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Mirantis has launched a Software Community site where you can download and get resources for our latest offerings, including our recently released Mirantis OpenStack 9.1 maintenance update.
The Mirantis Software Community site is your go-to place to find the latest downloads, repositories, documentation and other materials for not just Mirantis branded software but also the various open source software projects we’re working on, including Fuel, StackLight, Salt, Kubernetes, Ceph and OpenContrail. Additionally, you’ll find links to relevant plugins and add-ons, from both Mirantis and our Unlocked Partners.
Mirantis Software Community site
Mirantis OpenStack 9.1
The Community Site currently features Mirantis OpenStack 9.1, which has several enhancements for lifecycle management, including a streamlined mechanism for maintenance updates. Additionally, MOS 9.1 provides new tabs in Fuel for Workflows and History where we’ve made it easier to manage custom deployment workflows and view details about in-progress or completed deployment tasks. We’ve also added support for event-driven task execution for further deployment automation, targeted diagnostic snapshots for reduced footprint, and various security features.
Deployment HIstory tab in Fuel

Learn more in our technical blog or release notes
View MOS 9.0 to 9.1 update instructions

Please note that in order to install the MOS 9.1 update package, you must first have MOS 9.0 installed.
Get Involved and Contribute
Besides providing software and related technical materials, the Community site is also a starting point for you to get involved and contribute to the community. We invite you to join a mailing list, jump on an IRC channel or submit to a Launchpad community page or Q&A forum — we’ve provided relevant links for you to quickly get in touch and offer your ideas and expertise, including information on how to contribute.
We’ve also set up a monthly community newsletter, geared towards users and operators. Subscribe to get information on the latest software and related resources from both Mirantis and the open source projects we’re contributing to.
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2. November 20162. November 2016

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Choose the right workloads for early success in the cloud

You’ve heard this before, especially if you’re a chief information officer: deploying workloads and applications in a cloud infrastructure can help reduce costs, free up resources to drive innovation and streamline critical processes.
But if you need to demonstrate value sooner rather than later, cloud deployment might not always be the best choice for every workload.
One cloud does not fit all
The benefits of cloud are more visible when the workload aligns with the standardization, virtualization, automation and support that cloud deployment provides. Often, these types of workloads require almost no customization and can make deployment to a cloud environment easier.
However, not every workload is created equal. The benefits of cloud can vary depending on the characteristics of whatever is being deployed. For certain applications, the value of cloud in comparison to traditional delivery models may not be significant enough to justify an early migration.
Understanding your workloads
Choosing the right workloads is fundamental to achieving your cloud strategy objectives. Before starting a cloud implementation project, it’s important to analyze your potential gains against the projected challenges of deploying to a public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Your model for managing certain critical workloads might currently be so costly — financially and operationally — that migrating to cloud can provide considerable benefits. Yet some workloads may already be optimized to such a level that migrating to cloud isn’t worth the time, money and effort.
So how do you know which workloads and applications will deliver the best return on a cloud investment?

Get expert advice on cloud deployment
To better understand the value that a cloud solution may — or may not — deliver for your business, consult specialists. The IBM Cloud Affinity Analysis is designed to identify the workloads most likely to drive early success in your cloud adoption. This low-cost, face-to-face assessment provides a qualitative analysis of up to four current or future workloads. The assessment includes each workload’s overall affinity to cloud; the pain versus gain of moving to cloud; and whether the workload is appropriate for public, private or hybrid cloud environment.
The Cloud Affinity Analysis applies a structured methodology that shapes the cloud adoption discussion so you can better understand and prioritize application workloads for cloud with clear information about potential costs and the impacts of migration. At the end of the process, you receive a customized report that includes recommendations regarding whether you should consider moving specific workloads to cloud and what to expect during the implementation.
To learn more about how a Cloud Affinity Analysis helps you achieve early success in your migration to the cloud, read the Cloud Affinity Analysis solution brief.
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2. November 20162. November 2016

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Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner- Services

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Mirantis is the industry leader in OpenStack with more customers in production than any other OpenStack company. Our customers include iconic brands like AT&T, Comcast, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, eBay, Wells Fargo Bank and Volkswagen. Open source projects are in our DNA with Mirantis being the number one contributor to OpenStack and a top three contributor to Ceph. Additionally, Mirantis places significant value on building communities around open source projects evidenced by our Platinum sponsorship of OpenStack, involvement with the OpenStack Foundation Board, and our own online and in person events used to educate end users about all things OpenStack. Mirantis, Inc. is looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner – Services. You will be the finance point of contact working closely with the Services department while providing strategic analyses and recommendations to help drive the business. You will provide variance analysis of bookings, revenues and expenses, clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and owning the financial forecast to reflect operational adjustments. The Services organization has an annual revenue of $ 45M and 200 employees. You will be reporting to the Director of FP&A with a strong dotted line to the GM, EVP of Services.ResponsibilitiesBe key business partner to the Services department to provide strategic financial insights and recommendationsComplex financial modeling development / improvement / maintenanceMonitor key performance metrics relevant to the Services department and provide insights into drivers of bookings, revenue, and expenses, as well as risks and opportunitiesEstablish regular cadence with business partners for monthly budget vs actual analysis, headcount reporting, monthly and quarterly expense forecast updates, annual planning, and special projectsMonitor the project administration and track project margins versus budget.Be involved in the hiring process and keep track of headcountReporting of travel and entertainment expenses at the account level and monitor accurate billingWork with the Services department to lead ad hoc analyses to address the business’ needsLead the development and implementation of tools, systems and processes to support the successful completion of timely and accurate forecastsAnalyze data, identify trends and associated action plans to drive improvements in the businessProvide ongoing communication and collaboration with departmental staff and management.Assist in identifying and implementing financial and operationally relevant Key Performance Indicators within the Services organizationProactively analyze the financial stability (profitability) of individual accounts (clients), identify drivers and make recommendationsDeliver account level P&L’s for each of our top level accountsEstablishing and maintain various reusable reporting templatesMaintain a working knowledge of current principles and methodologies in financial reporting; profit planning, cost accounting and profitability analysis best-practices as they apply to service organizations QualificationsBA/BS degree in business or related field required, MBA a plusPrevious experience as a business partner for a professional services organization is a mustAnalytical background working directly in an FP&A environmentExcellent computer skills and proficient in excel, word, PowerPoint, outlook, and accessExcellent communication skills both verbal and writtenExcellent interpersonal skills.A demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards and a diverse workplaceExcels at operating in a fast pace and diverse environmentCollaborative work style and commitment to get the job doneAbility to challenge and debate issues of importance to the organization.Ability to look at situations from several points of viewPersuasive with details and factsHigh comfort level working in a matrix environmentThe post Senior Manager, Financial Business Partner- Services appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company.
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2. November 20162. November 2016

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Reducing data pain with IBM Cloud Object Storage and Cisco

Do people within your organization communicate by attaching files to messages? Do they download videos and images? Do you have plans to use the cloud to store your corporate information assets, but haven’t done it yet? Have you had the experience of running out of storage space? Have you been unable to find where you stored a data asset when you needed it?
If any of these scenarios sound familiar, your business is probably like numerous others across the world experiencing pains from the exponential growth of unstructured data. They’re all finding out that traditional methods for storing and managing this information are becoming inadequate, thus failing to meet future corporate objectives.
IBM Cloud Object Storage, in conjunction with Cisco’s newly announced Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Server, is looking to alleviate some of those headaches. The joint solution that combines the S3260 and IBM Cloud Object Storage has already been implemented (in a proof of concept) with two key clients.
IBM and Cisco’s common channel works together to meet active archive needs for on-premises and cloud environments.
Here’s how they work in tandem: our partners deploy IBM Cloud Object Storage which is designed to help their clients more efficiently manage the ingest and retrieval of terabytes and petabytes of unstructured data. The Cisco S3260 provides the compute power and density to enable the customer to balance cost with powerful performance.
“More and more enterprises are investing in IBM Cloud Object Storage to manage their ever-increasing volumes of ,” said Bob Schwartz, Director of IBM COS Alliances with IBM Cloud Object Storage. “Through the joint solution of Cisco S3260 and IBM Cloud Object Storage, clients will be able to manage and store their unstructured data today and efficiently scale to meet their needs in the future.”
Find out more about IBM Cloud Object Storage.
Learn more about the UCS S-Series.
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1. November 20161. November 2016

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CloudForms 4.2 Beta 1 (Public)

Welcome to the CloudForms 4.2 Beta 1 release. The beta program will run for a number of weeks starting Halloween 2016.
Please note this is a Beta Blog and therefore should NOT be used to confirm the GA release of this product.
Let’s break down the mega release into various sections of the platform for a quick review;
Providers
VMware vCloud Air/Director
This new provider has been developed in conjunction with XLAB.SI. It delivers the following capabilities;
Inventory

Collect vApps
Collect Datacenters

Events
Event Catcher and Switchboard support
Metrics – Not Yet
LifeCycle

Provision vCloud Apps (vApps) from CloudForms Service Catalog and Operations UI

VMware vSphere

New Dashboard for vSphere Provider.
Allow for Cluster only selection &8211; We had a requirement to allow users to select only the cluster, and not specify the host or datastore. So during provisioning on VMware vSphere you can now do this, select only the cluster and if the cluster supports DRS it will automatically decide a host and datastore on the VMware side of the house.
Provisioning with Storage Profiles &8211; Now you can provision in CloudForms supporting VMware Storage Profiles. VMware Storage Profiles let you assign policies to datastores such as production or test. In CloudForms we pre-filter the datastore selection based on these profiles.

Red Hat Virtualization

Snapshot Management &8211; Take/Restore from Snapshots within RHV.
Disk Management &8211; Connect/Disconnect drives to your virtual machines. Fully supporting VM reconfigure.

Middleware (Hawkular)
Inventory

Clusters
Hosts
Entities
Topology
Applications
Templates
Datasources
Drivers
Deployment status
Cross linking

Dedicated performance reports for Hawkular are also included.
Events

Receive Events
Support for Alert Profiles and automated expressions for middleware servers

Metrics
The Hawkular provider supports live metrics. This means that when you view the charts within CloudForms we grab the live metrics from the server at that time for the following,

Datasources
Transactions
JMS Topics
Queues

Life Cycle Operations

Deploy Application
Upload WAR
Create Datasource(s)
Add JDBC Drivers

OpenStack Cloud

Create/Update/Delete OpenStack Cloud Tenants
Create/Update/Delete Host Aggregates
Take and Remove Snapshots at VM level

OpenStack Infrastructure

New topology view of the Under Cloud
Ironic Controls Added for Hosts

Set as Manageable
Introspect Nodes
Provide Nodes

OpenStack Neutron

Create/Update/Delete Router
Create/Update/Delete Network
Create/Update/Delete Subnet
Inventory of Network Ports

OpenStack Swift
New provider in a new Storage menu. This provider class will be built out in future releases.

Inventory

OpenStack Cinder
New provider in a new Storage menu. This provider class will be built out in future releases.

Inventory
Snapshot Support for Volumes exposed in the UI and Automate.
Create/Restore from Backup exposed in the UI and Automate.

OpenShift Enterprise

View Container Templates
Chargeback for container images &8211; Enabling images to support a fixed cost. This can contribute a base image cost to a variable utilised report for pods and applications.
Chargeback based on container image tags.
Support for Custom Attributes &8211; Now we see the OpenShift labels as custom attributes.
Allow policies to prevent image scans, this is useful if you wish to stop CloudForms from inspecting certain images for security or performance reasons.
Reports : Pods for images per project and Pods per node.

Google Cloud

Metrics &8211; CPU, Memory and Network.
Load Balancer Inventory.
Load Balancer Health Checks &8211; Shown in inventory and actionable using automation.
Hide deprecated images from provisioning.
Preemptible Instances &8211; Googles Preemptible Instances are a low cost way of getting compute, coming with restrictions such as termination without notice. CloudForms supports the provisioning of these instances.
Retirement Support.

Microsoft Azure

Additional metrics to CPU such as;

Memory
Disk

Chargeback for Fixed, Allocated and Utilized costs for VM resources.
Support for Floating IPs during provisioning.
Load Balancer inventory.

Microsoft SCVMM

Bug fixes.

Amazon EC2
New CloudForms Appliance Image &8211; This means you can now run CloudForms in Amazon EC2 without any other hosting infrastructure required.
User Interfaces
Both

Single Level Proxy Support &8211; This allows for users to access the remote console for workloads that may be behind a firewall (e.g. service providers). You can configure CloudForms to proxy remote console sessions when direct host visibility is not available. This capability is also exposed to automate.
Notification Draw &8211; Users can receive both Toasts and Notifications from any event happening in CloudForms. This means that during provisioning, as various phases are passed such as approval, quota check, etc., you can notify the user that this has happened. Furthermore, we have enabled this with a helper method in Automate, meaning that any automate method can emit notifications. The notifications can be read or saved. The drawer holds a history of previous notifications.

Operations UI

Topology viewer added for Infrastructures and Cloud Providers.
New toggle view to switch between classic inventory view and new dashboard view.
Schedule automate tasks &8211; Run once or recurring.
VM Explorer Trees &8211; A new setting has been introduced and set as default. This setting REMOVES the VM&8217;s from the explorer trees, as it caused a substantial performance hit. This setting can be turned back on for smaller environments under My Settings > Services > Workloads > All VMs. The page load time was reduced from 93,770ms to 524ms (99% improvement) with a test of 20,000 VMs.
Timelines &8211; New Timelines component for timelines view on VMs, Providers or other objects supporting this feature.

Service UI

New support for Chargeback roll-up data per My Services. Shows $/$$/$$$ costings.
Service Power Operations &8211; You can now Stop/Start/Suspend an entire service composed of multiple VMs.
Confirmation when deleting items from your shopping cart.
Cockpit Integration &8211; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x systems can be managed/configured using the Cockpit server manager interface. CloudForms now allows launching the Cockpit UI in a new window for systems identified as enabled.

Platform
Chargeback

Numerous changes to Chargeback to improve accuracy in results.

Centralized Administrator

This item is to support some of our larger installations of CloudForms whereby the customer wishes to have one single entry point into CloudForms from any number of regions or zones setup globally. We have supported for some time the notion of a Reporting Region, this allows to report centrally on any data rolled up from child regions to the parent reporting region. With Centralized Administration you can now not only report, but start to perform some of lifecycle tasks too such as;

VM Power Operations &8211; Start/Stop/Suspend a VM in any region from your central region.
VM Retirement &8211; Retire a VM in any region from your central region.

Tenancy
Tenancy has seen two major changes in this release as follows;
OpenStack and our Tenancy
You can now synchronize the tenants that exist within OpenStack to CloudForms. This means you can, as an administrator, define some simple mapping rules and CloudForms will automatically keep the tenants that exist within the OpenStack providers synchronized to those in CloudForms.
CloudForms Tenancy
Ad-hoc sharing of resources across tenants. This will allow users to select an item in their view and share it with anyone in any other tenant in CloudForms.
Database Maintenance
The results from numerous support surveys shows that the database can suffer performance or stability issues when maintenance is not carried out regularly. Therefore we are including in the “black console” menus the ability to configure Database Maintenance activities.
Database High Availability
We are supporting in the product, PostgreSQL High Availability. The support is for Primary to Stand-by, you can manually control the swap or use a heartbeat to automatically fail over. The feature is easily enabled using the &8220;Black Console&8221; menu.
Automate

Import Automate Models from GiT Repository

Fully UI configurable and managed.
Post Commit Hooks &8211; Automatically synchronize the changes to the CloudForms appliances enabled with the GiT Server Role.
Tags &8211; Select what is synchronized by Tags.
Branches &8211; Select what is synchronized by Branch.
Supports certificates

Schedule automate tasks &8211; Now you can create tasks that are triggered based on a timed schedule
Notifications &8211; You can $evm.create_notification(:message => &8220;my custom message&8221;). We support error levels and subjects too. This will allow you to provide feedback direct to your users from automate. For example, if you have an automate script that exports, converts and imports a VM from one platform to another, you could notify the user who initiated the task when each phase has completed. Previously the only messaging to the user was email, with notifications you have live feed back through the UI direct to the user.

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What you missed at OpenStack Barcelona

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The OpenStack Summit in Barcelona was, in some ways, like those that had preceded it — and in other ways, it was very different. As in previous years, the community showed off large customer use cases, but there was something different this year: whereas before it had been mostly early adopters &8212; and the same early adopters, for a time &8212; this year there were talks from new faces with very large use cases, such as Sky TV and Banco Santander.
And why not? Statistically, OpenSTack seems to have turned a corner, with the semi-annual user survey showing that workloads are no longer just development and testing but actual production, users are no longer limited to huge corporations but also to work at small to medium sized businesses, and containers have gone from an existential threat to a solution with which to work, not fight, and concerns about interoperability seem to have been squashed, finally.
Let’s look at some of the highlights of the week.
#RunsOnOpenStack
It&8217;s traditional to bring large users up on stage during the keynotes, but this year, with users such as Spain&8217;s largest bank, Banco Santander, Britain&8217;s broadcaster, Sky UK, the world&8217;s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, and the world&8217;s largest retailer, Walmart, it did seem more like showing what OpenStack can do, than in previous years, when it was more about proving that anybody was actually using it in the first place.
For example, Cambridge’s Dr. Rosie Bolton talked about the SKA radio observatory that will look at 65,000 frequency channels, consuming and destroying 1.3 zettabytes of data every six hours. The project will run for 50 years cost over a billion dollars.

This.is.Big.Data @OpenStack #OpenStackSummit pic.twitter.com/XgT3eEjDVh
— Sean Kerner (@TechJournalist) October 25, 2016

OpenStack Foundation CEO Mark Collier also introduced enhancements to the OpenStack Project Navigator, which provides information on the individual projects and their maturity, corporate diversity, adoption, and so on. The Navigator now includes a Sample Configs section, which provides the projects that are normally used for various use cases, such as web applications, eCommerce, and high throughput computing.
Research from 451 Research
The Foundation also talked about findings from a new 451 Research report that looked at OpenStack adoption and challenges.
Key findings from the 451 Research include:

Mid-market adoption shows that OpenStack use is not limited to large enterprises. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) are in organizations of between 1,000 and 10,000 employees.1
OpenStack-powered clouds have moved beyond small-scale deployments. Approximately 72 percent of OpenStack enterprise deployments are between 1,000 to 10,000 cores in size. Additionally, five percent of OpenStack clouds among enterprises top the 100,000 core mark.
OpenStack supports workloads that matter to enterprises, not just test and dev. These include infrastructure services (66 percent), business applications and big data (60 percent and 59 percent, respectively), and web services and ecommerce (57 percent).
OpenStack users can be found in a diverse cross section of industries. While 20 percent cited the technology industry, the majority come from manufacturing (15 percent), retail/hospitality (11 percent), professional services (10 percent), healthcare (7 percent), insurance (6 percent), transportation (5 percent), communications/media (5 percent), wholesale trade (5 percent), energy & utilities (4 percent), education (3 percent), financial services (3 percent) and government (3 percent).
Increasing operational efficiency and accelerating innovation/deployment speed are top business drivers for enterprise adoption of OpenStack, at 76 and 75 percent, respectively. Supporting DevOps is a close second, at 69 percent. Reducing cost and standardizing on OpenStack APIs were close behind, at 50 and 45 percent, respectively.

The report talked about the challenge OpenStack faces from containers in the infrastructure market, but contrary to the notion that more companies were leaning on containers than OpenStack, the report pointed out that OpenStack users are adopting containers at a faster rate than the rest of the enterprise market, with 55 percent of OpenStack users also using containers, compared to just 17 percent across all respondents.
According to Light Reading, “451 Research believes OpenStack will succeed in private cloud and providing orchestration between public cloud and on-premises and hosted OpenStack.”
The Fall 2016 OpenStack User Survey
The OpenStack Summit is also the where we hear the results of the semi-annual user-survey. In this case, the key findings among OpenStack deployments include:

Seventy-two percent of OpenStack users cite cost savings as their No. 1 business driver.
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) for OpenStack deployments—an indicator of user satisfaction—continues to tick up, eight points higher than a year ago.
Containers continues to lead the list of emerging technologies, as it has for three consecutive survey cycles. In the same question, interest in NFV and bare metal is significantly higher than a year ago.
Kubernetes shows growth as a container orchestration tool.
Seventy-one percent of deployments catalogued are in “production” versus in testing or proof of concept. This is a 20 percent increase year over year.
OpenStack is adopted by companies of every size. Nearly one-quarter of users are organizations smaller than 100 people.

New this year is the ability to explore the full data, rather than just relying on highlights.
Community announcements
Also announced during the keynotes were new Foundation Gold members, the winner of the SuperUser award, and progress on the Foundation&8217;s Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.
The OpenStack Foundation charter allows for 24 Gold member companies, who elect 8 Board Directors to represent them all. (The other members include one each chosen by the 8 Platinum member companies, and 8 individual directors elected by the community at large.) Gold member companies must be approved by existing board members, and this time around City Network, Deutsche Telekom, 99Cloud and China Mobile were added.
China Mobile was also given the Superuser award, which honors a company&8217;s commitment to and use of OpenStack.
Meanwhile, in Austin, the Foundation announced the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam, and in the past six months, 500 individuals have taken advantage of the opportunity.
And then there were the demos…
While demos used to be simply to show how the software works, that now seems to be a given, and instead demos were done to tackle serious issues. For example, Network Functions Virtualization is a huge subject for OpenStack users &8212; in fact 86% of telcos say OpenStack will be essential to their adoption of the technology &8212; but what is it, exactly? Mark Collier and representatives of the OPNFV and Vitrage projects were able to demonstrate how OpenStack applies in this case, showing how a High Availability Virtual Network Function (VNF) enables the system to keep a mobile phone call from disconnecting even if a cable or two is cut. (In this case, literally, as Mark Collier levied a comically huge pair of scissors against the hardware.)
But perhaps the demo that got the most attention wasn&8217;t so much of a demo as a challenge. One of the criticisms constantly levied against OpenStack is that there&8217;s no &8220;vanilla&8221; version &8212; that despite the claims of freedom from lock-in, each distribution of OpenStack is so different from the others that it&8217;s impossible to move an application from one distro to another.
To fight that charge, the OpenStack community has been developing RefStack, a series of tests that a distro must pass in order to be considered &8220;OpenStack&8221;. But beyond that, IBM issued the &8220;Interoperability Challenge,&8221; which required teams to take a standard deployment tool &8212; in this case, based on Ansible &8212; and use it, unmodified, to create a WordPress-hosting LAMP stack.
In the end, 18 companies joined the challenge, and 16 of them appeared on stage to simultaneously take part.
So the question remained: would it work? See for yourself:

Coming up next
So the next OpenStack Summit will be in Boston, May 8-12, 2017. For the first time, however, it won&8217;t include the OpenStack Design Summit, which will be replaced by a separate Project Teams Gathering, so it&8217;s likely to once again have a different feel and flavor as the community &8212; and the OpenStack industry &8212; grows.
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