Mirantis Offers Lower Cost Open Source Alternative to VMware with Latest Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes
July 09 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Optimizes performance, automates workload
distribution
Mirantis, providing organizations with total control over their
strategic infrastructure using open-source software, today
announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK)
24.2 with an exclusive dynamic resource balancer feature that
automates workload distribution to solve hotspot and “noisy
neighbor” problems.
Now, MOSK automatically redistributes workloads within a cluster
helping to balance resource consumption to prevent hypervisor
overloading and degraded performance of cloud workloads. Developed
by Mirantis for contribution to OpenStack upstream, the new feature
– called Distributed Resource Balancer – is comparable to VMware’s
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). Mirantis is the first to
implement this capability for OpenStack without complex
dependencies on other services.
MOSK 24.2 is built on OpenStack 2024.1/Caracal and the most
recent Ceph Reef open-source software-defined storage technology.
The new release also includes support for the popular Open Virtual
Network (OVN) software-defined networking (SDN) for supplying
network services to virtual machines.
“MOSK is a viable and proven open source-based technology option
especially relevant as many VMware users seek alternatives,” said
Shaun O’Meara, chief technology officer, Mirantis. “MOSK makes the
operation of OpenStack-based cloud and virtualization solutions
simpler, and can be deployed as a unified solution on a range of
cost-effective, hyperconverged, modular hardware, providing a
full-featured, scalable on-premises cloud. It is engineered as an
ideal host environment for migrated VMware VM workloads – enabling
businesses to achieve optimal resource management and network
performance on open infrastructure with proven reliability.”
MOSK enables on-premise cloud infrastructure for cloud-native
and traditional applications, ensuring reliability and complete
control over application data. MOSK provides a simple operator
experience through automated full-stack management of the
underlying infrastructure, from hardware provisioning to software
configuration, plus centralized logging, monitoring, and
alerting.
The basic MOSK setup can be easily expanded to manage multiple
clouds through a single pane of glass, as well as hybrid cloud
configurations leveraging public cloud or hosted bare metal cloud
resources. MOSK is available in its simplest configuration in a
range of simple packages, with 24/7 or fully-managed support,
optional integrations, VMware application migration and application
modernization services, and Mirantis training.
A demonstration of the capabilities in MOSK 24.2 is scheduled on
Thursday, July 25 at 12 Noon Eastern. Go here to register. Also,
Mirantis offers a TCO calculator that will provide an approximation
of how much can be saved by moving to Mirantis OpenStack for
Kubernetes from other infrastructure, such as VMware. For more
details on MOSK 24.2, go here.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations achieve digital self-determination
by giving them complete control over their strategic
infrastructure. The company combines intelligent automation and
cloud-native expertise for managing and operating virtual machines,
containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Mirantis lets
platform teams deliver a public cloud experience on any
infrastructure, from the data center to the edge, with one cohesive
cloud experience for complete application and operations
portability, a single pane of glass, and automated full-stack
lifecycle management, all based on open source using open standard
APIs.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises,
including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Societe Generale, and
S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
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