Home > Workload Solutions > Container Platforms > Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform > Archive > Deployment Guide—Integrating Dell VxFlex Systems with Red Hat OpenShift Clusters > Introduction
Dell EMC VxFlex[1] systems are software-only solutions that use existing servers’ local disks and LAN to create a virtual storage area network (SAN). For more information, see Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS). For more information, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
A Kubernetes cluster consists of a set of worker machines, called nodes, that run containerized applications. Every cluster has at least one worker node.
The integration of VxFlex systems with OpenShift v3.11 clusters provides enterprise customers with high-performance storage for application data use.