Cisco and Pure Storage FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift
This infrastructure solutions enable you to deploy applications with data management across hybrid cloud.
Hybrid cloud has become the de facto deployment and operating model in most Enterprises. In a study conducted by 451 Research across 2500 organizations from around the globe, 82% of the IT decision makers responded that they are already using a hybrid cloud model. Cloud computing from hyper-scalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud offer near limitless scale and flexibility, but also come with increasingly high costs and at times higher risk, leaving enterprises with less control over their business-critical applications and data. As a result, enterprises are adopting a hybrid strategy that allows them to optimally use both on-premises and public cloud infrastructure to meet their computing needs.
Built with FlashStack on Cisco UCS X-Series and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, this software-defined hybrid cloud infrastructure delivers cloud-like agility and pay-as-you-use pricing across hybrid cloud environments. It helps enterprises to deploy applications along with backup, asynchronous disaster recovery, centralized monitoring, and data management anywhere across a hybrid cloud environment. Powered by Cisco Intersight and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, the solution allows developers and operators to deploy and manage cloud-native workloads anywhere with consistent operational experience from the data center to the edge.
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) “FlashStack for Cloud Native with Cisco Intersight, Red Hat OpenShift, and Portworx Enterprise Design” and 2) “FlashStack for Generative AI Inferencing Design Guide”. 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 “FlashStack for AI: MLOps using Red Hat OpenShift AI” and 2) “A modern virtualization infrastructure based on Cisco UCS” – CVD “FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift Container and Virtualization Platform using Cisco UCS X-Series”.
- Simplify hybrid cloud
With a cloud-ready design and automated life cycle management features, the solution streamlines installation, administration, and updates across the application platform, container host, Kubernetes clusters, and application services.
- Adopt defense-in-depth security
To help you safeguard assets in your hybrid cloud environment, the Red Hat, Cisco, and Pure Storage solution includes features that support a layered security approach across operations.
- Meet datacenter sustainability goals
Designed to operate with greater energy efficiency at higher performance levels, Pure Storage FlashArray and Cisco UCS X-Series servers deliver increased storage and compute density.
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.
