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exercises designed to expose them to
different administrative and operational
tasks with both Red Hat OpenShift and
Red Hat Container-Native Storage.
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
defined container-native storage
addresses the challenges with the ability
to merge the storage services with
the container platform like any other
container service and runs on physical,
virtual, public cloud and even on top of
traditional storage appliances.
Existing traditional storage
architectures do not always offer this
level of inherent scale and flexibility
and, as a result, can fall short of
unlocking the full potential of container
application platforms like Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform. With Red
Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, Red
Hat includes the following new features:
• Versatile storage platform for
containers enabling customers to
manage, scale, and upgrade their
storage needs using a single control
plane helping customers to achieve
greater storage efficiency and cost
savings. Red Hat Container-Native
Storage now offers support for file,
block, and object interfaces, enabling
container applications portability
to the container platform without
change. The addition of block storage
(via iSCSI) provides support for
distributed databases and other low-
latency workloads like Elasticsearch,
while the addition of object storage
(under Technology Preview) provides
an embedded object store within Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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for cloud-native applications needing
Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3) like protocol support.
• Support for all core infrastructure
elements of Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, including its
registry, logging, and metrics. Support
for these core components enables
storage administrators to have Red
Hat Container-Native Storage for
infrastructure out-of-the-box, without
needing to use disparate storage
systems for different infrastructure
aspects and have one integrated
platform with simplified management,
procurement, and support.
• Three-fold increase in the number
of applications and microservices
deployed on a single storage
cluster. Increased persistent volume
density offers customers greater
resource utilisation.
Test Drive Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform with Container-
Native Storage
Red Hat is also rolling out a new
OpenShift Container Platform with
Container-Native Storage Test Drive,
enabling customers to simulate Red Hat
OpenShift deployments via the public
cloud. This Test Drive aims to provide
an inquiring administrator with a full
multi-node Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform cluster, running in the cloud.
Customers will be able to explore lab
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and
general manager, Storage, Red Hat,
said: “As enterprises deploy containers,
many see a need for storage solutions
designed specifically for these types
of systems. Red Hat Container-Native
Storage, optimised for multi/hybrid cloud
deployments with Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, offers that.
“The addition of support for a broad
range of storage workloads, the support
for the Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform’s core infrastructure pieces,
and increased persistent volume density
are key features to help customers
support present and future datacentres,
and all further strengthen the tight
integration of Red Hat Container-
Native Storage with Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform.”
Henry Baltazar, Research vice president,
451 Research, added: “As enterprises
move over to hybrid cloud infrastructures
and support on premise and public
cloud deployments, they need to ensure
support for containerised applications
and infrastructure with a secure,
integrated storage platform. Next-
generation workloads like microservices
and containers are going to demand
more agility and scalability from storage
systems, which will have a direct impact
on TCO. Red Hat Container-Native Storage
enables customers to move to a single
integrated container platform across their
hybrid cloud infrastructure, creating a
versatile storage platform for containers
while simplifying management.”
Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6 is
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