Cisco Accelerates Multicloud Journey with HyperFlex Platform Innovations

Cisco today announced platform innovations for Cisco® HyperFlex ™ with software version 3.0 that delivers performance and simplicity for every application, on every cloud, on every scale. Improvements include support for Microsoft Hyper-V, expandable clusters, containers, and new multicloud services that enable deployment, monitoring, and application management in any cloud. The result is a single platform that enables the development and implementation of traditional and native cloud applications on a common hyperconverged platform.

Cisco HyperFlex: the power to simplify more
Other hyperconverged solutions do not take into account the critical roles that distributed networks and file systems play in the performance and scalability of clustered servers. Cisco has redefined hyperconvergence with a comprehensive end-to-end approach that integrates high-performance server and network technology with a specially designed file system. The result is state-of-the-art performance that allows customers to effectively support a broader range of applications, including databases and critical ERP workloads.

"HyperFlex's approach enables high-quality Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases and critical applications with faster delivery of the environment, lower costs and more efficient management," says Edivaldo Rocha, CEO of HyperFlex. CorpFlex.

The latest version of HyperFlex builds on this superior architecture and increases the ability for customers to further simplify. "Customers tell us they need operational simplicity, effortless scalability and the ability to meet the unique needs of each of their applications," said Liz Centoni, vice president and general manager of the IT Product Group. from Cisco. "The new HyperFlex platform underscores our commitment to continuously simplifying and improving data center activities and helping organizations to thrive in a multicloud world."

Start an application
The HyperFlex 3.0 software release offers significant benefits for critical and native cloud workloads:

    Support for multiple hypervisors. In addition to VMware ESXi, HyperFlex adds hypervisor support for Microsoft Hyper-V.
    Container support. The expansions of the data platform include a FlexVolume driver to enable continued storage of containers managed by Kubernetes, enabling the development and deployment of cloud-based native applications on HyperFlex.
    Validations of business applications. HyperFlex is ready for a wide range of workloads with profiling and workload dimensioning tools available to support application migration applications. In addition to the design and implementation guides for Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Cisco Design Guides are now available for critical databases, analysis and ERP applications (Oracle, SQL, SAP). , Microsoft Exchange and Splunk). .

On every cloud
Organizations nowadays require workload mobility and application monitoring on public and private clouds. HyperFlex is the multicloud era platform with new service integrations with Cisco's multicloud software portfolio:

    Control of application performance. AppDynamics with HyperFlex enables performance monitoring of hybrid applications running on HyperFlex and multiple clouds.
    Application placement. Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM) for HyperFlex helps clients with automated analysis and placement of workloads.
    Cloud Management Introduced last year, CloudCenter provides HyperFlex workload life cycle management for one or more private and public clouds.
    Private cloud. CloudCenter for HyperFlex simplifies the deployment and management of virtual machines, containers and applications, allowing developers and administrators to easily consume private clouds.

At any scale
Only Cisco enables customers to power fast-growing workloads with complete resiliency while taking advantage of the global reach of cloud-based systems management.

Greater scalability and resiliency On-prem. HyperFlex clusters, which support customers with higher virtual machine density, now reach 64 nodes with increased resiliency through fully automated availability zones.
Stretch Clusters across data centers. To meet data protection and high availability requirements, HyperFlex can now be configured into scalable clusters for critical campus and metro availability.
Cloud-based management across data centers. Cisco Intersight now supports HyperFlex Cloud Deployment, deploying simplified deployment and management to any remote location.

Applications are at the heart of digital transformation. Application landscape evolution requires support for traditional monolithic workloads and distributed microservice architectures. In addition, the ability to enable a multicloud operating environment is rapidly becoming a data center requirement. According to the July 2017 IDC CloudView survey, 85% of respondents rate or use the public cloud, while among current users, 87% have adopted a hybrid cloud strategy and 94% plan to use multiple clouds.

Organizations are rapidly adopting hyperconverged infrastructure (HMI) to simplify their environment. HCI is one of the fastest-growing segments in data center space with a 5-year CAGR (2016-2021) of 30.2% (Source: World IDC Quarterly Converged Systems Forecast, 3CQ17 ). Cisco HyperFlex is being adopted as the platform of choice for enterprise computing, accelerating this transition to the market with more than 2,000 customers worldwide.