Chapter 5

Maintaining HyperFlex

Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform (HX Data Platform) is a hyperconverged software appliance that transforms Cisco servers into a single pool of compute and storage resources. It eliminates the need for network storage and enables seamless interoperability between computing and storage in virtual environments. Cisco HX-Data Platform provides a highly fault-tolerant distributed storage system that preserves data integrity and optimizes performance for virtual machine (VM) storage workloads. In addition, native compression and deduplication reduce the storage space occupied by the VMs and the VM workloads.

Cisco HX Data Platform has many integrated components, including Cisco fabric interconnects (FIs), Cisco UCS Manager, ...

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