The Datacenter in a Box
There are various flavours of HCI competing for your attention. Not all are created equal. Several well-known platforms lack a vital ingredient in the HCI stack – the network.
Adding network as an afterthought can be costly. You’ll need to set up the network, level set the bios and firmware of the servers, and expand the cluster manually. It also leads to scaling issues. Choosing HCI that includes network and embedded management by design means you have a truly converged and tightly integrated solution. That’s exactly what you get with Cisco HyperFlex. It fuses compute, network, storage, virtualization and data protection into a single platform. One that’s deployed in under an hour and managed using well-known tools.
You can use racks and blades for independent scaling of compute and storage. Software is offered as a subscription, bringing pay-as-you-go economics to the data centre. And with our new All Flash nodes and 3rd Generation 40 Gbps UCS fabric networking, you get blazing fast performance.
Engineered on Cisco UCS, HyperFlex works seamlessly with and can be integrated with converged and build-your-own platforms, and third-party storage arrays. It leverages the software defined compute concepts UCS brings. Users can manage many technologies with a path to SDN, analytics, automation, orchestration and hybrid cloud.
Ressources: Blog: Cisco HyperFlex Overview In the Spotlight: At a Glance HyperFlex Release Update: On Demand Webinar