Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is only supported for use with the libvirt driver (using KVM as the hypervisor on Compute nodes) or the VMware vCenter hypervisor driver. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/744153 for more information regarding the configuration of the VMware vCenter driver.

This release also includes Ironic as a technology preview. Ironic allows for the provision of bare-metal machines using common technologies (such as PXE boot and IPMI) to cover a wide range of hardware, while supporting pluggable drivers to allow the addition of vendor-specific functionality.

Red Hat does not provide support for other Compute virtualization drivers such as the deprecated VMware "direct-to-ESX" hypervisor, and non-KVM libvirt hypervisors.