Accelerating IT Operations and Business Outcomes.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have deployed Cisco UCS in King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. We use both UCS B-Series blade servers and UCS C-Series rack servers to support a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, enterprise applications (Access Control, CCTV, SQL Server, Oracle, other airport applications). UCS Manager plays a critical role in centrally managing server profiles, firmware updates, and hardware policies, which significantly reduces our administrative overhead. 1- easy to scale 2-easy to manage 3-Save Rack space and power and cooling requirements. Business Use Case: Supporting airport application/Staff/guest users in multiple datacenters. Virtualization, along with vCenter, makes all workloads easy to manage from a single location . One of the current issues we are facing is the VMware licensing, which makes it a more expensive solution.
Pros
- Save rack space, cooling, and power requirements.
- Easy to scale and expand.
- Efficiency is unmatchable.
- High availability.
- High Throughput.
Cons
- More intelligent alerting for environments not fully integrated with Intersight or third-party monitoring tools.
- 3rd party plugin support.
- Interoperability with non-Cisco networking, storage orchestration tools.
Return on Investment
- Positive: ROI: Operational Cost Reduction by cutting Rack Space, power, and cooling requirements.
- Positive: ROI: Business Value: 33 percent data center rack space reduction.
- Positive: Business continuity: 30 to 40 percent cut in unplanned downtime.
- Negative: External Expenditures, such as smartness and technical resources, are expensive.
Alternatives Considered
VMware ESXi
Other Software Used
VMware vSphere, Cisco Intersight, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
