Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution

Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution

A New Foundation for Open Cloud Computing

Solution Grounded in Experience Equals Success
Cloud success is in reach with the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution. With knowledge and experience from Dell, you can build a cloud foundation that is designed to handle massive data loads and still remain flexible and scalable. As one of the pioneering members of the OpenStack community, Dell has partnered with a network comprising more than 100 corporations that tally over 1,100 expert developers worldwide.

Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud IaaS Solution Components
The Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution includes the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution software, services from Dell and Rackspace® Cloud Builders, plus the Dell-developed Crowbar software.

Crowbar provides the perfect companion toolset, which gives you:
  • An out-of-the-box cloud builder tool that supports multinode Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution deployment on bare-metal servers in a few minutes to hours, not days or weeks.
  • The perfect tool to design, maintain and expand the complete solution, including BIOS configuration, network discovery, status monitoring, performance data gathering and alerting.
  • An all-round open source solution when paired with the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution.
Tested Reference Architecture and Support
Get a Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution reference architecture that was built and tested on Dell PowerEdge C servers with an operational approach (DevOps) for automated system configuration and management, which provides capabilities like the following:
  • Scriptable deployments that can go from bare metal to updating specific component locations without operator intervention.
  • Rapid iteration to design and build models in your environment as many times as needed.
  • A design you can see run in your environment, with your requirements. You determine when you have exactly the right cloud model. No guessing is involved.
Add support and training, and your path into the cloud is clear. Dell ProSupport provides the help you need, and Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution training courses can help your cloud administrators and developers get up to speed quickly.
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  1. dreamhost-openstack-cloud-case-study.pdf

    DreamHost expands cloud and storage services with Dell OpenStack Cloud

    7/24/2011

    Learn how a leading innovator in Web hosting, DreamHost, saved months of coding time by deploying the OpenStack Cloud solution, featuring PowerEdge C servers and using Crowbar, an open source software framework created by Dell, to speed the process.

  1. Dell Crowbar

    Download Dell Crowbar

    Download the Dell Crowbar open source software. Crowbar provides a framework that accelerates deployment of a multinode OpenStack cloud on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers, and update BIOS and RAID configurations, discover networks, and more.

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    OpenStack Compute Cloud Software

    Learn about the OpenStack Compute Cloud Software, an open-source software solution to provision and manage virtual private servers to build your redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Control panels and APIs are included.

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    OpenStack Object Storage

    Read about the open-source OpenStack Object Storage software to create redundant, scalable, long-term object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store petabytes of data.

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    CloudOps: Operating OpenStack Clouds — An Operational Approach

    10/28/2011

    Learn about options to implement your cloud infrastructure using DevOps principles so you can quickly and easily modify your cloud components over time.

  2. Recent citings: Open source clouds; Tech test drive

    Recent citings: Open source clouds; Tech test drive

    9/13/2011

    The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution helps make the job of deploying an open-source cloud environment a lot easier. Plus: Take a technology test-drive at a state-of-the-art Dell Solution Center.