Red Hat OpenStack Platform Reviews

The all features the product have, the installation and configuration is very easy.

This product is not for all customers. The customer need a lot expertise to understand the configuration.

The network is neutron, and that product need troubleshooting to fix the communication.

Telco Cloud and data plane reliable. Integrates well in ETSI Model archiecture with VNF Manager

Upgrades are disruptive and very complex. Release life cycle is very short for carrier grade use cases.

Can be expanded very quickly with scale out. Running virtual machines on the cloud with migration capability. Scales well for data plane with high capacity.

Redhat OpenStack is essential for enterprises because -

1. It is relatively cheaper than other cloud management systems (CMS) like VMware, Oracle, etc

2. Community-wide support & availability of support personnel in the market.

We are using OpenStack in all the company virtualized clouds, I can say OpenStack is the best NFVI platform we had operated even with the cons I mentioned in my review below. OpenStack provides great performance and allows the easiest cloud and service expansion/scalability and overall the best choice for critical service and carrier-grade service providers.

We have OpenStack Version 13 installed 2 Years ago, our Cloud mainly depends on Red Hat product portfolio including Red Hat Ceph Storage, Satellite, Smart management, etc.., what I would say is that the upgrade path from v13 to 16 is very complicated even all the integrated products are Red Hat. The release upgrade has a lot of steps and each one takes a lot of time while the product life cycle is too short, it's not a streaght forward upgrade and has many workarounds. I would recommend Red Hat make some effort in this area and make release upgrades easier.

the strength key of OpenStack is the clarity of integration, OpenStack allows us to weave out the headache of the integration complexity with third-party plugins, packages, and products.

Easy to use and highly scalable. Good product support too

Dashboard UI needs a few minor improvements

We are able to save a lot of cost by replacing physical hardware servers by openstack. Instances can be spawned on need basis , unused stacks can be easliy deleted.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform is amazing while supporting our day-to-day operations for a long time neer to 6 years. It is great in terms of security and commands of execution time and operational cost. It is speedier enough to support carrier-grade traffic!!.

Red Hat OpenStack platform could be better if this comes with a handy guide to set it up. For a fresher. Also, one comment for the user's privilege while creating a new project has some limitation on making a specific assigned to the storage to determine if it is local or external.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides secure and safe for the infrastructure hardware and applications stack. It can be attacked only if you don't follow the guideline properly.

Red Hat OSP is the most reliable and stable cloud platform that can deploy over any infrastructure hardware, So with OSP you can combine and manage different hardware resources, networking, and Storage. OSP includes many modules that help in deploying run, rebuilding instances, and managing the infrastructure and the NFV over the hypervisor layers.

Red Hat has to add a self-monitoring component to be part of OpenStack and don't rely on third-party software. also, make the deployment and upgrades easier. also if I would say I hope Redhat to make the OSP life cycle more extended for the releases end of extended support.

OSP is included in the RedHat subscription so with one Redhat subscription I can manage the product support, training, license, and all Redhat stuff, which is a very beneficial feature from RedHat.

The services provided by OpenStack along with the APIs to access them and integrate with code is the best part.

RedHat OpenStack takes huge memory to run, so it required devices with high configuration. But that is okay if we are building a private cloud.

Built a private cloud that can be used to store extremely private on-premises. Also, for testing purposes, if we already have hardware available then building a private cloud will save the money to invest in the public cloud.

Use of openstack in IT industry to resolve real world problem.

Nothing. All the services provided in red hat openstack covers everything, which requires in IT industry.

Setup

Production grade Openstack deployments and upgrades (especially upgrades) are a cloud operator's nightmare. RHOSP takes the pain away since the Redhat engineers do the heavy lifting for you.

Understandably due to the amount of testing that is required, the RHOSP release is significantly behind the community edition release. RHOSP is currently at W release whilst the CE release is at Antelope and soon to release Bob. The cost of RHOSP is not for the faint hearted either.

Looked into RHOSP to ease our Openstack release upgrade nightmares. It seemed like it would have eased the upgrade process significantly.