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Markus Kunstmann

Channels Systems Engineer

The Future of ComputingCisco Unified Computing System

Cisco Public06/15/2009

OperationalLimitations

Data Centers Are under Increasing Pressure

New BusinessPressures

Collaboration SLA MetricsEmpowered User Global Availability24 x 7

Reg. Compliance

Power & Cooling ProvisioningAsset Utilization Security Threats Bus. Continuance


Unified Fabric Advantage

Primary Network

Secondary Network

MDS

Nexus 7000

Nexus 5000

Increased Efficiency, Simpler OperationsComplexity, Cost, Power


Cisco Data Center Bridging: What and Why

Cisco DCB enhancements are standards-based.

Cisco DCB enhancements are supported by ecosystem partners.

Benefits of DCB:

Enables the unified fabric to accommodate LAN, storage, and clustering application

Lossless transport

Congestion management

Possibility of larger Layer 2 domains

Storage Network

Mgmt Network

Cluster2

Cluster 1 Backup

Network

UnifiedFabric


Unified I/O Architecture Consolidation

Ethernet FC

LAN SAN BSAN A

Today I/O Consolidation with FCoE

SAN BLAN SAN A

FCoE

Nexus5000


FC TrafficFC HBA

Unified I/O (FCoE)

Fewer CNAs (Converged Network adapters) instead of NICs, HBAs and HCAs

Limited number of interfaces for Blade Servers

All traffic goes over

10GE

CNA

CNA

FC TrafficFC HBA

NIC LAN Traffic

NIC LAN Traffic

NIC Mgmt Traffic

NIC Backup Traffic

IPC TrafficHCA


Sprawling Infrastructure Management Costs Rise DramaticallyWW Spending on Servers, Power and Cooling, and Management/Administration

0

5,000,000

10,000,000

15,000,000

20,000,000

25,000,000

30,000,000

35,000,000

Spending ($M) Installed Base

Power and Cooling Mgmt & Administration New Server Spending

GrowingManagement

Costs

Source: IDC July 20098


Virtualization and Networking

Virtualization Aware Networking

VN-Link at the access layer

Fabric Extension for scalability

Inter-DC mobility at the core

Simplify deployments of vSphere

UCS platform that scales with vSphere

Service Profiles to simplify Server provisioning

Break remaining scalability limits

Scaling VMotion, DRS and DPM to 10GE

Eliminate IO bottlenecks

Increase VM density and memory

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What is VN-Link?

Extends the network to the virtualization layer

Requires innovation within networking equipment

Virtual Ethernet Interface

Port Profiles

Virtual Interface mobility

Solution Integrated with vSphere


Proliferation of Control Points

Introduction of blade switches and rack switches

Evolution of the access layer has led to an increasingly complex management environment and switch topology

Introduction of hypervisors


VN-Link Via Fabric Extension

Logically collapse the access layer to simplify management

Available in the Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender and Cisco UCS

Network Interface Virtualization (NIV)Standards discussion in progress


Unify and Simplify

LAN

SAN A

Chassis Mgmt

Ethernet Blade Switch Mgmt

Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt

Virtual Switch Mgmt

Ethernet Switch Mgmt

FCSwitch Mgmt

Fabric Extender and VN-Link simplify server access management

SAN B


Unify and Simplify

Chassis Mgmt

Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt

Unified Fabric simplifies I/O infrastructure and management while

maintaining Enterprise-class high-availability

LAN

SAN A

Ethernet Switch Mgmt

FCSwitch Mgmt

SAN B


Unify and Simplify

Cisco UCS consolidates server infrastructure into a

single point of management

Chassis Mgmt

Unified Network Mgmt

LAN

SAN A

SAN B


Cisco Unified Computing System

Single point of management for compute, network and storage access

Architected to operate at network scale

Optimized for virtualization

UCSInterconnect

Chassis


UCS ManagerEmbedded in Fabric Interconnect

UCS Fabric Interconnect20 Port 10Gb FCoE40 Port 10Gb FCoE

UCS Fabric ExtenderLogically part of Fabric InterconnectInserts into Blade Enclosure

UCS Blade Server ChassisFlexible bay configurationsLogically part of Fabric Interconnect

UCS Blade ServerDifferent blade typesMix blade types within enclosure

UCS Virtual AdaptersThree adapter optionsMix adapters within blade

Building Blocks


Cisco’s innovations reduce TCO

Scale without complexity

Significant infrastructure reduction through Cisco innovation:

Unified Fabric

Fabric Extender

Virtual Interface Card

Expanded Memory

Unified Management

Drives down cost relative to legacy infrastructures


Unified Computing System

CPU

Mem

ory

ExtendedMemory

Scale Out

Unified Fabric

Fabric Extender

Virtualized Adapter

CRM

ERP

Analytics

VM VM

VM VM

Database

DataWarehouse


Fabric Extenders

Cisco Innovation

Fabric extender is neither a switch nor a pass through module

Reduces the switching costs, cables, and network management domains

Brings lossless 10GbE, FCoE to each blade

Scales without adding complexity


Wire for Bandwidth, Not Connectivity

Wire Once Architecture

All links can be active all the time

Policy-driven bandwidth allocation

Virtual interface granularity

Uplinks

20Gb/s 40Gb/s 80Gb/s



Scenario: Moving all VMs from one host to another in a cluster

Intra-Cluster Mobility

6 VMs, 8GB each

Two workloads

Touch memory then idle

Run “mem touch” in background



Source: Cisco

Idle Mem Touch

Total Completion Time 45 sec 103 sec

# of Pre-Copy Iterations 1 3

Total Data Transferred 41GB 112GB

0

2

4

6

8

10

131

61

91Idle Mem Touch (sec)

030

6090

Intra-Cluster Mobility


Optimizing Memory with the Xeon 5500

Xeon 5500 Xeon 5500

Xeon 5500Xeon 5500

Classic

Cisco UCS With Memory Extension

• 12 DIMMs• Max 96GB• Higher Performance

• 18 DIMMs• Max 144GB• Lower Performance

Or

• 48 DIMMs• Max 384GB• Higher Performance


Savings With Memory Extension

NOTE:DDR3 memory pricing as of

4/10/09


Introducing the Cisco Virtual Interface Controller

Converged Network Adapter designed for both single-OS and VM-based deployments

Virtualize in hardware

PCIe compliant

2 x 10GbE performance

Supports VN-Link in hardware

2 Levels of Performance

Bypass vSwitch to deliver VN-Link in hardware

VM Direct Path: bypass vSwitch and hypervisor for maximum performance


Options for VMware Environments

VN-link in Software

VN-Link in Hardware

VN-Link in Hardware with VM Direct Path


netperf UDP send/receive test (size=1156)

Compare netperf UDP test between best 10GE NIC in vSwitch mode and Cisco VIC using VM Direct Path

1, 2 or 3 UDP streams

9.3 Gbps

(MB/s)


UCS Service ProfilesHardware “State” Abstraction

Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware

Separate access port settings from physical ports

Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware

BMC FirmwareMAC AddressNIC FirmwareNIC Settings

Drive Controller F/WDrive Firmware

UUIDBIOS FirmwareBIOS Settings

Boot Order

WWN AddressHBA FirmwareHBA Settings

State abstracted from hardware

LAN Connectivity SAN ConnectivityOS & Application


Service Profile Efficiencies

SAN LAN

Chassis 1, Blade 1

Chassis 10, Blade 32

MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FCWWN: 5080020000075740

VLAN: 55Boot Order, Firmware, etc

Chassis 5, Blade 34

Chassis 20, Blade 162

MAC : 08:00:69:02:02:FCWWN: 5080020000075750


MAC : 08:00:69:02:03:FCWWN: 5080020000075760


Scale out ESX clusters faster

Fail-over service profiles

Scale out applications quickly

Reduce errors from manual

deployment

Reduce the size of spare pools

and share resources across

applications

With VICs - True wire once

architecture

Cisco IT went from 200 hours to 1

hour to deploy


Unified Computing System (UCS)

Single Point of Management

Unified Fabric

Stateless Serverswith

Virtualized Adapters


Reduced # of management points

Reduced firmware management

Reduced time to resolve issues

Reduced complexity




Unified Fabric



Unified FabricReduced # of adapters Reduced # of switches

Reduced LAN and SAN edge portsReduced cabling costs

Reduced power due to less H/W




Unified Fabric



Large MemoryReduced server costs

Reduced power and cooling costsReduced software costs




Unified Fabric



Virtualization & Stateless ServersReduced type of servers via H/W virtualization

Reduced # of standby servers for HAReduced downtime due to service profilesReduced time to resolve issues with VM’s


UCS C-Series Servers

Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility.

Extends Unified Computing innovations and benefits to rack-mount servers

The first rack-mount servers offering a built-in migration path to unified computing

Increased customer choice with unique benefits in a familiar rack-mount package

UCS C200 M1 High-Density Rack-Mount Server

UCS C210 M1

General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server

UCS C250 M1

Extended Memory Rack-Mount Server


C-Series Product Details

Item CPU Size Memory Disks I/O

UCS C250 M1Intel Xeon

55002RU

48 DIMM

384 GB

8 SFF

SAS/SATA

Drives

5 PCIe


55002RU

12 DIMM

96 GB

16 SFF

SAS/SATA

Drives

5 PCIe


55001RU

12 DIMM

96GB

4 x 3.5”

SAS/SATA

Drives

2 PCIe

UCS C200 M1

High-Density Rack-

Mount Server

UCS C210 M1

General-Purpose Rack-

Mount Server

UCS C250 M1

Extended Memory

Rack-Mount Server

High-density server with

balanced compute

performance and I/O flexibility

General-purpose server for

workloads requiring

economical, high-capacity,

internal storage

High-performance, memory-

intensive server for virtualized

and large-data-set workloads


Options to Deploy Innovation

Existing mgmt toolsHeterogeneousIPMI, CLI, Web

GUI, KVM

Integrated Existing mgmt tools plus

UCS APIIntegrated mgmt tools

Enabled in CY2010

Available at Launch

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