Cisco’s Biggest UCS Deployment Runs a Multitude VMworld Labs
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It would have been hard to miss the portable data center at VMworld, because it was located at the entrance to Moscone Center North. (eWEEK Photo by Chris Preimesberger)
Overview
Power Savings
The display in front of the UCS system explains that a comparable Tier III physical data center would use 23,329 kilowatts of electricity, while the corresponding virtualized data center would draw only about 528 kilowatts.(eWEEK Photo by Chris Preimesberger)
Architecture Supporting Instructor Led Labs
Storage
NetApp (left) and EMC-two companies that are bitter rivals in the marketplace-allow their arrays to sit side-by-side in the Cisco UCS configuration.(eWEEK Photo by Chris Preimesberger)
Key Design Components
Key Facts
A Tangle of Cables
Multicolored spaghetti comes to mind when viewing the back of this particular switch.(eWEEK Photo by Chris Preimesberger)
Simplified Cabling
Cisco takes a great deal of pride in its simplified cabling arrangement on its new switches, which are much easier to deal with.(eWEEK Photo by Chris Preimesberger)