OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit

Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release – Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did Havana add close to 400 new features across Compute (Nova), Storage (Swift), Networking (Neutron) and other core services, it also provided users with more application-driven capabilities and more enterprise features.  Two new projects – Heat (orchestration) and Ceilometer (metering) were integrated into OpenStack during the Havana release as well.

One area of focus in Havana for Cisco was on the Neutron project.  This included contributions to enhance the Neutron Cisco plugin framework, feature additions to the Nexus plugin for physical Cisco Nexus switches, introduction of the new Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch plugin and actively leading and participating in the design of the Neutron Modular Layer 2 plugin framework. This datasheet captures more information on the new features of the Cisco Nexus Neutron plugin (for physical switches) for OpenStack Havana. Cisco’s contribution in these and other areas, such as Layer 3, Firewall and VPN network services are reflected in this Stackalytics  report of Neutron contributions for the Havana release.

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We are now just a few days away from the OpenStack IceHouse Summit taking place in Hong Kong. Cisco is premier sponsor for the Summit and is also participating in several sessions and panels to make the Summit a success. To secure a slot in the General Session track at the Summit, interested candidates including Cisco’s OpenStack team submitted speaking proposals in August that went through an OpenStack community voting process. The details of the proposals can be found in this blog. Based on these results, Cisco’s team is now leading or participating in 10 session and panel discussions. The following table (sorted by session timings) captures details of the accepted sessions –

Track | Session | Details

General Session

Panel: The CTOs of Cloud

November 5 2:50pm – 3:30pm
AsiaWorld-Summit-Hall 2 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Apps on OpenStack

OpenStack for Enterprise Developers: Should they care?

November 5 3:40pm – 4:20pm
SkyCity Grand Ballroom A&B (SkyCity Marriot Hotel)

Related OSS Projects

Panel: OpenDaylight: An Open Source SDN for your OpenStack Cloud

November 6 11:15am – 11:55am
Skycity Grand Ballroom A&B (SkyCity Marriott Hotel)

Strategy

OpenStack, IaaS and the Future of Application Aware Infrastructure

November 6 12:05pm – 12:45pm
Expo Breakout Room 1 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Panel: The Future of Networking in the Cloud

November 6 2:00pm – 2:40pm
Expo Breakout Room 1 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Product & Services

Deploying OpenStack with Cisco Networking, Compute and Storage

November 6 3:40pm – 4:20pm
Expo Breakout Room 1 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Panel: Agile Networking with OpenStack

November 6 4:40pm – 5:20pm
Expo Breakout Room 1 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Operations

Deploying federated Openstack deployments on ipv6 backbones Experiences, Directions and Architecture

November 7 9:00am – 9:40am
Expo Breakout Room 2 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Community Building

Panel: Ideas, tools and examples for OpenStack Groups

November 8 9:50am – 10:30am
Expo Breakout Room 1 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

Technical Deep Dive

OpenStack Neutron Modular Layer 2 Plugin Deep Dive

November 8 11:00am – 11:40am
Expo Breakout Room 2 (AsiaWorld-Expo)

In addition to the above General Session tracks, the Cisco OpenStack team is also leading the design sessions in the Neutron project on Connectivity Group extensions for applications, Modular Layer 2 plugin, Network Function Virtualization with Service VM’s and Services Framework.  An enhanced constraint based solver scheduler will also be discussed with the community within the Nova project. The schedule for the general sessions is here and for the design sessions here. If you are interested in attending any of the general or design sessions be sure to mark your calendar.

Finally, we are showcasing in the demo theater “Scaling OpenStack with Cisco UCS and Nexus” on Wednesday, November 6th 12:40pm-12:55pm and will be present at the Cisco booth (booth B6 in the exhibit hall) with the following demos  –

Demos

Quad Hours

OpenStack UCS demo

N1KV demo on OpenStack

Seamless-Cloud on OpenStack demo

Constraint-based Smarter Scheduler for OpenStack demo (short demo here)

Tuesday, November 5th from 10:45am to 6:00pm

Wednesday, November 6th from 10:45am to 6:00pm

Thursday, November 7th from 8:00am to 4:00pm

We are excited to be there at the OpenStack Hong Kong Summit and we hope to see you there as well ! For latest information, visit us here.