Enterprise storage and data management for production ready private cloud powered by OpenStack.

Learn more about NetApp’s community contributions, reference architectures, use cases and best practices for both developers and DevOps.

Why NetApp with OpenStack?

Leading Vendor

NetApp is among the frontrunners for OpenStack storage solutions, and has the broadest storage and data management portfolio in the industry (ONTAP, Element software, StorageGRID and Cloud Volumes ONTAP)

Reduces Data Replication

NetApp ONTAP’s Snapshot technology makes it possible to generate space-efficient snapshots, providing a greater utilization factor and resiliency for business operations.

Platform & Protocol Support

NetApp has two classes of platforms that can function as Cinder storage backends (ONTAP and Element). This means that there is a solution that best suits your needs, balancing data services, performance and scale-out requirements.

OpenStack Community Contribution

NetApp is a strong contributor to the OpenStack community and provides industry leading shared-filesystem access on NFS & CIFS delivered through Manila, a project that NetApp spearheaded in the OpenStack community.

Rich Feature Set

Rich Feature Set - NetApp storage solutions support thin provisioning for on-demand allocation, NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) for data encryption at rest, and support IPv6 addresses.

Orchestration

NetApp’s platforms are fully integrated into the common OpenStack API framework; in addition, NetApp Ansible modules provide extensive support for configuration management and automation.

Scale

Element software enables All-Flash, Scale-Out Cinder storage for NetApp HCI and SolidFire. Designed for service provider scale and OpenStack environments, Element QoS settings guarantee workload protection across vast deployments.

Accelerate Test & QA

NetApp cloning and data management features accelerate the DevOps application pipeline, making it easier for developers to non-disruptively and quickly QA against real production data.

Open Source

NetApp are among the leading all-time contributors to the Cinder and Manila codebase. You can have full confidence that NetApp is committed to fostering OpenStack development.

NetApp, Cisco and Red Hat announce OpenStack on FlexPod SolidFire!

by Amit Borulkar | May 18, 2018

I am happy to share with you the publishing of the second document of the FlexPod SolidFire with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 - Cisco Validated Design (CVD) solution. Paired with its partner Design Guide, this CVD enables an enterprise-grade OpenStack deployment, in...

Reducing Risk in OpenStack with NetApp Part 1: Encryption

by David Blackwell | Mar 21, 2018

Welcome to part one of a series on reducing risk in OpenStack with NetApp. Whether you are already running OpenStack, or are considering running it, the security of your data should always be at the forefront of your thoughts. NetApp has many features that work in...

My Name is Queens

by David Blackwell | Mar 14, 2018

On February 28th, the OpenStack community released its 17th version, codenamed Queens. As a leader in commercial storage solutions for OpenStack, NetApp added new features to Cinder and Manila. Cinder New Features Cinder now supports dynamic adjustment of...

Setting up an Edge system All in One with OpenStack and ONTAP Select

by David Blackwell | Nov 27, 2017

Some sites aren't large enough to need or have an entire datacenter infrastructure. Sometimes you want to be able to run just a datacenter in a box. Remote locations, small sites, any place where you might need the entire features of a data center, but only have one...

OpenStack Summit Sydney looks to be a Bonzer!

by Pete Brey | Nov 2, 2017

Bonzer: Australian slang for “most excellent” Join the NetApp team down under and learn why we are the #1 Commercial OpenStack® Storage solutions provider! Did you know that 5 out of 7 OpenStack Superusers are NetApp customers? And that 4 out of 7 are using NetApp...

Introducing the New and Improved OpenStack Deployment and Operations Guide

by Jenny Yang | Oct 20, 2017

By Chad Morgenstern and Jenny Yang Have you visited NetApp’s OpenStack section of thePub lately? If not, you may have missed NetApp’s new and improved OpenStack Deployment and Operation’s Guide. Now a living document, easy for you to read and for us to maintain, the...