Customers are moving away from silos of information and moving toward shared infrastructures to virtualized environments and eventually to the cloud to increase agility and reduce costs. As a means to accelerate customers move toward a shard cloud platform Cisco, NetApp, and VMware released FlexPod™; a preconfigured and validated cloud architecture built on the Cisco® Unified Computing System™ (UCS), Cisco Nexus® data center switches, NetApp® FAS storage components, and a range of software partners.
Today Cisco & NetApp published our latest Cisco Validated Design (CVD) titled the FlexPod for VMware Deployment Model. This document describes the basic architecture of FlexPod for VMware as well as the general procedures for deploying a base FlexPod for VMware configuration. This document is intended for engineers who want to deploy a FlexPod for VMware architecture.
The CVD program consists of systems and solutions designed, tested, and documented to facilitate faster, more reliable, and more predictable customer deployments.
For Cisco, NetApp, and Vmware partners and professional services team members, I'd recommend the FlexPod for VMware Implementation Guide. This document is an actual 'step-by-step' implementation that is customized for each implementation based on sizing and configuration data provided by the implementation architect or engineer. Please note this document is restricted to our employees and partners and is available through the NetApp Partner Center.
Why bother with the 4G FC at all when you have 10Gig into the 3200? Could you not just do FCoE, directly into the FI's if need be?
Posted by: Simon | March 14, 2011 at 04:46 PM
Is there a soon to be released CVD that supports 8.0.1? If so, is there a release date?
Posted by: dan | April 13, 2011 at 07:08 AM