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Cisco HyperFlex Systems
March 2016
More Agile
From the moment it arrives on your loading dock, your Cisco HyperFlex System is
ready to quickly deploy. It ships with software, including the VMware ESXi hypervisor
and the data platform, preinstalled. Cisco UCS service profile templates are supplied
on site to automatically configure your server identity, configuration, and connectivity
to our exact specifications with no risk of configuration drift that can cause
downtime. The result: a solution that practically deploys itself in less than an hour.
Our integrated networking interconnects every node—whether based on blade
or rack servers—with only a single network hop, helping supply the consistent,
low latency between nodes and massive amounts of east-west bandwidth that
hyperconverged solutions demand. Cisco virtual network links make every network
link as safe and secure as if it were on its own physical cable.
Cisco HyperFlex Systems also enable your IT organization to become more agile and
responsive to business demands. When the time comes to increase the size of your
cluster, you can do so quickly and easily. The system automatically discovers and
configures the new hardware, and adding it to the cluster takes only a few clicks.
And we incorporate both hardware and software management into the familiar
VMware vCenter interface, so you can perform all provisioning and storage
operations from within vCenter—there are no new tools to learn or consoles to
implement.
More Efficient
Our solution was designed from the beginning with a purpose-built, highly efficient
data platform that combines the cluster’s solid-state disk (SSD) drives and spinning
disks (hard-disk drives [HDDs]) into a single, distributed, multitier, object-based
data store. Continuous, inline, and real-time data deduplication and compression
makes efficient use of storage and reduces your overall IT footprint without affecting
performance. Features you expect of enterprise storage systems are built into Cisco
HyperFlex Systems. Fast, space-efficient clones help you provision new applications
from existing templates or deployments with little use of storage. Thin provisioning
lets you deploy more virtual machines with the storage you have, so you purchase
actual storage only as you need it. Native snapshots provide efficient point-in-
time copies for backup and remote-replication purposes. Unlike with enterprise
shared storage, you don’t have to install a complex storage network, worry about
logical unit numbers (LUNs), or require a storage administrator to configure the data
platform.
You also gain operational efficiency because our solution is based on Cisco UCS
technology. You gain efficiency through our simplified architecture, which uses
fewer components and helps reduce capital expenditures (CapEx). You gain more
efficiency and reduced operating expenses (OpEx) from the capability to manage
your hyperconverged infrastructure plus all your other Cisco UCS infrastructure from
a common management platform.
More Adaptable
Your business needs and your workloads are constantly changing. Why shouldn’t
your infrastructure adapt to support your workloads and your business with ease?
Our solution offers simple and easy physical resource expansion and contraction,