HP Helion: Private cloud leader entering OpenStack Enterprise market

As the most popular open source project today, OpenStack's dominance of cloud computing is no doubt based on the support of many it giants. As early as OpenStack, Hewlett-Packard began in 2011 in the OpenStack community into research and development power.

As we all know, the OpenStack project is mainly led by the foundation, and the OpenStack Foundation has three branches: the Technical Committee, the user Committee and the board of Directors. 2011, Hewlett-Packard began to invest in research and development in OpenStack, in 2012, when the OpenStack Foundation was established, HP became platinum sponsor, and has two board members, and 5 Technical Committee members, the OpenStack project has a certain leading role.

OpenStack Juno version, review, submit, and line of code rank

From the contribution of OpenStack community, in the Juno version, HP's review ranked first, Sumbit ranked first, the number of code contributions ranked second.

Based on its strong technical strength, Hewlett-Packard released its Cloudsystem product line based on OpenStack in 2011, aiming to privatize OpenStack in the enterprise and simplify cloud management. As a result of Cloudsystem's outstanding performance in the private cloud sector, in a report published in 2013, Forrester was rated "the only private cloud leader" with the "portfolio solution scoring the highest score in the current product assessment". In other words, HP has strong technical capabilities and a wealth of customer resources to help HP Helion bring value to customers in the private cloud market.

In May this year, HP launched the HP HELION,HP based on OpenStack in its portfolio, a private cloud of hardware, software and services, a combination of public and mixed cloud products, and OpenStack is its engine, based on the engine, Helion offers different products. For example, HPC for the public cloud market, HP Helion managed virtual Private cloud for the private cloud market, and the HP Cloud Service don for the mixed cloud market, can integrate the public cloud, the private cloud and the managed cloud HP also has a powerful management tool OO (twist orchestration) that can put these different types of clouds together and manage them. HP Helion has all the advantages and agility of cloud computing, openness and interoperability of open source projects, and security and reliability.

HP Helion Product Portfolio

To learn more about HP HELION,CSDN interview with HP Cloud Division chief cloud expert Chen Yu, Chen Yu details the current situation of HP Helion.

HP Cloud Division chief cloud expert Chen Yu

As business becomes more complex and needs to respond quickly to changing needs while ensuring that the global and streamlined operations are mastered, the enterprise needs a hybrid cloud solution to address these issues. The HP Helion Cloud products and services portfolio creates an open ecosystem with a common management structure that is easily integrated into enterprise business through a variety of delivery models. HP Helion offers different solutions for different audiences, teams for developers, Helion OpenStack community and Cloud Foundry PAAs, and Helion OpenStack Business for enterprise-level offerings.

What are the differences between the business and Community editions? Chen Yu said that the Helion OpenStack Community Edition is directly from the community to take down the code, did not make any changes, just carried out some reinforcement. A version is updated approximately every 6 weeks and is currently updated to the OpenStack K version. You can download at any time to Hphelion's website, with the help of the installation documentation, a few hours can build a set of up to 30 nodes physical machine private cloud. The Helion OpenStack Business Edition has done more consolidation, especially in terms of high availability, SLAs and QoS. The commercial version can also be downloaded, but only a 90-day probationary period.

Now, there are many manufacturers have begun to prepare or have released their own OpenStack distribution, helion OpenStack What is different, can give the enterprise can bring what? At this point, Chen Yu is confident that he interprets the following:

Seamless update with OpenStack latest version. First, there is an active community behind OpenStack, updated very quickly, at any time in the play patch, how to be in step with the community is a very important issue. Now many companies in the market, the products are based on the old version of OpenStack, can not achieve seamless synchronization with the community, and Helion OpenStack with the community of several core projects, Nova, cinder, glance are the same.

Tripleo deployment. Another feature of Helion OpenStack is that its deployment is called Tripleo, and OpenStack is installed through OpenStack on OpenStack. There is a seed Host called seeds, which is a virtual machine that is used to deploy and update the upper Under Cloud;under Cloud is a physical node for deploying, testing, and updating the top-level over Cloud; the top over Cloud is the real production line. Any patch come over, first be updated in under Cloud, then click the Upgrade button, will automatically upgrade to over Cloud. Throughout the process, over cloud on the program is still run, your application is still run, your customers are still satisfied.

7x24-Hour Service enterprise-class services. When it comes to open source, there is a misconception in the domestic market that open source is unsupported and not robust. HP offers an enterprise-class service, and HP provides 7x24-hour service when problems arise, and all of your components are reinforced. This is a different place for HP and one reason why HP is so synchronized with the community.

PAAs services. OpenStack is an IaaS platform software, and HP Helion includes a module based on cloud Foundry called HP Helion Development. While building Helion OpenStack, a cloud Foundry can be built quickly.

Talking about the difference between the Chinese market and the American market, Chen Yu said that the difference between China and the United States is not particularly big, but everyone's pace is different, the way of walking is different. HP Helion is a global brand that is presented to everyone in a holistic way. Just according to specific industries, specific customers, do some fine-tuning, produce a number of solutions for customers.

October will be the "Harvest Month" for Helion, and HP will launch the Helion OpenStack Commercial edition in mid-October, with a commercial version of Helion Development platform and a solution for swift at the end of the month. CSDN will also keep an eye on the latest HP Helion.

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