With the availability of the IBM® Storage Driver for OpenStack, the IBM DS8000® can offer a range of capabilities that enable more effective storage automation deployments to private or public clouds. Enabling OpenStack with DS8000 allows storage to be made available whenever it is needed without the traditional associated cost of highly skilled administrators and infrastructure.

This IBM Redpaper™ publication explains how to integrate the DS8000 in an OpenStack environment, first from the DS8000 Storage Administrator perspective and then from a cloud administrator standpoint.

This paper also contains practical examples and illustrations of DS8000 functions that can be used with OpenStack, as it applies for DS8880 Release 8.3 and the OpenStack Pike release.

Chapter 1. OpenStack

Chapter 2. DS8000 integration in an OpenStack environment

Chapter 3. Using IBM DS8000 in an OpenStack environment