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UCS Manager 2.1 “Del Mar” overview August 31, 2012

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Coming in 4Q 2012

Storage

C-series Integration

Operational Enhancements

Innovation Operational enhancements

Release strikes a balance between the innovation you expect from UCS and the operational improvements customers request

Multi-UCS Management


Simplified topologies •  Multi-Hop FCoE

Savings from additional consolidation of LAN and SAN

•  FC Zoning Option for “pod” deployments with no SAN switches, implicit configuration based on Service Profiles

•  Unified Connect Cost reduction by consolidating FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS traffic on single port, ports and cables

•  PCIe flash storage mezzanine cards High performance option for local storage on blades

High performance storage options


With UCSM 2.1, we leverage our VIC 1225 to further simplify the topology for rack server connectivity

Consolidation of management and data connections increases C-series scale on a per-2232PP basis

C-series integration

CIMC OS or Hypervisor

Mgmt Traffic

Data Traffic (LAN and FCoE)

Nexus 2232

UCS 6100 or 6200

PCIe Adapter



“Why do I have to read a huge document to do an upgrade? Why can’t UCSM sequence upgrades itself?”

Firmware Auto Install

“What do you mean I can’t rename Service Profiles?”

Service Profile “renaming”

“I don’t want Call Home to wake up Bob just because we rebooted a server as part of a maintenance period”

Fault suppression

“I would really like to have the option to upgrade just UCSM and leave my server BIOS and adapter firmware alone”

“I really want my server guy to not do ANYTHING with the network”

Other enhancements (e.g., mixed infrastructure and server firmware support and flexible network resource consumption)

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Storage

C-series


VM-FEX

UCS Central Support

•  Multi-hop FCoE •  Zoning configuration in UCSM •  PCIe Flash – Discovery and support (in progress) •  Unified Appliance Port

•  Single wire management w/ VIC 1225

•  Firmware upgrade usability (“Firmware Auto Install”) •  Service Profile “renaming” •  Fault suppression •  Flexible network resource consumption •  Privileges documentation •  Troubleshooting enhancements •  Mixed infrastructure and server pack support

•  VM-FEX for Windows Server 8 HyperV (including SRIOV)

•  Support for UCS Central operations

Networking •  IGMP querying •  VLAN Group •  (P, V) count optimization

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•  Storage •  C-‐series •  Opera+onal Enhancements •  Networking •  VM-‐FEX


Del Mar Release Feature Preview


•  Access to FCoE target storage connected to an upstream MDS, N5K or N7K

•  “Unified Uplink” carries Ethernet and FCoE traffic on one uplink

•  Supported topologies documented at launch

•  Fabric Interconnect in NPV mode •  VNP ports primary use case •  FC Switching Mode and VE Ports limited

tes+ng •  Check HCL for supported configura+ons

•  End-‐to-‐end or mul0-‐hop FCoE

•  Savings from LAN/SAN consolida0on upstream from the UCS Fabric Interconnects

Customer benefits

Feature details

Storage

UCS servers

UCS FI UCS FI

FCoE Storage

MDS/N5K/N7K MDS/N5K/N7K

NPV/EHM

FCoE FCoE

FCoE FCoE

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•  Direct aQach FC/FCoE storage with no upstream FC switch, 1.4, 2.0 caveat removed

•  FC zoning enabled within UCSM •  Zoning support in FC switch mode only •  FC zoning enabled/disabled per VSAN

•  Implicit zone crea+on •  No need to manually create zones •  Single-‐ini+ator-‐single-‐target or single-‐

ini+ator-‐mul+ple-‐target zones •  Migra+on steps to/from topologies with

upstream FC switches will be documented •  Supported on EMC and Netapp

  Direct connec0on of FC/FCoE storage to FI with no need for upstream FC switch

  Lower cost point for smaller deployments

Customer benefits

Feature details

Storage

UCS servers

UCS FI UCS FI

FCoE Storage FC Storage




•  Feature will provide support for PCIe-‐based flash storage in Romley blades

•  Mezzanine cards* (non-‐mLOM slot)

•  UCS Manager will only discover and inventory the cards in this release

•  Firmware upgrades and pool qualifica+on features will be in a post-‐Del Mar release

  High performance flash storage in blades   Support for applica0ons with high IOPs

requirements

Customer benefits

Feature details

Storage

*For additional NDA details on the hardware offering, please visit: http://savtg.cisco.com/index.php/component/attachments/download_unsecure?attachmentid=3248




•  “Unified Appliance Port” •  Single connec+on between FI and storage array for FCoE, NFS, CIFS and iSCSI access

•  Cable and port reduc+on •  Ini+al support for NetApp arrays only

•  Only vendor shipping unified target ports today

•  Caveat: No port channels for Unified Appliance port connec+ons

  File and block data over a single cable

  Cost reduc0on for UCS customers through port and cable consolida0on

Customer benefits

Feature details

Storage

UCS servers

UCS FI UCS FI

Storage

FCoE iSCSI NFS CIFS




•  Management and data for C-‐Series rack servers carried over single wire, rather than separate wires

•  Requires VIC 1225 “Lexington” adapter •  Supported on C260M2, C460M2 and all M3

Rack Servers •  Con+nues to offer scale of up to 160 servers

across blade and rack in a single domain

  Up to double the number of servers on same

Nexus 2232PP compared to prior release   Reduced cabling cost and port count when

integra0ng C-‐Series to UCSM   Truly a Unified Fabric for both B and C-‐Series

servers

Customer benefits

Feature details

UCS 6100 or 6200 UCS 6100 or 6200

Nexus 2232PP

UCS Manager

Mgmt/Data Connection

VIC 1225

C-series


•  Storage •  C-‐series •  Opera0onal Enhancements •  Networking •  VM-‐FEX




•  Administrators can u+lize a simple wizard-‐like interface to specify which version of firmware they would like to upgrade either their infrastructure or servers to

•  Sequencing of firmware updates is handled automa+cally to ensure the least down+me

•  Intermediate user acknowledgement during fabric upgrade allows users to verify that elements such as storage are in an appropriate state before con+nuing the upgrade

  Users can u0lize a tool to automa0cally

sequence and apply upgrades to each system endpoint, simplifying the process

Customer benefits

Feature details





•  Users will have the ability to rename a Service Profile in its current place in the org tree

•  Old IDs (e.g., UUID, MAC, WWN) are retained

•  New audit logs, events, and faults reference the new name

•  Exis+ng audit logs, events, and faults from the original Service Profile remain available under the original name

•  No server reboot is necessary

  Customers can simplify opera0ons by

aligning Service Profile names with their naming conven0ons

Customer benefits

Feature details





•  Fault suppression offers the ability to lower severity of designated faults for a maintenance window, preven+ng Call Home and SNMP traps during that period

•  Predefined policies allow a user to easily place a server into a maintenance mode to suppress faults during maintenance opera+ons

  Customers can align UCSM fault aler0ng

with their opera0onal ac0vi0es

Customer benefits

Feature details


User will be able to right click on an SP and opt to place it into maintenance mode




•  Three features are introduced: 1.  Organiza+on aware VLANs

•  Addi+onal security by constraining VLAN access by organiza+on

2.  LAN and SAN connec+vity policies •  Separate LAN and SAN connec+vity policies

describe network and storage resources 3.  New opt-‐in server admin privilege

•  Privilege with ability to manage service profiles, but not network or storage objects beyond ability to consume a LAN and SAN connec+vity policy

  Collec0on of features to increase customer

security and simplify network and storage connec0vity management

Customer benefits

Feature details


LAN connectivity policy

vNIC eth0

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vNIC ethn Adapter profile Identity pool (wwpn, mac) Network control policy Network template Statistics policy Order Pin group QoS policy




•  Privileges documenta0on

•  New documenta+on is being provided to explain privileges in detail   Mixed infrastructure and server pack support

  “Del Mar” infrastructure will be officially supported with a set of 2.0 server packs, allowing customers to avoid disrup+ve server reboots

  Troubleshoo0ng enhancements   “FSM tab” in UCSM is being enhanced to provide more informa+on,

aiding in troubleshoo+ng efforts   Enhancements include an expansion of informa+on displayed, including:

•  Expected FSM stage transi+ons •  Current and prior stage history

  IGMP querying   Feature provides parity with Nexus feature support for mul+cast

  VLAN Group   Simplified SP configura+on, allowing applica+on of a group of VLANs to a

vnic in single step

Details





•  Op+mizes (P,V) to increase supported limit •  Increase Scale from 32K to up to 64K* on the

6248/6296

•  *Caveat: -‐Actual Limit dependent on environment/configura+on

•  Enable higher scale in (P,V) count (also know as

logical ports) •  Important for customers with:

•  ESX DVS or Nexus 1kV •  Mul0-‐tenant – Service Provider/Enterprise •  High # of Servers with high # of VLAN –

GET/Enterprise/Commercial/SLED

Customer benefits

Feature details

Networking

User will be able to enable or disable (default) feature in global policies




•  Uses SR-‐IOV to extend physical network all the way to the virtual machines

•  Provides each virtual machine with dedicated “port” on the physical network

•  Collec+on of Cisco UCS VM-‐FEX and Fabric Interconnect 1 vNetwork Distributed switch

•  Management via PowerShell and stand alone GUI. UCSM-‐SCVMM integra+on in future

  Customers can consolidate virtual and physical networking infrastructure

  Brings high performance I/O to VMs and with host CPU savings

Customer benefits

Feature details

VM-FEX

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