ARM Server

ARM Servers

Dell and HP have also announced that they will enter the market

Why?

MaaS and Juju

Juju is DevOps Distilled. Through the use of charms, juju provides you with shareable, re-usable, and repeatable expressions of DevOps best practices. You can use them unmodified, or easily change and connect them to fit your needs. Deploying a charm is similar to installing a package on Ubuntu: ask for it and it’s there, remove it and it’s completely gone.

Juju is a community of DevOps expertise. Most of the applications you want will be available in juju. Juju provides direct and free access to a DevOps community-contributed collection of charms

Juju provides service orchestration. Juju focuses on managing the service units you need to deliver a single solution, above simply configuring the machines or cloud instances needed to run them. Charms developed, tested, and deployed on your own hardware will operate the same in any EC2 or OpenStack compatible cloud.

Juju is intelligent. Juju exposes re-usable service units and well-defined interfaces that allow you to quickly and organically adjust and scale solutions without repeating yourself.

Juju is easy. There’s no need to learn a domain specific language (DSL) to use juju or create charms. You can be up and running with your own charm in minutes.

What?

What is an ARM Server?

Ubuntu

And that is not all, the HP figures:

• 89 percent less energy
• 94 percent less space
• 63 percent less cost, and
• 97 percent less complexity

What is MaaS

98% of the one billion mobile phones sold each year uses at least one ARM processor.

ARM Ltd licensees its technologies to manufacturers that create full Systems On a Chip (SoC)

HTC One X smartphone is powered by 4 Nvidia ARM processors

HP estimates that their ARM Servers will require 94% less space.

That will be equivalent to shrinking Taipei 101 to 120,000 sq ft.

The Casino Floor of the Luxor hotel is 120,000 sq ft.

ARM Chips are optimised to be low-power and small but still powerful.

Servers are now being designed using these same chips

A Rack containing 40 traditional servers, could house over 3,000 ARM Servers.

Metal as a Service -- MAAS -- brings the language of the cloud to physical servers.

It makes it easy to set up the hardware on which to deploy any service that needs to scale up and down dynamically; a cloud being just one example.

It lets you provision your servers dynamically, just like cloud instances.

With a simple web interface, you can add, commission, update and recycle your servers at will.

Selected by HP, AT&T, Ericsson and Rackspace, Ubuntu plus OpenStack is the platform of choice for organisations deploying private clouds today.

Why are large Multinationals investing on this?

Why should I care?

Does it all work for ARM Server?

Taipei 101 has a 2 Million Square Feet floor area spread over 106 floors

The combined area of 3 largest Data Centers in the world is over 2,7 Million Square Feet

Show me!

What is Juju

Here is a Demo done by Calxeda (an SoC maker) of Juju and MaaS using their ARM Server Hardware

If you don't belive me ask Mark Shuttleworth

Here is a demo on how to deploy hadoop with Juju in 10 minutes

Mind The Gap

by Victor Palau

Good but not enough..

Standard Kernel Technology

64 Bits Architecture

Challanges to Adoption:

1000s of nodes per Rack

+10k IP Address per Rack

Multiple SoCs

Mixed x86 & ARM environment

Adoption diven by easy of use:

• Provisionsing large deployments
• multi-architecture
• mixed public and private cloud deployment

Adoption Gap

At Computex 2012, MiTaC demostrated their first ARM Server, running Ubuntu

Single Workload

Lamp, Hadoop,..

Wide adoption on data center

Hardware abstraction

When?

Cloud Infra

When is it arriving?

When will it be everywhere?

What stands on its way?

Basic Workloads

Code Builders

What is Ubuntu?

Super-fast, easy to use and free, the Ubuntu operating system powers millions of desktops, netbooks and servers around the world.

Ubuntu

5 Years Support

2 Server SoCs

Basic Workloads

Non-server SoC

Technical Preview

5 years Support

Many A15 and

ARM v8 SoCs

Cloud Ready

Ubuntu Releases:

• Ubuntu has a new release every 6 months
• The first digit represent the year
• The second set of digits represent the month
• So 12.04 is the April 2012 release
• Every 2 years Canonical releases a Long Term Support (LTS) release
• LTS releases are supported for 5 years

References

www.ubuntu.com

HP White Paper - http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-9839ENW&cc=us&lc=en

Data Centers - http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/

Other - wikipedia

Juju - https://juju.ubuntu.com/

MaaS - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS/

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