February, 2015

Cisco and Microsoft enhancements

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5,000Customers running

one or more FlexPods

100Countries

80+Validated

Architecture Publications

1,100Shared Resellers

FlexPod By the Numbers

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FlexPod Winter 2015 - Cisco Platform

Enhancements and Microsoft on FlexPod

• Cisco platform enhancements bring valuable

new technologies to the core FlexPod architecture

• Important recent additions include

- Cisco UCS Mini server

- Cisco Nexus 9000 series switch

- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

- Cisco UCS M4 Blade Servers

- Cisco UCS Manager 3.0

Nexus 9000 switch line

UCS Mini

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Introducing infrastructure enhancementsCisco UCS Mini

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UCS Mini Server

Deliver competitive, compact, and cost-optimized FlexPod® solutions with network and directly connected

storage options

• Optimize compute for MSB, branch, and remote offices by combining embedded UCS® Manager and

fabric interconnect with a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis

• Expand with up to 8 UCS B series and 7 UCS C series servers in a single management domain

• Embedded Cisco UCS Manager available with the Cisco UCS 6324 fabric interconnect

• Unified ports, unified architecture connect NetApp® FAS2500 for a wide range of SAN and NAS

workloads with a single platform

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FlexPod Infrastructure EnhancementsFlexPod Express and FlexPod DC with UCS Mini

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FlexPod Express FlexPod Datacenter

Standardized size Flexible workload sizing

Rapid deployment Customizable deployment

Limited site scale Scaling flexibility

Integrated management (UCS Mini) Integrated management / ACI ready

Hyper-V®, VMware® only All hypervisors or bare metal

FAS3270FAS3270FAS3270FAS3270

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FlexPod Winter 2015 - Cisco Platform

Enhancements and Microsoft on FlexPod

• Microsoft updates include a refreshed Private

Cloud design supporting recent and upcoming

Microsoft Application designs

- FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and

Cisco ACI Design Guide

- FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Exchange 2013 and

Cisco ACI Design Guide

- FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2014

High Availability (coming in the Spring)

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FlexPod Winter Technical Payload Announcing New Validated Designs

FlexPod with Cisco

UCS Mini and

VMware vSphere

5.5 Update 1

Integrating the new Cisco UCS Mini into FlexPod. Single Design guide

and multiple Deployment guides for more Datacenter and Express.

New validated components include vSphere 5.5 Update 1, Cisco UCS

Manager release 3.0(1d), and NetApp Data ONTAP release 8.2.2

FlexPod

Datacenter for

Microsoft Private

Cloud FastTrack v4

update

Refresh of this fourth generation Fast Track FlexPod design. New

validated components include UCS Manager 2.2.3, B200 M4 blade

servers, Nexus 1000V for Hyper-V, Nexus 9396, NetApp Data ONTAP

8.2.2

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Pre-Integrated FlexPodOrderable and Shippable within a Single Rack

Even faster time to solution

Resellers or Customers now can order a complete FlexPod – shipped,

racked and ready to deploy

Comparable to pre-integrated solutions (e.g. vBlock)

Standardized rack

Rittal rack contains all Cisco and NetApp components

Underwent Mechanical / Package testing

Available through Avnet

All available FAS products used in the FlexPod Datacenter and FlexPod

Express product lines

Available in N. America and EMEA

Distribution

Partner

Rack

Manufacturer

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New FlexPod CertificationsIndividual Certifications prove FlexPod expertise

• Three new courses available today

- “Designing the FlexPod Solution”

- “Implementing and Administering the FlexPod Solution”

- “Cisco UCS Director Foundation”

• Proves product expertise

• Allows for use of exclusive FlexPod Certified logo

• Onsite and online training through authorized partner Fast Lane

• www.FastLaneUS.com/FlexPod

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FlexPod Powered Partner Solutions – Winter ’15Complementary Technologies that Enhance FlexPod

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Sanovi – Sanovi Cloud Continuity built on Application Defined

Continuity technology brings application-aware DR to FlexPod

Fast Lane – Authorized FlexPod training partner with new

certifications for Designing, Implementing, Managing FlexPod

NVIDIA – NVIDIA GRID software and GPUs work within FlexPod

VDI solutions to help deliver fast, interactive high-definition 3D

graphics across a variety of devices

CA Unified Infrastructure Management – Enables end-to-end

performance and availability monitoring for physical and virtual

elements of FlexPod

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Veeam – Complements FlexPod with enterprise-level, near-

continuous application availability for both VMware vSphere and

Microsoft Hyper-V environments

FlexPod Augmented / Virtual Reality App

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Ver 1.3 Augmented Reality app on the Road

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Trigger Pattern

But when

seen through

an iPad with

the AR/VR

app… Virtual

FlexPod rack

Use the new FlexPod Augmented/Virtual

Reality app today!

• Print out, and fold up the PDF image as instructed

• Download the app from iTunes to an iPhone or iPad

• See a FlexPod, right there in your own office!

• App, image file and documentation

online for download today:

- www.VirtualFlexPod.com

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FlexPod SummaryWinter Announcement

• Promoting new Cisco enhancements including UCS Mini

• New Microsoft designs for Private cloud, popular Business apps

• New Validated Design guides, Collateral available

• For more info

- NetApp.com/FlexPod

- ConvergedCommunity.com

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