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Cisco UCS and Dell PowerEdge M1000e: A Comparison
June 2016
cabling, configuring, managing, monitoring, and maintaining the infrastructure.
Cisco UCS places all management functions and configuration information in the
fully redundant and highly available Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco unified fabric, with
its wire-once capability, helps you scale data centers easily, quickly, and efficiently
without requiring you to reevaluate your networking infrastructure every time you add
new servers. With Cisco UCS, the network is established once, with no changes
necessary as it scales to 160 servers per domain (or to multiple domains of up to
10,000 servers). Through aggregation of management and connectivity in the fabric
interconnects, every server in the domain is automatically connected northbound
to the LAN or SAN without time-consuming and risky reconfiguration at the chassis
and server levels.
Cisco UCS places all management functions and configuration information in the
fully redundant and highly available Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco unified fabric, with
its wire-once capability, helps you scale data centers easily, quickly, and efficiently
without requiring you to reevaluate your networking infrastructure every time you add
new servers. With Cisco UCS, the network is established once, with no changes
necessary as it scales to 160 servers per domain (or to multiple domains of up to
10,000 servers). Through aggregation of management and connectivity in the fabric
interconnects, every server in the domain is automatically connected northbound
to the LAN or SAN without time-consuming and risky reconfiguration at the chassis
and server levels.
Dynamic Sharing
PowerEdge M1000e architecture is more complex than Cisco UCS architecture
and limits networking and scaling flexibility. Dell’s minimum redundant configuration
requires customers to purchase a pair of networking switches for every chassis.
Without the capability for each chassis to share I/O bandwidth, customers are forced
to overprovision and overpurchase hardware and port licenses every time they add
another 16 blades. Customers must purchase, configure, maintain, power, and cool
one switch for every 8 blades (with a minimum of two Dell modules per chassis).
and limits networking and scaling flexibility. Dell’s minimum redundant configuration
requires customers to purchase a pair of networking switches for every chassis.
Without the capability for each chassis to share I/O bandwidth, customers are forced
to overprovision and overpurchase hardware and port licenses every time they add
another 16 blades. Customers must purchase, configure, maintain, power, and cool
one switch for every 8 blades (with a minimum of two Dell modules per chassis).
Unlike Dell’s network, in which bandwidth choices are made at deployment time and
cannot be reconfigured without recabling the network, the Cisco UCS network is
unified, and bandwidth is shared dynamically. This approach provides more effective
cannot be reconfigured without recabling the network, the Cisco UCS network is
unified, and bandwidth is shared dynamically. This approach provides more effective
Cisco UCS 6200
Series Fabric
Interconnects
Dell M1000e
Chassis
Cisco UCS
Dell M1000e Chassis: 16
Managed Components
Cisco UCS: Single Point
of Connectivity and
Management
2 Dell I/O Aggregators
2 Chassis Management
Modules
Figure 1 To Support 64 Blades, Dell PowerEdge Requires 16 Managed Components
Compared to a Single Point of Connectivity and Management in Cisco UCS
Compared to a Single Point of Connectivity and Management in Cisco UCS