Our team had the good fortune of finishing the first vBlock deployment today as a Lab environment of a major Service Provider.
Without Prior knowledge of Flexpod, we suggested adding dedicated Nexus Nexus 5500 based Access layer with L3 capability to vBlock for completeness of their Private Cloud Requirement.
Incidentally the Launch of FlexPod today with integrated Nexus 5500/1010 along with UCS and Netapp 3000 Series came as a good surprise and Qualified our approach in terms of Bill of Material for Private cloud.
We still donot see any L3 capabilities, Security and Application networking built-in.
The Value of Private cloud deployments is the power of simplicity through stack standardization and while maitainting the performance, reliability and security of a vertically integrated infrastructure.
Ideally intelligent non-it components such as switched pdu's, mini-VESDA and sensor networks need to be integrated in the hardware layer.
The orchestration and management stack needs leverage the abilities of non-it and IT infrastructure elements in creatively reorganizing Data center energy, security and workload distribution footprint.
The objective is to focus gains in productivity across the both the system/network administration and the user community.
It needs to enable meeting business goals quicker, at a predictable cost, in a replicatable manner.
Without Prior knowledge of Flexpod, we suggested adding dedicated Nexus Nexus 5500 based Access layer with L3 capability to vBlock for completeness of their Private Cloud Requirement.
Incidentally the Launch of FlexPod today with integrated Nexus 5500/1010 along with UCS and Netapp 3000 Series came as a good surprise and Qualified our approach in terms of Bill of Material for Private cloud.
We still donot see any L3 capabilities, Security and Application networking built-in.
The Value of Private cloud deployments is the power of simplicity through stack standardization and while maitainting the performance, reliability and security of a vertically integrated infrastructure.
Ideally intelligent non-it components such as switched pdu's, mini-VESDA and sensor networks need to be integrated in the hardware layer.
The orchestration and management stack needs leverage the abilities of non-it and IT infrastructure elements in creatively reorganizing Data center energy, security and workload distribution footprint.
The objective is to focus gains in productivity across the both the system/network administration and the user community.
It needs to enable meeting business goals quicker, at a predictable cost, in a replicatable manner.
Comments