Cisco and NetApp FlexPod with Red Hat OpenShift
This converged infrastructure solutions provides a consistent applications platform for hybrid cloud environments.
To gain business advantage companies are accelerating their application modernization and looking to containers to simplify development, deployment, and operations management. But rolling out containerized applications in geographically dispersed locations, plus the ongoing management of those apps and systems, can be complex, time-consuming, and there’s risk of configuration errors, especially where resources are limited.
How does this solution solve the problem?
Fully modular and validated, FlexPod Datacenter for Red Hat OpenShift simplifies infrastructure deployment to ease the burden on IT teams. It supports the entire Red Hat software-defined stack and aligns with Red Hat, Cisco, and NetApp best practices for standardized, highly available, and scalable architectures. The cloud-ready design and automated lifecycle management streamline installation, administration, and updates across the application platform, container host, Kubernetes clusters, and application services. Like all FlexPod solutions, this solution offers high availability, rich data management and protection capabilities, cost-effectiveness, and support for a wide range of workloads, including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
This modular architecture can be implemented with or without VMware ESXi, providing a cloud-native infrastructure built on bare metal.
There are multiple Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) with Red Hat OpenShift: 1) “FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OCP Bare Metal Manual Configuration with Cisco UCS X-Series Direct”, 2) “FlexPod Datacenter with Generative AI Inferencing”, and 3) “FlexPod for Accelerated RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM and Cisco Webex”. Look for all under the Resources tab.
Refer to related solutions in this Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog: 1) “Red Hat OpenShift AI on Cisco infrastructure for MLOps” - CVD “FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenShift AI for MLOps” and 2) “A modern virtualization infrastructure based on Cisco UCS” – CVD “FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization”
- Simplified & automated
FlexPod Data Center for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform simplifies infrastructure, container, and application management. The cloud-ready design and automated life cycle management streamline installation, administration, and updates across the application platform, container host, Kubernetes clusters, and application services. IT staff can simply define profiles and the solution automatically configures infrastructure as needed. Automation also makes common, error-prone manual configuration tasks more repeatable and consistent while reducing staff time and effort.
- Flexible and agile
With FlexPod Data Center for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, your IT teams can rapidly deploy and deliver systems and services to developers and end users. When more resources are needed, you can scale and repurpose servers without needing to adjust software or networking capabilities or interrupt operations. Add, upgrade, or scale compute, network, and storage resources to support multiple deployments or deliver greater performance and capacity. Built-in automation and management tools help you consistently deploy, monitor, and administer your IT infrastructure.
- Tested & validated
As industry leaders and experts, Red Hat, Cisco, and NetApp bring innovative, tested, and integrated joint solutions to market, saving your organization time and money. The solution incorporates design best practices to ensure compatibility between all components. We work together to incorporate the latest technologies, validate integrations, update solutions and reference architectures, and train support engineers to help your teams keep pace with changing technology and approaches. Our container-based converged infrastructure solution reduces IT complexity and risk while increasing agility and innovation.
Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can install and access the certified collections through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub in the Hybrid Cloud Console.
