cisco platforms for vmware vsphere and horizon · 2016 •cisco uc on ucs & uc embedded vsphere...

Mike Brennan

Sr. Product Manager, End User Computing and Graphics25 Aug 2019

Vmworld 2019

Cisco Platforms for VMware vSphere and Horizon

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• Cisco UCS-VMware History

• Cisco Compute Platform Evolution

• Cisco ESXi Platforms

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Cisco – VMware History

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Cisco + VMware: Over A Decade of Ongoing Collaboration

2006 2007 2011 201220102009 2013

Virtualization

Innovation

• HyperFlex HCI w/

embedded vSphere• Virtual Media Packager

Appliance• Nexus Fabric Manager

Appliance

• UCS share gains: #2

in US, #3 WW• VXLAN

• UCS w/ VMware

• Nexus 1000v• Secure Multi-tenancy

with NetApp

• VDI with View

• Resale of VMware View

• UCS Express with vSphere

• NetApp FlexPod• vBlock developed with EMC

Cisco invests $150M in

VMware, joins board

Converged

architecture next-gen

server virtualization

Cisco acquires Nuova

Systems, launches Unified Fabric

Infrastructure Leadership IT Transformation

Vision & Leadership

2015

• vSAN integration

with Cisco UCS

• UCS E-series with

embedded vSphere

2016

• Cisco UC on UCS & UC

embedded vSphere

20142008 2017 2018

• Network Optimization and

Analytics Appliance• Firepower Threat Defense

VMware NFV Cert.

• UCS E-series vSAN

ReadyNode

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Cisco Compute Platform Evolution

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Architectural Challenges

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Cisco Unified Computing System

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Fabric Centric Design

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Cisco Generational Server Architectures

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Cisco Generational Converged Network Adapters

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Cisco UCS 5108 Blade ChassisCelebrating 10 years in service: First Customer Ship: June 2009

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Cisco ESXi Platforms

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UCS S-SeriesFifthGeneration UCS

Power Applications at Every Scale

HyperFlexvSAN Ready Nodes

UCS Mini &UCS E-Series

UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

Mainstream Computing

Data Intensive

Computing

HyperconvergedInfrastructure

Converged Infrastructure

ROBO

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Active Archive

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