rhipe has created a series of tips and tricks to help you, our partner optimise and fine tune your deployments. Our aim is that these tips help to provide cost and operational efficiencies.

rhipe with support from Red Hat has created a team of experts dedicated to increasing CCSP program benefits, reducing your business risk, optimising your deployments and costs to drive greater value for you and your customers.

We understand the impact on your business and your clients during challenging times and we want to do all we can to help. Our key objective is to ensure business continuity for you and your customers so we have created a list of 7 tips and tricks focused on cost savings, usage improvements, and innovative solutions that will help fine tune your customers’ infrastructure.

The Red Hat CCSP Program has been designed to support all service provider models, allowing cloud, hosting, system integrator and managed service providers to host and resell certified Red Hat offerings on-demand via multi-tenant, dedicated and managed models.

CCSP Partners use Red Hat infrastructure and guest offerings to serve customers with secure, scalable, and supported enterprise solutions with specific business and operational models. Typical offerings from providers include hosted physical machines, self-service virtual machines, hosted virtual private clouds, fully managed services, and outsourcing.

It's critically important that you understand how to monitor resource consumption within your offerings, fine-tune and optimise them wherever possible. The only way you can reduce costs is by knowing what you have running within your environment so that we can optimise your licensing. Use your Red Hat Satellite to have a deeper understanding of your Red Hat ecosystem. 

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    7 Tips & Tricks to Optimise Red Hat CCSP

    Explore these tips and tricks and reach out to the rhipe team for more advice on the best way to implement these changes.

      1. Shutdown Non-Critical Workloads
      2. Lowering IT infrastructure costs
      3. Consolidate where possible
      4. Use your Red Hat Satellite
      5. Assess your DR sites
      6. Ansible Automation
      7. Check out this Gotcha

    1. Shutdown Non-Critical Workloads

    If you are running any workloads that are NOT business critical (for example Dev-Test or Internal Use Apps), please check if you could Power Off those VMs. Since these workloads are available on the consumption-based model you can scale up and down as you wish. 


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    2. Lowering IT Infrastructure costs

    By raising server virtualisation levels, increasing usage of server capacity, reduce the amount of time in solving issues by leveraging the support services available with Red Hat solutions which is part of your Red Hat agreement and subscription. 


    3. Consolidate where possible

    Should you be hosting RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) workloads in dedicated environments, with dedicated hardware for your end customers, make sure that you are using Host based licensing instead of per VM licensing SKUs wherever it makes sense. This can reduce your costs considerably. 

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    4. Use your Red Hat Satellite

    Use Red Hat Satellite and Insights (part of your Red Hat CCSP Subscriptions) to check and view your Life Cycle Environments to see what is being used other than your production workloads. Check if your Dev/Test/UAT environments are being worked on. If not shut them down and bring them up when necessary. Collectively, Satellite and Insights enable RHEL customers to proactively maintain state, configuration, compliance, and security of systems across traditional on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud footprint. This can drive down your costs considerably. 



    5. Assess your DR sites

    Check what mode your DR sites are using Active/Passive, Active/Active etc. Remember Passive workloads do not need to be reported. 

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    6. Ansible Automation

    The greater level of automation enables easier and faster provisioning and maintenance. Enable your teams to work closely and collaboratively through your Ansible Tower and try to automate as many manual tasks as possible to reduce the repetition of tasks, which in turn will reduce your costs. 



    7. Check out this Gotcha

    If you are hosting Red Hat workloads on AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM Clouds, you may be aware that all the licensing costs are managed by the public cloud providers, if they were provisioned by the marketplace. With this model, as a partner, you are unable to resell subscriptions to your end customers. By migrating your public cloud images to private images, utilising the licensing model from Red Hat via rhipe, you can realise a 15-17% discount on your licensing costs. 

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    These options to not necessarily apply to all Red Hat products, so we highly recommend prior to applying for any of these tips, to please consult with our rhipe Team to ensure Best Practices are chosen. 

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