cisco ucs fundamentals

7/23/2019 Cisco UCS Fundamentals

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Product Manager, SAVTG

Joseph Ezerski, CCIE #8588

Cisco UCS Fundamentals



• 20 Years in IT, 8 of them at Cisco

• CCIE #8588 (R&S)

• Product Manager, UCS

• Living and Working from The Neth

• Misses the Sunshine



• UCS – The question on everyone’s

• UCS versus Legacy Architecture

• UCS Advantage – Stateless Compu

• Extending and Simplifying Manage

• Where to find out more



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SERVERS??

QUESTION #1



• 17,800 unique UCS Custo

• #3 market share in x86 bl America & US)

• 2,300 UCS channel partne

• 44 ISVs writing to UCS AP

• Ten of thousands of suppapplications

• 70 world record performato date

• Numerous industry awarcertifications

Fastest Growing Product in the Marke



So What Is UCS?

QUESTION #1-A



A SINGLE COMPONDOES NOT MAKE A SUCS



TO UNDERSTAND UCS

YOU NEED TO SEE THE

WHOLE PICTURE



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• All tools in one device

• One User Interface• Consistent Experience• Scalable (More Apps)• Ground Breaking Innovations• Built for the Cloud

The magic is how Smartphone makers unifyall tools together within a singular device and

manages it all with a single user interface



Every customer,in every data center,already has a set of

common technologies:

Servers

Storage

Networking

Management

Definition of Fabr

Computing:

A set of compute, sto

memory & networ

components joined thra fabric interconnect a

software to configu

and manage them



How did we get here

QUESTION #2



Blade Server Chassis

Chassis Manager $$

Ethernet Modules $$

FC Modules $$



Management Network

Ethernet Network

Storage Area Network

All this stuff costs money and I h

pay to license and manage it



Mgmt Server MgmEmbed management

Unify Fabrics (wire once)

Optimize virtualization –Treat a virtual object like physical object (VNLink)

–Performance and Scale (more vm per server)

Remove unnecessary –switches

–adapters

–management modulesLess than 1/3rd the supportinfrastructure for a given workload

Mgmt Server



Mgmt Server• A single system that encompasses: – Network: Unified fabric

– Compute: Industry standard x86 – Storage: FC, FCoE, iSCSI

– Virtualization optimized

• Unified management model – Dynamic and rapid resource provisioning (Service Profiles)

• Efficient Scale

– Cisco network scale & services – Fewer servers with more memory

• Lower cost – Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables

– Lower power consumption

– Fewer points of management



UCS ManagerEmbedded – manages entire UCS

UCS Fabric Interconnect10GE unified fabric switch

UCS Fabric ExtenderIO Module

UCS Blade Server ChassisFlexible bay configurations

UCS Blade and Rack Servers

x86 industry standardPatented extended memory

UCS I/O Adapters

Choice of multiple adapters

AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OPTIMIZES DATA CENTER

EFFICIENCY



Server Health Monitoring

Multi-Chassis Server Identity Manager

Servers 1-8

Servers 17-24

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Servers 33-40

Servers 49-56

Servers 65-72

Servers 81-88

Servers 97-104

Servers 113-120

Servers 129-136

Servers 145-152

Ethernet

Fiber Channel

Server Hea

Multi-chassis Serv

Blade & Chass

Fabric Interconnect A

Legacy Blade Architecture

Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC Switch

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How can I manage and futilize all this technologwithout adding complex

and doing it quickly?

QUESTION #3



Every house requires a

detailing how to build it

To build that house we nof inter-working, necessfrom plumbing, electricity

air, waste, and structure

We can think of servers same way….

Simply A Blueprint



Legacy Servers require a lot of manual intervention

NIC MACs

HBA WWNs

Server UUID

VLAN Assignments

VLAN Tagging

FC Fabrics AssignmentsFC Boot Parameters

Number of vNICs

Boot order

PXE settings

IPMI Settings

Number of vHBAs

QoS

Call Home

Template Association

Org & Sub Org Assoc.

Server Pool Association

Statistic Thresholds

BIOS scrub actionsDisk scrub actions

BIOS firmware

Adapter firmware

BMC firmware

RAID settings

Advanced NIC settings

Serial over LAN settings

BIOS Settings

SAN

LAN

Server Identity &Personality



Service

Profile1

ServiceProfile2

ServiceProfile3

ServiceProfile x

UCS Service Profiles reduce complexity and speed up deployment

NIC MACs

HBA WWNs

Server UUID

VLAN Assignments

VLAN Tagging

FC Fabrics AssignmentsFC Boot Parameters

Number of vNICs

Boot order

PXE settings

IPMI Settings

Number of vHBAs

QoS

Call Home

Template Association

Org & Sub Org Assoc.

Server Pool Association

Statistic Thresholds

BIOS scrub actionsDisk scrub actions

BIOS firmware

Adapter firmware

BMC firmware

RAID settings

Advanced NIC settings

Serial over LAN settings

BIOS Settings

Server Identity &PersonalityTo build our server…

Make one or more uniqueprofile copies from a

template (i.e. ourblueprint )

Associate a single profile

to a single server.Repeat for more servers

as needed

Rapidly deploy anynumber of servers in just

a few clicks!



• Extremely Rapid Deployment

• Rapid Recovery In Event of Failure

• Easy Migration Path to Upgrade of Servers to new H

• Repurpose Blades as needed

• Disaster Recovery• Works with both Rack and Blade

• Other ideas?



• Fewer manual steps – Adjust BIOS, Firmware, NIC & SAN Settings: 120 parameters in all, a “s

– Edit storage controller settings

• Decreased chances of human error – Firmware updates become automatic with the update of the master s

• Easier repeatability and faster server provisioning – Higher RAS

– Lower software costs• Enforce greater consistency

• Simplified cloning and copying

• Move service profiles from rack to blade and blade to

• Group, undo and single-operation firmware updates



What about managing

rest of my data cente

QUESTION #4



UCSM Takes Care of All In

the UCS Domain

– Discovery, Inventory, MonitoriStatistics Collection, Configur

Blades, Storage Connections,

Speaks GUI, CLI, SNMP, IP

CLP

AND / OR

UCS Manager

GUI

CLI Packaged SystemsManagement Software

User Developed Portal,Tools, Utilities

OPEN XML APIs for integ

new and existing data ce

infrastructure



Manage UCS with Industry Standard Tools

Service OrchestrationProvisioning and Configuration

Monitoring and Analysis

Third Party Management

Unified Control APIService Profiles

Cisco UCS Pools

Cisco UCS Manager

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Unified Management at Scale

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 1

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 2

• Unifies management of multi UCS domains

• Simplify global operations with centralizedinventory, faults, logs and server consoles

• Delivers global policies, service profiles, IDpools and templates

• Foundation for high availabilirecovery and workload mobil

• Model based API for large sca



• Turn-Key Solution; ready for use in ho• A single, integrated, out-of-the-box so

• Enforce Best Practices with ConsistenInfrastructure Policies

• Seamless virtual and physical resourc

• Hypervisor agnostic• End-to-End Automation

• Model-based automation - no need fo

• Single-click policy-driven provisioning

• Ongoing lifecycle management

Self Service Infrastructure Provisioning

QUESTION #5



OK, you have myattention. Where can

to find out more?

QUESTION #5



• Data Sheets

• Validated Designs• White Papers• Quick Start Guides• Bundles & Promos

Or you can ask your local DCTeam for a demonstration

www.cisco.co

• Data Sheets

• Validated De• White Paper• Best Practic• Quick Start G• Bundles & P

Or you can asDC Teamdemonst

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs



• UCS is a truly innovative way of bringing together infrastr

all have in the data center, but we understand that infrastonly the foundation. The real value is in applications and

• Sign up for my other session on UCS and Applications. Aon how UCS can act as the foundation upon which your a

can run better than ever.

• Today 14:15-15:15 in Session Room #2

QUESTIONS?



…AND THANK YOU

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