Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server Libro blanco
CISCO UCS BLADES DEPLOY 77 PERCENT FASTER WITH 67 PERCENT FEWER
STEPS THAN HP BLADES
STEPS THAN HP BLADES
JULY 2013
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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CIOs and IT professionals know that as their businesses grow, the need for
computing also grows, making it necessary to add servers to existing environments.
While this process can be time consuming and potentially complicated, it doesn’t have
to be.
In the Principled Technologies labs, we tested two different blade server-
deployment approaches: the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) with UCS
Manager and the HP Virtual Connect Manager. Using the Cisco UCS Manager’s
automated configuration and deployment process, adding two blades took only 14 steps
and 18 minutes. In comparison, the HP solution required 43 steps and 1 hour 23
minutes to add two blades. This means that adding two blades with the Cisco UCS
solution was 77.4 percent faster and required 67.4 percent fewer steps.
The time and steps saved with UCS become even more dramatic in a large-scale
deployment or server refresh. Cisco blades can save your IT staff an enormous amount
of time, reduce the possibility of error by simplifying the configuration process, and
lower your total cost of ownership.