Mirantis is releasing the latest version of its OpenStack cloud, version 6.1.
The release aims to support the deploying of workloads from the OpenStack Community Application Catalogue, as well as providing flexibility of choice and increased scale resilience with 200-node support out-of-the-box.
The App Catalogue is designed to enable ready-to-use, preconfigured applications, this means that they are quick to deploy. The move from Mirantis means that users can deploy workloads and PaaS frameworks on its cloud.
Further enhancements to the latest version include new certified Mirantis partners, a range of plug-ins and drivers and optimisation for Ubuntu and CentOS.
The new version offers simple API and self-service provisioning to extend the value of the VMware infrastructure and supports the use of VMware tools. Users can now run vSphere and KVM simultaneously, perform automated cluster scaling via integration with vCentre metering and pool resources and automate VM placement across one or more vSphere clusters.
The company has also added more infrastructure choices, those that are now available include EMC storage products, Juniper Contrail and Mellanox for networking, Hortonworks with support for HDP 2.2 and a Sahara plug-in.
Other additions include Quanta and SuperMicro for servers and VPNaaS and FWaaS for fuel deployment plug-ins.
Increased resiliency is another area which the company has enhanced, with new Fuel plug-ins for log analysis, monitoring, analytics and visualisation. Plug-ins include ElasticSearch/Kibana and Influx/Grafana in addition to Zabbix monitoring.
