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Block, file, object—it’s covered.

NetApp delivers the industry’s most comprehensive support for the Cinder block and Manila file storage services. NetApp is a charter member of the OpenStack Foundation and, since early 2011, a contributing member of several OpenStack projects including Cinder and Manila.

Leading Vendor

NetApp is among the frontrunners for OpenStack storage solutions, and has the broadest storage and data management portfolio in the industry (ONTAP).

OpenStack Community Contribution

NetApp is a strong contributor to the OpenStack community and provides industry leading shared-filesystem access on NFS & CIFS delivered through Manila, a project that NetApp spearheaded in the OpenStack community. 

Open Source

NetApp are among the leading all-time contributors to the Cinder and Manila codebase. You can have full confidence that NetApp is committed to fostering OpenStack development.   

Why OpenStack with NetApp?

Orchestration

NetApp’s platforms are fully integrated into the common OpenStack API framework; in addition, NetApp Ansible modules provide extensive support for configuration management and automation. 

Platform & Protocol Support

NetApp has two classes of platforms that can function as Cinder and Manila storage backends (ONTAP). This means that there is a solution that best suits your needs, balancing data services, performance and scale-out requirements.

Rich Feature Set

Rich Feature Set - NetApp storage solutions support thin provisioning for on-demand allocation, NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) for data encryption at rest, and support IPv6 addresses. 

Scale

Designed for service provider scale and OpenStack environments, Element QoS settings guarantee workload protection across vast deployments.

Reduces Data Replication

NetApp ONTAP’s Snapshot technology makes it possible to generate space-efficient snapshots, providing a greater utilization factor and resiliency for business operations.

Accelerate Test & QA

NetApp cloning and data management features accelerate the DevOps application pipeline, making it easier for developers to non-disruptively and quickly QA against real production data.

OpenStack private cloud done right

Storage remains a complex, expensive aspect of setting up an OpenStack cloud. One you can’t afford to get wrong. Learn how to get storage right with this blueprint for OpenStack Cloud.

Primary use cases

Start your transformation with data, connected to your cloud, then accelerated for your business.

DevTest

Create new features quickly and easily and get them to market faster. Differentiate your offering and gain an advantage over competitors.

IaaS

IT ticket systems are slow and frustrating. Build a private cloud for your users to provision their resources and services themselves using a self-service model of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, while you define the tiering and architecture to deliver on SLAs.

NFV

NFV is replacing dedicated networking appliances with software and automation, offering agility, flexibility, and simplicity. See this great example of telecommunication companies deploying OpenStack.

Case Studies

Leading NetApp Solutions for OpenStack
Easy and Automated Object Storage (Swift)

Swift on E-Series and StorageGRID Webscale

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  • Leverage the efficiency and resiliency of in-array Erasure Coding to reduce data replication from 3x to 1.3x.Operate in a global namespace.
Validated and Tested Converged Infrastructure

The Red Hat OpenStack Platform on Flexpod is a Cisco Validated Design of a full stack to build your OpenStack datacenter.

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  • Reduce risk with clear cost and performance targets.
  • Unified support path for the full solution.
  • Take advantage of a validated design to simplify the deployment of OpenStack.
Data Center Infrastructure Analytics

Monitor and manage your OpenStack cloud with OnCommand Insight

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  • Monitor and analyze the utilization and performance of your Cinder and Manila volumes.
  • Use insights gained to optimize the performance of critical workloads on OpenStack.

OpenStack resources

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