Project background and summary
Jiangsu International Trust Co., Ltd. ("Jiangsu Trust") is a non-bank financial institution approved by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and the China Banking Regulatory Commission. Financial trust business. The company's registered capital is RMB 3.76 billion, and it is now a member of the China Trust Industry Association. Jiangsu Trust adheres to the business philosophy of “development, innovation, efficiency, and stability”, takes advantage of the characteristics of “trusted and manages wealth on behalf of others”, bases itself on the trust industry, explores business innovation, and develops industrial finance, consumer finance, interbank finance, Securities trust, equity investment, wealth management and other fields of business provide high-quality financial products and financial services to all sectors of society, and have a high reputation and status in the trust industry. Jiangsu Trust needs to add a complete set of Hang Seng business systems, data warehouse business systems, SAP business systems, consumer financial business systems, virtual desktops, etc. The original data center equipment has been used for many years and cannot meet the rapid growth of business systems. Therefore, it is urgent to upgrade the data center.

Challenges faced
● Network function and service deployment requires manual configuration and can take weeks or even months to complete deployment.
● Unified management of network, computing, storage, and virtualization.
● Recovery and reuse of data center resources.
● There are many departments and tedious communication and coordination between departments.
● The maintenance volume of the desktop office system is huge.
● The available space reserved in the data center room is limited.

Solution Overview
√ Add a C4506E switch and the original C4506E to form the core dual node of the data center.
√ Add two N5K switches and two C4506E core switches to interconnect to provide connections for the server.
√ Two new UCS FI 6296 fabrics were added to interconnect two N5K switches to provide storage links for servers.
√ Added 14 blade servers and 2 5108 blade boxes, which are connected to LAN and SAN respectively through the switch fabric. 
√ Added a 4-node UCS HyperFlex HX240 node to support 200 desktop virtualization requirements. 
√ Added a set of UCS Director for unified management of network, server, storage, virtualization, self-service application for virtual machines through UCS Director, automatic resource recovery

Project conclusion
◇ With Cisco UCS Director, unified management and deployment of servers, storage, networking, and virtualization are achieved.
◇ Through Cisco UCS Director, the self-service application of virtual machines in various departments was realized, and resources were automatically recovered.
◇ Compared with rack servers, Cisco B series blade servers save room space, reduce power requirements, and reduce heat dissipation and reduce room cooling costs.
◇ The entire UCS system uses a dual-node redundant architecture to avoid the hidden danger of a single node and a single link.
◇ The UCS system provides a minimum 10G network connection for the server, avoids the bottleneck of communication between servers, and provides a reliable network environment for the data center.
◇ N5K switches and UCS FI 6296 switch fabrics provide LAN and SAN networks for servers, reducing the number of data center equipment and making the architecture simpler and more stable.
◇ The Cisco UCS HyperFlex HX240 provides business support for a unified desktop, reducing procurement costs by approximately 15% and reducing service and management costs by 30%. The system has good elasticity and scalability, and can follow the expansion of the business scale of the enterprise for smooth and seamless elastic expansion.