AWS in Heidelberg University

AWS in Heidelberg University Maximilian Hoecker Head of IT-Strategy and –Planning Computing Center – Heidelberg University (URZ)

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Challenges in University-IT •  Time-to-Market/Production with new services •  Rules of third-party funding with reusage of IT •  Ressource-Management (Rackspace, Rooms, Staff)

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Services  

Services  

Applica2ons   Opera2ng  

Transformed   into  

Future-­‐IT  Reseach  and   Educa>on  (FIRE)  

URZ   Service,  Support,   Security  (S3)    

URZ  

Campus  &  Cloud  (C2)  

Organisational Transition

Applica2ons   Opera2ng  

Network  

Network  

Silo  oriented  

Service  oriented  

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Cloud Areas heiCLOUD   heiTCLOUD  

HeiSCLOUD  

HeiPCLOUD  

•  Test  Cloud  (URZ)   •  Experiments:   •  Configura>on   •  Images   •  Updates   •  Services  

•  Student  Cloud   •  Virtual  Desktops   •  Objectstore  with  File-­‐ View   •  Currently:  1k  students   •  Free  of  charge  

•  Produc>ve  Cloud   •  High  Available   •  IaaS  Services   •  PaaS  Services  planned   •  Tentant  Areas   •  Free+Payed  Tier  

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Infrastructure  

Core-­‐ API  

Cloud-­‐ API  

heiCloud Modules

heiCLOUD  Broker  

Auth.  

Docker  

Compute  

KVM  

Object   Store  

VM-­‐ Volumes  

Object+Block   Storage  

Linux-­‐OS   x86  Servers  

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Image-­‐ Storage  

SDN-­‐ Controller  

SDN-­‐Switch-­‐API  

Premium  SLA-­‐ Storage    

SDN-­‐OS   10G-­‐Network  

Premium  SLA  Storage  

Customer  API  

AWS  

Virtualiza>on  

Network  

Opera>ng  Sys,  

Storage  

API  

Hardware  

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Hybrid Networking

heiCLOUD  Broker  

Infrastruct ure  

Hybrid  Network   Doc ker  

KV M  

Object+Block   Storage  

Linux-­‐OS  

Premium   SLA-­‐ Storage    

x86  Servers  

Premium  SLA   Storage  

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SDN-­‐ Switch-­‐ API  

SDN-­‐OS   10G-­‐ Networ k  

AWS  VPC   AWS    

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Hybrid Containering

heiCloud  Transparency  

Infrastruct ure  

Hybrid  Network   Doc ker  

KV M  

Object+Block   Storage  

Linux-­‐OS  

Premium   SLA-­‐ Storage    

x86  Servers  

Premium  SLA   Storage  

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SDN-­‐ Switch-­‐ API  

SDN-­‐OS   10G-­‐ Networ k  

AWS  VPC   AWS    

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AWS Usage Scenarios (currently) •  Large temporary Hadoop deployments •  Data Processing in e.g. astronomy, text mining •  Burst out using Plattform containers •  Cluster (Hadoop, HPC, etc.) Deployment for Student Education in Classes Maximilian  Hoecker  

More information: www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de or Contact me

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