DH2i announced that DH2i's DxEnterprise multi-platform smart
high availability clustering software has earned
Red Hat OpenShift certification
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This certification verifies that
DxEnterprise is a containerized solution that is fully supported on Red
Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to accelerate the delivery of
intelligent applications across hybrid and multi cloud environments.
"By combining Red Hat OpenShift with
DxEnterprise, organizations can use containers to create lightweight
execution environments for applications to help deploy critical
workloads faster and more consistently across physical, virtual, private
and public cloud, and edge environments. Red Hat is pleased to
collaborate with DH2i to certify DxEnterprise containers on Red Hat
OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to further enable customers
across the hybrid cloud," said Mark Longwell, director of alliances,
Hybrid Platforms Business Unit, Red Hat.
"For our channel partners and end users,
this collaboration signifies that they will now be able to deploy Red
Hat OpenShift together with DxEnterprise in order to virtually eliminate
downtime and enjoy faster and more successful container application
deployments across hybrid and multi cloud environments," said Don
Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i.
A flexible, stable, and reliable foundation for modern IT and hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
delivers a trusted platform that empowers innovation and increases
operational efficiency within an organization-no matter where users
choose to run their workloads. Consistency across infrastructure
footprints - including physical, virtual, private and public clouds, and
edge deployments - allows users to manage applications, workloads and
services using the same tools and staff throughout their infrastructure.
And by giving users a platform that satisfies the needs of both
development and operations teams, Red Hat Enterprise Linux reduces
deployment friction and operating costs while shortening time to value
for critical business workloads. In fact, when used as the underpinning
foundation for other Red Hat products like Red Hat OpenShift, the
security capabilities, performance, interoperability, and innovation of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux extends throughout a customer's infrastructure
to deliver more value. As a result, users can build and operate a hybrid
cloud environment that keeps pace with their business needs.
DxEnterprise
is multi-platform Smart High Availability clustering software for
Windows Server, Linux and containers. DxEnterprise delivers an
all-in-one clustering solution for any application, any OS, any server
configuration and any cloud. DxEnterprise is particularly optimized for
instance or containerized Microsoft SQL Server deployments on any
platform such as Red Hat OpenShift.
DxEnterprise (DxE) features a new container
sidecar to enable application-level high availability (HA) clustering
for stateful containers in OpenShift. That means when OpenShift must
restart a failed pod, DxE has already failed-over the compromised
process to another healthy container ensuring zero application downtime.
In the specific case of Microsoft SQL Server running on Red Hat
OpenShift, DxE provides a cluster management solution that enables fully
automatic failover of SQL Server Availability Groups on Red Hat
OpenShift. DxEnterprise Smart High Availability Cluster Management on
Red Hat OpenShift unlocks 5 key benefits:
- Isolation: The primary application can run
independently in one container while the DxE sidecar hosts complementary
HA clustering services. This independence can help isolate failures.
- Quick deployment: It's easier to deploy a DxE
sidecar container - certainly easier to build and maintain a combined
primary application/DxE container image.
- Scalability: Once you have the DxE sidecar containers in place, it's easier to scale up to support as many pods as needed.
- Application-level HA: DxE sidecar provides zero downtime for stateful containers in Red Hat OpenShift.
- Management simplicity: DxE sidecar is fully certified enabling single pane of glass management in Red Hat OpenShift.