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Single Mgmt. Interface for On-Premise NephOS Private Cloud and Off-Premise NephoScale Hosted Public or Private Cloud Services – Perfect for the Enterprise
The Enterprise Cloud Dilemma
- Imagine you are an enterprise IT network engineer or systems administrator, with too many disparate public and private cloud systems to manage with too many types of equipment to integrate. Now, you are experiencing compatibility, security, resource tracking, agility, and budget problems on a large scale. You cannot move all of your data offsite to a cloud provider, and your on-site environment lacks agility and is too costly to operate. At NephoScale we are solving this problem today.
- Have us install NephOS cloud platform software on-premise at your location, on your equipment, and enjoy seamless on-premise/off-premise cloud integration in the form of a single-pane view web portal and a common API. Manage any NephoScale public cloud data center location, and your own on-premise location, all within a single-pane view web portal or REST API, for a true Hybrid Cloud experience.
Why use NephoScale for your Hybrid Cloud Solutions?
- The answer is NephOS, which is NephoScale’s hardened cloud operating system that heavily leverages OpenStack technology.
- NephOS is at the core of the NephoScale end-to-end cloud solution, and OpenStack offers useful technology and a strong technical community that helps accelerate innovation around NephOS.
- NephOS is a complete cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software stack that is available in the form of NephoScale’s on-demand public and private cloud services platform, and as licensed software for on-premise use by enterprises or for customized OEM applications.
- Enterprises can operate across multiple locations using NephoScale’s available cloud hosting locations, and seamlessly integrate those off-premise computing and storage resources with their on-premise NephOS private clouds, that run on their hardware in their data center locations, and all can be managed from a single web portal and a common API.
- One of the many unique advantages NephOS brings is the ability to accommodate almost any deployment or consumption model. NephOS automatically ingests, integrates, and automates many different types of hardware. This flexibility along with the ability to easily create custom cloud solutions based upon NephOS is what truly sets NephoScale apart from the rest.
What is NephOS?
- NephOS is truly an end-to-end turnkey cloud software solution that includes inventory management, billing, ticketing, both virtual and bare metal on-demand provisioning, an infinitely scalable object-based storage system, software defined networking technology, and a cloud automation and orchestration build language.
- NephoScale NephOS enables companies to have an integrated single-pane view for self-provisioning and management of on-premise and off-premise, virtual and bare metal, public and private clouds.
- NephOS unifies the elements of computing, storage, and networks into a utility that is stable and scalable and provides added speed, agility, flexibility to business operations
- The bare metal provisioning, software-defined-networking (SDN) technology, and orchestration tools provided by NephOS enable underlying data center automation for running virtualization platforms such as VMware.
- NephOS unifies the elements of computing, storage, and networks into a utility that is stable and scalable and provides added speed, agility, flexibility to business operations
NephOS is the perfect Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution
With NephoScale’s Hybrid ComputeTM cloud solution you get dramatically better performance, flexibility, and value than with the 100% virtualized cloud environments being pushed on enterprises today. Share the same web portal dashboard, same API, same low latency private network, and same base server images across both virtual and dedicated servers.
Bare metal dedicated servers are important computing assets to have on-demand access to through an API, and they are absolutely necessary for properly supporting private clouds, large databases, analytics and data processing projects, legacy software applications, tight security restrictions, and rigorous compliance requirements.
NephOS is a proven enterprise grade cloud management software system that provides extreme levels of reliability and performance. NephOS was designed to be a trusted business solution that is both robust and secure, and was developed by engineers and data center operators with real-world experience delivering large scale infrastructure in hosting environments. NephOS is a highly complex software stack with advanced functionality, yet it is also stable, highly customizable, and simple to deploy and operate. End users can get started with the intuitive user interface and be deploying server, storage, and networking infrastructure within minutes.
NephOS leverages OpenStack and also contains several patented pending technologies so it is purpose built to maximize performance and flexibility, and to drive costs down, through the utilization of commodity hardware and open source software.
NephoScale is an ideal partner for companies integrating cloud services, and other data center technologies, and not only want to serve their internal server and storage IT needs, but also want to offer their software-as-a-service or hardware-as-a-service. They need the unique advantage NephOS delivers, its ability to ingest, integrate, and automate virtually any network, compute, or storage hardware to meet almost any compatibility requirement.
What Sets NephOS Apart?
Compatibility and Integration:
NephOS can be utilized to create customized automated cloud solutions that include most any selection of network, compute, and storage hardware. The following technologies and appliances can be integrated with, and automated by, NephOS: Ethernet switches, load balancers, firewalls, DDos appliances, servers, NASs, SANs, GPUs, PCI Flash, FPGAs, DSPs, etc.
Commodity Hardware:
While NephOS can be seamlessly integrated with many different custom hardware types, it is also designed to leverage open source software and commodity hardware to continually drive costs down for network, compute, and storage.
Flexibility:
The power of the NephOS platform lies in its ability to provide a single-pane view for on-demand provisioning and management of on-premise and off-premise, virtual and dedicated, public and private clouds, on any cloud management system.
Hybrid Cloud:
Tightly integrate on-premise and off-premise public and private clouds into a single easy-to-use interface creating a seamless on-premise/off-premise environment. Provision virtual servers on-demand in minutes. Run cloud-in-a-cloud using on-demand bare metal server clusters to create on-premise or off-premise private clouds using any cloud management system of your choice (e.g. VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Cloud Foundry, etc.). Access a common server image and CloudScript template library for more efficient operations
Hybrid ComputeTM:
Get better performance than with 100% virtualized cloud environments, with NephoScale’s Hybrid Compute. Combine on-demand bare metal dedicated servers and virtual servers on the same secure low latency broadcast domain. Share the same API, network broadcast domain, and base server images across both virtual and dedicated servers.
Elastic Networking:
NephoScale’s 10/40 Gbps software-defined networking (SDN) technology provides an API programmable network overlay allowing for the seamless single-pane view integration of both virtual and bare metal dedicated servers on the same low latency layer 2 broadcast domain. Elastic Networking also allows for the insertion of myriad custom network services across the NephOS cloud platform and enables the extension of layer 2 broadcast domains across multiple physical data center locations.
CloudScriptTM:
CloudScript is a build language for the cloud that allows for on-demand provisioning any element of the NephoScale platform through programmatic means. The consistency of design between NephoScale CloudScript and the NephoScale RESTful API make it easy to use a combination of thick client or thin client programming models depending on your needs. Use CloudScript™ for on-demand provisioning and management all NephoScale cloud services, your applications stacks, code, and their associated dependencies in an easy-to-use and centralized fashion.
Resource Utilization
- Use your own IP addresses to announce in both your own on-premise locations and your NephoScale hosted public and private cloud environments.
- Integrate your own custom appliances for DDoS, firewall security, server load balancing, or custom storage into both your own on-premise locations and your NephoScale hosted public and private cloud environments.
NephOS – A Licensed End-to-end IaaS Cloud Software Stack.
Benefits
- High performance architecture
- Advanced security and reliability
- Increased operational efficiency
- More agile IT
- Rapid innovation
- Limitless storage capacity
- Achieve 99.95% SLAs
- Lowered capital costs
- Reduced time to market
- Windows and Linux support
- Remote management
- Reduced risk for experimentation
- Better cost controls
Features
- Combine virtual and dedicated servers
- SDN powered network security
- Role-base access control
- Scalable to millions of transactions/day
- Fully compatible with existing systems
- Self-service provisioning 24/7
- Capable of storing petabytes of data
- Highly redundant platform design
- Multi-tenancy supports unlimited accounts
- Integrated automation and build system
- Single-tenant or multi-tenant options
- VNC console access
- Flexible billing and chargeback options
Technical Specifications
Management & Administration
- Enables self-provisioning
- GUI control over all cloud resources
- Cloud Storage Explorer
- VNC console access to virtual servers
- Help desk support
- Staff area for ticket, signup, billing, inventory, and job management
APIs & SDKs
- REST API for NephOS and Cloud Storage
- Libcloud python drivers for NephOS and Cloud Storage
CLIs
- NephOS client for customers
- NephOS client for staff
White labeling
- White-label and re-branding support
- Payment gateway integration using merchant account
Identity and Access Management
Hierarchical Protection Domains
- Separate policies for customers and staff
- Staff users have supervisor privilege over customer accounts
Image Management
- Windows and Linux support
- Image publishing
- Image permissions
Server Management
- Full root/administrator access
- Start/stop/reboot
- VNC console for virtual servers
- High Performance Computing
- Support for 10 Gbps NICs
- Support for GPU or PCIe flash storage options on dedicated bare metal servers
Storage
Direct Attached Storage
- Persistent local storage for both virtual and dedicated servers preserves data during reboots
- RAID redundancy for both virtual and dedicated bare metal servers
- SATA or SSD storage options
- Predictable IOPS performance
Cloud Storage
- Highly available and fault-tolerant
- Based on OpenStack Object Storage
- REST API compatibility with OpenStack Object Storage and AWS S3
- Container synchronization across geographic regions
- Object caching, versioning, and expiration
- Container public access, metadata, and web indexes
- Large object support and multipart upload
- HTTP Range requests (HTML5 video streaming)
- Cross-site HTTP requests (aka CORS)
- Cross-domain policy file (Flash, Java, and Silverlight compatibility with REST API)
Networking
IP Addressing
- Persistent IP addresses and Internet connectivity
- IPv4 support
- Deploy servers with public/private IPs, private only IPs, or no IPs for DHCP
DNS Management
- Self-service DNS and rDNS
- Use NephoScale’s pool of DNS servers or your own
Support
Help Desk
- Support tickets
- Ticket queues
- Support teams
Notifications
- System Maintenance
- Release Notes
Billing
Pricing, Payments, and Invoicing
- Customize SKUs and pricing
- Standard pricing override support
- One-time fee support
- Software license and upgrade tracking
- Multi-tier credit card and payment gateway capability
- Semi-monthly, monthly, and annual membership invoicing based on hourly or monthly usage
- metering
Data Center
Zones & Racks
- Deploy resources across multiple availability zones
- Group physical resources into performance tiers
- Isolate system and network resources to meet single tenancy requirements
- Virtual rack support for private clouds
Inventory Management
Automated Hardware Ingestion
- Additional border routers added to network inventory
- Top-of-rack cloud controllers added to SDN overlay inventory
- Top-of-rack access switches/ports added to network inventory
- Network scanner supports Cisco IOS, Dell FTOS, and Cumulus operating systems
- Compute nodes and dedicated bare metal servers added to inventory on first boo
- Multi-layer security and access controls
- Account level ownership of resources
Authentication Methods
- Username/password
- Security token
- Staff two-factor authentication
Role-Based Access Control
- Access control lists
- User roles
Job Audit Trail
- Job log of provisioning requests
- Audit trail of jobs by user, run time, type, and status
Keys
- SSH key or username/password configured on server first boot
- Token-based authentication to cloud storage
Compute
Virtual and Dedicated Server Support
- L2 and L3 private and public networking
- Same base images can deploy to both virtual and dedicated bare metal servers
- KVM hypervisor for virtual servers
- Dedicated bare metal servers provisioned on-demand using GUI, API, & CloudScript
Software Defined Networking
- On-demand public and private networks
- Sub-millisecond latency within the data center
- 1, 10 and 40 Gbps network connectivity
- SDN network overlay traffic isolation
- Scale out network topology eliminates SDN router capacity planning
- SDN routers are optimized for maximum traffic flows
- Switch vendor neutrality due to network overlay packet encapsulation
- VLANs, LACP, LLDP, BGP, and IS-IS support
- L2/L3 networking for both virtual and dedicated servers
- Unicast, broadcast, and multicast support
- Bump-in-the-wire support for firewalls and packet sniffing
High Availability
- High availability and failover routing architecture
- Redundant top-of-rack switches and cloud controllers for N+1 redundancy
- Compute nodes maintain redundant connections to top-of-rack switches
- Management cluster supports N+1 redundancy
- Deploy resources to different geographic regions
Deployments & Automation
Orchestration
- CloudScript – Domain Specific Language
- Deploy distributed applications with a single click
- Idempotent operations for all template changes of all cloud resource types
- Dependency based programming
- Parallel processing of resource provisioning requests
- Code enveloping of Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
- Distributed state machine runs across CloudScript interpreter and server agents
- IDE provides necessary tools to develop infrastructure code with CloudScript
Scripts & Recipes
- Scripts run any type of interpreted code in a server agent on server first boot
- Recipes run related scripts in order on server first boot
- Callbacks store output from recipes run in server agent
Asset Management
- Physical asset tracking of data centers, CRACs, PDCs/panels/breakers, PDUs/ports, switches/modules/ports, servers, CPUs, disks, RAID, memory, PDU power ports, and network ports
- Virtual asset tracking of routes, CIDRs, subnets, IP addresses, MAC addresses, firewalls, bridges, tunnels, VLANs, clusters, pools, proxies, zones, and pods
Job Management
- Distributed lock manager tracking of open locks
- Distributed job manager tracking of accounts, job types, job status, resource type, and execution times
Reports
Dashboards
- Track numbers of accounts and resources deployed
- Track CPU and I/O utilization of compute nodes
Scoreboards
- See system metrics for data centers, cloud storage, images, virtual servers, dedicated bare metal servers, and accounts
Metering
Usage
- Track cloud storage usage on data transfer, size of data stored, and API requests
- Track virtual and dedicated server usage on data transfer, bandwidth, and instance size
Quotas
- Support for manual approval of dedicated bare metal server provisioning requests
- Enforce virtual and dedicated server quotas on the number of instances and total memory deployed
Release Management
Deployments
- Build and packaging system
- Place all end-points in maintenance mode
- Automated upgrade release without any impact to customer services
NephOS Out-Of-The-Box Features Unavailable In OpenStack
- Cloud Storage Explorer
- IDE to develop infrastructure code with CloudScript
Virtual and Dedicated Server Support
- L2 and L3 private and public networking
- Same base images can deploy to both virtual and dedicated bare metal servers
- Dedicated bare metal servers provisioned on-demand using GUI, API, & CloudScript
Billing & Support
- Customized SKUs and pricing, pricing overrides, one-time fees, multi-tier credit cards and payment gateway integration
- Semi-monthly, monthly, and annual membership invoicing based on hourly or monthly usage metering
- Support help desk and customer notifications
- Automated ingestion into inventory of hardware components such as servers, switches and ports
- Asset tracking of physical and virtual inventory in the data center
Release Management
- Build and packaging system
- Place all end-points in maintenance mode
- Automated upgrade release without any impact to customer services
Networking
- High availability with failover network architecture
- Scale out network topology eliminates SDN router capacity planning
- capacity planning SDN routers are optimized for maximum traffic flows
- 1Gbps, 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps, or InfiniBand
Zones & Racks
- Group physical resources into performance tiers
- Isolate system and network resources to meet single tenancy requirements
- Virtual rack support for private clouds
NephOS Certification Process Of OpenStack Capabilities
In Preparation
- OpenStack Orchestration (code-named Heat)
- OpenStack Telemetry (code-named Ceilometer)
- OpenStack Networking (code-named Neutron)
In Development
- OpenStack Compute (code-named Nova)
- OpenStack Block Storage (code-named Cinder)
- OpenStack Image Service (code-named Glance)
NephOS Certified
- OpenStack Object Storage (code-named Swift)
- OpenStack DNS (code-named Designate)
- OpenStack Identity (code-named Keystone)


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