Red Hat Updates Storage Portfolio to Deliver Uncompromised Performance at Petabyte Scale
June 25 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster
Storage open software-defined storage products offer enterprises
greater flexibility and performance at scale
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 and Red
Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 open software-defined storage solutions.
The new features and capabilities for Red Hat Storage give
enterprise IT administrators robust data protection, performance
and management at petabyte scale.
Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage are open
source, scale-out software-defined storage solutions that run on
commodity hardware and have durable, programmable architectures.
Validated to work with leading partner hardware and software
solutions, each Red Hat Storage product is well-suited for
different enterprise workloads, bringing compelling benefits to
enterprises.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system,
Red Hat Ceph Storage is suitable for powering infrastructure
platforms. It has a highly tunable, extensible and configurable
architecture that offers mature interfaces for enterprise block and
object storage and renders it well-suited for archival and rich
media and cloud infrastructure workloads, such as OpenStack.
Available today, Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 includes several new
features and enhancements, such as:
- Robustness at scale, from
improved rebalancing logic that prioritizes data integrity over
other automatic functions, and a new rebalancing “pause” feature
that reduces impact on performance during cluster changes. Red Hat
Ceph Storage 1.3 also features time-scheduled scrubbing that
prevents automatic administrative checks from occurring during peak
hours and affecting performance, and sharding of S3 bucket metadata
that enables bucket operation load balancing across a cluster.
- Enhanced performance, resulting
from input/output operations per second (IOPS) and latency
optimizations for Ceph running on flash storage devices,
contributed by Intel and SanDisk; acceleration of virtual machine
boot times using read ahead caching; and sustained block
performance by limiting file system fragmentation.
- Operational efficiency
improvements, including the lightweight, embedded Civetweb
server to ease deployment of the Ceph Object Gateway, and faster
execution of administrative actions on block devices, such as
resizing, deleting or exporting, even with extremely large images.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 also includes management support for
multiple users and clusters via the Ceph UI and API, and API-based
policy management that enables programmatic adjustment of failure
domains and data placement.
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1
Red Hat Gluster Storage is purpose-built as a scale-out file
store with a straightforward architecture suitable for public,
private and hybrid cloud environments. Offering mature network file
system (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and Hadoop Distributed
File System (HDFS) file interfaces, Red Hat Gluster Storage is
well-suited for enterprise virtualization, analytics, sync and
share, and rich media workloads. Scheduled to become available
later this summer, Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 includes new
features and enhancements, designed to greatly increase performance
and security at scale, such as:
- Support for erasure-coded dispersed
storage volumes that reconstruct corrupted or lost data by
using information about the data stored elsewhere in the system can
reduce the need for RAID and replication and total cost of
ownership by up to 75 percent.
- Tiering's automated movement of
data between “hot” and “cold” tiers in a volume-based on-access
frequency gives operators fine-grain control to deploy storage
clusters that are both cost-effective and highly performant for a
wide variety of workloads.
- Bit-rot detection scans data
periodically to detect data corruption resulting from silent
failures in underlying storage media, enhancing end-to-end data
integrity.
- Enhanced security via support
for SELinux in enforcing mode and SSL-based network encryption to
increase security across the deployment; support for active NFSv4,
based on the NFS-Ganesha project, to provide performant and secure
data access through clustered NFSv4 endpoints; and SMB 3
capabilities, adding protocol negotiation, copy-data offload and
in-flight data encryption to allow for efficient file transfer and
secure access in Microsoft Windows environments.
In addition to the new Red Hat Storage products, Red Hat will
demonstrate unified storage management technology at Red Hat Summit
2015. This technology demonstration will show a single interface
and common user experience for easily managing multiple storage and
infrastructure solutions.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage
and Big Data, Red Hat
“Open, software-defined storage is the one of the best ways for
enterprises to design and deploy data storage at petabyte scale. We
continue to listen to our customers and today we respond with new
Red Hat Storage products that help manage their exponentially
growing capacity requirements, securely across the enterprise. With
the new features in Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Ceph
Storage, Red Hat delivers uncompromised performance at scale to our
enterprise customers worldwide.”
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