As enterprises undergo digital transformation, customers are modernizing their IT infrastructure to provide the performance, availability, scalability, and agility required to meet today's business demands. HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI), the software-defined storage platform, has been the fastest growing platform providing an excellent fit for such growing business needs.
Cisco HyperFlex™ unifies compute, storage, and networking from the core to the edge. Cisco HyperFlex provides best-in-class HyperConverged Infrastructure that dramatically simplifies IT needs by providing a common building block for virtualized as well as Kubernetes-based workloads.
Google Cloud’s Anthos is an open hybrid and multi-cloud application platform that enables users to modernize existing applications, and build new ones while running anywhere in a secure manner. Built on open source technologies pioneered by Google—including Kubernetes, Istio, and Knative—Anthos enables consistency between on-premises and cloud environments and helps accelerate application development. Included in Anthos is, GKE on-prem which helps business to modernize on-prem and transition to cloud with hybrid architectures, promoting agility and innovation.
By bringing together Anthos and Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure, customers can unlock new levels of speed and agility by simplifying the building, running and managing of modern applications in a Hybrid Cloud environment. By running Anthos on Cisco HyperFlex enables independent scaling of compute and storage, provides guaranteed performance and simplified management. This solution enables users to quickly deploy and manage Kubernetes-based applications on Cisco HyperFlex or on the Cloud.
Kubernetes Monitoring with Cisco’s AppDynamics (optional component) gives organizations visibility into application and business performance, providing unparalleled insights into containerized applications, Kubernetes clusters and underlying infrastructure metrics—all through a single pane of glass.
The Cisco HyperFlex Kubernetes CSI Integration allows Cisco HyperFlex to dynamically provide persistent storage to stateful containerized workloads (from Kubernetes version 1.13 or later). The integration enables orchestration of the entire Persistent Volume object lifecycle to be offloaded and managed by Cisco HyperFlex, while being driven (initiated) by developers and users through standard Kubernetes Persistent Volume Claim objects. Developers and users get the benefit of leveraging Cisco HyperFlex for their Kubernetes persistent storage needs with zero additional administration overhead from their perspective. The HyperFlex Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in extends the performance, efficiency, and resiliency of HyperFlex to Kubernetes stateful applications.
Anthos GKE on-prem deployed on Cisco HyperFlex provides Container-as-a-Service environment with Anthos version 1.2 or higher. Cisco HyperFlex is qualified as an Anthos Ready Platform. This solution provides end-to-end orchestration, management and scalable architecture to deploy Anthos on Cisco HyperFlex with HyperFlex CSI (Container Storage Interface) for persistent storage to the containerized workloads. The HyperFlex CSI driver is qualified by Google as well. Also, in this solution we have included Cisco AppDynamics as it provides application visibility needed to deliver flawless customer experience for monitoring the containerized workloads running on Anthos GKE on-prem and cloud. The solution shows easy integration of AppDynamics with lightweight monitoring agents.
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Cisco HyperFlex for Google Cloud’s Anthos
