Cisco Cisco UCS B250 M1 Extended Memory Blade Server Guía De Información
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In another example of simplified IT, before launching the cloud service ACS needed to certify multiple enterprise
applications and operating systems on the Vblock 0 system. “On most platforms the certification effort would have
taken six months, but on the Vblock 0 system it took just eight weeks,” Kunamneni says. As engineers completed
each test, they used Cisco® UCS Manager service profiles to reconfigure the blade servers for the next test with
just a few clicks.
applications and operating systems on the Vblock 0 system. “On most platforms the certification effort would have
taken six months, but on the Vblock 0 system it took just eight weeks,” Kunamneni says. As engineers completed
each test, they used Cisco® UCS Manager service profiles to reconfigure the blade servers for the next test with
just a few clicks.
Next Steps
ACS plans to increase the return on investment from the Vblock 0 system by using it as the platform for
additional services:
New SaaS offerings on the same Vblock 0 system, including Microsoft Exchange, SAP, development
platforms, and collaboration services.
A disaster recovery service. A customer preparing for a possible data center outage due to a hurricane,
for example, will be able to start a mission-critical application on the Vblock Infrastructure Platforms in
another data center in less than an hour.
another data center in less than an hour.
More self-service capabilities for provisioning and usage monitoring.
Kunamneni concludes, “The Vblock system supports our strategy to think at the service level rather than the
physical level. Customers look to ACS to help manage all ser
Kunamneni concludes, “The Vblock system supports our strategy to think at the service level rather than the
physical level. Customers look to ACS to help manage all ser
vices as a unified entity, and we’re succeeding by
using VCE's architecture and support.”
Product and Services List
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1000v Software Switch
EMC Celerra Unified Storage
VMware vSphere
Planning, design, implementation, and support services
VMware vSphere
Planning, design, implementation, and support services
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