Axsh's IaaS software

• Wakame-VDC
• Wakame-OS
• Wakame-Fuel

Existing IaaS systems

• Amazon EC2
• OpenStack
• Wakame-VDC

EC2 is the most well known system

• It is a closed system
• It only runs on Amazon's cloud

Axsh's vision

• virtualize not only the servers but the entire data center

• Servers
• Network
• Storage

What is Wakame-VDC?

• An IaaS system
• A virtual data center

Wakame-VDC's advantages

• Portability
• Scalability
• Reliability

• The data center becomes software
• Software can be moved or copied

• Servers start instantly
• Servers terminate instantly
• Networks can be altered on the fly

• The data center can change without hardware changing
• Hardware can change without the data center changing

• Software can be backed up
• Redundancy is cheap and easy

Wakame-VDC's features

• KVM and LXC
• iSCSI block storage

Virtual storage

• Virtual drives (volumes)
• Volume snapshots

Firewall

• Security Groups
• VM Isolation
• L2 and L3 filtering

Static NAT

Public key authentication

GUI

Admin CLI

./vdc-manage network add --account-id a-shpoolxx --ipv4-network 192.168.3.0 --ipv4-gw 192.168.3.1 --prefix 24

./vdc-manage image add local ~/images/centos.raw --account-id a-shpoolxx --md5sum 5d12036cacd01f636770a521606e8f9a --arch x86_64

vdc-manage help [TASK] # Describe available tasks or one specific task
vdc-manage host sub-command # Operations for host node
vdc-manage image sub-command # Operations for machine images
vdc-manage keypair sub-command # Operations for key pairs
vdc-manage network sub-command # Operations for network information
vdc-manage quota sub-command # Operations for quota
vdc-manage securitygroup sub-command # Operations for security groups
vdc-manage spec sub-command # Operations for instance specifications
vdc-manage storage sub-command # Operations for storage node
vdc-manage tag sub-command # Operations for tags
vdc-manage vlan sub-command # Operations for vlan leases

Work in progress

Full network virtualization

Full network virtualization using OpenFlow

OpenFlow prototype in Wakame 11.12

Wakame-OS

• Treats a data center as a single computer
• Processes on Wakame-OS don't need to be aware of the underlying infrastructure

Wakame-fuel

• Load balancing
• Elastic autoscale
• Tweaks OS settings

Wakame visibility

Magazines

• Nikkei Linux
• Cloud magazine
• Gihyo Software Design

Awards

• Fukuoka Prefecture

  Cloud Special Award

• Aizu Wakamatsu

  City IT Best Award

The Wakame Community

Wakame Software Foundation

• Share knowledge
• Provide feedback
• Report bugs
• Suggest features

Members can be either companies or individuals

Members

• University of Aizu
• 株式会社クレスソフト
• 株式会社GClue

18 companies and 11 individuals total