A modern virtualization infrastructure based on Cisco UCS
As organizations assess their virtualization strategies, Red Hat and Cisco together provide a pre-validated, modern and integrated application platform for both virtual machines and containers running on bare metal infrastructure that supports your traditional and next-generation applications into the future.
The recent disruption in the virtualization vendor space has caused significant uncertainty amongst organizations, prompting IT leaders to reassess their virtualization investments, strategy, and risk posture, and to explore alternative solutions. VM admins need a solution that makes it simple to migrate their existing virtual machines onto an alternative platform with minimal risk of disrupting their existing workloads and associated services. Infrastructure leaders are also looking to modernize their application platform to develop new container-based products while still supporting virtual machines. Selecting the appropriate virtualization platform has many architectural factors to consider, including hardware environment and software platform, and adoption of containers introduces new complexities, including concerns around security and compliance, data services silos, and monitoring.
Building on our decade-long partnership, Cisco and Red Hat are providing a fully tested and validated blueprint to build a future-ready application modernization infrastructure for virtual machines and containers on a single unified platform.
We work with our ecosystem partners, including NetApp and Pure Storage, to offer Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization solutions on FlexPod and FlashStack. Look for these CVDs under the Resources tab.
Refer to related solutions in this Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog: 1) Cisco and NetApp FlexPod with Red Hat OpenShift, 2) Cisco and Pure Storage FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift, 3) Red Hat OpenShift AI on Cisco infrastructure for MLOps.
- Simplify the migration of VMs to a modern application platform
OpenShift Virtualization offers an effective way to migrate existing virtual machines onto a modern unified platform, using a provided intuitive migration tool. Additionally, the Red Hat Virtualization Migration Assessment provides a thorough review and tailored migration plan, facilitating a low-risk transition of traditional virtual machines onto OpenShift Virtualization. For large-scale migrations, the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) adds further efficiency, ensuring a smooth and automated transition.
- Offer a flexible and scalable architecture
The solution incorporates product, technology, and industry best practices to deliver a highly-available, scalable, and flexible architecture. The foundational infrastructure uses an architecture that offers a robust, scalable portfolio of compute, networking and storage options to meet your virtual machines and cloud native applications needs. Cisco UCS X-Series, powered by Cisco Intersignt, is the core of its physical layer that has been designed for sustainability, modularity, and security. In addition, customers have multiple revalidated storage options to fit their requirements.
- Deliver AI-ready infrastructure
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is part of Red Hat OpenShift, a unified hybrid cloud platform that allows customers to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. Red Hat OpenShift supports VMs, containers, and serverless, allowing customers to standardize infrastructure deployment and maintenance on a single platform. When your organization is ready for AI, Red Hat OpenShift AI can be added to support your AI development and deployment needs on the same platform. With the modularity of Cisco UCS X-Series, you can easily add needed compute power, including GPUs, to support your AI workloads.
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.
