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A company's data center is currently running on a traditional SAN architecture with Cisco UCS C200 M5 Blade Servers, producing 1000 IOPS. The SAN is becoming a performance bottleneck, so management de

The correct answer is A. Cisco HyperFlex which provides a high-performance, scalable, and reliable hyperconverged. The company requires a solution to replace a traditional SAN, offering significantly higher performance, high throughput per node, and easy scalability.

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A company's data center is currently running on a traditional SAN architecture with Cisco UCS C200 M5 Blade Servers, producing 1000 IOPS. The SAN is becoming a performance bottleneck, so management decided to implement a new solution to provide better performance and scalability. The preferred solution must meet these requirements:

  • Provide at least 10x the performance of the current SAN
  • Provide up to 100 Gbps of throughput per node
  • Be easily scalable to meet the future needs of the enterprise

Which solution must the company deploy to meet the requirements?

Options

  • ACisco HyperFlex which provides a high-performance, scalable, and reliable hyperconverged
  • BACI solution compatible with the current data center design to unlock workload mobility and
  • Ccloud-based virtual server infrastructure, which provides a scalable, easy-to-manage approach
  • DVMware vSAN solution, which provides storage mobility while remaining compatible with the

How the community answered

(25 responses)
  • A
    52% (13)
  • B
    8% (2)
  • C
    28% (7)
  • D
    12% (3)

Why each option

The company requires a solution to replace a traditional SAN, offering significantly higher performance, high throughput per node, and easy scalability.

ACisco HyperFlex which provides a high-performance, scalable, and reliable hyperconvergedCorrect

Cisco HyperFlex is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution that integrates compute, storage, and networking into a single, highly scalable system, designed to deliver high performance. It uses a distributed file system and leverages high-speed networking, such as 100 Gbps Ethernet, to provide significant IOPS and throughput improvements over traditional SANs, directly meeting the requirements for performance, throughput, and scalability.

BACI solution compatible with the current data center design to unlock workload mobility and

Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) is a software-defined networking (SDN) solution that automates and manages the data center network, but it does not provide storage services or directly replace a SAN.

Ccloud-based virtual server infrastructure, which provides a scalable, easy-to-manage approach

A cloud-based virtual server infrastructure would offer scalability, but it represents a shift to public cloud, which is not directly addressing the requirement to replace an on-premises SAN architecture with a new solution within the company's data center.

DVMware vSAN solution, which provides storage mobility while remaining compatible with the

VMware vSAN is a strong hyperconverged storage solution and could technically meet the requirements, but given the existing Cisco UCS C-Series servers and the explicit option of 'Cisco HyperFlex,' HyperFlex is the most integrated and targeted Cisco-specific solution for these requirements.

Concept tested: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) for SAN replacement and performance

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/index.html

Topics

#Hyperconverged infrastructure#Cisco HyperFlex#SAN performance#Data center storage

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