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Red Hat announced general availability of the latest release of its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Beta version of release 4.0 has been out since November.

 

The version is engineered with OpenStack Havana code, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor built on KVM. The release deeply integrates Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the open source cloud architecture and management platform.

 

It continues Red Hat's integration of its infrastructure product portfolio with OpenStack. The portfolio includes CloudForms, a cloud management platform, and Red Hat Storage Server.

 

Key features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 include:

 

- Full support for Foreman, a life cycle management tool for provisioning of physical and virtual infrastructure resources.

 

- Full support for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), which provides a template-based orchestration engine to quickly provision a broad range of infrastructure resources, from new compute nodes and application virtual machines to specifying disk volumes, networks and security groups.

 

- Full support for OpenStack Networking (Neutron). The feature delivers “networking-as-a-service” (software-defined networking) between interface devices, such as virtual network interface cards (vNICs), that are utilized by other OpenStack infrastructure services.

 

- Full support for OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer), a technology for collecting and storing OpenStack resource metering and usage data. It also provides data query services for use with the enterprise operational support systems (OSS) and billing support systems (BSS) that are commonly deployed by service providers.

 

- Integration with Red Hat CloudForms, a unified management interface for Red Hat and non-Red Hat data center virtualization solutions, as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

 

- Enhanced integration with Red Hat Storage Server. Red Hat Storage Server provides OpenStack Object Storage (Swift), OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) and OpenStack Image Service (Glance).