Red Hat Announces OpenStack Shared File System Service
May 19 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Red Hat Gluster Storage with OpenStack Manila
technology preview gives enterprises software-defined file storage
for OpenStack clouds
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced a technology preview of Red Hat
Gluster Storage with capabilities from the OpenStack community’s
new Manila project. Expanding the options for hybrid cloud storage,
Red Hat Gluster Storage now provides enterprises with a scale-out
shared file system service for OpenStack cloud infrastructures.
Red Hat was the initial software-defined storage member of the
OpenStack Manila project, a community-driven innovation that
provisions and manages distributed file systems for OpenStack
clouds. OpenStack Manila’s framework provides a vendor-neutral
management API for provisioning and attaching different shared file
systems. Working in a multi-tenant cloud environment, OpenStack
Manila operates alongside the existing OpenStack Block Storage
(Cinder) and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) services.
Red Hat led the development of OpenStack Manila’s IFS-Ganesha
component which abstracts Manila file shares from underlying
hardware and allows them to grow, shrink or migrate across physical
resources. With Red Hat Gluster Storage and IFS-Ganesha, storage
servers can be added or removed from the system dynamically and the
data remains online while the system re-balances across the
available hardware. The technology preview of Red Hat Gluster
Storage with Manila provides the flexibility of open,
software-defined storage for delivering the file share elasticity
required for enterprise public cloud deployments.
Customers can test the functionality of OpenStack Manila today
by downloading it from the OpenStack RDO community-supported
distribution with the RDO Packstack Installer. The Red Hat Gluster
Storage with Manila technology preview is planned for inclusion in
the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7
release.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage
and Big Data, Red Hat
“The Red Hat Storage Portfolio plays an important role in many
enterprise OpenStack cloud deployments. As a leader in the Manila
community project, we recognized early on the value of an open,
software-defined storage shared file system service for OpenStack.
IT professionals acknowledge open, software-defined storage as a
good fit for cloud, and many rely on Red Hat as a trusted partner
to assist them on their cloud journey. The technology preview of
Red Hat Gluster Storage with Manila can move customers another step
forward in realizing their next-generation enterprise datacenter
plans.”
Additional Resources
- Download Red Hat Gluster Storage with
Manila
- Read the OpenStack Manila Blog on The
Red Hat Stack: an OpenStack Blog
- Learn more about the OpenStack Manila
project
- Learn more about Red Hat Storage
Portfolio
- Learn more about Red Hat Gluster
Storage
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