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AI-ready infrastructure
- Cisco AI POD with VAST Data for Training and Fine-Tuning Deployment Guide
- Cisco Al POD for Enterprise Training and Fine-Tuning with Everpure Deployment Guide
- AI Defense on Cisco AI PODs Reference Architecture
- FlexPod with Cisco AI POD: Infrastructure for AI Training and Fine-Tuning Deployment Guide
- Cisco AI POD for Enterprise Training and Fine-Tuning Design Guide
- FlashStack for Enterprise RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM, NIM Operator, and RAG Blueprint
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 2.0 Deployment Guide
- AI Inferencing on Cisco UCS X-Series for Intel OpenVINO Based RAG Deployments
- AI Inferencing on Cisco UCS X-Series with Intel AMX for Medical Image Analysis
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions with Red Hat OCP Al Ready Infrastructure
- FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat OpenShift AI for MLOps
- FlexPod for Accelerated RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM and Cisco Webex
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
- Cisco Data Intelligence Platform with Cloudera Data Platform
- GenAI Inferencing on UCS X-Series with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors on Red Hat OpenShift AI
- FlexPod with Red Hat OpenShift and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- FlexPod with SUSE Rancher for AI Workloads
- Scaling FlexPod for GPU intensive Apps
Cisco & Hitachi
- Adaptive Solutions OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 with OpenShift Virtualization Design Guide
- Adaptive Solutions with Cisco UCS X215c M8 and Hitachi VSP One Block E2E 100G VMware
- Adaptive Solutions with Cisco UCS X215c M8 and Hitachi VSP One Block 100G VMware 8.0U3 Design Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions with Red Hat OCP Al Ready Infrastructure
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution VDI for VMware Horizon 8 VMware vSphere 8.0 U2
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Epic Workloads, Design and Benchmark Guide
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions with Cisco UCS X-Series, VMware 8U1, and Hitachi VSP 5600
- Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions VSI with Cisco UCS X, VMware 8U1, and Hitachi VSP 5600 Design Guide
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Platform
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series with Nutanix in Intersight Managed Mode
- Enhancing Day 2 Operations with Cisco Compute and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix GPT-in-a-box
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix using Cohesity on Cisco UCS for Data Protection
- Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix in Intersight Standalone Mode
- Cisco HyperFlex 5.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi
FlashStack Platforms
- FlashStack with Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure Software
- FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift Containerization and Virtualization
- FlashStack for Enterprise RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NIM, NIM Operator, and RAG Blueprint Design and Deployment Guide
- FlashStack with Red Hat OpenShift Container and Virtualization Platform using Cisco UCS X-Series
- FlashStack Datacenter with Oracle 21c RAC Databases on Cisco UCS X-Series, Pure Storage with NVMe/FC
- FlashStack Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
- FlashStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 with Cisco UCS X-Series and Pure Storage
- FlashStack for AI: MLOps using Red Hat OpenShift AI
- FlashStack for Generative AI Inferencing Design Guide
- FlashStack for Healthcare with Epic on Cisco UCS M7 X-Series, Pure Storage FlashArray//X R3 Series, and VMware vSphere 8.0
- FlashStack VDI Cisco UCS X-Series M6 with Citrix on VMware vSphere 8 up to 2600 Seats