Red Hat Storage Console is management infrastructure that enables you to create a powerful, scalable storage environment.
It provides IT departments with the tools to meet the challenges of managing complex environments. It enables administrators to reduce the cost and complexity of large deployments. Red Hat Storage Console platform includes:
- High availability to quickly create and manage Red Hat Storage clusters and volumes.
- Multi-level administration to enable administration of physical infrastructure as well as administration of virtual objects.
The various components work seamlessly together to enable the system administrator to set up, configure, and maintain the storage environment through an intuitive graphical interface.
Red Hat Storage platform consists of one or more servers and at least one console. The system and all its components are managed through a centralized management system.
Red Hat Storage Console is a service running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 server that provides interfaces for controlling the Red Hat Storage platform. It manages provisioning, connection protocols, user session logons and logoffs, and the high availability and clustering systems.
A Red Hat Storage Server is a trusted network of storage servers. When you start the first server, the storage pool consists of that server alone. You can add additional storage servers to the cluster. Red Hat Storage volumes are created on these clusters. The system and all its components are managed through a centralized management system.