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UCS CentralManaging multiple UCS systems

Roger Andersson, Director Technical Marketing

October 2012

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Compute Capacity: Units of Scale

ServerChassis

DomainSingle

Datacenter

GlobalDatacenters

UCS CentralUCS Manager

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Growth of UCS

Increased number of servers, chassis, fabric interconnects, datacenters

Centralized management

Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployments

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UCS Central Summary• Delivered in two phases:

Phase 1:

• Inventory, Fault, Log Aggregation

• Global ID Pools

• Firmware Updates

• Backups

• Global Admin Policies

• Centralized UCSM & KVM launch

Phase 2:

• Global Service Profiles and Templates

• Policies

• Statistics Aggregation

• HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage

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UCS Central Architecture

Hypervisor

UCS Manager 1

UCS Manager 2

UCS Manager 3

UCS Manager nStorage

forDB, SW Repository

Hardened Guest OS

UCS Central Framework

IDM OM RM

UCS CentralVirtual Machine Appliance

PM SM

XML API

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ServerEnd Point

UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

UCS ManagerDefine Policies

Fabric InterconnectEnd Point

ChassisEnd Point

Apply Policies

• UCS Manager is the policy manager• End points resolve the policies defined in UCS Manager

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UCS Central Policy Based Management

UCS Manager 1

UCS Central

UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n

Define Policies

Apply Policies

• Modeled identical to UCS Manager on how policies work• UCS Central becomes the policy manager• UCS Manager becomes the policy recipient and resolver

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App

ly P

olic

ies

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UCS Central using UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

UCS Manager 1

UCS Central

UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n…

ServerEnd Point

Fabric InterconnectEnd Point

ChassisEnd Point

Define Policies

Apply Policies

Apply Policies

• Define global policies one time centrally in UCS Central• Use and re-use policies across multiple UCS domains• Consistency, compliance for configurations for a growing UCS environment

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UCS Central, Compute Management at Scale

Unified Management at Scale10,000 Blade and Rack Servers

Coming in 2H 2012

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 1

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 2

UCS Manager

Data Center 3UCS Central

UCS Central

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Questions?

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