RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, the next generation of its open software-defined storage platform. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2, based on the Ceph Jewel release, introduces several new capabilities that enhance support for object storage workloads and promote greater ease of use.
Ceph was designed from the ground up to enable and support enterprises' digital transformation efforts through web scale object and cloud infrastructures. As an object storage solution, it is well-suited for enterprises with deployments approaching a petabyte of data or more. Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 brings enhanced capabilities for enterprise object storage customers who are demanding scale, increased security, and strong compatibility with industry-standard APIs.
New object storage features in Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 include:
- New global object storage clusters, which provide a single namespace and data synchronization between clusters operating in multiple regions.
- Improved security via integration with authentication systems, including Active Directory, LDAP, and OpenStack Identity (Keystone) v3.
- Enhanced Amazon S3 and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) compatibility, including support for AWS v4 Client Signatures, object versioning, bulk deletes, and more.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 also debuts Red Hat Storage Console 2, a storage management and monitoring system with a redesigned, streamlined user interface. This new technology simplifies both the deployment and operational management of Ceph, making scale-out storage accessible to a wider range of users while reducing deployment time from days to hours in tests conducted by Red Hat. Building on Ansible as a foundation, Red Hat Storage Console 2 delivers a single, clean, and modern graphical interface to proactively monitor and manage health, performance, and capacity utilization.
Red Hat also announced a tech preview of CephFS, the POSIX-compliant file system that uses a Ceph storage cluster to store its data and can be used with the OpenStack Manila service. This is a continuation of Red Hat’s ongoing commitment to complete and tightly integrated storage for OpenStack environments.
Availability
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 is scheduled for availability this summer.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“We
are thrilled to release Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and expand our
capabilities around ease of use and robust object storage support. This
latest version of the product is the most significant update to Red Hat
Ceph Storage since we acquired Inktank in 2014. We believe our customers
will find Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 to be a full-featured,
technically-advanced storage platform that’s easy to use and helps them
manage vast quantities of data at the enterprise level. Red Hat Ceph
Storage 2, combined with Red Hat’s broad services and support offerings,
gives customers a strong foundation to enable their digital
transformation.”
Greg Lissy, vice president, enterprise product management, Citrix
“Citrix
is committed to supporting our customers by enabling them to more
securely access their data regardless of the storage infrastructure they
choose. By collaborating with Red Hat and certifying Red Hat Ceph
Storage for use with Citrix ShareFile, we continue to develop solutions
that help our customers embrace digital business transformation, all
while remaining competitive.”
James Mouton, vice president and general manager, Dell Extreme Scale
Infrastructure
“Dell continues to partner with Red Hat in
developing next-generation, cost-effective storage solutions in our
Extreme Scale Infrastructure and OpenStack Cloud solutions with Red Hat
Ceph Storage 2. Our DSS 7000 server, with its massive 720TB capacity in
a single 4U chassis and 1 or 2 addressable servers, offers ideal
flexibility for multi-petabyte scale-out and archival storage making use
of Ceph's enhanced object storage feature set. We look forward to
showcasing the ground-breaking capabilities this innovative solution can
deliver for our customers at Red Hat Summit 2016.”
Blair Bethwaite, senior HPC consultant, Monash eResearch Centre
"Red
Hat Ceph Storage 2 is a powerful, scalable and unified software-defined
storage platform that has enabled us to liberate data services to the
many and varied needs of researchers. With Red Hat Ceph Storage, the
problem of taming and retaining vast amounts of research data is no
longer a grand challenge, and as a testament to that scalability we have
built the largest Ceph deployment in the southern hemisphere. Using Red
Hat Ceph Storage 2 we are able to manage massive workloads encompassing
5 petabytes of data in a single infrastructure. We would not have been
able to achieve this without the block and object storage capabilities
of Red Hat's solution, we look forward to adding several petabytes of
new storage in Q3 and trialling CephFS with this feature-packed new
release."
Piyanai Saowarattitada, director of engineering, Massachusetts Open
Cloud
"We needed a storage solution that would be
cost-effective, reliable and scalable to accommodate the large amounts
of data our researchers work with every day. We found it with Red Hat
Ceph Storage 2. The Ceph command set is intuitive and easy to use. We
greatly appreciate the comprehensive Red Hat Ceph training and field
deployment support. Their deep knowledge and understanding of our needs
helped pave the way for a successful deployment."
Matt Yonkovit, vice president, Services, Percona
“As more
and more distributed databases reside in public and private clouds they
need to be able to communicate and synchronize quickly and seamlessly.
MySQL on OpenStack - backed by Red Hat Ceph Storage - opens up a
well-performing and affordable option for databases in private cloud
deployments. As a trusted advisor for optimizing open source database
environments, Percona is always looking for approaches and architectures
that intelligently solve customer issues in a cost-effective manner.
Consolidating large numbers of distributed databases on a single elastic
storage cloud infrastructure fits those criteria.”
Jim Elliott, corporate vice president, Memory Marketing, Samsung
Semiconductor, Inc.
“Combining two of the most disruptive
approaches to storage today, our ongoing collaborations with Red Hat
including work with Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 can be viewed as a win-win
for OpenStack datacenter managers by delivering scalable all-flash
storage solutions that provide extremely high IOPS, low latency and
exceptional reliability. We see the software-defined ecosystem as an
integral part of the enterprise storage business and plan to continue to
work very closely with Red Hat to develop the best possible storage
systems for next-generation OpenStack enterprise workloads.”
Gary Lyng, senior director, DCS Marketing, Western Digital
"Red
Hat continues to move the ball forward with its Ceph investments and we
are excited about the latest launch. Sandisk has performed an expansive
amount of performance characterization testing with Red Hat targeted for
Red Hat Ceph Storage deployments that need higher IOPS. The latest
testing of InfiniFlash System IF150 by Sandisk with Red Hat Ceph Storage
has shown it can provide more than one million random read IOPS –
opening up a whole new set of potential workloads for private cloud and
scale out storage."
Additional Resources
- Download the Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Datasheet
- Learn more about Red Hat Storage
- Learn more about Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Read the Red Hat Storage blog
- Read the IDC White Paper: Red Hat Ceph Storage: Object Based Storage Ready for Primetime
- Download the Complete Storage for OpenStack Datasheet
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