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T-DC-12-I – UCS UpdateEfficiently managing your server environment for traditional enterprise and scale out mode 2 applications

Jacob Van Ewyk - @javanewykUCS Management Product Manager

May 19, 2016

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Cisco Data Center VisionDefined by Applications. Driven by Policy. Delivered as a Service

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

ComputeCloudNetwork

BUSINESS OUTCOMES

Policy

Policy

Policy

Business Agility New Business Models Lower TCO


Unified Computing: Inspired by Customer Needs

Help Me:

Industry in Transition

• Reduce complexity that drives OPEX

• Get the most out of virtualization

• Automate and move faster

• Get ready for cloud

Cisco UCS

Virtualization

Compute &Flash

Acceleration

Networkand Storage

Access

OperationalSimplicity

ApplicationCentricity

Platform forIT Innovation


Cisco UCS: Driving Business OutcomesProven value and over 48,000 customers world wide

“We’re able to offer leading-edge solutions to our customers and continue to expand our business.”

Reduction in Provisioning

Times

84%Reduction of Management

Costs

61%Reduction of Power and

Cooling Costs

54%Cabling

Reduction

77%World-record Performance Benchmarks

100

“Our Cisco Unified Computing System decision is a game-changer.”

Wes WrightCIO, Seattle Children’s

Martin BreslinInfrastructure Architect, SEI

“With Cisco UCS, we can adapt much more quickly to user demand.”

Mark AdamsVP Information Technology, HireRight

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


Cisco Unified Computing SystemA differentiated/revolutionary approach

Unified

Management

• Faster deploy/ provision

• Unification leads to reduced complexity

• Management via a single interface

Simplified

Architecture

• Networking with fewer components

• Lower cost and easier scaling

• Fewer management touch points

• Stateless: any resource, any time

• Better TCO/ROI

Scale

• Ultimate Scalability

• Enhanced design capability

• Designed for the future, today

Higher

Performance

• Brings out the best of x86 architecture

• Optimized resource utilization for compute, networking, and management


UCS Cabling: Radical Simplification

Ad hoc and inconsistent Structured, but siloed,

complicated

Simplified

Traditional Rack Traditional Blade Cisco UCS


Eliminating Server I/O Adapters

1x 1-Gbps Management

2x 1-Gbps Production Data

1x 1-Gbps Production Data

1x 1-Gbps vMotion

1x 1-Gbps vmconsole

1x 1-Gbps vmkernel

2x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel

Top-of-Rack Switches

Ethernet Top-of-

Rack Switches

Ethernet Management

Network Switch

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects

Cisco Nexus

Fabric Extenders

2x 10-Gbps Unified Fabric

Data and Management

Traditional Rack

ServerPer Server

Cisco UCS C-Series

Rack Server

4 Physical NICs/HBAs 1

9 Cables 2


3rd Gen Cisco VIC

The ultimate engine for true stateless computing unleashes maximum network bandwidth, features and performance

Lower Latency

2ns point to point

Multiple Form Factors

Blade mLOM, Mezz, Rack PCIe, mLOM

Support for Overlay Networks

Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN

• Doubles host PCIe performance, BW and Root complex

resources

• Doubles embedded processing, for datapath (fNIC, sNIC) and

future services

• Hardware enabled support for RDMA for SMB Direct, ROCE

• Advanced Cisco UCS features including VM-FEX, usNIC, and

Single Connect

PCIe Gen 3

Native 40GbE ready

Choice of Interfaces

10Gb SFP+, 10GBaseT, 40Gb QSFP


UCS Management: Policy and Model-Driven

Application Profiles

Virtualization Policy

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

1 Subject Matter Experts

Define Policies 5System Configures Hardware

Elements Automatically and

Eliminates Configuration Drift4 Model-Driven Framework

to Abstract Resources2 Policies Used to Create

Service Profile Templates

Storage SME

Network SME

Server SME

3 Service Profile Templates

Create Service Profiles

Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Fabric Interconnect

UCS Manager

Creates Object Model

Defines Model and Platform


Delivering Solutions Through the Power of the Ecosystem

Business Apps DatabasesAnalytics and

Big dataCloud Apps

CollaborationApplications

DesktopVirtualization

Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus

Cisco Unified Management

Storage Partnerships

VBLOCKHDS UCPFLEXPOD VSPEX

HANA &

BWA

UCS Integrated Infrastructure



Exclusive in the top 2 solutions (FlexPod and Vblock)

and ~50% in the #3 solution (VSPEX)*


Cisco

UCS

Cisco

Nexus

UCS Director

VblockFlexPodHDS UCP

SelectVSPEX SmartStack

*IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, April 29, 2014

VersaStackUCS for Red

Hat OpenStack

Cisco is #1 and a partner in ~69%

of all Integrated Infrastructure*


Key Market Transitions and Investment Focus

Greater Agility

Flexibility and Scale

Software Defined

Moving Closer to Compute

Different Consumption Models

Different Technology Stacks


UCS Compute PortfolioPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

Cloud Scale

UCS C460 M4

Mission-Critical, 4-Socket

Server for Large, CPU-

Intensive Applications

UCS B420 M4

Enterprise Class, 4-

Socket Blade for Large,

Memory-Intensive Bare

Metal

and Virtualized

Applications

Rack

Bla

de

UCS B260 M4

Mission-Critical, 2-Socket

Blade for Large, CPU-

Intensive Bare Metal

and Virtualized Applications

UCS B460 M4

Mission-Critical, 4-

Socket Blade for Large,

CPU-Intensive Bare

Metal

and Virtualized

Applications

UCS M-Series Modular Servers

Modular servers optimized for Cloud-

scale deployments

UCS C240 M4

Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP,

and Database Applications

UCS B200 M4

Optimal Choice for VDI, Private

Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/

Consolidation Workloads

UCS C220 M4

Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise

Infrastructure, and Application Server

UCS C3000 Series

Ideal Capacity-Optimized

Platform for Large Object Storage

at Scale

Intensive/Mission CriticalEnterprise

Performance


UCS FI & Fabric Extender Overview

• Enabling a high-performance, low-latency & lossless fabric

FI 6300 Series and 2304 Fabric Extender

High-density 40GbE ports• FI 6300 series coupled with B-Series & C-Series enables an

end-to-end 40GbE solution

• FI 6300 series couple with Cisco MDS enables an end-to-end

40GbE FCoE solution

High speed Fibre Channel 16G FC ports• Provides high performance SAN (4/8/16G FC) connectivity for

blades & rack servers

• Simplifies management by reducing the number of links required

between end points


Placing Computing at the Source of Demand

Core Data Center

UCS Management

Sensor Data

Retail, Sports and Entertainment

Branch Office or Clinic Service Provider: Customer Premise

Equipment


UCS MiniB200 M3/M4 Blade Server

B420 M3 Blade Server

C240 M3/M4 Rack Server

UCS Manager 3.1

C220 M3/M4 Rack Server

6324 Fabric Interconnects

Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale

Connect 2 chassis with up to 7 C-Series rack servers or 1 chassis with

up to 7 C-Series rack servers for expanded capacity

New architectural entry point for

Unified Computing

UCS in an All-in-One package:

• Compute

• Networking

• UCS Management

• Unified Computing in 6U

• Chassis-Integrated Fabric

Interconnects

• Standard UCS Blades / Fans

/ Power Supplies

UCS Mini


Applications in the Connected World

SaaS

PaaS IaaS

Traditional

Applications

ERP, Financial,

Client/Server, CRM,

Email

Cloud Native

Applications

IoT, Big Data,

Analytics, Gaming

Cisco Confidential

Data Center Cloud Edge/IoT

Security Everywhere


Monolithic Servers Are Not the Best Answer for all types of Workloads

What’s Required?

• Total server subsystem disaggregation: CPU,

Memory, I/O and Accelerators, Local Disk

• Control plane to create composite machines out of

atomic components

• Exposed programmability for composable IT

services

What the Industry Offers Today

What Customers Should be Able to Do

Match the Application to Fixed Infrastructure With

Virtualization

Create Ratio-optimized Combinations of

Subsystems Tuned for the Application

Replace Entire Server to Upgrade One Subsystem

Upgrade Subsystem Components Independently

as Required

Orchestrate Fixed-ratio, Monolithic Servers

Applications Invoke Composable Infrastructure

CPU Memory Storage NetworkMonolithic ServersResource Pools


Cisco Composable Infrastructure

• M-Series for compute intensive applications

• C3260 for data intensive applicationsC3260

Data Intensive

M-Series

Compute Intensive

Compute Intensive

Data Intensive


C3160 Rack Storage Server

• Single Server Node

• 40Gbps Connectivity with 4x10Gbps

• Standalone CIMC and CIMC Supervisor

C3260 Rack Storage Server

• Dual Server Node

• Drives available to both Server Nodes, asymmetric

split of drives between nodes available

• 160Gbps with 4x 40Gbps(QSFP)

• Standalone CIMC, IMC Supervisor, and UCSM

Single/Dual Server

Dual CPU Socket per server

Up to 1TB Memory

512GB per Server

Dual System I/OMultiple Connectivity Options

40G, 10G, 1G

Up to 4GB RAID Cache

Enterprise Storage Features

Up to 62 Drive Bays

60 LFF with support for up tp 28 SSDs, plus up

to 4 SFF Boot SSD

UCS C3000 Capacity Optimized Server FamilyCommon Chassis, Drives, PSU, 12Gbps SAS-3 Infrastructure

Up to 12Gbps SAS-3 4K Native Drives

Supported


Use Cases for the UCS C3000 Server Family

Service ProvidersPublic Sector

Service Providers, Enterprise

Software Defined Storage

Object Store

Media Streaming and Content

Distribution

Video Surveillance

Exchange

Backup and Archive

(as Service)

Service Providers, Enterprise, Cloud

Storage Spaces

SP COS SP COS VSOM

In a box

Service Providers, Enterprise

Big Data and Analytics

http://www.commvault.com/

http://www.commvault.com/


Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture

Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale

Many

Applications

ServerSingle Server

Many

Servers

Single Application

SCM ERP/Financial

Legacy CRM Email Online Content

Gaming Mobile IoT eCommerce

Hypervisor


Shared Local Resources

PCIe

Compute Cartridges

UCS M Series

Shared Local Resources Improved utilization of resources

Resource amortization over smaller nodes

Based on Cisco System Link Technology

Third Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server

Modular Design Improved subsystem lifecycle management

Ability to scale individual subsystems independently

Lean Componentry Improved compute density

Cost and power optimization

UCS M-Series Composable Server


UCS M-SeriesA full breadth of compute cartridge portfolio

Shipping: M142, M1414, M2814

• Cisco’s first composable infrastructure offering

• Based 0n Cisco System Link Technology

• Modular design supporting up to 16 servers in 2 RU

Virtual Application

DeliveryVideo Transcoding Mode-2 Workloads Genome Sequencing

Now Available

• Q1’CY16:

• Support for Xeon E3 v4 processors with

integrated graphics

• Common version of UCS Manager


Solving Key Customer Challenges

CFOs Expect a

Cloud Economics On-

Premise

Purchasing model

and independent

scaling allow to

pay as you grow

Moving at the

Speed of

Business

Deployment of

computing,

networking and

storage resources

in less than 1 hour

Operationalizing

Speed and

Simplicity

Single management

plane for converged

and hyperconverged

solutions

APPS


Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems

Complete Hyperconvergence

Software Defined Compute, Storage & Network

Next Generation Data Management

Always-on Optimization and Flexible Scaling

Future Ready Architecture

Built for Todays Workloads and Emerging Applications


Next Generation Data PlatformCustom Built, Log Structured File System with Flash, Dedup and Compression as Foundational Elements

Independent Scaling andScale Out Architecture Predictable, Pay-as-You-Grow Efficiency

Enterprise Storage FeaturesPointer-Based Snapshot

Near Instant Clones

Inline dedup and compression

Enterprise Data Protection

Highly Available/Self-Healing

Single Button Non-Disruptive Rolling Upgrades

Call Home and Onsite 24x7 Support Available

Single Point of Management

Integrated into vCenter

Robust Reporting and Analytics


Primary HyperFlex Use Cases

• Agile provisioning

• Frequent iterations

• Instant cloning and snapshots

Test and Development

• Low upfront costs

• Consistent performance

• Predictable scaling

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Reduce operational complexity

• Adaptive scaling

• Always-on resiliency

Server Virtualization

• Simple deployment

• Centralized management

• No “fly-and-fix” missions

Large RemoteBranch Office

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Unified Management Across UCS Portfolio

UCS Mini

Edge-Scale

ComputingCloud-Scale

Computing

UCS M-Series Composable Infrastructure

UCS B-Series Blade Servers

UCS C-Series Rack Servers

Core Data Center Workloads

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