QoS, performance and protection for OpenStack
OpenStack summit is going well and I am enjoying meeting with attendees and briefing analysts on the new Veritas software-defined storage OpenStack solution – HyperScale for OpenStack. The response is generally positive and the benefits of our dual-plane architecture certainly seem to resonate. Yesterday afternoon Carlos Carrero (product lead) and Abhijit Dey (engineering lead) co-presented a session with Ruud Harmsen (CEO of Fairbanks, the OpenStack ambassador in The Netherlands). The session focused on quality of service, performance and protection for OpenStack environments and discussed challenges with traditional SDS architectures and how HyperScale for OpenStack helps address them. My Veritas colleagues discussed key considerations (such as performance, resilience and data protection) when it comes to OpenStack storage and the Fairbanks presenter related them to specific customer cases that they had worked on.Veritas Engineers to Present at vBrownBag TechTalks at OpenStack Summit
One week to go till the next OpenStack Summit. I am looking forward to meeting with customers, partners and colleagues and, of course, learn about many things OpenStack from all of them. Attending the keynotes and breakout sessions and visiting the sponsor booths in the marketplace will certainly provide a lot of learning opportunities. Yet another, fun source of learning will be the vBrownBag TechTalks (#vBrownBag), a rapid-fire format where presenters take just 15 minutes to convey their message.Available IO Capacity-Based Workload Deployment in OpenStack Environments
When it comes to deploying their critical workloads on OpenStack environments a key aspect that enterprises must address is ensuring that the application has adequate resources available to execute well and meet its performance SLAs. Of course, Nova scheduling and placement already helps address this by taking required and available memory, storage and CPU cores into account. But while it also takes account of available disk space and concurrent IOPs it does not consider the underlying storage hardware that provides the IO capacity or the burstiness that certain workloads may present.Veritas at OpenStack Summit Barcelona – An Event to Remember
What a great event we had last week in Spain. There were keynotes, sessions, meetings with customers, partners and analysts and of course, not nearly enough hours in the day to enjoy it all. Even Mother Nature appeared to be smiling upon us with pretty mild weather most days. I enjoyed soaking in the community vibe and meeting colleagues from around the globe. We had a significant team attending (you can see some of them here at our booth in the Marketplace) who presented various technical talks and helped showcase Veritas Access and HyperScale for OpenStack. In my discussions with customers, our ability to provide storage quality of service (QoS) to support application performance needs certainly resonated strongly, as did the ability to provide data protection, or backup. You can check out our participation through this Storify post. I look forward to more and even better summits.Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack: Helping Achieve Flexibility and Economy
Motivated by a range of competitive, business and technical reasons, a growing number of organizations are adopting OpenStack. Often cited reasons include agility, flexibility, operational efficiency and avoiding vendor lock-in. According to the last OpenStack User Survey “save money over alternative infrastructure choices” was the number 1 priority driver for the most respondents (66%, more than 3 times the next one “increase operational efficiency” at 21%).Improving IT Efficiency: How Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack Helps
My previous post related to how Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack not only delivers predictable performance to workloads but also provides multiple levels of workload resiliency and capabilities such as live migration and versioning. Perhaps you watched the video that I had shared. Of course, when one takes a business perspective, it is all about workloads and about the underlying economics.Workload Resiliency: Moving Beyond Performance with Veritas HyperScale for OpenStack
In my previous post I mentioned that Veritas is participating in the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona and that we will be showcasing HyperScale for OpenStack and Veritas Access at our booth (C7). I also pointed to a video that outlines how HyperScale for OpenStack helps applications perform their best.
