Cisco Reside Amsterdam concluded with vital bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Utility Modernization, and Safety. Whether or not you joined us in individual or nearly, 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 12 months we introduced our firms are serving to prospects adapt to infrastructure modernization necessities by constructing built-in options that embrace 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 sturdy, scalable, and automatic basis for purchasers who search AI instruments and options to modernize their utility infrastructure and knowledge middle networking, all whereas guaranteeing a easy and seamless procurement course of.
Cisco’s compute and AI merchandise have all the time 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 a simple and safe expertise for purchasers.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(notice: If you’re not aware of Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you’ll be able to be taught 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 sturdy basis for deploying OpenShift on FlexPod bare-metal infrastructure.
Whereas preliminary deployment is vital, Day 2 operations—together with system upkeep, scaling, safety enforcement, and efficiency optimization—are important for guaranteeing 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, lowering guide efforts whereas enhancing consistency, safety, and scalability.
Worth of extending Ansible Automation Platform help on Cisco UCS naked metallic
Cisco prospects can now streamline operations by eliminating the hypervisor layer to run cloud-native workloads. This reduces general 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 skilled steering on performing particular operations and duties, enabling fast 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 circumstances:
- Verifying energetic and inactive ports
- Modifying the profile of a brand new chassis
- Deploying a brand new server to a chassis with the right 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 prospects simplify operations and cut back threat.
The use circumstances focused by these bulletins are simply the start line. Between now and Cisco Reside San Diego, search for further Ansible Validated Content material concentrating on new use circumstances 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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