Our smaller MAS Single hosting plan utilizes Red Hat “Single Node Openshift” (SNO) to provide a simpler and more budget-friendly architecture for small to medium sized organizations to run Maximo Application Suite on a dedicated server.
Our goals in creating this innovative hosting plan:
- Match the “single Production Maximo server or cluster” deployment that many organizations have used successfully for prior Maximo versions for over a decade.
- Don’t require companies to use a multiple-server MAS cluster if they don’t need it to support their concurrent user base. We do offer a “MAS Cluster” plan which is also innovative in that it provides as few as two server nodes, to support more users cost-effectively.
- Don’t require companies to pay for High Availability (HA) with server clusters replicated across multiple regions in the country (like the standard AWS and Azure scripted deployments require), if they don’t actually need that.
- Provide a Red Hat Openshift deployment that IBM and Red Hat consider to be appropriate for production use.
- Provide a MAS deployment that MaxStack can quickly provision for our hosting clients.
- Provide a deployment that supports cluster backup/restore.
- Give Maximo organizations a way to run a dedicated MAS system that reduces their cost, rather than having to resort to a more limited shared Maximo system such as a “Maximo as a Service” approach.
Following is information from IBM Red Hat and AWS:
Save Costs with Single Node OpenShift (SNO) Deployments of IBM Maximo on AWS
IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), when paired with Red Hat Single Node OpenShift (SNO) on AWS offers an agile, cost-effective solution for asset management within SME (Small and Medium scale) settings. This simplified OpenShift configuration converges control and worker functionalities into a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) node, fostering a lightweight, streamlined Kubernetes environment.
… It retains full feature parity with larger deployments, promising ideal utility for small to medium-sized operations where uptime is less critical.
Key Advantages of Maximo Application Suite (MAS) on Single Node OpenShift (SNO)
Single Node OpenShift (SNO) architecture reduces hardware requirements and simplifies cluster management, lowering operational costs, making it ideal for small to mid-sized businesses and remote site deployments.
Despite its lean nature SNO does not support horizontal scaling; however, it allows for vertical scalability. This means customers can enhance their capacity to meet growing demands, ensuring that SNO remains a beneficial solution.
Important Considerations for SNO Utilization
SNO is specifically designed to handle the Maximo Manage Module from the Maximo Application Suite. This setup, where a single node functions as both the control and worker, is streamlined for environments where the demands for Application Workload high availability and low recovery point objectives (RPO) are not essential.
Use Cases that may be suitable for SNO:
- Small MAS implementations that range under 70 concurrent users
- Upgrading small Maximo customers to MAS
