FlexPod

Earlier this year Cisco and NetApp introduced FlexPod XCS bringing visibility, automation, flexible consumption, and hybrid cloud operations to FlexPod. FlexPod XCS is a suite of capabilities designed to simplify operations and accelerate the delivery of modern apps. FlexPod XCS is fully managed by Cisco Intersight and provides five key capabilities.

Cisco today announces new Cisco+ Hybrid Cloud storage solutions developed in partnership with technology leaders, NetApp and Pure Storage to offer customers greater choice and flexible consumption-based options.

Cisco has always partnered with industry leaders to deliver best of breed solutions as well as flexibility and choice. With the introduction of UCS X-Series, we have again partnered with industry leaders to deliver innovative solutions with our converged infrastructure and data protection partners.

FlexPod Datacenter has been enhanced by the new Intel Xeon 3rd Generation Scalable processor based B200 M6. This is the ideal platform to host Microsoft SQL Server 2019 databases and applications. This new Cisco Validated design shows the best practices to set up this Converged Infrastructure to provide the best performance, quickly, leading to a lower total TCO for your organization.

Cisco has a new 'car' for VDI solutions, called the Cisco X-Series. This new model has been taken on a test spin to show its ability to handle VDI workloads and can support 33% more users per compute node compared to M5 servers running Login VSI workload.

Announcing the next-generation of FlexPod, an Intersight-enabled platform that delivers a modern hybrid-cloud infrastructure with enhanced observability and automation capabilities.

Cisco has worked with both NetApp and Pure Storage to test and validate the benefits of using low latency protocols with Oracle Database 19c. The primary benefit is improved performance with an eye to lower costs.

COVID-19 caused businesses to immediately establish an ability to support remote workers. The cloud offered a quick solution. Remote working will be the norm moving forward and business is questioning this choice. A FlexPod solution to host VDI offers a clear alternative.

We’re very excited about three new Intersight capabilities for FlexPod and are highlighting them at CiscoLive! this month: Intersight Managed Mode (IMM), ONTAP integration with Intersight, and Intersight Workload Optimizer support for FlexPod.