Cisco HyperFlex Systems Architecture

HyperFlex Portfolio

Dynamic Data Distribution

• Systems Built on Conventional File Systems Write Locally, Then Replicate, Creating Performance Hotspots
• HX Data Platform stripes data across all nodes simultaneously, leveraging cache across all SSDs for fast writes
• Balanced space utilization: no data migration required following a VM migration

Non-Disruptive Operations

• Stripe blocks of a file across servers
• Replicate one or two additional copies to other servers
• Handle entire server or disk failures
• Restore back to original number of copies
• Rebalance VMs and data post replacement
• Rolling software upgrades

High Resiliency, Fast Recovery

• Platform can sustain simultaneous 2 node failure without data loss; replication factor is tunable
• If a node fails, the evacuated VMs re-attach with no data movement required
• Replacement node automatically configured via UCS Service Profile
• HX Data Platform automatically re-distributes data to node

Cisco HyperFlex Monitoring and Reporting

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Victor Wu

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