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Cisco HyperFlex Systems

March 2016

demand for data throughput grows in Cisco HyperFlex Systems, we have products

ready to meet those needs.

Integration with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

The built-in networking of Cisco HyperFlex Systems provides scalable infrastructure

and secure, low-latency, high-bandwidth data movement. As your environment

grows and begins to span your enterprise, you can use Cisco ACI to implement a

software-defined network. Cisco ACI provides automated, policy-based network

deployment that secures your applications within secure, isolated environments. The

network can attach directly to virtual machines and physical servers and offers these

benefits:

• Increased security: Cisco ACI isolates your applications and tenants from each

other, placing each in a microsegmented environment with application- and

tenant-specific policy-based network control.

• Consistency across scale: After you capture your best practices in your Cisco

HyperFlex environment, Cisco ACI automation can standardize your deployment

across all your hyperconverged environments as well as your traditional

environments.

• Monitoring and telemetry: Cisco ACI provides details about latency, packet

drops, and traffic paths that are correlated with applications and logical network

segments, giving you more visibility and control over your software-defined

networks.

• Optimized performance: Cisco ACI automatically allocates traffic across the

network’s leaf-and-spine architecture for performance and resource utilization,

automatically rerouting around hot spots for worry-free network performance.

Supported with the Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform

The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance,

distributed file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management

services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology,

exceeding the boundaries of first-generation hyperconverged infrastructure. The

platform includes:

• Enterprise-class data management features that are required for complete

lifecycle management and enhanced data protection in distributed storage

environments—including deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, fast

space-efficient clones, and snapshots

• Continuous data optimization with inline data deduplication and compression that

increases resource utilization with more headroom for data scaling

• Dynamic data placement in node memory, enterprise-class flash memory (on

SSD drives), and capacity storage tiers (on HDDs) to optimize performance and

resiliency—and to readjust data placement as you scale your cluster

• Clusterwide parallel data distribution that implements replication for high

availability and performance, accelerated by the low latency and high bandwidth

of the Cisco UCS network fabric