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• 20 Years in IT, 8 of them at Cisco
• CCIE #8588 (R&S)
• Product Manager, UCS
• Living and Working from The Netherlands
• Misses the Sunshine
• UCS – The question on everyone’s mind
• UCS versus Legacy Architecture
• UCS Advantage – Stateless Computing
• Extending and Simplifying Management
• Where to find out more
• 17,800 unique UCS Customers
• #3 market share in x86 blades (#2 in N. America & US)
• 2,300 UCS channel partners
• 44 ISVs writing to UCS API (and growing)
• Ten of thousands of supported applications
• 70 world record performance benchmarks to date
• Numerous industry awards and certifications
Fastest Growing Product in the Market
Email and Internet on a PC
You’ve
Got Mail!
Dedicated MP3 Player
Portable DVD player
Portable Storage
Digital Camera
Phone
You
• All tools in one device
• One User Interface
• Consistent Experience
• Scalable (More Apps)
• Ground Breaking Innovations
• Built for the Cloud
The magic is how Smartphone makers unify
all tools together within a singular device and
manages it all with a single user interface
Every customer,
in every data center,
already has a set of
common technologies:
Servers
Storage
Networking
Management
Definition of Fabric
Computing:
A set of compute, storage,
memory & network
components joined through
a fabric interconnect and the
software to configure
and manage them.
Management Network
Ethernet Network
Storage Area Network
All this stuff costs money and I have to
pay to license and manage it!!
Mgmt Server Mgmt Server Embed management
Unify Fabrics (wire once)
Optimize virtualization –Treat a virtual object like physical object (VNLink)
–Performance and Scale (more vm per server)
Remove unnecessary
–switches
–adapters
–management modules
Less than 1/3rd the support infrastructure for a given workload
Mgmt Server
Mgmt Server • A single system that encompasses:
– Network: Unified fabric
– Compute: Industry standard x86
– Storage: FC, FCoE, iSCSI
– Virtualization optimized
• Unified management model
– Dynamic and rapid resource provisioning (Service Profiles)
• Efficient Scale
– Cisco network scale & services
– Fewer servers with more memory
• Lower cost
– Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables
– Lower power consumption
– Fewer points of management
UCS Manager Embedded – manages entire UCS
UCS Fabric Interconnect 10GE unified fabric switch
UCS Fabric Extender IO Module
UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations
UCS Blade and Rack Servers
x86 industry standard
Patented extended memory
UCS I/O Adapters Choice of multiple adapters
AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OPTIMIZES DATA CENTER
EFFICIENCY
Server Health Monitoring
Multi-Chassis Server Identity Manager
Servers 1-8
Servers 17-24
1 Logical Chassis
Servers 9-16
Servers 25-32
Servers 33-40
Servers 49-56
Servers 65-72
Servers 81-88
Servers 97-104
Servers 113-120
Servers 129-136
Servers 145-152 Servers 153-160
Servers 41-48
Servers 57-64
Servers 73-80
Servers 89-96
Servers 105-112
Servers 121-128
Servers 137-144
Ethernet Ethernet
Fiber Channel Fiber Channel
Server Health Monitoring
Multi-chassis Server Identity Manager
Blade & Chassis Management
Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
Legacy Blade Architecture
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 1: Servers 1-16
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 2: Servers 17-32
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 3: Servers 33-48
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 4: Servers 49-64
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 6: Servers 1-16
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 5: Servers 65-80
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 7: Servers 97-112
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 8: Servers 113-138
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 9: Servers 139-154
Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 10: Servers 154-160
Cisco UCS
How can I manage and fully
utilize all this technology
without adding complexity
and doing it quickly?
QUESTION #3
Every house requires a blueprint
detailing how to build it
To build that house we need a series
of inter-working, necessary parts –
from plumbing, electricity, light and
air, waste, and structure
We can think of servers much the
same way….
Simply A Blueprint
Legacy Servers require a lot of manual intervention
NIC MACs
HBA WWNs
Server UUID
VLAN Assignments
VLAN Tagging
FC Fabrics Assignments
FC Boot Parameters
Number of vNICs
Boot order
PXE settings
IPMI Settings
Number of vHBAs
QoS
Call Home
Template Association
Org & Sub Org Assoc.
Server Pool Association
Statistic Thresholds
BIOS scrub actions
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
Adapter firmware
BMC firmware
RAID settings
Advanced NIC settings
Serial over LAN settings
BIOS Settings
SAN
LAN
Server Identity &
Personality
Service
Profile1
Service
Profile2
Service
Profile3
Service
Profile x
UCS Rack and
Blade Servers
UCS Service Profiles reduce complexity and speed up deployment
NIC MACs
HBA WWNs
Server UUID
VLAN Assignments
VLAN Tagging
FC Fabrics Assignments
FC Boot Parameters
Number of vNICs
Boot order
PXE settings
IPMI Settings
Number of vHBAs
QoS
Call Home
Template Association
Org & Sub Org Assoc.
Server Pool Association
Statistic Thresholds
BIOS scrub actions
Disk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
Adapter firmware
BMC firmware
RAID settings
Advanced NIC settings
Serial over LAN settings
BIOS Settings
Server Identity &
Personality To build our server
… Make one or more unique
profile copies from a template (i.e. our
blueprint)
Associate a single profile to a single server.
Repeat for more servers as needed
Rapidly deploy any number of servers in just
a few clicks!
• Extremely Rapid Deployment
• Rapid Recovery In Event of Failure
• Easy Migration Path to Upgrade of Servers to new HW
• Repurpose Blades as needed
• Disaster Recovery
• Works with both Rack and Blade
• Other ideas?
Service
Profile
Service
Profile
Service
Profile
• Fewer manual steps – Adjust BIOS, Firmware, NIC & SAN Settings: 120 parameters in all, a “server personality”
– Edit storage controller settings
• Decreased chances of human error
– Firmware updates become automatic with the update of the master service profile
• Easier repeatability and faster server provisioning – Higher RAS
– Lower software costs
• Enforce greater consistency
• Simplified cloning and copying
• Move service profiles from rack to blade and blade to rack
• Group, undo and single-operation firmware updates
UCSM Takes Care of All Infrastructure in
the UCS Domain
– Discovery, Inventory, Monitoring, Diagnostics,
Statistics Collection, Configuration of Network,
Blades, Storage Connections, Firmware, etc
Speaks GUI, CLI, SNMP, IPMI, SMASH-
CLP
AND / OR
UCS Manager
GUI
CLI
Packaged Systems
Management Software
User Developed Portal,
Tools, Utilities
OPEN XML APIs for integration with
new and existing data center
infrastructure
Manage UCS with Industry Standard Tools
Service Orchestration
Provisioning and Configuration
Monitoring and Analysis
Third Party Management
Unified Control API
Service Profiles
Cisco UCS Pools
Cisco UCS Manager
Unified Management at Scale
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 1
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 2
UCS Manager
Data Center 3
• Unifies management of multi UCS domains
• Simplify global operations with centralized
inventory, faults, logs and server consoles
• Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID
pools and templates
• Foundation for high availability, disaster
recovery and workload mobility
• Model based API for large scale automation
UCS Central
• Turn-Key Solution; ready for use in hours
• A single, integrated, out-of-the-box solution
• Enforce Best Practices with Consistent Infrastructure Policies
• Seamless virtual and physical resource pooling
• Hypervisor agnostic
• End-to-End Automation
• Model-based automation - no need for scripting
• Single-click policy-driven provisioning
• Ongoing lifecycle management
Self Service Infrastructure Provisioning
• Data Sheets
• Validated Designs
• White Papers
• Quick Start Guides
• Bundles & Promos
Or you can ask your local DC Team for a demonstration
www.cisco.com/go/ucs
• Data Sheets
• Validated Designs
• White Papers
• Best Practices
• Quick Start Guides
• Bundles & Promos
Or you can ask your local DC Team for a demonstration
• UCS is a truly innovative way of bringing together infrastructure we
all have in the data center, but we understand that infrastructure is
only the foundation. The real value is in applications and solutions.
• Sign up for my other session on UCS and Applications. A brief talk
on how UCS can act as the foundation upon which your applications
can run better than ever.
• Today 14:15-15:15 in Session Room #2
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