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SUSE OpenStack Cloud

The digital economy is driving the need for fast IT transformation. Is your business able to keep up? The pace of change can be painful to manage, but it also creates new

opportunities. SUSE® OpenStack Cloud provides a -Defined Infrastructure-as- a-Service (IaaS) for your data center, with access to pools of IT resources to quickly deploy and run applications. This gives you the flexibility to respond quickly and easily to new demands, providing the ideal platform for increased innovation, while helping you to control and reduce costs.

SUSE OpenStack Cloud Product Overview most vibrant open source community at a Glance: SUSE OpenStack Cloud is the open source support, OpenStack is ideal for Open source cloud solution of choice for cloud solution of choice for enterprise developing new, innovative business ­enterprise businesses. business, helping you respond quickly to workloads and DevOps environments today’s ever-changing business-critical as well as for transforming traditional + Flexibility to respond quickly demands. data centers. SUSE OpenStack Cloud + Increase innovation leveraging the latest enables you to take full advantage technologies + Control and reduce costs SUSE OpenStack Cloud enables you to: of new business opportunities and rapidly evolving technology by Deliver improved agility, innovation enabling you to quickly deploy and and faster time to value to conquer easily manage an OpenStack private today’s competitive, market and cloud infrastructure. With a choice of “With SUSE OpenStack Cloud, business challenges with an enterprise- lifecycle management tools offering our customers can configure new grade OpenStack private cloud you more flexibility in deploying, private cloud environments rapidly Take the pain out of getting the maintaining and managing your and easily, and flex their resources robust, production ready private environment, SUSE OpenStack Cloud up and down in a matter of seconds cloud you need to run business- delivers the operational agility, speed, as their requirements change.” critical workloads and drive business scalability and control you need. growth, with fast deployment, Take the pain out of getting the easy management and enhanced robust, production ready private THOMAS FISCHER high availability cloud you need. Cloud Architect SUSE OpenStack Colocation and Hosting, QSC Reduce costs, improve efficiency Cloud is the fastest to deploy, and maximize choice by enabling IT configure and manage, helping transformation and leveraging existing accelerate the delivery of real business infrastructure investments” benefits. Avoid the pain of unplanned downtime with automated deployment Key Benefits of advanced HA for critical cloud Deliver improved agility, innovation services and automated data backup and faster time to value. Backed and recovery to ensure uninterrupted by the widest industry support and access to the key resources and Product Flyer SUSE OpenStack Cloud

data your business needs. And with support, you can improve efficiency block, object and file storage delivered enhanced HA for compute nodes by ensuring new applications can be via SUSE Enterprise Storage™ and the within your OpenStack private developed using the most appropriate integration of OpenStack Manila. cloud, the widest multi-hypervisor hypervisor and existing workloads can Block Storage Plug-Ins: Integrates support, bare metal provisioning and be more easily migrated. Powered by storage options from a broad range the broadest interoperability, SUSE OpenStack, SUSE OpenStack Cloud of vendors such as EMC, NetApp OpenStack Cloud helps simplify the helps you avoid the risks of vendor and others. transition of traditional and business- lock-in and the high cost often Container-as-a-Service: Build and run critical workloads. associated with proprietary offerings. innovative containerized applications Reduce costs, improve efficiency and with full support of docker open maximize choice. Maximize the value Key Features source technology using of IT investments by modernizing and SUSE OpenStack Cloud is powered by the for container orchestration via transforming your existing traditional OpenStack Rocky release for fast and easy integration with SUSE CaaS Platform data center into a private cloud. SUSE access to the latest open source tech­ for automated Kubernetes deployment OpenStack Cloud has the broadest nologies for best-in-class private cloud or bring your own images with hardware certification, the most capabilities. OpenStack Magnum. comprehensive workload support, Scalability: Cloud control plane the best interoperability on the market Lifecycle Management: Crowbar and designed to grow with your demands. and comes with industry-leading CLM based options provide you more Open APIs: Enhance and integrate support for the entire OpenStack flexibility in deploying, maintaining OpenStack with third-party software cloud platform. And with the widest and upgrading your environment. using standard APIs. choice of hypervisor and architecture Mixed Hypervisor Support: Enhanced Networking Plug-Ins: Integrates with virtualization management through a wide range of both Open Source support for multi-hypervisor and Commercial Software Defined Networking technologies and vendors “Thanks to SUSE OpenStack environments­ that use KVM and VMware. including Cisco, VMware, Infoblox, Cloud, we can deliver the reliable, High Availability: Automated Nuage Networks, PLUMgrid, Open secure, flexible cloud services that deployment and configuration of vSwitch and VLAN bridging solutions. clients want—at highly competitive control plane clusters. Ensures Award-winning Support: Backed by prices. As the appetite for cloud continuous access to business 24X7 worldwide technical support. services continues to grow in services and delivery of enterprise- Full Integration into SUSE Update Processes: Easily maintain and patch Asia, we are confident that with grade SLAs. High availability for KVM and cloud deployments. SUSE OpenStack Cloud, we can Compute Nodes and Workloads: Non-disruptive Upgrade Capabilities: deliver on that demand.” Enhanced support for critical Ease migration to future SUSE workloads not designed for OpenStack Cloud releases. PAUL HUI cloud architectures. Director of Business Development and CephFS support: Unified Sereno Clouds

2 Admin/Deployer Control Node Server Cloud UI SUSE Deployment SUSE Enterprise UI Linux Enterprise

Database Automation Server Pool of Compute Pool of Storage Resources Resources Message Queue Crowbar or Cloud Lifecycle Manager KVM Ceph/RADOS Identity Software Mirror VMware Swift Image Store DHCP/TFTP Bare Metal Cinder

Neutron Monitoring Node Horizon SUSE Linux Enterprise Scheduler

Monitoring API Other

Log API

Monitoring Database

KibanaKibana Server Server

Figure 1. Reference Architecture

OpenStack Services Supported Template & Image Repository (Glance) Shared Filesystems (Manila)1 SUSE OpenStack Cloud includes support Identity Management Service DNS Service (Designate)2 for the following OpenStack services: (Keystone) Load Balancer (Octavia) Orchestration (Heat) ______Compute (Nova) Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) Self-Service Dashboard (Horizon) Container Orchestration Engine and 1 Supported with Crowbar deployment only Object Storage (Swift) Provisioning (Magnum) 2 Supported with Cloud Lifecycle Manager deployment only Block Storage (Cinder) Monitoring (Monasca) Software-Defined Networking Key Management (Barbican) (Neutron) Metering and Data Collection (Ceilometer)

www.suse.com 3 “With SUSE OpenStack Cloud, we can provide scientists with their own virtual machines in our private cloud in as little as 10 minutes, enabling them to deploy the scientific workflows themselves, as and when they want.”

DR. BORRIES LUBERACKI Head of HPC Operations Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology Contact us at: www.suse.com

System Requirements The minimum technical requirements are: Components for deploying and managing SUSE Select Services is the private clouds include: x86_64 Server: Intel Xeon or later or AMD Opteron or later, 2 GHz, 512 K perfect complement to SUSE Admin/Deployer Server: Deploys, cache or equivalent (Recommended: OpenStack Cloud. A fixed- configures and provisions the SUSE Intel or AMD multi-core processor, priced, flexible services offering OpenStack Cloud control, compute 2.4 GHz) with Intel-VT or AMD-V combining consulting, training and storage nodes. virtualization extensions. and maintenance, Select Services Administrative Server: 8 GB RAM Control Nodes: One or more control will jumpstart your new SUSE nodes provide the self-­service, (32 GB recommended); 40GB hard image repository and management disk space OpenStack Cloud deployment capabilities. Control Nodes: 32 GB RAM to help you realize rapid ROI. Control Nodes for VMware: One 4 GB hard-disk space (30 GB or more control nodes to provide recommended for production). self­-service image repository and Additional hard-disk storage is For more information visit: www.suse.com/ management capabilities for servers required for virtual machine images, cloud running ESXi through vCenter. volumes and snapshots launched on Compute Nodes: The physical the compute nodes. servers that host KVM VMs for Compute or Swift Storage Nodes: workloads running in the private cloud 4 GB RAM plus additional RAM or that integrate with VMware vCenter. for each virtual machine (16 GB Swift Storage Nodes: The physical recommended for production); 30 GB servers that host object storage hard-disk space plus additional space using Swift. for virtual machine local storage or distributed object storage. (Note: support of Ceph requires SUSE Enterprise Storage.)

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