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L'INFRASTRUCTURE # 1 CASE STUDIES BOOK DISCOVER ORIGINAL INFRASTRUCTURES DEPLOYED AT OVH.COM Online media, applications and business software, collaborative tools, smart music playlists at points of sale, total outsourcing of an urban community’s IT… OVH.com CASE STUDIES BOOK - EDITORIAL 3 “Each year, OVH is able to offer several hundred new services. After listening to you, we have come to realize that launching new services is not enough. We should also assist and guide you in the adoption of these innovations. Often you just need to see some practical use cases. That is the goal of the “Case Studies Book”, to provide you with such examples. And of course, if you need advice, our customer advocates and our Professional Services team are always available. Enjoy your reading!” Octave Klaba, Founder OVH CASE STUDIES BOOK CASE STUDIES BOOK This publication has been edited by the OVH Group, 2 rue Kellermann 59100 Roubaix (FRANCE) - RCS Lille Métropole 424 761 419 00045. Written by: Hugo Bonnaffé in collaboration with: Rémy Vandepoel, Vincent Cassé, Jean-Daniel Bonnetot, Félicien Lainé, Jonathan Guinez, Sylvain Wallez et Alexandre Morel. Translation: Michael Kapus Layout: Marie Delattre Graphic Design: Carl Lambert, Lucille Folens and Élodie Lenin Photographers: Élycia Husse, Frédéric Anne, Alban Gernigon, Stéphane Bureau du Colombier, iStockphoto Printer: Nord'imprim Special thanks is given to each customer that made this project possible by revealing the details of their infrastructures and their willingness to share their expertise with the OVH Community. Congratulations to everyone who took to the stage during the OVH World Tour to present their projects and explain their technical choices. CASE STUDIES BOOK - SUMMARY 5 Summary #01 #05 #09 Photography and Video p. 6 to 11 Local Community p. 42 to 49 Over the Top Video Service p. 76 to 81 Giroptic Hosts the Content of Its Users on VDI, IS and Video Protection: The Urban Vodkaster: A Flexible Infrastructure for a OVH.com Public Cloud Object Storage Community of Bourget Airport Uses Remote DVD Player Service Application Dedicated Connect and Dedicated Cloud #02 to Outsource Its IT #10 Expertise Accounting p. 14 to 21 Collaborative Work p. 84 to 93 Implementation of an HA Infrastructure #06 Wimi: An Infrastructure with High and DRP for Hosting a Critical Application Sound Design p. 52 to 56 Availability Combining Dedicated Cloud (ERP) RadioShop: and Dedicated Servers Through vRack A Highly Available Infrastructure, Resistant #03 to Increases in Traffic that Provides #11 Industry p. 24 to 27 Background Music for 7,000 Points Connected Farm p. 96 to 101 High Availability and Collaborative of Sale Worldwide Medria: OVH.com Servers to Monitor Applications on Two Dedicated Servers Connected Livestock #07 #04 Social Network p. 60 to 65 #12 Online Media p. 30 to 38 Simplify Implementation of a Backup Automobile p. 104 to 108 NextRadioTV: Strategy with Veeam Managed Backup Keyzee: A Highly Available, Secure and A Behind the Scenes Look Into Load Resistant Infrastructure for Hosting a the Infrastructure Hosting the Digital #08 Virtual Key Application Activities of the Media Group Online Media p. 68 to 75 A Scalable Infrastructure Capable of Handling Large Peaks in Load #01 With more that 1.4 million dollars raised on Kickstarter for its camera project that Giroptic Hosts the Content shoots high definition video and photos at 360°, the start-up from France, Giroptic, holds the French record for crowdfunding. of Its Users on OVH.com To host the photos of its camera users, Gi- roptic has built a scalable platform based on VPS and Public Cloud Object Storage Public Cloud Object Storage solutions. Learn more: 360.tv © Photograph Giroptic GIROPTIC’S INFRASTRUCTURE (PHOTOS AND VIDEO AT 360°) #01 7 Specifications Key Points • Ease of platform deployment July 2014: start of Sept. 2015: and administration crowdfunding on Kickstarter shipped the 3,500 (system administration is managed by preordered “360cams” the company which is made up of mostly developers and engineers specializing March 2015: shipped and launched the in embedded electronics). the first “360cams” to 80 de- storage platform. velopers that participated in • Unknown number of future users the crowdfunding by purcha- Average size MB • The volume of storage employed sing the pre-sales “developer of a 360° photo: 3 pack”. The developers kit by users is difficult to estimate Average size of a 360° (users have the possibility to store photos included access to unlimited on their own computer, NAS, or on any of the storage on the platform. video: 5 to 6 GB/hour many cloud storage services). Photo Storage International Users Pre-registered buyers from all over the world Web Hosting VPS (mainly Europe, Asia, North America) Public Cloud Object Storage IP Load Balancing 8 #01 GIROPTIC’S INFRASTRUCTURE (PHOTOS AND VIDEO AT 360°) hosting resources by upgrading the hosting with the most fluid user experience possible. offer (four levels to choose from with Giroptic opted for a VPS solution because different amount of guaranteed resources it did not want to be preoccupied with the depending on level option) for a period of a management of machine hardware. The month, allowing the site to handle increased VPS Cloud range includes a comprehensive traffic. This was especially beneficial during SLA (99.99% with reboot times of less than the launch phase of the project which 5 minutes in the event of hardware failure), received considerable buzz on social media. which is perfectly compatible with the high Medium-term deployment project Performance Hosting Plan Thanks to the GeoCache accelerator, which availability requirements of the platform. In for Promotion of Its Project is included with the offer (a CDN system addition, the Cloud range opens access to which takes advantage of 17 points of advanced backup options (snapshot option To launch its Kickstarter crowdfunding presence on the OVH worldwide network, or automatic daily backup). ip campaign, Giroptic opted for two “Perfor- locally storing in cache the static content of mance” hosting plans, one for its web the site), international visitors (nearly 80% Public Cloud Object Storage LB 1 presence (360.tv) and the other for a testing of traffic) enjoy optimal access times. for Easily Scalable Storage Space and pre-production environment. Powered by WordPress, the site supported all traf- Cloud VPS the Infrastructure’s Core With their camera, users have the added Public cloud IP fic, even with significant increases in traffic benefit of storage space for backing up public cloud LB 2 caused by frequent mentions of the project To address the delivery of the first orders, and sharing their 360° photos. As 360° instances VPS VPS VPS VPS in the media. The possibility to “boost” Giroptic moved its web application onto videos files are quite large, Giroptic refers cloud cloud cloud cloud object storage two Cloud range virtual private servers, users to platforms such as YouTube, instances one in France and the other in Canada. On which announced compatibility with these Public cloud one hand, it was necessary to obtain opti- types of files in the first quarter of 2015. instances public cloud VPS VPS VPS VPS instances mal performance in anticipation of the first The main issue for Giroptic, in addition object storage cloud cloud cloud cloud users of the 360° photo storage platform. to storing files, is that it doesn’t know ... While on the other hand, it was essential to in advance how many users it service instances have root access to the machine, in order to will have, let alone the volume of data make specific configurations for such tasks uploaded by each. In addition, users have instances as image processing, guaranteeing rapid the possibility to store their files locally, execution of scripts. It was also a wise idea on their own NAS, with a third party cloud ... to place the application in close proximity to provider, etc. Under the condition of not North American users, thus providing them being able to define disk space requirements GIROPTIC’S INFRASTRUCTURE (PHOTOS AND VIDEO AT 360°) #01 9 Solution deployed Medium-term deployment project ip LB 1 Public cloud IP VPS VPS VPS VPS public cloud LB 2 instances cloud cloud cloud cloud object storage instances Public cloud instances public cloud VPS VPS VPS VPS instances ... object storage cloud cloud cloud cloud instances instances ... 10 #01 GIROPTIC’S INFRASTRUCTURE (PHOTOS AND VIDEO AT 360°) in advance, consequently it is not possible having to pass through Giroptic’s servers to provision servers and disks accordingly. by routing it directly to the OVH storage Public Cloud Object Storage brings with platform. it simplicity, security and ability to better control costs. Employing Object Storage Projects: Deploy Additional VPS, simplifies the administrator’s life because Reinforce Infrastructure with data is uploaded to object storage via the Additional Public Cloud Instances OVH API and without the preoccupation and Object Storage over CDN of managing hardware or system files. The platform is more secure as all data pushed In the short term, it is possible to estimate to object storage is accessible via https the number of platform users. The number and with the possibility to configure access corresponds, more or less to the 3,500 rules (ACL). Data is automatically repli- people which registered for pre-sales of cated across three different racks: there the camera via Kickstarter. In the mid-term is no need to worry about disk failures, and for the long term, it is impossible to reimporting data, reconstruction of RAID, imagine what sort of commercial success etc. In addition, each object storage has the product will encounter. This is why a unique login. In theory, storage space is Giroptic has, from the point of design of its unlimited and billed monthly per GB with infrastructure, put thought into scalability.