VMTurbo, the only demand-driven control platform for the
software-defined data center, today announced the specifications of its
special edition TurboStack home lab giveaway, being offered to booth
visitors at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. The TurboStack
home lab comes pre-loaded with a 7-node nested OpenStack environment,
managed by VMTurbo Operations Manager.
Looking Inside the TurboStack Home Lab
“Having a safe, sandbox environment to test cutting-edge technologies
before introducing them to a corporate environment is essential,” said
Eric Wright, Principal Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at
VMTurbo. “My home lab has always been my go-to for experimenting with
the latest and greatest technologies before bringing them to my
corporate data center, as I did with each new release of OpenStack. We
designed the TurboStack for those interested in experimenting and
getting practical experience in OpenStack on their own before testing it
in a larger environment.”
The VMTurbo TurboStack Home Lab is powered by Intel NUC complete with an
Intel i5 CPU and 16 GB of RAM, using a 256 GB Solid State Drive for
internal storage. It is backed by a Synology DS415+, containing two 1 TB
SATA drives. This personal NAS provides the power to store and deliver
data, giving a great deal of storage growth capability for future drive
additions. Connecting the storage and compute is a Cisco SG300-10,
providing 10 managed 1 GB ports to deliver fast access to the TurboStack
environment.
The TurboStack Home Lab comes pre-installed with Ubuntu Server edition,
with full GUI environment, to be used as a complete GUI enabler server
platform, or a standalone server with complete remote management
capabilities. It also runs VirtualBox and Vagrant to support the
TurboStack nested OpenStack lab environment.
Based on the OpenStack
Cookbook lab design spec, the TurboStack includes a controller node,
two KVM compute nodes, a storage node, a networking node and two object
storage nodes. The 7-node home lab provides an opportunity to test
multiple features and capabilities of OpenStack while removing the
challenge of initial configuration and set up. Updates to the TurboStack
will also be coming with integration to leading container and PaaS
platforms, further enhancing the learning experience.
OpenStack Summit
From May 18 to 22, VMTurbo will be exhibiting at booth T12 at the
OpenStack Summit, a five-day conference for developers, users and
administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software. Eric Wright, aka @DiscoPosse,
will be leading a session called “Couch to OpenStack” on Thursday, May
21, beginning at 11:00 a.m. The session is designed as a launchpad for
newcomers to the open source platform, to advance their knowledge of
OpenStack by using all available resources and through the power of the
OpenStack Community.
“For years now, VMTurbo has been an active member and contributor to
OpenStack as well as a supporter of the open source community,” said
Endre Sara, VP of Advanced Solutions at VMTurbo. “Our mission of
improving the IT industry through demand-driven control is perfectly
aligned with the OpenStack initiative, providing users the freedom and
flexibility to leverage the full potential of a cloud computing
architecture of their choosing.”
VMTurbo is a proud supporter of the OpenStack
Foundation and open source. The VMTurbo engineering team includes
individual OpenStack code contributors, and our open source
contributions are available at https://github.com/vmturbo.
Enabling further adoption of the OpenStack cloud platform with existing
and new customers continues to be a major goal for the team.
Those unable to attend the OpenStack Summit have an additional
opportunity to win a TurboStack home lab by completing our survey
before April 6, 2015. Visit our website for complete Terms
& Conditions.