Private Cloud Computing for ISPs

Matt Rechenburg
OpenQRM Enterprise

Abstract

Internet Service Provider (ISPs) always have strong requirements for their IT environment, e.g.:

• rapid provision new customers according to their needs
• dynamically adapt to customer requirements
• high-availability and fail-over for all systems avoiding single points of failure (SPOF)
• standardized and generic deployment (reproducible provisioning)
• standardized and automated configuration management
• simple and centralized mechanisms for system updates
• strong and robust backup + restore plus server-versioning
• detailed system- and service monitoring
• smart IP- and DNS-Management
• ... and more

Preferred all those different aspect centralized within a single management console. As a complete plug-able Data-Center Management Platform openQRM provides a proven and feature-rich open-source framework to standardized IT Infra-Structures in a generic and transparent way. The presentation focus on the different aspects of private Cloud Computing and how ISPs can take advantages of it based on an example use case of a Private openQRM Cloud. It deals with how to archive an agile, flexible and automated IT environment.

The openQRM Cloud provides a standardized, flexible and extensible "request system" mechanism for sysadmins and end-users to simple and fast get new server according their needs. Those systems are deployed using known-to-work server-templates. OpenQRM also provides the capability to easily exchange snapshots of development-, QA-, or even Production-servers during runtime without affecting the origin service. This means e.g. a development and the QA team can deploy a 1-to-1 copy of the production environment as their test-bed and even exchange snapshots of specific server for sanity checks.

Not only that openQRM offers a rich set of features and automatisms to manage modern Data-Centers in a scalable way but all the functionalities of openQRM are also exposed to End-Users via the openQRM Cloud plugin, so ... why not let your users provision and manage their systems on on their own via a private Cloud?

Related Urls:

• The openQRM project
• openQRM Enterprise
• Matt Rechenburg / Resume

Biography

Matthias Rechenburg is project manager of the openQRM project and CEO of openQRM Enterprise, the main sponsor and support company behind the open-source Data-Center Management and Cloud Computing platform. Since many years he is involved in all kinds of Data-Center related open-source projects like high-performance and high-availability clustering, consolidation, network and enterprise storage management.

Currently, his most serious interests are the different virtualization technologies, their features and capabilities and integration by a unified virtualization layer. He lives in Bonn, Germany, enjoys to code in his home-lab but also likes traveling, meeting other Linux-people and joining all kinds of Linux-related events and congresses.