SolidFire, a provider of all-solid-state (SSD) storage systems
for cloud service providers, announced today, in conjunction with Canonical, a production-ready reference architecture for
deploying OpenStack Compute (Nova) and OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder).
SolidFire will be demonstrating the deployment of 1,000 production- ready VMs
with predictable performance and fine-grain quality of service (QoS) via
Canonical, OpenStack Compute and Block Storage at the OpenStack Summit, taking place October 15 through October 18
in San Diego.
John Griffith
from SolidFire and David Medberry from Canonical will co-present the summit's
first workshop: "How to Deploy a Best-of-Breed OpenStack Compute and Block Storage
Cloud" on Monday, October 15, at 9:50 a.m. local time. The session will
include information on deployment tools, tips and tricks, targeted use cases,
benchmark results and key enabling technologies.
"SolidFire has
done a great job leading the Block Storage project in line with the OpenStack
philosophy of delivering a pluggable architecture with integration points for
multiple vendors and technologies," said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of
the OpenStack Foundation. "It's exciting to see more production implementations
and configuration options available to OpenStack users."
"Canonical has
worked with SolidFire to ensure tight integration of Cinder into Ubuntu
OpenStack packages to deliver a production-ready cloud infrastructure. As the
reference operating system for OpenStack, Ubuntu was the natural choice to
integrate with SolidFire's solution," commented Nick Barcet, Ubuntu cloud
product manager at Canonical. "We believe SolidFire's work in OpenStack is
extremely important to the ecosystem, because it allows cloud providers to
enhance their offering with high IOPS storage and unprecedented
quality-of-service. They have also been leading the Cinder project in OpenStack
to deliver a great abstraction layer that can be reused by other vendors to
integrate their own solution."
"Cinder has
gotten off to a very successful start thanks to the hard work of more than 50
individual contributors," said John Griffith, senior software engineer at
SolidFire. "We delivered a deep feature set in our first release of Cinder,
which allowed us to move quickly with Canonical in executing this powerful
production-ready reference architecture for large-scale multi-tenant clouds."
Key
SolidFire-related features in the first OpenStack Cinder release include:
- Full SolidFire
driver integration
- Ability to create,
snapshot and manage SolidFire volumes using OpenStack clients and APIs
- Ability to set and
maintain true QoS levels on a per-volume basis
- Ability to store
instances on SolidFire volumes
- Enhanced boot from
volume options, including support for SolidFire volumes
SolidFire's
efforts around OpenStack are further evidence of its commitment to delivering
proven, integrated storage solutions for its customers' cloud infrastructures.
This Cinder integration milestone follows SolidFire's recently announced integration with major technology vendors across the cloud
ecosystem.