UMF Cloud

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk What is the UMF Cloud Pilot? compute and storage cloud for HE and FE infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to address the major concerns of HEIs –data remains in the UK at all times –operated for the long-term benefit of the UK academic sector –integrated with the JANET network –lower the costs associated with IT provisioning a ‘community cloud’ for education built on our Community Cloud Infrastructure

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Delivered by Eduserv not-for-profit IT services company best known in HEIs for OpenAthens and CHEST web hosting and development for government 20 year sustainable track record of growth –>3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services –115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10 –new datacentre in Swindon specifically for education and the public sector charitable mission to encourage the effective use of ICT in ‘public good’ organisations

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Delivered from our Swindon Data Centre –capacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructure –modular design –PUE efficiency design of <1.4 –10 Gbit/s JANET backbone connectivity via new JANET PoP

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Hardware Cisco UCS blade infrastructure –dual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAM –initial deployment will scale to >1,500 cores, 8 TB of RAM Isilon storage –clustered NAS solution with near-SAN performance –initial deployment will scale to 10PB usable connectivity –2-tier Cisco switched network (core and distribution) –fully resilient with no single point of failure (including dual path to JANET PoP) –all ports running at 10 Gbit/s

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Our offer vCloud Compute OpenStack Compute VM Storage File Storage JANET Connectivity all accessed via a self-service portal integrated with the UK Access Management Federation with possibility of long term tape archiving in the future

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Typical use-cases vCloud Compute –good fit with local vSphere provision –burst capacity at times of high demand –DR facility OpenStack Compute –research computing –undergraduate teaching

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Timescales now –vCloud Compute environment for use by UMF-funded SaaS projects Jan 2012 –vCloud Compute general availability April 2012 –self-service Web portal –full billing infrastructure –OpenStack Compute availability –File Storage beta

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Pricing models 2 pricing models –PAYG (pay for what you provision/use) –Virtual Datacentre (pay for what you reserve) in mobile phone terms, PAYG vs. Pay Monthly why PAYG? –flexibility why Virtual Datacentre? –predictability

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Billing PAYG billed monthly in arrears against pre- registered credit card Virtual Datacentre billed monthly or annually against pre-registered credit card or by invoice –annual tariff billed in advance –tariff includes discounts of up to 30% for annual commitment –over-usage billed at PAYG rates

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Pricing 3 key principles –return on investment by/for the community –sustainability –competitive prices announced last week all prices quoted ex-VAT we will offer an ‘introductory tier’ ( but only for institutions)

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Storage currently single-site, no backups which limits appropriate use-cases somewhat we are currently looking at: –multi-site delivery –tape ‘backup’ infrastructure –partnership to deliver long-term data preservation – multi-site tape with escrow

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Concluding remarks we’d welcome feedback on: –the cloud platforms we support –storage –pricing and billing models –anything else… get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk (where we are also blogging our progress)

Questions? umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk

vCloud Compute PAYG (Linux) £/hour1 vCPU2 vCPU4 vCPU8 vCPU24 vCPU 0.5 GB£0.012£0.014£0.015£0.016£ GB£0.024£0.028£0.031£0.032£ GB£0.048£0.056£0.062£0.065£ GB£0.096£0.112£0.123£0.130£ GB£0.192£0.224£0.246£0.259£ GB£0.383£0.448£0.492£0.519£ GB£1.150£1.345£1.477£1.556£1.615

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk vCloud Compute PAYG (Linux) £/month1 vCPU2 vCPU4 vCPU8 vCPU24 vCPU 0.5 GB£8.75£10.23£11.23£11.84£ GB£17.50£20.45£22.47£23.67£ GB£34.99£40.91£44.94£47.34£ GB£69.98£81.81£89.88£94.68£ GB£139.96£163.63£179.75£189.37£ GB£279.92£327.26£359.50£378.74£ GB£839.77£981.77£1,078.51£1,136.22£1,179.00

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk vCloud Compute PAYG (Windows) £/hour1 vCPU2 vCPU4 vCPU8 vCPU24 vCPU 0.5 GB£0.014£0.017£0.018£0.019£ GB£0.028£0.034£0.037£0.039£ GB£0.057£0.067£0.074£0.078£ GB£0.114£0.134£0.148£0.156£ GB£0.228£0.268£0.295£0.312£ GB£0.456£0.536£0.591£0.623£ GB£1.367£1.608£1.772£1.870£1.943

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk OpenStack Compute PAYG Linux £/hourLinux £/monthWindows £/hour Micro (0.5GHz+1GB) £0.014 £10.12 £0.017 Small (1GHz+2GB) £0.038£27.43£0.047 Medium (2GHz+4GB) £0.091 £66.69 £0.113 Large (4GHz+8GB) £0.205 £ £0.254 Extra large £0.436 £ £0.541 XL high memory £1.308 £ £1.622 XL high CPU £0.456 £ £0.565 XXL (24GHz+48GB) £1.367 £ £1.695

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk VM and File Storage PAYG 6.7p per GB per month (£828.34/TB/year) VM Storage is billed according to the average provisioned storage over the billing period (one month). File Storage is billed according to the average utilised storage over the billing period (one month).

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Connectivity PAYG JANET Data transfer: Free 1st public IP address: Free Additional public IP addresses: 0.5p per IP address per hour

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk vCloud Compute Virtual Datacentre Very SmallSmallMediumLargeVery Large CPU Reserved (GHz) Memory Reserved (GB) Storage (TB) Public IP addresses Approx Virtual Machines Total price / month £440.00£990.00£2,080.00£4,080.00£9, Total price / year £5,070.00£10,940.00£21,790.00£45,740.00£93,120.00

umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk Introductory Tier for new institutional customers –a small Virtual Datacentre for two months