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FlexPod®

FlexPod®

OperationalChallenges

New BusinessPressures

EmpoweredUser

ComplexProvisioning

Realtime Information

EconomicUncertainty

CollaborativeApplications

Integrity and Availability

Asset Utilization

Energy Consumption

Data Centers Are at a Critical Juncture

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Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud

Private Cloud: behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to public

Public Cloud: accessible via service providers for general purchase

Hybrid Cloud: private clouds linked to public clouds

Application-Based Silos

Public CloudZones ofVirtualization

Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Workloads moving increasingly to virtualized cloud infrastructure

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The FlexPod Data Center Platform

Cisco® UCS™ Unified Computing System and UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Fabric

NetApp® FASOnCommand Software Suite 10GE and FCoE

Features Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class

converged platform for virtualized and non-virtualized environments

Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads– Add applications and workload

Benefits Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet

today’s challenges and scale for future needs

Built-in data center efficiencies: lower TCO with simplified deployments, rapid provisioning of resources

Reduce risk with pre-validated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides

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Entry-level FlexPod Overview

Natural evolution of the FlexPod Solution

Enterprise-class FlexPod benefits Flexibility and scalability Efficiency and low TCO Risk reduction and fast time-to-deployment

Right-sized for smaller workloads Midsize and distributed enterprise Lower entry price

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Optimize for Any WorkloadOne size does not fit all

Base Configuration

IOPS

CPU

CapacityMemory

Data Protection and Backup

Less compute,more storage

Develop and Test More compute,

less storage

VDI

Higher performance servers, more IOPS

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The FlexPod Solution Family

Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with ease

Common structure for support & management

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Entry-Level FlexPod Configuration

Data Management

Cisco UCS™ 6248Fabric Interconnect

Cisco Nexus 2232Fabric Extender

Cisco UCS C-Series Server

NetApp® FAS2240 HA Storage

Cisco® Nexus® 5548 Switch

iSCSI, NFS, CIFS

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Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Consolidation, Virtualization, and Optimization

Midsize enterprises and smaller workloads

Evolve from application-based silos to virtualized IT

Benefits Greater flexibility Increased agility Risk reduction Simple, scalable, standardized

Simplify the Journey to the Cloud

VirtualDesktop

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Infrastructure Standardization

Distributed enterprises and smaller enterprise workloads

Migrate satellite offices to corporate standard

Benefits Reduced complexity Improved productivity Lower TCO

Drive consistency to increase business agility

Main CorporateData Center

Office 1

Office 2

Office 3

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Seamlessly Scale the FlexPod Architecture

Cisco® UCS™ C-seriesRack-mount servers

More Compute Capacity

More Storage

CapacityNetApp® FAS2240

Scale out:Additional server nodes

Scale out:Additional FAS2240

Scale up:FAS3200/6200

• Additional server nodes managed together using Cisco UCS Manager

• FAS2240 scales with larger FAS systems without data migration and consistent management

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Cooperative Support Model

NetApp® and Cisco

®years of team experience

providing support

Expanded and enhanced support resolution process

Focused on the most efficient method for resolving customer issues

Support available across a full spectrum of support products, new and old

More than a single-solution cooperative support model: scales and grows

Unified Support Lab

Building on Years of Cooperative Support Excellence to Create a More Efficient, Flexible, and Scalable Support Solution

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Unified Support Lab

Partnership between NetApp®, Cisco®, and VMware®

Each partner invested product and support engineering expertise

Ability to “mix and match” available product components to reproduce complex customer environments

Available to each vendor’s support teams via Secure Access Portal

Hosted in NetApp Technical Support Center Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

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FlexPod Deployment Guide for Virtual Data Centers

Reducing Risk:Prescriptive Deployment Collateral

Cisco® Validated Design (CVD) Guides

For FlexPod® (including entry-level FlexPod) Initial entry-level FlexPod validation with

Microsoft Exchange Subsequent entry-level FlexPod validation at

regular intervals

Deployment Guide Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-

quality infrastructure deployment

Solutions Guide Resources and design assistance available for

wide range of environments and FlexPod configurations

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