Last week Cisco, VMware, and NetApp published a very detailed CVD deployment guide to further simplify and accelerate the deployments of Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy (ESMT) solution on FlexPod for VMware. ESMT is a key FlexPod add-on feature that allows secure hosting and protection of virtualized data centers for multiple tenants on the same, shared FlexPod infrastructure. Availability, Secure Separation, Service Assurance, and Management are the key foundational pillars of the ESMT architecture. Each of these pillars is enabled by innovative technologies from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware.
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Tags: Cisco, Cisco ACE, Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, cloud, ESMT, FlexPod, FlexPod for VMware, netapp, Nexus 1000v, Secure Multi-tenancy, SMT, unified computing system, virtualization, VMware, VMware vShield
Few days back I blogged about how FlexPod for VMware is a great solution that can accelerate your cloud journey and help move beyond 30% virtualized datacenter (Test & Dev workloads, infrastructure servers, web servers etc.) to virtualizing enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, SAP etc.), and finally -- implement a fully automated IT as a Service solution.
In lot of customer environments, Microsoft applications (e.g. Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL Server) support a good portion of mission critical business operations. These Microsoft applications have traditionally been hosted on siloed, underutilized IT infrastructure and operational processes that were built based on the requirements of individual applications and processes. The end result is increased total cost of ownership and inability to help business be more agile, introduce new services, and achieve operational efficiency.
Here are some of the key operational benefits to virtualizing Microsoft Apps on FlexPod for VMware:
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Tags: Cisco ACE, Cisco WAAS, CiscoUCS, cloud, deduplication, efficiency, ESMT, Exchange, FlexPod, netapp, nexus, Secure Multi-tenancy, Sharepoint, SQL Server, UCS service profiles, VAAI, virtualization, VMware SRM, VMware vSphere, VSC
