Improved Enterprise Manageability and Federated
Deployment Allow Customers to Accelerate Their OpenStack
Deployments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced Red Hat CloudForms 3.2, the
latest version of its award-winning solution for managing private
and hybrid clouds. CloudForms 3.2 delivers innovative management
features that enable customers to automate the deployment and
management of OpenStack infrastructures, using advanced management
instrumentation available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 7 release (based on OpenStack Kilo).
CloudForms 3.2 adds additional OpenStack workload management
capabilities including: automated discovery; web-based console
support; service catalog publishing and user dialog generation for
OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) templates; deeper image and workload
introspection capabilities with OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
and OpenStack Compute (Nova) integration; and improved capacity and
utilization management through expanded OpenStack Telemetry
(Ceilometer) integration. These new capabilities in CloudForms
represent a step forward in the manageability of OpenStack in the
enterprise. CloudForms is the industry’s first open source cloud
management platform that manages both the OpenStack infrastructure
as well as workloads from a single, integrated platform.
In addition, CloudForms is able to federate OpenStack-based
private clouds together with other public clouds and a variety of
virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft
System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Advanced capabilities
including a self-service portal, policy-based control, governance,
chargeback, showback, orchestration, capacity/utilization planning,
optimization and bottleneck analysis and reporting allow
enterprises to more effectively manage hybrid cloud
environments.
CloudForms has significantly helped customers accelerate their
OpenStack implementations, and these new capabilities in CloudForms
3.2 provide an efficient and scalable migration framework across
traditional virtualization platform and private clouds based on
OpenStack. They enable enterprises to implement a bi-modal IT
setup, where a new agility-optimized infrastructure co-exists with
traditional efficiency-optimized datacenters and with workloads
unified by a common management platform.
Other improvements in CloudForms 3.2 include support for the AWS
Config service enabling near-real time monitoring of changes in
workloads deployed to AWS, Japanese language support, IPv6 support,
and improved bare-metal provisioning and management through
integration with Red Hat Satellite 6.
Availability
CloudForms 3.2 will be available to existing CloudForms
customers in June 2015. OpenStack infrastructure management
features in CloudForms 3.2 require OpenStack Kilo capabilities,
which are scheduled to be available in the upcoming release of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.
Supporting quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Management,
Red Hat
“CloudForms is an essential part of Red Hat’s strategy to enable
OpenStack adoption and improve manageability in the enterprise.
These updates in CloudForms 3.2 will allow customers to more
quickly deploy and scale their OpenStack private clouds, combine
existing IT infrastructure investments and federate public cloud
deployments.”
Gartner: How to Succeed in Your OpenStack Deployment, 20
February 2015, Donna Scott and Arun Chandrasekaran
“Most enterprises find they need more than OpenStack for
management and governance, as well as for multicloud management,
including bursting across private and public cloud environments. As
a result, many organizations implementing OpenStack invest in a
Cloud Management Platform that rides on top, and provides an API
translation and orchestration layer across private and public
clouds.”
Join ManageIQ at the OpenStack Summit
CloudForms is based on the ManageIQ open source project. The
ManageIQ project is hosting a free user day and hands-on lab for
conference attendees at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, from
1:50 – 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 20. Attendees are invited to
register at
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/manageiq-user-day-openstack-summit-tickets-16755596440.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat
CloudForms
- CloudForms chosen as “Best Cloud
Management Solution” in 2014 SIIA CODiE Awards
- See CloudForms 3.2 in action at the
OpenStack Summit in Vancouver
- Attend the “OpenStack Infrastructure
Management with ManageIQ” session at the OpenStack Summit
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