Run VMs alongside containers with HPE and Red Hat OpenShift

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Leverage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on HPE ProLiant and HPE Alletra with HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes.

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization enables you to run VMs alongside containers on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE ProLiant and HPE Alletra leveraging HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes. The solution simplifies management and improves overall efficiency when modernizing your virtualization strategy with a cloud-native application platform. Read on to learn more.

– By Parissa Mohamadi, Product Manager for Virtualization, Containers and Data Management Solutions, HPE

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises across industries are embarking on a transformative journey toward hybrid cloud adoption. As your organization strives for speed, agility, simplicity, consistency, and cost-effectiveness, we know you often face challenges posed by incompatible application deployment environments and outdated IT practices. However, the future of business innovation lies in embracing cloud-native design principles and next-generation IT solutions.

Enter the game-changing collaboration between HPE and Red Hat®. Together, we’re optimizing infrastructure by enabling organizations to run and manage virtual machine (VM) workloads alongside container workloads seamlessly. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an add-on to Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform 4.15, leverages the power of HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers and HPE Alletra 6000 to accelerate container application delivery

 High-level architecture

This solution empowers you to modernize your virtualization strategy while harnessing the benefits of a cloud-native application platform. By running VMs alongside containers on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, enterprises can simplify management and improve overall efficiency, unlocking new realms of business opportunities through digital transformation.

Digital transformation challenges – and how Red Hat OpenShift can help

Without question, you’re continually under constant pressure to innovate and deliver new products and services quickly. However, you may be facing significant challenges in your digital transformation efforts to achieve speed, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. Here are some of the key hurdles you may encounter. See if they seem familiar to you.

• Modernizing legacy applications – Updating older, monolithic applications to take advantage of modern, agile, cloud-native technologies is often a complex and time-consuming process.
• Multi-cloud management – As workloads span multiple cloud environments, managing and coordinating across these different platforms becomes increasingly challenging.
• Slow environment provisioning – Setting up new development environments can be a sluggish process, stifling innovation as teams have to wait for resources to become available.
• Vendor lock-in –Concerns center on being overly reliant on a single vendor, especially major public cloud providers, which limits flexibility and portability.
• Infrastructure silos – Fragmented infrastructure increases overhead costs for administration and maintenance, as well as the expense of additional hardware.
• Secure container deployment – Rapidly deploying a unified, secure, and disconnected end-to-end container platform is a complex undertaking.

The solution?

To address these challenges, many organizations are turning to Red Hat OpenShift as their primary application development platform. According to research by IDC, companies using the HPE/Red Hat OpenShift solution have achieved impressive results, including a five-year return on investment (ROI) of 531% and average annual savings of $1.29 million per 100 developers.

Yes, digital transformation presents numerous challenges. But solutions like Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization running on HPE infrastructure – including HPE ProLiant Servers for compute and HPE Alletra Storage leveraging HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes – can help you overcome these hurdles, accelerate innovation, and achieve significant cost savings and business value.

Learn more

Check out the two reference configurations that provide architectural guidance for deploying Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 and HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers for Compute and HPE Alletra 6000 for Storage, leveraging the HPE CSI Driver for Kubernetes.

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Meet Storage Experts blogger Parissa Mohamadi, Product Manager for Virtualization, Containers and Data Management Solutions, HPE

Parissa leads sales enablement and go-to-market planning for HPE virtualization, containers, and data management solutions, including cloud-enabled data protection for SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. She focuses on driving joint enablement and collateral development with partners such as VMware, Veeam, Commvault, and Cohesity. Connect with Parissa on LinkedIn.

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