Identifying Workloads toMove to the Cloud

October 4, 2011

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Your Panel TodayPresenting• Ryan Geyer, Sales Engineer, RightScale • Pavel Pragin, PS Architect, RightScale

Q&A • Jason Dorfman, Account Manager, RightScale

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Agenda• Characteristics of Ideal Workloads

• Scalable Web Apps – Social Media/Gaming• Batch Processing – Encoding• Disaster Recovery (DR)• Multi-Region/Cloud

• Characteristics of Bad Workloads• Live Q&A

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CLOUD IS FOR EVERYONE, NOT EVERYTHING

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NotEveryApp

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Application Portfolio

Requirements Filter

Resource Pools

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Performance

Cost

Compliance

Reliability

Security

RightScale Delivers Workload Deployment Freedom

It’s about using multiple resource pools, not choosing one.

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Internal DC

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Characteristics of Great Workloads • Unpredictable load or explosive growth potential

• Social gaming• Software as a service product launch• eCommerce• Blogs

• Partial utilization• Seasonal eCommerce load• Month/Quarter/Year end data consolidation (batch processing)

• Applications that are easily parallelized (scale out, not up)• Media streaming• Websites/applications

Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud

Scalable Web Apps

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Scalable Web AppsChallenges

• Unpredictable traffic spikes• Need to scale exponentially• Need high level of automation

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Scalable Web AppsCloud Strengths

• Autoscaling capability• Unlimited resources on demand• Pay for what you use• RightScale enables automation and eases operations

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

AMQP

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

Load Balanced Riak

AMQP

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

MySQL DB Tier

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

MySQL DB Tier

Memcached

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Example Scalable Web App Architecture

Auto Scaling Python App Tier

Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud

Batch Processing

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Batch ProcessingChallenges

• Need extremely high processing power• Need to process huge workloads• Need to process workloads fast• Fluctuating utilization cycle

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Batch ProcessingCloud Strengths

• Autoscaling on demand using metrics• Bring up large numbers of servers fast• Throw huge numbers of servers at the problem• Pay for what you use and when you need it

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Example Batch Processing Architecture

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Example Batch Processing Architecture

Auto Scaling Application Tier (Squeeze)

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Example Batch Processing Architecture

MySQL DB Tier

Identifying Workloads to Move to the Cloud

Disaster Recovery

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Disaster RecoveryChallenges

• Need infrastructure in a different location• Don’t want to pay for hardware and not use it• Need to be able to launch a new deployment anywhere fast• Affordable disaster recovery

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Disaster RecoveryCloud Strengths

• Use any public and/or private cloud• Run a scaled down deployment replica

• Replicating slave DB is the only “always on” server

• Use RightScripts and ServerTemplates to spin up deployments fast anywhere• Launch the rest of the servers in your deployment• Promote replicating slave DB to master

• High level of automation for smoother failover

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Example Disaster Recovery Architecture

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Example Disaster Recovery Architecture

Slave DB’s (Always On)

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Multi-Region / Multi-Cloud

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Multi-Region / Multi-CloudChallenges

• No public cloud in needed location• Need to burst to public cloud• Need better performance• High cost of public cloud at huge scale• Challenges and costs of DR

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Multi-Region / Multi-CloudCloud Strengths

• RightScale enables you to deploy in multiple clouds and regions seamlessly

• Private cloud can be set up in any datacenter anywhere• Burst to public cloud for more resources• Achieve better performance with private cloud• Save money by using your own hardware with private cloud at

large scale

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Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture

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Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture

Global Traffic Management via DNS

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Example Multi-Region/Multi-Cloud Workload Architecture

Database Tier Replicated over SSL

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Characteristics of Bad Workloads• Very high performance applications (Disk I/O and Network)

• Databases with very high I/O requirements• Application with very high I/O requirements• No tolerance for I/O performance fluctuations• High performance storage• Poor application design• Legacy and Enterprise Apps

• Low Latency• Database Replication and Clustering that requires very high network

throughput• Legacy and Enterprise Apps• Need for high performance network storage

• Hardware dependency

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