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QNAP x Platform9
Easily Deploy a Hybrid Cloud with OpenStack
Platform9 is a cloud-based OpenStack management platform. While a pure OpenStack environment may take weeks to deploy properly, Platform9 can take merely a few minutes to deploy. Now the integration of Platform9’s Managed OpenStack solution and QNAP’s powerful storage solution enables OpenStack to use QNAP NAS as compact, highly-reliable on-site data storage.
Streamline development and accelerate your services
QNAP and Platform9 have joined forces to provide a powerful storage solution that is easy to deploy and easy to use for your OpenStack environment. With this hybrid OpenStack environment, compute nodes, storage nodes and networking are located within your company, and the management part (provided by Platform9) is accessible from the cloud, assisting in simplifying maintaining OpenStack, so you can focus on your core business.
Use QNAP NAS for your OpenStack storage
The QNAP Cinder driver (which is fully integrated in Platform9) allows QNAP NAS integration in OpenStack environments. It can be added to the Cinder Node and allows block devices creation on QNAP NAS. After enabling the QNAP Cinder driver on an OpenStack Cinder Node, the Compute Node can utilize the space on QNAP’s Enterprise ZFS NAS (an enterprise-grade storage providing active-active High Availability, snapshots, data deduplication and compression) as well as on QNAP’s business-class NAS series for affordable storage solutions.
Benefits
- Platform9 offers you…
- A managed private cloud solution that's simple, open, and enterprise-ready.
- Instant deployment. OpenStack environments created in 60 minutes, not weeks or months.
- Ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting for keeping your OpenStack private cloud running smoothly.
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- QNAP & Platform9 joint-solution
- Easy storage integration with the QNAP Cinder driver for OpenStack.
- The QNAP Cinder driver is already integrated in Platform9, no manual installation needed.
- On-site data storage with highly-available storage
- Leverage QNAP NAS advantages:- From Enterprise ZFS NAS for enterprise-grade storage solutions
- From powerful and feature-rich business storage solutions
Easy deployment
Platform9 Deployment
First-time configuration: Less than 1 hour.
- Purchase/obtain a Platform9 trial license.
- Log in to the Platform9 Cloud management interface.
- Install the Compute Nodes.
- Download the agent from the Platform9 Cloud management interface.
- Install the agent on each of your Compute Nodes
- Authorize your Compute Nodes on Platform9 and wait for the agent to detect and configure your Compute Nodes.
- You are ready to go.
Add QNAP Storage
- Install your QNAP storage.
- Add the Block Storage Role on one of your Nodes from the Platform9 management interface and specify the connection information of your storage.
- You are ready to use QNAP Storage with Platform9.
Supported QNAP NAS models
Enterprise ZFS NAS and TES-x85U series are configurable for Platform9’s OpenStack-based private cloud solution.
