The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is Cisco's multi-chassis blade computing system based on Intel Xeon 5500 processors and lossless 10Gb unified fabric (FCoE and 10Gb Ethernet functions). UCS incorporates simplified management and service profiles to facilitate dynamic system provisioning.
Compute. New Cisco UCS B-Series blades based on Intel's Xeon Nehalem processors. The blades' extended memory promises to supports more virtual machines per server than does standard memory.
Network. The system supports "wire once" unified fabric over a 10 Gbps Ethernet. That network foundation consolidates LANs, SANs and high-performance computing networks to reduce the number of network adapters, switches, and cables.
Storage access. Support for unified fabric so the system can access storage over Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, or iSCSI.
Management. Cisco UCS Manager provides a graphical user interface (GUI), command line interface (CLI) and an application programming interface (API) for all components of the system.
Unified Service Delivery (USD) unites the datacenter and IP-NGN for service providers to create a common infrastructure from which services can be deployed in a secure virtualized fashion. The Unified Computing System is leveraged by USD to deliver physical and virtual servers required by a service.
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