Fountainhead

AUGUST 12, 2010

The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.". A technology where CPU allocation , data I/O , storage I/O , network configurations, and s torage connections are all logically defined and configured in software.

Disaster Recovery 145

Disaster Recovery Data Center Virtualization Network 145

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

Hardware 100

Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Cloud Computing Journal. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right.

Disaster Recovery 100

Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand. Because the physical CPU state (i.e.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. Mobile Work. (4).

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

The beauty of infrastructure orchestration is that it abstracts-away all of the "plumbing" of the Server such as I/O, networking and storage connectivity -- which makes it an absolutely *ideal* complement to virtualization. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Cloud Computing Journal. Infrastructure Orchestration. (31).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare Data Center Systems Administration Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Cloud Computing Journal. Infrastucture 2.0. (11).

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc., Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113