Red Hat CloudForms

Managing private and hybrid clouds requires new management capabilities that need to be tightly integrated to ensure operations efficiency, resource optimization, and high availability.

The underlying complexity and highly dynamic nature of cloud environments require solutions that simplify operations and administration so the focus can be on service delivery—not building, integrating, and maintaining a portfolio of disparate management tools. Enterprises should avoid cloud “tool sprawl,” which requires separate tools for each different environment, platform, and service delivery model.

Red Hat CloudForms provides unified cloud management that enables organizations to rapidly transform their existing virtual infrastructures into highly scalabe, private clouds as well as take advantage of public cloud resources.

CloudForms supports VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Amazon Web Services.

What's New in 3.0

• User-interface changes: Infrastructure and Clouds have been broken into two separate tabs, and you can easily view and manage everything per-platform with aggregated information on the Services tab.
• New support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform: CloudForms 3.0 fills a management gap by providing self-service provisioning, workflow processes with approvals, capacity and utilization, quota enforcement, intelligent workload placement, and post provisioning operations, giving customers full life-cycle management of OpenStack workloads.
• Enhanced support for Amazon Web Services: CloudForms 3.0 now supports the use of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Identify and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon Machine Instances (AMI), in addition to providing policies, role-based access controls, approval workflow, and quota management to govern Amazon usage.
• Provisioning and retirement of multi-tier services: CloudForms 3.0 allows enterprises to easily build and manage services constructed from infrastructure living on different platforms (e.g., database server/VM on VMware, application server/VM on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, web server/VM on Amazon).
• Improved support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: CloudForms 3.0 now supports provisioning from templates (in addition to ISO and PXE provisioning). This means faster provisioning from a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment.
• We now have CloudForms appliances that run on VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and all have been updated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

Recommended Videos

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  Introducing CloudForms

  At this year's Red Hat Summit, Product Manager Chris Wells took some time to chat about Red Hat's newest cloud offering: CloudForms. In this interview, Chris discusses what CloudForms is, typical use cases, and integration with other virtualization products like vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

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  Getting Started Building Private Red Hat Clouds

  Join Scott Collier, Vinny Valdez, Steve Reichard, and Jan Mark Holzer in this one-hour webinar that discusses how to get started building private Red Hat clouds. Topics include an overview of Red Hat Cloud Foundations, where Cloud Foundations fits with CloudForms, cloud terminology, creating IaaS Clouds with Cloud Foundations, and how to deploy Cloud Foundations.