Red Hat's Partners play a key role in developing customer relationships, understanding customer needs, and providing comprehensive joint solutions. As customers use Red Hat technologies to help solve increasingly complex business issues, partners provide reliable guidance, technical information, and even engineered integrations to assist customers in making sound technology decisions.

For this post, the focus is on partners that are helping to showcase their technology paired with the OpenShift platform. Whether this is technology from our system vendor partners, independent software vendors (ISVs), or cloud service providers, we are including a library of reference architectures here. Reference Architectures combine partner technology with Red Hat technology to formulate a best-practices design and to simplify the process for creating a stable, highly-available, and repeatable environment on which to run your applications on OpenShift.

In alphabetical order, the following are design and/or deployment specific guides highlighting currently supported (as of this blog authoring) versions of OpenShift with our partners. I hope to update this post periodically as new solutions emerge and older ones are refreshed.

Partner OpenShift Version Title and URL
Cisco Systems 3.11 Cisco HyperFlex with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 on VMware vSphere
Cisco Systems 3.9 Cisco UCS Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Design Guide
Cisco Systems 3.9 Cisco UCS Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Deployment Guide
Dell EMC 3.11 Dell EMC Ready Architecture for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Hitachi Vantara 3.9 Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI
HPE 3.10 HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
HPE 3.10 HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage
HPE 3.7 HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy Composable Infrastructure
HPE 3.10 HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
IBM 3.9 IBM Cloud Private on Red Hat OpenShift reference architecture
Intel 3.11 Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11
Intel 3.6 Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 with OpenShift Container Storage
Lenovo 3.9 Reference Architecture: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers
NetApp 3.10 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with NetApp HCI
Supermicro 3.11 Deep learning performance on Red Hat OpenShift with Supermicro

I do apologize if I've mistakenly left any partner solution out of the table above. Please feel free to make a comment below and we'll work to add yours to the library above.

Red Hat authored Reference Architectures

If you're interested in Red Hat authored Reference Architectures, head on over to a blog post authored by Marc Curry who's got you covered on popular Cloud Infrastructure providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure public cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Red Hat OpenStack Platform, VMWare vSphere, and Red Hat Virtualization (RHV).

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About the author

Dave Cain is a member of Red Hat's Ecosystem Engineering team. He is a prolific learner and writer that loves working with emerging technologies in the networking space. Telecommunications and on-premises edge, network and containerized functions virtualization/containerization, radio access networks, 5G, are all a part of his charter.

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