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© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1 Chris O’Brien Standardize Your Data Center with vSphere Built on FlexPod Technical Marketing Engineer August 2012

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  • 1. Chris OBrienTechnical Marketing EngineerAugust 2012 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1

2. EmpoweredReal-Time Information Collaborative Economic User ApplicationsUncertaintyNew Business Pressures Operational Challenges Energy AssetComplexIntegrity and Availability ConsumptionUtilization Provisioning Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute.2 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 3. Application-Zones ofPrivate CloudPublic Cloud Based Silos VirtualizationAppsServers NetworkHybridStorage Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to public Public cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchase Hybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 3 4. Features Cisco UCS B-Series Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class converged Blade Servers (and/or platform: C-Series Rack Mount) and Virtualized and nonvirtualized environments Cisco UCS Manager Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads: Cisco Nexus Family Switches Add applications and workload Benefits NetApp FAS Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet todays OnCommand Software challenges and scale for future needs Suite Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of 10GE and optionally FCoE ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 5. Consistent architecture from entry to large configurationsScale up or down with easeCommon structure for support & management 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 5 6. Production Balanced Infrastructure CPUVDIMemoryDevelop andFlexPodCapacityTest IOPSMore computing andHigher performance less storageblades and more input/outputoperations per second (IOPS) Entry Level Data Protection and Backup Deploy entry system, then scale upLess computing andmore storage 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 6 7. Scale out with standard and proven configurations: Predictable and highly efficient: Capacity and performance Floor space, power, and cooling Benefits: Reduce effort for architecture, design, deployment, and testing Reduce infrastructure deployment cycle time by up to 50% Manage pools consisting of storage, compute, and networking resources, not Increased performance and capacity individual systems 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 8. 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 9. Wide range of resources available: validateddesign, deployment, and solution guidesStep-by-step instructions for repeatablehigh-quality deployments, including these use cases: Secure multi-tenancy and secure separation VMware vSphere and View SAP applications Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and SQLapplications For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 9 10. Service RequestService AvailableTraditionalMany Weeks or MonthsDesign andDCDetailedProcureDeployTestSizePlanningDesign XXWith FlexPod Reference BoM Validated design > 50% Faster Precise deployment DCProcureDeployTest Standard test planPlanning Service AvailablePreprovisioned FlexPodBenefits Rapid deployment of applications Agile service delivery Shared pools meet most requirements Higher productivity Faster deploymentDC Higher qualityProcure Deploy Test PlanningService Available Simpler planning 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 10 11. Integration with hypervisors:Cisco UCS Manager Automate workflows, scalable, extensible platform Hypervisor agnostic HypervisorHypervisor HypervisorHypervisorCisco UCS Manager:Apps Embedded unified management NetApp Storage Plug-ins Integrated with vCenterNetApp OnCommand management software: Integrated with unified manager for provisioning, protection, and automation VMware vCenter Server or Microsoft System Center Manage NetApp heterogeneous environmentExtensible Management with Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute. 11 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 11 12. Share SQL ServerVDI Exch 2010 Point ValidatedEnterpriseMSDesignsVDISecure Multi-TenancyApps Apps Apps Joint PathwaysServers NetworkHybridStorage FlexPod Validated Data Center DesignCooperative Services and Support 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 13. Lower Risk Greater Efficiencies Flexible IT Lower risk with simplified, prevalidated, shared architecture Flexible IT scalable to meet the needs of both today and tomorrow Reduced TCO and better efficiency Certified data center specialty partners and cooperative support For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.Cisco Confidential 13 14. Thank you.