SolidFire Expands Integration With OpenStack Block Storage

SolidFire, Inc., in all-SSD storage systems designed for data centers, announced expanded integration and deeper ecosystem support within OpenStack.

With the latest Havana release, SolidFire continues to deliver the deepest and broadest support for the OpenStack Block Storage project. Delivering API support for all of the latest block storage functionality included in Havana, newly supported features in this release include volume extension capability, more flexible volume/tenant management features and a Cinder backup service option.

“Havana is an important release milestone for the OpenStack community and SolidFire,” said John Griffith, lead OpenStack developer and Cinder PTL, SolidFire. “Continuing to improve the quality and stability of the platform while adding important features and cross-ecosystem integrations is exactly what is needed to deliver OpenStack to a broader set of customers.”

In addition to a comprehensive coverage of the block storage APIs, SolidFire is also delivering deeper integrations with leading OpenStack distributions including Mirantis, Nebula, Rackspace Private Cloud and Red Hat.

• Mirantis Interoperability. SolidFire has validated interoperability between the Mirantis OpenStack platform and SolidFire’s OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) Driver. The two companies will build off this initial effort with enhanced integration in future Mirantis OpenStack releases.
• Nebula Integration. Through integration efforts customers can seamlessly provision SolidFire’s block storage directly within the Nebula One compute platform.
• Rackspace Private Cloud Certification. Rackspace has tested and verified SolidFire driver functionality with a Rackspace Private Cloud. Streamlined configuration can be found here.
• Red Hat Certification. The driver implementing the Block Storage (Cinder) API has been certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.

“Customers are demanding better, more scalable and highly available storage options for their OpenStack infrastructure,” said Boris Renski, co-founder and EVP, Mirantis Inc. “With this initial phase of our partnership, our customers now have validated interoperability between Mirantis OpenStack and SolidFire’s leading scale-out block storage architecture.”

“The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Certification provides a framework for solution validation and assurances that the solutions will deliver ongoing value to our customers,” said Mike Werner, senior director, global ecosystems, Red Hat, Inc. “We are delighted to add SolidFire’s driver to the ranks of solutions that have been certified against Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, as these solutions bring choice and the full power of our broad OpenStack ecosystem to customers.”