Today HP announced that it is making several contributions to OpenStack Kilo (released today as well). These new contributions include new converged storage management automation as well as new flash storage technologies. These are aimed at simplifying provisioning while improving performance and resiliency for consolidated block and file workloads.
Today HP announced that it is making several contributions to OpenStack Kilo (released today as well). These new contributions include new converged storage management automation as well as new flash storage technologies. These are aimed at simplifying provisioning while improving performance and resiliency for consolidated block and file workloads.
As cloud adoption continues to expand, more companies are turning to OpenStack technology to overcome “private and public cloud challenges, including costly vendor lock-in, lack of control or customizability, and inability to scale applications for the cloud.” HP is a Platinum Founding member of the OpenStack Foundation and has made several contributions thus far, including HP Helion OpenStack (HP plans to support OpenStack Kilo in future Helion OpenStack releases).
Today’s storage contributions by HP are to increase efficiency in open cloud environments to reduce acquisition and operational costs. HP’s contributions support application-centric, automated, converged storage management, and help make environments that use Kernel-based Virtual Machine server virtualization technology enterprise-ready.
New capabilities include:
- Evaluator Scheduler—improves management productivity and increases resource efficiency by automatically assigning storage resources to meet incoming requests based on workload requirements.
- Adaptive Flash Cache—reduces the overall cost of delivering I/O-intensive workloads in cloud environments by allowing “flash caching”—the use of flash capacity as a virtual extension to storage system DRAM cache.
- Thin Deduplication with Express Indexing—drives up capacity utilization and increases the life of flash drives used for virtualized workloads by 75 percent via data compaction using inline, block-level deduplication.
- Manila files services—allows HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage to serve both block and file workloads in open cloud and hybrid environments using a single, cost-optimized pool of storage that occupies one third less space.
