Modernize Workloads with Cisco UCS X-Sequence And Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform

That includes Visitor Blogger Oliver Walsdorf, UCS Product Supervisor at Cisco

Cisco Dwell US 2022

We’re just some days away from the largest annual Cisco occasion for purchasers and companions, Cisco Dwell! After two years of taking our occasions digital, we’re excited to broaden our neighborhood expertise with a hybrid occasion – in-person and digital. With an emphasis on holding apps operating, we’re serving to prospects and companions to be ALL IN this yr at Cisco Dwell, working with you to unravel a few of your greatest IT challenges.

Hybrid Cloud

With a give attention to holding apps operating, we all know that organizations want an utility modernization technique that encompasses a hybrid-cloud platform with a confirmed infrastructure. Constructing a versatile, scalable structure poised to assist data-intensive workloads is essential to a profitable digital transformation technique. Along with Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Crimson Hat OpenShift Knowledge Basis, Cisco delivers an industry-leading resolution specified for a wide range of workloads, together with databases and information cache, superior analytics, and synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI/ML). Operating and growing a mixture of purposes throughout the whole lot of the hybrid cloud requires a various set of server sorts together with blade and rack servers for the workloads of immediately and tomorrow.

Cisco UCS X-Sequence is versatile sufficient to run a pethora of utility workloads operating on Crimson Hat OpenShift. Our collaboration has resulted in a totally examined and validated Cisco Validated Design that mixes Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform with OpenShift Knowledge Basis on Cisco UCS X-series. With the addition of Ansible Automation Platform, quicker, extra constant deployments delivering:

• Accelerated deployment with lowered threat: With the flexibleness of each Cisco UCS X-Sequence and Crimson Hat OpenShift Knowledge Basis to scale-up or scale-out, organizations can simply broaden their tier-1 purposes and get unified information providers to develop.
• Simplified cloud-operated Infrastructure: The transfer of administration from community into the cloud with the Intersight cloud-operations platform optimizes Cisco UCS X-Sequence system assets to suit workload necessities. An clever visualization, optimization, and orchestration for all the purposes and infrastructure along with automation drives agility and consistency.
• A constant person expertise: Cisco UCS X-Sequence with Intersight and Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform ship a constant person expertise, for each utility builders, and your operations workforce. This consistency throughout platforms is important to your hybrid and multi-cloud technique.
• An adaptable system designed for contemporary purposes:Adapt to the unpredictable necessities of recent purposes. Consolidate onto a single platform that mixes the density and effectivity of blade servers with the expandability of rack servers for higher efficiency, automation, and effectivity.
• Excessive efficiency for numerous storage lessons and workloads: With Cisco UCS X-Sequence delivering excessive efficiency and Crimson Hat Ceph Storage offering block storage, a shared and distributed file system, and on-premises object storage, the answer gives numerous storage lessons for on-premises or hybrid cloud workloads.

The Cisco UCS X-Sequence permits quicker growth and deployment of on-demand container-based purposes and gives a platform splendid for Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Knowledge basis (Determine 1). It scales in a number of dimensions—compute, storage, and community.

The Cisco Validated Design covers the main points of the deployment of Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Knowledge Basis operating on Cisco UCS X-Sequence. The deployment of Cisco UCS X-Sequence is enhanced with Intersight Ansible and scales in numerous dimensions. The answer expands by including further nodes in your Cisco X-Sequence chassis. You even have the flexibleness to increase your deployment outdoors of the Cisco X-Sequence chassis by including extra compute energy with Cisco UCS X-Sequence or C-Sequence. Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform is then configured utilizing the default deployment of three employee nodes however can scale by including compute nodes as required. Equally, as your information necessities broaden, you may merely add OpenShift Knowledge Basis nodes to your cluster.

Highly effective Mixture

This highly effective mixture of Cisco UCS X-Sequence with Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Knowledge Basis gives builders and IT organizations with an entire hybrid cloud utility platform. Each new and current purposes and workloads might be deployed on safe, scalable assets with minimal configuration and administration overhead leading to higher efficiency, automation, and effectivity. It retains your apps operating.

Attending Cisco Dwell

In case you are planning to go to the in-person Cisco Dwell occasion in Las Vegas, please cease by and check out the Cisco UCS X-Sequence. We might love to talk about how we may also help along with your utility modernization challenges. When you are there, go to Crimson Hat at sales space #1338 within the World of Options. Cisco and Crimson Hat will likely be presenting this within the Mini-Theater, and we’re delighted to have the possibility to fulfill with you!

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