OpenStack Private Cloud in 45 Seconds
Deploy your production-ready, hosted OpenStack private cloud in under a minute. No building, no waiting, no hardware management with our on-demand OpenStack cloud system.
From the New Leader in OpenStack Private Cloud
Full OpenStack Cloud
- 100% your servers in your VLANs, with root
- All the core OpenStack components plus more
- RefStack validated deployment
The Fastest Path to OpenStack
- Pre-configured for production, ready to customize, deployed in just 45 seconds
- Includes Ceph storage plus LVM storage options
- Get right to using the cloud via Horizon, Terraform, or CLI
OpenStack 3 Server Starter Cluster
The building block of OpenMetal Private OpenStack Clouds.
All OpenStack clouds start with a Cloud Core. OpenMetal’s Cloud Core is a hyper-converged set of 3 hosted servers of your chosen hardware type, spun up as a service.
The Cloud Core is set up using Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible. You can extend and customize your cloud as you have root ownership.
All Cloud Cores can be used for both public cloud and private cloud workloads. This is the power of the OpenStack cloud platform.
Cloud cores provide HA control plane, HA block, HA object storage, and compute with all core OpenStack components plus more.
What is Different About OpenMetal?
It all begins with an OpenMetal Cloud Core that delivers unique advantages.
- OpenStack as a Service: Deploy your own OpenStack private cloud with the speed, convenience, and scalability of public cloud.
- Single-Tenant Environment: Operate on dedicated bare metal servers that offer the security and control you expect with a private cloud.
- Open Source Cloud: Access and build on OpenStack to enjoy integration with Ceph storage, Kubernetes, and many other resources.
Tom Fanelli, CEO and Co-Founder
Your team is the kind of people we would dream of having on our own team. And the great thing about working with you is that it feels like they are part of our team. This quickly won over trust with us.
Nebo Nikolic, CEO
OpenMetal is an essential partner that aligns with our values and ambitions. They grasp the significance of fostering creativity and building a strong sense of community. They are an extension of who we are.
Gary MacDougall, CTO
We are now able to spin up new environments very cost-effectively, get to market faster with our solutions, and still create an agile environment that supports existing production customers while enabling net-new customer opportunities.
Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure
I would definitely recommend OpenMetal. The key points would be an excellent support staff with deep knowledge and troubleshooting steps that are relevant to the issue and don’t begin with the basics.
Ready for a private cloud that puts you and your business first?
Learn More About OpenMetal’s Hosted OpenStack Clouds
Open source is a way of life for us. We pioneered hosted OpenStack as a service to make OpenStack more accessible to all. Please know when you purchase from OpenMetal you are buying from a company committed to open source ideals and business models.
Jacob Hipps, Principal Engineer, covers vGPUs at OpenStack’s conference in Vancouver
This session on vGPUs with OpenStack Nova covers various use cases and considerations for utilizing vGPUs effectively. With little public information on GPUs in OpenStack, OpenMetal felt it was important to share our experience with the community at large.
OpenMetal’s presentation at OpenStack’s premier conference in Berlin
OpenMetal’s team spoke at OpenStack’s premier conference put on by the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Learn the nuts and bolts of what could be your OpenStack private cloud.
You’re more than just a client ID
OpenMetal builds relationships with our customers rather than just assigning them a client ID. That is why team members from the marketing, sales, engineering, and leadership teams make themselves available to meet with interested clients. Feel free to find time with a member of our team.
OpenMetal is close to the source
We’re a Silver Member and an Infrastructure Donor to the OpenInfra Foundation.
“OpenMetal Cloud provides on-demand private infrastructure, which brings cloud fundamentals like elasticity and usage billing to the cloud deployment itself. It’s awesome to see OpenMetal’s latest product use OpenStack to combine the benefits of public cloud and managed private cloud, powered by open infrastructure.”
Thierry Carrez, Vice President of Engineering
Services Supported on Your Hosted OpenStack Cloud
APIs and CLI
Functionality for administering the hosted private cloud resources are available via API first and foremost. Additionally, a powerful CLI leverages those APIs to give cloud administrators fast and easy access.
Cloud Management Dashboard
Web-based GUI for users to access their assigned resources. Creating VMs, networks, firewall rules, etc. can all be done by users of the hosted private cloud if the administrators have delegated permissions. Some administrative functions are also available via this GUI, but it is a subset of the API and CLI administrative functionality.
Orchestration
Heat orchestrates the infrastructure resources for a cloud application based on templates in the form of text files that can be treated like code. Heat provides both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.
Compute
KVM based virtual machines can be created, scaled, and destroyed easily through an interface or via authenticated API calls.
Block Storage
Persistent storage volumes can be created, deleted, and attached to VMs easily. OpenMetal Private Cloud Cores come with high-availability (HA) Ceph based block storage by default. Non-HA LVM/direct disk storage is also fully supported.
Object Storage Access
Standardized Rest API access to various types of object storage. The hyper-converged cloud cores have HA Ceph-based object storage by default. Non-HA LVM/direct disk storage is also fully supported.
Network as a Service
Create routers, switches, and security groups. Security groups handle automated firewalling on the hardware node for VMs. Provision networks and organize rules for public and private IP address usage.
Identity
All parts of the hosted private cloud leverage a universal and secure authentication system.
Virtual Machine Images
A catalog of VM images are available to spin up servers easily. Additional VM images can be manually created and stored for use based on your needs.
OpenStack Private Cloud Hosting Provider FAQs
This [OpenMetal Cloud] is what OpenStack has been needing. This enables more people to figure out a path to production with OpenStack. People now have this opportunity to tap into the power of OpenStack.
Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer
OpenStack is a critical part of Open Source alternatives to the mega public clouds. Our focus on easy to deploy and manage OpenStack will give more options for small and medium businesses to join the OpenStack user base.
Todd Robinson, Co-Founder and President
OpenMetal Cloud provides on-demand private infrastructure, which brings cloud fundamentals like elasticity and usage billing to the cloud deployment itself. It’s awesome to see OpenMetal’s latest product use OpenStack to combine the benefits of public cloud and managed private cloud, powered by open infrastructure.
Thierry Carrez, Vice President of Engineering
Supermicro believes in the power of OpenStack and, along with OpenMetal, wanted to make it easily accessible to smaller and mid-size IT teams. This is made possible through our MicroBlade technology that offers high density and cost efficiencies for a full-featured cloud computing experience to enable OpenStack as a Service. OpenMetal’s mission to accelerate private cloud deployment under 45 minutes is commendable and Supermicro is proud to support this.
Srini Bala, General Manager, Cloud Engineering
