The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, focused on solutions from Apiculus and StorPool aimed at enhancing cloud performance against hyperscalers. Apiculus offers a comprehensive suite for managing cloud businesses, while StorPool provides high-performance storage systems and analytics to improve efficiency. The event included demonstrations highlighting their technologies and performance benchmarks, showcasing significant reductions in latency and improved transaction capabilities.

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Beating the Hyperscalers
With a High-performance, Cost-efficient Cloud
Apiculus + StorPool
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StorPool Storage
Meet the Presenters
Alex Ivanov
Product Lead
Venko Moyankov
Solutions Lead
StorPool Storage
Sunando Bhattacharya
CEO
Kshitish Purohit
Chief Product Officer
Apiculus Apiculus

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About Apiculus
Apiculus is a complete solution suite designed to operate a cloud business. Apiculus addresses
various use cases around service provider and enterprise clouds via its assortment of products
and services.
● CloudConsole - for service providers who are operating and managing a
CloudStack-powered cloud and are looking for an integrated billing, provisioning and
marketplace solution.
● 360 - for service providers who are looking at setting up a new regional public cloud and
want a fully managed infrastructure + software solution.
● Enterprise - for enterprises (or service providers) who want their CloudStack-powered
infrastructure managed without any software or business overlays.

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About StorPool Storage
StorPool Storage
Converts customers’ servers into high-performance,
linearly scalable primary storage systems.
StorPool Analytics
Collects millions of metrics daily for visualizations and
deep insights into each StorPool storage system.
StorPool Alerts & Reporting
Uses StorPool Analytics’ metrics for per-node, per-host,
per-volume, and whole-system alerts and reports.
StorPool VolumeCare
Periodic snapshotting and replication of incremental
changes to local or remote lower storage tiers.
StorPool Managed Service
Our experts leverage the other StorPool products to
proactively open tickets and deal with potential issues.

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The
Ingredients
Beating the Hyperscalers
Simplicity
Performance
Costs
Experience

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The Winning Combination
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The Demo Cloud
Sofia, Bulgaria
- 3 HCI nodes
● AMD EPYC 7413 24-cores
● 128 GiB RAM
- Primary Storage
● StorPool primary storage
● 12 x NVMe (4 per node)
Samsung SSD 960GB
M.2 NVMe PM983
- 2 x 25GE
● Mellanox MT27710
[ConnectX-4 Lx]
- CloudStack 4.17.1
New Delhi, India
- Apiculus

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The Demo Setup
AWS EC2: c5.2xlarge
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GiB RAM
- root drive: 8GiB
Data drive:
- gp3
- 512 GiB
- 16000 IOPS
(105 $/mo)
CloudStack / StorPool VPS
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GiB RAM
- root drive: 8GiB
Data drive:
- StorPool volume
- 512 GiB
- 16000 IOPS

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Benchmark
● pgbench - test on PostgreSQL
● Active dataset is 64GB, i.e. 4x RAM
● Measure transaction latency and TPS

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The Fastest Cloud is Powered by StorPool Storage - PostgreSQL
Benchmark
https://storpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/StorPool-Public-Cloud-Performance-Measurement-Report_2022.pdf
Unfit for Databases

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The Fastest Cloud is Powered by StorPool Storage = PostgreSQL
Benchmark
https://storpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/StorPool-Public-Cloud-Performance-Measurement-Report_2022.pdf
2-3x lower latency at
fixed load

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The Fastest Cloud is Powered by StorPool Storage - PostgreSQL
Benchmark
https://storpool.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/StorPool-Public-Cloud-Performance-Measurement-Report_2022.pdf
2.6-4x transactions
with same CPU, RAM

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Thank You
Happy to answer questions
Sunando / Kshitish @Apiculus
Alex / Venko @StorPool
#CSCollab2022