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Follow on Google News | Red Hat Upgrades Enterprise IaaS Offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to enable open cloud infrastructure for enterprise businesses and service providers deploying OpenStack
By: Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform delivers the foundation for a production-ready cloud, integrating Red Hat’s hardened and agile OpenStack technology with the security and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform sets a new standard for OpenStack deployments, with customers in production in every region, spanning industry verticals and enterprises of various sizes in education, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications. Building on its innovative co-engineered design, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 strengthens Red Hat’s production-ready cloud platform through advancements in both the Linux and OpenStack components. Interoperability and ease of use continue to be at the forefront, starting with updates to Red Hat’s intuitive graphical installer and management tools that create greater efficiency and reduce the complexities of a cloud deployment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 is based on the OpenStack Juno release and includes several new features aimed at easing enterprise deployments of OpenStack technology within existing datacenters and capabilities specific to telecommunications providers to enable Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments among carriers, including: · IPv6 support, for both provider and tenant networks, enabling customers to assign IPv6 addresses across physical networks and OpenStack Networking (Neutron) virtual routers in stateless and stateful modes. · Neutron High Availability offers an upgraded OpenStack experience with Neutron agents in “active-active” · Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) networking, supported by a new driver, enables users to execute network switching directly on their hardware, bypassing the hypervisor and virtual switch levels. · Support for Multi-LDAP backends and domains, all within a single Identity service node, easing the installation and configuration processes for the platform, as well as long-term daily operations. · Full support for data processing, moves the Sahara service from tech preview to a fully supported feature that enables big data workloads. · Deeper Ceph integration with new capabilities for OpenStack Compute (Nova) and OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), including full support for ephemeral volumes backed by the Ceph block device. This enables ‘diskless’ · New tech preview features, highlightingRed Hat’s continued innovation in the OpenStack space with feature debuts of unsupported technology previews, including bare metal provisioning and TripleO deployment and management. Interoperability Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 furthers Red Hat’s commitment to enabling customers to avoid vendor lock-in and achieve interoperability. With continued integrated support for Red Hat CloudForms hybrid management platform, Red Hat recently announced (https://www- Partner Ecosystem The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network aims to provide greater cloud versatility and ease the integration with existing datacenter technology and third-party plugins. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network now boasts more than 275 certified OpenStack partners, with more than 1,000 solutions certified for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, is available globally starting today. Supporting Quotes Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat “Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 delivers enterprise-grade and telco-ready features, fueled by deep engagements with hundreds of customers and partners across the globe, to enable an open cloud infrastructure. Backed by our robust partner ecosystem, this release can enable a wider variety of enterprises and cloud service providers to quickly transition to an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure.” End
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