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10/30/25, 11:47 AM Red Hat backs OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs for AI performance boost – Intelligent CIO North America

Red Hat backs OpenShift on

NVIDIA BlueField DPUs for AI

performance boost

Bill Tanner | 29 October, 2025

Red Hat has announced support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField data processing units
(DPUs), enabling organisations to deploy AI workloads with greater security, networking and storage
optimisation.

Red Hat has announced support for Red Hat OpenShift on NVIDIA BlueField data processing units
(DPUs), making it easier for organisations to deploy demanding AI application workloads with
optimised security, networking and storage capabilities.

This approach creates isolation between AI applications and infrastructure workloads, including
networking and security services, that run on BlueField, offering additional benefits such as:

• Optimised resource utilisation: Red Hat OpenShift uses intelligent resource management to offload
networking services from the CPU to the DPU which frees up resources for AI application workloads,
thereby optimising resource utilisation.

• Data plane and storage traffic acceleration: Red Hat OpenShift on BlueField helps speed up the
data plane and storage traffic by offloading crypto and storage processing to the DPU with support for
NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and an accelerated OVS data path, which enhances performance for
demanding AI workloads.

• Advanced cloud networking: Red Hat OpenShift, with distributed routing capabilities powered by
BlueField, helps improve secure multi-tenancy, network scalability, performance and traffic efficiency
across clusters while streamlining network operations.

• Improved security posture: Red Hat OpenShift offloads infrastructure tasks to BlueField which helps
reduce the attack surface for applications with a layered approach to security, effectively improving
security posture.

Support for NVIDIA BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift will be available as a technical preview in the
coming weeks. Red Hat will continue to collaborate with NVIDIA to integrate additional support
capabilities for the NVIDIA DOCA software framework and third-party network functions for NVIDIA
BlueField on Red Hat OpenShift.

Looking ahead, NVIDIA BlueField-4 will further extend these capabilities with next-generation
acceleration, deeper DOCA integration and enhanced performance to power the next wave of cloud-
native AI factories.

Red Hat is also working with NVIDIA to support Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, enabling seamless,
high-performance connectivity for AI workloads across distributed cloud environments.

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