Cisco UCS Series

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.

• 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.

VMware ESXi

VMware vSphere, Cisco Intersight, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco UCS is the backbone of compute architecture at our organization, it is a single platform that is used extensively for all things Compute, It the standard that is used to deploy any workload or project that requires CPU, memory, hard-drive and high speed processing. We deploy Cisco UCS in both chassis with b-series blades as well as stand-alone c-series servers. These provide converged infrastructure due to unique architecture.

• We started small not knowing full capabilities of Cisco UCS, it has worked well, and has now grown into majority of organization compute and storage workloads.
• Using Service Profile and Templates, its very easy to build and deploy new servers or to re-deploy after a failure.
• Platform allows hyper-converged infrastructure that has become the foundation of many of our solutions.
• Cisco UCS is number #1 in USA and almost on top worldwide. This speaks volumes on ROI and acceptance by customers.

Dell PowerEdge and Azure HPC Cache

Dell Data Center IT Outsourcing Services, Azure HPC Cache, Bull Blade Servers

We have several Cisco UCS Series clusters in out environment. Dev, test, and mutiple production clusters in our primary data center. We replicated production to a secondary site for redundancy. We like to simplified cabling and the integration of the fabric interconnects to network and san connectivity. Easy to set up and upgrade.

• Very stable platform, used util end of service life
• Very energy effecient.

Webex App, SolarWinds ipMonitor

virtualization. condenses the number of servers requred to run our environment

• lower opex
• reduction in rack space
• ease of deployment

Nutanix AHV

Virtual Computing platform

• We are often having to stay up on lifeycle as its costly investment
• management of the environment takes a large investment

Supermicro Ultra

Microsoft 365