Nexenta and Mirantis Converge OpenStack Cloud

Nexenta Systems, Inc., in OpenStorage solutions, and Mirantis, Inc., in engineering services for OpenStack Cloud, announced the integration of the NexentaStor NAS/SAN software platform with OpenStack, the community-driven open source software platform for building private and public clouds.

The NexentaStor driver for OpenStack Cloud enables enterprises to build clouds, maintain control of the software stack, avoid vendor lock-in with proprietary hardware and reduce the cost of storage.

Reliable, scalable storage is a key component of cloud deployment. NAS is often a choice over local storage because it is easier to implement enterprise-grade features than with local storage.

"One of the biggest benefits of OpenStack is its openness and interoperability with diverse solutions in the application infrastructure space. By bringing Nexenta and OpenStack close together, we marry the best of open source in enterprise storage with the standard in open source cloud infrastructure," said Boris Renski, co-founder and EVP at Mirantis.

The integration unlocks unlimited scalability with storage-on-demand efficiency that is instantly available on virtual machine volumes. It also provides flexibility and openness, separating hardware from software components enabling enterprises to remain vendor independent and upgrade backend storage with reduced investments in infrastructure.

Companies using OpenStack Compute with NexentaStor driver can take advantage of the following enterprise-grade storage features:

• Unlimited volume size
• Scalable capacity and performance
• Use of SSDs to scale performance without scaling power consumption and cost
• Unlimited snapshots and clones with integrated search
• Active/Active HA configuration. No single point of failure
• NAS and SAN support – VM live migration possible
• Compression, dedupe, and in-box virus scan
• End-to-end data integrity – find and fix silent data corruption
• Non-disruptive volume grow
• dTrace-based analytics, including per VM load metrics

The NexentaStor volume driver is part of the latest OpenStack release, Essex. Nexenta is committed to contribute additional capabilities to OpenStack for future releases and will be demonstrating object storage capabilities on cloudstorage.nexenta.com (registration needed).

California-based Mirantis has been a member of the OpenStack community since its inception and contributed multiple code commits to the OpenStack Compute and Identity projects. It is also one of the organizers of the Bay Area’s OpenStack user group, hosting the quarterly community events in Silicon Valley.

The two companies were presenting at the upcoming OpenStack Design Summit and Conference on April 16-20 in San Francisco, CA.