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Servers and Storage in an Intent Based World

Jeremy Foster, Director – Global Sales UCS, Cisco

• Practical View of Intent

• UCS Innovations and Overview

• HyperFlex

Agenda

Adapt

Learn

Protect

APP

Intent Cycle

Feedback Forms Perform @

Optimal level

Intent Learn Adapt Protect

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We Disrupted the Market

Time to do it again….

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Management – Platform to deliver Intent

Use the Cloud

Connect Everything

1

Analyze the Telemetry

Create Actionable Insight

2

Combine Insightwith Automation

Machines Managing Machines

3

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Cisco Intersight – Platform for Intent

SaaS Simplicity

ActionableIntelligence

Intersight


Intuitive ExperienceDynamic interface with role-

based personalization

Enhanced SupportConnected TAC and

Crowd-sourced issue fingerprinting

Proactive Guidance

Analytics-powered recommendation engine

Secure and Extensible

Cisco InfoSec cloud protocols; OData RESTful API

SaaS SimplicitySimplified operations and

continuous innovation Cisco Intersight

Intersight: Key Elements


Policy Driven - Cloud-Managed Infrastructure

Cisco IntersightCloud Controlled Computing

GUI or API

Intersight

Policy

Deploy and Manage at Cloud Scale Any Form Factor, HCI, CI

Execute LocallyPolicy Lives locally on devices

Constantly ImprovingCICD feature delivery


Less is more:Complexity, cables, required components and COST!

Unification of Fabric and Compute

Hardware Innovation

1 Operating Model, Any Workload

From DC to Edge to Cloud

Support 1000’s of servers combing bare metal, CI, HCI, SDS

Logical

What Makes UCS Different ?Its not a server…. It’s a system

Physical ScaleSoftware defined fabric computing

Self integrating, adaptable to workload

Deploy, Re-deploy and Scale… simply, consistently


Fabric Centric Design

High Performance40 GB/s Ethernet; 320 GB/s per Chassis.

Unified FabricSingle Cable for Network, Storage, and Management Traffic

Easy to ScaleAdd Cables for Bandwidth vs. Connectivity

UCS Manager

Management

Ethernet

Storage

Form Factor Agnostic:Blades, Racks,Storage Optimized and HyperFlex

SANLAN MGMT


Cisco UCS HyperFlex SystemDell Server and Storage


Logical Advantages

Software DefinedNetwork, Compute and StorageDigital Twin of ‘X’, Full Emulation

Self IntegratingSingle Cable for Network, Storage, and Management Traffic

Deploy, Redeploy and ScaleAdd Cables for Bandwidth vs. Connectivity

HW + SW working together =Better Customer Experience

UCS Manager(Service Profiles)

Service Profile:Logical Identity

BIOS: Quiet Boot

BIOS: Post Error Pause

BIOS: Resume A/C on Power Loss

BIOS: Front Panel Lockout

BIOS: Turbo Boost

BIOS: ACPI10 Support

BIOS: Enhanced Intel Speedstep

BIOS: Hyper Threading

BIOS: Core Multi Processing

BIOS: Virtualization Technology (VT)

BIOS: Execute Disabled Bit

BIOS: Direct Cache Access

BIOS: Processor C State

BIOS: Processor C1E

BIOS: Processor C3 Report

BIOS: Processor C6 Report

BIOS: CPU Performance

BIOS: Max Variable MTRR Setting

BIOS: VT for Directed IO

BIOS: Interrupt Remap

BIOS: Coherency Support

BIOS: ATS Support

BIOS: PassthroughDMA Support

BIOS: Memory RAS Config

BIOS: NUMA

BIOS: Low Voltage DDR Mode

BIOS: Serial Port A state

BIOS: USB Make Device Non Bootable

BIOS: USB System Idle Power Optimizing Setting

BIOS: USB Front Panel Access Lock

BIOS: PCI Max Memory Below 4G

BIOS: PCI Memory Mapped IO Above 4Gb Config

BIOS: Boot Option Retry

BIOS: UCSM Boot Order Rule Control

BIOS: Intel Entry SAS RAID

BIOS: Intel Entry SAS RAID Module

BIOS: Assert Nmi on Serr

BIOS: Assert Nmi on Perr

BIOS: OS Boot Watchdog Timer

BIOS: Console Redirection

BIOS: Console Flow Control

BIOS: Console BAUD rate

BIOS: Console Terminal Type

BIOS: Console Legacy OS Redirect

Server Boot Order (HDD, CD-ROM, SAN, USB, Floppy, PXE)

Server BIOS Firmware

Ethernet Adapter Firmware

Fiber Channel Adapter Firmware

HBA Option ROM Firmware

Storage Controller Firmware

Remote Management Controller (e.g. HP iLO) Firmware

Server UUID

Virtual Server Serial Number

Define Number of vNICs on Server

Define Number of Dynamic vNICs (for VMware Pass-through)

Settable vNIC/FlexNICSpeed (reflected in OS)

PXE Boot Setting

Fabric Failover (NIC Teaming) Settings

VLAN Assignment per NIC

VLAN Tagging Settings per NIC

NIC Transmit Rate Limiting

NIC MAC Address Assignment

NIC Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)

Number of NIC Transmit Queues

NIC Transmit Queue Ring Size

NIC Receive Queues

NIC Receive Queue Ring Size

NIC Completion Queues

NIC Interrupts

NIC Transmit Checksum Offload

NIC Receive Checksum Offload

NIC TCP Segmentation Offload

NIC TCP Large Receive Offload

NIC Receive Side Scaling (RSS)

NIC Failback Timeout

NIC Interrupt Mode

NIC Interrupt Coalescing

NIC Interrupt Timer

NIC QoS Host Control Option

Enable/Disable Cisco Discovery Protocol for VMware vSwitch

MAC Security per NIC

QoS settings per NIC

NIC action on Switch uplink failure

Distribution Enet Switch Uplink Assignment Per NIC (Pin Group)

Server Pool Assignment

Maintenance Policy

IPMI Usernames & Passwords

IPMI User Roles

Server Management IP Address

Serial over LAN Configuration

Power Control Policy Capping and Priority

PCIe Bus Device Scan Order for NICs/HBAs

PCIe Virtual Device Slot Placement for NIC/HBA

BIOS Scrub Actions

Disk Scrub Actions

Thresholds for Monitored Statistics

Number of vHBAs on Server

Local HDD RAID Configuration

Define Number of iSCSI interfaces on Server

Define Number of vHBAs on Server

Distribution FC Switch Uplink Assignment Per HBA (Pin Group)

HBA World Wide Port Name (WWPN) Assignment

HBA Fiber Channel SAN Membership

Fiber Channel Boot Parameters

HBA-to-Distribution FC Switch Uplink Persistent Binding

HBA Maximum Data Field Size (MTU)

HBA Transmit Queue Ring Size

HBA Receive Queue Ring Size

HBA SCSI I/O Queues

HBA SCSI I/O Queue Ring Size

HBA FCP Error Recovery

HBA Flogi Retries

HBA Flogi Timeout

HBA Plogi Retries

HBA Plogi Timeout

HBA Port Down Timeout

HBA Port Down IO Retry

HBA Link Down Timeout

HBA IO Throttle Count

HBA Max LUNs Per Target

HBA Interrupt Mode

HBA QoS Priority

HBA QoS Burst size

HBA QoS Rate limit

HBA QoS Host Control Option

HBA World Wide Node Name (WWNN) Assignment


Policy Defined TemplatesRapid Provisioning

Select a workload you might

deploy in the future

Use template to rapidly provision – Save Time !

Changes to Template can deliver changes to all profiles it created—Avoid Risks of Config Drift

ConfigureOnce

Configure policies, optimizing

system performance and

behavior

Create template out of this

policy so it can be rapidly

stamped out

DeployMany

Profile 1 Profile 2 Profile 3 Profile 4 Profile 5 Profile 6 Profile X

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Unified Control Plane Across Infrastructure

Different Application Types Customization Integrations

Open API

Policy and Model Driven Infrastructure

UCS Mini UCS C3260UCS C-Series

Storage

HyperFlex Systems

Hyperconverged

UCS B-Series

Servers

VirtualizationContainerBare Metal

Unified Control Plane


Racks Blades

Bringing it All Together…Scale Intent:

Reduce Time to Value

Do More with Less

Learn:

Best Practices

Adapt/Avoid:

Redundant tasks

Config Drift

Known Bugs

Protect/Ensure:

Changes are made as

requested

SANLAN MGMT

Service Profiles

S - Series B-SeriesBlades

C-SeriesRacks

UCS Management Fabric Interconnects


Cost Categories Improved by Cisco UCS

UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE

Radical infrastructure simplification

Efficient scaling

High performance

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Embedded device management

Self-integrating

Stateless

Automated

Programmable

UC

S S

olu

tion

Tra

ditio

nal S

olu

tion

Networking and Cabling

Power andCooling

Servers and Warranty

Provisioning and Ongoing

Administration Systems Management

Software ~35%Savings


HyperconvergedInfrastructure

Converged Infrastructure

ROBO

HyperFlex Systems

HyperFlex Edge

Data Intensive

S-SeriesStorage Optimized

C-Series Rack Servers

Integrate Existing Investments

Cisco Intersight

Cloud

Cloud Native

Multicloud

Cisco UCS – It’s a System, Not a Server Any Workload. Any Scale. One Platform.


HCI Engineered on Cisco UCS Cisco HyperFlex Systems

Cisco HX Data Platform

Data Services and Storage Optimization

Cisco HyperFlex

Complete Hyperconvergence

Unified Compute and Network Infrastructure

Next Generation Data Platform

Designed for Distributed Storage

Part of a Complete Data Center Strategy

Elastic and Secure at Enterprise Scale

CloudCenter

AppDynamicsSecurity

UCS

Intersight

Tetration

ACI

UCS Rack and Blade Form Factors


Delivered Since April

Native 40GbE

All Flash

Native Replication

Encryption at Rest

NVMe Caching HX Connect UI

HX Edge

vSphere 6.5

More compute only nodes

Increased ScaleM5 Generation Servers

HX ToolsSmart Licensing

Enhanced Smart Call Home

Filesystem PerformanceREST APIs

Intersight

External Storage

Oracle

SQL

Exchange

CVDsCitrixUC TRC


Ready for Biz. Critical

#1in Performance and consistency

Where We Are Today…Thanks To Rapid Execution Every Quarter

~2400New HyperFlex

Customers

Market Momentum

All Flash SED EnterpriseWorkloads

Profiler,Sizer

Edge40G NWM5 SkylakeConnect UI Native

Replication/DRScale

Innovations Every Quarter

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Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Container Persistent Volume Support

New Enterprise Application Validation

Application Performance Monitoring

Application Placement

Cloud Mobility

IaaS and Private Cloud

Cisco Container Platform Cisco Google Hybrid Cloud

64 Node & Capacity Scaling w/ HA

Stretch Clusters

Cloud-Deployed w/ Intersight

What's New with Cisco HyperFlex 3.0


Enterprise Customer Deployments

Private Cloud Sourcing Award

Replaced 12 year incumbent HPE

~800+ Nodes Over Contract Lifetime

Epic EMR VDI Deployment for 25K users & databases

Rapid HyperFlex Adoption up to 240+ Nodes deployed

Replaced Competitive HCI Environment

W O R L D ’ S L A R G E S TO I L & G A S F I R M

L A R G E H E A L T H C A R E G R O U P

Modernization for rapid port volume expansion

Business Critical Port Operations and Oracle Workloads

Expanding HyperFlex Footprint

W O R L D ’ S L A R G E S T S H I P P I N G P O R T

Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.


Capture new Market

New Idea

New App

Self Service Buffet

Multicloud Platform

Intent Learn Protect/Ensure

Happy Developers=

High Consumption

Scale up or Down

A Wait Problem

Adapt

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HyperFlex Multicloud Platform

DecisionEngine

DeploymentEngine

Visibility Engine

WorkloadPlacement

Performance

ApplicationMonitoring

Instrumentation

Hybrid Cloud Management

Application Modelling

Cisco CloudCenter

Cisco Workload

Optimization Manager

Cisco HyperFlex

AP P L ICAT ION


Native Kubernetes (100% Upstream)Direct updates and best practices from open source community

Hybrid Cloud OptimizedA key element of the Cisco-Google open hybrid cloud solution

IntegratedNetworking | Management | Security | Analytics

Container-based Applications ManagementExtending Cisco’s portfolio of offers

Introducing Cisco Container Platform

Turnkey Solution

For Production-Grade Container

Environments

Easy to acquire, deploy & manage | Extensible platform | World-class advisory & support | Open & consistent


Cloud Based CentralizedManagement

Seamless Integration of Converged & Hyperconverged

Independent Scaling of Compute & Capacity

Its Time to play a game….

High Performance & Scalable Data Platform

Enterprise Class Data Services & Storage

Optimization

Deployment Automation & Simplicity

Integrated High Performance Network Fabric

Data Protection, High Availability & Resiliency

Architected to Optimize Across Hardware, Software, Networking and ManagementIntegrated Solution with Single Point of Support

Intersight



$10M Nutanix Competitive WinMulti-Use Case

Save $ Low TCO

L A R G E H E A LT H C A R E

G R O U P

Speed and Ease of Implementation

• All 80+ nodes for the system were implemented

for the initial testing in only a few days.

• Already a UCS shop, and HX integrated into

existing processes.

Total Cost of Solution

• Original purchase was significantly less than the

incumbents software renewal cost.

• Budget was freed up to purchase additional

infrastructure to accelerate other parts of the

infrastructure.

• Simplified management by removing siloes

Performance at Scale

• EPIC and VDI performance was instantly

noticeably better for all of their users.

• Automation with ease.





HyperFlex Product Differentiation


#1 Performing HCI platform


Optimization





Intersight

Consistent , low latency performance


Continuous Data Optimization

BEFORE

Inline Deduplication

20–30% space savings

Inline Compression

30–50% space savings

No Special Hardware

No Performance Impact

No Config lock-in

No Additional License

Log-Structured File System Yields More Efficient Data Optimization

Lower Cost









Optimization





Intersight


Integrated Dedup & Compression w/ no performance penalty


I N T E G R A T E I N T O Y O U R E X I S T I N G I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

C O M M O N N E T W O R K F A B R I C

C O M M O N M A N A G E M E N T P O L I C Y

H Y P E R C O N V E R G E D S C A L E O U T A N D

C L O U D S T O R A G E

VM VM VM VM

HX ClusterNodes Traditional Storage Arrays

SAN/NAS

HX Data

Platform


Customer Value

• Investment Protection

• Simplified Operations

• Simplified Migrations









Optimization





Intersight



Investment protection of existing storage and compute investment


I N T E G R A T E I N T O Y O U R E X I S T I N G I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

C O M M O N N E T W O R K F A B R I C

C O M M O N M A N A G E M E N T P O L I C Y

H Y P E R C O N V E R G E D C O M P U T E - O N L Y

N O D E S

VM VM VM VM

HX ClusterNodes

ScaleRacks

ScaleBlades

VM VM VM VM

HX Data

Platform

I N V E S T M E N T

P R O T E C T I O N

Traditional Storage ArraysSAN/NAS

Large Cosmetics Company

• Lowest Possible TCO

• Procure only what you need

• NO ADDITIONAL HX LICENSE COST










Optimization





Intersight




Cost optimization through Compute-only node support


Intersight Deployment and Operational Simplicity

HyperFlex One HX System – Local Installation

Cisco IntersightIntersight Deployed AND MANAGED

Out of the Box &

Ready for Workload

2 Hours or LessSite 1

Site 2 Site 3

Site 4


Cisco Intersight - HyperFlex Cloud Deployment Intelligent Centralized Management

Before Intersight

With Intersight

Deploy OnsiteFly/TruckStageStaffShip from Factory

1 2 3 4 5

Deploy Cluster Remotely

Deliver tofinal site

Ship from Factory

1 3

2









Optimization





Intersight





Out-of-the-box service profiles, install/upgrade automation, automated cluster scaling


Fabric Centric Design

High Performance40 GB/s Ethernet; 320 GB/s per Chassis.

Best Practies deployed Via FabricSingle Cable for Network, Storage, and Management Traffic

Easy to ScaleAdd Cables, Got to Intersight and deploy

UCS Manager(Service Profiles)

Management

Ethernet

Storage

Form Factor Agnostic:Blades, Racks,Storage Optimized and HyperFlex

System Level Q.A.Designed, Tested and Optimized as a systemCisco does this so you don’t have to !









Optimization





Intersight






10G/40G/100G VIC/FabricFactory installed, integrated

networking, fabric QoS


Protect your Entire Infrastructure

HyperFlex

UCS S3260 Up to 560TB in 4U

ORUCSB-seriesC-series

SAN

withVMware Replication &

VMware Data Protection









Optimization





Intersight








Native replication, backup/DR, Stretch Cluster, Availability Zones,

Fault tolerant HA architecture

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Cloud Based Centralized Management

Operational Consistency Cloud-Managed. Telemetry. Predictive. Proactive

Simplify









Optimization





Intersight








Native replication, backup/DR, Stretch Cluster, Availability Zones,

Fault tolerant HA architecture

Monitoring, Telemetry, Analytics, Policy, Orchestration, Proactive TAC, HX Cluster management

“Our Staff can now provision a test environment in minutes, not months, so we can test new ideas very rapidly. IT’s Given us a competitive edge”

Andrew Henderson, CIO, ING Direct, Australia

Thank you !!

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