Improved Enterprise Manageability and Federated Deployment Allow
Customers to Accelerate Their OpenStack Deployments
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat CloudForms 3.2, the latest version of
its award-winning solution for managing private and hybrid clouds.
CloudForms 3.2 delivers innovative management features that enable
customers to automate the deployment and management of OpenStack
infrastructures, using advanced management instrumentation available in
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 release (based on
OpenStack Kilo).
CloudForms 3.2 adds additional OpenStack workload management
capabilities including: automated discovery; web-based console support;
service catalog publishing and user dialog generation for OpenStack
Orchestration (Heat) templates; deeper image and workload introspection
capabilities with OpenStack Image Service (Glance) and OpenStack Compute
(Nova) integration; and improved capacity and utilization management
through expanded OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer) integration. These new
capabilities in CloudForms represent a step forward in the manageability
of OpenStack in the enterprise. CloudForms is the industry's first open
source cloud management platform that manages both the OpenStack
infrastructure as well as workloads from a single, integrated platform.
In addition, CloudForms is able to federate OpenStack-based private
clouds together with other public clouds and a variety of virtualization
platforms, including VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager. Advanced capabilities including a self-service portal,
policy-based control, governance, chargeback, showback, orchestration,
capacity/utilization planning, optimization and bottleneck analysis and
reporting allow enterprises to more effectively manage hybrid cloud
environments.
CloudForms has significantly helped customers accelerate their OpenStack
implementations, and these new capabilities in CloudForms 3.2 provide an
efficient and scalable migration framework across traditional
virtualization platform and private clouds based on OpenStack. They
enable enterprises to implement a bi-modal IT setup, where a new
agility-optimized infrastructure co-exists with traditional
efficiency-optimized datacenters and with workloads unified by a common
management platform.
Other improvements in CloudForms 3.2 include support for the AWS Config
service enabling near-real time monitoring of changes in workloads
deployed to AWS, Japanese language support, IPv6 support, and improved
bare-metal provisioning and management through integration with Red Hat
Satellite 6.
Availability
CloudForms 3.2 will be available to existing CloudForms customers in
June 2015. OpenStack infrastructure management features in CloudForms
3.2 require OpenStack Kilo capabilities, which are scheduled to be
available in the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 7.
Supporting quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Management, Red
Hat
"CloudForms is an essential part of Red Hat's strategy to enable
OpenStack adoption and improve manageability in the enterprise. These
updates in CloudForms 3.2 will allow customers to more quickly deploy
and scale their OpenStack private clouds, combine existing IT
infrastructure investments and federate public cloud deployments."
Gartner: How to Succeed in Your OpenStack Deployment, 20 February
2015, Donna Scott and Arun Chandrasekaran
"Most enterprises find they need more than OpenStack for management and
governance, as well as for multicloud management, including bursting
across private and public cloud environments. As a result, many
organizations implementing OpenStack invest in a Cloud Management
Platform that rides on top, and provides an API translation and
orchestration layer across private and public clouds."
Join ManageIQ at the OpenStack Summit
CloudForms is based on the ManageIQ
open source project. The ManageIQ project is hosting a free user day
and hands-on lab for conference attendees at the OpenStack Summit in
Vancouver, from 1:50 - 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 20. Attendees are
invited to register at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/manageiq-user-day-openstack-summit-tickets-16755596440.
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