{"id":2582,"date":"2014-05-29T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:14:23","slug":"red-hat-cloudforms-a-cloud-management-platform-for-openstack-more","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/red-hat-cloudforms-a-cloud-management-platform-for-openstack-more","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat CloudForms &#8211; A Cloud Management Platform for OpenStack &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>OpenStack<\/em> is great but it is not an Operating System in itself. It is a group of components with a modular architecture that uses an underlying Operating System like <em>Red Hat Enterprise Linux<\/em> to provide cloud capabilities. And although it has components that provide great cloud features, it needs a management platform to provide capabilities like self-service, service catalog, chargeback, workload life-cycle process, integration with public clouds &amp; a change management process to name some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Further most companies today or in the near future will be using a heterogeneous Cloud environment, where the workloads will be distributed across different virtualization &amp; cloud vendors (Private or Hybrid) like AWS, OpenStack, VMware etc. So you need a management platform that can manage all of them together.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Red Hat&#8217;s CloudForms<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Red Hat&#8217;s CloudForms<\/strong><\/em> provides this (I won&#8217;t say complete but its evolving good &amp; fast) management platform to manage cloud resources across private &amp; hybrid deployments. It also let&#8217;s you transform your virtual infrastructure (e.g. VMware) into a private cloud and with release 3.0 it now supports\u00a0<em>Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform\u00a0<\/em>as well.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you using Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, CloudForms also let&#8217;s you integrate it as an extension of your data center and manage workloads running on AWS from a unified console.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So this means you can now <em>orchestrate and automate<\/em> much of the behavior of the workloads running on your Red Hat OpenStack implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see some of its <em>benefits<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-service provisioning using policies, roles, quota enforcement and chargeback<\/li>\n<li>Ensure availability and performance using resource orchestration<\/li>\n<li>Optimal use of resources using policies<\/li>\n<li>Workflows for automated provisioning of resources<\/li>\n<li>Granular control over workloads<\/li>\n<li>Unified monitoring and management<\/li>\n<li>Proactive planning using simulation of a what-if scenario<\/li>\n<li>Capacity planning based on usage, trends &amp; analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will be writing more about it in some of the future blogs.\u00a0If you liked this post, please share and stay tuned for more articles around <em>OpenStack<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about OpenStack and getting some hands-on, we offer Red Hat OpenStack Administration (CL210) course. If you are interested, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloudthat.in\/course\/red-hat-openstack-administration-cl210\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for more details and to fill out the form. And we will get back to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","blog_category":[3607,3614,3615],"user_email":"sangram@cloudthat.in","published_by":"324","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41904,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2582\/revisions\/41904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}