Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution

Get automated, flexible and massively scalable cloud computing with the Dell™ OpenStack™-Powered Cloud Solution. This infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution includes a reference architecture based on:

• Dell PowerEdge™ C series hardware ― includes PowerEdge C6100 and C6105 rack servers, designed to bring the most computer power in the least amount of space and with the least energy draw.
• Dell PowerConnect™ 6248 switch ― delivers significant rack density and advanced core switching capabilities.
• Dell Crowbar software ― accelerates deployment of a multinode OpenStack cloud on bare-metal PowerEdge servers and enables you to update BIOS and RAID configurations, discover networks and more.
• OpenStack open source cloud software ― provisions and manages large networks of virtual machines (VMs), creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform complete with control panels and application programming interfaces (APIs) required to orchestrate your cloud.
• OpenStack Object Storage ― creates redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data.
• Services from Dell and Rackspace Cloud Builders ― include IT consulting, configuration and deployment, and support from service experts to help accelerate your IT initiatives and grow your business.

To help you get started, Dell offers a proven, powerful and easy-to-implement reference architecture that advocates an operational approach based on highly automated server deployments. This operational model ― known as CloudOps based on DevOps ― is the best practice for both initial cloud evaluations and long-term maintenance of hyperscale data centers.