Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure

2017: Announcement

In June, 2017 Red Hat presented the first in the range hyper convergent infrastructure solution. With its help representations, remote from head office, will get access to opportunities of data centers.

The producer positions a product under the name Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure as the first hyper convergent infrastructure with completely open source code (Open Source). The platform includes the hypervisor of Red Hat Virtualization constructed on open KVM technology, the software-defined storage system of Red Hat Gluster created on the GlusterFS project, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and the system of the centralized automated deployment and configuration management without use of software agents of Red Hat Ansible.

Red Hat provided the first hyper convergent infrastructure

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is urged to solve an absence problem in remote divisions of those northern capacities and resources which the central office of the company has. The solution allows to start infrastructure services using only one server and supports horizontal scaling. Thanks to Red Hat Ansible the platform allows to involve the high-performance systems in remote branches without involvement of the qualified IT specialists on places.^[1]

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure is aimed at clients who want to simplify infrastructure of data centers, the marketing director of the products Red Hat Ross Turk noted.

The market of the integrated systems continues to grow, and hyper convergent platforms take in it more and more places — the analyst the analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group Terri McClure says. — The organization of remote offices and branches can represent a difficult task in terms of their IT equipment, and the hyper convergent systems well are suitable for this purpose. Having released Hyperconverged Infrastructure, Red Hat took promising and very timely step taking into account the growing demand for the hyper convergent solutions capable not only to satisfy requirements of remote offices, but also fitting into the general trend of transition to software-defined IT infrastructures.

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