Hi,
I'm not sure that I fully understand the security angle that you're getting at
here, but you and Jay are right that we're focusing on adding heterogeneity to
Openstack. Right now we support large shared memory x86 machines, like SGI
UVs, GPUs, and Tilera systems. The blueprints you linked to probably need some
updating, but they capture the gist of what we're up to. So far, we've been
focusing on HPC-style workloads. But if you had a security application that
ran on one of the Tilera boxes, I see no reason why you couldn't use Openstack
to provision it.
We'd be interested in hearing if there's anything in particular that our
heterogeneous support is lacking that would enable, for example, cloud WAF or
other security services.
best,
JP
On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:22 AM, balaji patnala wrote:
Hi Jay,
Thanks for information.
As it is observed that there is some work going on by UCIS team for Folsom
release on Heterogeneous support.
Please find the below link:
i) http://wiki.openstack.org/ScheduleHeterogeneousInstances
ii)
http://wiki.openstack.org/HeterogeneousArchitectureScheduler
which discusses about support for Heterogeneous platform support for Open
Stack.
Also in one of the document published by Rackspace, it is said that the
heterogeneous platform support can be done by having multiple Zones in the
cloud. But i doubt this way will have more performance impact and also have
more complex networking issues.
It is observed that Essex Release is not supporting Zones and came to know
from mailing list that this support will be available in Folsom release as
Cells.
I think that this heterogeneous platform support will enable more options
for service providers and as well users for L2/L3 services applications like
security services,WAF,LB etc on different platforms in cloud network.
Iam sorrry if the below queries didnt gave clear information.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/02/2012 12:09 PM, balaji patnala wrote:
Hi Jay,
As you know that L2 and L3 services could be the next step of offering
as Services from Cloud providers. Security Applications like
WAF,IPS,Firewall,VPN etc can be offered as services. These security
applications can be run in VMs on Heterogeneous hardware like Freescale
and any other platforms.
I'm not sure if heterogeneous hardware supported is specifically related
to security, but ...
Open Stack must support for the Heterogeneous hardware to enable
different hardware platforms apart from x86.
There's nothing about OpenStack, in general, that is specific to x86
hardware. It's Python, so if the Linux distribution of your preference
runs on some other hardware architecture, have at it. The images you
deploy will need to be tailored to the hardware architecture, of course,
but that isn't the realm of what OpenStack services do -- that's up to
the deployer.
Please share with us if you have any examples of similar deployments in
Clouds.
ISI is the group most actively working on heterogeneous architecture
support, but I don't believe they are focusing on security-related
things at all.
Best,
-jay
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com
mailto:jaypi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/02/2012 01:23 AM, balaji patnala wrote:
Hi,
Does open stack [Essex] release support Heterogeneous hardware for
creating VMs with Security Applications?
If not, what is the road map for this. Please let me know.
Could you please elaborate on what you mean by creating VMs with
security applications?
Thanks,
-jay
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