There are multiple ways of experiencing Uniview:
1) Install enterprise edition on your own promise following Quick Start.
As there is no constraint of deploying to a small to medium clouds, hence you even can use forever to have one stop solution of OpenStack frontend, metric and day 2 monitoring etc.
If your OpenStack backend is relatively large with more than 48 cores, please contact to get a full enterprise edition to try out up to 3 months!
The public cloud edition is very similar with addition of features for public cloud. Install and administration of enterprise edition and public cloud edition are generally same.
2) Experience with our trial env by Register and start use!
Please note, due to high volume of requests, incorporate email domain is higly recommanded to register yourself! A scaning service will periodically scan and may deactivate those free email registrations, such as with domains of Gmail, Hotmail etc.
The demo presents a fair good view of what Uniview is like. However due to constraints, there may be limitation for the access to the administrator features, such as admin dashboard, billing backends, hypervisors, identity management, ceph cluster etc. The demo cloud is not a permanent setup, hence not guranteed to have all features ready all the time. To have a thorough view approach 3 with a prepared in person demo is always ready too! .
3) Schedule a 30 minutes demo with us
A demo with us is highly recommanded that with full admin access and various envs can be brought up for different feature showing that a single demo and tenant access can not display.
Some basic info, e.g. who we will talk too, timezone preferred might be required to Schedule such.
4) Self-paced install on your premise by asking a dedicated public cloud build
Per reuqest, a public cloud package can be prepared in next day, so that you can have a close-up testing, gap identifying etc. There is no obligation from whoever requests a build other than certin feedbacks on your testing so that we can improve further to benefit the community. Certain business facts may be required for a build creation such as business name, languages, locale info of operation area etc.
Uniview primarily is priced based on the number of core presented by Hypervisors. One example of way of using CLI to obstain such:
$openstack hypervisor show ubuntu06
| vcpus | 16
| vcpus_used | 8
There can be other considerations, such as cloud complexity and service terms on a case by case basis, and which will base on ongoing dicussions!
Uniview works with majority of OpenStack deployments, such as RHOP, Kolla Ansible, Canonical Juju, Mirantis OpenStack etc. To have all features to be presented by Uniview properly to customers, configurations may be required to have it working in the way preferred.
Uniview has also partnerships that most of such configuration complexities can be skipped by using prescripted integrations that many feature are ready out of box without extra attentions, such as MFA and Application Credential etc.
One of our major parters is OpenMetal, a US based OpenStack As A Service provider. Browse here if any partnership can benefit you!
Most Get-started business customizations don't need code change, and administors can easily do so following docs. Often with the business evolving, deep customizations are needed! As the frontend solution, the uniqueness becomes even more critical. Common customizations includes billing, email template, theme, customer onboarding process, dashboard, SSO and integrations with other applications. For many of them, Uniview already supports white-labeling changes, i.e. through no coding editing static files, then repackaging. For advanced changes, Computingstack promises to accomplish within weeks to month frame after requirements are fairly clarified! Most of customizations of a specific customer project will become a sole feature of the customer and will not be available to the public however.
For the details, please write to get a free consultation!
Find the answers for the most frequently asked questions in Sales and Get-started
Uniview is ready on business wise. However it's never envisioned to have all features for all customers. That's being said for a specific deploy, it's not surprising to have not functional features at initial. In quick turn around, a specific deploy will be adjusted with modules/features hiding or deletion.
Practically 1-2 months! From our experiences, things to prepare are mainly about Uniview High Secure/Available setup, and finising one billing cycle practice from bill generation to final accouting auditted correctly. There might be time to spend on tackling integration configurations with Cloudkitty, Keystone, Gnocchi. However we offer intensified support at early phase to flatten the curve to have best time to market.
There are multiple ways of metering: 1) CGC (Ceilometer+Gnocchi+Cloudkitty); 2) Uniview-Collector, a RabbitMq based event collector that started from July 2024, provides an out of box metering/rating solution when CGC are not installed. 2) Other other 3rd solutions such as Sardina BeanCounter; or other existing RabbitMq based metering, such as Yuyu and Fleio. Uniview has a seamless support of approach 1), 2) as highly recommended solution. In the latter case of 3), Uniview will provide users a customized bill aggregation module to adapt to the data sources.
It's highly recommended to have base level support from us for certain period. There are many details Uniview implements for a public cloud that docs or other online resource can't explain well. Once service enters a stable status, e.g. after months, our support can become optional
Currently only Stripe Payment Gateway is supported.
Yes! Most branding related configurations are admin self-configurable without code changes. And we also accommodate advanced configurations such as branding, template, theme related stuff with weeks timeframe.