Release includes features designed to improve
scalability of metadata-intensive operations, lower infrastructure
costs, and enhance integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Gluster Storage 3.2. This latest version of Red Hat’s
software-defined storage solution includes a number of enhancements
and new features that seek to improve small file performance,
provide data integrity at a lower cost, and enhance integration
with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 addresses an inherent challenge with
network attached storage (NAS) around scaling metadata-intensive
operations, particularly with files under a few megabytes. These
improvements to metadata operations can benefit storage of Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform registries. Container registries, the
heart of a container platform, are critical to resident
applications and need highly elastic, durable storage. In addition,
faster metadata-intensive operations can improve day-to-day
operations by as much as 8x according to Red Hat performance data,
increasing the responsiveness of the storage system at scale and
improving the overall end-user experience.
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 introduces a number of additional
capabilities and improvements:
Deeper integration with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, adding native support for advanced storage services
such as geo-replication and in-flight encryption for applications
deployed in containers. These enhancements, packaged into the
refreshed docker container image that is shipped with the latest
release of the product, can also enable three times as many
persistent volumes (PVs) per cluster according to quality
engineering testing done by Red Hat.
Smaller hardware footprint through arbiter volumes, which
can shrink infrastructure costs while maintaining the same level of
data integrity. Arbiter volumes can resolve conflicts in the event
of data mismatch between two nodes without requiring a third copy
of the data. Customers running traditional NAS use cases such as
backup/restore can achieve the data integrity offered by three-way
replication without incurring the associated cost of hardware,
datacenter space, and power. This can be particularly advantageous
to customers running hyperconverged configurations in
remote-office/branch-office (ROBO) scenarios.
Faster self-healing of erasure coded volumes can minimize
performance impact during repair and healing operations. In
addition, enhancements to self-healing operations can benefit
customers who have deployed Red Hat Gluster Storage with Red Hat
Virtualization to store virtual machine images.
Enhanced monitoring capabilities enabled through native,
asynchronous notifications help to improve day-to-day storage
management. In addition, Red Hat Gluster Storage offers
extensibility through the Nagios open source monitoring framework
to enhance storage operations management.
Supporting QuotesRanga Rangachari, vice president and
general manager, Storage, Red Hat“Modern enterprises tend to think
about software-defined storage in terms of enabling their business
initiatives through digital transformation. It is a key enabler in
the journey to the open hybrid cloud. Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2
marks a milestone in the life of the product. It brings together a
number of innovations that are relevant to the modern CIO.”
Nathan Huber, enterprise architect, Brinker International,
Inc."Red Hat was instrumental in our effort to re-platform the
Chili’s® Grill & Bar primary e-commerce website supporting
online orders. Despite higher than usual web traffic on a recent
holiday, the scale and performance of Red Hat Gluster Storage
helped us to surpass our revenue goals and availability metrics for
our web applications deployed on containers. Red Hat's efforts to
containerize enterprise storage enabled us to build a durable, more
secure, multi-tiered environment using open source components."
Laura DuBois, group vice president, Enterprise Storage, Servers
and Infrastructure Software, IDC“This new release of Red Hat
Gluster Storage becomes available as the software-defined storage
industry is at an inflection point in terms of disrupting the way
storage is consumed by data-driven enterprises. The flexibility of
deployment across virtual machines, containers, and the public
cloud gives Red Hat Gluster Storage an edge compared to
traditional, monolithic storage appliances.”
Jim Elliott, corporate vice president, memory marketing, Samsung
Semiconductor, Inc."We are delighted to continue to expand our
collaboration with Red Hat in the enterprise space to enhance the
performance of Red Hat Gluster Storage using our NVMe SSDs.
Customers looking to run IO-intensive, high-performance workloads
on open source and software-defined NAS such as Red Hat Gluster
Storage, can benefit greatly from our cooperative efforts to
improve performance.”
Additional Resources
- Join the online launch event
- Read the blog post, “An inflection
point in the enterprise storage industry”
- Learn more about Red Hat Gluster
Storage
- Read the Red Hat Storage blog
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