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UCS Best Practices in VM Environments

Jeff Silberman : UCS Technical Marketing

Co-Sponsored by Intel®

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Cisco UCS Leadership & Momentum

Unified Infrastructure:

compute, networking,

virtualization, storage

access, management

software

Management Automation:

Service Profiles accelerate

application deployment

Design flexibility: scale

and management

simplicity across systems

and across data centers

Ideal Cloud Infrastructure:

UCS is Cisco’s silver

bullet in winning the cloud

built-out

Data Center $2 billion annualized revenue run rate (Q3FY2013), growing 77% Y/Y

#2 Worldwide x86 blade server market share with 19.3%

#2 Americas x86 blade server market share with 26.9%

Over 23,000 unique UCS customers; 87% Y/Y growth

3,400 UCS channel partners; 1700 achieved Data Center Specialization Certification

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BIOS Policies

Disable Quiet Mode

Enable VT

Use VT-d (DirectPath) for High Performance Requirements

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Use the VIC for H/W Interface-based Isolation

Use the VIC when H/W Interface-based Isolation is required

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VNIC Template Wizard for P-to-V with Port Profiles

VNIC Template Wizard for P-to-V with Port Profiles

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VCON Placement Policies with Full Width Blades

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Use Teaming, not HW Failover

Use Teaming, not HW Failover

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Use SP Templates and Server Pools to segregate

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Script, Automate, Use PowerTool/PowerCLI : Avoid the GUI

Script, Automate, Use PowerTool/PowerCLI

Avoid Using the GUI --- *any* GUI

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