Brocade intros fabric orchestration for OpenStack

BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking vendor Brocade introduced VCS fabric plugin that delivers fabric provisioning capabilities in OpenStack-based cloud environments.

Available as a component of OpenStack Grizzly release, the Brocade VCS plugin expands the native attributes of Brocade VCS Fabric technology. It will allow customers to deploy network capacity and services in cloud-based data centres.

This solution is an essential component of Brocade's "On-Demand Data Center" strategy, a comprehensive approach that depends upon highly automated and scalable network architecture.

Brocade also announced a Fibre Channel blueprint for storage networking. With the delivery of a framework for Fibre Channel zone management, Brocade enables customers to adopt OpenStack, while ensuring investments in mission-critical Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs) are protected as they move to cloud architectures, says a release.

"Brocade is currently the only networking vendor offering OpenStack-compatible solutions with fabric-enabled capabilities that support cloud-based, scale-out data centre infrastructures," said Jason Nolet, vice president, Data Center Networking Group, Brocade. "In addition to delivering OpenStack support for Brocade products that accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies and deliver on the promise of 'The On-Demand Data Center', Brocade is an active contributor to the OpenStack development community, taking an active leadership role in driving innovation in important areas of the framework, such as the addition of Fibre channel SAN provisioning into OpenStack."

Earlier this month, Red Hat announced that Brocade is a member of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network. The plugin for the Brocade VCS is available in OpenStack Grizzly and is undergoing certification for the Rackspace Private Cloud.