Rackspace has certified AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 server as appropriate to run as part of its private cloud architecture designed around OpenStack, an open-source cloud operating system.

The server was certified for both compute and storage portions of OpenStack, called “Nova in a Box” and “Swift in a Rack,” respectively.

The compute certification means the solution scales horizontally and integrates with legacy systems and third-party technologies. The storage certification means the solution provides a “massively scalable, redundant storage system.”

The product certification for mass compute and object storage ensures that enterprise deployments of Rackspace Private Cloud on AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 servers are a proven and rigorously tested solution, AMD said.

The Rackspace Private Cloud simplifies the management of large pools of compute, storage and networking resources using OpenStack. Reference architectures and test criteria for OpenStack solutions help to ensure consistent performance, supportability and compatibility.

 “The combination of Rackspace Private Cloud and AMD SeaMicro servers will change the way the industry deploys and manages large pools of compute,” Andrew Feldman, corporate VP and general manager of AMD’s data center server solutions business, said.

Feldman is a founder of SeaMicro, a microserver vendor AMD bought in 2012.

 “The AMD SeaMicro SM 15000 system offers Rackspace Private Cloud customers unprecedented density, storage capacity and performance, bringing enterprises one step closer to running the cloud in their own data centers,” Paul Rad, VP of private cloud at Rackspace, said.

In 10 rack units, the SeaMicro server links 512 compute cores, 160 gigabits of I/O networking, up to five petabytes of storage with a 1.28 terabyte high-performance supercompute fabric, called Freedom Fabric.