SolidFire Agile Infrastructure (AI) for OpenStack

Self-Service Converged Infrastructure for Dynamic IT Environments

For customers looking to rapidly deploy a fully functional OpenStack
cloud infrastructure, SolidFi re Agile Infrastructure (AI) for OpenStack is
a pre-validated reference architecture built spec cally for a dynamic
IT-as-a-Service ap proach for Test & Development or Private Cloud.

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The Agile Approach

SolidFire AI for OpenStack enables your IT organization to:
Consolidate and Scale
Drive up utilization by c

consolidating workloads with

Rapidly Respond
Empower your organization to quickly meet changing business needs
with a pre-integrated, scalable infrastructure.
Improve Productivity
Proven, automated infrastructure accelerates time to deployment,
automation reduces administrative burden.
Reduce Risk
Pre-tested, validated design incorporating industry leading
technology provides guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) and scale
without disruption.

Networking
(2) Cisco Nexus 5548UP
(2) Cisco C3850

Compute Fabric
Interconnects
(2) Cisco UCS 6248 FI

Storage
(5) SolidFire SF2405
Storage Nodes

Storage
Scale Out

Compute
Scale Out

Compute Hosts
Controllers: (2) Cisco UCS B220 M3
Compute: (6) Cisco UCS B220 M3

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SolidFire AI for OpenStack in Action

4.8 Million aggregated transactions per minute

46% of storage IOPS available for additional
applications, virtual machines or consolidated workloads
Zero performance impact experienced by neighboring

applications or instances

Automated Automatic IO boosting for template cloning operations

OpenStack Heat Orchestration templates for
database staging

SolidFire AI for OpenStack was designed to accommodate a

medium-to-large size OpenStack cloud infrastructure. From a
workload perspective, the base configuration translates to supporting
at least 1,000 virtual machine instances. Leveraging SolidFires unique
storage QoS controls, organizations can get to an infrastructure that
delivers the performance of dedicated storage and the economy of
shared infrastructure.
Administrators can confidently consolidate multiple workloads onto
this shared infrastructure, while ensuring predictable performance
to every application. QoS affords administrators the flexibility to run
many instances of one type of workload or any combination of block
storage workloads without compromising performance

Single OpenStack retype command provides instant

availability of storage IOPS

Scalable

Example AI for OpenStack Use Cases

Host up to 2500 virtual machines consuming

<50% of available storage performance

3x Headroom to expand compute capacity within a single

rack configuration

Large-scale enterprise web applications

Zero downtime to scale compute and storage nodes

Predictable

Private Cloud
Software Development Lifecycle
(e.g., Test/Dev, QA Staging, Production)
Rapid VM deployment for application performance testing

Support for database workloads with mixed

Database Consolidation/Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

IO requirements

Protect production performance levels across

all running workloads via natively integrated storage QoS settings

MySQL, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle database consolidation,

and scale

Linear scale for capacity and performance

Efficient
Global Data Reduction: cluster wide, in-line

deduplication and compression

3x IOPS per GB compared to traditional converged

infrastructure

Deep OpenStack integration leads to operational

efficiency and cost savings

Learn more about SolidFire Agile Infrastructure and request a demo at solidfire.com/ai