Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server Libro blanco
Virtualized Video Infrastructure with Harmonic VOS and Cisco UCS
January 2015
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Reduced space, power, and cooling requirements: With the shift to virtualization
and software-defined environments, you can reduce space, power, equipment,
and personnel requirements by 25 to 30 percent. Simultaneously, you gain
flexibility, allowing you to manage and allocate resources according to changing
business and operational requirements.
and software-defined environments, you can reduce space, power, equipment,
and personnel requirements by 25 to 30 percent. Simultaneously, you gain
flexibility, allowing you to manage and allocate resources according to changing
business and operational requirements.
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Greater business agility: Flexible selection and rapid deployment of video
application deployment means that your organization can be more agile,
responsive, and profitable. You can define and distribute new video channels
globally in a fraction of the time and cost required today. The dynamic and
modular nature of this virtualized infrastructure allows you to readily introduce
new services and augment existing services through the licensing of additional
virtualized applications. VVI also offers a flexible deployment infrastructure that
supports the repurposing of technology and accelerates time to market.
application deployment means that your organization can be more agile,
responsive, and profitable. You can define and distribute new video channels
globally in a fraction of the time and cost required today. The dynamic and
modular nature of this virtualized infrastructure allows you to readily introduce
new services and augment existing services through the licensing of additional
virtualized applications. VVI also offers a flexible deployment infrastructure that
supports the repurposing of technology and accelerates time to market.
Virtualized Video Infrastructure Implementation
VVI decouples video processing applications from the underlying physical
infrastructure. This separation allows you to reap the benefits of virtualization that IT
departments have been enjoying for years. You can:
infrastructure. This separation allows you to reap the benefits of virtualization that IT
departments have been enjoying for years. You can:
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Exploit the rapid increase in processing power and rapidly dropping costs of
general-purpose server hardware
general-purpose server hardware
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Decouple server purchases from service deployment with a virtualization pool
that can incorporate the latest, most powerful servers, while still accommodating
hardware purchased for your first implementation
that can incorporate the latest, most powerful servers, while still accommodating
hardware purchased for your first implementation
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Scale by rapidly incorporating new servers into the virtualization cluster
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Use standard IT tools to gain visibility across the entire infrastructure into the
health of your virtual networks, hosts, virtual machines, and blade servers and the
video software that runs on them
health of your virtual networks, hosts, virtual machines, and blade servers and the
video software that runs on them
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Centralize troubleshooting through standard tools that your IT department
already knows how to use
already knows how to use
Harmonic Electra XVM running on a unified pool of Cisco UCS blade servers helps
simplify media processing head-end physical infrastructure and management.
Deployment on Cisco UCS provides benefits beyond those that other server vendors
may offer:
simplify media processing head-end physical infrastructure and management.
Deployment on Cisco UCS provides benefits beyond those that other server vendors
may offer:
• Less complex physical network connectivity translates directly to lower CapEx,
because fewer switch ports and cables are required. You may need as little as
25 percent of the connectivity resources that would be used in a traditional one-
rack-unit (1RU) server-based environment.
25 percent of the connectivity resources that would be used in a traditional one-
rack-unit (1RU) server-based environment.
• Cisco® Unified Fabric requires fewer connections to each blade server because
each connection supports network, storage, and management traffic.
• The Cisco UCS bade server chassis supports massive I/O bandwidth to each
blade server, and it has already supported multiple generations of Intel® Xeon®
processors without challenging its power, cooling, and I/O capacity.
processors without challenging its power, cooling, and I/O capacity.
• Automated deployment and rapid scaling means that you can easily add
resources to support a growing business with little effort. With Cisco UCS, you