This Architecture Guide is built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 which is based on the 20th OpenStack release codename Train. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 is a containerized version offering greater scalability, resiliency and user experience.
The Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the foundation to build a private or public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It offers a massively scalable, fault-tolerant platform for the development of cloud-enabled workloads or Telco Cloud for Service Providers.
It is packaged so that available physical hardware can be turned into a private, public, or hybrid cloud platform including:
- Fully distributed object storage
- Persistent block-level storage
- Virtual-machine provisioning engine and image storage
- Authentication and authorization mechanism
- Integrated networking
The Red Hat OpenStack Platform is implemented by a collection of interacting services that control its computing, storage, and networking resources.
New features
- Added support for Dell EMC PowerFlex software-defined storage software
- Added support for Dell EMC VxFlex Ready Nodes for use with Dell EMC PowerFlex software-defined storage software
Note: Please see https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/vxflex-readynodes#features_section for more information.
- Support for the latest release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 including the latest updates
- Support for RHEL 8.2 including the latest updates
Key benefits
The Dell EMC Ready Architecture for Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers several benefits to help service providers and high-end enterprises rapidly implement Dell EMC hardware and Red Hat OpenStack Platform software:
- Ready-to-use solution: The ready architecture has been fully engineered, validated, tested in Dell EMC laboratories and documented by Dell EMC. This decreases your investment and deployment risk, and it enables faster deployment time.
- Long lifecycle deployment: Dell EMC PowerEdge R-Series, VxFlex R740xd and Dell EMC PowerEdge XE2420 servers, recommended in the architecture, include long-life Intel Xeon processors which reduces your investment risk and protects your investment for the long-term.
- World-class professional services: The ready architecture includes Dell EMC professional services that spans consulting, deployment, and design support to guide your deployment needs.
- Customizable solution: The architecture is prescriptive, but it can be customized to address each customer’s unique virtual network function (vNF) or other workload requirements.
- Co-engineered and Integrated: OpenStack depends upon Linux for performance, security, hardware enablement, networking, storage, and other primary services. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform delivers an OpenStack distribution with the proven performance, stability, and scalability of RHEL 8.2 enabling you to focus on delivering the services your customers want, instead of focusing on the underlying operating platform.
- Deploy with confidence, as the Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides hardened and stable branch releases of OpenStack and Linux. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform is a long life release product supported by Red Hat for a four (4) year “production phase” life cycle, well beyond the six-month release cycle of unsupported, community OpenStack. Red Hat OpenStack Platform life cycle support policies can be found at https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openstack/platform
- Take advantage of broad application support. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, running as guest virtual machines, provides a stable application development platform with a broad set of ISV certifications. You can therefore rapidly build and deploy your cloud applications.
- Avoid vendor lock-in by moving to open technologies, while maintaining your existing infrastructure investments.
- Benefit from the world’s largest partner ecosystem: Red Hat has assembled the world’s largest ecosystem of certified partners for OpenStack compute, storage, networking, ISV software, and services for Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployments. This ensures the same level of broad support and compatibility that customers enjoy today in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
- Upgrade of Red Hat OpenStack Director-based installations.
- Bring security to the cloud. Rely upon the SELinux military-grade security and container technologies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to prevent intrusions and protect your data, when running in public or private clouds. For more information regarding security in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 release, see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openstack_platform/16.1/html/security_and_hardening_guide/index. Additional information pertaining to Red Hat vulnerabilities can be found at https://access.redhat.com/security/.