OPEN-SOURCE ENTERPRISE IAAS // OPENSTACK BOBCAT & CARACAL

Managed OpenStack Private Cloud
Sovereign, High-Performance IaaS in India

Eliminate runaway VMware licensing hikes and hyperscaler egress surcharges. ServerThings engineers, deploys, and manages turnkey, carrier-grade OpenStack private clouds on dedicated AMD EPYC bare metal, distributed Ceph NVMe storage fabrics, and wire-speed 100GbE SDN.

Core OpenStack Engines
99.99%
API & VM Uptime SLA
100GbE
Neutron OVN SDN Fabric
Ceph NVMe
3x Replicated Block & Object
0% Egress
Zero Bandwidth Transfer Fees
Zero Lock-in
100% Upstream OpenStack APIs
CORE SUBSYSTEMS & FABRICS

The ServerThings Managed OpenStack Stack

Engineered on upstream production releases, tuned for deterministic enterprise throughput, and backed by automated high-availability clustering across control, compute, and storage planes.

NOVA // COMPUTE

AMD EPYC Compute Nodes

Hardware-accelerated KVM virtualization on dual AMD EPYC 9654/9354 bare metal. Guaranteed 1:1 vCPU pinning, zero overcommit policies, NUMA-aware scheduling, and live VM migration with zero dropped network frames.

  • Up to 256 vCPUs & 1.5TB DDR5 ECC RAM per node
  • Live live-migration across failure domains
  • Custom compute flavors tailored to enterprise ERP & AI workloads
NEUTRON // NETWORKING

100GbE SDN & OVN Fabric

Software-Defined Networking driven by Open Virtual Network (OVN) and distributed virtual routing (DVR). Isolated tenant VPCs, VXLAN overlays, dynamic BGP routing, and native Octavia load balancing.

  • Hardware-offloaded wire-speed packet processing
  • Floating public IPv4/IPv6 address management
  • Micro-segmentation security groups and stateful firewalls
CINDER & SWIFT // STORAGE

Distributed Ceph NVMe SAN

Enterprise distributed storage fabric delivering sub-millisecond I/O latency. Unified block (Cinder) and S3-compatible object (Swift/Ceph RGW) storage with 3x synchronous replication and self-healing.

  • All-NVMe SSD enterprise pools with zero mechanical drives
  • Instant copy-on-write volume snapshotting and rollback
  • Dynamic storage scaling with zero control plane interruption
KEYSTONE // IDENTITY

Multi-Tenant RBAC & SSO

Robust identity federation supporting corporate Active Directory, LDAP, and SAML 2.0 / OIDC single sign-on. Strict multi-tenant isolation enabling department or project-level resource quotas.

  • Granular role-based access control (RBAC) across projects
  • Centralized API tokens and temporary credentials
  • Immutable audit logging compliant with ISO 27001 standards
GLANCE & HEAT // IAC

Golden Images & Automation

Pre-hardened golden OS templates across Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky Linux, RHEL, and Windows Server. Automated infrastructure orchestration via Heat templates, Terraform OpenStack provider, and Ansible.

  • CIS-benchmark hardened golden images refreshed monthly
  • Native Terraform provider support for complete GitOps workflows
  • Cloud-init automation for zero-touch VM boot configuration
HORIZON & TELEMETRY // OPS

Horizon Dashboard & Monitoring

Self-service web GUI for enterprise developers and operations teams. Real-time telemetry powered by Prometheus, Grafana, and Ceilometer, watched 24/7/365 by ServerThings Delhi Tier-3 SRE engineers.

  • Intuitive self-service provisioning with quota governance
  • Sub-second threshold alerting on CPU, memory, IOPS, and network
  • Full API telemetry, Grafana dashboards, and audit logs
FLEXIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE BLUEPRINTS

OpenStack Deployment Models

Whether you want a fully hosted turnkey private cloud in our data center, management of on-premise hardware, or a hybrid bridge, ServerThings handles deployment, 24/7 monitoring, and lifecycle upgrades.

MOST POPULAR

Hosted OpenStack Cloud

Dedicated bare-metal hardware hosted in ServerThings Tier III facilities in Delhi/NCR or Mumbai. We manage the physical hardware, power, cooling, network fabrics, and entire OpenStack control plane.

  • 100% dedicated hardware with zero noisy neighbors
  • Guaranteed 100GbE spine-leaf fabric & BGP multi-homing
  • Includes hardware break-fix, spare parts, and 99.99% SLA

On-Premise Managed OpenStack

Deploy OpenStack directly on your organization’s owned servers and switches. ServerThings handles architectural design, deployment, 24/7/365 remote SRE monitoring, rolling security updates, and lifecycle patching.

  • Retain total physical control inside your enterprise facility
  • Zero internal OpenStack learning curve for your team
  • Proactive remote troubleshooting and 15-minute response SLA

Hybrid OpenStack & Bare Metal

Bridge your OpenStack private cloud with ServerMango bare-metal compute nodes, legacy Oracle/SAP database appliances, and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) via private low-latency Layer-2 dark fiber or IPsec mesh.

  • Low-latency interconnects (<2ms within Delhi/NCR)
  • Cloudburst non-sensitive batch compute to public cloud
  • Unified single-pane management and consolidated billing
ZERO DOWNTIME WORKLOAD MOBILITY

Seamless VMware to OpenStack Migration

Facing 300%+ Broadcom license increases? Our systems architects have executed hundreds of seamless P2V and V2V migrations, transitioning legacy VMware ESXi and Hyper-V clusters into sovereign OpenStack clouds.

01 // DISCOVER

Assessment & Sizing

Automated audit of existing VM footprints, memory allocations, IOPS profiles, VLAN topologies, and storage tiering to calculate exact OpenStack hardware sizing.

02 // FOUNDATION

Cluster Staging

Deployment of dedicated AMD EPYC compute nodes, Ceph all-flash NVMe pools, and Neutron OVN networking matching your enterprise subnet and firewall schemas.

03 // CONVERSION

V2V Disk Streaming

Live non-disruptive synchronization using virt-v2v and Ceph block drivers. Production virtual machines remain online while storage deltas stream continuously.

04 // CUTOVER

Sub-Second Switch

Scheduled maintenance window for final delta sync, IP re-routing, and verification. ServerThings SRE provides 30-day post-cutover 24/7 dedicated hypercare.

FINANCIAL & ARCHITECTURAL REALITY

OpenStack vs Legacy VMware & Hyperscalers

Compare licensing overhead, egress economics, architectural freedom, and support accountability across modern infrastructure paradigms.

Metric / Attribute ServerThings OpenStack VMware vSphere (Broadcom) Public Cloud (AWS/Azure)
Licensing Cost $0 Core Licensing (100% Upstream) Aggressive core-based pricing hikes Variable metered hourly markups
Network Egress Fees ₹0 / GB (Unmetered 100G Port Options) Depends on network carrier ₹7 - ₹10 per GB egress penalty
Storage SAN Architecture Ceph NVMe Software-Defined SAN vSAN core-licensed or external SAN Proprietary EBS / Managed Disks
Data Custody & Sovereignty 100% Sovereign (Delhi/Mumbai Tier III) On-Prem dependent Multi-tenant US Cloud Act subject
Engineering Support 24/7 Direct Tier-3 SRE Systems Access Tier-1 outsourced call centers Costly Business/Enterprise support tiers
ENGINEERING Q&A

Frequently Asked Questions

Technical answers regarding OpenStack releases, Kubernetes integrations, Ceph storage fabrics, and operational SLAs.

We deploy and support current OpenStack Long-Term Support (LTS) releases including OpenStack Caracal (2024.1), Bobcat (2023.2), and Antelope (2023.1). All deployments are upstream, unencumbered by proprietary distributor wrappers, ensuring you have direct standard REST API compatibility and complete freedom of portability.

We execute zero-downtime rolling upgrades by utilizing Nova's live-migration subsystem paired with Ceph's distributed block storage. Workloads are live-evacuated from compute hypervisors one node at a time while the target host undergoes kernel and OpenStack service upgrades. Control plane services (Keystone, Neutron, Cinder APIs) run in high-availability active-active clusters behind HAProxy, ensuring continuous API availability.

Yes. We configure and manage Kubernetes on OpenStack using the OpenStack Cluster API (CAPO) and Magnum. Worker nodes consume native Neutron SDN private subnets with Calico/Cilium CNI, and persistent volumes mount directly to Ceph NVMe through the OpenStack Cinder CSI driver, delivering true cloud-native orchestration with dedicated hardware performance.

All OpenStack clusters deployed by ServerThings utilize enterprise Ceph storage pools backed exclusively by enterprise NVMe PCIe 4.0/5.0 SSDs with 3x synchronous data replication. We eliminate single points of failure by connecting storage daemons over dedicated redundant 100GbE RoCEv2 (RDMA) storage fabrics, providing sub-millisecond I/O latency and self-healing resilience.

Our data centers are located strictly within Indian territory (Delhi/NCR and Mumbai). All customer data, metadata, snapshot archives, and telemetry logs remain 100% physically sovereign, fully complying with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023, RBI localization directives for financial institutions, and ISO/IEC 27001 data governance frameworks.

We provide a 99.99% hardware, API, and network uptime guarantee with contractual SLA penalties. Our operations are staffed 24/7/365 by full-time Tier-3 systems and OpenStack engineers based in our Delhi operations center. Critical Sev-1 incidents receive an initial response within 15 minutes, with direct phone and Slack/Teams bridge access to the engineering team.

DIRECT INFRASTRUCTURE DESK

Architect Your Sovereign OpenStack Cloud

Connect directly with our senior OpenStack infrastructure engineers. We offer turnkey hardware sizing, VMware migration assessments, and architectural scoping with no middlemen or automated chatbots.

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