Microchip发布首款包含开源工具包的Adaptec®智能存储解决方案，用于数据中心存储管理。为市场领先的OpenStack云管理软件打造的开源工具简化了存储资源的配置、部署和管理
公共云和私有云基础设施供应商正借助开源工具简化服务器存储平台的配置、部署和管理。但迄今为止，他们在自行开发工具管理平台的存储适配器和嵌入式解决方案时面临重重挑战。Microchip近日发布能立即投入生产的开源工具，管理OpenStack数据中心的Adaptec® 智能存储HBA、SmartHBA和SmartRAID系列产品，成为业界首家解决上述挑战的公司。
通过投资并发布易于部署的开源工具和插件，Microchip为客户消除了将存储资源连接到由OpenStack驱动的异构数据中心的Adaptec系列存储控制器解决方案的复杂性。经过预认证和测试的Adaptec智能存储工具具有可扩展性和定制功能，简化了对企业级基础设施中的大型云服务器网络的管理工作。
Features
The Adaptec Smart Storage OpenStack tools include three components:
1) a plug-in for Metal as a Service (MaaS), a bare-metal deployment tool from cloud industry leader and Ubuntu creator Canonical Ltd.;
2) a scripted service formula, or “charm”, created with Canonical’s Juju modelling tool that allows users to remotely deploy Adaptec ARCCONF in any type of cloud environment so the adapters and attached devices can be configured and managed remotely using the Juju dashboard; and
3) a plug-in for the OpenStack Horizon Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to discover, configure and conveniently manage both Adaptec Smart Storage standard adapters and custom embedded solutions.
Target applications
- Large networks of cloud servers within enterprise-class infrastructures