UCS Central
Jacob Van Ewyk
UCS Management product manager
Best Practices for Single and Multi-Domain UCS Management
Cisco Confidential 2© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Cisco Unified Computing SystemFastest Growing Product in the Market
33,000+UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS 2
Top 5 Server Vendor 1
94 world record performance benchmarks to date
3,600+ UCS CHANNEL PARTNERS
#1Americas revenue market share in x86 blades 1
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014Q1, May 2014, Vendor Revenue ShareSource: 2 As of Cisco Q3FY14 earnings results Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V
More than 75% of all customers have invested in UCS
Fortune 500
$2.6B+
Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate 2
3© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
UCS ManagerComprehensive Role-Based Management and Automation for Ease of Integration and Operation
Unified Fabric Best-of-Breed Cisco Networking for Powerful Simple Operation With FEX Architecture, FCoE, Unified PortsVirtualized I/OInnovation for Scalable Flexibility With Industry Leading Performance and a Certified I/O Stack Compute With
NO CompromiseSupport for Both Blade and Rack-Mount Servers in a Single UCS Managed Domain
Unified Computing Product Innovation
STANDARDAPI’S
XML API
4© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
UCS Management Value PropositionConfiguration Portability
SIM CardIdentity for a Phone
Service ProfileIdentity for a Server
UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
5© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
API API
Basic Management Functionality
API
API
UCS Director API
Stand-Alone UCS C-Series Unified Computing
System
UCS CentralPolicy Driven Multi DC, Multi-
Domain Management
UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and
Orchestration
CIMC
Integrated & Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Manager Domain 1
UCS Manager Domain x
FlexPod vBlockStorage
Virtual Machines
Network Devices
Servers
Non-Cisco Infrastructure
Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation
UCS Management Portfolio
6© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
UCS CentralCentralized multi-domain management across local and remote datacenters, including:
• Global Service Profiles and Templates, Policies, and pool management for cross-domain consistency
• Centralized Fault Management for quicker troubleshooting
• Global Inventory, Statistics and Reporting to simplify asset management and sizing
Global Fault Management
Domain Group
Hierarchy
Equipment Inventory and Status
Tree Group Similar to
UCS Manager
UCS Central 1.2(1a) available as of July 2014
7© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Why Should Customers Use UCS Central?Feature Functions Benefit
Information Dashboard Centralized hardware inventory, centralized faults/logs, and up to one year of statistics
Improved visibility across local and remote domains reduces the administrative time to monitor, troubleshoot, inventory, and do capacity planning
Centralized Backup Scheduled backup of UCS Manager and UCS Central instances.
Automated backups to a central location improves resiliency with minimal administrative impact
Administrative Configuration
Cross-domain administrative settings and cross-domain ID pools that new UCS Manager instances have access to upon registration
Set up new domains in minutes with limited administrative effort while maintaining cross-domain consistency
Operational Control Global policies and settings that can deployed and enforced across domains
Policy and settings standardization and enforcement across domains helps ensure compliance, reduces configuration issues, and reduces troubleshooting time.
Workload Mobility Global Service Profiles with optional site specific settings for localization
Consistent deployments across UCS domains with the flexibility to quickly provision, de-provision, or move workloads between servers or domains.
8© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Advanced Converged Infrastructure hardware management with UCS Manager and UCS Central
Redeploy VMware hosts in minutes
Standardized VMware host deployments across servers, UCS domains, and data centers with UCS Central
Tight integration between UCS Management and VMware management tools using the XML API vCenter Plug In vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In
UCS Management in a VMware Environment
9© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
UCS Central Resources
UCS Central External Web Page http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12502/index.html
UCS Community Page https://communities.cisco.com/ucs
Google+ Cisco Data Center & Cloud Live & previously recorded UCS Management Hangouts on Air
UCS Central Best Practice Guide https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-32946
Thank you.
11© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Cisco Data Center Social Map
Twitter: @ciscoDC
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CiscoDC
Youtube: http://www.youtubecisco.com/datacenter
Cisco DCC Blog: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter
Slideshare: http://slideshare.com/CiscoDataCenter
Community: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/ciscosystems/data-center
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco-data-center-and-cloud
Google +: http://goo.gl/irm4b
Recommended
