Flex. Pod Datacenter with Net. App All Flash FAS, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, and VMware v. Sphere. Industry trends indicate a vast data center transformation toward shared infrastructure and cloud computing. Business agility requires application agility, so IT teams need to provision applications in hours instead of months. Resources need to scale up or down in minutes, not hours. Vmware_remote_console_firefox_warning.jpg' alt='Vmrc Plugin Installer' title='Vmrc Plugin Installer' />To simplify the evolution to a shared cloud infrastructure based on an application driven policy model, Cisco and Net. App have developed the solution called Flex. Pod Datacenter with Net. App AFF and Cisco ACI. Cisco ACI provides a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy driven application profiles that delivers software flexibility with hardware performance. Net. App All Flash FAS addresses enterprise storage requirements with high performance, superior flexibility, and best in class data management. The audience for this document includes, but is not limited to sales engineers, field consultants, professional services, IT managers, partner engineers, and customers who want to take advantage of an infrastructure built to deliver IT efficiency and enable IT innovation. This document provides a step by step configuration and implementation guide for the Flex. Pod Datacenter with Net. App AFF and Cisco ACI solution. For the design decisions and technology discussion of the solution, please refer to Flex. Pod Datacenter with Net. App All Flash FAS, Cisco Nexus 9. ACI, and VMware v. Sphere Design Guide http www. UCSCVDsflexpodesxi. The following design elements distinguish this version of Flex. Pod from previous non ACI Flex. Pod models          Validation of the Cisco ACI with a Net. App All Flash FAS storage array         Support for the Cisco UCS 2. Cisco UCS B2. 00 M4 servers         Support for the latest release of Net. App Data ONTAP 8. An IP based storage design supporting both NAS datastores and i. SCSI based SAN LUNs         Support for direct attached Fiber Chanel storage access for boot LUNs         Application design guidance for multi tiered applications using Cisco ACI application profiles and policies. Flex. Pod is a defined set of hardware and software that serves as an integrated foundation for both virtualized and non virtualized solutions. VMRCOptions1.png' alt='Vmrc Plugin Installer' title='Vmrc Plugin Installer' />VMware v. Sphere built on Flex. Pod includes Net. App storage, Net. App Data ONTAP, Net. Vmrc Plugin Installer' title='Vmrc Plugin Installer' />App All Flash FAS, Cisco Nexus networking, the Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco UCS, and VMware v. Sphere software in a single package. The design is flexible enough that the networking, computing, and storage can fit in one data center rack or be deployed according to a customers data center design. Port density enables the networking components to accommodate multiple configurations of this kind. One benefit of the Flex. Vmrc Plugin Installer' title='Vmrc Plugin Installer' />Download VMware vSphere. Run fewer servers and reduce capital and operating costs using VMware vSphere to build a cloud computing infrastructure. Should I remove Cisco ASDMIDM Launcher by Cisco Systems Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager ASDM delivers worldclass security management and monitoring. Whats in the Release Notes These release notes cover the following topics Whats New Internationalization Compatibility and Installation Upgrades for This Release. On this page you can find a list of almost all products released by VMware. Tracker is automatically updated when new products are available to download GA at. CWFZtiAcc/TpPNJFxBYGI/AAAAAAAACek/KcX6qTTc4o8/s1600/webclient-console3.png' alt='Vmrc Plugin Installer' title='Vmrc Plugin Installer' />Pod architecture is the ability to customize or flex the environment to suit a customers requirements. A Flex. Pod can easily be scaled as requirements and demand change. The unit can be scaled both up adding resources to a Flex. Pod unit and out adding more Flex. Pod units. The reference architecture detailed in this document highlights the resiliency, cost benefit, and ease of deployment of an IP based storage solution. A storage system capable of serving multiple protocols across a single interface allows for customer choice and investment protection because it truly is a wire once architecture. Figure 1 shows the VMware v. Whats in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics Whats New Earlier Releases of vCenter Server 5. Internationalization. Deployment Guide for FlexPod with NetApp All Flash FAS and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and VMware vSphere 5. U2. Sphere built on Flex. Pod components and the network connections for a configuration with IP based storage. This design uses the Cisco Nexus 9. Cisco Nexus 2. 23. PP FEX, and Cisco UCS C Series and B Series servers and the Net. App AFF family of storage controllers connected in a highly available modular design. This infrastructure is deployed to provide i. SCSI booted hosts with file level and block level access to shared storage. The reference architecture reinforces the wire once strategy, because as additional storage is added to the architecture, no re cabling is required from the hosts to the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect. The ACI switching architecture is laid out in a leaf and spine topology where every leaf connects to every spine using 4. G Ethernet interfaces. The software controller, APIC, is delivered as an appliance and three or more such appliances form a cluster for high availability and enhanced performance. Figure 1 illustrates the physical architecture. Figure 1       Flex. Pod Design with Cisco ACI and Net. App Data ONTAPThe reference hardware configuration includes          Two Cisco Nexus 9. Two Cisco Nexus 2. Two Cisco UCS 6. 24. UP fabric interconnects 
         One Net. App AFF8. 04. 0 HA pair running clustered Data ONTAP with Disk shelves and Solid State Drives SSDWhile not included in the Flex. Pod BOM, Cisco ACI spines and APIC controllers are integral part of Cisco ACI design. The following components were used in the validation efforts 
         Three APIC Controllers 
         Two Cisco Nexus 9. For server virtualization, the deployment includes VMware v. Sphere. Although this is the base design, each of the components can be scaled easily to support specific business requirements. For example, more or different servers or even blade chassis can be deployed to increase compute capacity, additional disk shelves can be deployed to improve IO capability and throughput, and special hardware or software features can be added to introduce new features. This document guides you through the low level steps for deploying the base architecture, as shown in Figure 1. These procedures cover everything from physical cabling to network, compute and storage device configurations. Table 1  lists the software revisions for this solution. Layer. Device. Image. Comments. Compute. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 6. Series, UCS B 2. M4, UCS C 2. M4 2. Includes the Cisco UCS IOM 2. XP, Cisco UCS Manager, UCS VIC 1. UCS VIC 1. 34. 0 Cisco e. NIC 2. 1. 2. 6. 2Cisco f. 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