OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform designed as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) implementation. It has the ability to control large numbers of compute, network and storage resources.
The block storage portion of OpenStack is referred to as the Cinder project and aims to provide persistent block level storage to the OpenStack compute (Nova) instances. The Everpure Cinder driver is a Python®-based module integrated into the main OpenStack distributions.
This document intends to describe the FlashArray capabilities in a production OpenStack deployment and to describe some of the high-level concepts and architecture of the OpenStack platform. It is intended to be read by system architects, system administrators and storage administrators who are investigating or using deployments of OpenStack.
Authors and Contributors
Simon Dodsley