Red Hat launches open source hyper-converged infrastructure
Red Hat has launched what it claims is the first open source hyper-converged infrastructure product on the market.Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) combines a number of Red Hat software products that can be deployed on recommended server hardware.The foundation is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system (OS). This is host to Red Hat Virtualization, the company’s KVM-based hypervisor environment, while storage comes from Red Hat Gluster Storage. The whole is provisioned and configured using Red Hat’s Ansible management software.