New director eases deployment and day-to-day
operations management
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7, featuring a new
deployment and management tool that simplifies installation, eases
day-to-day management tasks, and establishes the underpinnings for
orchestrated live system updates and upgrades for subsequent
releases.
Based on the OpenStack community “Kilo” release, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is a co-engineered solution
that starts with the proven and trusted foundation of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and integrates with Red Hat’s OpenStack technology
to form a production-ready cloud platform. This combination
addresses the critical dependencies OpenStack has on Linux and
provides a highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform for building
private or public clouds. Originally launched in 2013, this new
release is Red Hat’s fifth iteration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, which has been successfully deployed worldwide
by customers in key verticals including public sector, financial,
telecommunications, and education. Version 7 includes several new
features aimed at accelerating the adoption of OpenStack
including:
- Simplified deployment and management
- Cloud operators now have a simpler means of day-to-day
operation management and resource provisioning, using the new Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director. It offers a
simplified and automated cloud installation tool with system-wide
health checking for a proper deployment. Additionally it eases
daily operational management and resource provisioning for cloud
operators, including an automated “ready-state” provisioning of
bare-metal resources to simplify the deployment and repurposing of
hardware resources on an on-demand basis. Based on the
community-driven OpenStack management project TripleO, the new
director combines multiple technologies to offer a single powerful
tool which also establishes a new framework that can be used for
live orchestrated OpenStack and director upgrades for version 7 and
subsequent releases.
- Traditional workloads requiring high
availability on OpenStack - Making it easier to migrate
traditional, business-critical applications that require high
availability to OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 7 introduces compute host node high availability through
integrated, automated monitoring and failover services from Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. This new capability monitors host nodes and
includes the ability to automatically evacuate virtual machines
from hosts, restarting workloads on alternate, available
hosts.
- Greater security control - Telco
customers now have greater granularity and control over network
traffic ports at the virtual machine level. This allows customers
to maintain a tightened security level over the greater OpenStack
cloud, while allowing virtualized network function (VNF) traffic
through each virtual machine, as necessary. Version 7 introduces
this via the Neutron modular layer 2 (ML2) and Open vSwitch (OVS)
port security mechanisms included in the community Kilo
release.
- Network flexibility - New
Neutron networking features offer greater flexibility and improved
network redundancy. Network operators can benefit from several IPv6
enhancements, including the ability to support direct network
routing between tenants and the external gateway. In addition,
version 7 expands the high availability for Neutron routers and
improves the monitoring and reporting of the router to help network
operators maintain uptime.
- Incremental Backup - Storage
administrators can now benefit from faster block storage backups
and reduced capacity needs with support for snapshot-based backups.
With added support for NFS and POSIX file system types, this
significantly reduces the amount of storage and time required, by
backing up only the incremental changes since the last full state
backup.
Trusted Integration and Ecosystem
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is backed by one of
the largest OpenStack ecosystems, with more than 350 certified
partners for OpenStack compute, storage, networking, and
independent software vendor (ISV) applications and services. This
partner network offers solutions that complement the broad support
and compatibility provided in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ecosystem. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 introduces
expanded integration with certified partners, including support for
NetApp Data ONTAP, 7-mode, and E-Series, including initial setup
and configuration via the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform director. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform 7 brings integrated setup and installation of Red Hat Ceph
Storage 1.3 server and clients. Red Hat Ceph Storage Server
subscription entitlements are sold separately from Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform subscriptions.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
"We have raised the standard for production-ready OpenStack with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7. With increased
adoption of OpenStack, we are excited about addressing the need for
reduced time to solution with a truly open approach that enables
automated deployment and lifecycle management of the
infrastructure."
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager of Engineered
Solutions and Cloud, Dell
“Enterprise customers today are consistently faced with
escalating requirements and less resources. Customers are looking
for ways to reallocate the time and costs spent on cloud deployment
and operations today to strategic, business outcome producing
projects tomorrow. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 7 is the next step in offering enterprise-grade
OpenStack cloud solutions that are both easier and faster to deploy
and manage. At Dell, we are pleased to continue our work with Red
Hat on co-engineered reference architectures, and look forward to
jointly offering an even simpler, faster and more cost effective
path to an enterprise-ready OpenStack cloud.”
Jim McHugh, vice president of products and solutions marketing
for Cisco Unified Computing System™ and Data Center, Cisco
“It’s been nearly a year since the announcement of Unified
Computing System Integrated Infrastructure for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform (UCSO). Customers are dramatically
simplifying and accelerating their OpenStack deployments using
Cisco UCS® and UCS Service Profiles and experiencing
time-to-delivery of new cloud services and applications much
faster. As a testament to our strong collaboration in engineering
and development, the new functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 7 announced today will also be immediately
available on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure.”
Mauri Whalen, vice president, Software and Services Group and
director of Core System Development, Intel Corporation
“The enterprise data center is being redefined by increasing
customer demands and advances in technology, coupled with the
growth of cloud-based solutions and the move to a software defined
infrastructure (SDI). Working together with Red Hat on the "On-Ramp
to Enterprise OpenStack" program has helped Intel build a solid
base of co-engineered, OpenStack deployments for broad adoption by
enterprises.”
Additional Resources
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Linux OpenStack Platform
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OpenStack director capabilities
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