FlexPods

FlexPods

What are FlexPods? Whats in a FlexPod?

Benefits of FlexPods

What are FlexPods?

What are FlexPods?

A shared infrastructure using leading hardware and software components from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware All FlexPod components are designed to achieve maximum redundancy and high availability
A fully integrated, pre-validated data center solution

What are FlexPods?

Pre sized storage and networking solution No need to piece together hardware to maximize your network
Pre Validated Hardware Certified to efficiently work together Eliminated administrative overhead

What are FlexPods?

Cisco, NetApp, VMware partnership
Cisco/NetApp have been partners since 2003, offering solutions for networking and storage

NetApp/VMware have been partners even though they are competitors

What are FlexPods?

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Unify computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture End-to-end server visibility, management, and control

What are FlexPods?

UCS Manager Device discovery Firmware management Inventory Kernel-based virtual machine (VM) console access Diagnostics Quality of service (QoS) Monitoring

What are FlexPods?

Questions?

Whats in a FlexPod?

Cisco Nexus 5548 Switches Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120 NetApp FAS 3210 Storage Controller NetApp Disk Shelves

Cisco B Series B250M2/B200M2

Whats in a FlexPod?

Networking Components
Cisco Nexus 5548 Switches Handles all incoming and outgoing networking traffic for servers, storage and virtual machines Any transport over Ethernet, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic and storage traffic

Whats in a FlexPod?

Networking Components (cont.)

Cisco 6120 Fabric Interconnect Management and communication backbone 10GbE lossless, low latency unified network fabric

Whats in a FlexPod?

Server Components
Cisco B Series 5108 Chassis
Crucial building block of the Cisco UCS 6 rack units high Holds 8 half blade or 4 full blade servers

Whats in a FlexPod?

Server Components (cont.)

Cisco B Series B250M2 Servers Cisco B Series B200M2 Servers
Total of 30 Processors (180 cores) Total of 2TB of RAM

Whats in a FlexPod?

Storage Components
FAS (Fabric Attached Storage) 3210A Storage Array
42TB of total storage Connects via iSCSI, FC, FCoE transport protocols 512GB SSD Storage Cache Intelligent caching of recently read user data

Whats in a FlexPod?
NetApp Unified Storage Architecture: RAID-Double Parity (RAID-6) Flexible Volumes and Aggregates
Thin Provisioning Data De-Duplication

Whats in a FlexPod?

Virtualization Suite
vSphere Enterprise Plus vCenter Server Standard vMotion/Storage vMotion High Availability/Distributed Resource Scheduler Fault Tolerance

Whats in a FlexPod?

Whats in a FlexPod?

Questions?

Benefits of FlexPods
Single procurement purchase No need to piece together components Certified vendors install/setup hardware 3 year Warranty from manufactures
Highly scalable architecture Virtualization allows for on the spot server creation Can add/remove server blades based on needs Lower overall cost

Benefits of FlexPods
Flexible IT Supports a variety of mixed application workloads Ready for virtual/physical infrastructure
Datacenter efficiency High Availability Fault Tolerant

Benefits of FlexPods

Benefits of FlexPods

Benefits of FlexPods

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Summary

What are FlexPods?

What Components are in a FlexPod? Benefits of FlexPods