Customers are always looking to reduce admin effort and TCO of their virtual environments. In a typical setup, #VMware admins have to look after the X86-servers their #vSphere hosts are running on, some form of storage area network – SAN or NAS – and the network in between all those elements. A data center might have generations of products from diverse vendors, acquired over the years. This can make provisioning or repurposing slow. A few years ago vendors started introducing ‘converged’ infrastructure in the market. In this Lego-style approach, all the building blocks for your infrastructure are standardized, validated and tested for your VMware environment. By using these standard building blocks it becomes easier to do administration, to install software updates and repurpose or expand parts of your environment. The two prevalent families are: #NetApp #FlexPod: Cisco UCS servers, #Cisco #Nexus switches and almost any NetApp storage, building on Data Ontap (Clustered Ontap). #EMC #VCE: Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus switches and EMC storage arrays. Naturally this standards-based approach benefits from an equally centralized management environment. Full stack visibility takes on a new meaning here. For FlexPod we had individual solutions at Blue Medora: the management packs for NetApp, Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus enable you to manage all building blocks of the converged infrastructure in your VMware vROps management platform. Our FlexPod bundle gives you dashboards and reports for a complete solution.
http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2016/09/vrops-hyperconverged-world-flexpod-vce-nutanix.html
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