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 gives 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 cut back IT danger by validating the structure and serving to guarantee compatibility among the many parts. FlashStack is a good 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 decisions 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 supplies detailed info on all the weather of a FlashStack answer and has the aptitude to show capability and efficiency metrics for Pure Storage arrays. As well as, the video spotlight how Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) might 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 expensive and time-consuming {hardware} integrations. It combines Cisco compute and networking with Pure Storage right into a single answer so prospects can shortly 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, larger ROI, elevated productiveness, and backward compatibility with out rip and exchange.
In June this 12 months, 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 giant knowledge functions.
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