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The Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric Full Stack AI Infrastructure solution is a turnkey, on-premises AI infrastructure option managed via the cloud-hosted Nexus Hyperfabric controller. It seamlessly integrates high-performance networking, compute, GPUs, storage, and AI software.
This solution simplifies infrastructure management, enabling IT, DevOps, and AIOps teams to easily oversee the entire AI lifecycle—from design and ordering to deployment, validation, monitoring, and scaling, all without the need for deep networking or operational expertise, allowing organizations to achieve fast time to value.
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FAQ for Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric full stack AI infrastructure
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric is a cloud-managed network fabric data-center solution delivered as a service. Using a cloud controller managed by Cisco, customers easily design, deploy, and manage any number of fabrics located anywhere, spanning primary data centers, colocation facilities, and distributed data-center edge sites. It reinvents the IT operations lifecycle of the data center by simplifying every step of the process and ensures repeatable and predictable outcomes by IT-generalist, application, and DevOps teams. The vertical stack solution consists of purpose-built hardware, software, cloud management, day-2 automation, and Cisco support.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric’s full stack AI Infrastructure option is a cloud-managed, full-stack AI infrastructure solution delivered as hardware + software + service that is compliant with NVIDIA Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA). Using a cloud controller managed by Cisco, customers easily design, deploy, and manage their on-premises network fabric, GPU servers, and storage servers. It reinvents the IT operations lifecycle of the AI infrastructure in the data center by simplifying every step of the process and ensures repeatable and predictable outcomes by IT-generalist, application, and DevOps teams. The vertical stack solution consists of purpose-built hardware, software, cloud management, day-2 automation, and Cisco support. The Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric’s full stack AI Infrastructure option is best suited for customers looking to build out their private cloud AI infrastructure.
Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric’s full stack AI Infrastructure option consists of these primary components:
- The Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric’s full stack AI Infrastructure option is a single integrated solution from Cisco that can be designed, ordered, deployed, and operated as a cohesive solution.
- Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric cloud controller is a scalable, globally distributed multitenant cloud service that is used to design, plan, control, upgrade, and monitor fabrics using a browser or APIs.
- Cisco 6000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switches are installed with the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric cloud–managed software, for centralized real-time visibility and control.
- Cisco UCS NVIDIA GPU/DPU servers include the Cisco UCS-C885A-M8-CN1 server, which packs eight NVIDIA H200 GPUs, with NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs (3240H) and NVIDIA SuperNICs (3140H) connected using Cisco optics that can efficiently run training, inferencing, and fine-tuning workloads.
- Cisco UCS and VAST storage (optional): Cisco UCS-C225-M8N-1P servers pack eight drives with each of the servers with a cluster consisting of 11 servers that can be easily expanded. The specs start with 1 PB of storage that can be used for training, fine-tuning, inferencing, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and other data engineering tasks.
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NVAIE) software: integration and access to the NVAIE software stack from day 1, allows access to different model-training software and data catalogues so that engineers and scientists can get started immediately.
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