Cisco Stay Amsterdam concluded with vital bulletins from Cisco, specializing in AI, Software Modernization, and Safety. Whether or not you joined us in individual or just about, I hope you discovered the occasion insightful. As a part of the Cisco Stay program, I had the pleasure of unveiling new built-in options developed in collaboration with Purple Hat, leveraging their OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform.
The partnership between Cisco and Purple 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 heart networking, and Purple 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 Purple Hat OpenShift by introducing a world-class infrastructure automation and administration platform. The Purple Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now accessible 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 patrons who search AI instruments and options to modernize their utility infrastructure and knowledge heart 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 complete automation of Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 operations utilizing Purple Hat Ansible Automation Platform, delivering a simple and safe expertise for patrons.
New CVDs create an structure for automation throughout the Cisco portfolio
(be aware: In case you are not accustomed to Ansible or the Ansible Automation Platform, you possibly can be taught extra from Cisco accomplice – Purple Hat.)
Here’s a abstract of the brand new CVDs and Ansible automation content material we introduced and showcased final week throughout Cisco Stay Amsterdam because of this prolonged partnership:
New CVDs for FlexPod Datacenter with Purple Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Ansible Automation Platform
The FlexPod with Purple 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 assets 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 speedy automation.
Purple 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 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 Stay Amsterdam builds upon the success of Cisco built-in virtualization options with Cisco companions Purple 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 scale back danger.
The use circumstances focused by these bulletins are simply the place to begin. Between now and Cisco Stay San Diego, search for further Ansible Validated Content material focusing on new use circumstances in help of Cisco and Purple 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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