Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to enable open cloud
infrastructure for enterprise businesses and service providers deploying
OpenStack
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 6, featuring updates designed to
serve as the foundation for building OpenStack-powered clouds for
enterprise businesses with advanced cloud users, telecommunications
companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting
providers.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform delivers the foundation for
a production-ready cloud, integrating Red Hat's hardened and agile
OpenStack technology with the security and stability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform sets a new
standard for OpenStack deployments, with customers in production in
every region, spanning industry verticals and enterprises of various
sizes in education, financial services, government, healthcare, retail,
and telecommunications.
Building on its innovative co-engineered design, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform 6 strengthens Red Hat's production-ready cloud
platform through advancements in both the Linux and OpenStack
components. Interoperability and ease of use continue to be at the
forefront, starting with updates to Red Hat's intuitive graphical
installer and management tools that create greater efficiency and reduce
the complexities of a cloud deployment.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 is based on the OpenStack
Juno release and includes several new features aimed at easing
enterprise deployments of OpenStack technology within existing
datacenters and capabilities specific to telecommunications providers to
enable Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments among
carriers, including:
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IPv6 support, for both provider and tenant networks, enabling
customers to assign IPv6 addresses across physical networks and
OpenStack Networking (Neutron) virtual routers in stateless and
stateful modes.
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Neutron High Availability offers an upgraded OpenStack
experience with Neutron agents in "active-active" mode for high
availability configuration. This availability improves redundancy for
networking, providing service uptime and improving stability for
larger-scale production clouds.
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Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) networking, supported
by a new driver, enables users to execute network switching directly
on their hardware, bypassing the hypervisor and virtual switch levels.
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Support for Multi-LDAP backends and domains, all within a
single Identity service node, easing the installation and
configuration processes for the platform, as well as long-term daily
operations.
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Full support for data processing, moves the Sahara service from
tech preview to a fully supported feature that enables big data
workloads.
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Deeper Ceph integration with new capabilities for OpenStack
Compute (Nova) and OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), including full
support for ephemeral volumes backed by the Ceph block device. This
enables ‘diskless' compute nodes and near-instantaneous booting of new
virtual machines.
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New tech preview features, highlighting Red Hat's
continued innovation in the OpenStack space with feature debuts of
unsupported technology previews, including bare metal provisioning and
TripleO deployment and management.
Interoperability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 furthers Red Hat's
commitment to enabling customers to avoid vendor lock-in and achieve
interoperability. With continued integrated support for Red Hat
CloudForms hybrid management platform, Red Hat recently
announced a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform cloud
management API and a certification process for third-party cloud
management tools, expanding the company's commitment to open platform
development and customer choice.
Partner Ecosystem
The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network aims to
provide greater cloud versatility and ease the integration with existing
datacenter technology and third-party plugins. With the release of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
Infrastructure Partner Network now boasts more than 275 certified
OpenStack partners, with more than 1,000 solutions certified for use on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7, is available globally starting today.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 delivers enterprise-grade
and telco-ready features, fueled by deep engagements with hundreds of
customers and partners across the globe, to enable an open cloud
infrastructure. Backed by our robust partner ecosystem, this release can
enable a wider variety of enterprises and cloud service providers to
quickly transition to an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure."
Idan Mor, senior director, Strategic Alliances, CloudBand,
Alcatel-Lucent
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is embedded in
Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand NFV platform since early 2014. Communication
service providers (CSPs) are looking to this collaboration to drive NFV
features into OpenStack and be able to consume them through our
platform. With the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, we are pleased to see new NFV features
that are essential for migration of telecommunication network services
to a cloud infrastructure. In addition, open source, which is a critical
element to our customers, together with Red Hat's commitment for
reliability, performance and security, make our platform a carrier-grade
solution."
Lew Tucker, vice president and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud,
Cisco
"Cisco is excited to bring the innovations and enhancements of
OpenStack's tenth release (Juno) to our customers through our
collaboration with Red Hat. Our joint solution, Cisco UCS Integrated
Infrastructure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, offers
validated designs and reference architectures for deploying Red Hat's
enterprise-ready distribution on Cisco's complete turnkey solution for
compute, networking and storage. The joint solution also includes
coordinated support and consulting services from Cisco, to simplify and
accelerate OpenStack deployment."
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager, Dell Engineered
Solutions
"As a long-time partner and the first tier 1 server provider to offer
Red Hat Linux on servers, Dell and Red Hat continue to provide our
mutual customers value with integrated, jointly engineered
OpenStack-based offerings. Our combined enterprise experience along with
software and hardware leadership has and will continue with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 to provide customers a
differentiated approach to OpenStack with a streamlined, stable and
certified solution they can depend on for long-term cloud deployments."
Mauri Whalen, vice president, Software and Services Group and
director of Core System Development, Intel Corporation
"Intel and Red Hat continue to drive enterprise-class capability into
OpenStack to simplify implementation and deliver higher value for
enterprises and communication service providers. With state-of-the-art
support for NFV, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 provides
an open, broadly-supported platform for deploying and orchestrating the
next-generation of agile, efficient clouds and networks - with open
source cost models and without limiting end-user flexibility or choice."
Michael Clever, senior vice president, Core, Nokia Networks
"Nokia Networks is defining requires for the operators' datacenter
architecture to be able to meet the needs of virtualized network
functions. In collaboration with Red Hat, we have been working to
prioritize the NFV infrastructure features that will now become
available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6. Nokia
Networks is utilizing this and other cloud stack solutions to deliver
carrier-grade NFV end-to-end solutions."
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