Newest release focuses on expanding management for OpenStack
workloads and deployments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat CloudForms 3.1, the next version of
its open hybrid cloud management solution, available in September 2014.
Red Hat CloudForms 3.1 extends enterprise-grade cloud management across
private, public and hybrid clouds with additional management features,
capabilities and enhancements for OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware
and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments, as well as new
support for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager private
clouds.
CloudForms 3.1 is the first release built from the open source ManageIQ
community, introduced in May 2014. Red Hat acquired ManageIQ in
December 2012 and fully open sourced the code earlier this year to drive
innovation in hybrid cloud management through community-powered
innovation.
Private and Public Cloud Platform Support
Cloud platforms are constantly evolving, and management solutions need
to keep pace with the rate of change for each platform. With CloudForms,
Red Hat is committed to providing the industry's most robust management
experience for users across multiple platforms. CloudForms 3.1 adds
significant capabilities for rapidly-evolving OpenStack clouds, as wells
as new support for Microsoft private clouds, extended integration with
Amazon Web Services, VMware, and Red Hat clouds - all driven by
enterprise customer use cases and implementations. CloudForms 3.1 adds
new capabilities for the following cloud platforms:
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Amazon Web Services - enhancements include support for Virtual
Private Cloud (VPC) as well as service catalog integration for Elastic
Load Balancing (ELB), Storage (S3) and Relational Database Service
(RDS)
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager - added as a
new CloudForms managed platform, with support for discovery, analysis,
reporting and operations.
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OpenStack - enhancements include agent-free discovery and
analysis of OpenStack Image Service (Glance) images; inventory and
reporting for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) and OpenStack Object
Store (Swift); integration with OpenStack Identity (Keystone) for
service discovery and multi-tenancy; enhanced event and alert handling
with RabbitMQ and QPID support; capture of additional performance
metrics from OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer); configuration drift;
tracking analysis; policy and governance.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization - support for provisioning
enhancements and support for Cloud-init for guest setup and
configuration. Administrators often want to do some configuration to
deployed virtual instances after booting. CloudForms now leverages
Cloud-init through RHEV to let administrators automatically install
packages, start services, or manage the deployed instance
configuration after boot, before the user accesses it.
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VMware vSphere - enhanced performance, increased security and
optimized network access to configuration information.
New Features and Capabilities
In addition to updating its broad set of OpenStack capabilities and
enhancements for other cloud platforms, CloudForms updates the features
users have come to enjoy from Red Hat's robust cloud management platform.
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Upgraded user experience, thanks to an enhanced service
catalog, streamlined provisioning dialogs, added import/export
functions for dashboard widgets and dialogs, and a set of enhanced UI
wizards to speed creation of automation workflows;
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Enhanced automation enables CloudForms 3.1 users to better
streamline their workflow execution, domain automation sequences and
priority controls. New version and namespace management for change
control is also available to use ManageIQ
community content and plugins; and
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Expanded integration in CloudForms 3.1, introducing a
comprehensive set of REST APIs to enable support for integration into
other systems management tools and processes, including service
provisioning automation, configuration and state information.
Other new additions to CloudForms 3.1 help link its management
properties to the rest of Red Hat's open hybrid cloud portfolio and
cloud products.
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Increased security ships as a virtual appliance based on
SELinux, along with integration supporting federated single sign-on
through Red Hat Identity Management.
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New interoperability with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) enables OpenShift
by Red Hat brokers and nodes to advertise services easily in
CloudForms service catalogs.
CloudForms 3.1 is also offered as part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure,
Red Hat's comprehensive solution designed to help enterprises accelerate
their journey from traditional virtualization to OpenStack-powered
clouds. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure combines Red Hat CloudForms, Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform.
Availability
CloudForms 3.1 will be generally available in September 2014.
Supporting Quotes
Jay Lyman, senior analyst, Enterprise Software, 451Research
"There is an increasing enterprise adoption of private and hybrid cloud
strategies as well as strong interest in open source systems management.
With this release of CloudForms based on the now open-sourced ManageIQ
code, Red Hat is advancing the open cloud management ecosystem."
Joseph Fitzgerald, general manager, Cloud Management, Red Hat
"CloudForms enables enterprises to rapidly build and efficiently manage
private and hybrid clouds. With CloudForms 3.1 enterprises can better
leverage their existing infrastructures together with public clouds, as
well as build and manage innovative new private clouds built on
OpenStack."
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