On October 24th StorPool storage will participate in the CloudStack European User Group Day in London. The event is organized by our friends from ShapeBlue and will bring together the Apache CloudStack community. This time the visitors will have the chance to enjoy an all-day event, full with exciting and useful sessions. StorPool’s team is … Storage-based snapshots for KVM VMs in CloudStack – Meet us at CloudStack European User Day

Datacenter SSDs are not just higher performance and more expensive versions of desktop-grade devices. They have unique features that are critical for storage systems.  There are a number of companies who use consumer-grade SSDs for powering their business. Usually, the story goes along the lines of “consumer SSDs are just as good as Datacenter SSDs, … Choosing the right SSDs for your cloud: Datacenter SSDs vs. Consumer SSDs

The default configuration values for KVM virtual machines in OpenNebula are conservative and are geared towards generality and ease of initial deployment. As StorPool provides a low-latency and high throughput storage system, to fully utilize its capabilities, some changes and tweaks to those settings are recommended. In addition to the storage-related optimizations we’ll also share … VM performance optimization for OpenNebula with KVM

On June 13th, StorPool had the honor and privilege to host and organize the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day together with its partner ShapeBlue. The event was a get together of the local IT infrastructure experts and CloudStack users. Main focus were talks presenting best practices and useful information on how to build … European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day Recap

On June 13th, StorPool together with ShapeBlue are hosting the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day in Sofia, Bulgaria. A half day event, focusing on CloudStack and the latest trends in building and managing virtualized cloud environments. Are you building or operating infrastructure or cloud? Become part of the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack … European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day

Performance test report. NVMe-class storage performance in VMs. Introduction In this performance test we measured 13.8M IOPS on a 12-node cluster built on standard off-the-shelf Intel servers. This is the highest storage performance reached by an HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) on the market. We also show that even a small StorPool storage system, with just 48 … The IOPS challenge is over. StorPool holds the new world record – 13.8 mln IOPS

Introduction In these public cloud performance tests, StorPool’s aim was to assess the block storage offerings of a number of public clouds, including Amazon AWS, Digital Ocean, DreamHost and OVH vs. a number of StorPool-based public cloud offerings. To the best of our ability we’ve selected VM instance types and everything else in the configurations … Public cloud performance measurement report

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is gaining more ground as the preferred way to build efficient IT infrastructure. In this architecture both the storage and the compute workloads (virtual machines, containers, apps, databases) run on the same physical servers. The promise of HCI is that you would be able to fully utilize your hardware without sacrificing performance. … 7 Million IOPS and 0.15 ms Latency for an NVMe-powered VDI Cloud

Storage field day 18 was held in Silicon Valley between 27-th of February and 1-st of March 2019.  Our session was on the first day and it made waves. Ray Lucchesi (@RayLucchesi) said: “Standard, enterprise-class, million dollars storage system is not able to do this. Standard software-defined versions of these sorts of systems with tiers … StorPool Presents at Storage Field Day 18