Cisco Cisco UCS B260 M4 Blade Server Weißbuch
White Paper
January 2015
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Introduction
Traditional, fixed-purpose hardware-defined video processing and delivery
solutions are costly to deploy and maintain. They require a large number of discrete
components with complex cabling to stream video from one processing unit to
another. They are rigid systems that present the risk of downtime when they are
reconfigured to add new capabilities or new channels.
solutions are costly to deploy and maintain. They require a large number of discrete
components with complex cabling to stream video from one processing unit to
another. They are rigid systems that present the risk of downtime when they are
reconfigured to add new capabilities or new channels.
Virtual video infrastructure (VVI) offers a different approach, with operational and
economic benefits for video production environments compared to traditional
hardware-based approaches. The virtualized Harmonic VOS™ media processing
architecture running on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) is an
inherently open ecosystem that provides greater flexibility at lower cost. With VVI,
you can get more value from your infrastructure and achieve the full monetization
potential of your content. You can choose server hardware and software
components that meet technical and budgetary requirements. You also gain the
agility to scale infrastructure quickly without compromising the availability of live
video services. You can create disaster-recovery sites that serve other IT functions
until they are needed as substitute head ends. This innovative approach not only
allows linear broadcast 24 hours a day, every day; it also allows you to rapidly deploy
and scale additional encoding applications for live events, with the capability to
later repurpose this capacity for other tasks as needed. A Harmonic VOS and Cisco
UCS VVI deployment offers a path from discrete proprietary video appliances to
integrated and virtualized video services infrastructure.
economic benefits for video production environments compared to traditional
hardware-based approaches. The virtualized Harmonic VOS™ media processing
architecture running on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) is an
inherently open ecosystem that provides greater flexibility at lower cost. With VVI,
you can get more value from your infrastructure and achieve the full monetization
potential of your content. You can choose server hardware and software
components that meet technical and budgetary requirements. You also gain the
agility to scale infrastructure quickly without compromising the availability of live
video services. You can create disaster-recovery sites that serve other IT functions
until they are needed as substitute head ends. This innovative approach not only
allows linear broadcast 24 hours a day, every day; it also allows you to rapidly deploy
and scale additional encoding applications for live events, with the capability to
later repurpose this capacity for other tasks as needed. A Harmonic VOS and Cisco
UCS VVI deployment offers a path from discrete proprietary video appliances to
integrated and virtualized video services infrastructure.
The first product for the VOS architecture is the Harmonic Electra™ XVM virtualized
media processor for live, high-quality video broadcast services. Running on Cisco
UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers in VMware ESXi virtual machines, Electra XVM is
a multiple-resolution, multiple-standard, multiple-profile, multiple-service, and
multiple-channel media processor that operates as a part of a complete video
processing and delivery network. The solution can easily scale to support hundreds
or even thousands of high-definition (HD) channels with a massively scalable
Cisco UCS solution that can be rapidly deployed. Comprehensive and integrated
infrastructure management is provided with VMware vRealize Operations in
media processor for live, high-quality video broadcast services. Running on Cisco
UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers in VMware ESXi virtual machines, Electra XVM is
a multiple-resolution, multiple-standard, multiple-profile, multiple-service, and
multiple-channel media processor that operates as a part of a complete video
processing and delivery network. The solution can easily scale to support hundreds
or even thousands of high-definition (HD) channels with a massively scalable
Cisco UCS solution that can be rapidly deployed. Comprehensive and integrated
infrastructure management is provided with VMware vRealize Operations in