Supermicro Solution for Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform

Designed for Reliable Large-Scale Cloud Deployments

With ever-growing competition, enterprises have to accelerate their product development cycle to keep up with new technologies and stay ahead. Businesses need to regularly release customized applications for instant and growing demand from external and internal users who rely on digital transformation to gain competitiveness.

The Supermicro and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform solution offers integrated hardware, software and support packages built with Kubernetes which provide agile deployment and management of containers in an on-premises, private, and hybrid cloud environment.

The modern enterprise needs to build, deploy, and manage container-based applications consistently across cloud and on-premise infrastructures with speed and agility. Effective DevOps strategy becomes a key element for organizations to succeed in the digital transformation journey.

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat® OpenShift® is a complete container application platform that natively integrates technologies including Docker and Kubernetes – a powerful container cluster management and orchestration system – and includes an enterprise foundation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.

The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers enterprises full control over their Kubernetes environments. It handles cloud-native and traditional applications on a single platform. The platform has built-in security from infrastructure to services, throughout the operations and application lifecycle.

Supermicro Red Hat® OpenShift® Solution Advantages

Supermicro and Red Hat have partnered to develop a best-in-class solution based on industry-leading SuperServers, SuperStorage and Red Hat® OpenShift®. The solution delivers CaaS, PaaS and FaaS infrastructure to the enterprise environment with performance and efficiency.

Utilizing latest technologies such as Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, high performance NVMe technology, 25G Ethernet, resource saving SuperServer and SuperStorage
Built-in security for container-based applications with role-based access control and Security-Enhanced Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Capable of deployment in less than an hour, with high availability and persistent storage, automated with Red Hat Ansible, and configured to be horizontally scalable to multiple racks
For demanding workloads such as AI and Big Data, hardware accelerated performance options are available including Intel® Optane® DC Persistent Memory Modules, GPU accelerators and 100GbE networking
Variety of compute and storage server platforms optimized for application workloads
Running RHEL and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, a bare-metal on-premises solution purpose-built for DevOps, optimized for high performance and high efficiency

Supermicro Red Hat® OpenShift® Reference architecture configuration

Supermicro Red Hat® OpenShift® reference architecture comes with three options for different use cases: a configuration with GlusterFS based storage, a configuration with Ceph based storage, and a configuration with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). The starting kits based on Red Hat OpenShift Ready Server Platforms enable users to scale the infrastructure with the benefit of resource optimization for both traditional and cloud-native application on a single architecture includes compute, network, and storage.

	Starting Kit with GlusterFS	Starting Kit with Ceph	Starting Kit with HCI
Model SKU	SRS-OPSHFT-GLFS-01	SRS-OPSHFT-CEPH-01	SRS-OPSHFT-HCI-01
Master Node	3	3	3
Infra Node	2	2	2
Application Node	6	6	4
Bastion Node	1	1	N/A
Storage Node	3	3	N/A
Networking	1x SSE-X3348SR 2x SSE-F3548SR	1x SSE-X3348SR 2x SSE-F3548SR	1x SSE-X3348SR 2x SSE-F3548SR
Rack	42U 600mm x 1200mm	42U 600mm x 1200mm	42U 600mm x 1200mm
PDU	Dual 208V 30A L6-30P	Dual 208V 30A L6-30P	Dual 208V 30A L6-30P

Supermicro OpenShift Ready Server Platforms

Master / Infra / App Node Option: