“It’s an exciting time for EMC in this new development model where we have EMC employees developing code directly that can help solve big industry challenges while advancing new technologies in a way that everyone can participate in, contribute, criticise and collaborate. RackHD, CoprHD and REX-Ray are technologies that address significant challenges in the software-defined data centre. We hope that by making these technologies open and accessible that our collective efforts with the development community will benefit a broad range of organisations and applications,” said John Roese, Senior Vice President and CTO, EMC.
EMC explains that modern data centres are a mix of multivendor storage, networking and servers with an increasing variety of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware being used for powering hyperscale use cases. Installing low-level operating systems or updating firmware and BIOS across numerous devices is cumbersome and becomes more difficult and costly at hyperscale.
Developers can use the RackHD API as a component in a larger orchestration system or create a user interface for managing hardware services regardless of the underlying hardware in place. It is designed to help organisations accelerate deployment of modern (Platform 3) applications that rely on large numbers of commodity servers and heterogeneous infrastructure.
A RackHD project community has been established through EMC {code}, the Community Onramp for Developer Enablement, to encourage contributions that will extend heterogeneous device support as well as to develop useful new features for the software-defined data centre.
A new version of CoprHD open source storage automation software is also available. CoprHD centralises and transforms multivendor storage into a simple and extensible platform. The CoprHD Community made its first official release with CoprHD 2.4 to include new features, projects, community contributors and a new licensing switch to Apache License, Version 2.0. The new release expands the scope of CoprHD to include EMC ECS object storage, as well as a new REST API for EMC XtremIO 4.0 software.
RackHD was created to automate and simplify these fundamental tasks across a broad range of data centre hardware, offering hardware management and orchestration (M&O) services that automate discovery, description, provisioning and programming across a broad range of servers. RackHD currently supports many Intel proessor-based data centre servers, plus discovery and monitoring for switches. A roadmap has also been developed to add networking devices in the future.
Developers can use the RackHD API as a component in a larger orchestration system or create a user interface for managing hardware services regardless of the underlying hardware in place. It is designed to help organisations accelerate deployment of modern (Platform 3) applications that rely on large numbers of commodity servers and heterogeneous infrastructure.
A RackHD project community has been established through EMC {code}, the Community Onramp for Developer Enablement, to encourage contributions that will extend heterogeneous device support as well as to develop useful new features for the software-defined data centre.
A new version of CoprHD open source storage automation software is also available. CoprHD centralises and transforms multivendor storage into a simple and extensible platform. The CoprHD Community made its first official release with CoprHD 2.4 to include new features, projects, community contributors and a new licensing switch to Apache License, Version 2.0. The new release expands the scope of CoprHD to include EMC ECS object storage, as well as a new REST API for EMC XtremIO 4.0 software.
EMC has also shared that Intel and Oregon State University are the CoprHD Community's newest contributors. Intel is leading a project to integrate Keystone with CoprHD, allowing the use of the Cinder API and/or the CoprHD API to provide block storage services. This feature allows organisations to provide a single storage management interface with CoprHD for their OpenStack services.
In an effort to further expand the CoprHD ecosystem, the CoprHD Community has developed a southbound software development kit (SDK) to allow storage vendors and other third parties to more easily add support for other storage systems to CoprHD. Students at Oregon State University are developing the first plugin using the SouthBound SDK for a new EMC ScaleIO driver. This will eventually replace the ScaleIO driver in the current release and will serve as a test case for further development of the SouthBound SDK.
EMC also announced a new release of its REX-Ray storage orchestration engine. REX-Ray is an open source project driven by EMC {code} that delivers persistent storage access for container runtimes including those provided by Docker, Mesos and others. It is designed to enable advanced storage functionality across common storage, virtualisation and cloud platforms.
The 0.3 release contains a variety of new updates through community contribution including expanded storage platform support for Google Compute Engine (GCE) as well as EMC Isilon and EMC VMAX storage systems.
In an effort to further expand the CoprHD ecosystem, the CoprHD Community has developed a southbound software development kit (SDK) to allow storage vendors and other third parties to more easily add support for other storage systems to CoprHD. Students at Oregon State University are developing the first plugin using the SouthBound SDK for a new EMC ScaleIO driver. This will eventually replace the ScaleIO driver in the current release and will serve as a test case for further development of the SouthBound SDK.
EMC also announced a new release of its REX-Ray storage orchestration engine. REX-Ray is an open source project driven by EMC {code} that delivers persistent storage access for container runtimes including those provided by Docker, Mesos and others. It is designed to enable advanced storage functionality across common storage, virtualisation and cloud platforms.
The 0.3 release contains a variety of new updates through community contribution including expanded storage platform support for Google Compute Engine (GCE) as well as EMC Isilon and EMC VMAX storage systems.
Said James Watters, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Platform Business, Pivotal: “Through a partnership with the RackHD Project team, Pivotal can now enable bare metal and hybrid deployments for the first time. The power and adaptability of RackHD has allowed for a transition from concept to demonstration of technology in just two weeks with no changes to the core CloudFoundry code.”
Added Bev Crair, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Group, Intel: “End-user demands for flexible, reliable performance of IT services are driving a shift in the storage industry towards software-defined storage solutions. The CoprHD Software-Defined Storage controller enables cloud platforms, such as OpenStack, to manage heterogeneous storage. This aligns with Intel’s commitment and contributions to the open source community and our efforts to accelerate development of software-defined storage solutions.”
Added Bev Crair, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Group, Intel: “End-user demands for flexible, reliable performance of IT services are driving a shift in the storage industry towards software-defined storage solutions. The CoprHD Software-Defined Storage controller enables cloud platforms, such as OpenStack, to manage heterogeneous storage. This aligns with Intel’s commitment and contributions to the open source community and our efforts to accelerate development of software-defined storage solutions.”
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The RackHD project is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/RackHD. CoprHD 2.4 is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and is hosted at https://coprhd.org/. REX-Ray 0.3 is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and is hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/emccode/rexray.
View the features available on the RackHD for the software-defined data centre on the Project community page on GitHub
View the features and supported platforms available for CoprHD on the Project CoprHD community page
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