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title: OpenShift Container Platform scalability and performance overview
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# OpenShift Container Platform scalability and performance overview {#scalability-and-performance-overview}

OpenShift Container Platform provides best practices and tools to help you optimize the performance and scale of your clusters.

The following documentation provides information on recommended performance and scalability practices, reference design specifications, optimization, and low latency tuning.

To contact Red Hat support, see "Getting support".

> [!NOTE]
> Some performance and scalability Operators have release cycles that are independent from OpenShift Container Platform release cycles. For more information, see "OpenShift Operators".

## Recommended performance and scalability practices {#scalability-and-performance-recommended-practices_index}

Review the recommended performance and scalability practices for OpenShift Container Platform.

[Recommended control plane practices](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/recommended-performance-scale-practices/recommended-control-plane-practices#recommended-control-plane-practices)

[Recommended infrastructure practices](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/recommended-performance-scale-practices/recommended-infrastructure-practices#recommended-infrastructure-practices)

## Telco reference design specifications {#scalability-and-performance-telco-reference-designs_index}

Review the telco reference design specifications for OpenShift Container Platform.

[Telco RAN DU reference design specification for OpenShift Container Platform 4.22](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/telco-ran-du-rds#telco-ran-du-ref-design-specs)

[Telco core reference design specification](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/telco-core-rds#telco-core-ref-design-specs)

## Planning, optimization, and measurement {#scalability-and-performance-planning-optimization-measurement_index}

Review guidance for planning, optimizing, and measuring the performance and scalability of your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

[Planning your environment according to object maximums](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/planning-your-environment-according-to-object-maximums#cluster-maximums-major-releases_object-limits)

[Recommended practices for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/ibm-z-recommended-host-practices#ibm-z-recommended-host-practices)

[Using the Node Tuning Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/using-node-tuning-operator#using-node-tuning-operator)

[Using CPU Manager and Topology Manager](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/using-cpu-manager#using-cpu-manager)

[Scheduling NUMA-aware workloads](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/cnf-numa-aware-scheduling#cnf-numa-aware-scheduling)

[Optimizing storage, routing, networking and CPU usage](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/optimization/optimizing-storage#optimizing-storage)

[Managing bare-metal hosts and events](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/managing-bare-metal-hosts#managing-bare-metal-hosts)

[What are huge pages and how are they used by apps](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/what-huge-pages-do-and-how-they-are-consumed-by-apps#what-huge-pages-do-and-how-they-are-consumed)

[Low latency tuning for improving cluster stability and partitioning workload](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/cnf-understanding-low-latency#cnf-understanding-low-latency)

[Improving cluster stability in high latency environments using worker latency profiles](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/scaling-worker-latency-profiles#scaling-worker-latency-profiles)

[Workload partitioning](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/enabling-workload-partitioning#enabling-workload-partitioning)

[Using the Node Observability Operator](/openshift-docs-markdown/scalability_and_performance/node-observability-operator#using-node-observability-operator)

**Additional resources**
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- [Getting support](/openshift-docs-markdown/support/getting-support#getting-support)
- [OpenShift Operators](https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift_operators)