02-27-2014 02:22 PM
Hello Everyone,
The link for the replay of the Uncover the Business Impact of Application Acceleration with Solid-State Systems Webcast is live here.
I am attaching the Q&A session from the webcast here where you are invited to continue asking questions and leaving comments in our community format.
QPlease submit your questions during this broadcast. Our subject matter experts are standing by to answer your questions throughout the broadcast. 02/27/2014 11:03AM |
QDoes this integrate with EMC VPLEX and/or VCE VBlock?02/27/2014 11:00AM |
AThe governance model for the design of VSPEX and VCE VBlock architectures will continue unchanged. As of this moment we are not aware of any plans to include UCS Invicta in those solutions. 02/27/2014 11:03AM |
QWill Invicta be offered by itself? 02/27/2014 11:06AM |
ANo, UCS Invicta is not available or intended to be a stand-alone storage solution. Cisco’s innovation will continue to focus on increasingly deep integration of this flash technology with UCS Management and UCS Invicta will only be offered as part of existing or new UCS server environments. 02/27/2014 11:07AM |
QDoes it work with UCS Director? 02/27/2014 11:03AM |
AYes, UCS Invicta works with UCS Director. 02/27/2014 11:08AM |
QWhat kind of capacity does this offer? 02/27/2014 11:09AM |
AThe Invicta Appliance ranges from 3TB-24TB of capacity. The Invicta Scaling System ranges from 6TB-240TB.02/27/2014 11:10AM |
Qdoes UCS Manager manage UCS Invicta? 02/27/2014 11:03AM |
AThe first release of UCS Invicta will be managed by UCS Director. We're are looking to incorporate UCS Manager in future releases. 02/27/2014 11:12AM |
Qis invicta only with UCS servers ? What if i have HP or IBM servers ? can I use invicta ? 02/27/2014 11:13AM |
AYes, UCS Invicta is only available with Cisco UCS and not available or intended to be a stand-alone storage solution. Cisco’s innovation will continue to focus on increasingly deep integration of this flash technology with UCS Management and UCS Invicta will only be offered as part of existing or new UCS server environments. 02/27/2014 11:14AM |
Qwill the presentation be available for download? 02/27/2014 11:12AM |
AThank you for joining us today. You can get a copy of the slides by opening the “More Information” window. It is accessed via the [i] icon at the bottom of the console. This event will be archived and available for on-demand viewing within 1-2 days. You can use the same event link to access the archived event.02/27/2014 11:15AM |
Qwhat storage networking protocols are supported by UCS Invicta?02/27/2014 11:14AM |
AUCS Invicta supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI at this time.02/27/2014 11:15AM |
QCan Invicta be sold to connec to non-UCS systems?02/27/2014 11:07AM |
ANo, UCS Invicta is not available or intended to be a stand-alone storage solution. Cisco’s innovation will continue to focus on increasingly deep integration of this flash technology with UCS Management and UCS Invicta will only be offered as part of existing or new UCS server environments. 02/27/2014 11:16AM |
QCan you deploy Invicta + UCS without UCS Director or is UCS Director required Day 1? 02/27/2014 11:16AM |
AUCS Invicta can be deployed without UCS Director.02/27/2014 11:18AM |
QDoes Invicta leverage data reduction technologies?02/27/2014 11:14AM |
AAt this time, UCS Invicta provides a deduplication option for data reduction. 02/27/2014 11:18AM |
QCisco SSD is MLC or SLC? 02/27/2014 11:19AM |
AUCS Invicta leverages MLC SSDs. 02/27/2014 11:20AM |
QWhere's the technical discussion version of this 4topic? I don't need to hear a bunch of suits yapping about business justification.02/27/2014 11:15AM |
AWe are planning a Cisco TechWise TV episode with a technical deep dive. Keep an eye on the Cisco Data Center blog and when it is scheduled we'll promote it there. You can also follow the #CiscoUCS hashtag to stay posted on that.02/27/2014 11:21AM |
QIs the deduplication block or file, and is it in-line, or post-process? 02/27/2014 11:20AM |
AThe deduplication is block level and it is in-line.02/27/2014 11:22AM |
QIs UCS Invicta a relabel of the Whiptail product recently acquired by Cisco 02/27/2014 11:16AM |
ANo. The UCS Invicta OS runs on UCS C series hardware.02/27/2014 11:22AM |
QIs Invicta access like server memory or like storage?02/27/2014 11:18AM |
ACurrently UCS Invicta supports Fiber Channel and Ethernet protocols, We are evaluating Direct Server Memory Addressing support with future releases 02/27/2014 11:22AM |
QAs a follow on - it could be sold stand alone to a customer that had already purchased UCS servers in the past? 02/27/2014 11:09AM |
AYes, a UCS Invicta can be added to an existing UCS system.02/27/2014 11:23AM |
QCan Invicta be used as a pure caching solution?02/27/2014 11:16AM |
ANo. UCS Invicta is not designed to perform as a caching product. 02/27/2014 11:23AM |
QAbout deduplication -- is that an additional license? or is it included with invicta? 02/27/2014 11:19AM |
ADeduplication is an option at the time of sale which requires an additional license. 02/27/2014 11:23AM |
QxDoes this become a good solution for healthcare - faster processing of patient data and images? 02/27/2014 11:18AM |
AYes, this becomes a great solution for the healthcare industry. Customers with data-intensive multi-workload environments such as: real-time analytics and intelligence, batch processing, email, online transaction processing (OLTP), video, virtual desktops, database loads, and high-performance computing (HPC) will benefit the most from the UCS Invicta.02/27/2014 11:23AM |
QThe Register covered the Invicta saying "The array still links to UCS servers via a network link – Ethernet or Fibre Channel – and still provides flash storage resources to a bunch of servers over these network pipes, just like EMC's XtremIO array and NetApp’s EF540/550" etc. How is Invicta different? 02/27/2014 11:09AM |
ACisco saw a strategic need, based on customer demand, to integrate flash systems directly into the Unified Management control plane of UCS. Joint solutions with our storage partners do not fully meet this need. Cisco UCS will continue as an open system and we will support interoperability and certification with all of our partner’s Flash- and Disk-based storage systems.02/27/2014 11:24AM |
QIs this being recorded for later playback? 02/27/2014 11:23AM |
AThis event will be archived and available for on-demand viewing within 1-2 days. You can use the same event link to access the archived event. 02/27/2014 11:24AM |
QDo we have a better/compelling story to tell with MDS and UCS Invicta? 02/27/2014 11:08AM |
AThe UCS + MDS value proposition is well established in the market. There are key technologies that are only enabled with they are both used together such as FC port channeling and VSAN trunking. Now we have the ability to add UCS Invicta storage to the architecture and over time build out technology integration. 02/27/2014 11:25AM |
QDoes Invicta have any unique or proprietary integration with UCS?02/27/2014 11:11AM |
AWe have a compelling road map that we will be aggressively executing on. Contact your Cisco account team for more details02/27/2014 11:26AM |
QCan this solution be used in conjuction with FusionIO products that are directly on the blades? 02/27/2014 11:17AM |
AThere are some use cases where a customer can use the UCS Invicta and Fusion-io. In these situations, flash presented as memory expansion for in-memory objects (via Fusion-io) would be great, where the UCS Invicta will play the “following-level” shared memory cache via our shared – and mainly deduplication – capabilities. 02/27/2014 11:27AM |
QIf Invicta can be deployed without the director, can we buy it as a standalone unit? 02/27/2014 11:21AM |
AAt this point we have no plans to offer Invicta as a stand alone solution. 02/27/2014 11:28AM |
QHow are the relationships with existing Whiptail partners and customers changing? 02/27/2014 11:10AM |
AFor former Whiptail customers a transition to Cisco for account servicing and technolo |