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Dell Automation Made Easy with Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform

Simplify. Accelerate. Manage.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform delivers hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter and enterprise campus, to the cloud, and the network edge.  


With support for 8 Dell Technologies products, and over 200 modules, roles, and plug-ins, you can start automating faster and improve your operational efficiency while increasing governance and control.

It has never been easier to provision, configure, and manage server, storage, and network systems using Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collections for Dell Technologies.

Red Hat Ansible for PowerEdge Servers

Now you can simplify and automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of PowerEdge servers using the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). For example, you can:

  • ➣ Introduce physical infrastructure provisioning into your software provisioning stack

  • ➣ Integrate software provisioning with your existing DevOps pipelines

  • ➣ Manage infrastructure consistently using version-controlled playbooks, server configuration profiles, and templates that you can share and reuse


Red Hat Ansible for Storage

Whether your organization uses Dell PowerFlex, PowerMax, PowerScale, PowerStore, or Unity, Red Hat Ansible accelerates the configurations you need to get more done, faster.

Accelerate the Configuration of PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Storage
Use supported modules, roles, and utilities to manage volumes, storage groups, ports, port groups, hosts, host groups, masking views, initiators, snapshots, jobs, snapshot policies, and storage pools.

Ease the Configuration and Management of PowerFlex Appliances
Use the Ansible Automation Platform to gather high-level facts from your storage systems, and use automation to maintain system development cycles, volumes, snapshots, snapshot policy, storage pools, replication consistency groups, replication pairs, and more.

Automate and Orchestrate the Configuration and Management of Dell Unity Arrays
IT administrators can use Ansible Automation Platform to automate and orchestrate arrays, manage file systems and hosts at scale, gather facts and create, modify, or delete storage pools or volumes.

Red Hat Ansible for Network

For organizations using SmartFabric OS10, IT teams can provision and manage Dell Technologies PowerSwitch platforms running Dell EMC SmartFabric OS10. As a result, they ensure consistency and standardization to improve availability and reliability of your networks.


Helpful Dell-Red Hat Automation Content

eBook – The Automated Enterprise: This 28-page eBook provides a wealth of information for IT teams exploring all the ways to streamline their IT infrastructure via an automation platform. It explores common use automation use cases and describes the critical elements of an enterprise automation platform to enable them.

Solution Overview – Automation and Containerized App Development and Deployment: This 1-page overview discusses why DevOps and app innovation will fall behind without the underpinning of a foundational automation platform to streamline both development and deployment.

eBook – Automate Infrastructure Workflows: This 15-page eBook provides a holistic approach to automation that can help you save time, increase quality, improve employee satisfaction, and reduce costs throughout your entire infrastructure and organization.

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