Cisco UCS M7 and Pure Storage FlashArray: FlashStack VSI with VMware vSphere 8.0 — Design Guide

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This document provides a solution reference architecture for an Enterprise Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI) solution using VMware vSphere 8.0, Cisco UCS M7 servers, powered using 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Pure Storage FlashArray (FA) with unified block and file storage. The compute infrastructure in the solution consists of the latest Cisco UCS M7 servers on Cisco UCS X-Series and Cisco UCS C-Series platforms, managed from the cloud using Cisco Intersight in Intersight Managed Mode (IMM/). The solution also leverages Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS switches for the LAN and SAN fabrics in the design.

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