Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Chatbot

Development

Classroom Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Email Spam Filter

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounting and Tax Services

Financial Risk Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Marketing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printers

Application Virtualization

Browser

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Storage

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

IoT Security

License Management

MLOps

Managed IT Service

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Security

Operating Systems

Secret Managers

Server Virtualization

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Brand Intelligence

Contact Center

Content Management

Email Marketing

Event Management

Marketing Automation

Product Sampling

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Video

Web Analytics

Marketing

Meeting Room Booking

Project Management

Professional Services

Construction CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Lead Generation Services

Sales

Database Security

Video Surveillance

Security

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Debt Collection

Hotel Management

InsurTech

Lease Management

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

Population Health Management

Rental Property Management

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FlexPod is a converged infrastructure option developed by NetApp and Cisco. FlexPod is available in streamlined and simplified Express version, and the FlexPod Datacenter edition for enterprise private clouds, VDI, scale-out infrastructure, or software defined data centers.

FlexPod

Converged Infrastructure platforms and appliances provide an efficiency-boosting approach to data center infrastructure for delivering virtualization or deploying a private cloud, achieved by combining data center components into an appliance form factor that can be centrally managed and that is easier to scale.

Converged Infrastructure

NetApp AR FlexPod Demo

Short FlexPod Registration Demo

DC vlog #7: live demo inloggen in het virtuele FlexPod Datacenter

FlexPod Docker Demo

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco + NetApp

FlexPod: Built to Fly

FlexPod is built to fly, with all the performance, agility and value today’s enterprise needs to keep up with the challenges of tomorrow. Prepare for takeoff with FlexPod, from Cisco and NetApp. Learn more at http://www.flexpod.com.

PRTG Network Monitor

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

TrueSight Automation for Servers

Progress WhatsUp Gold

Principal Systems Engineer

FlexPod 2017-04-26 08:06:51

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

OpenText Content Manager

OpenText Service Manager

OpenText Solutions Business Manager

Microsoft 365

Senior IT Systems Engineer

FlexPod 2017-04-25 16:27:15

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Initial setup

Better documentation

Specific examples

Single point

New server

Current configuration

Pane of glass

Cpu and memory

Firmware upgrades

Backed up

Support teams

High density

New hardware

Home

Converged Infrastructure Platforms

We utilize FlexPod with VMware for both virtual and physical hosts in our data center. Our primary usage is a private cloud offering via the VMware hosts. My team sells back hosting services to other departments within the company, allowing them to get 24/7 support and hosting without having to pay for IT staff out of their own budgets, while ensuring that the support team, being members of the same company, have a vested interest in providing up time and service that an external provider might not have.

Service profile portability - Utilizing san boot, if we have any issues with a physical blade, it is simple to move that Service profile to a new blade. This is also useful when moving chassis between racks or migrating service profiles to new hardware.
Single point of management - we are able to get all VLANs and VSANs trunked to the FlexPod fabric interconnects and then the server etam can handle mapping whatever VLANs are required to each new server as it is built without having to open a new set of tickets with networking.
Performance - We are able to run a massive virtual load on these blades as we have 256 cores and 6TB in 6RU in our current configuration (and can go up to 352 cores and 12TB with larger processors and DIMMs). This type of CPU and memory density, backed up by 40GB based backplane, allows for high density virtualization.

KVM control of the blades still requires Java. Avocent is using HTML5 now, and it would be nice if the KVM console for these UCS blades could too.
Price - Like any Cisco product, there are cheaper options. They aren't nearly as fully featured, but at times, it would be nice if UCS could be a bit cheaper.

FlexPod has allowed our team to be extremely quick to resopnd to new VM build requests. The amount of RAM, CPU and backplane offered by B series blades allows us to go with very high VM density. The quick deployment of service profile templates also means that when we have to add new hosts, it is done quicker.
FlexPod and the service profile portability (along with VMware) has allowed for full upgrades and migrations from M1/M2 series hardware to M4 hardware without any downtime or outages to the clients. Blades can be moved into new chassis, or service profiles moved to new generation blades, with no impact to the customers' ability to work.

BladeLogic Automation Suite, PRTG Network Monitor, WhatsUp Gold

FlexPod is the backbone of the city. We use it for all departments and services within the city. It gave us a single point of management for our servers and the ability to move or migrate physical server profiles from one server to another. [It gives] us a very consistent and reliable experience.

Single Pane of Glass Server Administration.
Ease of firmware upgrades.
Incredible support when you have an issue. The Cisco/NetApp/VMware FlexPod support teams work together and drive your issues down to the root cause.

Initial setup and config. You won't do it by yourself without going to a class. No wizards here. Very complex till you get used to it.
iSCSI boot could be easier. Lots of ways to implement it, but no real definitive guide.
Could use better documentation with specific examples. Would be nice if it had an initial setup wizard.

Positive ROI, being a city we only have funds for server replacements every 5-7 years and this allows us to spec out our capacity and order a cost effective solution that will last that time period.
CIsco and NetApp and VMware have been very competitive in accommodating our budget.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Service Manager

Microsoft Office 365, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

FlexPod

Overview

What is FlexPod?