New director eases deployment and day-to-day operations management
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 7, featuring a new deployment and
management tool that simplifies installation, eases day-to-day
management tasks, and establishes the underpinnings for orchestrated
live system updates and upgrades for subsequent releases.
Based on the OpenStack
community "Kilo" release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform is a co-engineered solution that starts with the proven and
trusted foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and integrates with Red
Hat's OpenStack technology to form a production-ready cloud platform.
This combination addresses the critical dependencies OpenStack has on
Linux and provides a highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform for
building private or public clouds. Originally launched in 2013, this new
release is Red Hat's fifth iteration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, which has been successfully deployed worldwide by
customers in key verticals including public sector, financial,
telecommunications, and education. Version 7 includes several new
features aimed at accelerating the adoption of OpenStack including:
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Simplified deployment and management - Cloud operators now have
a simpler means of day-to-day operation management and resource
provisioning, using the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform director. It offers a simplified and automated cloud
installation tool with system-wide health checking for a proper
deployment. Additionally it eases daily operational management and
resource provisioning for cloud operators, including an automated
"ready-state" provisioning of bare-metal resources to simplify the
deployment and repurposing of hardware resources on an on-demand
basis. Based on the community-driven OpenStack management project
TripleO, the new director combines multiple technologies to offer a
single powerful tool which also establishes a new framework that can
be used for live orchestrated OpenStack and director upgrades for
version 7 and subsequent releases.
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Traditional workloads requiring high availability on OpenStack -
Making it easier to migrate traditional, business-critical
applications that require high availability to OpenStack, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 introduces compute host node
high availability through integrated, automated monitoring and
failover services from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This new capability
monitors host nodes and includes the ability to automatically evacuate
virtual machines from hosts, restarting workloads on alternate,
available hosts.
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Greater security control - Telco customers now have greater
granularity and control over network traffic ports at the virtual
machine level. This allows customers to maintain a tightened security
level over the greater OpenStack cloud, while allowing virtualized
network function (VNF) traffic through each virtual machine, as
necessary. Version 7 introduces this via the Neutron modular layer 2
(ML2) and Open vSwitch (OVS) port security mechanisms included in the
community Kilo release.
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Network flexibility - New Neutron networking features offer
greater flexibility and improved network redundancy. Network operators
can benefit from several IPv6 enhancements, including the ability to
support direct network routing between tenants and the external
gateway. In addition, version 7 expands the high availability for
Neutron routers and improves the monitoring and reporting of the
router to help network operators maintain uptime.
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Incremental Backup - Storage administrators can now benefit
from faster block storage backups and reduced capacity needs with
support for snapshot-based backups. With added support for NFS and
POSIX file system types, this significantly reduces the amount of
storage and time required, by backing up only the incremental changes
since the last full state backup.
Trusted Integration and Ecosystem
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is backed by one of the
largest OpenStack ecosystems, with more than 350 certified partners for
OpenStack compute, storage, networking, and independent software vendor
(ISV) applications and services. This partner network offers solutions
that complement the broad support and compatibility provided in the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 7 introduces expanded integration with certified partners,
including support for NetApp Data ONTAP, 7-mode, and E-Series, including
initial setup and configuration via the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform director. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 7 brings integrated setup and installation of Red Hat
Ceph Storage 1.3 server and clients. Red Hat Ceph Storage Server
subscription entitlements are sold separately from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform subscriptions.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
"We have raised the standard for production-ready OpenStack with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7. With increased adoption of
OpenStack, we are excited about addressing the need for reduced time to
solution with a truly open approach that enables automated deployment
and lifecycle management of the infrastructure."
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager of Engineered
Solutions and Cloud, Dell
"Enterprise customers today are consistently faced with escalating
requirements and less resources. Customers are looking for ways to
reallocate the time and costs spent on cloud deployment and operations
today to strategic, business outcome producing projects tomorrow. The
release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 is the next
step in offering enterprise-grade OpenStack cloud solutions that are
both easier and faster to deploy and manage. At Dell, we are pleased to
continue our work with Red Hat on co-engineered reference architectures,
and look forward to jointly offering an even simpler, faster and more
cost effective path to an enterprise-ready OpenStack cloud."
Jim McHugh, vice president of products and solutions marketing for
Cisco Unified Computing System™ and Data Center, Cisco
"It's been nearly a year since the announcement of Unified Computing
System Integrated Infrastructure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform (UCSO). Customers are dramatically simplifying and accelerating
their OpenStack deployments using Cisco UCS® and UCS Service Profiles
and experiencing time-to-delivery of new cloud services and applications
much faster. As a testament to our strong collaboration in engineering
and development, the new functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 7 announced today will also be immediately available
on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure."
Mauri Whalen, vice president, Software and Services Group and
director of Core System Development, Intel Corporation
"The enterprise data center is being redefined by increasing customer
demands and advances in technology, coupled with the growth of
cloud-based solutions and the move to a software defined infrastructure
(SDI). Working together with Red Hat on the "On-Ramp to Enterprise
OpenStack" program has helped Intel build a solid base of co-engineered,
OpenStack deployments for broad adoption by enterprises."
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