Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 Broadens Reach for Enterprise Workloads
Latest release of industry-leading object storage platform
strengthens support for OpenStack and heterogeneous environments,
improves usability and performance
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
OPENSTACK SUMMIT – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage
3, a major upgrade to its massively scalable, software-defined object
storage platform, with the introduction of support for block storage via
iSCSI and file storage via CephFS. With these additions, Red Hat Ceph
Storage 3 extends the value of unified storage in OpenStack and
heterogeneous environments, substantially broadening the use cases for
the storage platform built for petabyte-scale deployments.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 builds on Red Hat’s years of leadership in object
storage, enables more robust and better performance at scale, and
introduces the ability to deploy storage in containers for greater
cost-savings and operational efficiencies.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 includes the following highlights:
- Enables a large variety of storage needs in OpenStack, helping
enterprises fully exploit the scale of the platform for cloud
infrastructure deployments without incurring costs of discrete storage
systems that need to be procured and managed separately.The
introduction of CephFS, a POSIX-compatible, scale-out file system
complements the existing block and object storage support provided by
Red Hat Ceph Storage for OpenStack. Customers will be able to
incorporate storage more effectively with OpenStack for private cloud
deployments across a number of use cases including web-scale cloud,
Network Functions Virtualization infrastructure (NFVi), and
development/compute clouds.
- Eases migration from legacy storage platforms through newly
added support for the iSCSI interface for wider platform support and
increased breadth of use cases, including backup and recovery. This is
particularly beneficial to heterogeneous storage environments such as
VMware and Windows that lack a native Ceph driver. The iSCSI gateway
enables enterprises to use a single, cost-effective, and highly
scalable block storage platform for existing virtualization
infrastructure alongside their use of Ceph with modern workloads,
reducing the need for dedicated Storage Area Networks (SAN).
- Deploys enterprise storage in Linux containers for simplified
operations and a smaller hardware footprint. Containerized storage
daemons enable users to run Red Hat Ceph Storage on fewer servers by
co-locating services that previously required dedicated hardware,
while avoiding the risk of resource conflicts. Preliminary tests based
on a standard Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster configuration showed
lowered hardware expenditure by at least 24 percent. This is
particularly relevant to telco customers, such as those implementing
NFVi, who struggle with hardware and space constraints.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 also aims to significantly improve the user
experience by helping administrators proactively monitor and
troubleshoot distributed storage clusters via a graphical view of usage
data for the cluster as a whole, or its individual components. The new
web-based interface, which includes more than a dozen dashboards, is
based on the upstream Ceph Metrics project. This release also adds
several other usability enhancements and layers of automation, such as
dynamic bucket sharding, designed to help simplify maintenance and lower
operational costs.
This release builds on Red Hat’s momentum in the storage market.
Recently, Red Hat Storage was positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant
of Gartner’s
October 2017 Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object
Storage for the second year in a row. Red Hat is positioned the
furthest right for completeness of vision and the highest in ability to
execute within the Visionaries quadrant.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 is based on the community version of the open
source Ceph Luminous project, to which Red Hat is a leading code
contributor.
Availability
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 is expected to be generally available in November
2017.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“Red
Hat Ceph Storage 3 represents a key milestone for OpenStack, VMware, and
Windows communities in need of a unified storage solution. With this
release, Red Hat lays the groundwork for all software-based storage
services to be delivered as containers in the future while helping
customers increase agility and shrink deployment costs.”
Olivier Delachapelle, head of Data Center Category Management EMEIA,
Fujitsu
“Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 is probably the most advanced
software-defined storage solution combining extreme scalability,
inherent disaster resilience, and significant price-capacity value. By
combining Red Hat Ceph Storage with Fujitsu server technology and
networking components to a complete solution stack including end-to-end
maintenance services, we are helping customers fully benefit from open
source SDS without the implementation and life-cycle risks of a
'build-your-own-storage' approach."
Laura DuBois, group vice president, IDC
“Spending on
software-defined storage solutions continues to outpace spending on
traditional storage architectures. Software-defined storage offers the
capabilities needed in digital transformation namely IT agility with
greater levels of automation and lower capital costs. Red Hat Ceph
Storage provides a highly scalable, unified and software-defined
platform supporting performance at scale for current workloads while
providing the ability to deploy storage in containers and easily manage
storage in OpenStack cloud infrastructure deployments.”
Eric Endebrock, vice president, Marketing, Storage Business Unit,
Micron Technology, Inc.
“As cloud computing evolves to
all-flash infrastructures, Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 supports that trend in
many ways, such as enabling native writes to the block storage device to
provide a strong performance boost. Micron Accelerated Ceph Storage
clusters were built on Red Hat Ceph Storage with Red Hat’s
collaboration. Based on scalable all-NVMe™ reference architectures, they
are a prime example of the performance achievements gained from tuning
IT for such IO-intensive workloads.”
Blair Bethwaite, senior HPC consultant, Monash eResearch Center
“Providing
enough scalable object-based storage to meet the capacity needs of our
online architecture has been critical for our researchers and our Node
of the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (Nectar)
research cloud. Monash has worked extensively and successfully with Red
Hat Ceph Storage for nearly two years to support a variety of use cases
including the Nectar project. We are excited about achieving even
greater economies with containerized storage daemons in Red Hat Ceph
Storage 3, and new support for iSCSI and CephFS gives us the opportunity
to service native Windows research workstations around the campus and
offer programmatic access to project-specific file systems in our
OpenStack clouds.”
Bryan Thompson, general manager of OpenStack Private Cloud, Rackspace
“Rackspace
has continued to work with Red Hat to refine and innovate our
award-winning Rackspace OpenStack Private Cloud powered by Red Hat
offering since launching it in February 2016. Red Hat Ceph Storage is an
integral part of our private cloud offering. We are excited by the
continued innovation in the Ceph project, and the lengths that Red Hat
goes to support successful consumption in an enterprise setting.”
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