Cisco HyperFlex Cluster Design & Deployment

Hyperconverged is a framework model that combine storage, compute and networking into a single system, Hyperconverged is a flexible approach to share storage to all compute and virtual machines.

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Cisco Blade solution design

Cisco entering into blade servers market was not with standard expected product as other vendors, the service profile and the external management (fabric interconnect) was the main features that distinct Cisco from their competitor, otherwise customers prefer a well known vendor like HP, Dell & IBM than going to a new product with almost same features.

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Security design process for Active/Active Data center

Data center interconnect or DCI is about connecting two data centers network into a single large network infrastructure, DCI is a challenging project for any network architect with the respect of business and technical requirement such as :

  • High availability
  • Automatic failure detection and fail over
  • VMs migration between Data center without changing in addressing plan (seamless migration)
  • Avoid asymmetric traffic drop by firewalls
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Cisco Meeting server and Meeting management (CMS & CMM)

Cisco Meeting server is the conference bridge product from Cisco, CMS add more value through integration with the Cisco Collaboration portfolio, it can easily be integrated with the Cisco CallManager and Telepresence Management suite TMS, the product is offered as VM on a dedicated server called CMS1000 or in a chassis for large solutions called CMS2000, the VM can be deployed in hyperconverged architecture or any third party servers that support VMware.

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Design your IP Telephony system integration with ITSP

Using IP telephony system in your enterprise network is great, but extend your IP telephony system to the PSTN network is greater, you can’t imagine a desk office with IP phone and PBX phone or a landline phone on the same time, it’s not practical to use IP phone for internal calls and other phone for external calls.

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