Accelerating NVMeOF Adoption with Cisco Solutions and Intersight

Chris O’Brien, Technical Marketing Director, presents Cisco’s Data Center Modernization solutions in converged infrastructure. Cisco is working to accelerate adoption of converged infrastructure by configuring a base platform of Nexus, UCS, MDS, and partner storage technology for SAP, Oracle, AI/ML, VDI, and other applications. He focuses on Cisco’s FlexPod offering in partnership with NetApp, which today includes NVMe over fabric. He then presents FlashStack, in partnership with Oracle to support RAC 19c with NVMe and RoCE. He also discusses Cisco Intersight’s support of 3rd party devices through a Restful OpenAPI, DCNM, and APIC. Intersight Assist Appliances are available for VMware vCenter, Pure Storage, and others. He finishes with a discussion of the Intersight integration with Pure Storage before taking questions from the Storage Field Day delegates.