One of the major use cases for using private cloud & OpenStack is running labs; these labs can be for your dev, qa or sales organization. In these labs, OpenStack is used to create various infrastructure objects (Instances, Images, Volumes etc) on demand for development, test or demonstration purposes. OpenStack makes it very easy to […]
· September 7, 2016 · 2 min read
In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature for ensuring application availability despite infrastructure failures. Architecting cloud with consideration to HA helps protect cloud native as well as traditional applications against failures. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With Platform9
· August 24, 2016 · 4 min read
The Platform9 team is gearing up for the Barcelona OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your vote to include our talks on the conference agenda. Please see the session abstracts below and vote on the summit website See you in Barcelona! Voting closes on Monday, August
· August 5, 2016 · 10 min read
Platform9’s OpenStack-as-a-service offers a unique solution by hosting the OpenStack control plane in a SaaS layer, while the VMs and confidential data remain on infrastructure in the customer’s data center. Each Platform9 customer configures OpenStack services specific to their needs, but there are some common patterns in the OpenStack reference architectures. In this blog post we highlight three
· July 28, 2016 · 5 min read
Terraform is a tool from HashiCorp that can be used to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure easily by defining configuration files. It is similar to OpenStack Heat. However, unlike Heat which is specific to OpenStack, Terraform is provider agnostic and can work with multiple cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS and VMware. This blog will give an overview of
· July 22, 2016 · 5 min read
Peter Lopez, presently the Principal Architect at Technicolor and previously the Systems Architect at Disney, is one of the few people who’ve spent significant time deploying both Apache CloudStack and OpenStack. In this podcast, Peter and Sirish Raghuram, CEO of Platform9, compare CloudStack vs OpenStack. They contrast deployment models, networking and storage architectures, and how each
· July 21, 2016 · 1 min read
Fuel OpenStack Tutorial One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may
· July 12, 2016 · 5 min read
Originally published in The New Stack The old Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times,” is certainly bearing out for the infrastructure technology market. Recently, Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack vendor Mirantis, argued that the whole Infrastructure Software market is now dead (and that he has made his peace with it). To make his point,
· July 1, 2016 · 4 min read
One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way
· June 30, 2016 · 7 min read
One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way
· June 27, 2016 · 7 min read
As OpenStack interest and mindshare grows rapidly, the question of how to deploy an OpenStack private cloud is foremost in the minds of cloud architects and IT operations teams. This infographic summarizes the choices for OpenStack deployment and list some pros and cons. For a more detailed walkthrough of OpenStack deployment models, please check out this tech guide.
· June 24, 2016 · 1 min read
One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way to go. Then, there’s
· June 17, 2016 · 6 min read