New Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage open
software-defined storage products offer enterprises greater flexibility
and performance at scale
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 and Red Hat Gluster
Storage 3.1 open software-defined storage solutions. The new features
and capabilities for Red Hat Storage give enterprise IT administrators
robust data protection, performance and management at petabyte scale.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open source,
scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on commodity
hardware and have durable, programmable architectures. Validated to work
with leading partner hardware and software solutions, each Red Hat
Storage product is well-suited for different enterprise workloads,
bringing compelling benefits to enterprises.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system, Red Hat
Ceph Storage is suitable for powering infrastructure platforms. It has a
highly tunable, extensible and configurable architecture that offers
mature interfaces for enterprise block and object storage and renders it
well-suited for archival and rich media and cloud infrastructure
workloads, such as OpenStack. Available today, Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
includes several new features and enhancements, such as:
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Robustness at scale, from improved rebalancing logic
that prioritizes data integrity over other automatic functions, and a
new rebalancing "pause" feature that reduces impact on performance
during cluster changes. Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 also features
time-scheduled scrubbing that prevents automatic administrative checks
from occurring during peak hours and affecting performance, and
sharding of S3 bucket metadata that enables bucket operation load
balancing across a cluster.
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Enhanced performance, resulting from input/output
operations per second (IOPS) and latency optimizations for Ceph
running on flash storage devices, contributed by Intel and SanDisk;
acceleration of virtual machine boot times using read ahead caching;
and sustained block performance by limiting file system fragmentation.
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Operational efficiency improvements, including the
lightweight, embedded Civetweb server to ease deployment of the Ceph
Object Gateway, and faster execution of administrative actions on
block devices, such as resizing, deleting or exporting, even with
extremely large images. Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 also includes
management support for multiple users and clusters via the Ceph UI and
API, and API-based policy management that enables programmatic
adjustment of failure domains and data placement.
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1
Red Hat Gluster Storage is purpose-built as a scale-out file store with
a straightforward architecture suitable for public, private and hybrid
cloud environments. Offering mature network file system (NFS), Server
Message Block (SMB), and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) file
interfaces, Red Hat Gluster Storage is well-suited for enterprise
virtualization, analytics, sync and share, and rich media workloads.
Scheduled to become available later this summer, Red Hat Gluster Storage
3.1 includes new features and enhancements, designed to greatly increase
performance and security at scale, such as:
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Support for erasure-coded dispersed storage volumes that
reconstruct corrupted or lost data by using information about the data
stored elsewhere in the system can reduce the need for RAID and
replication and total cost of ownership by up to 75 percent.
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Tiering's automated movement of data between "hot" and
"cold" tiers in a volume-based on-access frequency gives operators
fine-grain control to deploy storage clusters that are both
cost-effective and highly performant for a wide variety of workloads.
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Bit-rot detection scans data periodically to detect data
corruption resulting from silent failures in underlying storage media,
enhancing end-to-end data integrity.
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Enhanced security via support for SELinux in enforcing
mode and SSL-based network encryption to increase security across the
deployment; support for active NFSv4, based on the NFS-Ganesha
project, to provide performant and secure data access through
clustered NFSv4 endpoints; and SMB 3 capabilities, adding protocol
negotiation, copy-data offload and in-flight data encryption to allow
for efficient file transfer and secure access in Microsoft Windows
environments.
In addition to the new Red Hat Storage products, Red Hat will
demonstrate unified storage management technology at Red Hat Summit
2015. This technology demonstration will show a single interface and
common user experience for easily managing multiple storage and
infrastructure solutions.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big
Data, Red Hat
"Open, software-defined storage is the one of the best ways for
enterprises to design and deploy data storage at petabyte scale. We
continue to listen to our customers and today we respond with new Red
Hat Storage products that help manage their exponentially growing
capacity requirements, securely across the enterprise. With the new
features in Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat
delivers uncompromised performance at scale to our enterprise customers
worldwide."
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