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      <h1>OpenStack distributions: <br class="u-hide--small">a comparison</h1>
      <p>Looking for a detailed OpenStack distributions comparison? Have a look at the table below and see how Canonical's Charmed OpenStack differs from other distributions. Discover more by clicking on each Charmed OpenStack cell.</p>
      <p><a href="/openstack/contact-us" class="p-button--positive js-invoke-modal">Move to Charmed OpenStack</a></p>
      <p><a href="/engage/from-vmware-to-openstack">Read the whitepaper &mdash; "From VMware to OpenStack"&nbsp;&rsaquo;</a></p>
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            <div>Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack</div>
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            <div>Red Hat OpenStack Platform</div>
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            <div>Mirantis Cloud Platform</div>
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          <th>Pricing</th>
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              <p><a href="/openstack/consulting">Design and delivery</a><br>starting at $85,000.</p>
              <p><a href="/pro">Commercial support</a> at<br>$1,500 per host per year.</p>
              <p><a href="/openstack/managed">Fully managed service</a> at<br> $5,475 per host per year.</p>
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          <td>$$$$$</td>
          <td>$$$</td>
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          <th>Fixed-price delivery</th>
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              <p> Canonical offers consulting services for Charmed OpenStack including design and delivery at a fixed price which makes deployment costs fully transparent.</p>
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          <th>Managed OpenStack</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-managed-openstack" role="tab" aria-controls="content-managed-openstack" aria-expanded="false"><img src="https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/f1a7515d-tick-darkaubergine.svg" alt="Yes"></button>
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              <p>Managed OpenStack is a more economical option up to 200 nodes. Canonical provides fully managed services for OpenStack in order to fully offload customers’ operations teams.</p>
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          <th>Support pricing</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-support-pricing" role="tab" aria-controls="content-support-pricing" aria-expanded="false">Per host</button>
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              <p>Per socket-pair pricing does not scale and can very quickly result in an inflated total cost of ownership (TCO). Canonical applies per host pricing to support and manage services to make operational costs fully transparent and enable predictable budgeting.</p>
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            Per socket-pair
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            Per host + base price for the control plane
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          <th>Release cadence</th>
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              <p>Charmed OpenStack is released every 6 months with a long-term support (LTS) release every 2 years. Upgrades between each consecutive releases are fully supported and automated.</p>
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            6 months with a LTS every 18 months
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            No predictable release cadence
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          <th>Maximum support timeline</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-support-timeline" role="tab" aria-controls="content-support-timeline" aria-expanded="false">10 years</button>
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              <p>Canonical provides up to 10 years of security updates for each LTS release of Charmed OpenStack. After that period, users can easily upgrade to the newer version to extend the support.</p>
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            5 years
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            3 years
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          <th>OpenStack deployment mechanism</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-deployment-mechanism" role="tab" aria-controls="content-deployment-mechanism" aria-expanded="false">OpenStack Charms</button>
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              <p><a href="https://charmhub.io/?q=openstack">OpenStack Charms</a> encapsulate the entire logic required to install and operate OpenStack post-deployment inside of composable software packages.</p>
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            Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director (based on TripleO)
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            DriveTrain (based on Git, Gerrit, Jenkins and SaltStack)
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          <th>Bare-metal provisioning tool</th>
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              <p><a href="https://maas.io">MAAS</a> is a bare-metal provisioning tool that turns a data centre into a true bare metal cloud.</p>
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            OpenStack Ironic
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            MAAS
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          <th>Operating System management tool</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-os-management-tool" role="tab" aria-controls="content-os-management-tool" aria-expanded="false">Landscape</button>
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              <p><a href="https://landscape.canonical.com/">Landscape</a> is the leading management tool to deploy, monitor and manage Ubuntu servers.</p>
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            Red Hat Satellite
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            Not provided
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          <th>Hypervisors</th>
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              <p>Charmed OpenStack provides support for KVM hypervisor out of the box. Other hypervisors are available through the consulting services.</p>
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            KVM
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            KVM
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          <th>Networking</th>
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            <button class="p-accordion__tab " id="tab-sdn" role="tab" aria-controls="content-sdn" aria-expanded="false">OVN, OVS, Juniper Contrail, Cisco ACI</button>
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              <p>Charmed OpenStack provides support for various SDN platforms, including OVN, OVS, Juniper Contrail and Cisco ACI. Other SDN platforms are available through the consulting services.</p>
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            OVN, OVS, Juniper Contrail, Cisco ACI
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            OVS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico
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              <p>Charmed OpenStack provides support for Ceph and iSCSI. Other storage platforms are available through the consulting services.</p>
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            Ceph, NFS
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            Ceph
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          <th>Containerised control plane</th>
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              <p>Containers bring a lot of advantages over traditional virtual machines such as better density and management capabilities. The control plane of Charmed OpenStack is fully containerised using <a href="/lxd">LXD</a> containers.
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            <img src="https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/f1a7515d-tick-darkaubergine.svg" alt="Yes">
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          <th>Fully automated upgrades</th>
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              <p>In Charmed OpenStack upgrades are fully automated, allowing users to benefit from new features and bug fixes without additional operational overhead.</p>
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            <img src="https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/f1a7515d-tick-darkaubergine.svg" alt="Yes">
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    <p>Not sure what is OpenStack? <a href="/openstack/what-is-openstack" class="js-invoke-modal">Find more more here</a>.</p>
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    <p class="p-pull-quote__quote">Canonical’s solution was a third of the price of the other proposals we’d received. The solution is also proving to be highly cost-effective, both from CAPEX and OPEX perspectives.</p>
    <cite class="p-pull-quote__citation">Georgi Georgiev, CIO at SBI BITS</cite>
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      <h2>More economical than Red Hat OpenStack Platform</h2>
      <p>By applying a per host pricing model to the subscription structure and offering design and delivery at a fixed price, Canonical's Charmed OpenStack is cheaper than Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Moreover, no license is required to get started with Charmed OpenStack. This means that organisations only have to pay for the environments that require enterprise support, such as the production environment, while they can run their testing and development environments free of charge.</p>
      <p><a href="/engage/redhat-openstack-comparison-whitepaper">Read a Red Hat OpenStack comparison whitepaper&nbsp;&rsaquo;</a></p>
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      <h2>More straightforward than Mirantis Cloud Platform</h2>
      <p>Instead of relying on random interconnected tools, Canonical leverages the concept of operators for OpenStack deployments, operations and upgrades. <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/charm-guide/latest/">OpenStack Charms</a> enable model-driven architecture and abstract the entire OpenStack complexity. This results in a simpler OpenStack platform, fewer resources required to maintain it and reduced operational costs.</p>
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        <a href="https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/a08e868a-Charmed+OpenStack_15.03.21.pdf">
          Learn more in our datasheet&nbsp;&rsaquo;
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      <h2>Open source unlike VMware</h2>
      <p>Canonical's Charmed OpenStack is fully open source which allows it to benefit from a broader community, faster development process and wider selection of technology choices than those available in VMware's platform. Choosing an open source platform avoids vendor lock-in and significantly reduces infrastructure costs.</p>
      <p><a href="/engage/vmware-to-charmed-openstack">Explore VMware to OpenStack migration options&nbsp;&rsaquo;</a></p>
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      <h2>More cost-efficient than public clouds</h2>
      <p>Public clouds are expensive when running workloads in the long-term and at scale. Although they are a more economical solution at the beginning of the cloud transformation process, their costs keep growing over time. Canonical's Charmed OpenStack is a cost-efficient extension to public cloud infrastructure, ensuring lower TCO per VM and enabling businesses to run their workloads where it makes the most sense from an economical point of view.</p>
      <p><a href="/tco-calculator">Estimate cost savings&nbsp;&rsaquo;</a></p>
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      <h2>Contact us</h2>
      <p>Let our expert cloud team help with:</p>
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