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FlexPod Implementation and Design
Cisco Unified Computing System
The FlexPod design simultaneously supports both B-Series and C-Series deployments. This section of
the document discusses the integration of each deployment into FlexPod.
Cisco Unified Computing System – B-Series Server Design
The Cisco Unified Computing System supports the virtual server environment by providing a robust,
highly available, and extremely manageable compute resource. As shown in Figure 10 the components
of the Cisco UCS system offer physical redundancy and a set of logical structures to deliver a very
resilient FlexPod compute domain. In this validation effort, multiple UCS B-Series servers' service
profiles are SAN booted over FCoE as VMware ESXi nodes. The ESXi nodes consisted of Cisco UCS
B200-M3 Series Blades with Cisco UCS 1240 VIC adapters. These nodes were allocated to a VMware
DRS and HA enabled cluster, supporting infrastructure services such as vSphere Virtual Center,
Microsoft Active Directory and database services.
VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 Using FCoE
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