Cisco Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server White Paper

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Solution Brief

July 2016

Storage requirements are increasing by 40 percent per year. Some of this increase 
can be attributed to virtualization technologies. Gartner recently reported that 75 
percent of x86-architecture server workloads are virtualized—a trend fueled by 
virtualization technologies that are becoming more lightweight and that support more 
workloads, and by the proliferation of virtual machines through agile development 
processes

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. Hyperconverged systems accelerate this process, making virtualization 

clusters easier to purchase and provision and helping your IT organization respond 
more quickly to business needs. Hyperconvered solutions, such as Cisco HyperFlex 
Systems, are especially effective for quick and agile deployment and management 
of server virtualization infrastructure in enterprises and large remote offices, for 
development and test workloads, and for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). You 
need an equally easy-to-deploy solution that provides consistent application and 
data management and protection across these environments. 

Cisco and Commvault have performed extensive testing to create a solution agile 
enough to support your Cisco HyperFlex platform and your entire enterprise with 
consistent data protection throughout, eliminating backup silos and inconsistent 
backup and retention policies. The Data Protection for Cisco HyperFlex with 

Highlights

Protect Applications and Data on 

Cisco HyperFlex Systems

• Server virtualization
• Large remote-office and branch-

office (ROBO) environments

• Development and test environments
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

Achieve Agility Through:

• Automation
• Scalability
• Virtual machine– and application–

specific protection

• Replication

Quickly Restore Applications and 

Data on Virtual Machines

• Restore virtual machines in seconds

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