That is the second weblog on Cisco UCS X-Collection as a part of a converged infrastructure answer with 100G Unified Cloth. This week it’s FlashStack.
What’s FlashStack?
The FlashStack answer is a validated, converged infrastructure developed collectively by Cisco and Pure Storage first introduced in 2014. The answer presents a predesigned structure that comes with computing (UCS X-Collection, UCS B-Collection, and UCS C-Collection), all flash storage from Pure, and networking to scale back IT danger by validating the structure and serving to guarantee compatibility among the many parts. FlashStack is a superb selection for virtualization, SQL, SAP HANA, containers, and different enterprise apps.
FlashStack with 100G Unified Cloth and UCS X-Collection
Most lately we modernized FlashStack with UCS X-Collection and 100G unified material and Pure Storage FlashArray//XL. Supporting each Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and NVMe selections on the identical material, managed by Cisco Intersight, it brings a bunch of recent capabilities that you simply’ll see within the this two half video sequence.
Video 1:
Within the first video, a high-available reference structure is described, highlighting efficiency and latency capabilities of the general answer when Pure Storage FlashArray//XL arrays are used with X-Collection and 100G end-to finish unified material design:
Video 2:
Within the subsequent video, we dig deeper into the visibility and orchestration of a FlashStack with the Pure Storage Intersight Connector. Intersight offers detailed data on all the weather of a FlashStack answer and has the potential to show capability and efficiency metrics for Pure Storage arrays. As well as, the video spotlight how Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) will be leveraged to handle and optimize a FlashStack answer, and the way Intersight Cloud Orchestrator can be utilized to create and execute automated workflows to simplify and speed up deployment:
Why FlashStack?
It’s all about integration and validation. FlashStack helps decrease pricey and time-consuming {hardware} integrations. It combines Cisco compute and networking with Pure Storage right into a single answer so clients can rapidly deploy infrastructure and workloads with much less danger and overhead that scales non-disruptively. There are 44 present validated designs. You’ll acquire decrease danger, increased ROI, elevated productiveness, and backward compatibility with out rip and substitute.
In June this yr, we collectively introduced FlashStack-as-a-service a software-defined hybrid cloud infrastructure integrating on-premises and multi-cloud landscapes. It’s a pay-as-you-use versatile consumption mannequin, holistically managed, with cloud like elasticity. Intersight and Intersight Workload Optimizer repeatedly analyzes workload demand, useful resource consumption, useful resource prices, and coverage constraints to assist optimize utilization.
What’s subsequent
Subsequent week, our final video weblog on this sequence – utilizing X-Collection with GPUs for large knowledge purposes.
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