Cisco HyperFlex Overview

Cisco HyperFlex is a platform designed to offer a flexible infrastructure that can power mission-critical applications with multicloud services to extend and distribute customer applications to any cloud. Cisco HyperFlex was designed to address the next boundary of placing computing anywhere customers and data reside.

While enterprise applications have been migrating to centralized data centers and to the cloud, Cisco HyperFlex systems deliver hyperconvergence with power and simplicity for any application, on any cloud, anywhere. Cisco HyperFlex systems deliver the agility, scalability, and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud with the benefits of multisite, distributed computing on a global scale.

With Cisco HyperFlex systems, you have flexible pools of computing, network, and storage resources that are easy to deploy and maintain. The system offers one-click integration with VMware vSphere, allowing your IT staff to extend their virtualization skills to storage and management; the purpose is to get better visibility into and control over computing, network, and storage resources from a single console, improving productivity and infrastructure operation.

This chapter covers the following key topics:

Cisco HyperFlex Solution and Benefits: This section provides a high-level overview of Cisco flexible hyperconverged infrastructure (HyperFlex) solutions, along with HyperFlex benefits, automation, management, and resource scaling.

HyperFlex as Edge, Hybrid, and All-Flash Nodes: This section discusses different HyperFlex deployments, including the HyperFlex as Edge platform, HyperFlex as multicloud platform, and HyperFlex as NVMe, and includes HyperFlex platform management examples.

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz enables you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers to these questions or your own assessment of your knowledge of the topics, read the entire chapter. Table 15-1 lists the major headings in this chapter and their corresponding “Do I Know This Already?” quiz questions. You can find the answers in Appendix A, “Answers to the ‘Do I Know This Already?’ Quizzes.”

Table 15-1 “Do I Know This Already?” Section-to-Question Mapping

Caution

The goal of self-assessment is to gauge your mastery of the topics in this chapter. If you do not know the answer to a question or are only partially sure of the answer, you should mark that question as wrong for purposes of the self-assessment. Giving yourself credit for an answer you correctly guess skews your self-assessment results and might provide you with a false sense of security

1. HyperFlex offers one-click integration with which of the following?

a. VMware vSphere

b. Microsoft Hyper-V

c. Linux KVM

d. All of the above

2. A HyperFlex solution will provide you with which of the following?

a. Unified management

b. Resource optimizations

c. Lower traffic latency

d. All of the above

3. Through which of the following can you automate HyperFlex processes by yourself with interfaces to the Cisco UCS Manager? (Choose two answers.)

a. Cisco UCS Manager CLI

b. Microsoft PowerShell

c. Python

d. XML

4. Cisco HyperFlex offers deep learning capabilities at the edge, utilizing up to eight CPUs.

a. True

b. False

5. The Cisco Unified Computing System provides a single point of connectivity that integrates the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series All-Flash or hybrid nodes and a variety of Cisco UCS servers into a single unified cluster. Cisco offers you the flexibility to choose a combination of which of the following? (Choose three answers.)

a. CPU

b. Flash memory

c. Server chassis

d. Power supply

e. Disk storage resources

6. Cisco provides an architectural performance edge with NVMe drives connected indirectly to the CPU rather than through a latency-inducing PCIe switch.

a. True

b. False

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