OpenStack early adopter evaluation

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Red Hat OpenStack

Community-invented, Red Hat-hardened

Ready for a truly open, flexible, and cost-effective framework for hosting private cloud workloads? Using Red Hat® OpenStack lets you take advantage of the largest and fastest-growing open source cloud infrastructure project, while maintaining the security, stability, and enterprise readiness of a platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.

Differentiate your business. Partner with Red Hat.

As a Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network member, you assure your customers that they’re engaging with an industry-leading solution provider that works with Red Hat—a top OpenStack project contributor–to test and certify the joint solution components as validated and fully supported. We give you the resources to build expertise around Red Hat OpenStack, expand your visibility to more than 1 million Red Hat customers, and much more. Learn about the benefits of the partner network.

Why Red Hat OpenStack?

When you partner with us, we help your organization:

  • Move from traditional workloads to cloud-enabled workloads on your terms, on your timeline, and as your applications require.
  • Improve service-level agreements (SLAs) with faster IT service delivery.
  • Avoid vendor lock-in by moving to open technologies while maintaining your existing infrastructure investments.

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack is an open source project for building a private or public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud running on standard hardware. The typical analogy is that OpenStack gives you public cloud-like capabilities in your datacenter.

» Read the Red Hat OpenStack FAQs

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls all the infrastructure—compute, storage, and networking—resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a central dashboard.

Currently, we offer 2 ways to start benefiting from Red Hat OpenStack: a fully supported version for early adopters or a 90-day evaluation.

» Contact sales for details on how to get started.

Red Hat OpenStack enterprise early adopters

If you’re ready to deploy a fully supported Red Hat OpenStack production environment now, consider our early adopter version. You can take advantage of the fast pace of OpenStack development without risking the stability and supportability of your production environment. As a Red Hat OpenStack customer, your needs are represented by Red Hat in the OpenStack community, where we’re one of the top corporate contributors and a major presence in all of the OpenStack subprojects.

» Contact sales for details on how to get started

90-day Red Hat OpenStack evaluation

If you’re interested in testing the OpenStack waters first, get the 90-day Red Hat OpenStack evaluation. Getting started is easy and free—just fill out the form. (You'll need a redhat.com account. If you don't have one, you’ll be prompted to create one—it’s quick and easy.)

The Red Hat OpenStack evaluation only works with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 or higher. The evaluation includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions that let you create a 3-node OpenStack test cluster. You can use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions both as the host operating system for OpenStack and as the guest operating system for all the virtual machines managed by OpenStack.

» Sign up to start your evaluation

The fine print: The evaluation software you are downloading is for testing purposes only. It’s free, unsupported, and not for production use. The evaluation has been updated to include a channel for the Folsom version of OpenStack. The existing Essex evaluation channel will be available for users who want to remain on it.

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