HyperFlex Acceleration

Engine (Hercules)

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HyperFlex Acceleration Engine

• Purpose Built & Co-Engineered Software & Hardware

• Recommended for Better TCO but not Mandatory.
• Competitive Differentiation

• PCIe card serving platform services & offloading CPU

cycles
• Higher Compression, Lower $/GB
• Better VM Density, Lower $/VM

• Performance Boost*
• CPU Utilization & Working Capacity Improvements
across Workloads
• Other service-offloads in-future : EC, Crypto, Hash etc.

*Vdbench write test results are 15-18% faster

(30% compressible data, 100% writes).
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4th Gen Fabric Interconnect
Support

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 4th Gen FI (HX-FI-6454) & MLOM (HX-MLOM-25Q-04)
HX-MLOM-C25Q-04
• HX3.5(1a) enables 10Gbps interconnect on 4th Generation VIC (HX-
MLOM-25Q-04) for both compute and converged VMware nodes
running vSphere 6.5 update 2 or later.
• Note: Hyper-V nodes will support 4th Gen VIC in later release

• HX3.5(2a) unlocks 25Gbps interfaces with 4th Gen FI (HX-FI-6454) &

VIC (HX-MLOM-25Q-04) 10/25 Gbps
• Note: Configuration, interconnect, and price equivalent to the UCS-
FI-6454

Bodega
4th Generation VIC ASIC HX-FI-6454
Bradbury (VIC1457):
PCIe based mLOM card for M5 Rack servers (UCSC-MLOM-C25Q-04)

Brentwood (VIC1455):
PCIe card for M5 Rack servers (UCSC-PCIE-C25Q-04)
 The FI page: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/fabric-interconnects.html
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 Cisco UCS FI 6454 spec sheet: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/ucs-6454-fab-int-specsheet.pdf
 The VIC page: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/interfaces-modules/unified-computing-system-adapters/index.html
 VIC compare model page: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/interfaces-modules/unified-computing-system-adapters/models-comparison.html
HyperFlex FI/ MLOM interconnect
HX MLOM and FI Interconnect matrix:
4GFI 3GFI 2GFI
Interconnect MLOM HX-FI-6454 HX-FI-6332 HX-FI-6248/96
HX3.5(2a) HX3.5(1a)
2 or 4 ports 10GbE HX-MLOM-25Q-04 (VIC 1457) * 10G Not Supported
10G Supported 10G Supported
HX3.5(2a)
2 or 4 ports 25GbE HX-MLOM-25Q-04 (VIC 1457) * 25G Not Available 25G Not Available
25G supported
HX3.5(2a)
2 ports 10GbE with QSA HX-MLOM-C40Q-03 (VIC 1387) 10G Not Supported 10G Supported
10G Supported
2 ports 40GbE HX-MLOM-C40Q-03 (VIC 1387) 40G Not Available 40G Supported 40G Not Available

* vSphere 6.5 Update 2, UCSM 4.0.1c, HX3.5(2a) or later

HX-MLOM-C40Q-03 (VIC 1387) is ideal for 40GbE interconnects using HX-FI-6332 (3rd Gen FI).
HX-MLOM-25Q-04 (VIC 1457) is best paired with HX-FI-6454 (4th Gen FI) and running either 25GbE or 10GbE interconnects.
• Note: Hyper-V nodes will support 4th Generation VIC (HX-MLOM-25Q-04) in future release.

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