Advanced upgrade system and integrated
management capabilities address customer demands for a robust,
production-ready OpenStack environment
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 9, its highly scalable, open
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform designed to deploy,
scale and manage private cloud, public cloud, and Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) environments. Based on the OpenStack community
“Mitaka” release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 offers customers a
more secure, production-ready automated cloud platform integrated
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, and Red
Hat CloudForms for a hybrid cloud management and monitoring.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform has emerged as a proven solution to
power private clouds across hundreds of customers worldwide, such
as BBVA; Cambridge University; FICO; NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory; Paddy Power Betfair; Santander Bank; and Verizon. It is
backed by a robust ecosystem of partners, including Cisco, Dell,
Intel, Lenovo, Rackspace and more. Red Hat co-engineers and
integrates its OpenStack platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
and the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization layer
from the recently updated Red Hat Virtualization. Earlier this
month, Red Hat was named a “Visionary” in the 2016 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 builds on the proven, trusted
foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide critical
dependencies needed in production OpenStack environments centered
around service functionality, third-party drivers, and system
performance and security. It is among the only production-ready
OpenStack distributions that offers automated upgrade and update
paths for mission-critical operations. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9
brings significant updates from the upstream Mitaka version to
nearly every OpenStack service:
- Automated updates and upgrades with
Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director - Red Hat enables users to
upgrade their OpenStack deployments through the automation and
validation mechanisms of the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director,
based on the upstream community project TripleO (OpenStack on
OpenStack). This in-place upgrade tool offers a simplified means to
take advantage of the latest OpenStack advancements, while
preventing downtime for production environments.
- Live migration improvements and
selectable CPU pinning from OpenStack Compute (Nova) -- The
Compute component now offers a faster and enhanced instance of the
live migration process, helping system administrators to observe
its progress and even pause and resume the migration task. A new
CPU pinning feature can dynamically change the hypervisor behavior
with latency-sensitive workloads such as NFV, enabling more
fine-grained performance control.
- Tech Preview of Google Cloud Storage
backup driver in OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) -- As part of
Red Hat’s continued collaboration with Google, new disaster
recovery policies in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 now extend to the
public cloud using integrated drivers created for Google Cloud
Storage. This new feature enables more secure backups of critical
data across the hybrid cloud.
Management for OpenStack
To help accelerate service delivery and enable self-service for
system administrators building OpenStack private clouds, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 9 connects with Red Hat CloudForms to provide a
consistent, automated cloud deployment environment. Included with a
Red Hat OpenStack Platform subscription, Red Hat CloudForms
provides inherent discovery, monitoring, and deep inspection of
OpenStack resources, enabling policy-based operational and
lifecycle management over all OpenStack infrastructure components,
as well as virtualized workloads running on OpenStack.
Additionally, the updated Red Hat OpenStack Platform Director
can also deploy Red Hat Ceph Storage, the industry-leading,
integrated software-defined storage solution for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform private clouds. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 includes 64TB
of free object and block storage for customers evaluating a robust,
scale-out cloud storage solution.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“As customers continue to require more advanced workloads
capabilities on top of their OpenStack deployments, we have updated
Red Hat OpenStack Platform to go beyond just providing a secure,
flexible base to build a private cloud. With this release of Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 9, we continue to add capabilities to meet
the production requirements of enterprises rolling our private
clouds and service providers deploying NFV.”
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager, Dell
Engineered Systems, HPC and Cloud
“The adoption of OpenStack in production environments has grown
and with that, comes increased requirements for enhanced management
and seamlessly integrated enterprise capabilities. Dell and Red
Hat’s continued close collaboration and joint engineering has both
advanced and integrated these capabilities to automate OpenStack
updates and upgrades with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 and Red Hat
OpenStack Platform Director to help our customers achieve their
business goals more quickly and easily on their OpenStack powered
clouds.”
Jonathan Donaldson, vice president, Software Defined
Infrastructure, Intel
“Enterprises and comms service providers are seeking a hardened
OpenStack distribution to fuel their cloud deployments, and
OpenStack optimization has been a central focus of Intel’s Cloud
for All initiative. Our long history of collaboration with Red Hat
has extended to delivering enterprise optimization upstream as well
as work to ensure that the Red Hat OpenStack Platform takes full
advantage of Intel Architecture capabilities downstream. The
delivery of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 is the latest advancement
in our collaboration to accelerate deployment of tens of thousands
of clouds.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat OpenStack
Platform
- Get more details on technical updates
in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 Product Guide
- Read the Red Hat Stack blog
- Learn about Red Hat Consulting for
OpenStack
- Explore Red Hat’s OpenStack training
and certification options
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