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GE Money Bank had originally designed and tested a vPC, but it did not give the level
of convergence required by the business’s service level agreement. FabricPath,
on the other hand, managed to overcome these shortcomings as well as provide
a foundation for the integration of future cloud features.
The Nexus platform is helping GE Money Bank maintain the first-class resilience
The Nexus platform is helping GE Money Bank maintain the first-class resilience
required for customer-facing business operations. “We have high availability on
every layer: the network, databases, applications, web, and so on,” says Vojtíšek.
“Our target is always to achieve 100 percent uptime and minimize an unplanned
outage for no more than minutes.”
Next Steps
In the future, OTV will mean that the two GE Money Bank data centers can be
managed as a single infrastructure, reducing maintenance and improving disaster
recovery capabilities. “Moving to virtual data center management with OTV was one of
the reasons for choosing Nexus,” Vojtíšek says.
Leveraging Cisco Unified Fabric, the company also intends to test multi-hop Fibre
Leveraging Cisco Unified Fabric, the company also intends to test multi-hop Fibre
Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and extend FCoE between the data centers with Cisco
MACsec 10G line-rate encryption, to further simplify infrastructure and cut costs.
In addition, GE Money Bank has the option of implementing a Cisco Virtual Security
Gateway on the Nexus 1000V to filter virtual machine traffic locally, while obtaining
multi-tenancy support for securing traffic between different virtual machine tenants.
Customer Case Study
Kamil Vojtíšek
IT Manager, Network and Voice
GE Money Bank
IT Manager, Network and Voice
GE Money Bank
For More Information
To learn more about the Cisco architectures and solutions featured in this case study
please go to:
Product List
Routing and Switching
• Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Switches
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
Network Management
Network Management
• Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager
Security
Security
• Cisco Virtual Security Gateway
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