a better data center

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A Better Data Center

July 16th, 2013

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The Best Data Center Is One You Never Notice

It Is Agile, Efficient, And Simple


Data Center Performance

Quality

Resources Time

Responsiveness diminishes as

complexity and demand increase

Different tools needed to manage each layer of the data center

Developing workarounds are costly and time

consuming


Data Center Performance

Efficient

Quality

Resources Time

Agile: •  Increase flexibility

•  Deploy new services in minutes not weeks

•  Respond to changing business environment

•  Achieve scale more easily

Efficient: •  Manage Costs •  Reduce management and operational expense •  Decrease the footprint required to deploy applications •  Require less cabling, lower power and cooling costs

Simple: •  Reduce complexity

•  Control server and network architectures with a common OS

•  Unify servers, storage, network and management

•  Leverage existing tools and skill sets


•  A suite of tools that provide management, virtualization, monitoring, and security for your data center

•  Manage your physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, client computers and devices

•  Manages Cisco UCS servers across multiple blade chassis and rack servers as one logical, highly available entity with flexible service profiles

•  Provides granular UCS visibility and control to Microsoft data center management tools through a comprehensive XML API


•  Employment of Cisco power to enhance your existing management tools and skill sets

•  Utilization of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor, measure and automate at every layer

•  Management of physical and virtual machines identically

UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft System Center tools such as Operations Manager, Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Manager

•  Provides end-to-end management in the UCS platform

•  Eliminates the need for an external management server

•  Enables rapid provisioning and scaling of IT infrastructure

•  Comprehensive XML API gives customers programmatic capability to choose their management tools

UCS Manager

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IS NOT: §  OS and applica+on management

§  provisioning, patching, security, performance, inventory, change management

§  All transparently handled by ecosystem solu8ons

§  Orchestra+on of other devices §  E.g. storage, firewalls, L3 routers,

… §  VM Management §  Workflow Engine

IS: §  A Single point of management

for the en8re system §  IO Fabric §  Chassis and Servers §  Adapters & virtual I/O

§  Centralized

§  A Policy-‐driven Device Manager §  Configura8on §  Fault §  Monitoring §  …


Use familiar tools and simplify management

Software

Integration

Infrastructure

Operations Manager Orchestrator

Management Pack Integration Pack

Cisco Unified Computing System

UCS Manager

Physical Virtual &

SCVMM

.NET Library

UI Extension


XML API

UCS Cluster

Object Browser

UCS Manager

Command Line

Network Mgmt

Browser Plug-In

Tools & Applications

http://<ucsm>/nuova

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§  Contain server state information

§  User-defined – Each profile can be individually created

– Profiles can be generated from a template

§  Applied to physical blades at run time – Without profiles, blades are just anonymous hardware

components

§  Consistent and simplified server deployment – “pay-as-you-grow” deployment –  Configure once, purchase & deploy on an “as-needed” basis

§  Simplified server upgrades – minimize risk –  Simply disassociate server profile from existing chassis/blade and associate to new chassis/blade

§  Enhanced server availability – purchase fewer servers for HA –  Use same pool of standby servers for multiple server types – simply apply appropriate profile during failover

Run-time association

Server Name UUID MAC WWN Boot info LAN Config SAN Config

Server Name UUID MAC WWN Boot info LAN Config SAN Config

Server Name UUID, MAC,WWN Boot info firmware LAN, SAN Config Firmware…


UCS – B series

Cisco Nexus 5K

EMC VNX 5300

Cisco® UCS B-Series Blade Servers and UCS Manager Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp FAS Storage Systems

FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud First Validated Data Center Infrastructure for Microsoft Private Cloud with System Center 2012. Tight integration between UCS Manager and Microsoft System Center provides “single pane of glass” management from network switch to application.

Citrix XenDesktop on FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud Support for 2000 desktop users. Takes advantage of UCS’s high-density platform. First workload validated to run on top of FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud with System Center 2012.

EMC FT 3.0 configuration Components, from CPUs to physical drives, are used optimally—each server is configured with the memory and network adapters optimized for Hyper-V virtualization. All Microsoft products are deployed on UCS servers that utilize EMC VNX storage to simplify deployment for virtualization


•  Microsoft Tech Ed 2011

•  Best of Tech Ed Winner in Hardware Category

•  Cisco Product: UCS B Series

•  Microsoft Tech Ed 2012

•  Best of Tech Ed Winner for Breakthrough Product

•  Cisco Product: UCS Manager

Best of Tech Ed winners stand apart from the pack, either offering an edge in product functionality, boasting enhanced feature sets in new versions, or introducing innovative technology. Winners are chosen based on their innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage, and exceptional value to customers.

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