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Cisco & Hitachi
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution VDI for VMware Horizon 8
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Epic Workloads, Design and Benchmark Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions with Cisco UCS X-Series, VMware 8U1, and Hitachi VSP 5600
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions with Cisco UCSX, VMware 8U1, and Hitachi VSP 5600 Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure as a Stretched Data Center
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI with Scale-Out Storage
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI with Scale-Out Storage Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure with Cisco ACI Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure with Cisco ACI
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Direct Attached
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI Design Guide
Hybrid Cloud
- Cisco UCS C240 M6 and M7 Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
- Cisco UCS C240 M6 Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
- Hybrid Cloud – HyperFlex Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Archival with Cohesity
- Hybrid Cloud with Cisco HyperFlex and Red Hat OCP
- Cisco UCS Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
- FlexPod for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco Intersight and Cloud Volumes NetApp ONTAP Replication
- Cisco HyperFlex for Google Cloud’s Anthos
- FlashStack for Cloud Native with Cisco Intersight, Red Hat OpenShift, and Portworx Enterprise Design
- FlashStack as a Workload Domain for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Cisco HyperFlex with Red Hat OCP and Kasten by Veeam for Hybrid Cloud
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Platform
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix in Intersight Standalone Mode
- Cisco HyperFlex with Red Hat OCP and Kasten by Veeam for Hybrid Cloud
- Cisco HyperFlex 5.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi
- Hybrid Cloud – HyperFlex Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Archival with Cohesity
- Hybrid Cloud with Cisco HyperFlex and Red Hat OCP
- Cisco HyperFlex 5.0 for Citrix VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 1000 Users
- Cisco HyperFlex with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 and CSI
- Cisco HyperFlex Edge 4.5 with Cisco ACI and Hashicorp Terraform
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi
- Cisco HyperFlex with CTERA Secure Enterprise File Services using IBM Cloud Object Storage
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 Stretched Cluster with Cisco ACI 4.2 Multi-Pod Fabric
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 Stretched Cluster with Cisco ACI 4.2 Multi-Pod Fabric Design Guide
- Cisco HyperFlex for Google Cloud’s Anthos
- Cisco HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Databases with VMware ESXi
- Cisco HyperFlex Edge Protection with Veeam
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi
- Cisco HyperFlex Edge 4.0 with Cisco Intersight
Desktop Virtualization
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for Business Continuity using VMware vSphere 6.7 and VXLAN Multi-Site Fabric
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 for VMware Horizon VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 1000 Users
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for Citrix VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 500 Users
- Cisco HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Databases with VMware ESXi
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for VMware Horizon VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 5000 Users
- Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2019 and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and VMware ESXi for up to 5,000 users
FlashStack Platforms
- FlashStack Datacenter with Oracle 21c RAC Databases on Cisco UCS X-Series, Pure Storage with NVMe/FC
- FlashStack Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 with Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage
- FlashStack for AI: MLOps using Red Hat OpenShift AI
- FlashStack for Generative AI Inferencing Design Guide
- FlashStack Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3 for VMware Horizon 8
- FlashStack VSI with VMware vSphere 8.0, Cisco UCS M7, and Pure Storage FlashArray Design Guide
- FlashStack for Healthcare with Epic on Cisco UCS M7 X-Series, Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3 Series, and VMware vSphere 8.0
- FlashStack VDI Cisco UCS X-Series M6 with Citrix on VMware vSphere 8 up to 2600 Seats
- FlashStack for Cloud Native with Cisco Intersight, Red Hat OpenShift, and Portworx Enterprise Design
- FlashStack as a Workload Domain for VMware Cloud Foundation
- FlashStack Data Center using Cisco UCS B-Series, VMware Horizon 8 and VMware vSphere 7 for up to 2300 Seats
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI with Cisco UCS M6 X-Series
- FlashStack VDI using Cisco UCS X-Series with VMware Horizon 8 and VMware vSphere 7 for up to 2600 Seats
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI with Cisco UCS M6 X-Series Design Guide
- FlashStack for SQL Server 2019 with Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage FlashArray//XL170
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure for End-to-End 100 Gigabit with Cisco UCS X-Series and Cisco UCS 5th Generation Fabric Technology Deployment Guide
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure for End-to-End 100 Gigabit Design Guide
- FlashStack Datacenter for Oracle RAC 19c Databases on VMware vSphere
- Flashstack with Citrix 7, VMWare vSphere 7.0U2, and Pure Storage Flash Array//X R3 for up to 2,500 Users
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco UCS X-Series and VMware 7.0 U2
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco UCS 4.2(1) in UCS Managed Mode and VMware vSphere 7.0 U2
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco UCS X-Series and VMware 7.0 U2 Design Guide
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure for VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 Design Guide
- FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 8 and VMware vSphere 7.0 with 4th Generation Cisco UCS
- FlashStack Data Protection with Veeam
- FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware vSphere 7.0 with 4th Generation Cisco UCS
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with FibreChannel Storage for VMware vSphere 7.0
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with RHEL using NVMe/RoCEv2
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with iSCSI Storage for VMware vSphere 7.0 iSCSI Channel
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with VMware vSphere using Fibre Channel Protocol
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure for VMware vSphere 7.0 Design Guide
- FlashStack for OpenShift 4, a User-Provisioned Infrastructure
- FlashStack Data Center with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.7U3 for up to 6500 seats
- FlashStack for OpenShift 4, a User-Provisioned Infrastructure Design Guide
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI Design Guide
- FlashStack Data Center for Oracle RAC 19c Database on NVMe/RoCE
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Fibre Channel Storage for VMware vSphere 6.7 U1
- FlashStack® for AI: Powering the Data Pipeline
- FlashStack® for AI: Powering the Data Pipeline Design Guide
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with iSCSI Storage for VMware vSphere 6.7 U1
- FlashStack Data Center with Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 with Cisco UCS Manager 4.0 for 6000 Seats
- FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure for VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Design Guide
- FlashStack with Cisco ACI Multi-Pod and Pure Storage ActiveCluster
- FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
VersaStack Platforms
- VersaStack Solutions with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 and IBM FlashSystem Family
- VersaStack on Cisco UCS S3260 for IBM Cloud Object Storage
- VersaStack with Cisco ACI and IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe-accelerated Storage Design Guide
- VersaStack with Cisco ACI and IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe-accelerated Storage
- VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode
- VersaStack on Cisco UCS C240 for IBM Cloud Object Storage for Concentrated Dispersal Mode Design Guide
- VersaStack for Data Center and IBM Cloud Private
Big Data and Analytics
Big Data on Hyperflex
Generation 6
Generation 5
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform on Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Cloudera Data Platform Running Apache Ozone
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform on Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud Experiences
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform on Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud Plus Design Guide
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform on Cisco UCS C4200 with Cloudera Data Platform
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with All NVMe Storage, Cisco Intersight, and Cloudera Data Platform
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Cloudera Data Platform
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Hortonworks and Modernizing with NVMe Hybrid Storage
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Cloudera and Modernizing with NVMe Hybrid Storage
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Cloudera 6.2
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Hortonworks 3.1
- Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0
- Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with MapR 6.1
- Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale
Data Protection
- Rubrik CDM on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Systems
- Cohesity Data Cloud on Cisco X-Series Modular Systems
- Cisco and Commvault Validated Reference Design Specification
- Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers with Cohesity SmartFiles
- FlashStack Data Protection with Veeam
- Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers with Cohesity Data Platform
- Cisco HyperFlex Edge Protection with Veeam
- Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Servers with ScaleProtect
- Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS Servers Design Guide
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Servers with ScaleProtect
Scale-out Storage
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Scality RING 8
- Cisco HyperFlex with CTERA Secure Enterprise File Services using IBM Cloud Object Storage
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage Design Guide
- Cisco UCS S3260 M5 with Swiftstack
- Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage
- Cisco UCS C240 M5 with Scality Ring Design Guide
- Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage Design Guide
Desktop Virtualization
Citrix
- FlexPod Datacenter for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops with VMware vSphere 8 for up to 2500 Sessions
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and VMware ESXi for up to 5,000 users
- Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash with up to 2000 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Users
- Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix XenDesktop
- FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/ XenApp 7.7 and VMware vSphere 6.0 for 5000 Seats
- FlashStack with Cisco UCS Mini, Citrix XenDesktop 7.15, MS Hyper-V and Pure Storage FlashArray//M10 for 1250 Users
- FlashStack for 5000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 Users with Pure Storage FlashArray//m
VMware
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution VDI for VMware Horizon 8
- FlexPod Datacenter for VMware Horizon 8 with VMware vSphere 8 for up to 3000 Sessions
- FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 8 and VMware vSphere 7.0 with 4th Generation Cisco UCS
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.5 for VMware Horizon VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 1000 Users
- FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.12 and VMware vSphere 7.0 with 4th Generation Cisco UCS
- Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 for VMware Horizon VDI with VMware ESXi for up to 5000 Users
- Cisco All-Flash HyperFlex 3.5 Hyperconverged System with up to 4400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
- VersaStack with VMWare Horizon 7.0.3, VMWare Esxi 6.0, and IBM FlashSystem A9000 for 5000 users
- Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware Horizon 7 for upto 2400 Users
- Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware Horizon 7
Microsoft
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Databases
- Cisco UCS C240 Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI version 23H2
- Cisco UCS C240 M6 and M7 Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
- Cisco UCS Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with RHEL using NVMe/RoCEv2
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with VMware vSphere using Fibre Channel Protocol
- FlexPod Datacenter for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and VMware vSphere 6.7
- Cisco HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Databases with VMware ESXi
- FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux VM Running on VMware and Hyper-V Design Guide
- FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux VM Running on VMware and Hyper-V
Oracle
- FlashStack Datacenter with Oracle 21c RAC Databases on Cisco UCS X-Series, Pure Storage with NVMe/FC
- FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle 21c RAC DNFS, on Cisco UCS X-Series, 100G Fabric, and NetApp AFF800
- FlashStack Datacenter for Oracle RAC 19c Databases on VMware vSphere
- FlashStack Data Center for Oracle RAC 19c Database on NVMe/RoCE
- FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
- FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database
- FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12c on Oracle Linux
SAP
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI
- FlexPod Datacenter for SAP with Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS Manager 4.0, and NetApp AFF A–Series
- FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI with Scale-Out Storage
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI with Scale-Out Storage Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI Design Guide
- FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS Manager 4.0, and NetApp AFF A–Series Design Guide
Cloud Native
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with OpenShift Data Foundation on Cisco UCS X-Series
- FlashStack for OpenShift 4, a User-Provisioned Infrastructure
- FlashStack for OpenShift 4, a User-Provisioned Infrastructure Design Guide
- VersaStack Solutions with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 and IBM FlashSystem Family
- FlexPod Datacenter for OpenShift Container Platform 4 Design Guide