Cisco Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server White Paper
Architectural
Comparison: Cisco
UCS and the Dell FX2
Platform
September 2015
White Paper
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What You Will Learn
Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) is more than a traditional blade solution. Unbound from traditional products
and thinking, Cisco UCS is the first truly unified data center platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers
with networking and storage access into a single system. This radically simplified solution is intelligent infrastructure that is
automatically configured through integrated, model-based management to accelerate deployment of all your enterprise-class
applications and services running in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments.
and thinking, Cisco UCS is the first truly unified data center platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers
with networking and storage access into a single system. This radically simplified solution is intelligent infrastructure that is
automatically configured through integrated, model-based management to accelerate deployment of all your enterprise-class
applications and services running in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud-computing environments.
Traditional blade architectures—such as the Dell FX2—originally evolved from the idea of repackaging rack servers and switching
as a smaller form factor. As density and performance increased, so did complexity. As a result, these traditional blade solutions
have failed to deliver the promised consolidation. Cisco revolutionized blade servers through the unification of networking and
management fabrics and delivers on the original vision of true consolidation of resources, time, and energy. This document
shows you why.
as a smaller form factor. As density and performance increased, so did complexity. As a result, these traditional blade solutions
have failed to deliver the promised consolidation. Cisco revolutionized blade servers through the unification of networking and
management fabrics and delivers on the original vision of true consolidation of resources, time, and energy. This document
shows you why.