Cisco HCIX-9508-U network equipment chassis 7U Gray

Cisco and Nutanix have partnered to introduce the industry’s first hyperconverged solution using a modular blade architecture. The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System combines the operational simplicity of the Nutanix Cloud Platform with the flexibility and efficiency of the award-winning Cisco UCS® X-Series Modular System, enabling organizations to easily deploy, scale, and upgrade hyperconverged clusters with a more sustainable, future-ready solution. There is also support for Cisco UCS X-Series Direct to address all your edge, retail, and small and remote-office use cases.

The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System with Nutanix combines the operational simplicity of Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) with the efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability of the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System. The X-Series system comprises modular components that can be assembled into systems through the Cisco Intersight® cloud-operations platform.

The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System is engineered to be adaptable and future-ready. With a midplane-free design, the system achieves I/O connectivity, using frontloading, vertically oriented compute and accelerator nodes that intersect with horizontally oriented I/O connectivity modules in the rear of the chassis. In the front of the chassis, Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X210c M7 All NVMe Nodes with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors offer compute density and storage capacity in a single form factor and the Cisco UCS X440p PCIe Node supports adding GPUs with PCIe Gen 4.0 with the Cisco UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module.

In the rear of the chassis, a unified Ethernet fabric is supplied with Cisco UCS 9108 100G Intelligent Fabric Modules and the Cisco UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module, part of the Cisco UCS X-Fabric Technology, supply PCIe Gen 4 industry-standard protocols for GPU accelerators. Interconnections can be easily updated with new modules supporting faster Ethernet, PCIe Gen 5, and CXL.

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series Direct is a self-contained system with a pair of integrated fabric interconnects, and can be used if you do not want top-of-rack fabric interconnects and need to support edge, retail, and small or remote-office use cases.

The X-Series system was designed with sustainability in mind and is equipped with power-delivery and cooling innovations designed to reduce material waste and energy consumption.