Happy holidays to all! Thank you for visiting and reading my first blog post. First off, I would like to outline what to expect to see in my entries over the course of the new year. What are Data Center Solutions and how they can be a business enabler, reduce costs, and increase agility will be the focus while ensuring reliability, availability and serviceability for critical Data Center applications. I will include business case studies, real life scenarios from first-hand experiences and tech tips. I will be sharing my experiences from actual solution designs, product demonstrations, proof of concepts, pilots, implementation engagements and more.
Partners that enable IPLogic to provide validated and proven Data Center solutions include Cisco Systems, NetApp and VMware. IPLogic also utilizes other products and technologies from other key vendors that compliments and completes our Data Center solution offerings. These types of products and solutions include power, cooling, racks and more. I will focus on a different vendor or product for each post unless a specific topic needs to be spread across two or more posts.
Cisco Systems offers various Data Center products and technologies that IPLogic leverages as a value added systems integrator to offer complete solutions for our clients. Some of these products and technologies include Desktop Virtualization, Data Center Security, Unified Computing System (UCS) and more. I will be posting on various topics in the coming months that includes product and technologies from Cisco Systems and our other partners. For now, you can review some of Cisco's Data Center and Virtualization solutions via the URL below:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/solutions.html
A specific Data Center technology from Cisco Systems that is a true "game changer" is Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). There are multiple products that make up UCS, but at the heart of the technology are the Fabric Interconnects, which are available in the 6100 and 6200 Series. The Fabric Interconnects provide the core connectivity, intelligence and configuration management via UCS Manager to allow true stateless computing down to the lowest hardware levels with Cisco's B-Series blade servers and chassis. For clarification, the Fabric Interconnects run UCS Manager in its firmware and there exists various models and expansion modules to allow for varying performance and port density of 10Gbps Ethernet, FCOE and Fibre Channel connectivity. In essence, the Fabric Interconnects provides the connectivity and management for a unified fabric in the Data Center. For details on the Fabric Interconnects, B-Series blades, chassis, UCS Manager and other components that comprise of the UCS architecture, please review the following link:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10265/index.html
I will cover the Fabric Interconnects and UCS Manager in more detail in my next post. I will also discuss some of the benefits of stateless computing with UCS and some tech tips on replacing a Fabric Interconnect that is already in production.
In the meantime, for more information regarding IPLogic's Data Center solutions and ways in which IPLogic can help you meet your business requirements, please visit us at http://www.iplogic.com/virtualization_technology.asp
John D. Moorhead
CCIE #6457
Solution Architect
IPLogic, Inc.
