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With added support for NFS and POSIX file system types, this significantly reduces the amount of storage and time required, by backing up only the incremental changes since the last full state backup. Incremental Backup - Storage administrators can now benefit from faster block storage backups and reduced capacity needs with support for snapshot-based backups. In addition, version 7 expands the high availability for Neutron routers and improves the monitoring and reporting of the router to help network operators maintain uptime. Network operators can benefit from several IPv6 enhancements, including the ability to support direct network routing between tenants and the external gateway. Network flexibility - New Neutron networking features offer greater flexibility and improved network redundancy. Version 7 introduces this via the Neutron modular layer 2 (ML2) and Open vSwitch (OVS) port security mechanisms included in the community Kilo release. This allows customers to maintain a tightened security level over the greater OpenStack cloud, while allowing virtualized network function (VNF) traffic through each virtual machine, as necessary. Greater security control - Telco customers now have greater granularity and control over network traffic ports at the virtual machine level. This new capability monitors host nodes and includes the ability to automatically evacuate virtual machines from hosts, restarting workloads on alternate, available hosts. Traditional workloads requiring high availability on OpenStack - Making it easier to migrate traditional, business-critical applications that require high availability to OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 introduces compute host node high availability through integrated, automated monitoring and failover services from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Based on the community-driven OpenStack management project TripleO, the new director combines multiple technologies to offer a single powerful tool which also establishes a new framework that can be used for live orchestrated OpenStack and director upgrades for version 7 and subsequent releases. Additionally it eases daily operational management and resource provisioning for cloud operators, including an automated “ready-state” provisioning of bare-metal resources to simplify the deployment and repurposing of hardware resources on an on-demand basis. It offers a simplified and automated cloud installation tool with system-wide health checking for a proper deployment. Simplified deployment and management - Cloud operators now have a simpler means of day-to-day operation management and resource provisioning, using the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director. Version 7 includes several new features aimed at accelerating the adoption of OpenStack including: Originally launched in 2013, this new release is Red Hat’s fifth iteration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which has been successfully deployed worldwide by customers in key verticals including public sector, financial, telecommunications, and education. This combination addresses the critical dependencies OpenStack has on Linux and provides a highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform for building private or public clouds. Jim McHugh vice president of products and solutions marketing for Cisco Unified Computing System™ and Data Center, Ciscoīased on the OpenStack community “ Kilo ” release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is a co-engineered solution that starts with the proven and trusted foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and integrates with Red Hat’s OpenStack technology to form a production-ready cloud platform. As a testament to our strong collaboration in engineering and development, the new functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 announced today will also be immediately available on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure.” Customers are dramatically simplifying and accelerating their OpenStack deployments using Cisco UCS® and UCS Service Profiles and experiencing time-to-delivery of new cloud services and applications much faster. "It's been nearly a year since the announcement of Unified Computing System Integrated Infrastructure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (UCSO).