Dell and Red Hat Inc., the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced an enhanced
edition of the Dell
Red Hat Cloud Solution, a co-engineered, enterprise-grade
private-cloud solution based on OpenStack. The upgraded solution
addresses enterprise customer demand for more flexible, elastic and
agile IT services.
Designed to help customers build OpenStack-powered, highly-scalable
clouds, the updated solution is co-engineered
with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Dell
PowerEdge R630 and R730xd high-density rack servers, part of Dell’s
13th generation PowerEdge portfolio. With its hyper-dense
memory, storage flexibility and compact footprint, the PowerEdge R630
maximizes datacenter efficiency for OpenStack cloud deployments. The
PowerEdge R730xd delivers an optimized balance of storage utilization
and performance making it ideal for hosting massively scalable Red Hat
Ceph storage.
This enterprise solution includes prescribed configurations for compute,
infrastructure, networking, and multiple options for storage. It is
designed to be easily scaled for an organization’s needs now and the
future. The upgraded solution provides customers the following key
benefits:
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Increased density – optimized configurations minimize the data center
footprint for OpenStack admin and infrastructure nodes, and feature a
20 percent VM density increase and over a 30 percent storage capacity
increase within the same size footprint
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Accelerated performance – fine-tuned configurations of Dell PowerEdge
R730xd servers with solid state drives accelerate the performance of
Ceph data processing, and with a choice of hard drives and memory
configurations, customers can optimize Ceph storage to their
application needs
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Added security and stability – Hardened from the OpenStack “Juno”
release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 adds the
security and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Highly resilient
10GbE network designs with multiple layers of redundancy provide
continuous fault tolerant operation. Additionally, extended lifecycle
support includes options for up to three years of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform “production phase” support and updates
This latest release of the Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution stems from a
longstanding collaboration between the two companies, and joint
engineering within the OpenStack community. Dell and Red Hat have partnered
for more than 15 years, and Dell was the first company to OEM Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform in 2013. Since then, the two
companies have continued to combine their cloud expertise, enterprise
innovation and dedicated support of co-engineering open and scalable
cloud solutions to accelerate the customer’s journey to cloud computing.
“Enterprise customers are requiring robust and rapidly scalable cloud
infrastructures that deliver business results,” said Jim Ganthier, vice
president and general manager, Dell Engineered Solutions and Cloud.
“Dell and Red Hat continue to jointly deliver cost effective, open
source-based cloud computing solutions that provide greater agility to
our customers, and this newest version of the Dell Red Hat Cloud
Solution leverages best of breed technology from both companies to do
so.”
“Red Hat's ongoing collaboration with Dell to co-engineer
enterprise-grade cloud solutions is further enhancing OpenStack to be
production-ready,” said Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack
at Red Hat. “End customers continue to benefit from Red Hat's strategic
partnership with Dell as we deliver joint solutions that streamline
deployment and accelerate time to innovation.”