"Admins maintain the devices in the chassis with Cisco's SaaS-y Intersight management tool. Jeremy Foster, general manager of Compute at Cisco, told The Register the company designed Intersight to manage datacenters hosting thousands of servers, but has worked to ensure it can handle thousands of edge locations each hosting three or more servers and running stacks from Nutanix, Red Hat, and VMware - the three vendors Cisco currently supports for this product."
"The chassis is just 18 inches (45.7 cm) deep, shorter than standard datacenter racks because Cisco thinks edge locations aren't large enough to support bigger boxes. Fans at the rear of the chassis can therefore operate effectively even if they're pressed up against a wall. It's also possible to stand the chassis on its edge - think portrait mode, but for edge infrastructure."
Cisco introduced the Unified Edge platform delivering a compact, modular chassis and half-width modules that integrate compute, storage, and networking for distributed locations. The UCS XE9305 chassis holds up to five module bays with a 25G backplane connecting UCS servers and a Catalyst 8200 router with firewall. The 18-inch deep chassis and rear fans allow wall-mounted or vertical placement in constrained edge environments. Administrators manage deployments through Cisco Intersight, which is scaled to support thousands of edge sites running Nutanix, Red Hat, or VMware stacks. The solution relies on partner software-defined storage while offering local M.2 SSD options for servers.
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