Pure Storage has announced that it has joined the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor and has pledged to actively participate in the development of the OpenStack codebase. Pure Storage also announced the release of two new solutions: OpenStack Cinder Driver that integrates OpenStack-based private and public clouds with Purity Operating Environment (OE), and Python Automation Toolkit, which extends Pure Storage’s FlashArray family of products out-of-the-box automation via Python scripts.
Pure Storage has announced that it has joined the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor and has pledged to actively participate in the development of the OpenStack codebase. Pure Storage also announced the release of two new solutions: OpenStack Cinder Driver that integrates OpenStack-based private and public clouds with Purity Operating Environment (OE), and Python Automation Toolkit, which extends Pure Storage’s FlashArray family of products out-of-the-box automation via Python scripts.
The OpenStack Foundation is made of thousands of individual members to promote the development, distribution, and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. Pure Storage will help the OpenStack Foundation advance open storage standards in the enterprise by contributing its work and platform enhancements to the foundation. With Pure Storage’s collaboration, support will be provided to increase OpenStack’s functionality, ease complexity, and simplify implementation.
Some of the benefits of running Openstack on Pure:
- Highest quality end user experience
- Consistent <1 ms latency
- 100% performance, 100% of the time
- Greater scaling, performance and agility
- 200,000 32K IOPs per FlashArray
- Instant VM provisioning and cloning
- Multi-tenancy with role based access
- Simplest storage infrastructure to manage and operate
- Higher application availability
- >99.999% resiliency and non-disruptive operations
- Array-based snapshots and replication
OpenStack Cinder Driver integrates Purity OE directly with OpenStack-based private and public clouds. The integration occurs via its REST API, to deliver a highly agile platform supporting developer operations, with full support for OpenStack Juno volume commands. Benefits include:
- Standard Cinder deployment – 100% of standard Cinder functionality
- Speeds standard Cinder deployments with Pure
- Create volume, connect to host, array snapshots, etc.
- Fully documented and supported, included in core OpenStack
- Comes will every FlashArray with no additional cost
Python Automation Toolkit provides enhanced out-of-the-box automation and extends the functionality of Cinder when used with the above-mentioned Cinder Driver. Using the toolkit, FlashArray customers can easily create Python workflows, and expand monitoring, capacity, and disaster recovery capabilities of OpenStack Deployments. Benefits include:
- Semi-custom implementation leverages more storage features
- Automated snapshot policies, replication, capacity management
- Improved monitoring and control
- Available at no cost to all Pure customers
Availability
Both OpenStack Cinder Driver and Python Automation Toolkit are available for download for free and are fully compatible with Purity 3.4.
