For small and medium-sized businesses in their growth phase that are beginning to virtualize their network, storage, and compute environments, ExpressPod offers pre-configured and tested suites. Integrated and distributed by joint channel partners, ExpressPod includes Cisco UCS® C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage systems, and Cisco Nexus® 3048 switches with infrastructure management, creating an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution. ExpressPod is compatible with an open ecosystem of management solutions and hypervisors.
To meet the needs of larger data centers, FlexPod now offers VMware vSphere® certification and compatibility on NetApp Data ONTAP® 8 in cluster mode. This enables organizations to grow by adding nodes to their clustered storage systems, creating large, unified storage pools across all types of storage devices that can scale virtually without limit. Resources in these pools can be dynamically allocated and securely isolated, enabling multi-tenancy access. NetApp's clustered storage system also allows for simultaneous, non-disruptive data migrations across hundreds of virtual machines. This, in turn, simplifies workload balancing, system maintenance, and device upgrades without impacting running applications.
In addition, for companies virtualizing databases on Oracle RAC with VMware vSphere and vCenter™, Cisco and NetApp offer certified design support, including best practice implementation documentation. The VMware-certified Oracle RAC on FlexPod solution provides secure multi-tenancy access, data and application mobility, built-in data protection, and automated provisioning. These features provide organizations with pre-certified, virtualized production solutions that enable them to manage more databases in less time and with less space.
