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Business AdvantageDelivered:

The Cisco UniiedComputing System


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Today more than ever,business organizationsrecognize that theircompetitive advantagedepends on the ability tobe more lexible, agile,and cost eective thantheir competitors.One way that IT organizations are improving

operational eiciency is to view their data centers as a

ully integrated compute system, rather than individual

server, network, and storage components. This

uniied approach has prompted a move away rom the

manual assembly o individual components and toward

deployment o converged systems. These converged

systems deliver the beneits o centralized computing

to todays modern data center.

This holistic approach addresses the top concerns osenior executives and IT managers, enabling them to

harness the power o their inrastructure at a moments

notice and respond quickly to the demands o an ever-

changing marketplace. These concerns include:

Management complexity

Capacity planning, system reresh, and integration

Delivering application perormance

Management o virtualized environments

Liecycle management

Server sprawl and environmental actors

Traditional blade servers and virtualization have

provided solutions to some o these concerns,

but they have also created new problems. With aninnovative and proven design, Cisco Uniied Computing

System (Cisco UCS) delivers an architecture

that increases cost eiciency, agility, and lexibility

beyond what traditional blade servers provide. Cisco

makes organizations more eective by addressing

the real problems that IT managers and executives

ace and solves them on a systemic level. Cisco

provides solutions to these industry problems without

compromising perormance. In the two years since

Cisco UCS was introduced, Cisco has set 44 world

perormance records with multiple servers based onmultiple generations o Intel Xeon processors.

Business Advantage Delivered:The Cisco Uniied Computing System

Business Perormance

AdvantageCisco Uniied Computing System is

designed to deliver the perormance and

eiciency

required

by todays

businesses.

Powered by

Intel Xeon

processors, Cisco

has deliveredconsistent, world-

record-setting

perormance or

more than two

years, demonstrating Cisco and Intels

commitment to excellence. Setting more

than 40 world records illustrates just how

well Cisco UCS makes the raw power

o Intel Xeon processors

available or better application

perormance.

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Two Years, 44 World Records: Cisco UnifiedComputing System and Intel Xeon Processors

Inlessthantwoyearsfromitsfirstcustomershipment,CiscoUnifiedComputingSystem(CiscoUCS)with IntelXeonprocessorscaptured

44worldperformancerecords,with resultsthat wereeitherfirst tomarketor exceedthoseset byvendorsof existingsystems,includingDell, HP,andIBM (Table1).

Table 1.World-Record BenchmarksSetbyCisco UCS

World-Record VMware VMmarkBenchmarks

B e nc h ma r k C i sc o U C S S e r ve r P u bl i ca t io n D a te R e su l t an d D i sc l os u re R e co r d a s o f P u bl i ca t io n D a te

V M wa r e V Mm a rk 2. x C 4 60 M 2 4 / 5/ 2 01 1 16.68@1 8 ti le s N um be r -one b e s tr e sul to fany se r ver

B 20 0 M2 3 /2 3/ 20 11 7.17 @7 ti l es N um be r -one 2 -socke tser ve r

B 20 0 M2 1 2/ 28 /2 01 0 6.51 @6 ti l es N um be r -one o ve r all VM mar k2 .0

V M wa r e V Mm a rk 1 . x C 4 60 M 1 9 / 7/ 2 01 0 76.10@5 1 ti le s N um be r -one se r ve r

C 46 0 M1 5 /4 /2 01 0 73.82@50tiles Number-one server

B 25 0 M2 4 /6 /2 01 0 35.83@26tiles Number-one 2-socketserver

B 23 0 M1 1 0/ 19 /2 01 0 39.19@2 7 ti le s N um be r -one 2 -so cketb l ad e se r ver

B 44 0 M1 7 /2 7/ 20 10 71.13@4 8 ti le s N um be r -one b l ade se r ver

B 20 0 M1 4 /2 1/ 20 09 24.14@17tiles Number-one 2-socketserver

B 20 0 M1 1 /1 2/ 20 10 25.06@17tiles Number-one 2-socketserver

World-Record Java-Based SPEC Benchmarks

B e nc h ma r k C i sc o U C S S e rv e r P u bl i ca t io n D at e R e su l t an d D i sc l os u re R e co r d a s o f Pu b li c at i o n Da t e

S P EC j Ap pS e rv e r 2 00 4 C 2 50 M 2 3 /1 6 /2 01 0 5,185.45SPECjAppServer2004

JOPS@Standard

Number-one 1-node 2-socket server

B 23 0 M1 9 /8 /2 01 0 11,283.80SPECjAppServer2004

JOPS@Standard

Number-one 2-node server

S P EC j En t er p ri s e 20 10 B 4 40 M 1 3 /9 / 20 11 17301.86 SPECjEnt erprise EjOPS Number-one overall server

S PE Cj bb 2 00 5 C 26 0 M2 4 /5 /2 01 1 1337210 SPECjbb2005bops,

668605SPECjbb2005bops/JVM

Number-one best2-socketserver

B 23 0 M1 9 /2 5/ 20 10 1017141 SPECjbb2005bops,

127143SPECjbb2005bops/JVM

Number-one x86/642-socketserver

Performance Brief

June 2011


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Business Advantage Delivered: Easier IT Management

Increase

Management EiciencyCompany Cost and Time Savings

MediaPro 50% aster to deploy andprovision compared to traditionalservers

MolinaHealthcare

33% reduction in time to deploynew applications

Moses Cone 96 hours saved on serverconiguration

NetApp 10,000 virtual machinesdeployed in less than 1 hour

NighthawkRadiology

15 to 20 minutes to provisionservers

Slumberland 74% reduction in t ime toprovision servers

Tele SistemiFerroviari

25% savings in new serverprovisioning costs

KlinikumWels-Grieskirchen

80% reduction in managementconsoles (6:1) or network,applications, and servers

NetApp 99% reduction in managementpoints (204 to 2)

Easier IT Management

Too many tools and too many steps to accomplishroutine administrative tasks increases costs. Moreimportant, this complexity imposes time-to-marketopportunity cost.Cisco UCS enables IT organizations to be more eective by reducing the time spent on tactical, operational

activities. Greater time-on-task eiciency leaves more time to ocus on making the businesses successul and

more competitive in the marketplace. Cisco UCS does this by bringing together both blade and rack-mount servers

in a converged system that is sel-aware and sel-integrating. Cisco UCS automatically discovers, inventories, and

conigures components, making their power ready to be harnessed quickly and eiciently.

Greater Time-on-Task Eiciency

Automated coniguration can change an IT organizations approach rom reactive to proactive. The result is moretime or innovation, less time spent on maintenance, and aster response times. These eiciencies allow IT sta more

Cisco UCS gives IT

organizations more time toocus on strategic initiatives

Cisco UCS is dynamically scalable, smart inrastructure.

It is conigured through uniied, model-based

management to simpliy and speed deployment oenterprise-class applications and services running

in monolithic, virtualized, and cloud-computing

environments. Using the latest Intel Xeon Processor E7

amily, the system combines servers with networking

and storage access into a single converged system that

delivers greater cost eiciency and agility with increased

perormance, visibility, and control.


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Business Advantage Delivered: Easier IT Management

Make Administrators FiveTimes More Eicient

At my previous company, weneeded 20 IT personnel or 1000employees. With Cisco UCS,ExamWorks can support thesame number o people with asta o our. Avoiding the need or16 ull-time positions saves morethan US$1.1 million annually.

Brian Denton,

Chie Technology Oicer,

ExamWorks, Inc.

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ps9441/ps9670/case_study_c36-580410.pd

time to address strategic business initiatives. They also

enable better quality o lie or IT sta, which means

higher morale and better sta retentionboth criticalelements or long-term e iciency. ,

Cisco UCS Manager is an embedded, model-based

management system that allows IT administrators to

set a vast range o server coniguration policies, rom

irmware and BIOS settings to network and storage

connectivity. Individual servers can be deployed in

less time and with ewer steps than in traditional

environments. Automation rees sta rom tedious,

repetitive, time-consuming chores that are oten the

source o errors that cause downtime, making the entire

data center more cost eective.

Easier Scaling

Automation means rapid deployment, reduced

opportunity cost, and better capital resource utilization.

With Cisco UCS, rack-mount and blade servers can

move rom the loading dock and into production in a

plug-and-play operation. Automatically conigure

blade servers using predeined policies simply by

inserting the devices into an open blade chassis slot.

Integrate rack-mount servers by connecting them to

the systems abric interconnects. Since policies make

coniguration automated and repeatable, coniguring100 new servers is as straightorward as coniguring

one server, delivering agile, cost-eective scaling.

Virtual Blade Chassis

With a separate network and separate management or

each chassis, traditional blade systems are unctionally

an accidental architecture based on an approach that

compresses all the components o a rack into each

and every chassis. Such traditional blade systems are

managed with multiple management tools that are

combined to give the illusion o convergence or what

is ultimately a more labor-intensive, error-prone and

costly delivery methodology. Rack servers are not

integrated and must be managed either separately

or through additional tool sets, adding complexity,overhead, and the burden o more time.

Architecturally, Cisco UCS blade and rack-mount

servers are joined into a single virtual blade chassis that

is centrally managed yet physically distributed across

multiple blade chassis, rack-mount servers, and even

racks and rows. This capability is delivered through

Cisco abric interconnects that provide redundant

connectivity, a common management and networking

interace, and enhanced lexibility. This larger virtual

chassis, with a single redundant point o management,

results in lower inrastructure cost per server, with ewermanagement touch points, and lower administration,

capital, and operational costs.

Previous

Role

Cisco UCS

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Number of Administrators Required per 1000 Users
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Business Advantage Delivered: Easy System Reresh

Simpliy Inrastructureand Reduce CostThe number o components and management

points correlates directly with operating

costs. Cisco UCS reduces the number o

components, cables, and management

points, reducing costs.

Easy System Reresh and Capacity Planning Operations

Application silos thwart any attempt to uniormlymanage cost and capacity in a logical and coherentmanner. Even rereshing server inrastructure is tedious

and error prone when attempted in siloed architectures.Application silos were in the past thought to be a good idea. They have ailed in execution because they are

overprovisioned by necessity, they impede resource sharing, and they limit lexibility and agility. All o this reduces

a data centers e iciency and cost eectiveness. Cisco UCS eliminates silos by simpliying provisioning, acilitating

sharing, and increasing lexibility by making any server ready to tackle any application workload in minutes.

Breaking Down Silos

Cisco UCS is smart inrastructure that is designed to eliminate the walls between compute silos and run any

workload on any server. The system is designed as a lexible pool o compute, network, and storage access

resources that can be allocated (and reallocated) to workloads on a just-in-time basis. This approach enhances an

organizations ability to respond to changing business requirements, while allowing capacity to be managed on a

strategic, organizationwide basis.

Smart inrastructure means on-demand resource allocation and

easier, aster scaling

Fewer Components and Cables with

Cisco Unified Computing System

More Components and Cables for Traditional

Rack-Mount and Blade Servers


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Business Advantage Delivered: Easy Capacity Planning

Deploy in Hal the Timewith Nearly 70 PercentFewer StepsCisco UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory

Blade Servers can be integrated in nearly

hal the time it takes to add HP c-Class blade

servers with HP Virtual Connect with 67

percent ewer steps, taking advantage o the

largely automated process (see http://www.

youtube.com/watch?v=nijWlNzSgCQ).

Principled Technologies, March 2011 (http://

principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Cisco/

UCS_vs_HP_Deployment.pd )

On-Demand Resource Allocation

Lack o automation lengthens the time to production

or new resources. Manually implementing server and

network coniguration policies adds operational drag

that can be quantiied in terms o opportunity cost and

missed market windows.

With Cisco UCS, every detail o a servers

coniguration and its network connectivity are

encapsulated in a Cisco service proile. Applying a

service proile to a server conigures it to a known

state that complies with predeined organizational

standards. Cisco service proiles make migration o

workloads between servers with dierent capacities

straightorward, while simpliying server reresh by

speeding the movement o existing workloads rom

older servers to Cisco UCS. Spare capacity can bemaintained in a pool shared by all applications and

allocated on demand, reducing the cost o burst

capacity and disaster-recovery resources, making the

data center more agile.

Lower Cost o Scale

Cisco UCS scales incrementally with optimized

density and at lower cost than traditional blade server

architectures.

With Cisco UCS, scaling is more graceul and cost

eective because the addition o the next blade

server chassis does not require installation o tens o

thousands o dollars o new network and management

inrastructure in the back o each chassis. Each

increment o scale brings greater perormance due

to the proven perormance o the systems core

processing capability, powered by processors such asthe Intel Xeon processor E7 amily.

1-Blade

Scenario

2-BladeScenario

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Time to Deploy (Minutes)

l i i l i
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Business Advantage Delivered: Perormance Without Compromise

Lower Cost to ScaleCisco UCS delivers scalability o largeconigurations or up to 52 percent less

cost, all managed with a single management

interace.

Blade Count 32 48 64

Traditional BladeCosts

$115,484 $173,226 $230,968

Cisco UCS 5108

Costs

$115,144 $135,591 $156,038

Cisco UCSSavings

$340 $37,635 $74,930

Cisco UCS %Savings

0% 22% 32%

Blade Count 96 128 160

Traditional BladeCosts

$288,710 $461,936 $577,420

Cisco UCS 5108Costs

$196,931 $237,825 $278,719

Cisco UCSSavings

$149,521 $224,111 $298,701

Cisco UCS %Savings

43% 49% 52%

Note: Costs in U.S. dollars. Based on Cisco UCS

manuacturers suggested retail price (MSRP) June 28,

2011; HP retail July 2, 2011

Perormance Without Compromise

Easily matching perormance to business initiativesis an essential IT unction that makes the dierence

between IT as a strategic partner in the businessand IT as a cost center.Real perormance is delivery o solutions that meet business needs. Cisco UCS delivers on all three critical data

center metrics: essential raw computing power, an architecture that promotes solution perormance, and holistic

management eiciency, making IT organizations increasingly more agile, lexible, and cost eective.

Cisco UCS servers provide an environment that unleashes the power o Intel Xeon processors,

setting world records on a broad range o industry benchmarks. Cisco UCS uses the latest Intel Xeon

processors and delivers optimized perormance or the most demanding, mission-critical workloads.

These servers include a range o 2- and 4-socket models in both blade and rack-mount orm actors,

with processors having up to 10 cores per socket. Cisco UCS perormance is due in part to the eicient, airlow designthat allows Intel Turbo Boost technology to automatically raise processor clock rates without reaching thermal limits.

Cisco delivers perormanceat multiple levels, beginning

by unleashing more powerrom Intel Xeon processors.


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Business Advantage Delivered: High-Perormance Virtualized Environments

Perormance, visibility,controlessential or puttingvirtualization to work.

Get 20 Times BetterPerormance rom IntelXeon Processors

EMCs IT department moved

one o the largest Oracle

databases in the world rom

Sun SPARC processor-based

servers to Cisco UCS powered by Intel Xeonprocessors. The migration resulted in up

to 20 times greater perormance and a 60

percent decrease in batch times and end-

user response times with US$5 to 7 million in

savings.

(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-

papers/h8170-emc-it-on-ramp-cloud-wp.pd)

Manageable, High-Perormance Virtualized Environments

The beneits o virtualization cannot be ullyachieved as long as the task o managing virtualinrastructure and getting it to perorm well is anart and not a science.Virtualization and blade servers have incrementally improved the undamentals o cost, lexibility, and agility in data centers,

while creating new problems or IT organizations: managing rapidly growing virtualized environments and achieving optimal

perormance under load. Virtual machines are easy to create, but in traditional environments they can be lost among

multiple layers o management complexity. This complexity obscures perormance problems and makes management an

ever-increasing challenge. Cisco UCS is a virtualization-optimized platorm that dramatically improves the cost equationwhile simpliying management and delivering perormance under load, dramatically improving agility and response times.

Cisco UCS oers a ull range o Intel Xeon processor

powered server models and an architecture that gives

organizations the lexibility to easily size workloads tomeet the needs o speciic applications. This approach

has led to record-setting benchmarks running mission-

critical, enterprise-class applications on bare-metal

servers, with workloads including Oracle E-Business

Suite, Java application servers, and high-perormance

compute grids. This industry-leading perormance

enables organizations to move rom servers based on

costly, proprietary RISC processors to Cisco UCS servers

using industry-standard x86-architecture servers or

superior perormance on business economics.
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Business Advantage Delivered: More Perormance, Less Space

Reduce Footprint byOne ThirdWith a 160-blade coniguration, Cisco UCS

provides a 33 percent cost savings, amounting

to savings o US$202,500 or data center loor

space compared to competitors.

Cisco UCS B230 M1 vs HP BL620 G7, based on

information gathered from cisco.com and hp.com,

March 2011. This chart assumes a data center cost

o US$2500 per square oot.

More Perormance in Less SpaceIn addition to oering outstanding monolithic

application perormance, Cisco UCS is optimized

or virtualization. Proving this act is two years o

perormance records on the VMware VMmark 1.0

and 2.0 benchmarks that measure virtualization and

cloud-computing perormance. Cisco UCS packs

tremendous computing power, memory, network,

and I/O bandwidth into a given space while boosting

perormance o virtualized environments. Cisco virtual

interace cards using Intel VT-d technology improve

network perormance by up to 38 percent whilereeing CPU cycles to deliver greater application

perormance. Cisco blade server chassis can supportup to 80 Gbps o I/O bandwidth per hal-width blade,

160 Gbps or a ull-width blade, and with support or

an aggregate 160 Gbps o bandwidth in a single eight-

blade chassis.

Data center real estate costs are substantial, whether

expressed as the opportunity cost or an organization to

maintain its own data center or as the ootprint occupied

at a co-location acility. Working within an ex isting data

center space means making smart server purchases

that increase the capability to meet business objectiveswithout orcing a costly data center expansion.

Cisco UCS changes the cost equation by supportingever-increasing guest operating system memory

ootprints with a smaller number o servers. Ciscos

high density, high-perormance design, including Cisco

Extended Memory Technology, increases consolidation

ratios or two-socket servers while saving the capital,

operating, real estate, and licensing costs o running

virtualization sotware on larger, our-socket servers.

This technology optimizes the costs to deliver virtual

machine compute capacity and is particularly eective

at increasing return on investment (ROI) or virtual

desktop environments and or single-application-instance servers that require large memory ootprints.

0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 700000

Floor Space Costs (U.S. Dollars)

Cisco UCS B230 M1

HP BL620c G7


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Business Advantage Delivered: Increased Visibility and Control

Increased Visibility and Control

Increased perormance and consolidation ratios

alone do not solve the management problems that

arise in virtualized environments. IT administrators

and managers must be able to see and control theircomputing environment, whether physical or virtual.

Making virtual machines equivalent to physical servers

and tightly integrating with leading hypervisors is

required or this level o insight. Ciscos approach

results in lower operating costs, increased security,

and less chance o errors that can cause application

downtime. The result is increased visibility and control

over virtualized environments, deterministic network

perormance regardless o physical location, improved

network throughput, more lexibility to manage

workloads, and increased compliance with security

requirements.

Cisco abric extender technology brings the visibility

and control o physical servers to the scale o virtual

environments. By directly connecting abric interconnect

ports to both physical servers and virtual machines,

virtual machine network traic becomes completelytransparent, secure, and under administrator control.

Intel FlexMigration technology increases virtual machine

mobility across multiple generations o processors.

Cisco virtual interace cards, in conjunction with Cisco

Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology,

connect network interace cards (NICs) to virtual

machines, maintaining network policies across virtual

machine migration and improving perormance by

eliminating the overhead o sotware switching. The

result is a more agile, lexible, and cost-eective

computing environment.

Gain More Memoryand Deliver HigherPerormanceCisco Extended Memory Technology delivers

up to 27 percent aster memory access

speeds with high memory density that also

saves up to 24 percent o memory cost. With

support or up to 1 terabyte (TB) o memory

in a two-socket server, organizations can

host applications using less-expensiveservers without losing perormance.

Additionally, per-socket-based sotware

licensing costs are reduced when using

a two-socket server compared to a our-

socket server.

Memory

Capacity

(GB)

Typical

System

Memory

Costs

Cisco

UCS

Costs

Cost

Savings

Savings

(Percent)

96 $4,278 $4,086 $192 4%

144 $6,952 $6,129 $824 12%

192 $10,698 $8,172 $2,526 24%

512 $28,528 $22,816 $5,712 20%

1024 $64,551 $57,056 $7,495 12%

Note: Costs in U.S. dollars

Cisco UCS: A Real-World TCO Analysis, Enterprise

Management Associates, April 2011. (http://www.

enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php/1976/

Cisco-UCS:-A-Real-World-TCO-Analysis )
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Business Advantage Delivered: Complete Liecycle Management

Flexible, on-demand resourceallocation is a critical element orcomplete liecycle management.

Quickly MigrateIT Assets

We ound we could quicklyconvert physical servers romacquired companies and turn theminto virtual machines running onCisco UCS.

Brian Denton,

Chie Technology Oicer,ExamWorks, Inc.

(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/

ps9441/ps9670/case_study_c36-580410.pd)

Rapidly ProvisionVirtual MachinesEuronet Worldwide, an industry leader and

provider o highly secure electronic inancial

transaction solutions, deployed Cisco UCSand reduced the time needed or virtual

server implementation and provisioning

by up to 95 percent compared to the time

needed or its ormer inrastructure. The new

implementation has resulted in decreased

power consumption, cooling needs, and rack

space.

(http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/euronet-

deploys-cisco-uniied-computing-system-and-cloud-

inrastructure-nasdaq-csco-1507480.htm)

Complete Liecycle Management

Traditional liecycle management can make eachserver a static resource dedicated to a single taskor lie, limiting organizational agility and reducingthe lexibility o capital utilization.Cisco UCS uses servers as dynamic resources that can be applied to meet any workload challenge at any time,

quickly and eectively. Now organizations can extend their server liecycles by redeploying them or less mission-

critical tasks as the newest generation o servers is phased in to provide the latest and best perormance where

it matters most. Cisco UCS makes this possible through automated, repeatable, and error-ree asset deployment

that enhances the cost beneit o every server.
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Business Advantage Delivered: Complete Liecycle Management

Simpliy Management

[Cisco] UCS Manager istruly the UCS secret sauce,providing a single managementpoint and plane or managingall UCS resources, both serverand networking, as well asstorage connectivity. Thiscapability dramatically increases

the lexibility and agility thatdata center personnel need torespond real-time to changingbusiness needs. For UCS servers,this management unctionalityis agentless, eliminating themaintenance burden required byother solutions to keep multipleirmware versions in sync to

ensure operability. Cisco UCS: A Real-World TCO Analysis, Enterprise

Management Associates, April 2011. (http://www.

enterprisemanagement.com/research/asset.php/1976/

Cisco-UCS:-A-Real-World-TCO-Analysis )

Automated Firmware Management

Cisco service proiles conigure complete systems,

rom irmware revisions and BIOS settings to

network proiles, with click-o-the-mouse simplicity.

Coniguration complexity used to limit servers to a

single unction, but now they can serve one purpose

by day and a dierent purpose by night; administrators

simply assign service proiles and let the systems

automated coniguration do the rest.

Rapid Deployment with Increased Compliance

The systems uniied management conigures servers

with ewer steps, in less time, and without the chance

o error due to misconiguration. IT policy consistency

and compliance, regardless o location, is essentiallyguaranteed. By grouping compute resources into

pools, administrators know immediately which servers

are available and best match application workload

requirements. They can deploy these servers easily in

a sae, repeatable, agile, and cost-eective way.

Support or Existing Organizational Structures

Time lags between various stages o server production

enablement can have serious consequences and

add signiicant cost. Cisco service proile templates

(supported by Cisco UCS Manager) support existing

organizational structures by combining role-basedaccess with policy-based management within a single

uniied management tool, rather than aggregations o

legacy element managers. This approach increases

operational eiciency and speeds time to production.

This beneit does more than increase capital utilization;

it signiicantly reduces the opportunity cost o long

deployment times, helping an organization become

more cost eective and thereore more competitive.

Integration with Data Center Best Practices

Cisco UCS merges smoothly into the overall data

center ecosystem. More than 40 partners have

integrated their tools through the systems open XML

API to support high-level management, provisioning,

and orchestration unctions. IT organizations

implementing ITIL processes can use the API to

populate a coniguration management database

(CMDB) automatically, eliminating the most diicult

barrier to adopting ITIL processes: human error.
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Business Advantage Delivered: Improved Environmental Factors

Deploy More Serversin Less Space withLower CostConsolidating more servers into a smaller

ootprint increases data center computing

power per square oot to bring savings.

The Cisco UCS inrastructure requires 37

percent less space and supports 60 percent

more servers per rack unit, resulting in a 33

percent cost savings over competitors.

Cisco UCS B230 M1 vs HP BL620 G7, based on

information gathered from cisco.com and hp.com,

March 2011. This chart assumes a data center cost

o US$2500 per square oot.

Reducing data center square ootageand limiting the carbon ootprint is notjust thinking greenit is good business.

Reduced Sprawl and Improved Environmental Factors

Every data center aces the challenge o

deploying more applications to serve more userswithin the conines o existing space, power, andcooling resources.Reduced server sprawl and improved environmental actors give IT organizations room to grow where there was none

beore. Improved data center space utilization, reduced square ootage requirements, and greater business agility with

built-in room to grow within an existing physical environment aect data center agility and cost eiciency.

Cisco UCS radically simpliies rack-level data center deployment. The systems uniied abric condenses up to three

parallel networks into one, reducing the number o I/O interaces, cables, and access-layer switch ports by up to a

actor o three. Cisco technology also eliminates blade server and hypervisorbased sotware switches, reducingcapital and operating costs while reeing CPU cycles or better application perormance.

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Business Advantage Delivered: The Cisco Uniied Computing System

The systems simpliied design reduces power and

cooling requirements, extending the lie o existing data

centers while reducing a companys environmentalimpact. With ewer components, the system can help

data centers increase density and reduce space costs.

Fewer active components reduces power consumption.

Fewer cables reduces the amount o copper in the data

center while simpliying management and reducing the

cost o installing and maintaining servers. The net result

is a highly lexible and more cost-eective data center.

Cisco Uniied Computing SystemBusiness Advantage

The business advantage o Cisco UCS derives rom thesystems simpliied, converged architecture combined

with its centralized management. Cisco UCS has

ewer components to purchase, conigure, manage,

maintain, power, and cool, with more eicient scaling,

resulting in total cost o ownership (TCO) savings

across the entire data center. Cisco UCS Managers

uniied management brings sae, repeatable automation

to server coniguration, increasing business agility,reducing the need or excess computing capacity, and

promoting easy integration with high-level management

tools. Ciscos approach to management preserves

an organizations existing administrative rolebased

management structure while delivering enhanced

collaboration. This approach enables IT sta to devote

time to strategic initiatives that are critical to the

business and that promote increased agility, lexibility,

and cost eectiveness.

Moving to Cisco UCS is straightorward, accelerated

by the systems automated coniguration and the easymovement o applications rom existing older platorms.

The time has never been better or migration rom more

costly RISC processorbased platorms, and Cisco

UCS can help at every stage, whether an organization

is rereshing servers with traditional operating system

and application stacks, consolidating and virtualizing, or

adopting private cloud technology.

The Cisco UCS TCO advantage was designed into the

product rom the start and is unencumbered by the

need to support existing product lines. Cisco UCS with

Intel Xeon processors delivers an automated, adaptive

data center that provides the critical components

businesses need to be more lexible, agile, and cost

eective in todays evolving marketplace.

Your Cisco sales representative can use Ciscos TCO

tools to provide an objective comparison o your real

cost o continuing to use traditional environments and

your cost o moving to the irst truly converged systemavailable anywhere: Cisco Uniied Computing System.

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