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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Unified ManagementTRANSCRIPT
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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)Unified Management
Sameh Zakhary
Product Manager, UCS
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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Legacy Systems Cannot Respond to Changing Business Workloads
Hundreds of Management Points
Physical/Virtual Frontier
VirtualAutomated
and Dynamic
PhysicalManual
and Static
Virtualization and Automation Tools
Fixed Infrastructure
Virtual Resource Pools
Accidental Architecture
Technology silos
Difficult integration
Labor-intensive
Costly to integrate, maintain, upgrade, scale, secure
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Why is the UCS System Different?Fewer Physical Components – Fully Integrated
UCS Blade and Rack Serversx86 industry standardPatented extended memory
UCS Fabric ExtenderRemote line cardTwo per chassis
UCS Fabric Interconnect10GE Unified Fabric switch
UCS ManagerService ProfilesAutomation Friendly
UCS Virtual Interface AdapterCreating NICs & HBAs in SW
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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Cisco UCS Innovations
• Single, highly available point of management• Reduce number of management tools, consoles, and modules with full
interoperability using the XML API
Embedded andUnified Management
• Faster provisioning and reduced spares inventoryStateless Computingand Service Profiles
• I/O consolidation and increased CPU performance• Network policy control and transparency to the virtual machine level Virtual Adapters
Unified Fabric and Fabric Extenders
• Simplify I/O infrastructure and management• Reduce support infrastructure up to 50%: NICs, HBAs, chassis interconnects,
and cabling
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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UCS Service Profiles: Configuration Portability
SIM CardIdentity for a phone
Service ProfileIdentity for a server
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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UCS Service ProfilesAutomated configuration of bare metal server and its network connectivity
BIOS Version, BIOS Settings, RAID controller settings, UUID, Server Selection (Explicit or
Pool)
UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect
UCS 2200 Series Fabric Extender
UCS Adapters
UCS Servers
NIC Firmware version, MAC Addresses, VLANs, QoS Settings, HBA Firmware version, WWNs
Fabric Extender is implicitly configured based on Server Slot and physical connectivity to Fabric
Interconnect
Uplink port configuration, LAN Pinning, SAN Pinning, VLANs, VSANs, DCB Settings
UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management
HW Traditionally Managed as Individual Components
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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Total Server Deployment18 Servers
Dynamic Data Center with Service Profiles
Today’s Deployment:
Provisioned for peak capacity
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Web Servers Oracle RAC XenServer
Workload Server Capacity Needed Server HW HA Total Servers
Oct Nov Dec Jan
Web Servers 5 7 6 5 1 hot spare 8
Oracle RAC 3 3 3 4 1 hot spare 5
XenServer 3 3 4 4 1 hot spare 5
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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Total Server Deployment14 Servers
Reduction of 4 Servers 22% CapEx Savings
Key Features: Stateless Computing
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Old Deployment:
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HA SpareBurst Capacity
Cisco’s Deployment:•Resources provisioned based on business need
•Still HA with fewer spares
Cisco Deployment:
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UCS CentralUnified Management for a Multi UCS Environment
Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Center 3
Efficiency of management over large scale, multi UCS domains
Leverages UCS Manager technology
Delivers global policies, service profiles, IDpools and templates
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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Cisco UCS Momentum As of Q2FY13, Cisco UCS achieved an annualized run rate of 2
Billion dollars
20,000+ unique UCS customers (February 2013)
> 50% of Fortune 500 companies
3,000+ channel partners actively selling UCS WW
1,500+ UCS specialized channel partners
With Intel® Xeon® processor
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