Simplify Your Daily Routine with CloudStack-Integrated Storage
This article is written by Product Marketing Manager at StorPool, Dave Henry.
Adoption of CloudStack has been rapidly increasing as more organizations recognize it as an excellent platform for building private clouds. As if to validate this, more and more managed service providers have migrated to private clouds built on the CloudStack foundation.
Storage has always been central to any data center infrastructure project, which is unsurprising as all IT-related services are centered around data. This is especially true for service providers. Their customers trust the provider with their data, which means service providers need to ensure that their customers’ data is protected and available to customers 24/7, so the storage solution they choose needs to be reliable and “always on”.
The other major concern for service providers is the performance of their storage. While IOPS and throughput have been the typical measurements of storage performance, it turns out that they only have a secondary effect on end-user satisfaction. The largest contributing factor there is response time.
What this means for the service providers is that, in addition to the usual considerations of ease-of-use and management, and lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO), providers need to select a storage solution that serves data with low latency. Low latency itself, however, isn’t enough. Service providers need a solution that can provide consistent low latency even under sustained heavy workloads.
At StorPool, we’ve created a fully-managed storage solution that meets all of the requirements discussed above. Don’t just take our word for it, though. Check out this case study on RapidCompute, an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider who deployed StorPool Storage with its CloudStack native plugin and how it met their main requirements of:
- Low total cost of ownership
- Multiple performance tiers
- High performance for large OLTP databases
- Non-disruptive hardware refreshes
- High fault-tolerance
- Ease of migration from their legacy storage
All while their administrators manage storage without ever leaving the CloudStack interface. Read about RapidCompute’s success with StorPool and learn how we can do the same for you.
