A summary/documentary about the application of OpenStack at a consumer startup company with requirements for scalable storage and retrieval of media such as photos and videos. Prologue: The Decision matrix in choosing a technology to fit our business needs. Chapter One: Building a PoC based on a reference architecture and learning the basics of OpenStack.… Continue reading OpenStack at MiMedia: Scalable Consumer Media
Tag: Storage Virtualization
Vehera: Storage Made Easy: The Enterprise File Share & Sync Solution for OpenStack Swift
Storage Made Easy software appliance enables business to rapidly take advantage of OpenStack with support for a business ready Web File Manager, cloud drive integration into Mac, Windows, Linux Desktop’s, and also instant access to files via Android, BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad and Windows Phone mobile clients, with full audit, security controls, LDAP integration and deep content… Continue reading Vehera: Storage Made Easy: The Enterprise File Share & Sync Solution for OpenStack Swift
Keeping OpenStack storage trendy with Ceph and containers
The conventional approach to deploying applications on OpenStack uses virtual machines (usually KVM) backed by block devices (usually Ceph RBD). As interest increases in container-based application deployment models like Docker, it is worth looking at what alternatives exist for combining compute and storage (both shared and non-shared). Mapping RBD block devices directly to host kernels… Continue reading Keeping OpenStack storage trendy with Ceph and containers
Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod
Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod Intended audience: OpenStack Summit attendees from organizations interested in developing and deploying OpenStack based solutions internally but lacking the experience, expertise and the infrastructure to get started. Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod Intended audience: OpenStack Summit attendees from organizations interested in developing… Continue reading Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod
OpenStack Multi-Tenant Isolation: Quarantine Your Tenants
This workshop is to cover how to implement Multi-tenant Isolation within your OpenStack cloud. The demand to completely segergate your cloud tenants from a compute and block storage aspect seems to be on the rise. So if you are planning to build a multi-tenant cloud, this is the session you must not miss. Knowing the… Continue reading OpenStack Multi-Tenant Isolation: Quarantine Your Tenants
OpenStack: Metadata tagging in Cinder
Nova looks at and uses image metadata on bootable volumes (managed by Glance) for scheduling as well as for passing along to the individual compute drivers. Cinder volumes have different types of metadata (properties) like user and image metadata for example. In this session, we will see how metadata tagging in Cinder will provide a… Continue reading OpenStack: Metadata tagging in Cinder
The Road to Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Storage as Service
The OpenStack storage projects continue to mature each cycle exposing more and more Enterprise cloud storage infrastructure functionalities around high availability, security, business continuity, & provisioning, that redefines Enterprise storage to Storage as a service for both production, test & development cloud workloads. This session will provide a deep dive roadmap update for the new… Continue reading The Road to Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Storage as Service
Resilient fast data store for Docker Containers with EMC XtremIO
EMC XtremIO all flash array is known for it’s high throughput and fast IOPS. ClusterHQ Flocker integrates EMC XtremIO with Docker persistence storage and brings all the goodies of flash with resiliency. The video demo demonstrates the details of how this can be achieved by using a plugin developed by EMC and ClusterHQ.