Major release of software-defined storage
platform is designed to be an essential platform for digital
transformation in the enterprise
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, the next
generation of its open software-defined storage platform. Red Hat
Ceph Storage 2, based on the Ceph Jewel release, introduces several
new capabilities that enhance support for object storage workloads
and promote greater ease of use.
Ceph was designed from the ground up to enable and support
enterprises' digital transformation efforts through web scale
object and cloud infrastructures. As an object storage solution, it
is well-suited for enterprises with deployments approaching a
petabyte of data or more. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 brings enhanced
capabilities for enterprise object storage customers who are
demanding scale, increased security, and strong compatibility with
industry-standard APIs.
New object storage features in Red Hat Ceph Storage 2
include:
- New global object storage clusters,
which provide a single namespace and data synchronization between
clusters operating in multiple regions.
- Improved security via integration with
authentication systems, including Active Directory, LDAP, and
OpenStack Identity (Keystone) v3.
- Enhanced Amazon S3 and OpenStack Object
Storage (Swift) compatibility, including support for AWS v4 Client
Signatures, object versioning, bulk deletes, and more.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 also debuts Red Hat Storage Console 2, a
storage management and monitoring system with a redesigned,
streamlined user interface. This new technology simplifies both the
deployment and operational management of Ceph, making scale-out
storage accessible to a wider range of users while reducing
deployment time from days to hours in tests conducted by Red Hat.
Building on Ansible as a foundation, Red Hat Storage Console 2
delivers a single, clean, and modern graphical interface to
proactively monitor and manage health, performance, and capacity
utilization.
Red Hat also announced a tech preview of CephFS, the
POSIX-compliant file system that uses a Ceph storage cluster to
store its data and can be used with the OpenStack Manila service.
This is a continuation of Red Hat’s ongoing commitment to complete
and tightly integrated storage for OpenStack environments.
Availability
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 is scheduled for availability this
summer.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage,
Red Hat“We are thrilled to release Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and
expand our capabilities around ease of use and robust object
storage support. This latest version of the product is the most
significant update to Red Hat Ceph Storage since we acquired
Inktank in 2014. We believe our customers will find Red Hat Ceph
Storage 2 to be a full-featured, technically-advanced storage
platform that’s easy to use and helps them manage vast quantities
of data at the enterprise level. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, combined
with Red Hat’s broad services and support offerings, gives
customers a strong foundation to enable their digital
transformation.”
Greg Lissy, vice president, enterprise product management,
Citrix“Citrix is committed to supporting our customers by enabling
them to more securely access their data regardless of the storage
infrastructure they choose. By collaborating with Red Hat and
certifying Red Hat Ceph Storage for use with
Citrix ShareFile, we continue to develop solutions that
help our customers embrace digital business transformation, all
while remaining competitive.”
James Mouton, vice president and general manager, Dell Extreme
Scale Infrastructure“Dell continues to partner with Red Hat in
developing next-generation, cost-effective storage solutions in our
Extreme Scale Infrastructure and OpenStack Cloud solutions with Red
Hat Ceph Storage 2. Our DSS 7000 server, with its massive 720TB
capacity in a single 4U chassis and 1 or 2 addressable servers,
offers ideal flexibility for multi-petabyte scale-out and archival
storage making use of Ceph's enhanced object storage feature set.
We look forward to showcasing the ground-breaking capabilities this
innovative solution can deliver for our customers at Red Hat Summit
2016.”
Blair Bethwaite, senior HPC consultant, Monash eResearch
Centre"Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 is a powerful, scalable and unified
software-defined storage platform that has enabled us to liberate
data services to the many and varied needs of researchers. With Red
Hat Ceph Storage, the problem of taming and retaining vast amounts
of research data is no longer a grand challenge, and as a testament
to that scalability we have built the largest Ceph deployment in
the southern hemisphere. Using Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 we are able
to manage massive workloads encompassing 5 petabytes of data in a
single infrastructure. We would not have been able to achieve this
without the block and object storage capabilities of Red Hat's
solution, we look forward to adding several petabytes of new
storage in Q3 and trialling CephFS with this feature-packed new
release."
Piyanai Saowarattitada, director of engineering, Massachusetts
Open Cloud"We needed a storage solution that would be
cost-effective, reliable and scalable to accommodate the large
amounts of data our researchers work with every day. We found it
with Red Hat Ceph Storage 2. The Ceph command set is intuitive and
easy to use. We greatly appreciate the comprehensive Red Hat Ceph
training and field deployment support. Their deep knowledge and
understanding of our needs helped pave the way for a successful
deployment."
Matt Yonkovit, vice president, Services, Percona“As more and
more distributed databases reside in public and private clouds they
need to be able to communicate and synchronize quickly and
seamlessly. MySQL on OpenStack - backed by Red Hat Ceph Storage -
opens up a well-performing and affordable option for databases in
private cloud deployments. As a trusted advisor for optimizing open
source database environments, Percona is always looking for
approaches and architectures that intelligently solve customer
issues in a cost-effective manner. Consolidating large numbers of
distributed databases on a single elastic storage cloud
infrastructure fits those criteria.”
Jim Elliott, corporate vice president, Memory Marketing, Samsung
Semiconductor, Inc.“Combining two of the most disruptive approaches
to storage today, our ongoing collaborations with Red Hat including
work with Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 can be viewed as a win-win for
OpenStack datacenter managers by delivering scalable all-flash
storage solutions that provide extremely high IOPS, low latency and
exceptional reliability. We see the software-defined ecosystem as
an integral part of the enterprise storage business and plan to
continue to work very closely with Red Hat to develop the best
possible storage systems for next-generation OpenStack enterprise
workloads.”
Gary Lyng, senior director, DCS Marketing, Western Digital"Red
Hat continues to move the ball forward with its Ceph investments
and we are excited about the latest launch. Sandisk has performed
an expansive amount of performance characterization testing with
Red Hat targeted for Red Hat Ceph Storage deployments that need
higher IOPS. The latest testing of InfiniFlash System IF150 by
Sandisk with Red Hat Ceph Storage has shown it can provide more
than one million random read IOPS – opening up a whole new set of
potential workloads for private cloud and scale out storage."
Additional Resources
- Download the Red Hat Ceph Storage 2
Datasheet
- Learn more about Red Hat Storage
- Learn more about Red Hat Ceph
Storage
- Read the Red Hat Storage blog
- Read the IDC White Paper: Red Hat Ceph
Storage: Object Based Storage Ready for Primetime
- Download the Complete Storage for
OpenStack Datasheet
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