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Cisco HyperFlex Systems

Ready for Ready for Ready for

any application any cloud any scale

Hyperconverged multicloud platform

Cisco HyperFlex
You need infrastructure that can adapt to match the speed of your business— whether
deploying enterprise applications or containers in multicloud environments. Cisco Systems
HyperFlex™ systems with Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors deliver hyperconvergence
• Any application. Validated
with the power and simplicity for any application, on any cloud, and at any scale.
Engineered on the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®), Cisco HyperFlex designs for enterprise
systems deliver the agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud applications; support for
with the benefits of on-premises infrastructure. containerized, cloud, and
multihypervisor applications
The solution • Any cloud. Tools for
cloud mobility including
Cisco HyperFlex™
Our platform includes hybrid or all-flash configurations, an integrated network Systems with Intel®
Xeon® Scalable
fabric, and powerful data optimization features that bring the full potential of processors deployment, monitoring,
hyperconvergence to a wide range of workloads and use cases, from validated
enterprise applications to edge computing. Our solution is faster to deploy, simpler
and application placement
to manage, and easier to scale than the current generation of systems. It is ready to • Any scale. Higher scaling
provide you with a unified pool of infrastructure resources to power applications as
your business needs dictate.
limits and tools for greater
resiliency and availability
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across geographies
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What’s new? Any application, anywhere Cisco® Validated Designs give you the benefit
of pretested enterprise application deployment
Our solution’s foundation is a purpose-built, using the best practices developed by Cisco
Here are the enhancements we have high-performance, low-latency data platform engineers. Cisco Validated Designs help you
incorporated into our 3rd-generation that adapts to support all of your applications speed deployment and reduce risk for virtual
product: Figure 1). We support your virtualized and desktop environments (Citrix or VMware), Oracle
containerized applications in any cloud. They are Database and Microsoft SQL Server, big data
• Multihypervisor support. We now supported whether they run in Microsoft Windows applications including Splunk and SAP HANA,
support Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Server 2017 Hyper-V or VMware vSphere and graphics-accelerated high-performance
Hyper-V including failover clustering environments; or Docker containers computing applications.
and backup software integration. with Kubernetes.

• Containerized application support.

A prepackaged Kubernetes platform Cisco Intersight™
enables containers-as-a-service for management as a
service
multicloud deployment. A FlexVolume
driver enables persistent data. Microsoft System
Your choice of
VMware vSphere Cisco HyperFlex management interface
Center Virtual Machine for hardware and
management plug-in Connect
• Enterprise application validation. Our Manager software

engineering team has developed Cisco®

Validated Designs that demonstrate VMware vSphere Microsoft Windows 2017 Hyper-V Kubernetes containers
our readiness for Oracle Database, C C C C C
Designed to support
virtualized and
Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft App App App App App App App App containerized
C C C C
environments
Exchange Server, and both Citrix and with high scalability

VMware virtual desktop environments. Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform

• Flexible multicloud services. These Network CPU and memory HDD SSD GPU Network CPU/memory
NVMe
storage
SSD GPU Network CPU and memory GPU
Flexible balance of
features support deployment to any resources with hybrid
and all-flash storage
cloud with application performance and compute-only
nodes using Cisco UCS
monitoring, application placement, Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series Nodes servers

and cloud mobility services. Cisco

Intersight integration. Configure, deploy,
Integrated
manage, and monitor global operations 10- or 40-Gbps Cisco UCS 6200 or 6300 Series network fabric
unified fabric Fabric Interconnects
from a single HTML 5 interface.
Cisco HyperFlex hybrid node with SSD cache Cisco HyperFlex all-flash nodes with SSD and Cisco UCS blade or rack servers
and showing optional self-encrypting drives optional NVMe cache (encryption optional) can add computing capacity to the cluster

Figure 1 Cisco HyperFlex Systems support virtualized and containerized applications with a wide range of management options

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What’s new, Complete end-to-end the flexibility to choose the combination of CPU,
flash memory, graphics acceleration, and disk
continued solution storage resources you need to deliver an optimal
infrastructure for your applications. Incremental
Designed with an end-to-end software-defined
scalability allows you to start small and scale up
• Increased scale and resiliency. To infrastructure approach, the platform eliminates
as your needs grow. You gain the cost savings
support any application, the platform the compromises found in other hyperconverged
and performance advantages of Cisco UCS with
has been expanded to support up products. We combine software-defined
the flexibility to choose among the solutions
to 64 nodes in a cluster with added computing using Cisco UCS® servers, software-
offered by the broad Cisco UCS management
resiliency in the fully-automated logical defined storage using the powerful Cisco
partner ecosystem.
availability zones. Individual nodes can HyperFlex HX Data Platform software, and
be configured with higher capacity software-defined networking (SDN) using Cisco®
through large-form-factor drives. unified fabric, which integrates smoothly with
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Powered by next-generation
• Stretch clusters. Active-active (Cisco ACI™). data technology
clusters stretched across geographic
With hybrid or all-flash configurations, and The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform combines
distance with integrated failover.
self-encrypting drive options, Cisco HyperFlex the cluster’s solid-state disk (SSD) drives and
• Cloud-based deployment. Cisco systems deliver a preintegrated cluster that is up hard-disk drives (HDDs) into a single distributed,
Intersight™ management as a service and running in an hour or less and that scales multitier, object-based data store. The HX
supports deploying Cisco HyperFlex resources independently to closely match your Data Platform uses a self-healing architecture
systems from the cloud, enabling you to application resource needs (Figure 1). Our that replicates data for high availability,
install your hardware in any datacenter solution supports your applications in Microsoft remediates hardware failures, and alerts your IT
and install and configure remotely. Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and containerized administrators so that problems can be resolved
deployments in private cloud or in multicloud quickly and your business can continue
environments. Cisco HyperFlex Edge delivers a to operate.
simple, low-cost option for remote and branch- • In-cluster synchronous replication stripes
office locations. and replicates data across the cluster so that
data availability is not affected if single or
Engineered on the Cisco multiple components fail (depending on the
replication factor configured).
UCS platform • Compression and deduplication that is always
Cisco UCS provides a single point of connectivity on, helping to reduce storage requirements.
that integrates Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series all- • Space-efficient, pointer-based snapshots
flash or hybrid nodes and a variety of Cisco UCS and clones facilitate backup operations.
servers into a single unified cluster. We give you

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“HyperFlex’s • Logical availability zones increase availability

for larger clusters by automatically partitioning
You can configure, deploy, manage, and monitor
global operations from Cisco Intersight™, a

approach ensures the physical cluster into logical zones and then
intelligently placing data to increase cluster
centralized, cloud-based management portal
capable of providing monitoring, provisioning,

high performance of resiliency to node and component failures.

• Stretch clusters support deployment into two
and advanced analytics for troubleshooting and
proactive fault detection.

Microsoft SQL and geographically split locations for active-active

operations even through a data center failure.
All of your cluster operations can be managed
with locally hosted Cisco HyperFlex Connect.
Oracle databases and • Thin provisioning that allows large data Virtual-machine-level management is supported
volumes to be created without dedicated in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
critical applications storage, enabling a “pay-as-you-grow” Manager (SCVMM), Microsoft Hyper-V
procurement model. Manager,or the VMware vSphere plug-in.
with faster delivery • Self-encrypting drive options securely store

of the environment, data at rest in coordination with enterprise key

management software.

lower costs, and • Native replication transfers virtual machine

data to local or remote clusters for backup or Contact an Account Manager for more information.

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existing management tools, allowing instant
provisioning and cloning for dramatically
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