Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) had announced the Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, the industry’s first production-ready fully open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution. The Red Hat'way to implement the HCI is by combining innovative virtualization and storage technologies with a stable, proven operating platform. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is designed to help enterprises to bring datacenter capabilities into locations with limited space, such as branch offices and other remote facilities.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure uses Red Hat’s widely deployed virtualization platform, as well as software-defined storage, to more efficiently manage an integrated compute and storage infrastructure across a range of server hardware or networks. To accomplish this, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure was built with a suite of components, integrated to provide a unified experience from installation to management. These include:
The benefits that consolidation with a hyperconverged infrastructure provides:
Removing the storage tier by consolidating compute and storage onto a single server platform/tier offers streamlined deployment and management (enabled by Ansible by Red Hat and Red Hat CloudForms), a single support stack (one vendor to call now instead of two), and simplified planning and procurement (reducing the number of vendors to source from).
Source : http://redhatstorage.redhat.com
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure uses Red Hat’s widely deployed virtualization platform, as well as software-defined storage, to more efficiently manage an integrated compute and storage infrastructure across a range of server hardware or networks. To accomplish this, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure was built with a suite of components, integrated to provide a unified experience from installation to management. These include:
- Red Hat Virtualization – The company’s award-winning Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-powered enterprise virtualization platform.
- Red Hat Gluster Storage – Highly scalable software-defined storage that can be converged on the same hardware as Red Hat Virtualization hosts, removing the need for additional compute infrastructures and simplifying deployment.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux – The world’s leading enterprise Linux platform offers a stable and reliable foundation.
- Ansible by Red Hat – Deployment and management built on the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework, providing automated installation and configuration from a central point.
The benefits that consolidation with a hyperconverged infrastructure provides:
- Eliminate storage as a discrete tier
- Easily virtualize business applications, maximizing resource utilization
- Single budget for compute and storage
- Single team managing infrastructure
- Simplified planning ans procurement
- Streamlined deployment and management
- Single support stack for compute and storage
Removing the storage tier by consolidating compute and storage onto a single server platform/tier offers streamlined deployment and management (enabled by Ansible by Red Hat and Red Hat CloudForms), a single support stack (one vendor to call now instead of two), and simplified planning and procurement (reducing the number of vendors to source from).
Source : http://redhatstorage.redhat.com
