New Release of the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
This week, we’re thinking about Red Hat, particularly as we are in Boston for the Red Hat Summit (May 2-4) and the week after for the OpenStack Summit (May 8-11). And we have some exciting news to share!
Today we are announcing the next generation of the Dell EMC Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a complete, proven and production-grade cloud platform jointly engineered and validated by Dell EMC and Red Hat. This release features Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) 10, a massively-scalable and agile cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution based on the upstream OpenStack ‘Newton’ release.
What’s New?
This release delivers new and enhanced capabilities not only in features but also in ordering, deployment, and support capabilities, as well. Savvy readers may notice a slight change to the solution name and release numbering. Beginning now, we are aligning the solution release numbering to that of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, for greater simplicity. So what, then, is new in release 10?
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 and Ceph Storage 2 – First, as mentioned, this release is based on OSP 10, which enhances the Ready Bundle by delivering streamlined operations and management, increased system-wide scalability, and improved orchestration, network performance, and platform security. Also included is an upgrade to Ceph Storage 2, a massively scalable, software defined storage platform for cloud infrastructure that supports block, object, and file storage in a single open and unified platform.
Dell EMC PowerEdge FX Converged Architecture – Based on customer demand, this release introduces support for the PowerEdge FX-series converged modular server and storage platforms, providing greater choice and flexibility for Dell EMC’s OpenStack customers. In Release 10, we support the groundbreaking PowerEdge FX modular chassis along with the FC630 server for OpenStack compute and controller nodes, and the FC630 server with FD332 storage for massive direct attached storage capacity in easily scalable increments.
JetPack Automation Toolkit – One of the hallmarks of the Ready Bundle for Red Hat OpenStack Platform is the rapid and automated deployment experience that we have refined and optimized over the years. With this release, we are pleased to announce the availability of a powerful automation toolkit called JetPack, a single package for configuring the underlying hardware and the OpenStack software in a fully automated fashion.