Before I finish work this week and get ready for the England World Cup game (yes, I’m playing in goal), I wanted to share an observation a customer made to me this week:
“So what you’re saying, Steve, is if I go with UCS then I only have one management point and one set of top of rack switches for 112 blades?”
Yes! That’s right! You can run 14 chassis, each capable of holding 8 blades each, that’s 112. Run 50 virtual wotsits (desktop, server, anything you like) per blade and that’s 5,600 virtual machines you can deploy without ever raising another purchase order for more “switches” or having to configure more “switches”.
The reason you can do this is because each chassis has logically invisible fabric extender that, as the name suggests, extends the (top of rack) fabric interconnects. These aren’t switches; they are extensions of the fabric interconnect. That means no management. Simple extension. Cloudy.
Think about it: 112 blades. 5,600 virtual machines. If you could deploy 100 virtual machines per week, that would be more than a year without any network infrastructure required. No network guy required.
Get it?
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