Red Hat extends support lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, adds features to ease enterprise adoption of
OpenStack and support integration with VMware infrastructure
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, the third enterprise release of
Red Hat's OpenStack offering, designed to serve as the foundation for
building OpenStack-powered clouds for advanced cloud users,
telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and
public cloud hosting providers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform delivers an enterprise-class
cloud platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, co-engineered and
integrated with Red Hat's OpenStack technologies, offering IT
organizations the agility to scale and quickly meet customer demands
without compromising on availability, security, or performance.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 is based on the OpenStack
Icehouse release and includes several new features aimed at easing
enterprise adoption of OpenStack technology in the existing datacenter
and enhancing capabilities to make it a more reliable and dependable
cloud platform, including:
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Three-year support lifecycle, providing stability and support
for enterprise cloud environments. Backed by Red Hat's award-winning
Global Support Services team and the world's largest certified
OpenStack partner ecosystem with more than 250 partners, including
joint support relationships with hundreds of certified software,
hardware, and services partners, customers can have confidence that
they will receive support for their production environments.
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Support for integration with VMware infrastructure,
encompassing virtualization, management, networking and storage.
Customers may use existing VMware vSphere resources as virtualization
drivers for OpenStack Compute (Nova) nodes, managed in a seamless
manner from the OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Additionally, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 supports the VMware NSX plugin
for OpenStack Networking (Neutron) and the VMware Virtual Machine Disk
(VMDK) plugin for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder).
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Better placement of workloads across cloud resources. Server
groups enable workloads to be spread broadly across the OpenStack
cloud for enhanced resiliency of distributed applications, or located
proximately for lower communications latency and better performance of
complex applications.
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Improved support for virtual machines, supporting new cryptographic
security requirements from the United States and United Kingdom.
Using the para-virtualized random number generator device added in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7, cryptographic routines in guest applications
will have access to better quality encryption and experience improved
performance.
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Improved interoperability of networking stacks. The new modular
plugin architecture for Neutron eases the addition of new networking
technologies to OpenStack deployments. The new architecture provides a
path for customers with heterogeneous networking environments who want
to use a mix of networking solutions in their OpenStack environment.
Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 will offer OpenStack
data processing service (Sahara) as a Technology Preview, enabling
faster provisioning and easier management of Hadoop clusters on
OpenStack. Hadoop is used to store and analyze large amounts of data and
when combined with Sahara it provides a powerful platform for rapidly
creating data driven applications and deploying them on the open hybrid
cloud.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7, is available globally now. In the coming weeks, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6, will be available.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"We see momentum behind OpenStack as a private cloud platform of choice
from enterprise customers and service providers alike. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 not only offers a
production-ready, supported version of OpenStack Icehouse, but it brings
a number of features that will simplify its use, and enhance
dependability for enterprise users. Alongside those new features, we're
extending our support lifecycle for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform, giving users confidence that the solution they deploy will be
supported by our global team for the next three years."
Lew Tucker, VP/CTO of Cloud Computing , Cisco
"OpenStack users are deploying applications in multi-tenant clouds that
require new levels of isolation, security, performance and agility in an
open ecosystem. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 with Cisco
UCS servers and Nexus 9000 switches lets enterprise customers easily and
securely deploy open, high-performance, scalable clouds. And
availability of Neutron plugins means Red Hat customers will be able to
automatically provision a fully enabled Application Centric
Infrastructure."
Steve Stover, director of product management and marketing,
Engineered Solutions, Dell
"Dell and Red Hat joint engineering efforts are delivering new
capabilities to extend the base functionality of OpenStack for
comprehensive and fully integrated private cloud solutions, which will
soon incorporate Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 following
its general availability. Dell customers will value the resulting
integrated solutions, built to simplify deployment and streamline time
to value for production deployments, along with the stability and
extended support available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 5."
John Healy, general manager, SDN Division, Intel
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 takes advantage of the
in-built functionality of Intel's Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA)
features within OpenStack's Icehouse release. Intel's EPA provides
greater scale and improved performance for virtualized networking
functions (VNF's) for Enterprise, Telco and Cloud Service Providers.
Advanced processor and networking technologies embedded in Intel's
silicon and in PCIe devices provide improved performance that will
increase workload efficiency when the VM has access to them. Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 release enables that access."
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