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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

IT infrastructure is not static. Technology advancements and business demands have pushed

IT departments to embrace hybrid environments — those composed of virtualization, private or

public cloud platforms, and container-based infrastructures. As the platforms have changed, so

have the requirements for IT operations. Now more than ever, managing IT operations means

focusing on enabling services rather than managing systems; establishing trusted processes for

compliance rather than controlling everything; and automating the infrastructure to deliver

greater responsiveness.

Red Hat® CloudForms offers unified management for hybrid environments, providing consistent

processes and functionality across infrastructures. Its self-service ordering with automated

provisioning and policy enforcement helps enterprises accelerate service delivery, and Red Hat

CloudForms gives IT managers complete operational and life-cycle control over the deployed

services. In this way, customers can improve service levels while retaining operational control in

a secure and compliant environment.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Red Hat CloudForms provides IT operations with greater visibility through continuous discovery,

monitoring, and deep inspection of resources. It can provision new resources or discover existing

ones, allowing IT operations staff to visualize and understand the relationships between them,

track down root causes, and plan for future scenarios.

OperationalVisibility

Policy andCompliance

ServiceAutomation

VIRTUALIZATION PUBLIC CLOUDPRIVATE CLOUD

Red Hat OpenStack® PlatformVMware®

Microsoft® Hyper-V

Red Hat Virtualization

Amazon® Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Google® Cloud Platform

CONTAINERS

Red Hat Atomic | Red Hat® OpenShift

SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING

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Unified HybridManagement

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Comprehensive manage-

ment across virtualization,

private cloud, public cloud, and

container-based environments.

COMPLETE LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Go beyond self-service and

gain provisioning, integration,

resource management, opera-

tional management, retirement,

and financial reporting.

OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY

Discover and map resources

and their relationships. Keep

up to date with continual moni-

toring of managed resources.

COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNANCE

Automatically enforce policy

across all environments with

support from comprehensive

insights and detailed logging.

RED HAT CLOUDFORMSUnified management for hybrid environments

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Building on the deep insights and collected data, Red Hat CloudForms ensures compliance and

governance using automated policy enforcement and remediation. Policies ensure that resources

remain compliant with corporate and regulatory requirements. And if Red Hat CloudForms

detects an out-of-compliance state, it can raise alerts or automatically remediate the issue.

Throughout this process, Red Hat CloudForms tracks actions and maintains audit logs to create a

clear timeline of events.

Red Hat CloudForms is designed to deliver a quick return on investment; its virtual appliance

format and agentless design allows it to scan existing infrastructure in a short amount of time. In

addition, its robust integration capabilities allow it to connect to existing IT operations environ-

ments for a fully automated IT process.

KEY FEATURES

• Provides a unified and consistent set of management capabilities across:

• Virtualization platforms (e.g. Red Hat Virtualization, VMware vRealize, and Microsoft

Hyper-V)

• Private cloud platforms based on Red Hat OpenStack® Platform

• Public cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud

Platform)

• Container-based environments (e.g. Red Hat OpenShift)

• Software-defined networking environments (e.g. native networking capabilities for

OpenStack Neutron, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform)

• Integration with Ansible Tower by Red Hat, easing the development of automated process flows

using hundreds of community-contributed playbooks

• Complete life-cycle management, including provisioning, reconfiguration, deprovisioning,

and retirement

• Operational management required to start, stop, flex, and scale deployed services

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• User-based resource quotas, usage monitoring, and financial chargeback

• Forensic analysis using SmartState on virtual machine instances as well as timeline and event

tracking that informs root cause analysis

• Relationship mapping throughout the infrastructure levels — from application containers to

physical systems and networks

• Resource trend tracking to inform capacity and what-if scenario planning

• Configuration auditing to prevent improper service deployment

• Policy infraction alerts with automated remediation

• Change tracking and audit logs that record all actions

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TOWER EXPANDS AUTOMATION TO YOUR ENTERPRISE.“Ansible Tower has allowed us to provide better operations and security to our clients. It has also increased our efficiency as a team.”

ABOUT ANSIBLEAnsible, an open source community project sponsored by Red Hat, is the simplest way to automate IT. Ansible is the only automation language that can be used across entire IT teams – from systems and network administrators to developers and managers. Ansible by Red Hat provides enterprise-ready solutions to automate your entire application lifecycle – from servers to clouds to containers and everything in between. Ansible Tower by Red Hat is a commercial offering that helps teams manage complex multi-tier deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to Ansible-powered environments.

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