UCS Invicta & Application Performance

Technical Marketing, Solid State Systems Group

April 12, 2023

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Speed is the Top Tier

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Quickly Add Assets

Rapidly Provision & Re-provision Resources

Applications need infrastructure that deploys faster

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UCS Founding Principles

The Unified Computing System deploys infrastructure fast

Servers

UCSNetwork / Storage Access

ApplicationCentric

OperationalSimplicity

Platform for IT Innovation

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Benefits of Cisco Unified Computing SystemInnovation serving 30,000 UCS Customers World Wide

Sources: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks

Superior Economics and Operations Superior Performance

90+World-Record

Application Performance Benchmarks

54%

Reduction of Power and

Cooling Costs

61%

Reduction of Ongoing

Management Costs

77%

Reduction of Cabling

84%

Reduction in Provisioning

Times

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Fast Application Deployment

Fast Application Execution

Faster Applications need infrastructure that runs faster

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Response Time

Flash Memory provides a Faster Time Zone for Applications

Slow Zone

Fast Zone

HDD

Flash

CPU

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24 HDDs• 4,500 IOP, Milliseconds

24 Hybrid HDDs• 12,750 IOPS, Milliseconds

24 SSDs• 250,000 IOPS• Microseconds

Slow

Faster

Hyper-Fast

Use Case for Flash Memory is Application Speed

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UCS + Flash

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Flash Memory aligned with compute unifies resource provisioning and enables faster application workloads

Flash Memory Compute Network

UCS

UCS becomes the Fast Lane for Application Workloads

UCS Manager UCS Director

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UCS Invicta Series

UCS Invicta Series• Part of the UCS Architecture• Modular Architecture • UCS Management

Integration • Future Fabric Integration

Appliance• Invicta OS

• Media Management, Data Protection & Data Reduction

• Balanced Write/Read Performance

• Converts into Scaling System Node

Scaling System• Invicta OS

• Router Services • Media Management, Data

Protection & Data Reduction

• Efficiency of Scale Up with the Power of Scale Out

• Supports Multiple Workloads

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Cisco UCS Invicta Series

Up to 1.2 Million IOPSUp to 7.2 GB/s BandwidthUp to 144 TB RAW *FC & iSCSI

UCS Invicta Appliance

Scalability

Modularity

Application Acceleration

Data Optimization

Multiple Workloads

Tuning-Free Performance

250,000 IOPS1.2 GB/s BandwidthUp to 24 TB RAWFC & iSCSI

UCS InvictaScaling System

*6 node configuration

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Invicta OSDesigned to drive the high performance from Flash Media

1. Protect •Store in Write Buffer

2. Organize •Create Write Blocks

3. Optimize •Write Aligned for Flash Media & RAID Protection

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Invicta OSOptimizing Flash for Faster Writes & Higher Endurance

4. Optimize Writes•Write speeds are symmetric to read speeds

5. Virtual Garbage Collection•Evaluated and Managed by the Invicta OS

6. Virtual Garbage Collection•Blocks are invalidated in large chunks to speed up drive level garbage collection

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Invicta OS

Appliance Management

GUI/APIUCS

Director Support

Flash Management

Write Optimizatio

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vGarbage Collection

Volume Manageme

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Thin Provisioning

Data Management

Snapshots De-Duplication

Data Protection

RAID 6 Replication

UCS Invicta Appliance

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UCS Invicta Appliance

Invicta OS Operating Modes

High Performance

IOPS

220,000 100% R

205,000 50/50 R/W

200,000 100% W

Max Capacity

24TB

Data Reduction

IOPS

250,000 100% R

180,000 50/50 R/W

120,000 100% W

Max Effective Capacity

64TB

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Scaling ArchitecturesThe Basics

Scale Up• A Storage Array

• Adding Shelf Increases Capacity

• Performance is limited to the power of the Storage Controllers

• Applications share the Controllers

Scale Out• Adding a node increases

capacity, IOPS and throughput

• Applications share the pool • Data is distributed across

the pool to maintain performance

Scale Up / Out• Adding Nodes increases

capacity, IOPS and throughput• Nodes can be organized

into pools of varying sizes, performance, and capabilities .

• Applications are assigned to pools

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UCS Invicta Scaling SystemScale Up/Out

Scaling System Routers

Manages connectivity between Hosts and Scaling System Nodes

Supports Multiple node types • Application Acceleration • Data Reduction

Add Nodes to increase performance and capacity

Scaling System Nodes

Application Acceleration Mode orData Reduction Mode

Application Acceleration Mode • 3TB-24TB RAW Capacity per node

Data Reduction Mode• 25TB-64TB Effective Capacity per

node

SSR

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UCS Invicta Scaling SystemDistributed / Separated Architecture

Invicta OS

Scaling System Router

Scaling System Management

UCS Director Support

Host Connectivit

y Node Mgmt

Volume Manageme

nt

Data Protection

Mirroring Replication

Scaling System Node

Flash Mgmt

Write Optimizatio

n

vGG (Garbage

Collection)

Volume Mgmt

Thin Provisionin

g

Data Management

Snapshots De-Duplication

Data Protecti

on

RAID 6

SSR SSN

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UCS Invicta Scaling SystemOrganize Pools to meet application requirements

SSN

SSN

SSR

SSN

SSR

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SSN

SSN

Databases

Analytics

Transaction Systems

File Shares

Development Environments

Virtual Desktops

3 Performance Pools• 600,000 IOPS• Raw Pool capacities can

range from 3TB to 24TB

3 Data Reduction Pools • 450,000 IOPS• Effective pool capacities

can range from 25TB to 64TB

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UCS Invicta Series Managed by UCS Director

UCS Director

OrchestrationPoliciesService ProfilesSelf-serviceTasksWorkflows

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Cisco Management Overview

Manages multiple

UCS Domains

Manages ACI Fabric

UCS CENTRAL

UCS DIRECTOR Centralized infrastructure control point for data center

APIC

INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Private Cloud, PaaS (DevOps), Hybrid Cloud

Manages: UCS Invicta, Nexus, Heterogeneous and Converged infrastructures

Manages Single UCS domain

UCS MANAGER

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UCS Invicta SeriesBringing Flash Memory into the UCS Architecture

Invicta OS

V5.x•Flash media management

•Data protection•De-Duplication•UCS Director Support •FCoE

UCS Invicta Series

ApplianceScaling System Storage Blade------•Based upon •UCS C•UCS B

Network

Switched Back PlaneVICFabric Interconnect------Unified Fabric•Lower latency•Higher bandwidth

Management UCS DirectorUCS Manager------•Orchestration•Policies•Service Profiles•Self-service•Tasks•Workflows

Integration Steps

Items in green are completed or in progress

B Serie

s

InvictaSeries

SAN/LANFabric

Interconnect

C Series

UCS

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Faster Infrastructure. Faster Applications. Faster Business.

Compute

Network

FlashMemory

UCS

Accelerated Applications

Business Data