Mirantis is teaming up with Dell and Juniper to create converged infrastructure solutions
Mirantis unveiled plans to work with a range of vendors to deliver OpenStack-based converged infrastructure solutions for enterprises.
The Mirantis Unlocked Appliances are built by Rack Partners and come pre-validated by Mirantis with its own commercial distribution of OpenStack and pre-integrated by Certified Rack Partners.
This is Mirantis’ first big foray into the converged infrastructure area – a segment dominated by Dell and HP, which offers its own HP Helion OpenStack-based converged infrastructure solutions.
“The architecture Redapt designed with Mirantis, with Mirantis OpenStack at the core, solves for the complexity commonly associated with OpenStack,” said Josh Lindenbaum, vice president of business & corporate development, Redapt. “Redapt will work closely with customers to assemble, deliver and install Mirantis Unlocked Appliances that will arrive in the datacentre ready to plug and play.”
Its inaugural offering is tailored specifically for cloud-native applications, though it said it plans to release a broader portfolio of converged infrastructure solutions as it partners with more hardware and software vendors.
The first configuration will be built using server and networking technology provided by Dell (PowerEdge R630 servers for compute and foundation nodes and Dell PowerEdge R730xd for storage) and Juniper Networks (QFX5100s as the data path and a Juniper EX3300 for management) respectively, with configurations ranging from six compute nodes and 12 TB of storage to a full rack comprised of 24 compute nodes and 24 TB.
“About 20 percent of infrastructure is consumed through the appliance form factor because it is extremely easy to set up and operate,” said Alex Freedland, Mirantis president and co-founder.
“Mirantis Unlocked Appliances combines this ease of use with the openness and flexibility of OpenStack, delivered as a cloud-in-a-box. Our first appliance focuses on the most common OpenStack use case – developing cloud-native applications – and will be built and shipped by Certified Rack Partners across the ecosystem,” Freedland said.