OpenStack is an integrated component of the Oracle Solaris 11.3 OS that provides the tools that you need to create an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) private, multi-tenant cloud within your own data center.
The Solaris OpenStack offering includes the following core components that are required to build an OpenStack cloud:
“Nova” (compute and virtualization)
“Neutron” (networking)
“Cinder” (volume and block storage)
“Horizon” (web-based management dashboard)
“Glance” (image management)
“Keystone” (identity service)
You can consolidate various OpenStack services onto a single system, which is referred to as a single-node controller. Typically in a production environment, these services are spread across multiple systems. Depending on your environment, you can use a multi-node controller configuration to separate services to improve performance, provide increased availability, or both.
Version 1.0 of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC Nova driver provides the capability to use SPARC-based systems as compute nodes that are part of an OpenStack cloud.