Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) consist of systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to facilitate and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of our customers.

This document discusses the design principles that go into the FlashStack solution, which is a validated Converged Infrastructure(CI) jointly developed by Cisco and Pure Storage. The solution is a predesigned, best practice data center architecture to modernize Oracle data warehouse to deliver performance needed to keep up with data growth.  It consists of with Pure Storage FlashBlade™ for Storage, Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server for Compute, Cisco Nexus 9000 series for the switching element and Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6300 series for System Management.