Version 9.0 Software & Reference Architecture – Icehouse Release The Rackspace Private Cloud software and reference architecture deliver a stable and scalable production-ready private cloud powered by OpenStack®. It is designed and built by the experts who co-founded OpenStack and run one of the world’s largest OpenStack-powered clouds. The Rackspace Private Cloud software is based on the Icehouse release of OpenStack and is built without proprietary hooks ensuring you avoid the risk of vendor lock-in. Advantages of Rackspace Private Cloud Include: Automation – Unlocking the full power of your cloud requires automation. Rackspace Private Cloud automates your cloud deployment and configuration management using Ansible software and also enables you to automate provisioning of your infrastructure, services and applications using OpenStack Orchestration (Heat). Enterprise-Grade Architecture – Includes an industry-leading 99.99% OpenStack uptime guarantee, is designed to scale over 200 nodes and delivers high availability using a professional-grade, four-server control plane that includes a clustered database and messaging service. It uses Linux containers for service deployment giving you the flexibility to distribute services based on specific workload needs which can help increase scalability. Security & Logging – Provides a secure, dedicated environment that includes two physical firewalls and audit logs which can help you with compliance reporting. It also enables you to use your existing Open LDAP service to authenticate users ensuring only those who are authorized can access your environment. Rackspace Private Cloud 9.0 Software Rackspace Private Cloud 9.0 Software uses Ansible software to automate your deployment and configuration management and includes the following OpenStack services*: Compute (Nova) Dashboard (Horizon) Object storage (Swift) Block storage (Cinder) Networking (Neutron) Image service (Glance) Identity service (Keystone) Orchestration (Heat) *Any other OpenStack project, extension, or configuration not explicitly listed above is not included in the Rackspace Private Cloud Software. For more information or to chat with a specialist: 1-844-205-7765 or www.rackspace.com/cloud/private Toll Free: 1.800.961.2888 | International: 1.210.312.4700 | www.rackspace.com Copyright © 2014 Rackspace US, Inc. | Rackspace® and Fanatical Support® are service marks of Rackspace US, Inc. registered in the United States and other countries. OpenStack is either a registered trademark or trademark of OpenStack Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All trademarks, service marks, images, products and brands remain the sole property of their respective holders. RACKSPACE® | 1 FANATICAL PLACE | CITY OF WINDCREST, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78218 U.S.A | DATE MODIFIED: 09242014 Version 9.0 Software & Reference Architecture – Icehouse Release Rackspace Private Cloud Reference Architecture The Rackspace Private Cloud reference architecture is a recommended set of software and infrastructure components designed to provide the scalability, stability and high availability you need to support enterprise production workloads. Additionally, every Rackspace Private Cloud customer has access to our team of architecture advisors who provide workload-specific guidance for planning, designing and architecting a private cloud environment to help meet your unique needs. External Networks Redundant Firewalls Public Network Management Network VM Network Redundant Load Balancers Instances Logging Server Nova APIs Glance APIs Logstash Keystone APIs ElasticSearch Neutron APIs Kibana Compute #X#X Compute Compute #X Compute Compute#X#X The Rackspace Private Cloud Reference Architecture supports the following software and infrastructure components: Host Operating System: Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS Hypervisor: KVM Compute: All Ubuntu 14.04 compatible compute including Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP and Open Compute Project. For a complete list of certified hardware go to www.ubuntu. com/certification/server Storage: • OpenStack Object storage (Swift) • OpenStack Block storage (Cinder) drivers for NetApp and Cinder hosts Redundant 10GB Network Switches Control Pane REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE Storage #X Storage Storage#X#X Cinder Cinder Cinder Volume Volume Volume iSCSI Targets ISCI ISCITargets Targets Cinder APIs Heat APIs Horizon MariaDB/Galera RabbitMQ All Backed by Fanatical Support® Rackspace Private Cloud is backed with the results-obsessed service that we call Fanatical Support. Our exceptional service means we’re in it with you every step of the way and includes: • A dedicated account manager and dedicated OpenStack engineer** who know the specifics of your private cloud environment • A dedicated team of OpenStack experts available 24x7x365 • Proactively monitoring and maintaining the health of your cloud 24x7x365 • Industry-leading 99.99% OpenStack API uptime guarantee • 15-minute live response time guarantee to any emergency ticket with Core support • 100% network uptime guarantee and one-hour hardware replacement guarantee at no cost when hosted in a Rackspace data center For more information or to chat with a specialist: 1-844-205-7765 or www.rackspace.com/cloud/private **Optional service Toll Free: 1.800.961.2888 | International: 1.210.312.4700 | www.rackspace.com Copyright © 2014 Rackspace US, Inc. | Rackspace® and Fanatical Support® are service marks of Rackspace US, Inc. registered in the United States and other countries. Third-party trademarks and tradenames appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners. Such third-party trademarks have been printed in caps or initial caps and are used for referential purposes only. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ tradenames, trademarks, or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other companies. RACKSPACE® | 1 FANATICAL PLACE | CITY OF WINDCREST, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78218 U.S.A | DATE MODIFIED: 09242014 Networking: Neutron with the ML2 plug-in and Linux Bridge agents support the following: 1. Flat and VLAN provider networks 2. Flat, VLAN and VXLAN overlay (tenant) networks 3. L3 agents for routing, NAT and floating IP addresses Images: We support the Glance service and its ability to upload an image in any of the following formats: •Raw • Machine (kernel/ramdisk outside of image, a.k.a. AMI) • VHD (Hyper-V) • VDI (VirtualBox) • qcow2 (QEMU/KVM) • VMDK (VMware) • OVF (VMware, others)