New Cisco-validated designs

New Cisco-validated designs for the FlashStack solution improve simplicity and reliability for customers. Pure Storage introduced an enhanced offering for FlashStack, the next-generation data center platform developed by the company, in conjunction with Cisco. These enhancements include new designs validated by Cisco with Citrix, Commvault, SAP, and VMware to provide even more options for customers seeking flexible growth and simplified operations for their infrastructure platforms.

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The FlashStack solution combines compute, networking, and storage hardware in a single, integrated architecture that speeds deployment time, reduces IT costs, and lowers deployment risks. The solution, which is made up of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) and Pure Storage, is a modular and scalable platform.

“Organizations want to be able to implement a private cloud without disruption; FlashStack allows you to do this while increasing performance and reducing overall IT costs, ”said Douglas Wallace, General Manager MCO (Latin America and the Caribbean, except Brazil) of Pure Storage. “We always seek to strengthen our relationship and integration with technology partners to directly benefit our customers and channel partners. Collaboration with Cisco, Citrix, Commvault and SAP, through the Cisco validated designs program, allows us to offer a comfortable, efficient and reliable experience ”.

New Cisco Validated Designs

Pure Storage and Cisco have developed a new design for FlashStack validated by Cisco with SAP HANA TDI to provide an agile, scalable, and flexible solution for customers running their business applications on SAP. FlashRecover snapshots and replicas meet disaster recovery requirements for both SAP and SAP HANA environments and provide improved responsiveness for development teams.

Another new design for FlashStack validated by Cisco comprises Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware vSphere 6.0. This provides advice to better leverage the Pure Storage vCenter plug-in for Storage Management, a free and simple mechanism for managing and provisioning storage on the machine within the vSphere online user. As a fully compliant component, the FlashArray plugin allows customers to perform a large number of tasks in context with VMware managed objects on a recurring basis, including datastores and snapshots.

Recently Pure Storage and Cisco introduced a Cisco validated design for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp with the ability to support 5,000 users. Designed to provide the end user with a faster and more resilient experience compared to traditional physical desktops and with storage costs under $ 50 per desktop, joint customers can expect a robust solution that eliminates downtime and hassles. performance with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). As a member of the Citrix Ready program, Pure Storage also provides support to Citrix VDI customers through the VDI capacity validation program with solutions in the Citrix Ready Marketplace.

FlashStack has been confirmed as Citrix Ready XenApp and XenDesktop, to provide a resilient infrastructure that provides a superior experience for common customers looking to quickly and confidently deploy apps and desktops in a secure manner.

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FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Modern Data Protection, another Cisco validated design, extends FlashStack VSI to add holistic information protection from Commvault. Commvault software adds snapshot management, secondary storage with Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers, replication, live copy management, and virtual machine archiving. This solution reduces expenses while improving IT access, availability and efficiency. Use cases can include development and testing, disaster recovery, and / or long-term information retention.

"Commvault, Cisco and Pure Storage are leaders in their respective markets and together they offer the best solution in their category," said Ralph Nimergood, VP of Alliances and Channels at Commvault. "Data Protection for FlashStack VSI with Commvault Data Platform provides a validated solution built on a modern information protection strategy that provides enterprise-grade recovery for today's data center environments."

New FlashStack Reference Architecture

The companies have also designed a FlashStack solution to leverage Pure Storage and Cisco FlashArray // m for compute and connectivity. Tested by high bandwidth workloads to meet requirementsThe Microsoft SQL Server Performance team through its SQL Server 2016 Data Warehouse Fast Track program, the SQL Server 2016 Data Warehouse Fast Track reference architecture creates a ready architecture to accommodate read queries and data requirements. more complex scale.

Pure and Cisco continue to collaborate and expand market-driven business strategies, including supporting the joint partner ecosystem, focused on business-critical applications and structured workloads for the FlashArray product line and unstructured workloads, including containers and microservices with FlashBlade, which is now generally available.