Cisco and NetApp have introduced ExpressPod, a prepackaged and tested solution for growing small- and medium-sized organizations, the addition of new storage clustering capabilities to the FlexPod data center platform, and the release of a validated VMware solution for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) on FlexPod.
For growing small- and medium-sized organizations that are beginning to virtualize their networking, storage, and computing environments, ExpressPod offers a prepackaged and tested solution bundles.
Brendon Howe, Vice-President, Product and Solutions Marketing, NetApp, said, “With the introduction of ExpressPod and feature enhancements in FlexPod, NetApp and Cisco offer end-to-end infrastructure solutions for midsized businesses to large enterprises. These solutions simplify data center infrastructure deployments and accelerate the move from fragmented application silos to shared, virtualized, and cloud environments.”
Integrated and delivered by joint channel partners, ExpressPod integrates Cisco UCS C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage, and Cisco Nexus 3048 switches with infrastructure management, into an affordable, easy-to-deploy infrastructure solution.
ExpressPod supports an open ecosystem of management and hypervisor solutions.
Servicing the needs of large enterprise data centers, FlexPod now features support and validation for VMware vSphere on NetApp Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode.
