Белая книга для Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server
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Minimized application downtime through rigorous testing and planning.
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Introduced Virtual machines for the application form and web tiers, thus increasing server utilization,
business continuity and IT efficiency.
This paper provides comprehensive details on how Cisco IT achieved this milestone.
Overview of Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources into a single cohesive
system. When used as the foundation for Oracle RAC, database, and ERP software, the system brings lower total
cost of ownership (TCO), greater performance, improved scalability, increased business agility, and Cisco’s
hallmark investment protection.
The system represents a major evolutionary step away from the current traditional platforms in which individual
components must be configured, provisioned, and assembled to form a solution. Instead, the system is designed
to be stateless. It is installed and wired once, with its entire configuration—from RAID controller settings and
firmware revisions to network configurations—determined in software using integrated, embedded management.
The system brings together Intel Xeon processor–powered server resources on a 10-Gbps unified fabric that
carries all IP networking and storage traffic, eliminating the need to configure multiple parallel IP and storage
networks at the rack level. The solution dramatically reduces the number of components needed compared to
other implementations, reducing TCO, simplifying and accelerating deployment, and reducing the complexity that
can be a source of errors and cause downtime.
Cisco UCS is designed to be form-factor neutral. The core of the system is a pair of Fabric Interconnects that link
all the computing resources together and integrate all system components into a single point of management.
Today, blade server chassis are integrated into the system through Fabric Extenders that bring the system’s 10-
Gbps unified fabric to each chassis.
The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol collapses Ethernet-based networks and storage networks into
a single common network infrastructure, thus reducing CapEx by eliminating redundant switches, cables,
networking cards, and adapters, and reducing OpEx by simplifying administration of these networks (Figure 1).
Other benefits include:
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I/O and server virtualization
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Transparent scaling of all types of content, either block or file based
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Simpler and more homogeneous infrastructure to manage, enabling data center consolidation