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Supporting Student Notes:

Simply taking a server apart or disaggregating the subsystems alone is not what makes M-Series a game-changer, but
creating a fabric that extends the benefits of UCS Manager all the way into the server is. What sets UCS M-Series apart
is something we call UCS System Link Technology. This silicon-based technology gives M-Series the ability to connect
these disaggregated subsystems via a UCS System Link fabric and create a truly composable infrastructure. With the
policy-based provisioning, deployment and management of UCS, the application can be presented the exact amount of
resources from each subsystem for truly a software-defined server.

Similar to how a hypervisor parses resources from a traditional server and presents them in a virtual machine, M-Series
now can do that and more, but at a hardware level. A collection of these new composite machines defined from the M-
Series infrastructure is the most efficient and agile way to power the emerging class of cloud scale applications. Cisco
UCS M-Series with System Link Technology is defining a new class of server architecture to power cloud scale
applications.