The new Storage Solutions and Performance Test Lab will be based at Red Hat’s headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, and will be used to test and configure products from both companies’ portfolios, including Red Hat’s GFS and HP’s server and storage hardware and software.
The lab will focus on performance and integration testing in order to produce best practices and solutions guides, the companies said, and will also enable customers to preview new technological developments.
The deal builds on a relationship Red Hat and HP struck in August to deliver an availability solution for Linux clusters on HP ProLiant servers that makes use of HP’s ServiceGuard for Linux and Red Hat’s GFS, and is the latest boost for the open source file system, which Red Hat acquired along with Sistina Systems in 2003 and handed to the Fedora community project in August.
Red Hat recently announced that GFS is now supported by Oracle for use with Real Application Cluster database configurations, and has been certified for use with EMC’s Clariion networked storage systems, and Celerra iSCSI network attached storage systems, as well as Network Appliance’s SAN interfaces.
