IBM Storage Fusion HCI 2.7.1: Best Bare metal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Hyper-converged Infrastructure appliance
IBM Storage Fusion HCI is the best container-native hyper-converged infrastructure appliance in market that delivers OpenShift Container Platform on bare metal on-premises for simplified deployment and data management for Kubernetes applications. Fusion HCI is designed to simplify deployment of your OpenShift on bare metal and monitoring your hardware including network components. With it’s seamless cluster expansion and upsize experience it provides simplified OpenShift cluster management on bare metal for on-prem deployments reliably and repeatably.
Fusion HCI is shipped with enterprise grade hardware and uses OpenShift , which is the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. By combining power of variety of hardware suited to different workloads (Compute, storage, GPU, AFM) and OpenShift on bare metal servers, Fusion HCI is best OpenShift bare metal hybrid cloud appliance in market.
In this article you’ll learn key Fusion HCI installation features demonstrating how it provides unified installation and management experience for OpenShift on bare metal and simplifies a wide range of deployment customisation which can take upto days if not weeks to hours.
It is established that containers are the way to app modernisation. Businesses today need to quickly create Kubernetes infrastructure to deploy their enterprise workloads meeting organisation security guidelines and standards. This is where Fusion HCI helps organisations create enterprise grade production grade OpenShift on bare metal in a matter of hours with capability to expand cluster fully automatically as needed at any time keeping up with their business demands adhering to restrictions and guidelines. Fusion HCI installs OpenShift on bare metal using Installer-provisioned-infrastructure mechanism enabling deployment to be completely automated, reliable and repeatable.
Here are some out of the box installation capabilities Fusion HCI provides
With Fusion HCI meeting organisations’ standards for container platform businesses can focus on their business workloads go to market in reduced time not spending time navigating complexities of deployment of container platforms and tools.
To learn more about IBM Fusion HCI visit https://ibm.github.io/storage-fusion/fusion-hci/overview
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