Red Hat OpenShift with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation on Cisco UCS X-Series

For your customers’ edge and smaller data center requirements, this solution combines Cisco UCS X-Series with Red Hat OpenShift and the OpenShift Data Foundation, which simplifies deployment and management of container infrastructure to speed hybrid cloud transformation. With the combined power of Cisco and Red Hat, the solution is cost effective to deploy and manage, supporting next-generation cloud deployments that increase business agility, lower operational costs, and avoid vendor lock‑in.

This modular architecture can be implemented with or without VMware ESXi, providing a cloud-native infrastructure built on bare metal as an alternative to VMware.

FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenShift and NetApp Astra

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 as an alternative to VMware.

FlashStack for Cloud Native with Cisco Intersight, Red Hat OpenShift, and Portworx Enterprise Design

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 data, scaling, backup and restore, replication, asynchronous disaster recovery, centralized monitoring, metrics, 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 as an alternative to VMware.

Cisco networks with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works across multiple Cisco network platform use cases for campus networks, data centers, and service providers. It is the foundation for building and operating automation services at scale, providing businesses with tools and an operational framework in a collaborative and trusted execution environment. By combining Cisco solutions such as ACI and DNA Center with Ansible Automation Platform, customers can immediately start automating with certified collections supported by Cisco and Red Hat, allowing them to achieve the benefits of automation swiftly—increasing agility, reducing risk, and controlling cost.