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Supporting Student Notes:

• Supporting Point 1: Cisco overcome this complexity by reducing the number of physical components, and
• Supporting Point 2: Defining the server ‘personality’ within a ‘template’ that can be reused

• Supporting Point 3: Although some competition also use a template approach, Cisco is more comprehensive (e.g.
defining the Bios and Bios settings, this is unique to Cisco)

- Just like a house, a server has a lot of complex things inside it. Those things also need to be handled
manually by different specialists (Network Team, Storage Team, Server Team, Facilities)

- It is also a time consuming, usually manual process to deploy a server

- Again we see the legacy thinking is full of complexity and cost