Red Hat Drives Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades with Latest Version of Production-Ready OpenStack Platform
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 enhances support and upgrades; expands
networking functionality and extends management capabilities
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11, the latest
version of Red Hat’s massively-scalable and agile cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Based on the OpenStack “Ocata”
release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 delivers enhanced support for
upgrades with composable roles, new networking capabilities, and
improved integration with Red Hat CloudForms for cloud management.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 delivers a reliable cloud platform built
on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Based on OpenStack community code, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is a
tested, certified and fully-supported version of OpenStack that provides
the agility to scale and more quickly meet customer demand without
compromising availability, performance or IT security requirements. Red
Hat OpenStack Platform also includes Red Hat CloudForms to ease
day-to-day management operations. It serves as a hybrid cloud management
and monitoring platform to oversee not only OpenStack infrastructure
components but also the workloads running on a given Red Hat OpenStack
Platform cloud.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 maintains its tight
integration with Red Hat Ceph Storage and introduces the
co-location of Red Hat Ceph Storage with OpenStack compute nodes.
Previously in tech-preview, this release also enables storage mirroring
to help simplify data replication between sites, improving disaster
recovery for customers.
Improved Upgradability
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 introduced composable roles, which allow
operators to create customized profiles for individual services and
processes to suit their unique needs. This helps to improve operation
and efficiency by allowing operators to scale and manage the individual
services they need at any moment, rather than scaling the entire cloud.
While this makes it easier for enterprises to customize OpenStack
deployments to fit their specific needs at scale, it also introduces
challenges in upgrading to new versions of the platform. To address
this, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 now supports upgrades for composable
roles, making the deployment and upgradability of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform more adaptable and consistent while retaining the important
aspects of lifecycle management.
In addition, OpenStack services can now be composed individually and
assigned, enabling operators to place components such as databases,
proxies, or messaging services on specific nodes based on their unique
requirements. This includes adding customized roles post-deployment to a
running cloud, providing more flexibility to customers or partners as
they become more successful with their cloud services.
Expanded networking and network function virtualization support
Networking and network function virtualization (NFV) support remains a
key function of OpenStack deployments, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11
delivers several new capabilities, designed for standard networking use
cases as well as extreme workloads such as those required by information
and communication technology services providers. New features include:
- Full support for VLAN-aware virtual machines (VMs),
OpenStack-based VMs can now send and receive VLAN encapsulated traffic
while being deployed over Open vSwitch (OVS) or OVS Data Plane
Development Kit (OVS-DPDK).
- Additional telecommunications provider enhancements with
upgrades to OVS and DPDK to provide latest features and functions,
resulting in increased performance optimizations.
Enhanced management with Red Hat CloudForms
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 improves its integration with Red Hat
CloudForms, Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud management solution, to better
support management requirements for day-to-day operations of a Red Hat
OpenStack Platform-based cloud. Included with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
11, Red Hat CloudForms can now access and control OpenStack regions,
multiple domains, and host aggregates for a more unified controller view
of cloud health and efficiency. Storage management has also been
enhanced, as Red Hat CloudForms can now perform volume snapshot
management functions like creation, listing and deletion, further
streamlining the overall management of the cloud platform.
Partner and customer success
Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides a proven, enterprise-grade solution
for building, deploying and scaling cloud deployments across geographic
and industry boundaries. Hundreds of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack
Platform to power their hybrid and private clouds for a variety of
mission-critical deployments, including BBVA; Cambridge
University; FICO;
Massachusetts
Open Cloud; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Oak
Ridge National Laboratory; Paddy
Power Betfair; Produban;
Swisscom;
UKCloud;
and Verizon.
And, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem of
partners, including Cisco, Dell, Intel, Lenovo, NetApp, Rackspace,
Ericsson, HPE, IBM, and many more.
Innovation paired with support
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 is the second release covered by Red Hat’s
varying support life cycle model. Under this model, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 11 will be supported for one year with customers being able to
leverage Red Hat’s award-winning global support team for help with
migrations and upgrades to future versions.
Availability
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 will be available in the coming weeks via
the Red Hat Customer Portal and as a component of the Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure and Red Hat Cloud Suite solutions.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“As
OpenStack deployments grow in scale and scope, enterprises need a clear
path forward to embrace new innovations without sacrificing their
existing deployment structure. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 helps to
provide this path forward, with Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director
helping to maintain stability through the upgrade process, while also
adding new networking features, management capabilities, and storage
support, bringing the powerful innovations of the OpenStack community to
mission-critical enterprise deployments.”
Armughan Ahmad, senior vice president and general manager, Solutions
and Alliances, Dell EMC
“Dell EMC and Red Hat share the same
mission – to deliver complete, trusted solutions to help our customers
quickly and easily transform their business for success in the digital
economy. With the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11, customers
can take advantage of network function virtualization (NFV) features,
improved upgrade capabilities and other enhancements on industry-leading
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, leveraging contributions of more than 2,500
developers worldwide. Dell EMC is proud of our long-standing, strategic
collaboration with Red Hat to streamline deployment through open hybrid
solutions, taking the guesswork out of solution design for customers.”
Imad Sousou, vice president and general manager, Open Source
Technology Center, Intel
“Massive growth in cloud services and
connected devices require the data center to analyze and transform data
at unprecedented scale. Working together to enable key technologies such
as Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) and the Data Plane
Development Kit (DPDK), Intel and Red Hat are helping accelerate the
adoption of OpenStack as a platform for innovation, readying it for new
multi-cloud and communications network environment strategies that
deliver security and agility while containing costs.”
Kip Compton, Vice President Cloud Platform and Services Group, Cisco
“Our
collaboration with Red Hat and the use of Red Hat OpenStack Platform
within our Metacloud and NFVi solutions enables Cisco to bring
world-class product and services to our customers. We are excited about
the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 release and are looking forward to
bringing these new advancements to our customers."
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