Utilizing Hyper-Converged OpenStack and Ceph for Your Business

Unlock the Power of OpenStack and Ceph Cloud Technology

Using a hyper-converged OpenStack cloud with Ceph brings many benefits to businesses of all sizes. By combining the scalability of OpenStack and the power of Ceph, businesses can enjoy increased flexibility and performance, improved scalability, and cost savings.

Ceph is an open source, software-defined storage platform that enables cloud computing environments to store and manage data on a distributed basis. Ceph is designed to provide highly reliable, scalable, and cost-effective storage solutions for organizations of any size. It can be used for both private and public clouds, as well as traditional IT environments.

Ceph provides a unified storage layer that allows users to store data in the most efficient way possible while keeping costs low. With Ceph’s advanced features such as data replication, snapshots, erasure coding, and compression, organizations can ensure their data is secure and always available.

Hyper-converged refers to technology that combines multiple components of a traditional data center into a single, integrated infrastructure. It includes servers, storage, networking, and virtualization resources.
This type of system makes it easier for organizations to manage their IT environment and reduce operational costs. Hyper-convergence also simplifies the process of scaling up or down as needed by businesses.
By leveraging its integrated architecture and automation capabilities, hyper-converged systems can help organizations increase their agility and efficiency while reducing their IT costs.

With OpenStack, businesses can quickly scale-out their cloud infrastructure, allowing for instantaneous provisioning of new applications, while Ceph provides a distributed, highly resilient storage layer that can be used to store data across multiple physical locations. By creating a hybrid cloud infrastructure, businesses can ensure that they have the best of both worlds.

Benefits of OpenStack and Ceph

With a hyper-converged OpenStack and Ceph architecture, you can easily scale up and down, launch faster, and maximize ROI. It’s a great combo for businesses of all sizes.

Scalability & Flexibility

By using OpenStack and Ceph, organizations can easily scale their storage capacity in order to meet the needs of changing requirements. This can be done without disruptions, as OpenStack and Ceph are designed to be highly available and resilient.

Cost Efficiency

Combining OpenStack and Ceph allows organizations to reduce their storage costs by up to 70%. This is because Ceph is an open source, distributed storage platform that does not require purchasing additional hardware or software licenses.

Data Protection

Ceph provides strong data redundancy and protects against data corruption, while OpenStack provides data protection tools such as snapshots, replication, and offsite backups.

Ceph is ideal for use in OpenStack because it’s designed to run on commodity hardware and the software is already fully managed by the OpenStack community. It provides many key features that are needed for enterprise-level cloud deployments, including self-healing and fault tolerance.

Why Open Source?

OpenStack, Ceph, and OpenMetal are all built on open source technology. We believe that open source is a fundamental good in the IT world as it creates collaboration across the globe, opens doors for people who want to change their future, and encourages successes to be built on other successes for a collective good.

Development Speed

As opposed to proprietary products that develop and release enhancements as part of planned product releases, the open source community work never stops.

Collaboration is an expectation that brings open source developers of all expertise to come together and solve problems quickly, propelling new innovations and results.

Additionally, as open source code is typically available to all, community members can use and apply code from existing projects as a base to accelerate new releases.

Software Quality

While proprietary software providers do thorough quality assurance testing, there can be possible conflicts of interest if and when conducted by internal teams.

When software is being developed via an open source project, concerns and vulnerabilities tend to be transparent so that the community can come together to resolve. This often results in exceptional levels of innovation and high quality outputs.

Security

Like the software quality discussion above, proprietary software is often vetted for security strengths. But because internal teams are all focused on the same platform, it may create blind spots for unique risks. And, when identified, it can take time to reshuffle employee priorities to resolve and formally release.

The visibility of open source code open access allows community developers to review and improve upon open source programs. It can also accelerate reviews by the community, to detect vulnerabilities that can be fixed very rapidly.

OpenMetal is committed to partnering with and supporting other organizations who share our community-driven outlook and want to explore alternative cloud infrastructure options.

OpenMetal is Something Different

There are nearly countless cloud technology options for businesses nowadays. But if you are looking for something truly unique, how about an open source platform that is also challenging the norms of conventional cloud?

Single-Tenant Environment

OpenMetal clouds are single-tenant environments, hosted on a Cloud Core made up of 3 dedicated servers that are assigned to you, offering the inherent performance, security, and TCO you would expect from a private cloud model.

Use and Scale On Demand

OpenMetal clouds can be deployed in less than 45 seconds, scaled up (or down) on demand, and billed as little as hourly, offering the inherent low cost of entry, scalability and ease of use that you would expect from a public cloud model.

Control and Customization

OpenMetal clouds give users more control over the root configurations of Cloud Core servers to customize settings and optimize performance for your unique needs.

No Hardware Management

Whiles users can customize server operations, OpenMetal still manages the server hardware. It is still a cloud. It is just YOUR cloud to use as you desire.

Built on OpenStack

OpenMetal clouds are built on top of the power of OpenStack and set up using Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible with various OpenStack cloud services enabled at deployment.

Committed to Open Source

OpenMetal supports and works to expand open source efforts through community participation and the development of educational and learning programs.

OpenMetal Clouds are built for cutting edge companies that want the best of public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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