Cisco Reside Amsterdam concluded with important bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Software Modernization, and Safety. Whether or not you joined us in particular person or just about, I hope you discovered the occasion insightful. As a part of the Cisco Reside program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new built-in options developed in collaboration with Crimson Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform.
The partnership between Cisco and Crimson Hat has been longstanding. Final yr we introduced our firms are serving to clients adapt to infrastructure modernization necessities by constructing built-in options that embody Cisco UCS, Cisco Intersight, Cisco knowledge middle networking, and Crimson Hat OpenShift. These options unite best-in-class applied sciences from Cisco and our companions.
We’re enhancing the success of Cisco’s built-in options with Crimson Hat OpenShift by introducing a world-class infrastructure automation and administration platform. The Crimson Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now obtainable from Cisco, working on main applied sciences like Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight. Our purpose is to supply a strong, scalable, and automatic basis for purchasers who search AI instruments and options to modernize their utility infrastructure and knowledge middle networking, all whereas making certain a easy and seamless procurement course of.
Cisco’s compute and AI merchandise have at all times benefited from deep integrations with the Ansible Automation Platform by way of Licensed Content material Collections. This prolonged partnership expands on present choices by introducing new Ansible Validated Content material collections aligned with Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs). These enhancements allow the complete automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations utilizing Crimson Hat Ansible Automation Platform, delivering an easy and safe expertise for purchasers.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(word: In case you are not accustomed to Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you possibly can study extra from Cisco accomplice – Crimson Hat.)
Here’s a abstract of the brand new CVDs and Ansible automation content material we introduced and showcased final week throughout Cisco Reside Amsterdam on account of this prolonged partnership:
New CVDs for FlexPod Datacenter with Crimson Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform
The FlexPod with Crimson Hat OpenShift Container Platform and FlexPod with OpenShift Virtualization Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) present a strong basis for deploying OpenShift on FlexPod bare-metal infrastructure.
Whereas preliminary deployment is crucial, Day 2 operations—together with system upkeep, scaling, safety enforcement, and efficiency optimization—are important for making certain long-term effectivity and stability, for instance:
- Guarantee steady compliance with automated UCS configuration enforcement
- Enhance safety posture by way of automated patching and vulnerability remediation
- Scale sources dynamically with automated UCS server provisioning
- Improve system reliability with proactive monitoring and self-healing infrastructure
By leveraging automation and Ansible Automation Platform, organizations can simplify Day 2 operations throughout OpenShift Virtualization, NetApp storage, and Cisco UCS infrastructure, decreasing handbook efforts whereas enhancing consistency, safety, and scalability.
Worth of extending Ansible Automation Platform help on Cisco UCS naked metallic
Cisco clients can now streamline operations by eliminating the hypervisor layer to run cloud-native workloads. This reduces total infrastructure prices whereas enhancing useful resource utilization.
With OpenShift Virtualization, legacy functions can function in digital machines (VMs) that may be created, managed, cloned, and live-migrated alongside containerized workloads on bare-metal Cisco UCS. This bare-metal structure offers direct {hardware} entry, optimizing efficiency for high-demand workloads like high-performance computing, AI, and different latency-sensitive functions.
Ansible Validated Content material for Day-2 Operations
Ansible validated content material consists of Ansible roles that supply professional steerage on performing particular operations and duties, enabling rapid automation.
Crimson Hat and Cisco are providing an preliminary set of Ansible Validated content material, supporting the CVD for FlexPod Datacenter with OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform, concentrating on the next buyer use instances:
- Verifying lively and inactive ports
- Modifying the profile of a brand new chassis
- Deploying a brand new server to a chassis with the proper profile settings
- Upgrading server and material interconnect firmware
- Including or altering IP addresses and VLANs on new or present servers
Trying Ahead to What’s Subsequent
The brand new CVD introduced at Cisco Reside Amsterdam builds upon the success of Cisco built-in virtualization options with Cisco companions Crimson Hat and Netapp. With the addition of validated automation content material and an automation administration platform to run this automation, we consider this “next-level” CVD will assist clients simplify operations and cut back danger.
The use instances focused by these bulletins are simply the start line. Between now and Cisco Reside San Diego, search for extra Ansible Validated Content material concentrating on new use instances in help of Cisco and Crimson Hat prolonged partnership:
Configuration Administration & Drift Detection
Patching & Safety Updates
Useful resource Scaling & Efficiency Optimization
Monitoring & Alerting Automation
Backup & Catastrophe Restoration (DR) Automation
Coverage Compliance & Governance
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