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What If......
There was a single platform, built from Unified Computing, Network Fabric and Centralized Storage technologies that let you scale from your SMB all the way to the largest data center requirements without disruption or architectural changes in the future? What if there were integrated components that enable you to centrally manage all your infrastructure pools? And, what if there were an open design management framework that integrates with your existing third-party infrastructure management solutions? There is!
It’s called FlexPod. FlexPod is not a single item, but rather a flexible 'design package’ that combines NetApp, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, and VMWare. This flexible infrastructure package creates what is truly a Private Cloud, designed to ease your IT transformation journey from virtualization to a private cloud.
What is a ‘Private Cloud’?
Today, virtualized servers require more than just a disaster recovery plan to maintain seamless operation. The automation of a virtualized environment allows for policy-based movement of virtual instances across the hardware platform, regardless of which server it is on. By adding the ability to monitor and report on each of the cost variables for every service offered, this allows the Data Center to be the center of a service offering maintained by IT. A Private Cloud may be defined as ‘The Pluralization of Virtualization’, or simply, ‘IT as a service’.
FlexPod is a starting point for virtualization solutions. Medium-sized enterprises and customers with more moderate growth requirements can scale up storage and compute pool capacity or performance within a FlexPod configuration while maintaining centralized management of the infrastructure solution.
FlexPod architecture summary:
NetApp: A highly scalable storage solution Multiprotocol unified architecture reduces cost and complexity by meeting all of your storage requirements with a single, highly scalable solution to enhance efficiencies and save disc space.
Cisco: Allows you to unite compute, network, and storage connectivity and virtualization into a single cohesive system.
VMware: Enables you to pool server and desktop resources and dynamically allocate them with service-level automation so you can deploy a private cloud and deliver IT as a service.
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