Red Hat Inc. announced a preview of its new technology capabilities for OpenStack community’s new Manila project. Red Hat’s Gluster Storage now provides enterprises with a scale-out shared file system service for OpenStack cloud infrastructures. These capabilities expand the options for hybrid cloud storage.
Red Hat Inc. announced a preview of its new technology capabilities for OpenStack community’s new Manila project. Red Hat’s Gluster Storage now provides enterprises with a scale-out shared file system service for OpenStack cloud infrastructures. These capabilities expand the options for hybrid cloud storage.
OpenStack Manila project is a community-driven innovation that provisions and manages distributed file systems for OpenStack clouds. Manila’s framework provides a vendor-neutral management API for provisioning and attaching different shared file systems and operates alongside the existing OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) services.
Not only was Red Hat the initial software-defined storage member of the OpenStack Manila project they also led the development of OpenStack Manila’s IFS-Ganesha component. The IFS-Ganesha component abstracts Manila file shares from underlying hardware and allows them to grow, shrink or migrate across physical resources. Combining Red Hat’s Gluster Storage with IFS-Ganesha component enables customers to add or remove storage servers from the system dynamically while data remains online allowing the system to rebalance across the available hardware. Now customers will have the flexibility of open, software-defined storage for delivering the file share elasticity required for enterprise public cloud deployments.
Availability
Customers can download and test the functionality OpenStack Manila today from the OpenStack RDO community-supported distribution with the RDO Packstack Installer. The upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 release will include Red Hat Gluster Storage with Manila technology preview.
