Cisco Systems and NetApp this week introduced ExpressPod, a prepackaged offering for small and medium-sized organizations; the addition of new storage clustering capabilities to the FlexPod data centre platform, and the release of a VMware upgrade for Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) on FlexPod.
ExpressPod integrates Cisco UCS C-Series servers, NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage and Cisco Nexus 3048 switches with infrastructure management, while FlexPod now features support and validation for VMware vSphere on NetApp Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode.
According to a release, NetApp storage clustering also enables “non-disruptive data migration of hundreds of virtual machines at a time to facilitate load balancing, system maintenance and device upgrades without interrupting the running applications.”