh that you guys enable as well 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:20,960 why don't we kind of check out the actually doing things oh so you want to see some action 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:29,360 that's right uh as with convert uh you know basic virtualization to virtualization management is 6 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:38,720 kind of in there uh you know basic vm ops you can start stop uh you know pause reboot kill take a 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:44,440 snapshot right uh we also have some advanced features like migration and stuff like that which 8 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:54,320 i'll go into it a bit later uh a node level you have operations like uh you know migrate all my 9 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:00,620 vm's to some other machine right this will be a very typical scenario when you have a machine 10 00:01:00,620 --> 00:01:05,340 which where you have detected that a fan is not working or something like that uh and you want to 11 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:13,640 you know move all the virtual machine to some other box and fix service that box and and and bring it up 12 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:19,040 back the other important uh feature uh is that we allow you to create your virtual network environment 13 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:23,500 um and basically what you do is you know create a uh 14 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:30,380 uh test network and and and as as you're doing this i mean just just for people who who sort of who 15 00:01:30,380 --> 00:01:34,360 may not know or don't have a lot of experience like what why are people what if why would you create a 16 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:40,860 virtual network like right so basically you're creating a virtual network so that uh you can have 17 00:01:40,860 --> 00:01:47,400 uh you know a network that is similar to physical network but you don't really need to go and change 18 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:54,100 wiring and do all the stuff right uh what it allows you to do is you can have multiple vm's 19 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:58,880 on this virtual network right and they can be either isolated completely isolated from the rest of the 20 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:06,240 environment um so this allows you to you know do a bunch of testing um in relatively isolated 21 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,260 environment once it's uh configured it's very easy to kind of associate that with a vm right 22 00:02:12,260 --> 00:02:20,600 instead of this vm on that network i want to say hey instead of using the common uh zenbr network use 23 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,800 use the test network that i just created when we're building up templates we're looking at some of the uh 24 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:30,560 the storage options that the uh the templates can have let's move to uh like a server pool 25 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:36,000 uh and there are a whole uh there are a couple of very interesting features uh at server pool level 26 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:46,220 right so we allowed you to define uh a storage storage pool that is associated with uh with a server pool 27 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:57,060 right right um let's take a quick example and go through uh defining an nfs storage uh this is my class c 28 00:02:57,060 --> 00:03:06,600 storage for storage yeah as jadeep is doing this uh you know this is a popular and a very um natural 29 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:14,760 thing to do for environments where you have sans or even nazis um and you know typically a a pool of 30 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:22,840 physical servers will have a an associated sand behind it and what convert allows you to do is declare that 31 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:28,440 pool in a in a server pool and then just declare the sand and automatically anything as jadeep will show 32 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,740 you do inside that server pool will have that sand and the lans associated with it as an option 33 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:40,260 for for storage and it'll just be single click and you'll say use the sand and that and it'll go that 34 00:03:40,260 --> 00:03:46,700 way all right so we just defined uh uh nfs storage uh and at the time of provisioning 35 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:55,660 we can say a provision on your vm uh and instead of for this coming from there uh you will will pick 36 00:03:55,660 --> 00:04:02,740 it up from the newly class c storage uh over there one of the other things i was interested in seeing 37 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:07,940 is you know when you're trying to figure out where to place a new uh a new virtual server that you've 38 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:11,920 created i mean how do you sort of or how do you how do you figure out where to place it among the 39 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,520 pools and the the physical servers that you have you you keep a long logbook of all the measurements 40 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:23,380 uh all the vms that you've placed stick it on your wall uh and then pick the next one you have you 41 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:27,500 have one of those books with this small grid paper in it right it's like the engineer's notebook 42 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:34,780 it's a it's a pdf available for download along with convo that's right so uh no i think this is a 43 00:04:34,780 --> 00:04:42,280 uh this is a very common uh request and uh we do have a feature you know that uh we call initial 44 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:49,460 placement or intelligent placement um and what that allows you to do is do a provisioning operation 45 00:04:49,460 --> 00:04:55,380 uh essentially at a server pool level right so you don't select which server etc etc you just select a 46 00:04:55,380 --> 00:05:01,880 server pool uh and convert figures out an appropriate machine uh for this provisioning op 47 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:09,480 uh so in this case as you can see right uh it has picked up server 2 as a candidate choice right so 48 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:16,180 you don't have to worry you can keep on uh provisioning at the server pool and convert will distribute the 49 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:24,920 load evenly uh for you another uh interesting feature at uh server pool is uh provisioning settings or 50 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,500 settings at the pool level uh and what this allows you to do is you know standardize your practices 51 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:36,120 uh so in this case what you're looking at is you know whenever you're provisioning stuff in this 52 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:43,940 particular server pool uh provisionate uh in this particular storage right right right so these are 53 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:48,800 sort of filling in the the variables for the templates if you will at the pool level right right this 54 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:56,040 this allows you to uh you know standardize your practices uh uh for across the pool looking at the 55 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,960 these pool settings i mean what exactly are the the the settings that we're looking at here 56 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:08,320 so for example what you're looking here is uh uh the vm disk dir being specified to a particular location 57 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:14,420 and what this is signifying is uh any vm that get provisioned in this particular server pool 58 00:06:14,420 --> 00:06:19,200 uh it's disk etc would be creating at that particular in that particular storage right 59 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:26,340 uh so this this allows for a complete standardization of your processes uh in your in your own environment 60 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:30,440 i see there's like an add and remove option down there what are the like what are the other options that 61 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:37,680 you can configure at this pool level so uh we have few the vm disk the network the bridge that you want 62 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:43,100 to use and stuff like that right but this is freeform actually you can create your own settings 63 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:53,640 and use them in your images right so you can say hey here is i want to specify my uh class c storage 64 00:06:53,640 --> 00:07:05,900 for this pool is in mnt qa share or something like that right and then just use this particular setting 65 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:13,840 in your uh in your images where you want to kind of move we were looking at like when at the the pool level 66 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:19,160 how you can set and create your own variables actually for for the specific instances that you have running 67 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:23,220 in that pool and then of course on the physical servers on there and i i wonder like you know 68 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:27,860 in addition to creating your own variables like how far can people go as far as like actually 69 00:07:27,860 --> 00:07:34,760 getting their hands dirty you can actually go pretty deep uh let me show you a couple of very interesting 70 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:44,500 things uh so what we are looking here is a script that we uh that kind of controls the provisioning 71 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:53,100 uh logic right so all the variables the settings the template variables the disk creation uh and 72 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:59,820 processing is all kind of encoded here and this is a script that that convert is generated or where does 73 00:07:59,820 --> 00:08:04,700 the script come from this is this is a script that comes with convert okay uh but you can you 74 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:11,720 customize it to your need right so a good example is hey i'm used to using zen tools for my ubuntu 75 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:17,800 installation uh you know you can spend some time with the script and come up with uh something that 76 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:26,320 will you know kick off zen tools uh which is and and i just convert to your uh deployment process 77 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:31,320 deployment and and this is i mean the actual i'm assuming the actual script that convert is going to run 78 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,660 when it starts provisioning these servers absolutely absolutely when i'm done with provisioning uh you 79 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:42,260 know just send me an email or create a ticket somewhere or log it somewhere that a vm was 80 00:08:42,260 --> 00:08:48,360 provisioned uh etc as you saw right we have you know ability to create your own settings or variables 81 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:56,060 uh have the script and the whole processing logic is kind of under your control uh so and once you kind of do 82 00:08:56,060 --> 00:09:00,440 that the rest of the tool kind of works in a similar fashion right the provisioning the vmops 83 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:06,400 uh the initial placement or intelligent placement migration and all that stuff kind of works 84 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:13,880 after that so uh i have a bunch of vms uh running my and i just brought up brought them up to kind of see 85 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:20,180 how kind of they look like so we got uh windows flavor you can you know virtualize the desktop uh we got 86 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:33,020 uh oops we got uh the uh red hat server or linux uh vms uh and the appliances that we talked about right so 87 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:41,740 here is the sugar crm appliance uh that i'm using uh which is kind of uh the departmental crm vm that 88 00:09:41,740 --> 00:09:48,280 you're seeing here right right um so we also have you know some little bit of integration with uh 89 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:53,200 the appliance management ui where you can go and manage a bunch of stuff 90 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:59,620 for and configure the appliance itself let's take a example that you know somebody's using this sugar crm 91 00:09:59,620 --> 00:10:09,240 appliance or application um and suddenly the administrator decides that he needs this to be moved 92 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:17,200 onto a different server right right um so there comes our favorite migration feature but you can 93 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:26,220 simply click select the uh virtual machine select it and drop it on the on the server that you want 94 00:10:26,220 --> 00:10:33,280 to move it to right and initiate the migration now while this migration or live migration is going on 95 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,940 you're free to use the application in the exact same way as you are using uh the end users of your 96 00:10:39,940 --> 00:10:45,640 applications are not affected while we're you know just chatting uh as you might have noticed we just 97 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:52,560 got our uh crm virtual machine moved from server one to server two you know the migration feature 98 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:57,760 itself you know opens up a lot of door where you can do maintenance do optimization move things around 99 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:06,840 uh to get better performance uh you know move stuff down to small number of servers uh and save energy 100 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:12,640 shut down the machines that are not being used right and a whole bunch of features you can get some of 101 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:18,160 that mythical elasticity from cloud computing if you need to uh to like take care of like a higher number 102 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,680 of requests at some point you could move it to a beefier server absolutely one thing that i would add 103 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:30,120 here is that this this demo piece that uh jadeep showed live migration um it is it is one of those 104 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:36,600 features which uh if you which really go a long way in highlighting some of the advantages that 105 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:42,160 building out an open source stack gives um you know even a fortune 500 data center which is 106 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:47,240 if you go out to the commercial domain you will find that there's a very heavy price and cost premium 107 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,560 placed on live migration and elasticity of the environments you will actually go out and you will spend 108 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:58,800 a pretty penny to be able to do this in your environment and if you alternatively if you come 109 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:04,400 here you've just seen this is just part of the base product um you can you can ostensibly get this 110 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:10,240 elasticity and and live migration or v motion or whatever you wish to call it uh building out a 111 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:17,280 purely open source stack um and it's all built in so i you know we like to to highlight this as one 112 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,440 of the key differentiators and key advantages of actually going in and and realizing that with the open 113 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:28,840 source stack you don't give up on anything you do not it's not as if it's virtualization light 114 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,640 it's actually virtualization plus plus if you're coming from a commercial uh background as we told 115 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,720 people at the beginning it's open source so obviously there's some easy way to download it and get up and 116 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,320 running with it but like what's the scenario for just like getting up and running with convert 117 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:51,640 so you go to converter.com uh and follow the download link um and then it'll take you to the download and 118 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:59,240 the instructions where you can uh set up your convert and most of most of the time it you know it it 119 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:05,080 works in the you know 10 minutes so you should be able to see some of these fancy features up and 120 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:11,880 running in within 10 minutes we are not just an open source project in name only we we actively and 121 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:17,640 aggressively would like to recruit the community to to come in and assist with the project both as 122 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:24,600 jadeep said in terms of feedback in terms of large and small feature contribution um if if you want to 123 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:31,720 to do documentation anything nothing's too small um we seek direction from the community and we also 124 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:43,800 um like to encourage um very very aggressively and very um uh uh actively uh community involvement in 125 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,960 any way shape or form so we can't say this enough we say this in our forums we say this on our uh um 126 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:56,200 wiki we say this on our blog and we will continue to actively uh request the community come and join us 127 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,960 in this project so so combature itself is a commercial company and and my assumption is that uh since you 128 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:06,040 guys aren't a non-profit you sort of have some some uh some things that you're looking to collect some 129 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:11,400 revenue around what are the things that that people could get as a service or or whatever else from 130 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:17,640 combature the company yeah that's a great question and yes indeed i mean we while we are fully open 131 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:25,000 source indeed we do need to to pay the bills so um we have a comprehensive set of options uh for people 132 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,720 who are looking for support and services um we the certified configuration on screen you see are the 133 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:36,840 configurations that we will directly commercially support um if we were to click on the support and 134 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:44,520 services page um on our website uh you will you will see that we offer actually three different types 135 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:52,200 of packages um our most comprehensive is what we uh call the silver support package which um 136 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:58,760 essentially you can see it on a table here gives you a comprehensive support package where you can 137 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:04,760 uh have support incident incident based supports you can have identification and a bunch of other very 138 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:11,320 cool stuff that you can see on the site um these are yearly support options another thing that we offer is if 139 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,880 if you're not ready to commit to a yearly support contract and a lot of people are more comfortable 140 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:22,600 on with a pay-as-you-go model we have that available too um no holds barred you can buy supported incidents 141 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:29,800 a la carte um and go with that and you'll find more information about that here too and finally we offer a very 142 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,680 different type of service which is our professional services organization um you know the people involved 143 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,240 with the project and in the company have a lot of experience with virtualization deployments and what 144 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,760 we offer is um if you're planning or if you've already rolled out or if you've rolled out and run into 145 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:51,320 trouble um any irrespective of which phase of your rollout you are um we can offer professional 146 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:58,040 services that can come and help you plan deploy and manage those environments so we see a lot of 147 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:03,800 people come to us and say look this sounds all great um we don't have the expertise or we don't have the 148 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:08,680 time or we don't have the resources to make it happen can you help and we say yes we can help you 149 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,320 with planning we can help you with with procurement we can help you with uh with deployment you name it 150 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:18,600 we'll hear it so that's a comprehensive set of stuff that we offer our customers and the last offering 151 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:24,440 is sort of a virtualization architect if you will to help you uh figure out whether it's setting it up 152 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:30,520 or just maintaining it or whatever you need to to optimize your virtualization setup that's very well 153 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,240 said yes that's very well said and and we find that and we're finding that a considerable number of 154 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:41,800 people who are interested uh you know who can feel the compelling uh value proposition of virtualization 155 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:49,160 sometimes feel that they they just don't have the the in-house uh shall we say expertise or or or just 156 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:54,520 the resources and and you know just planning and architecting is virtualization is a is a slippery uh 157 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,000 subject when you actually come down to the nuts and bolts of it and that's where we hope we can 158 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,280 come in and add some value and and and help you guys get there