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A Brief Note On The Cisco Unified Computing System Essay

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1.1.3 Case Study 3- [CFA (Country Fire Authority) Agile Responsive Technology] This Australian organization also deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), VMware, and NetApp to scale Infrastructure in their data center. [10] In addition to this, Cisco Nexus 1000v series switch was added to provide visibility of virtual machines at the virtual access layer. This helped to improve the virtualization intelligence of the network. This platform helped to improve scalability, which was the primary necessity of the organization. [10] The Cisco UCS manager at the organization is mostly pleased because of the ‘single pane’ where you can access the servers and therefore ease manageability. Virtualization now seems an inevitable move for organizations that want to remain at top notch. With its great benefits it is unavoidable. It is because of this that I focus my project on Layer 2 domain expansion by VXLAN Overlay Technology. 1.2 VXLAN [Overlay Technology] The case studies are based on VXLAN basic idea and its benefits. Originally VXLAN had been invented for the big benefit where in VLAN, user cannot have more than thousand VLANs’ in network per device but now, we can get 16 million VXLAN configuration possible on single virtual switch environment using combined approach of Cisco and VMware products. [13] 1.3 Literature Reviews Various research papers and existing published patterns on VXLAN documents helped in selecting this topic and two of them are described in the below

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