— Packaged
Bundle with Canonical Ubuntu Delivers Industry’s Easiest Way to
Create an Enterprise OpenStack Private Cloud —
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. — Sept. 17, 2014
— AMD
(NYSE: AMD) today announced a new collaboration with Canonical® that
provides one of the industry’s easiest ways to deploy an OpenStack®
private cloud. The solution features the SeaMicro SM15000™
server, Ubuntu® LTS 14.04 and OpenStack, which includes a set of
powerful tools to build one of the most flexible and reliable private
clouds. The AMD and Canonical collaboration overcomes the
complexity of deploying OpenStack technology and provides an out of
the box experience making it possible to deploy a private cloud in
hours compared to days. The joint solution automates complex
configuration tasks, simplifies management, and provides a graphical
user interface to dynamically deploy new services on demand.
“AMD and Canonical have dedicated a tremendous
amount of engineering resources to ensure an integrated solution that
removes the complexity of an OpenStack technology deployment,” said
Dhiraj Mallick, corporate vice president and general manager, AMD
data center server solutions. “The SM15000 server, Ubuntu LTS
14.04 and OpenStack is an amazing solution filling a need in the
industry for an OpenStack solution that can be deployed easily
without spending a fortune on professional services or hiring teams
of people.”
The SeaMicro SM15000 server and Ubuntu LTS 14.04
and OpenStack solution is one the most scalable solutions in the
industry, as demonstrated in setting the industry benchmark record
for hyperscale cloud computing. The record of 168,000 virtual
machines was achieved using MAAS (Metal as a Service) and Juju, both
part of Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and OpenStack. MAAS was used to
deliver the bare metal servers, storage and networking, and Juju was
used for deployment. The solution is available today and is the
most scalable, automated application for deploying Ubuntu LTS 14.04
and OpenStack in hyperscale environments.
“Canonical has developed the most sophisticated
set of tools in the industry to remove the complexity of an
enterprise grade OpenStack deployment,” said John Zannos, vice
president of cloud channels and alliances at Canonical. “The
AMD-Canonical OpenStack solution bundle will help drive increased
velocity for clients seeking to leverage scale-out cloud technology
for next generation workloads.“
AMD-Canonical
Out of the Box Solution Details:
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AMD Hardware
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Canonical Software
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SeaMicro SM15000 server provides the following in 10 rack units:
— 3 Cloud Controllers
— 57 Nova nodes
— 3 Cinder nodes
— 64 GB Object Storage
— 128 GbE NICs (Max. 512 possible)
— Integrated Layer 2 Switching
— 80 Gbps I/O
—
Consume 55 Watts per server
|
Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and OpenStack
— Ubuntu server
— MAAS
—
Juju
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AMD’s
SeaMicro SM15000 Server
AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 system is one of the
highest-density, most energy-efficient servers in the market. In 10
rack units, it links 512 CPU cores, 160 gigabits of I/O networking,
more than five petabytes of storage with a 1.28 terabyte
high-performance supercompute fabric, called Freedom™ fabric. The
SM15000 server eliminates top-of-rack switches, terminal servers,
hundreds of cables and thousands of unnecessary components for a more
efficient and simple operational environment.
AMD’s SeaMicro server product family currently
supports the next-generation AMD Opteron™ (“Piledriver” core)
processor, Intel® Xeon® E3-1265Lv2 (“Ivy Bridge”), E3-1265Lv3
(“Haswell”) processors. The SeaMicro SM15000 server also supports
the Freedom Fabric Storage products, enabling a single system to
connect with more than five petabytes of storage capacity in two
racks. This approach delivers the benefits of expensive and complex
solutions such as network attached storage (NAS) and storage area
networking (SAN) with the simplicity and low cost of direct attached
storage.
To
learn more about the AMD-Canonical solution, please contact
seamicro@amd.com.
Supporting
Resources
Learn
more about AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 server here
Download
AMD’s OpenStack Reference Architecture here
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AMD on LinkedIn
Read
more about AMD’s hyperscale cloud computing industry benchmark
record here
About
AMD
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including personal computers, tablets, game consoles and cloud
servers that define the new era of surround computing. AMD solutions
enable people everywhere to realize the full potential of their
favorite devices and applications to push the boundaries of what is
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