Cisco Virtualized Multiservice Data Center
This flexible, modular design is a blueprint for cloud deployments.
Converged Infrastructure
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Virtualized Multiservice Data Center
- FlexPod
- Data Center Interconnect
- Cisco Solutions for Hitachi UCP Select
- Virtualization Solutions for VSPEX Designs
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Appendices for SAP Applications Built on FlexPod
(PDF - 9 MB)
Application Networking--Optimizing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Across the WAN
Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions for EMC VSPEX with VMware View 5.1.2 for 500 Desktops (PDF - 27 MB)
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 2000 VMware Horizon View 5.2 Users
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing For 2000 VMware Horizon View 5.2 Users (PDF - 3 MB)
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 2000 VMware View 5.1.2 Users (PDF - 21 MB)
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 500 Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Users
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX Microsoft Fast Track 3.0
Cisco Solution for Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select with VMware vSphere
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with Cloudera
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with Hortonworks
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with MapR
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture Version 2 (CPA v2) for Big Data with Comprehensive Data Protection using Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture Version 2 (CPA v2) for Big Data with Pivotal HD and HAWQ
Cisco UCS C210 M2 2500 Mailbox Resiliency Microsoft Exchange 2010 Storage Solution (PDF - 1 MB)
Cisco Unified Computing System C-Series Rack Server fo SAP HANA (PDF - 790 KB)
Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC Storage for SAP HANA (PDF - 1 MB)
Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX5500 Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 Deployment Guide (PDF - 46 MB)
Cisco Unified Computing System with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA (PDF - 520 KB)
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 for up to 1000 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 for up to 300 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V for 50 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.5 Solution for up to 1000 Virtual Machine
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 250 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 100-125 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 50 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 Solution for up to 1000 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.0 for 250 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.0 for 50,100 and 125 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualized Multi-tenant Data Center Solution Design and Deployment Guide, Solution Version 1.1 (PDF - 5 MB)
Citrix XenDesktop on FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide
Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1 Release Notes
Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1--Readme File
Data Center--Site Selection for Business Continuance
Deploying Oracle RAC 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) on Oracle Linux 6.3 using Cisco Unified Computing System 2.1 and EMC VNX7500
Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Cisco Nexus 7000 and NetApp MetroCluster for Multisite Deployment
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Fast Track Private Cloud 3 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Private Cloud v3 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Private Cloud V3 with 7-Mode (PDF - 42 MB)
FlexPod Data Center with Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle VM with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Cisco Nexus 7000
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Cisco Nexus 7000 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 using FCoE with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 using FCoE
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1, and Citrix CloudPlatform 4.2.1 (PDF - 19 MB)
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 and Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches Design Guide
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Design Guide
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1Update1
FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud Enterprise Deployment Guide (PDF - 41 MB)
FlexPod Select with Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH)
FlexPod Select with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0 (PDF - 11 MB)
FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0
(49 MB)
FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 1.0
Implementing Nexus 7000 in the Data Center Aggregation Layer with Services
Interconnecting Geographically Dispersed Data Centers Using VPLS (PDF - 3 MB)
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 with VMware vSphere 5.0 on FlexPod
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Solution for 50 and 100 Virtual Machines
Oracle JD Edwards on Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX Storage
Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod with Oracle Linux
Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX Storage
Oracle Real Application Cluster on Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX Storage
Oracle Siebel CRM on Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX Storage
Red Hat Openstack Architecture on Cisco UCS Platform
Reference Architecture for 500-Seat and 1000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (PDF - 11 MB)
Reference Architecture-Based Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Reference Architecture-Based Design for 4000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (PDF - 22 MB)
SAP Applications Built on FlexPod
Unified Fabric White Paper—Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Virtualizing Oracle JD Edwards on Cisco Unified Computing System
VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
VMware vSphere Built On FlexPod With IP-Based Storage
Implementation Guides (1) (PDF - 9 MB)Application Networking--Optimizing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Across the WAN
Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solutions for EMC VSPEX with VMware View 5.1.2 for 500 Desktops
(PDF - 27 MB)Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 2000 VMware Horizon View 5.2 Users
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing For 2000 VMware Horizon View 5.2 Users
(PDF - 3 MB)Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 2000 VMware View 5.1.2 Users
(PDF - 21 MB)Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX End User Computing for 500 Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Users
Cisco Solution for EMC VSPEX Microsoft Fast Track 3.0
Cisco Solution for Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select with VMware vSphere
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with Cloudera
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with Hortonworks
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with MapR
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture Version 2 (CPA v2) for Big Data with Comprehensive Data Protection using Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop
Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture Version 2 (CPA v2) for Big Data with Pivotal HD and HAWQ
Cisco UCS C210 M2 2500 Mailbox Resiliency Microsoft Exchange 2010 Storage Solution
(PDF - 1 MB)Cisco Unified Computing System C-Series Rack Server fo SAP HANA
(PDF - 790 KB)Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC Storage for SAP HANA
(PDF - 1 MB)Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX5500 Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 Deployment Guide
(PDF - 46 MB)Cisco Unified Computing System with NetApp Storage for SAP HANA
(PDF - 520 KB)Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 for up to 1000 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 for up to 300 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V for 50 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.5 Solution for up to 1000 Virtual Machine
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 250 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 100-125 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 for 50 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.1 Solution for up to 1000 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.0 for 250 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualization Solution for EMC VSPEX with VMware vSphere 5.0 for 50,100 and 125 Virtual Machines
Cisco Virtualized Multi-tenant Data Center Solution Design and Deployment Guide, Solution Version 1.1
(PDF - 5 MB)Citrix XenDesktop on FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
Data Center High Availability Clusters Design Guide
Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1 Release Notes
Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1--Readme File
Data Center--Site Selection for Business Continuance
Deploying Oracle RAC 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) on Oracle Linux 6.3 using Cisco Unified Computing System 2.1 and EMC VNX7500
Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Cisco Nexus 7000 and NetApp MetroCluster for Multisite Deployment
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Fast Track Private Cloud 3 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Private Cloud v3 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Microsoft Private Cloud V3 with 7-Mode
(PDF - 42 MB)FlexPod Data Center with Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle VM with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Cisco Nexus 7000
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Cisco Nexus 7000 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 using FCoE with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 using FCoE
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 and Nexus 7000 with 7-Mode
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1 Design Guide
FlexPod Data Center with VMware vSphere 5.1, and Citrix CloudPlatform 4.2.1
(PDF - 19 MB)FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 and Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches Design Guide
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Design Guide
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 5.1Update1
FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud Enterprise Deployment Guide
(PDF - 41 MB)FlexPod Select with Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH)
FlexPod Select with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0
(PDF - 11 MB)FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0
(49 MB)FlexPod Validated with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 1.0
Implementing Nexus 7000 in the Data Center Aggregation Layer with Services
Interconnecting Geographically Dispersed Data Centers Using VPLS
(PDF - 3 MB)Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 with VMware vSphere 5.0 on FlexPod
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Solution for 50 and 100 Virtual Machines
Oracle JD Edwards on Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX Storage
Oracle JD Edwards on FlexPod with Oracle Linux
Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX Storage
Oracle Real Application Cluster on Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC VNX Storage
Oracle Siebel CRM on Cisco Unified Computing System with EMC VNX Storage
Red Hat Openstack Architecture on Cisco UCS Platform
Reference Architecture for 500-Seat and 1000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(PDF - 11 MB)Reference Architecture-Based Design for 5000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Reference Architecture-Based Design for 4000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(PDF - 22 MB)SAP Applications Built on FlexPod
Unified Fabric White Paper—Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Virtualizing Oracle JD Edwards on Cisco Unified Computing System
VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
VMware vSphere Built On FlexPod With IP-Based Storage
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