SUSE Cloud and OpenStack What's the next step?

Last month, SuSE released version 2.0 of the OpenStack-based enterprise-class private cloud SuSE Cloud, a new feature of concern, including support for OpenStack block Storage, OpenStack Networking, More robust installation processes, as well as increased support for Microsoft Hyper-V, and more.

"A cloud environment that supports mixed hypervisor can help companies better plan for the future, while ensuring that previous investments are not wasted," he said. SuSE Cloud Solutions marketing manager Doug Jarvis said. "Support for hybrid hypervisor can help developers to more flexibly test and develop on KVM, ensuring that the period is in the same cloud environment." ”

In addition, Doug Jarvis also expressed his views on the advantages of SuSE Cloud 2.0, including the decision to support Hyper-V, and OpenStack's next step.

How has the understanding of open cloud changed since SuSE launched SuSE Cloud 1.0 a year ago? How does SUSE Cloud 2.0 adapt to this change?

Doug Jarvis says there are already companies that have made specific demands on their cloud environment. For example, customers tell SuSE that they need to support multiple hypervisor running individually or in a mixed cloud environment. "As SuSE Cloud 2.0, we have met this customer requirement, supporting KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V." ”

Currently, OpenStack is becoming more mainstream, and businesses want simpler OpenStack installation, deployment, and management because they are unwilling to devote too much time and effort to managing their cloud environment.

"As a SuSE, a company that has 20 years of experience in the Linux and open source World, we see this requirement for the enterprise, and we've developed an installation framework on SuSE Cloud 1.0, In the 2.0 version, we added additional functionality and further simplified the installer based on customer feedback. ”

What are the advantages of SUSE Cloud 2.0 for Linux system administrators and developers?

First, SUSE Cloud 2.0 can save a lot of time for an enterprise to install and deploy a private cloud environment. SUSE Cloud 2.0 has an automated installation framework that greatly reduces setup time and subsequent management efforts. In addition, SUSE Cloud is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise server, which means that all SUSE Linux Enterprise server applications and hardware will support SUSE Cloud, This will help the enterprise simplify and quickly over to the private cloud environment.

Second, SUSE Cloud 2.0 supports hybrid hypervisor. As mentioned earlier, supporting a mixed hypervisor cloud environment can help companies better plan for the future, while ensuring that previous investments are not wasted.

In addition, SUSE Cloud 2.0 further integrates SUSE studio and SUSE Manager, which will help organizations easily build and manage cloud application tools.

SUSE Cloud 2.0 supports Microsoft Hyper-V and is compatible with Amazon s3-compatible Api,suse Why do you want to do this?

Doug Jarvis says that at present SuSE customers want to have more options to meet their IT needs because companies do not want to waste previous investments. "So as a suse, we provide as much interoperability as possible for the enterprise." "All along, SuSE has taken the practice of not locking the customer's business into any single computing environment."

In addition, Doug Jarvis also talked about SuSE's innovation based on OpenStack and its contribution to OpenStack. It says that SuSE has done a lot of innovation in terms of ease of deployment and management, and that SuSE is currently working with companies such as Cisco, EMC and NetApp to support their network and storage plug-ins.

In terms of contribution, first SuSE as the first Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, SUSE provides legal, engineering and financial assistance to OpenStack. In addition, Alan Clark, the SuSE employee and board member of the Linux Foundation, was appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of the OpenStack Foundation. In addition, at the technical level, SUSE also provides appropriate support, such as security fixes, and so on.

At the same time, SUSE is also actively promoting the promotion of OpenStack to promote the deployment of OpenStack, and actively expand OpenStack code contributors, so that it becomes a broader open source ecosystem.

Finally, Doug Jarvis says OpenStack has made great strides in networking and storage over the past year, but heat and ceilometer projects will be the focus in the coming months, and all two projects will have a huge leap forward.