Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server Libro blanco
MIGRATE SERVER IDENTITIES AND DATA 34 PERCENT FASTER WITH CISCO UCS
AND WITH 83 PERCENT FEWER STEPS THAN HP
AND WITH 83 PERCENT FEWER STEPS THAN HP
JULY 2013
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Organizations need to move applications from one physical server to another
for any number of reasons, which requires that server’s identity settings (UUID,
connectivity, firmware, etc.) and data ownership on the storage array transfer as well.
Because maximum flexibility is always in an organization’s best interest, Principled
Technologies completed a migration from a blade server to a rack server for both Cisco
Unified Computing System™ (UCS) servers and HP ProLiant servers.
Using Cisco UCS Manager Service Profiles and UCS SingleConnect Technology,
complete migration of the server identity, including data access transfer, took only 6
steps and 8 minutes 43 seconds. In comparison, the HP solution (without data access
transfer) required 36 steps and 13 minutes 22 seconds. Transferring data ownership
(access and rights) for the HP solution requires additional steps and time. Migrating the
complete server identity with data ownership using the Cisco UCS solution took 83.3
percent fewer steps and was 34.8 percent faster than the HP solution. With HP, the data
adherence step is still a pending operation.
The time and steps saved with UCS become even more dramatic in large-scale
migration scenarios. Cisco UCS with UCS SingleConnect can save your IT staff an
enormous amount of time and reduce potential errors by simplifying the configuration
process.