1. The Illusion of Infinite Capacity Part 2 - Oversubscription

2. Introductions Andrew Hendrickson Director Technology Verizon Wireless
Jason Thompson
Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff
Verizon Wireless

3. From On-Boarding to On-Going APP Evolution
Agenda
AGENDA
Introductions
VCP Operational footprint
Managing Oversubscription in Private Cloud
VCP Oversubscription Model
Customer Onboarding View
Platform Operations View
Live Status
Storage Performance
SlackBot
Analytics
Open Q & A
From On-Boarding to On-Going APP Evolution

4. Verizon Cloud Platform ( VCP) - Intro
Type of Cloud Environment
Private Cloud
Verizon Cloud Platform ( VCP)
VCP is powered by OpenStack, the chosen platform for the migration of several legacy network, latency sensitive, telco applications as well as some greenfield applications to virtualized infrastructure.
Application Landscape
NFV
Orchestration
OSS/BSS

5. VCP Operations - Map Verizon Cloud Platform ( VCP)
Multi-tenant cloud platform distributed around the globe that serves tenants from all Verizon business units.

6. Managing Oversubscription in Private Cloud
Comparison with Airline Overbooking Seats
Much more complex picture with Cloud oversubscription
Airline - Overbooking
Cloud - Oversubscription
*Weather
Performance
*Location
*Day / Time
Failover
Speed
*Holidays
Network
Usage
IaaS
PaaS
Ratio
Huge Pages
SaaS
Memory
Location HA
Storage
R2D2
Reserved
Analytics
Demand
Purchase Time
Virtio
vCPU
SRIOV
IPS
Actual
usage
Competition
Auto-Migration
Government
Size of App

7. VCP Oversubscription Model
Managing Oversubscription
VCP uses multiple CPU Models to offer varied compute Performance offerings
Managing this with Host Agg’s within each Region
Set env PRODUCTAPI (or Insomnia) curl -k -u $PRODUCTAPI ' |python -m simplejson.tool

8. Customer details requirements for compute/ network/ storage
Customer Onboarding View
Customer creates project through website and follows Application Onboarding workflow
Customer details requirements for compute/ network/ storage
After onboarding is completed, Customer can see Platform Analytics showing their Quota’s and Usage

9. Timeline view of Site/Region capacity and metrics.
Platform Operations View - Live Status
Transparency on LIVE statistics for deep dive on each service and Capacity metrics for the sites/regions
Live operational status of all services for VCP Sites and Regions which are globally active.
Timeline view of Site/Region capacity and metrics.

10. BenchBot - Transparency on LIVE storage access statistics
Platform Operations View - Storage Performance - BenchBot
BenchBot - Transparency on LIVE storage access statistics
Storage Read Throughput
Storage Reads/Sec
Storage Write Throughput
Storage Writes/Sec
Influx DSN
RESULTS saved
Testing VM’s
Scheduled tests executed to volumes
Run vdbench
Attached
Volumes

11. Platform Operations View - ‘Service Status’ Deployment
Project Status
Swagger API Details
Site Status
Region Status
curl -k -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' ' |python -m simplejson.tool curl -k -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' ' |python -m simplejson.tool curl -k -X GET --header 'Accept: applcation/json' ' |python -m simplejson.tool

12. Platform Operations View - SQUUID SlackBot
UUID identifier central to VCP Operations
VCP operations uses UUID as a centralized unique identifier within its Operations Tools
Same as in OpenStack
SQUUID SlackBot
Flavors
Volumes
Instances
Networks
Images
………N
………..N
UUID as the identifier
SQUIDD
Inventory
Projects
Site-Status
OPS Tools
………...N
OpenStack
VCP Tools

13. Platform Operations View - Analytics

14. Example of VCP web property deployment
VCP Website
Verizon Cloud Platform’s recommended microservice design
Follows 12 Factor methodology

15. Platform Service Intelligence - Map view

16. Other related talks this week...

17. Q & A