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SUSE® OpenStack Cloud

Everything is moving fast and your business has to keep up. The pace of change can

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

Product Overview The openness of SUSE ­Open­Stack and optimize licensing costs of virtual SUSE OpenStack Cloud is an enterprise Cloud and the vibrant OpenStack environments by delivering mixed Open­Stack distribution that rapidly de­ community not only provide a hypervisor ­support for organi­zations ploys and easily manages highly available, ­continuous stream of innovation,­ but using KVM, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, mixed hypervisor IaaS clouds. It leverages reduce vendor lock-in. Designed to VMware vSphere or IBM z/VM. SUSE existing data center investments to help make it easy for enterprises to ­harness also supports the distributed enterprises increase business agility, eco­ the power of OpenStack, SUSE storage system as well as third-party nomically scale current IT capabilities and OpenStack Cloud is ­rigorously tested, storage, ­networking and managment easily consume future innovations. includes 24x7 worldwide ­technical solutions. This provides the flexibility support and is fully integrated­ into to construct an enterprise-ready Key Benefits SUSE update processes, so enterprises­ ­private cloud. Drives the agility required for a can easily maintain and patch their Transparently prepares a platform rapid response to the needs of your cloud deployments. for hybrid cloud computing by ™ business by improving the speed Allows enterprises to scale integrating with SUSE Studio and and ensuring the availability of ­service ­infrastructure without growing IT SUSE Manager—robust tools for delivery. The orchestration and self- staff by tracking usage of ­computing easily building and managing cloud- service capabilities in SUSE OpenStack resources to improve server utilization based applications. With SUSE Studio, Cloud reduce the time to ­provision and automating service ­delivery. The ­enterprises can rapidly adapt and ­services. Through the auto­­mated SUSE OpenStack Cloud Administration­ ­deploy applications for both private ­deployment of a highly available Server includes­ an installation frame- and public clouds. And by managing cloud control plane, these ­services work that simplifies­ deployment and workloads across public or private are continu­ously accessible. SUSE ongoing administra­tion. Automating clouds with SUSE Manager, enterprises OpenStack Cloud provides a more these tasks improves IT staff pro- can efficiently maintain and ­monitor flexible and ­resilient infrastructure ductivity, while providing ­maximum their environment, inside or that accelerates time to value for ­flexibility to configure clouds. ­outside the cloud. new projects. Expands the enterprise capabilities Offers faster innovation and of your IT infrastructure while Key Features greater choice with the enterprise ­maintaining current investments SUSE OpenStack Cloud supports all Open­­­ support you need by providing the with a broad choice of third-party Stack Liberty release components for best- benefits of open source development ­solutions. SUSE OpenStack Cloud helps in-class capabilities to deploy an open while ensuring stability and security. to ­maximize workload performance source, private cloud. Installation Framework: Integration Control Node: One or more control nodes with the Crowbar project speeds and provide the self-service, image repository simplifies installation and administration and management capabilities.­ of your physical cloud infrastructure. Mixed Hypervisor Support: Enhanced Compute Nodes: Are the physical servers virtualization management through managed by SUSE OpenStack Cloud that support for multi-hypervisor environ- host KVM or Xen VMs for workloads run­ ments that use KVM, Xen, Microsoft ning in the private cloud or that integrate Hyper-V, VMware vSphere or IBM z/VM. with VMware vCenter. High Availability: Automated deploy- ment and configuration of control Swift Storage Nodes: Are the physical ser­ plane clusters. Ensures continuous vers managed by SUSE OpenStack Cloud access to business services and to host object storage using Swift. ­delivery of enterprise-grade SLAs. High availability for KVM / Xen Compute Node for Microsoft Hyper-V: www.suse.com Compute Nodes and Workloads: Are the physical servers running Microsoft Enhanced support for critical workloads Hyper-V Server 2012 or Windows Server not designed for cloud architectures. 2012 Hyper-V as hosts for virtual machines Ceph: Integration with SUSE Enterprise managed as part of a SUSE OpenStack Storage™ provides a streamlined Cloud deploy­ ­ment. deploy­ment of a single solution for Contact your local SUSE Solutions Provider, or call SUSE at: distributed block, object and virtual The technical requirements for all nodes machine image storage. are the same unless otherwise noted: 1 800 796 3700 U.S./Canada Docker Support: Build and run 1 801 861 4500 Worldwide ­innovative containerized applications. x86_64 Server: Intel Xeon or later or Scalability: Cloud control system AMD Opteron or later, 2 GHz, 512 K SUSE ­designed to grow with your demands. cache or equivalent (Recommended: Maxfeldstrasse 5 90409 Nuremberg Open APIs: Using the standard APIs, Intel or AMD multi-core ­processor, Germany customers can enhance and integrate 2.4 GHz) with Intel-VT or AMD-V OpenStack with third-party . ­virtualization extensions. Block Storage Plug-Ins: Broad choice • Administrative Server: 2 GB RAM of from storage vendors such as EMC, (8 GB Recommended); 40 GB hard disk NetApp and others. • Control Nodes: 2 GB RAM (8 GB Networking Plug-Ins: From Cisco, Recom­mended); 4 GB of hard-disk Midokura, Infoblox, Nuage Networks, space (30 GB recommended for PLUMgrid, Open vSwitch and VLAN ­production). Additional hard-disk bridging solutions for flexibility. storage is ­required for virtual machine Award-winning Support: Backed by images, volumes and snapshots, which 24X7 worldwide ­technical support. will be launched on the compute nodes. Full Integration into SUSE Update • Compute Nodes: 4 GB RAM plus Processes: Easily maintain and patch ­additional RAM for each virtual cloud deployments. ­machine (16 GB recommended for Non-disruptive Upgrade Capabilities: ­production); 30 GB hard-disk space Ease migration to future SUSE plus additional space for virtual OpenStack Cloud releases. ­machine local storage. • Swift Storage Node: 30 GB hard- Deployment and disk space plus additional space System Requirements for ­distributed object storage. Components for setting up and managing (Note: ­support of Ceph requires private clouds include: SUSE Enterprise Storage.)

Administration Server: Sets up the cloud; For more information visit: www.suse.com/ configures and pro­visions the SUSE Open­ cloud Stack Cloud control nodes and compute or storage nodes.

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