Cloud Platform as a Service

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.15 on ROKS now supports the following new features with the ROKS ODF Add-on:

• Performance Profiles - The ability to specify a resource profile for an ODF deployment based on workload performance needs. Support for three main profiles - Lean, Balanced, and Performance. More information in the docs here.

• NFS - The ability to export NFS Shares from in-cluster and across and external ROKS clusters backed OpenShift Data Foundation Storage Cluster. More information in the docs here

• Ceph RBD as default - The ability to set the Ceph RADOS block device (RBD) storage class as the default storage class in the cluster during the deployment of OpenShift Data Foundation. The Ceph RADOS block device (RBD) storage class acts as the default storage class in the cluster during the deployment of OpenShift Data Foundation.

GX3 (NVIDIA L40S GPU) flavors available in SAO data center (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

• Previously, we have announced the release of the GX3 profiles in other data centers. Today we are thrilled to announce that NVIDIA L40S GPUs are generally available in Sao Paulo, Brazil for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud (ROKS) clusters running on IBM Cloud VPC.

• Organizations worldwide will enjoy breakthrough multi-workload performance with NVIDIA L40S GPUs, combining powerful AI compute with best-in-class graphics and media acceleration. It’s built to power the new era of data center workloads – from generative AI and large language model (LLM) inference and training to 3D graphics, rendering, and video. We’ve found that organizations switching from L4 GPUs to L40S GPUs experience a 24% increase in clock speed and 2x more raw vRAM capacity to ensure smoother rendering, faster data processing, superior graphics handling, and maximized performance.