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Yahoo! JAPAN Enables LBaaS in Its OpenStack Private Cloud with Brocade ADX

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Asia

Country

Japan

Product

OpenStack Grizzly release
OpenStack LBaaS framework
OpenStack Dashboard
Brocade ADX Series
Brocade ADX driver

Tech Stack

OpenStack
REST APIs

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Digital Expertise

Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Yahoo! JAPAN is a leading internet company in Japan that provides a wide range of services, including a search engine, news, mail, and e-commerce. In 2013, the company adopted OpenStack cloud infrastructure software to standardize the administration of data center resources and streamline IT operations. As an open source framework, OpenStack is an ideal model for automating the orchestration of the company’s private cloud environment, allowing Yahoo! JAPAN to design the desired control into its cloud management platform. By building an OpenStack-based private cloud, Yahoo! JAPAN created an environment that allows administrators to manage operations from the OpenStack Dashboard, while allowing application developers to more effectively utilize system resources using the Web-based interface on their own.

The Challenge

Yahoo! JAPAN was looking to automate the deployment of network services at scale in a private cloud using the OpenStack framework. They wanted to maintain dynamic control of network operations for a large-scale private cloud and enable administrators to manage load balancing resources while abstracting the operational requirements for users. The existing LBaaS functionality in OpenStack was limited to host-based load balancing via HAProxy and did not support third-party vendor plugins. As a result, the base implementation of OpenStack was not able to satisfy Yahoo! JAPAN’s immediate requirement to support a large-scale multitenant environment.

The Solution

To enable Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS), Yahoo! JAPAN deployed the OpenStack-enabled Brocade® ADX® Plugin, with an extension for Layer 3 Direct Server Return (L3 DSR) to automate the deployment of load balancing services at scale within multitenant environments. The solution provides a simple administrator and (developer) tenant portal through the OpenStack Dashboard User Interface (UI) to manage application delivery resources. It allows for specific role-based views to provision and create load balancing services based on relevant parameters such as Virtual IPs (VIPs), real servers, subnets, health monitoring options, high-availability options, and network deployment types. The Brocade ADX driver implements device management components, complete with device inventory and high-availability functionality, for Yahoo! JAPAN’s OpenStack cloud.

Operational Impact

Reduced time to provision load balancing resources from days to minutes with the Brocade ADX driver for LBaaS
Enabled faster service rollout by abstracting administrative networking tasks from users and automating the creation of load balancers
Delivered a seamless experience for application developers in creating the needed services and streamlined the administration of the private cloud environment

Quantitative Benefit