Red Hat SummitHow to create and scale 6,000 virtual machines in 7 hours with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
In this learning path by Boaz Ben Shabat, learn how to create a large amount of virtual machines for a production infrastructure in less than a weekend’s worth of time.
This learning path is for operations teams or system administrators
Developers may want to check out Foundations of OpenShift on developers.redhat.com.
How to create and scale 6,000 virtual machines in 7 hours with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
In the world of organizational infrastructure, sometimes there’s an urgent need to rapidly scale up. Organizations may have a limited amount of time to stand up new infrastructure, a problem which is compounded by the size of the services in question.
In this learning path, we will explore a large-scale deployment scenario enabling 6,000 virtual machines (VMs) and 15,000 pods. This involves an external Red Hat® Ceph® Storage 12-node cluster and a Red Hat OpenShift® Virtualization 132 node cluster, integrated with an external Ceph Storage cluster.
Please note: This scenario is meant to show how such a task can be done using specific hardware. Your organization’s unique needs and requirements may differ.
What do you need before starting?
What is included in this learning path?
What will you get?
- Knowledge of configuring TuneD profile
- Information on coordinating a large scale OpenShift Virtualization deployment
- Setting up and deployment guidance for Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Insights on virtual machine cloning, testing, scaling, and migration
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