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Support CenterFlex Metal Cloud Release V0.7.2 – July 1, 2020 Here at InMotion we are reshaping OpenStack a bit from the traditional deployment. We have always worked with smaller companies. No enterprises on our customer roster. So we have a different goal – enable lots of small clouds versus one large cloud. With small business needs Read More >
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Why is On-Demand OpenStack Important for SMBs?
Why would we build a low-cost On-Demand OpenStack Private Cloud? I have been getting this question a bit, sometimes with enthusiasm and sometimes with skepticism. The skeptic will say something like “Are you trying to go up against AWS?” That is followed by, if a polite skeptic, “Is that wise?” For sure it is an Read More >
Ceph Octopus with BlueStore Performance and Tuning
Recently we moved our new “On-Demand OpenStack” private clouds to being backed by Ceph Octopus. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the largest was the potential for greater performance with Octopus. There was already a huge leap forward compared to Filestore with BlueStore stable in the Luminous release. That being said, having Read More >
Ceph Nautilus to Ceph Octopus, more motivation to upgrade
We are running Ceph Nautilus for bigger/older installs, but are starting to run some new test clouds on Octopus. Specifically, we went down a bit of a rabbit hole for evaluating and understanding “on the fly compression” to help us determine what will be in our Feature Release Schedule for the 1.1 release of our Read More >
Erasure Coding including Calculator
Erasure Coding Erasure coding can be a bit confusing. It is also typically a decision that involves trade-offs between I/O performance needed for a particular storage process, initial and ongoing cost of the setup, and usable storage. We have experience creating clusters using Erasure Coding for our internal use and for production mass backup systems. Read More >
What is On-Demand Computing?
On-Demand Computing (ODC) is an enterprise-level delivery model that allows users to easily provision and deprovision cloud resources when needed or “on-demand.” The model, which can be maintained at the user’s organization or through a third-party provider, supports computing demand as it fluctuates. Create, manage, and optimize large scale deployments easily with our Flex Metal Read More >
What is a Software-Defined Data Center?
A Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), or virtual data center, is a term used to describe a data center where all infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, which is also known as IT as a Service (ITaaS). Control and management of a software-defined data center are fully automated, allowing hardware configuration to be maintained Read More >
What is Keystone?
Keystone is an OpenStack identity service that provides API client authentication, service discovery, and distributed multi-tenant authorization. The service manages user databases as well as OpenStack service catalogs and their API endpoints. Internal services are grouped within Keystone and are exposed on one or many endpoints. The internal services are used in combination on the Read More >
What is Cinder?
Cinder is the open-source OpenStack block storage software created to provide volumes to OpenStack Compute (Nova) virtual machines, or instances. Cinder virtualizes the management of block storage devices and provides users with an API to request and consume resources without requiring the location or deployment of the resources. Key characteristics of Cinder include its component-based Read More >
What is Neutron?
Neutron is an OpenStack project that provides network connectivity as a service (NaaS) in virtual environments. Neutron allows you to utilize different networking technologies to power your cloud and is managed by other OpenStack services like Nova. Create, manage, and optimize large scale deployments easily with our Flex Metal Cloud Hosting. Through a powerful API, Read More >