Red Hat Delivers Functionality Updates across Multiple OpenStack Services with General Availability of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9
Advanced upgrade system and integrated management capabilities
address customer demands for a robust, production-ready OpenStack
environment
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 OpenStack
Platform 9, its highly scalable, open Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
platform designed to deploy, scale and manage private cloud, public
cloud, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environments. Based on
the OpenStack community “Mitaka” release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9
offers customers a more secure, production-ready automated cloud
platform integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, Red Hat Ceph
Storage 2, and Red Hat CloudForms for a hybrid cloud management and
monitoring.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform has emerged as a proven solution to power
private clouds across hundreds of customers worldwide, such as BBVA; Cambridge
University; FICO;
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Paddy
Power Betfair; Santander
Bank; and Verizon.
It is backed by a robust ecosystem of partners, including Cisco, Dell,
Intel, Lenovo, Rackspace and more. Red Hat co-engineers and integrates
its OpenStack platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the KVM
(Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization layer from the recently
updated Red
Hat Virtualization. Earlier this month, Red Hat was named a “Visionary”
in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 builds on the proven, trusted foundation of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide critical dependencies needed in
production OpenStack environments centered around service functionality,
third-party drivers, and system performance and security. It is among
the only production-ready OpenStack distributions that offers automated
upgrade and update paths for mission-critical operations. Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 9 brings significant updates from the upstream Mitaka
version to nearly every OpenStack service:
- Automated updates and upgrades with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Director - Red Hat enables users to upgrade their OpenStack
deployments through the automation and validation mechanisms of the
Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director, based on the upstream community
project TripleO (OpenStack on OpenStack). This in-place upgrade tool
offers a simplified means to take advantage of the latest OpenStack
advancements, while preventing downtime for production environments.
- Live migration improvements and selectable CPU pinning from
OpenStack Compute (Nova) -- The Compute component now offers a
faster and enhanced instance of the live migration process, helping
system administrators to observe its progress and even pause and
resume the migration task. A new CPU pinning feature can dynamically
change the hypervisor behavior with latency-sensitive workloads such
as NFV, enabling more fine-grained performance control.
- Tech Preview of Google Cloud Storage backup driver in OpenStack
Block Storage (Cinder) -- As part of Red Hat’s continued
collaboration with Google, new disaster recovery policies in Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 9 now extend to the public cloud using integrated
drivers created for Google Cloud Storage. This new feature enables
more secure backups of critical data across the hybrid cloud.
Management for OpenStack
To help accelerate service delivery and enable self-service for system
administrators building OpenStack private clouds, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 9 connects with Red Hat CloudForms to provide a consistent,
automated cloud deployment environment. Included with a Red Hat
OpenStack Platform subscription, Red
Hat CloudForms provides inherent discovery, monitoring, and deep
inspection of OpenStack resources, enabling policy-based operational and
lifecycle management over all OpenStack infrastructure components, as
well as virtualized workloads running on OpenStack.
Additionally, the updated Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director can also
deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage, the industry-leading, integrated
software-defined storage solution for Red Hat OpenStack Platform private
clouds. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 includes 64TB of free object and
block storage for customers evaluating a robust, scale-out cloud storage
solution.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“As customers continue to require more advanced workloads capabilities
on top of their OpenStack deployments, we have updated Red Hat OpenStack
Platform to go beyond just providing a secure, flexible base to build a
private cloud. With this release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9, we
continue to add capabilities to meet the production requirements of
enterprises rolling our private clouds and service providers deploying
NFV.”
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager, Dell Engineered
Systems, HPC and Cloud
“The adoption of OpenStack in production environments has grown and with
that, comes increased requirements for enhanced management and
seamlessly integrated enterprise capabilities. Dell and Red Hat’s
continued close collaboration and joint engineering has both advanced
and integrated these capabilities to automate OpenStack updates and
upgrades with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 and Red Hat OpenStack
Platform Director to help our customers achieve their business goals
more quickly and easily on their OpenStack powered clouds.”
Jonathan Donaldson, vice president, Software Defined Infrastructure,
Intel
“Enterprises and comms service providers are seeking a hardened
OpenStack distribution to fuel their cloud deployments, and OpenStack
optimization has been a central focus of Intel’s Cloud for All
initiative. Our long history of collaboration with Red Hat has extended
to delivering enterprise optimization upstream as well as work to ensure
that the Red Hat OpenStack Platform takes full advantage of Intel
Architecture capabilities downstream. The delivery of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 9 is the latest advancement in our collaboration to accelerate
deployment of tens of thousands of clouds.”
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