Piston Cloud - OpenStack

[Patrick]

Thinking of giving Piston Cloud a try. Seems like a company trying to tackle the configuration challenges of an OpenStack setup. Also from what I can see, they are using Ceph and have an integrated SAN much like OnApp (paid) does.

Version 2: Now with More Cows | Piston Cloud Computing
Enterprise OpenStack 2.0 Turns Out the Lights in the Software-Defined Data Center | Piston Cloud Computing

Excited to see a company tackling this.

Anyone else try? Looks like they just went V2.0 today.

 

[dswartz]

Hmmm, thanks for posting this. I'll take a look...

 

[dswartz]

Sorry, non-starter here. Need 3 compute nodes and a boot node - I only have two nodes at all. Oh well...

 

[Chuckleb]

I've just registered and need to get my IB switch in before I can try this out.

Here's a link to the free version for those who want to try, I had to scrounge for it: https://airframe.pistoncloud.com/

 

[Mike]

I've looked at something a little bit comparable; witsbits.

 

[MaxCFM]

Going to give this a spin once the new servers come in for the home lab. I really like what I have seen so far going on with OpenStack in general.