Cisco Nexus 7000 Design Manual page 7

VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000
Using FCoE
Goal of This Document
Cisco® Validated Designs include systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to
facilitate and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies
and products into a portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of our
customers.
This document describes the Cisco and NetApp® FlexPod® solution, which is a validated approach for
deploying Cisco and NetApp technologies as a shared cloud infrastructure.
Audience
The intended audience of this document includes, but is not limited to, sales engineers, field consultants,
professional services, IT managers, partner engineering, and customers who want to take advantage of
an infrastructure built to deliver IT efficiency and enable IT innovation.
Changes in FlexPod
The following design elements distinguish this version of FlexPod from previous models:
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Introduction of the Cisco Nexus® 7000 product family, providing the highest level of availability.
End-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) delivering a unified Ethernet fabric.
Single wire Cisco Unified Computing System™ Manager (Cisco UCS™ Manager) management for
C-Series M3 servers with the VIC 1225 effectively doubling the server density per I/O module while
reducing cabling cost.
NetApp clustered Data ONTAP® delivering unified scale-out storage.