HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu
nickbarcet
on 13 April 2012
Tags: HP , kvm , OpenStack , Virtual Machines
This article was last updated 4 years ago.
Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month. This is a major milestone for HPCloud which coincides with two major events: the release of OpenStack Essex last week and the upcoming release of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS at the end of this month. These two components are the foundation that HP uses to build its public cloud offering, on which they bring their own set of enhancements.
HPCloud is built on top of Ubuntu Server and uses the built in KVM hypervisor to power OpenStack compute nodes. HP’s OpenStack deployment includes all core components of Essex, including the new central authentication, Keystone, which provides unified login for all components of OpenStack.
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