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Red Hat® Cloud Suite combines multiple Red Hat products that are optimized to work together as a hybrid cloud with unified and easy-to-use management.
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What is Red Hat Cloud Suite?
Red Hat Cloud Suite provides a container-based application development platform, which is built on a massively-scalable cloud infrastructure and managed through a common management solution. Red Hat Cloud Suite delivers public cloud-like services to developers and to businesses while maintaining control and visibility.
With Red Hat Cloud Suite, users can build a private cloud based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform with public cloud-like scalability, or on Red Hat Virtualization with high-performance virtualization. Both of these choices provide secure and scalable foundations for hosting the development platform known as OpenShift Enterprise, which automates the development and administration of container-based applications.
Red Hat Cloud Suite Features
Red Hat Cloud Suite Tools
Included with Red Hat Cloud Suite are serveral tools that will help you streamline installation and select the appropriate components for your deployment.
QuickStart Cloud Installer
The QuickStart Cloud Installer is a web-based graphical user interface for provisioning cloud products. In one straight-forward installation, you can use it to install and configure a single product or multiple products, including Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Satellite, OpenShift Enterprise, and Red Hat CloudForms.
Its single, intuitive web-based graphical user interface eliminates the need to switch between different installation methods and interfaces for each product.
Feature Compatibility Matrices
A Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure or Red Hat Cloud Suite subscription provides access to multiple Red Hat products with complementary feature sets. This reference summarizes the specific interoperability and feature compatibility considerations across the various product releases to better understand supportability of specific features.
Cloud Deployment Planner
If you plan on deploying multiple products, using this tool will help you determine which product versions to deploy. The Feature Compatibility Tool will help you understand which product versions will work well together and the Life Cycle Compatibility Tool will tell you which versions have compatible support lifecycles.
Red Hat Cloud Suite Products
Red Hat Cloud Suite combines multiple Red Hat products optimized to work together to increase ease of use and management. Your subscription to Red hat Cloud Suite includes the following:
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
The ideal platform for your business to build a private cloud or for service providers to construct a public cloud. With Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, you also get all the advantages of Ceph Storage technology.
OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat
An open, hybrid Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that lets developers quickly develop, host, scale, and deliver apps in the cloud.
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is an enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that takes you beyond bare metal to an open, agile foundation that's able to scale to meet future challenges from evolving technology and business demands.
Red Hat CloudForms
A comprehensive IaaS cloud management platform that improves your virtual and cloud infrastructures with advanced capacity planning and resource management features.
Red Hat Satellite
The easiest way to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux, keeping your systems running efficiently, properly secured, and compliant with various standards.
Red Hat Insights
Red Hat Insights is a modern infrastructure management service that enables customers to proactively identify and resolve configuration risks before they impact business operations. Fueled by deep technical knowledge and extensive experience with enterprise customers, Red Hat Insights analyzes IT infrastructure, identifies issues, and delivers clear, tailored, and actionable recommendations.
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Block device storage and object gateway storage are available in a single solution. Red Hat Ceph Storage has a software-defined architecture you can integrate into your existing hardware and infrastructure for lower capital costs and more flexibility. Even better for your IT environment, Ceph Storage offers robust, multi-tenant storage for cloud and virtualization applications like Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Amazon Web Services.
get started with Red hat Cloud suite
instructions
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Decide what products you want to deploy
Which Red Hat products from the Red Hat Cloud Suite do you want to deploy? Which do you already have deployed?
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Use the interoperability planning tools to deteremine which product versions will work together
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Install each product
Use the linked installation information below to install each product:
Additional Resources
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat CloudForms
- Installing CloudForms on OpenStack Platform
- Installing CloudForms on RHEV
- Installing CloudForms on VWware vSphere
Red Hat Satellite
OpenShift by Red Hat
Red Hat Ceph Storage
The QuickStart Cloud Installer provides a streamlined prescriptive deployment for the following products:
- Red Hat Satellite 6.2
- Red Hat CloudForms 4.1
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.0
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0
- OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 (RHV support only)
instructions
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Install the QuickStart Cloud Installer
- Obtain the Quickstart Cloud Installer packages by downloading the ISO file or by using the Red Hat Subscription Manager to subscribe your system.
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Choose the installation method you want:
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ISO installation method:
- launch the ISO and select Install Red Hat QuickStart Cloud Installer 1.0.
- On boot, the machine will automatically run fusor-installier--foreman-admin-password=changeme
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RPM installation method:
- manually input these commands:
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ISO installation method:
yum install qci
thenfusor-installer--foreman-admin-password=changeme
- Configure the networking details for the QuickStart Cloud Installer machine
- Change the default password for the administration user
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Select your private cloud infrastructure
For some information on when you would use one versus the other, please see the Red Hat Cloud Suite Planning and Engineering Guide .
Red Hat Virtualization
- Plan for networking.
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Prepare the nodes to be used for the Red Hat Virtualization installation:
- For a standard Red Hat Virtualization (Hypervisor + Engine) you need two nodes.
- For a self-hosted engine Red Hat Virtualization, you need only one node.
- Verify the discovered nodes.
- Set up shared NSF or Gluster storage.
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In the QuickStart Cloud Installer menu, choose New Deployment and
- select Red Hat Virtualization.
- select OpenShift Enterprise, should you elect to use it.
- select Red Hat CloudForms, should you elect to use it.
- Configure the Satellite and Red Hat Virtualization components and then the CloudForms and subscriptions component.
- Verify the installation configuration settings and click on Deploy.
- Verify the deployment.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Plan for networking.
- Obtain the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Undercloud packages by downloading the ISO file or using Red Hat Subscription Manager to subscribe your system.
- Prepare two Red Hat OpenStack Platform Overcloud nodes.
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In the QuickStart Cloud Installer menu, choose New Deployment and
- select Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
- select Red Hat CloudForms, should you elect to use it.
- Configure the Satellite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform components and then the CloudForms and subscriptions component.
- Verify the installation configuration settings and click on Deploy.
- Verify the deployment.
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