Executive Summary - Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Design Manual

Executive Summary

Cisco Validated Designs consist of systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to facilitate
and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a
portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of our customers.
The purpose of this document is to describe the design of Cloudian HyperStore on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on
the latest generation of Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Servers. This validated design provides the framework of designing
and deploying Cloudian SDS software on Cisco UCS S3260 storage servers. The Cisco Unified Computing
System provides the compute, network, and storage access components for the Cloudian HyperStore, deployed
as a single cohesive system.
This design guide describes how the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) can be used in conjunction
with Cloudian 7.1.2. With the continuous evolution of data, there has been lack of enterprise manageability for
large capacity storage servers, Cisco UCS with Cloudian provide the solution to solve the challenges, as it
increased demand to have Cloudian HyperStore validated on Cisco UCS servers. The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage
Server, originally designed for the data center, together with Cloudian HyperStore is optimized for object storage
solutions, making it an excellent fit for unstructured data workloads such as backup, archive, file celebration,
storage as a service, IOT, video surveillance and cloud storage. The S3260 delivers a complete infrastructure with
exceptional scalability for computing and storage resources together with 40 Gigabit Ethernet networking.
Cisco and Cloudian are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for unstructured data
that integrates UCS with Cloudian HyperStore. With the power of the Cisco UCS management framework, the
solution is cost effective to deploy and manage and will enable the next-generation cloud deployments that drive
business agility, lower operational costs and avoid vendor lock-in.
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