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On behalf of the OpenStack Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the inaugural OpenStack Live 2015 Conference! This new annual conference, running in parallel with the already established Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, will feature one day of tutorials followed by a full day of breakout sessions April 13-14, in Santa Clara, Calif.

Though the entire conference schedule won’t be finalized until early January, this initial list of talks is sure to spark interest! So without further ado, here is he OpenStack Live 2015 SNEAK PEEK SCHEDULE!

“Deploying an OpenStack Cloud at Scale at Time Warner Cable”
-Matthew Fischer, Principal Software Engineer for OpenStack DevOps at Time Warner Cable, and Clayton O’Neill, Principal Software Engineer for OpenStack Cloud at Time Warner Cable

“An Introduction to Database as a Service with an Emphasis on OpenStack Using Trove”
-Amrith Kumar, Founder and CTO of Tesora, Inc., and Tushar Katarki, Director of Product Management at Percona

“Lightweight OpenStack Benchmarking Service with Rally and Docker”
-Swapnil Kulkarni, Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

“MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive”
-Peter Boros, Principal Architect at Percona

This is just a small taste of what will be presented at OpenStack Live 2015 conference this spring. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to hear from leading experts in the field about top cloud strategies, improving overall cloud performance, and operational best practices for managing and optimizing OpenStack and its MySQL database core.

As a special bonus, OpenStack Live attendees attendees will also have access to the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo keynotes, receptions, exhibition hall, and Birds of a Feather sessions on April 13 and 14, allowing them to dive deeper into MySQL topics such as high availability, security, performance optimization, and much more.

Registration for OpenStack Live 2015 is now open… register now with Early Bird pricing! Hope to see you there!

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I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. In order to be able to talk about benchmarking, we had to be able to set up and tear down OpenStack environments really quickly. For the benchmarks, we are using a deployment on AWS (ironically) where the instances aren’t actually started and the tenant network is not reachable but all the backend operations still happen.

The first performance bottleneck we hit wasn’t at the MySQL level. We used Rally to benchmark the environment. We started 1,000 fake instances with it at the first glance.

The first bottleneck that we saw was neutron-server eating up a single CPU core. We took a deeper look, and saw that neutron-server is utilizing a single core completely. By default, neutron does everything in a single process. After configuring the api workers and the rpc workers, performance became significantly better.

api_workers = 64
rpc_workers = 32

Before adding the options:

u'runner': {u'concurrency': 24, u'times': 1000, u'type': u'constant'}}
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
| action           | min (sec) | avg (sec) | max (sec) | 90 percentile | 95 percentile | success | count |
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
| nova.boot_server | 4.125     | 9.336     | 15.547    | 11.795        | 12.362        | 100.0%  | 1000  |
| total            | 4.126     | 9.336     | 15.547    | 11.795        | 12.362        | 100.0%  | 1000  |
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
Whole scenario time without context preparation:  391.359671831

After adding the options:

u'runner': {u'concurrency': 24, u'times': 1000, u'type': u'constant'}}
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
| action           | min (sec) | avg (sec) | max (sec) | 90 percentile | 95 percentile | success | count |
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
| nova.boot_server | 2.821     | 6.958     | 36.826    | 8.165         | 10.49         | 100.0%  | 1000  |
| total            | 2.821     | 6.958     | 36.826    | 8.165         | 10.49         | 100.0%  | 1000  |
+------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+---------+-------+
Whole scenario time without context preparation:  292.163493156

Stop by our talk at the OpenStack Paris Summit for more details!

In addition to our talk, Percona has two additional speakers at the OpenStack Paris Summit. George Lorch, Percona software engineer, will speak with Vipul Sabhaya of the HP Cloud Platform Services team on “Percona Server Features for OpenStack and Trove Ops.” Tushar Katarki, Percona director of product management, will present a vBrownBag Tech Talk entitled “MySQL High Availability Options for OpenStack.” Percona is exhibiting at the OpenStack Paris Summit conference, as well – stop by booth E20 and say hello!

At Percona, we’re pleased to see the adoption of our open source software by the OpenStack community and we are working actively to develop more solutions for OpenStack users. We also provide Consulting assistance to organizations that are adopting OpenStack internally or are creating commercial services on top of OpenStack.

We are also pleased to introduce the first annual OpenStack Live, a conference focused on OpenStack and Trove, which is April 13 & 14, 2015 in Santa Clara, California. The call for speaking proposals is now open for submissions which will be reviewed by our OpenStack Live Conference Committee (including me!).

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