Red Hat Satellite 6 offers comprehensive configuration and lifecycle
management across physical, virtual and hybrid cloud environments
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 Satellite
6, a comprehensive solution providing complete lifecycle management of
Red Hat systems with provisioning software distribution, patch and
configuration management, together with subscription management across
physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Red Hat Satellite 6 is organized around three key themes:
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Simplification by reducing the number of tools, increasing
automation and streamlining processes necessary to manage systems
across their lifecycle to increase IT efficiency.
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Scaling out to manage a large number of geographically
distributed systems, across a wide variety of platforms from physical
to virtual, as well to private and public clouds.
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Innovation: open source is driving innovation across all areas
of IT, including systems management. Red Hat has leveraged its
expertise in open source to integrate some of the best management
capabilities available, spanning multiple open source communities and
projects to deliver Red Hat Satellite. This enables enterprises to
employ the latest open source systems management innovations in a
fully integrated, supported and certified solution.
As IT environments continue to grow in complexity, the number of systems
to be managed across a diverse set of platforms continues to increase.
It is essential that IT organizations have the right management tools
for maintaining system availability, performance and governance. Systems
today are deployed on a wide variety of environments including physical
systems, multiple virtualization platforms as well as private-public
clouds, and using separate, unintegrated tools for each environment can
increase cost and complexity and reduce administrator efficiency.
Red Hat Satellite 6 delivers a complete system management solution for
managing the lifecycle of Red Hat Systems, providing a single management
console and methodology for managing the tools required to build,
deploy, run and retire a system. Satellite 6 provides a single
Content View, a collection of RPMs and/or Puppet Modules that have
been refined with filters and rules. Content Views contain both software
and configuration content in one place, and are published and promoted
throughout lifecycle environments, enabling end-to-end system lifecycle
management. Red Hat Satellite can manage not only the lifecycle of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux software and content configuration, but also the
lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Storage, Red Hat Directory Server,
Red Hat Certificate System, and OpenShift Enterprise.
Other new capabilities that Red Hat Satellite 6 brings to market are:
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Provisioning on bare metal, virtualized infrastructure and on
public or private clouds, all from one place and with one simple
process, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, VMware, and Amazon EC2.
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System discovery, enabling users to discover and search across
non-provisioned hosts for rapid deployment.
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Drift remediation that enables users to automatically correct
system state with reporting, auditing, and history of changes.
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Subscription management that enables you to easily report and
map your purchased products to registered systems for end-to-end
subscription consumption visibility.
Red Hat Satellite 6 also offers greater scalability, featuring the new Red
Hat Satellite Capsule server, which is used to facilitate software
and configuration content federation and distribution. The capsule
server enables users to easily scale Red Hat Satellite as the number of
managed systems increases in their environment, managing content locally
instead of requiring network hops to ensure that each geographic
location is sufficiently managed. To prevent resource overload on the
capsule server, Satellite 6 provisions extra workloads over multiple
servers to reduce workload from being contained on a single satellite.
Innovation in systems administration is also growing at a rapid pace in
the open source community, where Red Hat Satellite and many of its
upstream projects, including the
Foreman project, are based. This enables Satellite users to remain
close to the forefront of systems management innovation. With its open
source architecture, Red Hat Satellite incorporates the latest
innovation from the open source community and offers them to enterprises
in a fully supported and certified solution.
Availability
Red Hat Satellite 6 is currently available to all Red Hat Satellite
customers with a valid subscription at https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-satellite/.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, general manager, Cloud Management, Red Hat
"As IT environments evolve to support private, public and hybrid clouds,
these environments are becoming more complex and increasingly difficult
to manage. Built on innovative, open source management technologies, Red
Hat Satellite 6 is a proven complement for both traditional and cloud
infrastructures as it provides a highly scalable, unified solution
focused on software life cycle and configuration management capabilities
that span physical, virtual and cloud systems."
Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, Enterprise System
Management Software, IDC
"As enterprise and cloud-based datacenters have continued to increase in
scale and scope, system administrators are continually being pushed to
streamline management processes and tools. Turning to an open
source-based initiative for datacenter management like Red Hat Satellite
will allow these system administrators to not only standardize their
environments, but also sit at the forefront of community-driven
innovation."
Mike Dittmeier, product manager, Allegiant Airlines
"The changes in Red Hat Satellite 6 will allow us to continue to manage
all of our 1400 plus systems from initial deployment, updates,
reconfiguration, and migration, but now within our private cloud, across
multiple datacenters, and multiple environments. The time savings and
consistent adherence to internal policies and standards are priceless,
and have uplifted the DevOps teams to a new level of capability. Global
changes can be managed in minutes instead of days. Satellite is a
foundation of our growth and development plans."
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