Server virtualization brings many advantages to data centers around the world but it also brings some challenges to the data center. It will be easier to administrate the resource pool if there is a uniform I/O configuration and sufficient bandwidth on each physical server supporting a large quantity of VM. Resource pool may more rapidly deal with the changing business and work load, and add and configure the new server resource within several minutes and put it into use but not prepare the server and its port, firmware and settings by the manual configuration that costs several hours or even several days and is easy to generate mistake. By balancing the CPU processing capability and economical and effective memory configuration to elevate the virtual machine density, it may more easily to realize the economic advantage of the server virtualization. Finally, by unifying the network access layer and treating the virtual machine linkage and the physical server linkage in the same way, it may more effectively and safely administrate the virtual environment and obtain the better QoS.

Rich Cloud Technology uses the uniform computing system (UCS) of Cisco to solve the aforesaid challenge by the next generation of data center. This platform integrates the computing, network, storage access and virtualization into an integrated system to conduct centralized administration coordinated by the virtualization software such as VMware. This system integrates the enterprise-grade server in a 10 KM Ethernet uniform array and provides the I/O bandwidth and function needed by the virtual machine and virtualization software. Memory expansion technology of Cisco provides an extremely economical configuration method for the large memory needed by the high-degree virtualization. Finally, uniform computing system of Cisco integrates the network visit layer into a material object that is easy in administration, in which the virtual machine linkage may be configured, administrated and moved in the same way with that of the physical linkage. Uniform computing system of Cisco inherits the long-term excellent tradition of innovation of Cisco, which is innovative in architecture, technology, cooperative relation and service.

Advantages of uniform computing of UCS:

It simplifies the data center resource.
It delivers the expanded service.
It radically reduces the quantity of necessary equipment of configuration, administration, power, cooling and wiring.
It provides the real-time configuration and mobile support to the virtualized and non-virtualized environment to elevate the business flexibility.
It obviously reduces the ownership cost of the whole platform, station and the whole enterprise.

Case Study：
Data Center Platform Construction for a Large Manufacturing Enterprise