How Dell Technologies and Red Hat work together on joint solutions
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:24:54 -0000
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This blog, published on the Red Hat corporate website, was written for Red Hat Summit 2019. It discusses how Dell EMC and Red Hat work together on joint solutions, including the Dell EMC Ready Architecture for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-dell-emc-and-red-hat-work-together-joint-solutions
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For more than 20 years, Red Hat and Dell Technologies have worked together to assist customers looking to implement enterprise-grade IT infrastructure with open-source-based software in their organizations. As technology has evolved over the years, the Red Hat and Dell Technologies partnership has grown to accommodate change. Now, in 2020, customers who build their own enterprise container infrastructure using Red Hat’s market-leading OpenShift Container Platform software can use design and deployment guidance from Dell Technologies to do so on Dell EMC infrastructure, including a combination of servers, network switches, and storage arrays.
New in OpenShift 4.3
Published for the 2020 Red Hat Summit, the Dell EMC Ready Stack for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 documentation provides the latest design and configuration guidance for a bare-metal deployment of Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on the latest Dell technology, powered by Intel. Customers implementing container applications that require access to stateful data can connect those applications to persistent volumes that are hosted on Dell iSCSI-based Unity storage devices. This configuration enables a containerized application to execute on any worker node in the OpenShift cluster and still have identical access to the data volumes, giving the IT organization a large degree of flexibility and resiliency across the cluster in the event of a node failure.
The Ready Stack design guide describes how to select and configure the underlying hardware to best implement the software, as well as offering sizing and scalability advice. Separate sections covering networking and storage provide guidance to inform the process of designing a cluster that can accommodate current and anticipated workloads. A cluster that has been designed and configured with appropriate capacity by selection of key components can facilitate deployment and de-risk the implementation process, shortening the time required to get the cluster ready for production use.
The companion deployment guide shows how to validate the final system for correct operation and includes fault-finding information. This validation of the project helps to deliver a high degree of confidence that the container environment will operate well.
OpenShift in action
In addition to optimized infrastructure guidance for OpenShift, Dell Technologies is building a library of white papers describing the use of enterprise and cloud-native workloads on OpenShift for the benefit of customers looking to host these selected workloads. The most recent example is an implementation of Data Analytics with Apache Spark on OpenShift. Spark is an analytics engine for large-scale Big Data processing and Machine Learning (ML) across a cluster. In containerized form, Spark is an ideal workload for the Kubernetes implementation inside Red Hat OpenShift.
In the Dell Ready Solution for Data Analytics - Spark on Kubernetes we have designed a complete end-to-end use case and detailed the hardware and software infrastructure on which to implement the use case. The combination of Spark analytics and Red Hat OpenShift on Dell EMC hardware is a true cloud-native, enterprise-level application.
More information
To explore all the design guides and deployment guides, plus white papers, blogs, and more, visit the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform section of the Dell Technologies Info Hub. There is much to be discovered on the Info Hub!
Learn about more our joint solutions at the Red Hat Dell EMC partner page.
In lieu of exhibiting at Red Hat Summit, where we had some amazing things planned, we will be presenting several breakout sessions at the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience on April 28-29, including a session about the design of this OpenShift solution. Please check the Virtual Summit web page for the latest details as they are published.
Dell Technologies partners with Microsoft and Red Hat running SQL Server Big Data Clusters on OpenShift
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Introduced with Microsoft SQL Server 2019, SQL Server Big Data Clusters allow customers to deploy scalable clusters of SQL Server, Spark, and HDFS containers running on Kubernetes. Complete info on Big Data Clusters can be found in the Microsoft documentation. Many Dell Technologies customers are using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as their Kubernetes platform of choice and with this and many other solutions we are leading the way on OpenShift applications.
In Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters (BDC), OpenShift 4.3+ is supported as a platform for Big Data Clusters. This has been a highly anticipated launch as customers not only realize the power of BDC and OpenShift but also look for the support of Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and Red Hat to run mission-critical workloads. Dell Technologies has been working with Microsoft and Red Hat to develop architecture guidance and best practices for deploying and running BDC on OpenShift.
For this effort we utilized the Databricks’ TPC-DS Spark SQL kit to populate a dataset and run a workload on the OpenShift 4.3 BDC cluster to test the various architecture components of the solution. The TPC-DS benchmark is a popular database benchmark used to evaluate performance in decision support and Big Data environments.
Based on our testing we were able to achieve linear scale of our workload while fully exercising our OpenShift cluster consisting of 12 Dell EMC R640 PowerEdge Servers and a single Dell EMC Unity 880F storage array.
Total time of all queries run for 10,20,and 30TB datasets
As a result of this testing, a fully detailed OpenShift reference architecture and a best practices paper for running Big Data Clusters on Dell EMC Unity storage are under way and will be published soon. More information on Dell Technologies solutions for OpenShift can be found on our OpenShift Info Hub. Additional information on Dell Technologies for SQL Server can be found on our Microsoft SQL webpage.