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Local Edition
Cisco Unified Computing
Todd Rodgers – CCNP Datacenter
Consulting Systems Engineer
Cisco
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Session Objectives
Unified Computing System (UCS)
This session will provide a short overview of UCS with a longer description of the latest ecosystem hardware and features. Learn why customers are choosing to drop their legacy platforms for UCS and how existing UCS customers can improve their existing environments. Understand why the UCS Managed solutions and standalone C-Series rack solutions are leading the market through better management, product differentiation, and innovation.
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Agenda
• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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Maintained #2 in Americas (31.1%), #2 in N. America (32.9%) and #2 in the US (33.9%)1
UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew 34% Y/Y in Q2CY131
Worldwide
US
Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades with 21.5%
UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation; Cisco is quickly passing established players
UCS #2 with 33.9%
UCS #2 with 21.5%
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013, August 2013, Revenue Share
Customers Have Spoken
UCS #2 for the last 2 years and aiming for #1 this year!
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They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
UCS impacting growth of established vendors like HP
Legacy offerings flat-lining or in decline
Cisco growth out-pacing the market
Customers have shifted 21.5% of the global x86 blade server market to Cisco and over 31% in the Americas (Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2’13 Revenue Share, August 2013)
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013 Revenue Share, August 2013
Worldwide X86 Server Blade Market Share
Demand for Data Center Innovation Has Vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to the #2 Leader in the Fast-Growing Segment of the x86 Server Market
UCS #2 and Climbing Customer Demand
for Innovation Fuels UCS Growth
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UCS ManagerComprehensive Role-Based Management and Automation for Ease of Integration and Operation
Unified Fabric Best-of-Breed Cisco Networking for Powerful Simple Operation With FEX Architecture, FCoE, Unified Ports
Virtualized I/OInnovation for Scalable Flexibility With Industry Leading Performance and a Certified I/O Stack Compute With
NO CompromiseSupport for Both Blade and Rack-Mount Servers in a Single UCS Managed Domain
Unified Computing Product Innovation
STANDARDAPI’S
XML API
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Best-of-Breed UCS Network Fabric
Sizes for Every Need
FEX LinkUnified Fabric
1M Ports Shipped on UCS Fabric Interconnects
• IO Consolidation with FCoE resulting in fewer interfaces to manage, power, and cool
• Configuration simplicity with “unified ports”
• Enables operational simplicity at scale, with a single point of policy and management
• Broad portfolio with options at the high and low ends in terms of performance and scale
FC
Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE
LAN SAN A SAN BUCS-FI-6248UP
UCS-FI-6296UP
UCS-FI-2204XP
UCS-IOM-2208XP
Ethernet
Rack FEXUCS 6200+ N2232
Chassis FEXUCS 6200
+ UCS 2200
Adapter FEXUCS 6200+ UCS VIC
VM-FEXUCS 6200 + UCS VIC
+ Management
Switch
1 2 32
FEX
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
Rack Server
1 2 32
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server Chassis
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Switch
1 2 8
Bare MetalBlade/Rack Server
FEX1 2 58
Switch
1 2 58
VM Host
UCS Mgr
ManagementPlane
Integration
Switch
1 2 54
FEX
Hypervisor
1 2 54
vCenter/VMM
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Innovative UCS I/O Cards
Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs
• IO consolidation, scale, and flexibility managed by UCSM
• Industry-leading performance
• Robust ecosystem with storage and OS qualifications
• Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and CNAs
• Fiber and copper interfaces
• Broad support for most popular operating systems and storage
• Tier-0 storage/server side flash
• High performance: 100K + IOPS
• Significantly reduce application latency and response time
• GPU acceleration for VDI
• Rich graphics experience on thin clients
• GPU pass through or sharing for 20 users or more
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Wire-Once InfrastructureOperational Flexibility for Workload Mobility
Infrastructure Standardization Results in Application Agility
Flexibility of Running File and Block on Same Infrastructure
Unprecedented Operational Simplicity
FC
FCoE
NAS/iSCSI
United Fabric
FC, FCOE NAS
“Wire-Once” Fabric Computing Infrastructure
Unified Compute
Virtual Workloads
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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
• FC Fabric assignments for HBAs
• RAID settings• Disk scrub actions
• Number of vHBAs• HBA WWN assignments• FC boot parameters• HBA firmware
• Number of vNICs• PXE settings• NIC firmware• Advanced feature settings
• VLAN assignments for NICs• VLAN tagging config for NICs
• QoS settings• Border port assignment per vNIC• NIC transmit/receive rate limiting
• Remote KVM IP settings• Call home behavior• Remote KVM firmware
• Server UUID• Serial over LAN settings• Boot order• IPMI settings• BIOS scrub actions• BIOS firmware• BIOS settings
LAN SAN
NetworkSME
ServerSME
StorageSME
Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software
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UCS Manager
GUI
UCS Manager
CLI Packaged Systems Management Software
User Developed Portal, Tools, Utilities
…
Embedded Device Manager• Discovery, inventory, monitoring, diagnostics,
statistics collection, configuration
Unifies many UCS HW components into a single, cohesive system• Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric
interconnects
APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure• SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP• XML SDK for commercial and custom
implementations
Key feature: Service profiles• Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints
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UCS Service ProfilesConfiguration Portability
SIM CardIdentity for a Phone
Service ProfileIdentity for a Server
UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
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• Abstraction of bare metal configuration
• Encapsulated in Cisco service profiles
• Available through an intuitive GUI, CLI, or XML API
• Over 9000 objects in system management model
Programmable Infrastructure
UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction
Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server or C-Series Rack-Mount Server
Cisco Virtual Interface Cards
Automated, Policy-Based Configuration of Entire
Hardware Stack
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 Service Profile
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Policies Used to Create Service Profile Templates
Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles
Associating Service Profiles With Hardware Configures Servers
Automatically
UCS: Embedded AutomationIntegrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management
Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
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
Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions,and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool
Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
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
Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions,and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool
Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
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
Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions,and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool
Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
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
Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions,and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool
Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels
Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
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
Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions,and RAID controller settings
Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool
Subject Matter Expert Define Policies
1 2 3 4
NetworkSME
ServerSME
StorageSME
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UCS: Programmable Infrastructure
Virtual Pool of Resources
ProgrammableInfrastructure
XML API
InfrastructureManagement
Virtual ResourcePools
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Extends Abstraction Beyond the Hypervisor to
System Elements
Infrastructure Automation Through
API and Policy
Truly Elastic
Fully Orchestrated
Workload Defined
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Unified Management
Service Profiles
Abstraction
of the OS and Application
Stateless ComputingFor Workload Mobility
New Workloads Across VM Clusters
New Virtual Workloads
New Physical Workloads
OSApplications
OSApplications
OSApplications
Moving Hypervisors and Guests
Adapter
LAN and SAN Connectivity
Server
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
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Unified Management Blade and Rack Servers Managed a Cohesive Resource Pool
UCS Manager
C-Series Rack Optimized Servers
B-Series Blade Servers
Service Profile: HR_App1VNIC1
MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2EHR_WEB_VLAN (ID=50)
VNIC2MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2FHR_DB_VLAN (ID=210)
HBA 1 and 2WWN: 5080020000075740WWN: 5080020000075741VSAN ID: 12
Boot Order: SANBIOS Settings:
Turbo OnHyperThreading On
UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
A SINGLE UNIFIED SYSTEM FOR BLADE AND RACK SERVERS
A Major Market Transformation in Unified Server Management
Benefits of UCS Manager and Service Profiles for Both Blade and Rack-
Optimized Servers
Add Capacity Without Complexity
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Agenda
• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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Cisco UCS™ 6200 and 2200 with Unified Ports
Cisco UCS 6140/ 6120
Forward compatible with Second Generation
I/O Modules
At UCS Launch
Typical Deployments
UCS-FI-6248UP
48 Port Fabric Interconnect
• Performance for typical deployments with 1TB switching and 48 ports in 1RU
• Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports• Investment protection
High End Deployments
UCS-FI-6296UP
96 Port Fabric Interconnect
• High Application performance with 2TB switching• High workload density 96 ports in 2RU• Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports• Investment protection
Forward compatible with Second Generation
I/O Modules
Cisco UCS 2104I/O Module
16 Port I/O Module
UCS-FI-2204XP
• 80G/ chassis, 20G to the Blade• Entry point pricing• Improved Utilization with Port Channels
32 Port I/O Module
UCS-IOM-2208XP
• 160G/ chassis, 40G to the Blade for bursty traffic• Improved Resiliency • Improved Utilization with Port Channels
Cisco UCS™ 6100 and 2100
UCS FabricInterconnects
UCS I/O Modules
Cisco UCS Fabric Infrastructure Portfolio
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Cisco UCS Fabric InterconnectsCisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects: Generation Comparison
Feature Cisco UCS™ 6100 Series Cisco UCS 6200 Series
Flash memory 16-GB eUSB 32-GB iSATA
DRAM 4-GB DDR3 16-GB DDR3
Processor Single-core Celeron 1.66 GHz Dual-core Jasper Forest 1.66 GHz
Number of ports per unified port controller (UPC) 4 8
Number of virtual interfaces (VIFs) per UPC 128; port fixed 4096 programmable
Buffering per port 480 KB 640 KB
VLANs 1000 1000 (4000 future)
Active SPAN sessions 2 4 (with dedicated buffer)
Latency 3.2 microseconds 2 microseconds
MAC address table 16,000 16,000 (32,000 future)
Data Center Bridging (DCB) forwarding Future Future
Layer 3 switching No Future
IGMP entries 1000 4000 (future)
PortChannels 16 48 (96 in 6296)
Cisco® FabricPath No Future
Flexibility
Performance
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Cisco UCS I/O ModulesCisco 2100 and 2200 Series Fabric Extenders: Generation Comparison
Bandwidth
Resiliency
Feature Cisco UCS™ 2104XP Cisco UCS 2208 Cisco UCS 2204
QoS Simple register ACL based ACL based
Host ports 8 32 16
Network ports 4 8 4
Classes of service 4 (3 enabled) 8 8
Port speed 1/10-GB fixed location 1/10-GB anywhere 1/10-GB anywhere
EtherChannels HI > NI only 4 ports Both directions 8 ports Both directions 8 ports
Policers None 64 per 8 ports 64 per 8 ports
IEEE 1588 support No Yes Yes
Latency ~800 nanoseconds ~500 nanoseconds ~500 nanoseconds
Adapter redundancy 1 mLOM only mLOM and mezzanine mLOM and mezzanine
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface CardsCisco UCS VIC M81KR, VIC 1280 and VIC 1240: Generation Comparison
Feature Cisco UCS M81KR VIC Cisco UCS 1200 VIC
Bandwidth Dual 10Gbps Dual 40Gbps
PCIe Devices 128 256
Network connectivity 2x10Gb 2x4x10Gb
Host connectivity 16 lanes of PCIe Gen1 16 lanes of PCIe Gen2
Virtual Machine Fabric Extender Capabilities VMware, Redhat KVM and HyperV (Future)
VMware, Redhat KVM and HyperV (Future)
Classification Capabilities No Future
Operating System Support VMware, Windows, RedHat, Novell, Citrix, Oracle
VMware, Windows, RedHat, Novell, Citrix, Oracle
Flexibility
Scalability
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Wire for Bandwidth, Not Connectivity
Wire Once ArchitectureAll links can be active all the timePolicy-driven bandwidth allocationVirtual interface granularity
20G per Chassis 40G per Chassis 80G per Chassis 160G per Chassis
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Agenda
• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One SystemIndustry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
Current UCS Compute PortfolioPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
UCS C220 M3Versatile, General Purpose
Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server
Enterprise Performance
UCS C240 M3Ideal Platform for Big Data,
ERP, and Database Applications
UCS B200 M3Optimal Choice for VDI,
Private Cloud, or Dense
Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads
Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS B420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS C420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Server for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal, and Virtualized Applications
UCS C24 M3Entry, Expandable Rack Server for Storage Intensive Workloads
UCS C22 M3Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web
Infrastructure Applications
UCS B22 M3Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web
Applications
Scale Out
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UCS C260 M2Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Extended Memory Server for Large, Memory-
Intensive Applications
UCS C460 M2Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications
UCS B440 M2Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized ApplicationsUCS B230 M2Density-optimized CPU and
Memory-Intensive 2-Socket Blade for Bare Metal and Virtualized
Applications
Available
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Post-Brickland Consolidated UCS Compute PortfolioPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
UCS C220 M3Versatile, General Purpose
Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server
Enterprise Performance
UCS C240 M3Ideal Platform for Big Data,
ERP, and Database Applications
UCS B200 M3Optimal Choice for VDI,
Private Cloud, or Dense
Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads
Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS B420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS C24 M3Entry, Expandable Rack Server for Storage Intensive Workloads
UCS C22 M3Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web
Infrastructure Applications
UCS B22 M3Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web
Applications
Scale Out
Rack
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UCS C460 M4Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications
UCS B260 M4Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS B460 M4Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One SystemIndustry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
CQ1’14
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UCS Compute Blade Roadmap
Brickland
IVB Refresh
Expandable Servers (2S –EX)
Expandable Servers (4S –EX)
B200 M3
B230 M2
Brickland
IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP)
Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh
Grantley
Grantley
B22 M3
B440 M2
B420 M3
Next Gen 2S –EP Blade
Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)
Next Gen 4S –EP Blade
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Next Gen 4S -EX Blade
Next Gen 2S -EX Blade
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M4 Scalable EX Blade Highlights
Dual / Quad Socket EX scalable designOptimized for both 2 and 4 socket scale
(w/ required Scalability connector)
Up to 60 CoresUp to 6 TB of memory
(up to 96 DIMM sockets)
Up to 320 Gb of IO Bandwidth
Single ConfigurationUCS B260 M4
Full-Width, 2-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 30 cores), 48 DIMMs
Scaled ConfigurationUCS B460 M4
Double-High -Full-Width, 4-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 60 cores), 96 DIMMs
• Designed for the most processor, memory, and IO-intensive workloads
• Provides mission-critical RAS features• Offers the benefits of blade density and
ecosystem with the added flexibility of a truly scalable system
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UCS Compute Rack Roadmap
Expandable Servers (2S –EX)
Expandable Servers (4S –EX) Brickland
Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)
IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP)
Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh
Grantley
C24 M3
C220 M3
C260 M2
C420 M3
C460 M2
C22 M3
C240 M3IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley
Next Gen 4S –EX Rack
Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (2U)
Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (1U)
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Security BezelOptional
Four E7v2 CPUsUp to 15 cores per
socket10 PCIe 3.0 Slots
Four Full / Full GPU-readyModular LOM (mLOM)
VIC or CNA Options
96 DIMM SlotsDDR3 w/ upgrade path to
DDR4
Next Gen 4S–EX Rack Highlights
12 Drive BaysTwo PCIe-capable
• Designed for the most demanding server workloads such as in-memory database, EDA and CPU / GPU rendering
• Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations• Provides mission-critical RAS features• Ultimate scale-up platform
A “No-Compromise” balance of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 4U form-factor
UCS C460 M4 Performance-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server
CQ1’14
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Agenda
• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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UCS Invicta Product Overview (formerly Whiptail)Transitioning to UCS & Nexus platforms
INVICTA
2-6 Nodes6TB-144TB
650,000 IOPS7GB/s Bandwidth
ACCELA3TB – 24TB
250,000 IOPS1.9 GB/s Bandwidth
INVICTA – INFINITYUp to 720TB
650,000 – 4 Million IOPS40GB/s Bandwidth
Entry-Level
High-EndMid-Range
Upgrade path withinvestment protection
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Performance•Maximizes write and read performance of NAND Flash•Provides symmetrical writes and reads to/from NAND•Optimizes protected writes (RAID)
Data Protection•RAID 5/6 •Asynchronous Replication with Open Targets (Linux/Windows) •SnapShots& Clones v(5.0 November 2013)
Storage Services & Management •Dedup (v4.5)•Thin Provisioning (v4.5)•Web based UI/API integrated with UCS Director and UCS Manager
Connectivity•NFS•iSCSI, Fibre Channel block•FCOE (end calendar 2013)
UCS Invicta RaceRunner Operating SystemProprietary flash translation layer
• Role Based access controls• VAAI / vCenter Support
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Invicta OS Streamlines the Write process
Receive•Data blocks of Various size arrive from Hosts from network interconnects
Protect•Data Blocks are stored in the power loss buffer and passed onto the Block Translation Layer (BTL)
Optimize•The Block Translation Layer Aggregates and sizes Data Blocks for the RAID Layer and Flash Media
•Hash tags are created for each block
Commit •BTL Optimized Data is flushed across the RAID stripe and Flash erase blocks concurrently
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Invicta OS Fast & Efficient Writing Flash Optimization & Data Protection
Write the RAID stripe and the 2MB Erase Blocks concurrently
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Inbound data blocks
Invicta OS Optimization = High Performance
Cache
Block Translation Layer Optimize
Inbound data blocks
Write Write
Fill
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• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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API API
Basic Management Functionality
API
API
UCS Director API
Stand-Alone UCS C-Series Unified Computing
System
UCS CentralPolicy Driven Multi DC, Multi-
Domain Management
UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and
Orchestration
CIMC
Integrated & Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Manager Domain 1
UCS Manager Domain x
FlexPod vBlockStorage
Virtual Machines
Network Devices
Servers
Non-Cisco Infrastructure
Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation
UCS Management Portfolio
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UCS Central 1.1Centralized multi-domain management across local and remote datacenters, including:
• Global Service Profiles and Templates, Policies, and pool management for cross-domain consistency
• Centralized Fault Management for quicker troubleshooting
• Global Inventory, Statistics and Reporting to simplify asset management and sizing
Global Fault Management
Domain Group Hierarchy
Equipment Inventory and
Status
Tree Group Similar to UCS
Manager
UCS Central 1.1 available as of July 15, 2013
Available
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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution
On-DemandAutomated Delivery
Policy-Driven Provisioning
Secure Cloud
Container
VMsComputeNetwork Storage
UCS Director
Domain Managers
OS and Virtual
Machines
Storage
Network
Compute
Tenant
BTenant
CTenant
A
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Compute and Hypervisor
B CA
Network and Services
VM VM BareMetal
Single Pane of Glass
End-to-End Automation and
Lifecycle Management
Available
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UCS Director for Integrated InfrastructureFlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX, and Vblock (Hitachi and more coming…)
Define and manage resource pools
Open API for 3rd Party Integration
UCS Central
Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning
Consistent Management Across Pods
Enforce Best Practices with Global UCS Policies
UCS Director
Available
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Integration Tools
UCSPE – UCS Platform Emulator – UCS PowerTool – Powershell tools for UCSUCS Central – Manage and control multiple UCS domains
together.Microsoft Integration - System Center 2012 and SCCVM
integration – VMware Integration – vCenter plugin gives Vmware visibility
into UCSOracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS – Manage
UCS from OracleOpenstack integration – UCS Automation with Openstack
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UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE)
No UCS Hardware Needed for API integration Development• Full featured emulator for the UCS Manager that installs as a Virtual Machine
• Provides complete support for all XML API calls and object browser
• Import & replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory
• Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators
• Drag-n-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory
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Cisco UCS PowerToolProgrammatic control over UCS hardware
Architected for Flexibility and coverage• PowerShell Wrapper
• Cmdlet definition and structure
• Get-help support
• .NET UCS Namespace Library
• XML API call construction
• Class Definition
• Validation
PowerShell Design.NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft
integrationTargeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple
releases
Cisco UCSPowerTool Module
UCS .NET Namespace
UCS XML API
cmdlets
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UCS Management with System Center 2012Ease IT management through a single interface
“Single Pane
of Glass”Operations
ManagerOrchestrator
Management Pack
Integration Pack
Unified Computing System
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UCS Manager XML API
Physical Virtual&
Virtual Machine Manager
UI Extension Integration
Pack
.NET Library
Orchestrator
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MicrosoftApplications
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Cisco and NetApp PowerShell
Integration Libraries
Cisco: UCS Manager, PowerTool NetApp: OCPM, Data ONTAP, PowerShell Toolkit
Configuration & Provisioning Physical and Virtual Machine Monitoring Network Management Back Up & Recovery Disaster Recovery
FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
with Hyper-V
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Provisioning Monitoring AutomationCisco & NetAppManagement
Cisco & NetAppHardware:• Compute• Network• Storage
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Provide a single point of administration for both physical and virtual infrastructure
Streamline infrastructure management by tracking virtual & physical relationships
Extend vCenter visibility into Cisco’s advanced virtual networking technologies (VMFex, Virtual Interface Card, etc)
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Cisco UCS vCenter PluginUnify VMware & UCS Administration
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCSWhat is monitored? Why Use This Plug-in?
Technical Details
• Continue to use OEM 12c to now manage Cisco UCS
• Incoming data formatted for 12c• Utilize the capabilities of UCS
manager such as service profiles• Manage all Oracle and Cisco UCS
environment from one screen
Product Details• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R2• UCS Manger 2.1+• Operating System Supported:
• Oracle Linux/RHEL Priority 1• Windows Priority 2• Solaris 10/11 Priority 3
• All UCS blades/chassis supported• All Rack Optimized (C-Series)
supported
• Product FCS – Summer 2014 (July)• Price $0• Support – Cisco TAC• Downloadable from Cisco.com• Available world wide• Free upgrade to version 2 in CY
Q4’14
• All system components• Blade details, CPU, memory, etc• Performance metrics• Health status/Environmental• Current, voltage, thermal, fan• Network – data transfer, pause, loss,
error• Config details, firmware, identifier
pools• Exposing native Cisco events -
incidents
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Monitor UCS with Operations Manager 9.1(a.k.a Openview)
• Qualified event (XML) receiver for UCS
• 2 versions for UCS Manager and Cisco IMC
• Windows and Linux versions
• Automate UCS workflows with HP Operations Orchestration 9.0
• Out of the box UCS flows and actions
• Single click provisioning of UCS servers
• Capability to include Python scripts in workflows
Manage UCS with HP Software
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Nagios plugins
Open source platform for monitoringCisco plugins for both UCS Manager and Cisco IMCFoundational capabilities
• Complete domain and server inventory
• Health summary and status
• Complete fault and event information
• UCS specific graphical interface
• CLI for common configuration and query operations
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Cisco UCS servers
Extend python based automation to UCS servers seamlessly
Architected for Flexibility and coverage
Comprehensive coverage of all supported operations
Fully classed object definition
Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases
Sample scripts for shorter ramp up
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Python SDKProgrammatic control over UCS
UCS Manager or Cisco IMC
3rd party tools
Python SDK (UCS/IMC XML wrapper)
UCS XML API
Custom scripts
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UCS Automation with OpenStackIntegrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management
Configuration Automation
Optimized workload placement
OpenStack Deployment Automation
1Virtual & Bare metal services (BMaaS Integration)
2 3 4
Single touch deployment across 1000’s nodes
HYPERVISOR
Physical Server Provisioning (BMaaS)
Virtual Server Provisioning
5 Dense storage server (storage nodes)
Dense compute server (compute nodes)
New UCS Product Lines for scale-out & OpenStack Platforms
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OpenStack: Scripted Install of OpenStack on UCS
Chassis/Server Discovery
Service Profile Association
PXE boot devices deployed
Cobbler database update
Register Nodes Provision UCS Servers
Step 1 : Configuring Nodes using Python SDK
Updates the newly added node info in puppet
Puppet apply
Add hosts/system in OpenStack
Event Listener
PXE boot for initial OS install
RHEL 6.4 installation on bare-metal servers
Sync all the plugins from Puppet Master
Host OS Install
Inventory of nova nodes on controller
VM Provisioning
OpenStack Services Deployment
OpenStack Handover
Hostname / IP address
Logical credentials
Resource allocation preferences Only Point of User Touch
Pre-configure UCS
Step 2 : Cobbler/Puppet based Node Subscription
Good example: http://1-cloud.net/havate
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Agenda
• Major Innovations
• Infrastructure
• Compute
• Storage
• Automation and integration
• Conclusion
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Call to Action / Next Steps…
• Visit detailed information. – www.ciscoquicklinks.com
• Cisco UCS Architecture Session– Engage your account team or Consulting Systems Engineer
• Download UCS Emulator– http://developer.cisco.com
• Cisco UCS Website– www.cisco.com/go/ucs
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Continue Your Education
• Demos in the Cisco Campus
• Walk-in Self-Paced Labs
• Table Topics
• Meet the Engineer 1:1 meetings
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CiscoLive! – San FranciscoMay 18 – 22, 2014www.ciscolive.com/us
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Data Center ScheduleTime Session Name
8:00 to 8:30 Arrival and registration8:30 to 9:45 Unified Computing System9:45 to 10:00 Break and visit with sponsors10:00 to 11:00 Desktop Virtualization11:00 to 12:00 Invicta Accelerated Storage12:00 to 1:00 Lunch1:00 to 2:15 Datacenter Fabric Futures2:15 to 2:30 Break, visit with sponsors, and drawings2:30 to 3:30 UCS Management Best Practices and Tools3:30 to 4:30 UCS Director4:30 Conclusion of Cisco Live Local Edition event
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