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Cisco HyperFlex
Overview
Simplifying the future
Manish Agarwal
Director of Product Management, HyperFlex
@flash4all
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Agenda
• Datacenter Evolution
• What is HyperFlex?
• Architecture Overview
• Product Overview
• HW: Flexible Configurations
• SW: Feature Overview
• Key Differentiators
• Summary

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 Cisco HyperFlex Innovation Momentum
Cisco and Partner Co-innovations

Ongoing Innovations Every Quarter

Enterprise Profiler Native Scale Hyper-V

All Flash 40G NW SED Edge Connect UI M5
Workloads Sizer Replication/DR

AI/ML Citrix SAP

Kubernetes App Perf IaaS & Cloud Stretch Scale with Native DR Storage HW
Workloads Cloud Modernization
Containers Monitoring Mobility Clusters Resiliency Enhancements Analytics Acceleration
with NVIDIA

Market Momentum Co—innovation

3500+ HyperFlex
Customers*

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Cisco HyperFlex Rapid Pace in Leadership

From Launch to an
HCI Magic Quadrant Leader in

2.5 years

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure, 27 November 2018. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other
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Datacenter
Evolution
What does
the future
look like? Traditional Infra

Private Cloud
#1 Initiative Is to
Reduce Operations Scale-Out
Core
and Capital in the Core Infra

Over the Last Two

Mgmt. and Ops
Years, IT Organizations
Spent 70% on “Run the
Business” IT Spending

04/18 Gartner,
Strategic roadmap for compute infrastructure

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 Core-Cloud

What does Apps and

Data Flows

the future
look like? Traditional Infra Cloud Scale

Seamless
By 2020, More Than 50% of Private Cloud migration
Enterprises Will Run Application
Mission-Critical, Scale-Out Infra Core Cloud placement &
Containerized Cloud-Native monitoring

Applications
Support for
04/18 Gartner, Mgmt. and Ops
Containers
Strategic roadmap for compute infrastructure

By 2020, Over 90% of

Enterprises Will Use Multiple
Cloud Services and
Platforms

2018 IDC,
IDC FutureScape:
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 Distributed
What does Apps

the future
look like? Traditional Infra IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
1
By 2021, 40% of
Large Enterprises Will Scale-Out
Core Cloud Public Cloud 2
be Integrating Edge Infra

Computing Principles
Into Their IT Projects Mgmt. and Ops Public Cloud 3

Edge-to-Core Edge
Distributed
Apps and
Apps
Data Flows

IoT Branch/
Remote
Real Time
11/15/17 Gartner, Analytics and
Predicts 2018: Servers Inference

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 Hybrid Cloud
Mobility and Services
HX 1.x, 2.x HX 3.x
Hybrid Workload Hybrid App
Security Performance Monitoring

Next Generation Workloads

Mgmt. Core Cloud Placement

The Future of Monitoring

Distributed AI/ML Core

Research and
Support
Microservices

Operations Training
Edge
and Containers

Modernize to
AI/ML Edge
Scale Out
Inferencing
Infrastructure

Next Generation
Edge Mgmt.

HX 4.0
Infrastructure Applications
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What is
HyperFlex?
What is HyperFlex?
Engineered and Optimized HCI

HX Data Platform Cloud Innovations UCS Foundation

Purpose Built for HCI Software Defined Compute
Cisco Intersight
Fast and Flexible Fabric Centric
Cisco Cloud Center
Enterprise Grade Storage Intent-Based
AppDynamics

Software, Compute, Networking

Fully-engineered Together

Optimized for Performance and

Scaling Density

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Complete Hyperconvergence
Compute, Network, HCI Software Engineered Together
Hybrid Cloud Management

Storage HX Data Platform

Cisco HCI
Compute
Cisco Fabric Computing
Network

Traditional Infrastructure Cisco UCS Foundations Cisco HyperFlex

Siloed Tiers of Compute, Storage and Converged Compute and Multicloud Era Hyperconverged
Networking from separate vendors Networking System Infrastructure
Siloed & Disaggregated Management

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Architecture
Overview
 Hyperconverged Scale Out and
Distributed File System

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

HYPERVISOR CO NTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER

HYPERCONVERGED
HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM
HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM
HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM
DATA PLATFORM

Start with as Few Hyperconverged Network Fabric Add Servers, Distribute and Retire Older
as Two (for Data Platform Policy Configures One or More at a Rebalance Data Servers
Edge) or Three Installs in Minutes QoS Settings Time Across Servers
(for DC) Nodes Automatically

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 Inside HX Data Platform Node
VM VM VM VM VM

IOVisor HX
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VAAI VM

DATASTORE/VOLUME

HX Controller VM IOVisor Module Presents Data Services are

Assumes Direct Access of Pooled Storage to HyperVisor Offloaded
Local Storage and Stripes IO to HX Data Platform

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Dynamic Data Distribution

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER

HX DATA PLATFORM

Systems Built on Conventional File Systems Write HX Data Platform Stripes Data Across All
Locally, Then Replicate, Creating Performance Hotspots Nodes Simultaneously, Leveraging Cache
Across all SSDs for Fast Writes

Balanced Space Utilization: No Data Migration

Required Following a VM Migration

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Product Overview
 Hyperconvergence Meets Unified Computing

HX220C ALL
NVME
HYPERFLEX

P ER F O RMANC E
HX-SERIES NODES

1 Flexible Choices
HX220C & EDGE HX240C SFF
Turnkey Appliance ALL FLASH ALL FLASH
2
with vSphere or HyperV
Annual Subscription
3
Software Model
HX220C & EDGE HX240C HX240C
SFF HYBRID SFF HYBRID LFF HYBRID

C A P AC ITY

H Y B R I D N O D ES A L L F L A SH N O D ES

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HyperFlex Overview

#1 Performance Data Management Seamless Scale Next-Gen HCI Cloud Integrations

Proprietary, data- Inline storage efficiency, Edge to Datacenter, perf & End to end automation, Multicloud ready, Intersight
distributed architecture snapshots & clones capacity scaling options including networking for mgmt,analytics,support

Security HW Assisted Data Protection Ease of Use Global Support

SED, PSIRT, Cisco Secure Co-engineered HW + SW, Native replication, disaster Simplicity from eval, sizing, Native replication, disaster
Development Lifecycle flexible HW configurations recovery & backup solns Day 0/1 to support recovery & backup solns

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The Cisco HX Data Platform
PROPRIETARY LOG STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEM
DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR HYPERCONVERGENCE

ADVANCED FUTURE
DISTRIBUTED
DATA SERVICES READY

Object-Based File System Built Into File Designed for Containers

Architected for Scale-Out, System Architecture and Next-generation
Distributed Storage Applications

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 Continuous Data Optimization
Log-Structured File System Yields More Efficient Data Optimization

BEFORE

No Performance Impact
Inline Compression Inline Deduplication No Config lock-in
No Additional License

30–50% space savings 20–30% space savings Lower Cost

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 Flexible Local Management and Monitoring
HyperFlex Connect vCenter Plugin

• Easy to use • Web Client Plugin

• Extremely intuitive • Monitor all events in VC

• Fast and Responsive • No separate console,

no learning curve
Accessed Via: http://<Cluster-IP>/apiexplorer

API example

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 Centralized Cloud-Based Management of the Future

Telemetry Policy Based Secure and API Driven, Connected

and Analytics Orchestration Compliant DevOps Enabled TAC

Cisco Intersight SaaS Actionable

Simplicity Intelligence
Intersight

Next
Generation
Management Remotely Deploy & Manage Compatibility(HCL) Check
HyperFlex
with Intersight
Ship to Connect to Deploy &
sites Intersight manage
remotely
Recommendations Engine
Conventional
Infrastructure
Ship from Integrate and Ship People IT Deploy
Stage and Infra to
Factory Configure On-Site
Sites
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 HyperFlex Availability & Data Protection
Flexibility to meet business needs
> 24 hours
5mins – 24 hours
RPO / RTO
Zero

Local Cloud
Metro WAN
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 HyperFlex Availability & Data Protection
Flexibility to meet business needs
Integration with 3 rd Party Backup Vendors
> 24 hours

Backup & DR
to Cloud

In-built Snapshots, Replication & Disaster Recovery

5mins – 24 hours
RPO / RTO

High Performing VM VM
VM Centric Planned Migration,
Periodic VM VM Disaster Recovery
Snapshots and Test Recovery
VM Highly optimized long distance VM
Async Replication

Local High Availability and Stretched Clusters

Zero

Synchronous

Replication

Local Cloud
Metro WAN
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 Independent Scaling
8K, 70/30 Read-write, 100% Random

Compute-Only
Max Cluster Size
32+32=64 IOPS…

Nodes

Latency Ratio
Compute
IOVisor

IOPS Ratio
Compute
Max Ratio
Compute to Converged
2:1
Converged
Nodes
8-nodes 12-nodes 16-nodes

Scale Up and Scale Down

Seamless HyperFlex
Edge
HyperFlex HyperFlex
Edge
Scalability Remote Office Core Data Centers Retail & SMB

Scale Across Clouds

Cisco Cisco
HyperFlex CloudCenter Application Mobility

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 No requirement for 3rd site or infrastructure to run
Cisco Intersight serves as the witness for 2 node

No lifecycle management of witness required, all

C220 M5
NVME

UCS

Intel
XEON
Inside
All Flash
S
HyperFl ex

X X
BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
10

X X
Invisible Cloud Witness

BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
Built on efficient protocol stack, no periodic
9

X X
2-Node ROBO

BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

3
Site #2000

X X
VM

VM

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BT 2 BG 0 08
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
Hypervisor
7

X X
BT 2 BG 0 08
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
6

1
C220 M5
NVME

UCS

Intel
XEON
Inside
All Flash
VM

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HyperFl ex
VM

X X
via Cisco Intersight

BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
handled automatically by Intersight
10

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BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
9

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NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

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BT 2 BG 0 08
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D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
7

X X
BT 2 BG 0 08
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
6

No additional license cost

…

WAN

HyperFlex Edge clusters

heartbeats over WAN

C220 M5
NVME

UCS

Intel
XEON
Inside
All Flash
S
HyperFl ex

X X
BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
10

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BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
2-Node ROBO

X X
BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

X X
VM

VM
Site #1

BT 2 BG 0 08
Hypervisor

NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN

D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
7

X X
BT 2 BG 0 08
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
6

1
C220 M5
NVME

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Intel
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Inside
All Flash
VM

VM

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HyperFl ex

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D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
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NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
9

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D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

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BT 2 BG 0 08
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D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
7

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NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
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•
•

•
**Expansion not supported for 1GbE clusters
*Expansion for 10GbE clusters coming soon

Cloud-Driven Lifecycle Mgmt.

C220 M5

C220 M5

C220 M5

C220 M5
NVME

NVME

NVME

NVME
UCS

Intel

UCS

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UCS

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XEON

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Inside

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Protect Your
All Flash

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All Flash

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Single Switch
S

Investment
HyperFl ex

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HyperFl ex

HyperFl ex

X X X X X X X X
Dual Switch
4 Node

BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
Flexible Network Options
10

10

10

10
5

X X X X X X X X
BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
9

X X X X X X X X
or
Size for your Environment

BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

X X X X X X X X
BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
HyperFlex Edge

7
2

X X X X X X X X
Across the Globe

BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008

NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
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C220 M5

C220 M5

C220 M5
NVME

NVME

NVME
UCS

Intel

UCS

Intel

UCS

Intel
XEON

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XEON
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Inside

Inside
All Flash

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D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
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10

10
5

X X X X X X
10GbE

BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
9

X X X X X X
BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

X X X X X X
BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008 BT 2 BG 008
NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN NG6 LK7T2DH 008HWHEMVN
D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
7

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X X X X X X
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D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN D D H AT A S D S S E M VN
6

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or
C220 M5

C220 M5
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NVME
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Intel

UCS

Intel
XEON

XEON
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All Flash

All Flash
S

S
HyperFl ex

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Start Small

X X X X
2 Node

Upgrade
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NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S

Manage
10

10
5

Expand
X X X X

Deploy
1GbE

BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH NG6 LK7T2DH
D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
9

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BT 2 BT 2 BT 2 BT 2
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D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S D D H AT A S
8

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7

7
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6

6
1

Hyperconverged
at the Edge
Key Differentiators
Cisco HyperFlex Architectural Differentiators
Hardware and Software Engineered Together

Next Gen Distributed Complete Hyperconvergence

Data Platform with Integrated Network Fabric
• Enterprise Scale • Unified Network Infrastructure
• Performance without hot spots • Guaranteed QoS with low latency
• Extremely consistent IO

Simplified Policy Based Pre-integrated Hardware &

Management Software
• Simplified operations across • Single point of support
compute, storage and network • Backed by world class Cisco TAC
Cisco HyperFlex System
• Intelligent, adaptive & Cloud Support
w/ UCS compute only nodes
managed with Intersight

Hypervisor Choice Data Protection & Enterprise grade Tetration CloudCenter

ESXi and Hyper-V High Availability data services ACI AppDynamics, CWOM

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 MULTICLOUD
PLATFORM

#1 in Performance
and consistency

1500
Vendor B IOPS per
1,000
Cisco HyperFlex VM
IOPS per VM
1000

IOPS
IOPS
500
500

0 0
0 50 VM 100 150
0 50 VM 100 150
Each dot represents a Virtual Machine and its average IOPS over an hour of load

#1 Log structured file system with

PERFORMANCE dynamic data distribution

Purpose built for HCI

1st Hyperconverged system to
Highest performance and pass stringent SAP SD
consistency for the most Benchmark
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/global/fr_fr/produc
mission critical enterprise ts/hyperconverged-infrastructure/cisco-
hyperflex-certifiee-sap-benchmark-dec-
applications 2017.pdf

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 Cisco Support – Global scale and reach
Single Support for HW & SW

2 , 800
T A C S U P P O R T C A P A B IL IT IE S

1 . 8M PROFESSIONALS 1 8 0+ C O U N T R I E S
SERVICE averaging
REQUESTS
handled annually 5+ YEARS 24 TAC FACILITIES
industry experience
1 7+ LANGUAGES
SCH & Support Integration
Proactive, fast issue resolution
• Continuous monitoring to detect early problems
• Critical events integrated with Smart Call Home

Cisco
• Operational analysis and recommendations

Cisco Intersight Integration

Global Support E NHANCED PR OACTIVE
SUPPORT G UIDANCE
PLATFORM INVENTORY
ADVANCED ANALYTICS
POLICY COMPLIANCE
SIGNATURE ANALYSIS
UPGRADE CHECKS
UPGRADE GUIDANCE
CAPACITY PLANNING
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Summary
 HX Innovation Pillars

HX Data Platform End to End Simplicity

Faster, more efficient, reliable Planning, Day 0/1/2, On-
and flexible prem and MultiCloud

Hardware AI & ML
Optimizations Predictive Analytics via
Ongoing currency, leverage Intersight; Workloads
UCS H/W innovations
End to End Solutions
Continue to grow support for
new workloads
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HyperFlex: Private Cloud Infra of Choice
Enterprise Apps

Hybrid/Multicloud

Core Cloud Anthos

Cisco Cloud Center

Containers / Cloud Native Apps

Cisco Container
Platform

Edge Intelligent Management (AI Ops)

Cisco Workload
Optimization Manger

AI/ML Apps

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