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On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Green, Paul <Paul.Green at stratus.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> As Amrith noted, Stratus is focusing on ways to run highly-available,
> legacy applications that are hosted on OpenStack.
>
> For more info, please check out the Stratus presentations from the recent
> OpenStack summit in Atlanta:
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/session-videos/presentation/demo-theater-stratus-software-defined-availability-for-openstack
>
> Thanks
> PG
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amrith Kumar [mailto:amrith at tesora.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:39 PM
> To: Jay Pipes; openstack at lists.openstack.org; hossein zabolzadeh
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Legacy Application Run on top of OpenStack
>
> Hi Hossein,
>
> You can get HA on OpenStack for things like storage just as you would in
> your existing data center. Unless you are running some highly available or
> fault tolerant hardware in your data center, I believe you will see
> comparable reliability in an OpenStack cloud, at least with respect to
> computing.
>
> I am interpreting Jay's answer below to say that you can build additional
> availability through scale-out paradigms but that may be inconsistent with
> your desire to make no change to your applications.
>
> If what you are looking for is a fault tolerant offering in the OpenStack
> cloud, maybe you want to look at something like Stratus (I'm sure someone
> from Stratus can respond and tell you more).
>
> -amrith
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> | Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:56 PM
> | To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> | Subject: Re: [Openstack] Legacy Application Run on top of OpenStack
> |
> | On 05/29/2014 05:12 AM, hossein zabolzadeh wrote:
> | > Hi there.
> | > I am baffling between Cloudstack and Openstack to select. My
> | > Datacenter has more than 10 legacy application, which need to be run
> | > on top of the best matched CMP(Cloud Management Platform). I am search
> | > a lot and I select openStack and CloudStack at the end. But, I can not
> | > make a final decision about these two CMPs. I don't want to make any
> | > change to my legacy application codebase. So, my exact concern is:
> | > "How legacy applications can be run on OpenStack without any HA and
> | > resiliancy problems?" As we know cloud-ready applications are fully
> | > awared from underlying infrastucture, but what about non-cloud-ready
> | > apps(Legacy Applications)?
> | > CloudStack is DC virtualization cloud solution(Vcloud Like Cloud
> | > Solution) that handle all of the HA and resiliancy in the
> | > infrastructure layer, but the paradigm in openStack is infrastructure
> | > provisioning(AWS like cloud), which the HA problems shoud be addressed
> | in application layer.
> | > So at general, how openStack support legacy applications to run
> | > without any HA problems?
> | > Thanks in advance.
> |
> | Hi Hossein,
> |
> | The short answer is that the idea behind "legacy" applications -- i.e.
> | that applications should rely on infrastructure to handle reliability of
> | the application in a scale-up-only manner -- is not something that the
> | OpenStack platform really encourages.
> |
> | We encourage scale-out behaviour and application development
> methodologies
> | that give the scaling, reliability, and resiliency control to the
> | application deployer to implement as they see fits best their
> application.
> | It's not a one-size-fits-all world, and as such, there are plenty of
> | application architectures and deployment methodologies that are supported
> | in cloudy environments; OpenStack doesn't pick or choose one over
> another.
> |
> | Best,
> | -jay
> |
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