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Enterprises are 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 that 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. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system capable of automatically scaling and managing containerized applications.
PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure 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 in on-premises hardware or on-premises virtual machines or in the public cloud, providing teams with the freedom to build and run containerized applications anywhere. Deploying OpenShift in on-premises can be sometimes complex, time consuming, and requires a lot of manual effort. The Assisted Installer is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution that introduces a new way to deploy an OpenShift cluster on bare-metal and VMware vSphere environments.
The VMware vSphere platform provides ease and agility of deployment, management, and monitoring of virtualized infrastructure that complements cloud native deployments such as with PowerFlex and Red Hat OpenShift.