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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS): Changing the Economics of the Datacenter

PSODCT-1401

Bill Shields, Marketing Manager MBA, PMP, CSSGB

Connecting UCS technology innovations to TCO improvement

© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. PSODCT-1401 Cisco Public

Agenda

• Connecting UCS technology innovations to

TCO improvement

• Real world customer results

• Q&A

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Data Center Economics

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29%

22% 12%

11%

10%

7% 7% 2%

People SoftwareEnergy / Facilities ServersNetworking StorageDisaster Recovery Overhead

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$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

Power & Cooling ExpenseMgmt. & Administration—Virtual Servers Mgmt. & Administration—Standalone Servers

Overall Spend Distribution Server-related Spend (CAPEX+OPEX) – WW Spending on Servers, Power & Cooling, Mgmt. / Administration

Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio” Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter”; IDC, 2011


Cost Categories Impacted by Cisco UCS

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Servers &

Warranty

SingleConnect,

Networking,

Cabling &

Warranty

Power &

Cooling

Provisioning

& Ongoing

Administration Systems

Management

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Unified Fabric • Radical Infrastructure Simplification

• Efficient scaling

• High performance

Unified Management • Embedded device management

• Self-integrating

• Stateless

• Automated

• Programmable

Servers


Data Center Economics

7

• Virtual Interface Cards and Unified Fabric

• Pool & reduce hot spares using UCSM Service Profiles

• Eliminate management servers

• Improve consolidation with large memory and industry leading performance

Eliminate I/O

Adapters

Buy Fewer

Servers


Virtual Interface Cards

8

256 interfaces vs.

8 to 14 per

2-port adapter

Replaces traditional

approach of Multiple

NIC’s & HBA’s per

server: SingleConnect.

Up to 80Gb

bandwidth

vs. 20Gb

VM-FEX


1x 1-Gbps Management

2x 1-Gbps Production Data


1x 1-Gbps vMotion

1x 1-Gbps vmconsole

1x 1-Gbps vmkernel

2x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel

Top-of-Rack Switches

Ethernet Top-of-

Rack Switches

Ethernet Management

Network Switch

Eliminating Server I/O Adapters

9

Traditional

Rack Server Per Server

Cisco UCS C-Series

Rack Server

4 Physical NICs/HBAs 1

9 Cables 2

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects

Cisco Nexus Fabric

Extenders

2x 10-Gbps Unified

Fabric Data and

Management


Buy Fewer Servers

Without UCS Service Profiles

• Silos individually provisioned for peak demand and failures

• Idle hotspare servers require application specific HW & Firmware Image configurations

With UCS Service Profiles:

• Configure and provision bare metal on the fly with application specific Service Profile Templates

• Availability and burst capacity delivered with fewer spares

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Total Servers:

18

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Rack

Rack

Rack

Rack

Rack

Database

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Virtualized

Apps

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Rack

Rack

Rack

Database

Blade

Blade

Blade

Virtualized

Apps

Blade

Blade

Rack

Total Servers:

14

Blade

Spares Pool

Hot Spare Burst Capacity Spare Live / Production


Buy Fewer Servers

Superior technology fueling industry-leading application performance

Cisco UCS: 90 World Records

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21 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

6 Database

14 Enterprise

Application

15 Enterprise

Middleware

17 HPC

Improved end-user

experiences

Increased business velocity

Reduced software licensing costs

Reduced infrastructure

footprint

Additional Information: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/industry_benchmarks.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/industry_benchmarks.html


21 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

6 Database

14 Enterprise

Application

15 Enterprise

Middleware

17 HPC

Buy Fewer Servers



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Fewer VMware Licenses

$995 - $3,495 +

$323 - $874 support




Buy Fewer Servers



13

Fewer Servers & Fewer Licenses

21 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

6 Database

14 Enterprise

Application

15 Enterprise

Middleware

17 HPC



Infrastructure & Cabling


Infrastructure Cost Reduction

15

• Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers

• Fewer Switches = Fewer Cables

Eliminate

Switches

Eliminate

Cables


UCS Cabling: Radical Simplification

Traditional Rack

Ad hoc and inconsistent

Cisco UCS

Simplified

Traditional Blade

Structured, but siloed complicated

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Evolution of Complexity

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2 x FC Switches2 x Enet Switches

2 x Rack Managersfor

40 Rack Servers

Infrastructure

Servers

Traditional Rack


Evolution of Complexity

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Mini-Rack

1

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2

Mini-Rack

3

Mini-Rack

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Infrastructure

Servers

Infrastructure

Servers

Infrastructure

Servers

Infrastructure

Servers

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Servers

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2 x FC Switches2 x Enet Switches

2 x Rack Managersfor

40 Rack Servers

Infrastructure

Servers

Replicate Complexity for every 16 servers

Traditional Rack


Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric

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Ethernet Fibre

Channel Management

Complexity in

Traditional Environments



20

Ethernet Fibre

Channel Management

Unified Fabric

Complexity in


Single,

multi-protocol fabric

SingleConnect



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Ethernet

One Network

Fabric

One Network

One Layer

SingleConnect

Fibre

Channel Management

Physically

distributed,

centrally

managed

Cisco Fabric Extender

Architecture Unified Fabric

Complexity in


Single,

multi-protocol fabric

SingleConnect


Fabric Based Infrastructure

• SingleConnect

– Common access layer networking model

– Ethernet, SAN, Management combined

– Cable for bandwidth vs. connectivity

Blade & Rack

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Ethernet

Storage

Management


UCS – No Infrastructure Penalty to Scale

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BLADE CHASSIS SAVINGS AT SCALE—BLADE SLOT SOLUTION UCS: UCS 5108 chassis with UCS 6248 FI (two uplinks per FEX)

HP: HP c7000 Plat chassis w/ 2x VC Flex Fabric and 16x HP IC. Price includes HP VCEM each chassis

IBM: IBM Flex Chassis with 2x CN4093 switches, one Mgmt Node every 4 chassis, FSM license each chassis

Cisco pricing MSRP on 02/12/2014.

HP pricing publically available on 02/12/2014.

IBM pricing publically available 02/12/2014.

All pricing is for blade chassis and networking only. Servers are not included.

$64,103 $75,839 $99,311

$128,700 $146,354

$181,661

$216,967

$60,545

$121,090 $181,635

$242,180

$302,725

$363,270

$78,656

$144,063

$209,470

$274,877

$340,284

$405,691

$471,098

$0

$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

13 14 16 17 24 32 40 48 55 56 64 72 80 88 96

Total Number of Chassis Blade Server Slots

Cisco UCS

HP c7000

IBM Flex

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HP is $45,251 more to get

ready to add a 17th server.

Cisco UCS is 37% less than HP

IBM Flex is $79,960 more to get

ready to add a 14th compute server.

Cisco UCS is 55% less than IBM.


Unified Fabric: Rack Server Environment

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1x 1-Gbps Management



1x 1-Gbps vMotion

1x 1-Gbps vmconsole

1x 1-Gbps vmkernel

2x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel

Top-of-Rack Switches

Ethernet Top-of-Rack

Switches

Ethernet Management

Network Switch

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects

Cisco Nexus Fabric

Extenders

2x 10-Gbps Unified Fabric

Data and Management


Comparison of Rack Server I/O

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Traditional Rack Server Cisco Rack Server Cisco Wins: Deltas

1 Server 4 Adapters 1 Adapters 3

9 Cables 2 Cables 7

10 Servers 40 Adapters 10 Adapters 30

90 Cables 20 Cables 70






Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers

• 3-Year TCO

– 44% overall savings

– $15,383 3-year per node overall savings

Cisco UCS C240 M3 vs. HP DL380p Gen8

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Savings Breakdown

Server hardware & warranty 30%

Switch hardware & warranty, cabling 64%

Power & cooling 16%

Initial provisioning & ongoing server & networking administration 46%

Systems management software licenses and warranty 100%



• 3-Year TCO



Cisco UCS C240M3 vs. HP DL380p Gen8

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Complexity of Traditional Rack Server Environment

1Gb Ethernet Access

10Gb Ethernet Aggregation

Fibre Channel Edge

Fibre Channel Core

OOB Management

Switch hardware & warranty, cabling – 64%



• 3-Year TCO




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Switch hardware & warranty, cabling – 64% VS.



• 3-Year TCO




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Switch hardware & warranty, cabling – 64%

Simplified UCS Rack Solution

Fabric Interconnects

Nexus 2232



• 3-Year TCO




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Switch hardware & warranty, cabling – 64% 20 Fewer

Switches


$3,476,134 $308,558

$302,036

$29,484 $782,001

$100,470 $1,937,848

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$3,500,000


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Servers &

Warranty Power &

Cooling

Provisioning &

Administration Systems

Management

SingleConnect,

Networking,

Cabling &

Warranty

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This graph compares the 3-year TCO for 100 HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Servers with the 3-year TCO for 100 Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Servers. Each

server has two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2620v2 CPUs, 64 GB of memory. HP networking includes six 1 Gigabit Ethernet and two 16-Gbps Fibre Channel

connections for the HP rack servers. This is compared with the Cisco VIC 1225 dual-port 10-Gbps unified fabric adapter for Cisco rack servers and

corresponding switches. Pricing is as of March 27, 2014.


77% average reduction in cabling with an average cost savings of 71% based on 28 & 7 customer case studies respectively.

90% Savings

"The savings on cabling alone were around 90 percent. And this means not only one-off savings on investment costs, but also similarly reduced installation and maintenance expenses in Virtual Core customer projects.“ KAMP Netzwerkdienste GmbH

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Cost dropped 70%

"Cabling costs alone have dropped by about 70 percent in the new data center, a significant figure because they used to represent up to 30 percent of each new deployment." Almaviva Tele Sistemi Ferroviari

60% Reduction

UCS has cut the number of cables required by more than 60 percent. Groupe Steria SCA

Power & Cooling


Power & Cooling Cost Reduction

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• Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers

• Fewer servers

• Fewer switches

Eliminate

Infrastructure


Power & Cooling – System Level Savings

• Smaller blade server increments reduces “stranded capacity”

• Easier power management with UCS Manager – No extra software to buy saving both CapEx and OpEx

• Industry leading virtualization performance improves server consolidation ratios

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Power & Cooling – System Level Savings

• Fewer adapters to support IO requirements

• Fewer switches with a unified fabric – In the chassis and TOR

• Fewer cables for better airflow through the rack

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Efficient Cisco UCS servers have also significantly reduced power and cooling in the data center. Transitioning to Cisco UCS lowered the average temperature in the data center from 73 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit, decreasing the need for powerful cooling fans. Combined with the reduced power consumption associated with the Cisco UCS blade servers, OCS cut power consumption by two-thirds in the data center for a significant cost savings.

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Minnesota Wild reduce power by 63 percent and operate the data centers with 68 percent lower cooling costs.

“We’ve seen a 90 percent reduction in energy use.”

Average of 53% reduction in power & cooling costs based on 60 customer case studies.

Provisioning


Extend Investment in

Existing Tools

Extend the Reach

of SME’s

Infrastructure Cost Reduction

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• UCS Manager embedded in all system devices

• UCS Manager: Auto-discovery, self integrating components

Eliminate Manual

Configuration

Automation Replaces

Repetitive Tasks • UCS Service Profiles

• Policy based management

• Seamless integration with existing tools equals no

stranded systems management investments

• UCS Manager and UCS Central allow administrators to scale

across larger installations and across data center/geo’s


System Management

• UCS Manager for a single domain (160 servers and access layer networking)

True “Single pane of glass” Management

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System Management

• UCS Manager for a single domain (160 servers and access layer networking)

• UCS Central across multiple domains


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Traditional Element Configuration

• Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores

• Serial processes and multiple touches inhibit provisioning speed

• Configuration drift and maintenance challenges

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Storage SME Server SME Network SME

• FC Fabric assignments

for HBAs

• RAID settings

• Disk scrub

actions

• Number of vHBAs

• HBA WWN

assignments

• FC Boot Parameters

• HBA firmware

• VLAN assignments for NICs

• VLAN tagging config for

NICs

• QoS settings

• Border port assignment

per vNIC

• NIC Transmit/Receive

Rate Limiting

• Server UUID

• Serial over LAN settings

• Boot order

• IPMI settings

• BIOS scrub actions

• BIOS firmware

• BIOS Settings

• Remote KVM IP settings

• Call Home behavior

• Remote KVM firmware

LAN SAN


UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction

• Abstraction of bare-metal configuration and server identity

• Encapsulated in Cisco service profiles

• Available through an intuitive GUI, CLI or XML API

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Programmable Infrastructure Cisco Service Profile

Automated, Policy-Based

Configuration of Entire

Hardware Stack

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server or

C-Series Rack-Mount Server

• Unique user ID (UUID), firmware

revisions, and RAID controller settings

• Service profile assigned to server,

chassis slot, or pool

Cisco Virtual Interface Cards

• Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address, VLAN,

and QoS settings; host bus adapter

HBA configuration: worldwide names

(WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth

constraints; and firmware revisions

Cisco UCS 6200

Series Fabric Interconnects

• Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN,

QoS, and EtherChannel

• Server port configuration including LAN

and SAN settings



1. Subject Matter Experts Define Policies

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Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…

Virtualization Policy…

Application Profiles…

Unified Management




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Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…



2. Policies Used to Create Service Profile Template

Unified Management

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy




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Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…



2. Policies Used to Create Service Profile Template

Unified Management

3. Server Profile Templates Create Service Profiles

4. Associates Service Profiles with Hardware Configures Servers Automatically

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name

UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy


UCS Blades Deploy 77% Faster with 67% Fewer Steps

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Deployment Times Number of Steps

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Cisco UCS

HP ProLiant

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Cisco UCS

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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/ucs77_faster_v_hp_for_blade_deployment.pdf

http://bit.ly/UCS-Deploy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSQfNt7SFk


"... bringing up a new server hosting several virtual machines took only 4 hours rather than the 3 days we had experienced before. One thing that stood out is that a single person can accomplish the task of building a system rather than requiring three people to deal with the same need.”

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“With Cisco UCS Manager, provisioning 64 Cisco UCS Blade Servers to develop a new customer solution takes about an hour,” Shah says. “Provisioning 64 of our other servers generally takes 8-16 hours of staff time."

“… server deployment time has been reduced by between 80 and 90 percent, which means IT staff can focus more on mission critical or value added tasks.”

Average 86% reduction in provisioning times based on 84 customer case studies.

Ongoing Administration


Industry Leading Compute Infrastructure API

• Standards-based XML API presents bidirectional single interface to entire solution

• UCS offers the customers the broadest choice of Cisco or 3rd party management tools

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XML API

UCSM Single UCS Domain

UCS CLI Cisco UCSM UCS Central Third Party

goUCS Automation Tools

CDN .NET/PowerShell, Perl XML

UCS Platform Emulator

Customer



UCS Director UCS Director


Cisco UCS: Systems Management Choice

• Service orchestration, provisioning & configuration, and monitoring


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Automated Infrastructure

Deployment

Seamless Management across

global operations

Consistent infrastructure policies

enforce best practices

Manage hardware with the

flexibility of software

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UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager

Extend SME Reach and Scale

• Unifies management of multiple UCS domains & thousands of servers

• Centralizes global policies, service profiles, ID pools and templates

• Simplifies global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs and server consoles

• Foundation for efficient global administration, high availability and workload mobility

• Built on UCS Manager technology; combines local performance and tiered control

• Model based API for large scale automation and integration

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Furthermore, with the UCS platform, AUS is seeing a twofold improvement in performing routine administrative tasks. “For example, operations that once took a minute are now taking just under 30 seconds,” says Nujumi. “Multiply that by the thousands of such minor tasks we do, and it translates into the team spending much more time on service improvement and strategic issues.”

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Average 74% reduction of ongoing admin/management costs based on 33 customer case studies.

“The Cisco environment is so easy to manage that we were able move more than 50% of the staff to other high-value roles,” ” says McIntosh. “Staff is now contributing to other vital areas of the business, such as disaster recovery planning and other activities.”

"In the past an IT manager could manage 15 systems. Now they can manage 50 systems.”

System Management


Systems Management Software

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• UCS Manager embedded in the product, no additional charge

Eliminate

Systems

Management

Licensing

• UCS Manager runs in the Fabric Interconnects, accessed via API

Eliminate

Management

Servers


Complexity vs. Simplicity

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Function HP Cisco

Local And Remote Administration iLO / Onboard Administrator

UCS Manager

Detect Hardware Faults Systems Insight Manager

Update System Software Systems Insight Manager

Inventory Tracking Systems Insight Manager

Spot Deploy Critical Server Updates Onboard Administrator

Virtualized LAN/SAN Connectivity Virtual Connect

Multi-chassis Address Server Management Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

Logical Server Abstraction Matrix Operating Environment

Power Management Insight Control / iLO

REQUIRED MANAGEMENT INTERFACES 7 1


UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity

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HP c7000 – HP Server Hardware Management

– Multiple Layers of Software Required

Cisco UCS – UCS Manager

– 1 Console

– No added Cost

– Rack and Blade Together

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP Insight Control

HP System Insight Manager



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– 1 Console

– No added Cost








Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

HP Insight Control




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– 1 Console

– No added Cost





HP Insight Control





Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager







No mixing of rack and blade

Separate Management - Every Chassis, All Software

Separate Ethernet & Fibre Channel I/O leaving the chassis

Up to 160 blade servers

Up to 160 total servers - rack or blade

Unified Management & Unified Fabric


Extend Reach of SMEs Globally

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UCS Manager

Server Chassis Domain


Extend Reach of SMEs Globally

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UCS Manager

Server Chassis Domain

UCS Central

Single Datacenter Global Datacenters

Real World TCO Examples


Loughborough University

“When we compared the legacy server and network with one based on Cisco UCS, TCO effectively halves over a five-year investment lifecycle.”

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Dr. Phil Richards

Director of IT, Loughborough University



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• 5-Year TCO



Savings Breakdown



Power & cooling 49%

Initial provisioning & ongoing server & networking administration 79%

Virtualization software licenses and warranty 39%



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$1,814,456 $272,990

$245,195

$214,253

$14,531 $131,820

$935,667

$0

$200,000

$400,000

$600,000

$800,000

$1,000,000

$1,200,000

$1,400,000

$1,600,000

$1,800,000

$2,000,000

Servers &

Warranty

Networking,

Cabling

& Warranty

Power &

Cooling Provisioning

Virtualization

Software

Exis

ting R

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ount

Solu

tion

UC

S S

olu

tion

$871,476

Savings

Comparison of existing 47 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth transitioning to Cisco UCS B200. Five year life cycle. Study conducted May 1 2012 – July 26, 2012


Major Travel Services Provider

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• 5-Year TCO



Savings Breakdown



Power & cooling 69%

Initial provisioning 79%


Major Travel Services Provider

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$1,055,931

$2,037,077

$989,691

$8,719,384

$5,000,000

$6,000,000

$7,000,000

$8,000,000

$9,000,000

$10,000,000

$11,000,000

$12,000,000

$13,000,000

$14,000,000

Servers &

Warranty

Networking,

Cabling

& Warranty

Power &

Cooling

Initial

Provisioning

Com

pe

tito

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ackm

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nt S

olu

tio

n

UC

S S

olu

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$5,553,638

Savings

$14,273,022 $1,470,939

Comparison of existing 482 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth vs. Cisco UCS B-

Series. Five year life cycle. Study conducted May 2011 – September 2011.


Real Innovation Improves TCO

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UC

S S

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Com

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ount

Solu

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Unified Fabric • Radical Infrastructure Simplification

• Efficient scaling

• High performance

Unified Management • Embedded device management

• Self-integrating

• Stateless

• Automated

• Programmable

Systems

Management

Software

Networking,

Cabling

& Warranty

Servers &

Warranty

Provisioning

& Ongoing

Administration

Power &

Cooling


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