This guide provides information for building an on-premises infrastructure solution to host OpenShift Container Platform 4.6. The guide describes the design decisions and configurations that were made to enable solution architects to:
- Design and deploy a container platform solution.
- Extend or modify the design as necessary to meet customer requirements.
This guide includes:
- Container ecosystem design overview
- Network infrastructure design guidance
- Container and application storage design guidance
- Server requirements to support OpenShift Container Platform node roles
- Configuration recommendations to optimize latency and networking performance
- General guidance for remote compute nodes at the edge
- Hardware platform configuration recommendations
- Rack-level design and power configuration considerations
The guide also provides information about:
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for application development and deployment
- Dell PowerEdge R640 and R740xd servers for compute and storage
- Dell PowerEdge R650 and R750 servers based on Intel® 3rd Generation Xeon® Processors
- Dell PowerEdge XE2420 servers for compute at the edge
- Dell PowerSwitch S5200-series switches for infrastructure network enablement
- Dell PowerSwitch S3048 switch for out-of-band (OOB) management of the cluster
- NVIDIA V100 GPUs on Dell PowerEdge R740xd servers