IBM Managed Services for Red Hat OpenStack and Associated Ceph

IBM Managed Services for Red Hat OpenStack and Associated Ceph Storage

Red Hat OpenStack is a software that helps to control a large pool of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center that is managed through a dashboard and central management components.

Clients looking to create a private cloud and have restrictions to moving to the public cloud can choose to have a private cloud either on premises or in an off-premises data center.

Red Hat OpenStack provides the capabilities of effectively running a private cloud. Clients would want a trusted managed services partner to handle the operations in maintaining and managing the private cloud to the requirements of the business. This offering strives to provide an enterprise-grade management service for Red Hat OpenStack and Ceph storage utilized by the OpenStack platform.

IBM Managed Services for Red Hat OpenStack enables clients to adopt a predefined framework based on a set toolchain for monitoring and managing the OpenStack platform and its underlying hardware infrastructure, which can be adopted for new and existing OpenStack deployments. This framework can be used to support other distributions of OpenStack for providing basic OpenStack operations; however, upgrade, backup, and recovery procedures will have to be custom driven based on the specific distribution and version of OpenStack.

Planned availability date: July 28, 2020