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Shivakumar Shastri

Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineering, Cisco Systems Inc.

EMC VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director

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VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director

• Cisco UCS B, C-Series Servers.

• Cisco Nexus switching: 1000v for Virtual switching

N5K for Access layer.

• EMC VNX Series storage

• VMWare ESXi 5.1 / 5.5

• 300 to 1000 VMs

UCS Director

VMs & Bare-MetalApplication Ready

Infrastructure

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Essential Characteristics

Service Models------------------------------------------

Deployment Models

Rapid ElasticityBroad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Public Private Hybrid Community

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Resource Pooling

VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director NIST Definition

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Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid Elasticity Broad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

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Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid Elasticity Broad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

UCS Manager

Stateless Computing through Service Profiles.

Efficient: Same effort for 1 to 160 blades.

API’s for integration.

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ServerChassis

DomainDatacenter

GlobalDatacenters

UCS Central

UCS Manager

Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid ElasticityBroad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

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Cisco Management Overview

Manage multiple

UCS Domains

Manages ACI Fabric

UCS CENTRAL

UCS DIRECTOR Centralized infrastructure control point for data center

APIC

INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Private Cloud, PaaS (DevOps), Hybrid Cloud

Manage Compute, Network &

Storage across data centers.

Manage Single UCS domain

UCS MANAGER

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TrustSec Security:Context & Role BasedDistributedPolicy Driven

Benefits:Scalable -> Secure Gateway Tags Management -> Identity Services Engine

Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid ElasticityBroad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

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Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid ElasticityBroad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

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UCS Director All-Inclusive Consumption Reporting

o Starting point between IT and users of resources on understanding consumption rateso Ability to add costs for chargeback capabilities

o Reporting tool formalizes information for consumers

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Essential IaaS Characteristics

Rapid ElasticityBroad Network

AccessMeasured Service

On-Demand Self Service

Resource Pooling

Out of box Self-Service Portal

Budget validation

Provisioning upon approvals

Alerts/notification on service requests

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UCS Director Approvals

o Approvals for IT admin, change control or other appropriate approvals inserted into workflows o Email, texts to individual when approval is pending

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Challenges:

• Manual processes

• Complex handoffs (silos)

Result:

• Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services

• High operational cost

• Sub-optimal utilization

Application Deployment Process

Net

wo

rk A

dm

in

Update Trunks

Create VLANs

Configure SAN Zoning

Create UCS Service Profiles

Create Network Policies

Ser

ver

Ad

min

Sto

rag

e Create LUNs

Create Storage Pools

Storage PolicyCreate

Mount PointsNFS Mount

Add Users and Groups

IT Planning

ApprovalsDefine

Cost Models

Bu

siness A

pp

lication

R

equ

iremen

ts

1

2

3

4

5

6

AppWebWeb App

Bare-Metal HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR

DB

Hyper-v Host

Bare-Metal

Bare-Metal

Configure

Servers

Bare MetalProvisioning

Setup Servers

Add VLAN to Serv. Profile

Create VLAN

Create Storage Resources – LUNs/Vols

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Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…

Virtualization Policy…

Application Profiles…

Unified Management - Aligns People, Policy, and Configuration with Business

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies

Policies Used to Create Service

Profile SAN and Storage

2

vSwitchNexus 1000vVI

SME

StorageSME

ServerSME

NetworkSME

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware PolicySAN ZoningCreate and MAP LUN

Provision Physical and VI

3System is ready for Use

4

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Storage Configuration

Virtual Infrastructure Configuration

Network Configuration

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Automated Self-ServiceProvisioning

Architect

Design

Locate

Procure

Install Configure

Secure

Ready

Manual

CapacityOn-Demand

Policy-BasedProvisioning Adaptive

With UCS Director

Faster Time To Market (TTM)

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Secure Simple Scalable

Summary

VISME

StorageSME

ServerSME

NetworkSME

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Thank you.

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