Respond to the changing business environment with a system designed to manage capacity, whenever, and wherever your organization needs it most.
Continuous changes in business and technology demand a systems-centric strategy in the data center. Customers are looking for deeper intelligence, better informed and accelerated decisions, and sustainable solutions.
It’s time for a new approach to data center infrastructure. It’s not a server. It’s a system.
You can deliver what your customers need with the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®), and bring the power of unified computing to data-intensive analytics, applications at the edge, and the next generation of scale-out workloads.
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) features
The Cisco UCS is designed as a flexible pool of computing, networking, and storage resources that can be allocated (and reallocated) to workloads on a just-in-time basis, enhancing your customers’ ability to respond to changing business requirements.
UCS Architecture Overview
Cisco UCS: It’s not a Server. It’s a System.
Fabric Centric Design
- High Performance 40GB/s Ethernet
- Single Cable for Network, Storage, and Management Traffic
- Add Cables for Bandwidth vs. Fabric Type
Easy to Scale
- Apply service profiles to hundreds or thousands of servers
- Form factor agnostic Blades, Rack or HX
Unified Management
- Single point of management; Cloud-based Management with Intersight
UCS Manager
(Service Profiles)
100% Programmable
- Abstract hardware from the operational plane, enabling an environment that can adapt to multiple workloads
- Policy based configuration
Unified Fabric
- Management
- Ethernet
- Storage
Analytics Powered
- Continuos infrastructure optimisation driven by application analytics
Cisco UCS M5 system benefits
The Cisco UCS M5 server and integrated infrastructure portfolio is designed for customers looking to refresh their existing servers or buy new servers, and who want to save time, reduce cost, or simplify server management. Cisco UCS helps customers to:
Reduce provisioning times by 83%
Reduce ongoing administrative and management costs by 62%
Reduce cabling by 78% and power and cooling costs by 52%
Why migrate your customers to M5?
With Cisco UCS M5 servers, your customers can:
Reduce Capital Expenditures (CapEx) and Operating Expenditures (OpEx) through server consolidation and reduced software licensing costs
Improve application performance with faster processors and more memory
Improve the end-user computing experience with faster GPUs while reducing the number of servers required
Migration path for Blade and Rack Servers:
Also review your Fabric interconnect capabilities and compatibilities for maximum performance:
Identifying opportunities
The Cisco UCS architecture is designed for organizations that want to:
Replace older servers to reduce IT costs (related to power consumption, cooling, spares, and both planned and unplanned downtime)
Achieve better performance and optimize server utilization
Improve productivity (faster performance and improved uptime)
Improved end user service
Update or migrate an application
Achieve rapid application deployment
Set up virtualization and cloud infrastructure for new and emerging applications
Evolve for competitive differentiation
Automate IT processes to improve administrative scaling and SLA attainment
Better manage growing company data requirements
Consolidate their data centers
Have a hybrid-cloud strategy in place and need to establish a platform to enable it
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Fabric Interconnects/Migration Guides
Understand more about the UCS architecture Fabric Interconnects to ensure maximum performance for your customers.
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