Chapter 1. Overview

Currently, Red Hat supports bare metal deployments in the following configurations:

For storage media, Red Hat only supports directly attached storage.

For Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3, Red Hat supports:

Red Hat only supports official packages shipped by Red Hat. Red Hat does not control the upstream Ceph community and, because of this, can not offer comprehensive support on community versions of the software.

The following products can connect to Red Hat Ceph Storage as clients. “Fully Supported” clients are configurations on which a Red Hat Ceph Storage subscription will receive support by Red Hat. “Tested Configurations” may not receive support from Red Hat, but Red Hat has verified that they run successfully with supported versions of Red Hat Ceph Storage. Red Hat does not test or support mixed platforms for clients and server software.

A client is an application that connects to a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Red Hat will support the versions of the librbd and librados libraries as shipped with Red Hat Ceph Storage. However, the design, implementation, or debugging of custom code that uses the libraries are not supported.

Third party products which use Ceph client libraries or Ceph kernel modules not shipped as part of Red Hat Ceph Storage are not supported. However, as long as the client versions are based on the same upstream release of Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat will support and diagnose any Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster issues related with their use.

The Ceph Object Gateway (RGW) supports the same APIs as Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift. Some API calls are not yet implemented with RGW - please check the documentation for the latest supported API calls. Red Hat will not provide debugging or support for third party clients.