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Enterprises are digitally transforming to meet their business goals and deliver cutting-edge technology, products, and services. A cloud native architecture enables rapid development and deployment of agile applications at scale and with integrated resiliency. One of the most powerful tools in this new cloud native architecture is containerization which is leading to new workloads and use cases. Cloud native applications, including databases, require supporting tools that have the capabilities to deal with scheduling, load balancing, resource monitoring, scaling, and job isolation within complex environments. The Kubernetes open-source container orchestration system is capable of automatic scaling and managing containerized applications.
PowerFlex is a software-defined storage platform that is designed to reduce operational and infrastructure complexity, empowering organizations to move faster by delivering flexibility, elasticity, and simplicity with predictable performance and resiliency at scale. The PowerFlex family provides a foundation that combines compute and high-performance storage resources in a managed, unified fabric.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers enterprises full control over their Kubernetes environments, whether they are on-premises or in the public cloud, providing teams with the freedom to build and run containerized applications anywhere. Deploying OpenShift on-premises can be sometimes complex and time consuming, and requires a lot of manual effort. The OpenShift Assisted Installer is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution that introduces a new way to deploy an OpenShift cluster on an on-premises environment.
PowerProtect Data Manager provides software defined data protection, automated discovery, deduplication, operational agility, self-service, and IT governance for physical, virtual and cloud environments. PowerProtect Data Manager is the first and only scalable data protection solution for VMs, applications, and Kubernetes. PowerProtect Data Manager enables to discover, protect, and restore production workloads in Kubernetes environments and protects production and dev/test workloads to ensure that the data is easy to backup and restore.
Users of PowerProtect Data Manager enhance the protection of their data by protecting directly to PowerProtect DD series appliances to gain benefits from unmatched efficiency, deduplication, performance, and scalability.
This document provides guidance on deploying and using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on the Dell PowerFlex family with the PowerFlex CSI driver, for customers requiring an on-premises container platform solution to meet their needs. This document also describes how to protect workloads deployed on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect DD.