u/MrArhaB

Hello everybody

As the title says im having issues preping for ex380

I have the official docs since my rhls is now expired is sno the way to go ? I already did 3 exams on openshift ex280 ex316 and ex432 im going for rhca in openshift but my current env cannot handel full cluster openshift with ha any recommendations?

Also another question since the new cert system is live

Is there still a discount for RHCA ? On rhls

In the old system there was a discount of 50% for any rhca for rhls

as the title says we have vmware contract it ended about two months ago with all the stuff going on about vmware its feels not reliable anymore since we have send them about relicensing and that took forever to get a response off currently we have 30 hosts ( baremetals )  and 3 hosts in the DR and we are using SRM  and we have local storage and SAN storage for our production VMS and we use local storage for preprod or cloning the servers before releasing a new update or patching 

currently we are considering Nutanix but HCI doesn't work since it doesn't work on our servers DELL R750 so they told use to use the 3 tier architecture  but that's fairly new in Nutanix since there is not much info about it 

and relicensing with VMware we are using VMware standard that will only last for 1 year before this license retire and we have to switch to VCF so right now we are considering redhat Openshift Virtualization ( we are 4 sys admins ) and im the only guy who has experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes but all on cloud environments i have not done it on prem and from my testing OpenShift with air gapped environment is extra difficult if we use openshift we can utilize our local storage and SAN like we did on vmware + the price is like 50% cheaper than any other vendor so im looking for your opinions 

Edit

The quote of nutanix was 50% less than vmware And the quote of redhat openshift Virtualization was 50% less than nutanix

Edit 2

We have security policies and audits and pci-dss security requirements so we cannot go any open-source solution

Hello guys im currently rhca in enterprise linux

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And i have only 2 exams left so i can become rhca in openshift i work mostly with redhat linux servers and my company might by openshift

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Im from iraq and im hesitant if whether i should pursue rhca in openshift since as far as i know redhat doesnt hire from iraq looking for your advice