Red Hat Gluster Storage with OpenStack Manila technology preview
gives enterprises software-defined file storage for OpenStack clouds
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a technology preview of Red
Hat Gluster Storage with capabilities from the OpenStack
community's new Manila
project. Expanding the options for hybrid cloud storage, Red Hat
Gluster Storage now provides enterprises with a scale-out shared file
system service for OpenStack cloud infrastructures.
Red Hat was the initial software-defined storage member of the OpenStack
Manila project, a community-driven innovation that provisions and
manages distributed file systems for OpenStack clouds. OpenStack
Manila's framework provides a vendor-neutral management API for
provisioning and attaching different shared file systems. Working in a
multi-tenant cloud environment, OpenStack Manila operates alongside the
existing OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) and OpenStack Object Storage
(Swift) services.
Red Hat led the development of OpenStack Manila's IFS-Ganesha component
which abstracts Manila file shares from underlying hardware and allows
them to grow, shrink or migrate across physical resources. With Red Hat
Gluster Storage and IFS-Ganesha, storage servers can be added or removed
from the system dynamically and the data remains online while the system
re-balances across the available hardware. The technology preview of Red
Hat Gluster Storage with Manila provides the flexibility of open,
software-defined storage for delivering the file share elasticity
required for enterprise public cloud deployments.
Customers can test the functionality of OpenStack Manila today by
downloading it from the OpenStack RDO community-supported distribution
with the RDO
Packstack Installer. The Red Hat Gluster Storage with Manila
technology preview is planned for inclusion in the forthcoming Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 release.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"The Red Hat Storage Portfolio plays an important role in many
enterprise OpenStack cloud deployments. As a leader in the Manila
community project, we recognized early on the value of an open,
software-defined storage shared file system service for OpenStack. IT
professionals acknowledge open, software-defined storage as a good fit
for cloud, and many rely on Red Hat as a trusted partner to assist them
on their cloud journey. The technology preview of Red Hat Gluster
Storage with Manila can move customers another step forward in realizing
their next-generation enterprise datacenter plans."
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