Suse has announced the addition of high availability to SuseCloud, its OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds. Suse Cloud 3 is the first enterprise OpenStack distribution with automated high availability configuration and deployment, ensuring the rapid startup and continuous operation of private cloud deployments.
“A highly available infrastructure gives customers confidence in their private clouds, whether for development and testing, high-priority batch processing, or rapid roll-out of a new promotional campaign,” said Michael Miller, Suse Vice President of global alliances and marketing.
“Administrators can deliver enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements through their private clouds, and less unplanned downtime means businesses have access to the resources they need, when they need them.”
Al Sadowski, Research Director for Internet Infrastructure Services at 451 Research, said, “Simplifying deployment is one of the desired values of an OpenStack distribution. There is clear enterprise market appeal for products that address the automation of complex deployment tasks, like configuring a highly available OpenStack control plane.”
Suse Cloud includes components of Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, the most complete open source clustering solution. Proven in data centers around the world, Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension helps enterprises protect mission-critical workloads running on x86 servers. With Suse Cloud, administrators can eliminate service failures due to downtime of the private cloud’s control plane and ensure continuous access to the resources the line of business needs to maintain agility. Deployment and configuration is automated through integration in the Suse Cloud Administration Server, which provides a Crowbar project-based framework for installing and managing the physical cloud infrastructure.