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Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified Data Center
Chapter CRI Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified DC
CRI Kits—Cloud Ready Network Infrastructure for ICS Environments
CRI Kits—Cloud Ready Network Infrastructure for ICS
Environments
The CRI kits are ideal for new and existing FlexPod, Vblock, and other integrated compute, storage, and
networks stacks (ICS) systems. The CRI kits are easily integrated with these converged environments by
connecting the northbound links of the ICS to CRI kit.
Figure 3 shows how a typical ICS connects to the
aggregation/access layer of the CRI kit.
The CRI kit extends the secure workload separation provided by the ICS throughout the rest of the data
center network using VMDC network containers.
The ICS layer is described in detail in validated ICS systems such as the FlexPod
1
and Vblock
2
.
Figure 3 CRI and ICS
1. http://www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
2. http://www.cisco.com/go/vblock