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FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco UCS 4.2(1)

A comprehensive guide to deploying a robust virtual server infrastructure leveraging Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere, and Pure Storage.

Introduction to FlashStack

This document provides a detailed deployment guide for the FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure. It outlines the integration of Cisco UCS 4.2(1) operating in UCS Managed Mode, VMware vSphere 7.0 U2, and the Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3. This solution is designed to offer a pre-engineered, best-practice data center architecture.

The FlashStack solution is built upon Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) M6 servers, Cisco Nexus 9000 family of switches, and Cisco MDS 9000 family of Fibre Channel switches. It utilizes the Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3 for storage, supporting both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity.

Furthermore, this solution is delivered with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities to streamline deployments and reduce manual tasks. Cisco Intersight enhances the solution with cloud-based monitoring, orchestration, and lifecycle management.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Reduced Complexity: Offers an automatable infrastructure with easily deployable resources.
  • High Performance: Supports robust components for high-performance, high-bandwidth virtualized applications.
  • Optimized Efficiency: Enhances network bandwidth utilization and in-line storage compression with deduplication.
  • Risk Mitigation: Incorporates built-in resiliency at every level of the design.
  • Cloud Management: Provides cloud-based monitoring, management, and support for both physical and virtual infrastructure.

Target Audience

This guide is intended for IT architects, data scientists, sales engineers, field consultants, professional services, IT managers, partner engineers, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) seeking to implement an efficient and innovative IT infrastructure.

What's New in this Release

  • Support for Cisco UCS B200 M6 blade servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
  • Introduction of Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem).
  • Support for Cisco UCS Manager 4.2 and Pure Storage FlashArray//X50 R3 with Purity version 6.1.6.
  • Enhanced support for NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) Datastores.
  • Fully automated solution deployment and Cisco Intersight SaaS Management integration.

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