UCS Manager to Rack Servers

Monitoring Provisioning Networking End-User Apps Apps Apps Apps

L2, Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services L3 L2, Compute Compute Storage Storage Services Services L3

• Manual Provisioning • Policy-based Provisioning • Service-centric Provisioning

• Limited scaling • Scale Physical & Virtual/Cloud • Flexible – Anywhere, Anytime

• Rack-wide VM mobility • DC-wide/Cross-DC VM Mobility • Cross-cloud VM Mobility

MODULAR AUTOMATED HIGHLY SCALABLE, UNIFIED STATELESSUNIFIED RESOURCEUNIFIED SECURE NETWORK FABRIC COMPUTINGCOMPUTING MANAGEMENT FABRIC MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS (PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL)

Cisco UCS 6296 XP

Blade Form Factor

Rack Form Factor

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 1. 2. 3. Management Ethernet Fibre Channel • Three parallel 1. Access networks Switches Device proliferation Siloed bandwidth 2. Blade Chassis Switches • Access layer fragmented into three Access layer Software Chassis Switch Hypervisor 3. Hypervisor Switches Hypervisor

• Overly Complex Too many devices Too many cables Virtual Machines Too many management points Blade Chassis Server

Unified Cisco® Fabric Fabric Extender

Architecture

Chanel

Fibre Ethernet Management Unified Fabric Unified Fabric Rack Extender Switch Architecture

Blade Switch

Virtual Switch

Unified Cisco® Fabric Fabric Extender Architecture

Cisco Fabric Interconnects

Cisco Fabric Fabric Extenders Extender Architecture Cisco Virtual Interface Cards

Blade Virtual Rack-Mount Server Machines Server

• QoS settings • Border port assignment per vNIC • NIC Transmit/Receive • FC Fabric assignments for Rate Limiting HBAs

• Subject matter experts • VLAN assignments for NICs • VLAN tagging config for NICs consumed by manual • Number of vHBAs configuration chores • HBA WWN • Number of vNICs assignments • PXE settings\ • FC Boot Parameters • NIC firmware • HBA firmware • Serial processes and • Advanced feature settings multiple touches inhibit • Remote KVM IP settings provisioning speed • Call Home behavior • Remote KVM firmware • RAID settings • Disk scrub actions • • Server UUID Configuration drift and • Serial over LAN settings maintenance challenges • Boot order • IPMI settings • BIOS scrub actions • BIOS firmware • BIOS Settings

Server Name Unified UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information Management LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy

Server Name Subject Matter Experts UUID, MAC, WWN Define Policies Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Storage Server Network Firmware Policy SME SME SME Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy

Server Name Policies Used UUID, MAC, WWN to Create Boot Information Server Policy… Service Profile LAN, SAN Config Templates Firmware Policy Storage Policy… Server Name Network Policy… UUID, MAC, WWN Virtualization Policy… Boot Information Service Profile Associating Service LAN, SAN Config Templates Profiles with Hardware Application Profiles… Firmware Policy Create Service Profiles Configures Servers Automatically

UCS Manager Unified Management A Single Unified System For Blade and Rack Servers

UCSService Service Profile: HR_App1 Profile VNIC1Unified Device Management MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2E HR_WEB_VLAN (ID=50) VNIC2 MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2F NetworkHR_DB_VLAN Policy (ID=210) HBA 1 and 2 WWN: 5080020000075740 WWN: Storage5080020000075741 Policy VSAN ID: 12 Boot Order: SAN BIOS Settings: TurboServer On Policy C-Series Rack HyperThreading On B-Series Blade Optimized Servers Servers

• A major market transformation in unified • Extending fabric computing to rack optimized server management servers • No management barriers between blades • Add capacity without complexity and rack optimized servers

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

• Embedded device manager for family of UCS components

• Enables stateless computing via Service Profiles

• Efficient scale: Same effort for 1 to 1000s blades

• APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure

• Comprehensive XML API, standards-based interfaces • Bi-Directional access to physical & logical internals

Self Serve portals

Management Tools

Auditing Tools

Direct UCS CLI UCS GUI 3rd Party Customer XML API

System Status Physical Inventory Logical Inventory

• Broad 3rd party integration support • Faster custom integration for customer use cases • Consistent data and views across ALL interfaces One Manager, One View UCS Central Unified Management at Scale

Multi-UCS Domain Management

Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Center 3 UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager

• Unifies management of multi UCS domains • Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID • Leverages UCS Manager technology pools and templates • Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and faults, logs and server consoles workload mobility • Model based API for large scale automation

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This is an upcoming product—Feature set for first release subject to change Cisco Confidential 18 Hardware & Software support the unified approach

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

FC Eth

Native Fibre Channel Lossless Ethernet: 1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS

Benefits Use-cases . Simplify switch purchase - . Flexible LAN & storage remove ports ratio guess convergence based on business work needs . Increase design flexibility . Service can be adjusted based . Remove specific protocol on the demand for specific traffic bandwidth bottlenecks

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

• Connects UCS blade chassis to the Fabric Interconnect

• Four or eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE capable, SFP+ ports

• Up to 2 Fabric Extenders per chassis for redundancy and up to 160 Gbps of bandwidth per chassis

• Hardware based support for Cisco VN-Link technology

• Fully managed by UCS Manager through Fabric Interconnect

Direct Attach LAN Switch SAN Switch FCoE Storage FC Storage

Appliance

1 Link 2 Link 4 Link 8 Link 20 Gb per chassis 40 Gb per chassis 80 Gb per chassis 160 Gb per chassis

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28 Chassis • Up to 8 half slot blades • Up to 4 full slot blades • 4x power supplies, N+N grid redundant, 2500 Watt each, 92% efficiency • 8x fans included • 2x UCS Fabric Extenders • All items hot-pluggable

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

. Enterprise performance and advanced capabilities . Advanced I/O feature set: . Integrated 40GbE with over 200 vNIC / vHBA UCS B200 M3 . Expandable to 80GbE Performance-Optimized Enterprise . 24 DIMM Blade Server . Cisco Flexible Flash

• UCS Standard Advantages: Unified Fabric; UCS Manager; Optimized for virtualized environments; Adapter FEX and VM FEX • Up to 16 processor cores, ¾ TB of memory in a half-width form factor

• Cisco UCS UCS Manager Interconnect Fabric Extender

Cisco VIC Enclosure Compute Node(s) IO Adapter(s)

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 • Unparalleled Flexibility 256 PCIe devices – 256 PCIe devices, vNICs or vHBAs • High Bandwith – 40 Gbps to the half width blade vHBAs vNIC – 80 Gbps to the full width blade vNIC

• Simplicity and enhanced virtual vNIC networking with VM-FEX – Line rate to the VMs with VMDirectPath – Consolidate virtual and physical network vFC vEth vEth vEth with VM-FEX – VMWare, RedHat and MSFT Hyper-V (Future)

• Flexible Mezzanine Slot – Port Expander Card – Redundant VIC card – Future special function Mezz cards

• Industry leading performance –Aggregate 80Gbps to the half width blade – Aggregate 160Gbps to the full width blade

CLOUD REQUIREMENTS IDEAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• Simplified management Low Cost Operations • Lower service provisioning cost

• Integrated compute, network, and Infrastructure as a Service storage resources

Self Service Consumption Model • Physical resources deployed • through API’s and policies

Elastic Resource Allocation • Rapid scalability of virtual and physical • Automated deployment

• Virtualization optimized Shared Pools of Resources • Resource abstraction

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 36 Benefits of a UCS Infrastructure Naxoo ̶ Contained server growth ̶ Lower OPEX ̶ Lower energy consumption Galliker ̶ Less work, reduced space requirements ̶ Highly flexible provisioning of virtual servers ̶ Simplified scaling ̶ Future-proof ̶ High investment protection Bellevue Group ̶ Simplicity of solution ̶ Easy management ̶ Highly scalable ̶ UC on UCS © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3737 • Stateless Chassis • Stateless Servers • Stateless Connectivity • Simplified Connectivity • Simplified Management • Mobility of resources • Leverage Assets • Leverage Datacenters

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