June 1, 2016

Cisco UCS Mini Solutions

Cisco UCS Mini Integrated Infrastructure

SmartStack with VMware vSphere 6.0

• Cisco UCS Mini

• Nimble Storage CS300 Array

• VMware vSphere 6.0

• Optional Nexus 9372 PX

• Optional C-Series rack serves

• Flexible configuration options

• Adaptive Flash platform

• In-line compression

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Design CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-SmartStack-CVD

Deployment CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-SmartStack-Deploy

SmartStack for VDI – VMware Horizon 6 View

• Cisco UCS Mini

• Nimble Storage CS300 Array

• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & SQL Server 2012

• VMware Horizon 6 with View Composer

• VMware Horizon 6 with View Connection server and

administration console

• Self-contained virtualization solution to host 350

desktops.

• VMware Horizon 6 with View.

• Showcases non-persistent linked clone-based

virtual desktops and VMware Horizon RDSH

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Cisco Nexus Switches

Cisco 6324 FI

Cisco 5108Blade Chassis

4x B200 Servers

Nimble StorageCS300 Array

10 GE

AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-AAG

Configuration Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-VD2

SmartStack for VDI – Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

Pooled Hosted Virtual

Desktops

Windows 7 with Office 2010

Hosted Shared Desktops

Windows Server 2012 with

Office 2010

• Cisco UCS Mini

• Nimble Storage CS300 Array

• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 and vCenter 5.5

• Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers

(optional)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6

• Self-contained desktop virtualization solution for

500 desktops

• Based on Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

• Uses non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructure

(VDI) desktops and remote desktop service

(RDS) server desktops

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-AAG

Configuration Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-VD1

FlexPod Design Guide Overview

Overview of the UCS Mini FlexPod CVDs

Design Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Design-Guide

FlexPod Data Center with Cisco UCS Mini Direct

Attached SAN Storage Design

FlexPod Data Center with Cisco UCS Mini IP-

Base Storage Design

FlexPod Express with Fibre Channel

• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12

servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.

• FAS 2552 supports maximum of

144 drives.

• VMware 5.5 U 1 hypervisor

• Direct FC connection between compute

and storage – reduced cost & latency.

• VM redundancy through Ethernet

switches (vMotion).

• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for

remote management.

UCS-Mini

FAS 2552

Standard Switch

Workload VMs

VMware ESX Cluster

Web

ESX -Node1

to Node8

VM

Management &

Infrastructure VMs

db

App

VM

VM

vCenter SQL db

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Express

FlexPod Data Center with Fibre ChannelNexus 9300

UCS-Mini

FAS 2552

UCS C-Series

UCS Ethernet Only UCS FC Direct Attached

• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12

servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.

• FAS 2552 supports maximum of 144

drives.

• VMware 5.5 U1 hypervisor

• Direct FC connection between compute

and storage – reduced cost & latency.

• VM redundancy through Ethernet

switches (vMotion).

• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for

remote management.

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-VMware

FlexPod Express with iSCSI

• UCS Mini

• NetApp FAS 255x

• Nexus 3524

• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor

• iSCSI booted hosts

• Ethernet storage only

• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual

PortChannels (vPCs)

• Support for up to 14 servers

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Express-iSCSI

FlexPod Data Center with iSCSI

• UCS Mini

• NetApp FAS 255x

• Nexus 9372PX

• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor

• iSCSI booted hosts

• Ethernet storage only

• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual

PortChannels (vPCs)

• Support for up to 14 servers

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-iSCSI

FlexPod Data Center with iSCSI

• UCS Mini

• NetApp FAS 255x

• Nexus 9372PX

• VMware 6 hypervisor

• iSCSI booted hosts

• Ethernet storage only

• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual

PortChannels (vPCs)

• Support for up to 12 servers

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-IP-VM6

FlexPod Express – XenDesktop & vSphere

• UCS Manager 3.0(2c)

• UCS B200 M4

• NetApp FAS2552

• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3

• Nexus 9372 (standalone)

• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6

• VMware vSphere 5.5 U2

• Up to 700 mixed use-case users

• N+1 server fault tolerance

• 10 RU solution

• 100% virtualized solution

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Exp-Xen-vSphere

VersaStack with IP Storage

• UCS Mini

• IBM Storwize V5000

• Nexus 9372 or 9396

• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor

• iSCSI SAN

• Support for C-Series rack servers

• IBM Thin-provisioning & Easy Tier

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-VersaStack

Nexus Switches

UCS Mini with

6324 FIs

Optional C-Series

Rack Servers

IBM Storwize V5000

VSPEX VMware Branch Office - 100 VMs

• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory

• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s

• Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload

• VMware 5.5 u 1 hypervisor

• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management

• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini • Central management with UCS Central• File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on

EMC VNXe 3200 storage

Remote /Branch Office

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

Workload VMs

Management &

Infrastructure VMs

db

App

Web

vCenter SQL

db

Node1 to Node8

VMware Cluster

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-vSphere-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-vSphere

VSPEX Hyper-V Branch Office - 100 VMs

• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory

• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s

• Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management

Remote /Branch Office

VM VM

VM VM

VM VM

Workload VMs

Management &

Infrastructure VMs

db

App

Web

SCVMM

SQL

db

Node1 to Node8

Hyper-V Cluster

• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini

• Central management with UCS Central

• File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on

EMC VNXe 3200 storage

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-HyperV-SB

CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-HyperV

FlashStack Mini

• Cisco UCS Mini

• Pure Storage Flash Array M10

• Up to 25TB of effective capacity in 3 RU

• ~100,000 32K IOPS

• 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-FlashStack

Business Applications

JD Edwards Solution

Oracle DB

Server VM

Enterprise

Server VM

HTML

Server VM

Oracle

VM

Manager

Enterprise

Server VM

HTML

Server VM JDE

Deployment

Server

Manager• Cisco UCS Mini

• Nimble Storage CS300

• Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1

• Oracle Database 11gR2

• Oracle Linux with un-breakable enterprise kernel (uek)

• Oracle VM (with Oracle VM template for JD Edwards)

• Highly reliable Oracle JD Edwards environment

• 7-10x faster deployment time

• Lower TCO – Oracle licenses based on vCPU (not total cores)

• Supports 1200-1400 users

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-JDE-SB

White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-JDE

Nimble Storage SmartStack with Microsoft Applications

Microsoft

Windows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

• Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

• Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect

• Nimble Storage CS-Series storage array

• Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash, eliminating

the flash memory performance and

capacity trade-off

• Capability to scale storage performance

and capacity independently and non-

disruptively

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-MS-Apps-AAG

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect

Nimble Storage CS-Series storage array

VDI with C240 M4 and NVIDA GRID GPUMicrosoft

Windows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

• Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect

• Cisco UCS C240 M4 with

NVIDIA GRID K1 or K2

• Accelerated high-performance and

graphics-intensive applications for smaller

environments

• Cisco UCS Manager integration for

management of the servers and GRID

cards

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-C240-GRID

Cisco UCS Mini with 6324 Fabric Interconnect

C240 M4 with NVIDA GRID K1 or K2

SAP and HANA TDIMicrosoft

Windows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

• B200 M3/M4 Blade Servers

• C220/C240 M3/M4 Rack Servers

• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect

• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers and Intel

Xeon processor E5-2699v3 CPUs yields a SAP

Application Performance Standard (SAPS) score

of up to 689,872.

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-SAP-AAG

Other Storage Solutions

StorMagic on Blades

• Cisco UCS Mini

• B200 M4 Blades

• StorMagic SvSAN VSA

• VMware vSphere

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Single addressable storage pool across multiple nodes

• Simple, factory-preconfigured solution

• Quick to deploy: designed with ROBO environments in

mind

• Centralized storage management across multisite

deployments

Solution Brief – http://cs.co/Mini-StorMagic-Blades

Deployment Guide – http://cs.co/Mini-SvSAN-DG

Windows Storage Services

Cisco UCS Mini Chassis

Cisco UCS C240 M3

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RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 5

Cisco UCS C240 M3 (LSI Mega RAID)

Storage

Spaces

Storage

Pool

Storage

Pool

Microsoft Windows

File Server

Hyper-V ClusterCisco

UCS

B200 M3

SMB

Highly Available VMs Microsoft

Windows Server

2012 R2 Hyper-V

Windows

2012 R2

Storage

Virtualization

Layer

Share1 Share2

\\FS\Share2

• Cisco UCS Mini with B-200 M3 and C-240

M3 Servers

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V

• Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Storage

Virtualization

• All read and cached data from the UCS-

Mini / C240 M3

• Transactional data synchronized with

Data Center

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-MS-Storage-Server

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

• Cisco UCS Mini

• SDS Software

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Eliminates downtime of business critical applications at

the edge

• Eliminates need for SAN and expensive shared storage

• Enables management of sites from one central platform

StorMagic C240 M3 White Paper – http://cs.co/Mini-StorMagic-WP

Where is all this stuff?

• UCS Mini product page

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-mini/index.html

• Box

https://cisco.box.com/UCS-Mini-One-Stop-Shopping

• Cisco Validated Design Program

http://cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone

• DCG

https://dcg.cisco.com/ucs-pm-files/ucs-mini-overview

Where is all this stuff?