Solution Brief
Solution Brief
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 on
Dell Infrastructure
Enabled by Dell PowerEdge servers
Accelerate
digital transformation
with optimized infrastructure
for cloud-native development
and operations
Organizations are rapidly
adopting container
technologies to accelerate
agile cloud-native application
development and delivery and
to enable their digital
transformation.
OpenShift Container Platform
with Kubernetes orchestration
simplifies and accelerates
application development and
deployment.
Dell Technologies and Red Hat
take the guesswork and risk
out of OpenShift deployments
with a complete infrastructure
design that streamlines
application development,
deployment, and management,
allowing you to release new
applications and services
quickly, efficiently and at scale.
Make the shift to container-based development
Red Hat OpenShift is an industry-leading Kubernetes platform that
enables a cloud-native development environment together with a cloud
operations experience, giving you the ability to choose where you build,
deploy, and run applications, all through a consistent interface.
OpenShift’s full-stack automated operations and self-service
provisioning allow teams to adopt agile DevOps practices for building
cloud-native containerized applications and to work together more
efficiently to move ideas from development to production.
Dell Technologies, working together with Red Hat, delivers optimized,
validated, and documented designs, with configuration and deployment
guidance to help you rapidly implement Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform on Dell infrastructure.
Proven design and infrastructure configuration
The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 on Dell PowerEdge
servers provides the guidance that enables you to:
• Build a complete OpenShift Container Platform DevOps
environment based on Dell server, storage, and networking
infrastructure.
• Utilize the latest generation AMD and Intel based Dell
PowerEdge Servers, purpose-built for business applications
with security and performance.
• Create non-virtualized, high-performance, on-premises
infrastructure for highly available production use.
• Rapidly implement enterprise-grade Kubernetes container
orchestration and accelerate development and delivery of
cloud-native applications.
• Scale your environment from as few as one to hundreds of
server nodes.
• Leverage key Red Hat capabilities, such as OpenShift
Virtualization, Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and OpenShift
Platform Plus (OPP)
• Select from multiple storage options – including Dell
PowerMax, PowerScale, and PowerStore, all with access to
Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Dell’s Container
Storage Modules (CSM).
Flexible architecture
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, powered by the open source-based OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, provides not
only cluster management but platform services to manage workloads, application services for building cloud-native
applications, and developer services to enhance developer productivity.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Architecture

The Dell Validated Design for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides flexible design, planning, and deployment
options with detailed guidance for sizing and scaling, from development to production. The design uses the latest
generation of PowerEdge servers for compute while providing options for storage solutions that include Red Hat
OpenShift Data Foundation. Validated designs are available with support for Dell PowerEdge R7625 and R6625 family
servers based on 4th Generation AMD® EPYC™ Scalable processors, and for Dell PowerEdge R760 and R660 family
servers based on 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Why choose Dell PowerEdge Servers for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform?
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Dell PowerEdge servers offers multiple benefits:

• Purpose-built infrastructure – The pre-validated design includes Dell’s industry-leading hardware, optimized for
the flexibility, scalability, availability, and performance requirements that enterprises require for their Kubernetes
and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
• Rapid adoption with minimal risk – Accelerate time-to-deployment for containerized applications through
automation and Dell’s validated methodologies, while limiting exposure with best-in-class monitoring and data
protection capabilities. Organizations that use Dell automation tools can deploy a high availability OpenShift
production environment in approximately three hours.
• Customizable solution – Optimize the configuration to address your unique container deployment requirements,
with support for OpenShift Platform Plus (OPP) and deployment selections suitable for either edge or data center
application
Take the next step
Container technologies can help your organization adopt cloud native and DevOps practices to support rapidly changing
business requirements. Together, Dell Technologies and Red Hat offer a validated infrastructure design solution that
speeds implementation of OpenShift-Container Platform that empowers you to focus on developing innovative
applications to deliver business value. Find more information at the Dell Technologies OpenShift Info Hub.

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