One of the great things about FlexPod is its versatility. I can run multiple operating systems and applications on the same set of physical hardware. Just because I deploy a certain validated design doesn’t mean that other solutions can’t co-exist in the same hardware. Perhaps I only need eight of my 16 blades for VMware …
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ACI, or Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is a new approach to managing and architecting our infrastructure. Integrated infrastructures, such as FlexPod have helped organizations streamline their approaches to designing, deploying, and running data centers. Software such as UCS Director has served as a unifying platform for managing the underlying components of the infrastructure, compute, network …
When I was still on the customer side, in 2011, I had the pleasure of working with FlexPod for the first time. It wasn’t in a cool rack that I could pose in front of, it was a NetApp FAS2040, Nexus 5ks, and Cisco UCS Servers and their Fabric Interconnects (which were named Batman and …