Deploy Red Hat OpenShift deployed on HPE bare-metal servers

HPE’s bare-metal provisioning solution provides the same flexibility as a virtual environment. It allows for complex, distributed applications and their physical machines to be more efficiently created and managed. 

Previously, deployments of Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers were complex and required in-depth planning around users, providers, and infrastructure installers. With HPE and Red Hat® technologies, it is now much more efficient to automate Red Hat OpenShift® installation on top of HPE bare-metal servers, which can also be consumed in a pay-as-you-go model through the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform.

Organizations can avoid the cost and management requirements of a hypervisor layer and gain greater flexibility, performance, and control using HPE OneView to provision the hardware and Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform or Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes to install Red Hat OpenShift software layer.

By deploying Red Hat OpenShift 4 clusters on HPE bare-metal servers, the hypervisor layer is removed. Benefits are:

• Reduced license, management, and resource costs associated with the hypervisor.
• Increased performance by giving direct access to hardware like graphics processing units (GPUs).
• Improved security by reducing the attack surfaces.
• Significantly reduced Red Hat OpenShift costs through the 2-socket 0-64 core subscription.
• Avoidance of network latency and the 10-20% central processing unit (CPU) and memory hypervisor tax. 
• Increased throughput by avoiding a shared virtual switch on the hypervisor.

Customers who want to manage virtual machines (VMs) as Kubernetes objects can do so through Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (based on KubeVirt), helping them achieve full containerization by also including VMs. This approach allows for:

• Applications to be transformed at their own pace and budget.
• Reduced complexity, as VMs and containers run on the same platform and environment.
• The use of Kubernetes paradigms (deployments, scheduling, services, etc.) from the start.
• VMs to be scaled in less time with Kubernetes.

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift 4 on HPE Servers with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management allows for efficient installation and operation of clusters. In this instance, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, combined with HPE OneView and ArgoCD, manages the full Red Hat OpenShift life cycle and reduces the time to implement a new Red Hat OpenShift cluster.

Scaling up Red Hat OpenShift 4 on HPE Synergy through Ansible Automation Platform showcases infrastructure as code in action through the operation of existing Red Hat OpenShift installer provisioned infrastructure (IPI) clusters, reducing downtime by up to 100% and removing human error as all servers have the same baseline. 

Automating the deployment of Red Hat OpenShift on HPE bare-metal servers through the use of a global architecture is comprised of three main stages:

• Configuration and hardware provisioning
• Cluster creation
• Cluster customization

This approach allows customers to deploy Red Hat OpenShift in one hour on HPE bare-metal servers (HPE Synergy or ProLiant DL) and automate post-configuration.

Customers can also count on HPE Advisory and Professional Services offerings to ease the deployment and maintenance of Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Servers.

Red Hat and HPE work together to provide open source solutions that reduce cost and complexity while increasing stability and performance across multiple cloud and physical environments. 

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