Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server 백서
© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public.
Page 1 of 9
Solution Brief
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.5
Update 1
Update 1
Overview
The IT industry today faces the challenge of transitioning to a reliable, highly available virtualized and cloud-based
data center infrastructure for improved business continuity, greater efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. To enable
this migration with reduced risk and cost, Cisco, in partnership with NetApp, has developed the FlexPod
Datacenter solution. FlexPod Datacenter is a predesigned unified computing, storage, and network infrastructure
composed of Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS
composed of Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS
®
) servers, Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco Nexus
®
switches, and NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) arrays. FlexPod Datacenter provides a standard, flexible data
center building block that can be used to build an optimized data center to support a variety of workloads and
applications.
Cisco, through its Cisco
®
Validated Designs, offers a comprehensive suite of pretested FlexPod Datacenter
solutions, developed using various system components, configurations, and hypervisor and application software.
Using a solution based on the Cisco Validated Design for FlexPod Datacenter as the baseline platform, IT
customers can deploy a virtualized and cloud-enabled data center quickly, with low risk and cost. This document
describes the FlexPod Datacenter solution validated for running VMware vSphere 5.5 Update1 (U1) software for
enabling a shared cloud infrastructure.
Benefits of the Cisco Validated Design for FlexPod Datacenter
● Resilience and reduced risk: Prevalidated configurations help ensure proper deployment of the current applications
on the new infrastructure. MetroCluster software enables multisite data centers with near zero downtime and fault
tolerance.
tolerance.
● Accelerated deployment: Unified and standard architecture reduces transition.
● Flexibility: A wide variety of applications and workloads are supported through proven hardware and software
● Flexibility: A wide variety of applications and workloads are supported through proven hardware and software
combinations.
● Scalability: Modular architecture supports future expansion through scale-up and scale-out strategies.
● Lower total cost of ownership (TCO):
● Lower total cost of ownership (TCO):
◦
Workload balance and nondisruptive application mobility offer better utilization of resources.
◦
Standardized architecture reduces management and training overhead.
◦
Modular infrastructure enables IT to build a right-sized data center and avoid underutilization of resources.
◦
Pretested solutions reduce deployment, procurement, and setup times.