HPE is collaborating with Red Hat to accelerate OpenStack adoption by CSPs worldwide, offering customers more choices through multiple commercial distributions, including HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade and Red Hat Platform OpenStack. Red Hat uses a community-driven approach to product development, including the Red Hat OpenStack platform, which provides a completely open foundation for NFV deployments.
With these new offerings, HPE and Red Hat aim to help customers overcome the inflexibility and high costs associated with expanding data center, applications, and IT, freeing up resources for business innovation. This expanded collaboration allows Red Hat to leverage HPE OpenNFV Labs for virtual network function (VNF) validation and enables Red Hat OpenStack Platform customers to access HPE VNF Onboarding Services. The HPE OpenNFV Solutions Portal is also being expanded to include VNFs from Red Hat partners, providing customers with access to pre-validated solutions that can help simplify deployments.
In addition, HPE and Red Hat are collaborating to certify HPE NFV operations solutions on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, backed by HPE's end-to-end support, including HPE NFV Director for management and orchestration (MANO), HPE Service Director for operations support systems (OSS), HPE VNFs, and the OpenDaylight-based solution, HPE OpenSDN
The Red Hat OpenStack platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage integration will be available with the release of HPE NFV System 1.4. HPE NFV System is a pre-integrated solution suite containing a combination of hardware and software to simplify and accelerate NFV deployments, providing customers with a streamlined end-to-end experience for ordering, deployment, operations, lifecycle management, and services. The packages are fully tested and designed as building blocks that allow customers to start small and scale as their requirements grow. HPE NFV System 1.4 will be available in April 2017 for both HPE Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
