Red Hat Eases OpenStack Deployments with New Installer, Adds High
Availability Capabilities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 5, the latest version of its enterprise-ready
OpenStack platform built with the latest Icehouse community release. An
updated, robust installer and new high availability capabilities are
designed to enable devops and IT administrators to more easily produce a
healthy and fault tolerant Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
deployment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 debuted in July
2014, featuring an extended three-year product support lifecycle and
enhanced support for VMware infrastructure.
Delivered as an intuitive, "wizard-style" graphical-user interface, the
new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer greatly
facilitates the installation procedure, allowing installation without
the need for deep command-line deployment expertise. The Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Installer is built on Foreman,
an open source lifecycle management tool. Administrators can use the new
installer to customize installation parameters to accommodate a complex
infrastructure that fits their unique cloud datacenter requirements, and
then reapply those parameters for future deployments. This alleviates
the manual installation process, while providing greater flexibility.
The installer can be easily configured for a variety of environments and
leverages a new host auto-discovery feature, with bare-metal OS
provisioning, to simplify installation and boot-up of new hosts. Along
with the new installer, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform also
offers an optional LiveCD version. Users can simply boot from the CD
image or USB drive and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform straight into their operating environment.
In addition to a more streamlined installation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform can now be deployed with high availability. When
enabled, high availability provides uptime and scalability for the
OpenStack controller and service nodes. In the event of a node or
service failure, the high availability cluster manager will contain the
failure(s) and automatically take the appropriate actions to recover as
quickly as possible to minimize downtime. In addition, it offers an
"Active-Active" configuration for those services that support it,
allowing all services to run actively across all controller nodes
simultaneously.
High availability helps to improve the scalability of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack platform, so that resources can maintain maximum uptime.
Additionally, an integrated software load balancer is also deployed to
provide system equilibrium and scalability, by better distributing
resource usage and consumption. Built from the new Red Hat
high-availability cluster manager software, Red Hat leverages its more
than fifteen years of experience in high-availability design to offer a
production-ready and fault-tolerant environment. These two new
capabilities, paired with the Open
Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform,
announced by Red Hat last week, now enable IT administrators a more
seamless transition to private cloud and OpenStack environments,
regardless of their deployment stage.
Availability
High availability and the installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform are currently available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 5, along with an installer guide.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"We're excited about continuing to deliver on enterprise-grade OpenStack
with the enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
These enhancements are designed to address enterprise needs around ease
of deployment and high availability and to further enable broad adoption
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform which is backed by the
industry's broadest partner OpenStack partner ecosystem."
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