White Paper Abstract:
This document demonstrates the benefits of the Cisco UCS platform with EMC CLARiiON for server consolidation with virtualization. It discusses consolidation of older Microsoft SQL database servers onto a Cisco UCS platform using VMware vSphere 4.0. The document compares the Cisco UCS B200 and B250 platforms, and results show that the Cisco UCS B250 M1 and M2 Extended Memory Blade Server platforms can consolidate more than twice the number of virtual machines as a standard server platform using the same processor. The study was done for both the M1 and M2 generations of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers.