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FlashStack Product Overview Workshop
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Overview
This is a product solution focused workshop that pursues on the following objectives:
- Overview of technology drivers and FlashStack market positioning
- Discuss FlashStack deployment use cases
- Overview of FlashStack architecture and components
- Review the Management tools and options for solution components
- Review key configuration aspects of each Cisco and Pure component
- Demonstrate a pre-built operational Flashstack
Target audience
- Technical design and Architect personnel
- Presales SE and AMs
Duration
• 1 day
Class Outline
Module 1 – FlashStack Solution Overview
- Market Positioning
- Solution Architecture
- On-Prem Management Overview
- Standup – Pure SmartConfig
- Cisco Intersight Overview
Module 2 – Component High level Overview
- UCS
- MDS
- Pure Storage
- Nexus
Module 3 – Use Case
- Cisco Validated Designs
- Ongoing Ownership
Module 4 – Component Management and Deployment Overview
- UCS Overview
- UCS Manager
- UCS system Setup
- Stateless computing
- Workload deployment
- UCS Manager Demo
- MDS Management Overview
- FC/FCOE overview
- MDS management
- MDS Key Features and configuration overview
- VSAN
- Zoning
- NPIV/NPV
- MDS / DCNM-SAN Demo
- Pure Storage
- Initial setup overview
- Storage Provisioning
- Storage Protection
- Pure FlashArray GUI Demo
- Nexus Deployment options overview
- NXOS/DCNM and ACI placement
- Key design Features and Consideration overview
- Using Cisco Intersight
- GUI overview
- Joining Devices to Intersight
- Intersight Demo
- Summary of FlashStack Deployment tasks