In the race to build agile, on-premises clouds, many organizations face a familiar struggle: how to deliver enterprise-grade performance and scalability without ballooning complexity and cost. Traditional infrastructure can lead to resource overhead and siloed systems, making the vision of a truly flexible cloud seem perpetually out of reach.
The solution lies in Hyperconverged Cloud Infrastructure (HCI). HCI consolidates computing and storage functions into individual nodes, simplifying your hardware inventory and drastically reducing resource overhead. To guide you through deploying a truly next-generation environment, we’ve created a reference architecture featuring OpenNebula for cloud orchestration and StorPool for software-defined storage.
This whitepaper serves as your essential blueprint for designing a scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective cloud. It details how the OpenNebula platform manages your entire enterprise cloud, supporting modern practices like virtualization, containerization, and DevOps. Crucially, it shows how StorPool transforms standard servers into a distributed, shared-nothing block storage pool that consistently outperforms legacy SAN systems.
The architecture is built for continuous operation and maximum flexibility. High availability is baked into every layer: the orchestration plane uses a distributed consensus protocol (Raft) to maintain system state, and StorPool ensures storage reliability through synchronous replication, maintaining multiple data copies across different disks and nodes. Should a host fail, virtual machines are automatically relaunched on healthy hypervisors, minimizing downtime.
Beyond efficiency, this framework offers powerful flexibility. While HCI allows you to scale compute and storage simultaneously, our reference architecture goes further, detailing how you can independently add compute-only or storage-only nodes to meet specific workload demands.
If you’re an IT professional ready to deploy an agile cloud infrastructure that balances efficiency with high levels of redundancy, you need this proven framework.
Download the “Hyperconverged Cloud Reference Architecture: StorPool and OpenNebula” whitepaper today to get the full technical design and begin transforming your on-premises cloud experience.