Cisco Dwell Amsterdam concluded with vital bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Software 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 Dwell program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new built-in options developed in collaboration with Pink Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform.
The partnership between Cisco and Pink Hat has been longstanding. Final yr we introduced our corporations 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 Pink 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 Pink Hat OpenShift by introducing a world-class infrastructure automation and administration platform. The Pink Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now accessible from Cisco, working on main applied sciences like Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight. Our intention is to offer a sturdy, scalable, and automatic basis for patrons 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 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 total automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations utilizing Pink Hat Ansible Automation Platform, delivering an easy and safe expertise for patrons.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(be aware: If you’re not accustomed to Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you possibly can study extra from Cisco associate – Pink Hat.)
Here’s a abstract of the brand new CVDs and Ansible automation content material we introduced and showcased final week throughout Cisco Dwell Amsterdam on account of this prolonged partnership:
New CVDs for FlexPod Datacenter with Pink Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform
The FlexPod with Pink 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 essential, 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 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 bettering consistency, safety, and scalability.
Worth of extending Ansible Automation Platform help on Cisco UCS naked steel
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 gives 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 steerage on performing particular operations and duties, enabling rapid automation.
Pink 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, focusing on the next buyer use circumstances:
- Verifying lively 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 cloth interconnect firmware
- Including or altering IP addresses and VLANs on new or present servers
Wanting Ahead to What’s Subsequent
The brand new CVD introduced at Cisco Dwell Amsterdam builds upon the success of Cisco built-in virtualization options with Cisco companions Pink 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 threat.
The use circumstances focused by these bulletins are simply the start line. Between now and Cisco Dwell San Diego, search for extra Ansible Validated Content material focusing on new use circumstances in help of Cisco and Pink 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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