Accelerate the path to an enterprise-grade container solution with an optimized, performance-verified solution.
| Ingredient | Intel® Select Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Base Configuration | Intel Select Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Plus Configuration |
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| Control-plane Node (Bastion Node + Three Master Nodes + Two Infrastructure Nodes) | ||
| Platform | 6 x Intel® Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform | 6 x Intel Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform |
| Per-platform Components | ||
| Processor | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4114 processor (2.20 GHz, 10 cores, 20 threads), Intel® Xeon® Silver 4214 processor (2.20 GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads), or a higher number Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor |
2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processor (2.20 GHz, 10 cores, 20 threads), Intel Xeon Silver 4214 processor (2.20 GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads), or a higher number Intel Xeon Scalable processor |
| Memory | 192 GB or higher (12 x 16 GB DDR4-2400) | 192 GB or higher (12 x 16 GB DDR4-2400) |
| Boot Drive1 | 2 x Intel® SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
2 x Intel SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
| Storage Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Controller Per Node1 | Intel® RAID Module RMSP3HD080E | Intel RAID Module RMSP3HD080E |
| Remote Management Module Per Node1 | Intel® Remote Management Module 4 Lite (Intel® RMM4 Lite) 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 |
Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 |
| Data Network Per Node1 | 10 Gb Intel® Ethernet Connection X722 with the Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Connection OCP X527- DA2 (X527DA2OCPG1P5) or 10 Gb Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter (Intel® Ethernet CNA) X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2d |
10 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2 or 25 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2, dual-port SFP28 |
| Management Network Per Node | Integrated 1 GbE | Integrated 1 GbE |
| Minimum of Four Application Nodes | ||
| Platform | 4 x Intel Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform | 4 x Intel Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform |
| Processor | 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processor (2.20 GHz, 10 cores, 20 threads), Intel Xeon Silver 4214 processor (2.20 GHz, 12 cores, 24 threads), or a higher number Intel Xeon Scalable processor |
2 x Intel® Xeon Gold 6138 processor (2.00 GHz, 20 cores, 40 threads), Intel® Xeon Gold 6238 processor (2.10 GHz, 22 cores, 44 threads), or a higher number Intel Xeon Scalable processor |
| Memory | 256 GB or higher (8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400) | 256 GB or higher (8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400) |
| Boot Drive1 | 2 x Intel® SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
2 x Intel SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
| Storage HBA Controller Per Node1 | Intel® RAID Module RMSP3HD080E | Intel RAID Module RMSP3HD080E |
| Remote Management Module Per Node1 | Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 | Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 |
| Data Tier Per Node1 | 1 x 4 TB Intel® SSD DC P4500 Series (NVM Express [NVMe]) | 1 x 4 TB Intel SSD DC P4500 Series (NVMe) |
| Data Network Per Node1 | 10 Gb Intel Ethernet Connection X722 with the Intel Ethernet Converged Network Connection OCP X527- DA2 (X527DA2OCPG1P5) or 10 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2 |
10 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2 or 25 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2, dual-port SFP28 |
| Management Network Per Node | Integrated 1 GbE | Integrated 1 GbE |
| Minimum of Three Storage Nodes | ||
| Platform | 3 x Intel® Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform | 3 x Intel Server Board S2600WFT or the OEM’s chosen platform |
| Processor | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5115 processor (2.20 GHz, 10 cores, 20 threads), Intel® Xeon® Gold 5215 processor (2.50 GHz, 10 cores, 20 threads), or a higher number Intel Xeon Scalable processor |
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 processor (2.00 GHz, 20 cores, 40 threads), Intel Xeon Gold 6238 processor (2.10 GHz, 22 cores, 44 threads), or a higher number Intel Xeon Scalable processor |
| Memory | 256 GB or higher (8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400) | 256 GB or higher (8 x 32 GB DDR4-2400) |
| Boot Drive1 | 2 x Intel® SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
2 x Intel SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series (M.2 or 2.5-inch) RAID1 |
| Storage HBA Controller Per Node1 | Intel RAID Module RMSP3HD080E | Intel RAID Module RMSP3HD080E |
| Storage Expander Node1 | Intel® Storage Expander RES3TV360 | Intel Storage Expander RES3TV360 |
| Remote Management Module Per Node1 | Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 | Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite 2 AXXRMM4LITE2 |
| Data Tier Per Node | 16 x 3.8 TB Intel® SSD DC S4500/S4510 Series 2.5-inch (Serial ATA [SATA]) |
16 x 3.8 TB Intel SSD DC S4500/S4510 2.5-inch (SATA) |
| Data Network Per Node1 | 10 Gb Intel Ethernet Connection X722 with the Intel Ethernet Converged Network Connection OCP X527-DA2 or 10 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2 |
10 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710, dual-port SFP+ ML2 or 25 Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2, dual-port SFP28 |
| Software | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL Atomic Host Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform* Red Hat container-native storage iPXE environment Red Hat Ansible automation HAProxy |
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| Applies to All Nodes | ||
| Management Network Per Node | Integrated 1 GbE | Integrated 1 GbE |
| Trusted Platform Module (TPM) | TPM 2.0 discrete or frmware TPM (Intel® Platform Trust Technology [Intel PTT]) |
TPM 2.0 discrete or frmware TPM (Intel PTT) |
| Firmware and Software Optimizations | Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology) enabled Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled Intel Speed Shift Technology, Hardware P-states (HWP) native Intel Turbo Boost Technology/HWP energy performance preference (EPP)/energy performance bias (EPB) settings balanced Three-way mirroring, with the least overhead on processing power1 Updated to all available patches1 Keepalived (open source) |
Intel HT Technology enabled Intel Turbo Boost Technology enabled Intel Speed Shift technology, HWP native Intel Turbo Boost Technology/HWP EPP/EPB settings balanced Three-way mirroring, with the least overhead on processing power1 Updated to all available patches1 Keepalived (open source) |
| Minimum Performance Standards Verified to meet or exceed the following minimum performance capabilities: |
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| Minimum Number of Magento Instances Workloads Deployed to All Application Nodes | 32 | 72 |
| Number of Sysbench Pods (Deployed to Two Infrastructure Nodes) | 32 | 72 |
| Minimum Number of Concurrent Users (Apache Jmeter Benchmark [user Web Traffic] Deployed to Bastion Node) | 725 | 1,400 |
| Application Throughput (Average Number of Transactions Per Second) | 310 | 620 |
| Business Value of Choosing a Plus Configuration Over a Base Configuration | ||
| The Plus configuration can support 2.25x more concurrent workloads and 1.9x more concurrent users, with 2x faster response times, compared to a Base configuration. |
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