ucs best practices in vm environments
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UCS Best Practices in VM Environments theater presentation from VMworld 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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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
Visit http://communities.cisco.com/ucsm
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In Collaboration with Intel®
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