Red Hat Software Solution Product Guide

Red Hat and Lenovo have been partners for over 20 years. Together we ensure that the latest Red Hat technologies work perfectly with Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions to provide the most reliable, secure, and high-performing datacenters for our customers. Built with proven Lenovo innovation, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and ThinkAgile solutions extend Red Hat's operating systems, virtualization technologies, and infrastructure platforms so you can build a highly productive IT environment that can help your business achieve true innovation.

Lenovo has proven experience in developing and delivering Red Hat-based solutions that help customers modernize and simplify their IT infrastructure to dramatically drive down operating costs and open the door to cutting-edge innovations. Built around the latest Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and networking hardware, the Lenovo solution with Red Hat provides businesses with an affordable, interoperable, and reliable industry-leading solution to manage their virtualized workloads.

Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that is aimed at reducing complexity, speeding response, and enhancing the availability of Lenovo server systems and solutions. Lenovo XClarity Administrator provides agent-free hardware management for our servers, storage, network switches, hyperconverged and ThinkAgile solutions and it is especially effective when paired with Red Hat Ansible.

For more information, refer to the Lenovo XClarity Administrator Product Guide, available from:
https://lenovopress.com/tips1200-lenovo-xclarity-administrator

Lenovo offers support for several Red Hat offerings including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, giving customers a single point of support for their data center with much improved pricing than they can get from Red Hat distributors.

With Lenovo, customers have access to decades of datacenter expertise, industry leading support services and the option to leverage Lenovo consultative, professional, and managed service offerings. With a history of collaboration, Red Hat and Lenovo consistently deliver innovative joint solutions for the data center.

This section describes the subscriptions available for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This Red Hat offering provides companies of all sizes with essential operation components, such as Operating Systems, automation platform, and monitoring between other products, all with the objective of reduce duplication of effort, ensure adherence to standards, enhance the flow of information throughout an information system, promote adaptability necessary for a changeable environment and all the software required to maintain your organization running with a world class software and hardware.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available for the following scenarios:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): RHEL is the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, certified on hundreds of clouds and with thousands of hardware and software vendors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be purchased to support specific use cases like edge computing or SAP workloads, and different environments across physical, virtual and cloud deployments.
• RHEL for Virtual Datacenter: This subscription allows the deployment of unlimited Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests (2 socket) in virtualized environments on supported hypervisors, like OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat Virtualization, VMware, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Note - Does not include Hypervisor.

• RHEL for HPC: This Linux variant is used for processing complex calculations at high speeds across multiple servers in parallel. The groups of servers are known as clusters and are composed of hundreds or even thousands of compute servers that have been connected through a network.

• RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA): is used for all non-HANA SAP applications. This also comes in the basic two socket / two VM and the unlimited VM option using Virtual Datacenter subscriptions. Primary use case is for SAP business applications.
• RHEL for SAP Solutions: is an attractive, bundled subscription with several Red Hat technologies. This is the subscription required for SAP HANA use cases. This subscription includes Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat High Availability Add-On, and Red Hat Satellite Add-On. It also has an extended update support (EUS) of four years included vs the standard support term of two years.
• RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge): These are RHEL skus , but priced for edge environments. Designed for purchase in large quantities to satisfy large scale, multi-site deployments. Comes with Red Hat Satellite. Available for Server, Gateway, and End-point device use cases. Minimum quantity requirements apply.

• RHEL for Workstation: Designed for advanced Linux users working on more powerful hardware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation is optimized for high-performance graphics, animation, and scientific activities. It includes all the capabilities and applications that workstation users need, plus development tools for provisioning and administration.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• RHEL with Lenovo Support
• RHEL with Red Hat support
• RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Red Hat Support
• RHEL for HPC with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for HPC with Red Hat Support
• RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Red Hat Support
• RHEL for SAP Applications with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for SAP Applications with Red Hat Support
• RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Red Hat Support
• RHEL for Workstation with Lenovo Support
• RHEL for Workstation with Red Hat Support

RHEL with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL with Lenovo Support.

RHEL with Red Hat support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL with Red Hat support.

RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Lenovo Support.

RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Virtual Datacenter with Red Hat Support.

RHEL for HPC with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for HPC with Lenovo Support.

RHEL for HPC with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for HPC with Red Hat Support.

RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Lenovo Support.

RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for SAP Applications (Non-HANA) with Red Hat Support.

RHEL for SAP Applications with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for SAP Applications with Lenovo Support.

RHEL for SAP Applications with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for SAP Applications with Red Hat Support.

RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Lenovo Support for Edge Server, Gateway and Endpoint use cases.

RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Distributed Computing (Edge) with Red Hat Support for Edge Server, Gateway and Endpoint use cases.

RHEL for Workstation with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Workstation with Lenovo Support.

RHEL for Workstation with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL for Workstation with Red Hat Support.

This section provides information on add-on packages that can be sold with the RHEL Operating System from Lenovo. Any “Add-On” package will adopt the support levels of the underlying server OS (i.e. Standard or Premium support, Lenovo Support or Red Hat Support).

• Extended Update Support (EUS). is an optional offering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers. With EUS, Red Hat provides backports of Critical and Important impact security updates and urgent-priority bug fixes for a predefined set of minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. EUS enables customers to remain with the same minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 24 months, allowing for stable production environments for mission-critical applications.
• High Availability. High Availability Add-On allows a service to fail over from one (1) node to another with no apparent interruption to cluster clients, evicting faulty nodes during transfer to prevent data corruption. This Add-On can be configured for most applications (both off-the-shelf and custom) and virtual guests and supports up to 16 nodes (RHEL 7.6 and RHEL 8.0) and up to 32 nodes (RHEL 7.7 and 8.1 and later). The High Availability Add-On features a cluster manager, lock management, fencing, command-line cluster configuration, and a Conga administration tool.
• Resilient Storage Add-On. Red Hat Resilient Storage lets users access the same storage device over a network—using either shared storage or a clustered file system—through a pool of data that's available to each server in a group. Each server in a cluster has direct access to a shared block device over a local storage area network (SAN).
• Red Hat Satellite Add-On. Red Hat Satellite combines the flexible and powerful infrastructure management capabilities of Red Hat Satellite with the simplicity of cloud management services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and many other Red Hat products. It helps you more securely manage any environment supported by Red Hat.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• Extended Update Support with Lenovo Support
• Extended Update Support with Red Hat Support
• High Availability with Lenovo Support
• High Availability with Red Hat Support
• Resilient Storage with Lenovo Support
• Resilient Storage with Red Hat Support
• RHEL Satellite, with Lenovo Support
• RHEL Satellite, with Red Hat Support

Extended Update Support with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Extended Update Support with Lenovo Support.

Extended Update Support with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Extended Update Support with Red Hat Support.

High Availability with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for High Availability with Lenovo Support.

High Availability with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for High Availability with Red Hat Support.

Resilient Storage with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Resilient Storage with Lenovo Support.

Resilient Storage with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Resilient Storage with Red Hat Support.

RHEL Satellite, with Lenovo Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL Satellite, with Lenovo Support.

RHEL Satellite, with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for RHEL Satellite, with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building and operating IT automation at scale, from hybrid cloud to the edge. Ansible Automation Platform enables users across an organization to create, share, and manage automation—from development and operations to security and network teams.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat Support

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Red Hat Support.

Is a cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, organizes those resources into clouds, and manages them so users can access what they need—when they need it.

• Red Hat OpenStack Platform: Red Hat OpenStack Platform maintains high availability and policy driven measures, including infrastructure failure recognition, automated host node evacuation, and downed node fencing. It also automatically restarts workloads on remaining available hosts. This subscription is a bundle of RHEL, Red Hat Virtualization and OpenStack. The OpenStack Platform Controller Node “no guest” simply deletes the RHEL OS from the bundle for customers that want to add Red Hat OpenStack onto another vendor OS or already have RHEL OS installed on the server.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat Support

Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift is a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform that enables a cloud-like experience everywhere it's deployed. Whether it’s in the cloud, on-premises or at the edge, Red Hat OpenShift gives you the ability to choose where you build, deploy, and run applications through a consistent experience. Red Hat OpenShift’s full-stack automated operations and self-service provisioning for developers lets teams work together more efficiently to move ideas from development to production. You can choose to run VMs, containers or both. Distributed Computing SKUs for Edge Server, Gateway and Endpoint use cases are available.

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes controls clusters and applications from a single console, with built-in security policies. Extend the value of Red Hat OpenShift by deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across multiple clusters at scale.
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: Available for bare metal, virtualized and edge deployment, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by thousands of customers in every industry to deliver business-critical applications, whether they’re migrating existing workloads to the cloud or building new experiences for customers. It’s also backed by one of the leading Kubernetes contributors, Red Hat.
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Plus: Available for bare metal, virtualized and edge deployment, This offering includes all of the features of OpenShift Container Platform, but also includes OpenShift Data Foundations, Advanced Cluster Management, Quay and Advanced Cluster Security. This bundle has it all!
• Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine: Available for bare metal, virtualized and edge deployment, OpenShift Kubernetes Engine is a product offering that lets you use an enterprise class Kubernetes platform as a production platform for launching containers. This is an entry level product and does not include some of the developer tools or features.
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation: As a part of Red Hat’s focus on overall data resiliency, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation let organizations extend their current enterprise backup and recovery solutions to production Kubernetes applications.
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Science: is an AI platform offering based on the open-source Open Data Hub project. Data scientists and developers can rapidly develop, train, test, and iterate ML/DL models with full support, allowing them to focus on their modeling and application development without waiting for infrastructure provisioning.
• Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus: as part of the Red Hat OpenShift portfolio, provides a single hybrid cloud platform for enterprises to build, deploy, run, manage, automate, and safeguard intelligent applications at scale. Building on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, it delivers an enterprise Kubernetes system for migrating existing workloads to the cloud or building new digital user experiences or deploying applications to edge locations.
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes: Available for bare metal, virtualized environments. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS) for Kubernetes is the pioneering Kubernetes-native security platform, equipping organizations to more securely build, deploy, and run cloud-native applications anywhere. The solution’s Kubernetes-native approach lowers operational costs, reduces operational risk, and supports greater developer productivity with built-in security across the entire software development life cycle.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Plus with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat OpenShift Data Science with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Plus with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Plus with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Data Science with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat uses the term “Application Services” to refer to capabilities that provide customers with tools to design and develop cloud-native architectures and applications for hybrid cloud execution. This definition reflects the evolution of middleware to the cloud, with specific capabilities to run better in orchestrated (Kube and container) environments. 

In addition to supporting traditional self-managed Application Services deployments, Red Hat offers capabilities as managed cloud services to provide customer choice in operational responsibilities and accelerate time to value.

• Red Hat Directory Server: is an LDAP-compliant server that centralizes user identity and application information. It provides an operating system-independent, network-based registry for storing application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information.
• Red Hat Runtimes: is a set of products, tools, and components for developing and maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Red Hat JBoss: is an open-source platform for highly transactional, web-scale Java applications. JBoss EAP combines the familiar and popular Jakarta EE specifications with the latest technologies, like Eclipse MicroProfile, to modernize your applications from traditional Java EE into the new world of DevOps, cloud, containers, and microservices. Includes everything needed to build, run, deploy, and manage enterprise Java applications in a variety of environments, including on-premises, virtual environments, and in private, public, and hybrid clouds.

The following tables list the available part numbers.

• Red Hat Directory Server with Red Hat Support
• Red Hat Runtimes with Lenovo support
• Red Hat JBoss with Lenovo support

Red Hat Directory Server with Red Hat Support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat Directory Server with Red Hat Support.

Red Hat Runtimes with Lenovo support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat Runtimes with Lenovo support.

Red Hat JBoss with Lenovo support

The following table lists the ordering information for Red Hat JBoss with Lenovo support.

Additional information about subscriptions.

1. Q: What types of Red Hat subscriptions does Lenovo offer?

   A: Lenovo offers OEM subscriptions and Resell subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HPC, SAP, OpenShift, OpenStack, and Ansible. “OEM” subscriptions come with industry leading 24x7 support from Lenovo offering a single point to call for any hardware or software issues. Please refer to the product list found in this document.

2. Q: How is Red Hat Enterprise Linux sold?

   A: Red Hat subscriptions are sold in 1, 3 and 5-year options. These are not “licenses” but are subscriptions that provide access to all software downloads, patches, upgrades, etc. and the ability to contact Lenovo or Red Hat for support. Support will be either 10x5 or 24x7 terms. Subscriptions are delivered from Lenovo to the customer.

3. Q: How are the Red Hat subscriptions delivered?

   A: Red Hat subscription keys are inventoried by Lenovo and delivered via the Lenovo Key Management System (LKMS). Customers are sent an Authorization Code used to register the purchase on the LKMS. The actual Red Hat activation keys are then emailed to the customer to register at the customer’s Red Hat Network user account.

4. Q: Can I reassign a Red Hat subscription in the case of new hardware or a disaster recovery scenario?

   A: Yes, Red Hat subscriptions can be reassigned to a new server by changing the server on the customer’s Red Hat Network account.

The Lenovo Server Operating System Interoperability Guide (OSIG) is a comprehensive source of information about operating system compatibility with Lenovo servers. It includes servers in the ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, System x, ThinkServer, NeXtScale, Flex System and BladeCenter product families and covers servers that are currently supported by Lenovo under warranty.

For more information, please visit the OSIG page: http://lenovopress.com/osig. Use the dropdown menus to filter and finetune your search. In each of the search results, the support statement column contains clickable links that opens a popup window with details about the support.

For Lenovo option compatibility, the Lenovo ServerProven program validates selected products for compatibility with all Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. Through the ServerProven Program, Lenovo works with industry leaders to test their equipment with Lenovo products.

For compatibility information, please visit: http://static.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/index.shtml. For more details, please click on the Lenovo product. For compatibility with OS, please click on the green + button to expand the section.

Lenovo XClarity Integrator enables XClarity Administrator to integrate into your existing IT applications, providing the functionality you need to manage Lenovo infrastructure right in the console of the software tools that you already use. XClarity Administrator is a centralized resource management solution that reduces complexity, speeds response, and enhances the availability of Lenovo ThinkSystem infrastructure and ThinkAgile solutions.

For more information on XClarity Administrator, see the Lenovo Press product guide:
https://lenovopress.com/tips1200-lenovo-xclarity-administrator

Lenovo Support provides comprehensive, single-source support for a wide range of server operating systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Lenovo provides 24x7x365 service for critical problems, and support during business hours for noncritical problems. If live phone help is unavailable during those service windows, responses are provided within 2 hours.

For more information on Red Hat Linux support, see the following Lenovo support page:
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht507838

Lenovo publishes several engineered solutions using Red Hat products. These are typically accompanied by detailed Reference Architectures posted on the Lenovo Press web site https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/

Recently published Reference Architectures included the following:

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - This reference architecture was updated for both second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Select programs. OpenShift provides container-based workloads on an OpenStack platform. View the document at https://lenovopress.com/lp0968.

The following sales training courses are offered for employees and partners (login required). Courses are listed in date order.

1. A Lenovo Seller's Journey in the Cloud Space - Clarifying Your Customer's Challenge
   2024-01-03 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   A Lenovo Seller's Journey in the Cloud Space - Clarifying Your Customer's Challenge
   
   

   The intention of this learning module is to provide suggestions and guidance for those first customer conversations after the opportunity has been initially identified. In this simulation, the Seller’s objective is to learn about the business and qualify the business gap.
   
   After completing this course, you will be able to:
   • Verify the customer business need
   • Guide the customer conversation to qualify and confirm the business gap
   • Determine next steps to progress the sale

   Published: 2024-01-03
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DCLDB217r2
2. Gaining Insight to Lenovo Cloud Solutions Customers - Practical Scenario
   2024-01-03 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Gaining Insight to Lenovo Cloud Solutions Customers - Practical Scenario
   
   

   In this course we are going to explore a productive sequence of questions to gather information about the customer’s business, business processes, and data flow to help position related Lenovo Cloud Solutions.
   
   This course aims to help Lenovo and Partner Sellers identify customers' business landscape in relation to their intended and/or current IT Cloud eco-system.
   
   Completing this learning content will enable you to:
   • Ask questions to uncover your customer's business operations and IT landscape
   • Assess and identify possible opportunities for Lenovo Cloud Solutions and Services
   • Identify the next step to progress the conversation with the customer

   Published: 2024-01-03
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DCLDO115r2
3. Gaining Insight to Lenovo Cloud Solutions Customers
   2024-01-03 | 25 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   Gaining Insight to Lenovo Cloud Solutions Customers
   
   

   In this course we are going to explore how to start the conversation about customer's business and technology.
   
   This course aims to provide the Lenovo and Partner sellers with the foundation to ask fundamental questions about customers’ business and technology to help position related Lenovo Cloud Solutions.
   
   After completing this training, you will be able to:
   • Ask fundamental questions about your customers' business
   • Ask fundamental questions about your customers' technology
   • Understand what a company needs to consider to execute a cloud strategy

   Published: 2024-01-03
   Length: 25 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DCLDO114r2
4. The Basics of Cloud Computing
   2024-01-03 | 20 minutes | Employees and Partners
   Details
   The Basics of Cloud Computing
   
   

   As the first course in the ISG Cloud Solutions curriculum, it goes all-out to help Lenovo and Partner General/Technical sellers by providing the foundational information regarding the cloud technology.
   
   This course aims to increase the seller's ability to articulate basic cloud technology concepts and help position related Lenovo Solutions and services.

   Published: 2024-01-03
   Length: 20 minutes
   

   Start the training:
   Employee link: Grow@Lenovo
   Partner link: Lenovo Partner Learning
   

   Course code: DCLDO111r2