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2. Cisco Confidential 2 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Automates IT processes to support any workload in minutes Lower infrastructure cost per server Operational integration of physical and virtual Consistent, error free alignment of policy, configuration, and workload Eliminates cost manual integrationSingle Unified System Unified Management Intelligent Infrastructure Unified Fabric Superior price/performance and IT productivity for lower cost of computing Server Innovations Cisco Unified Computing System Benefits Beyond Efficiency: More Effective IT

3. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 Fastest Growing Product in the Market ServerVendor World-record Performance Benchmarks to Date UCS Channel Partners Of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate Unique UCS Customers Americas Market Share in x86 Blades, #2Worldwide 36k+ #1 $3B+ Top 5 >75% 3,850+ 95

4. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Business Challenges Business Process Agility Budget Constraints Security Threats Regulatory Compliance Technology Trends Energy EfficiencyCloud Data Deluge Productivity

5. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Converging Legacy Infrastructure Infrastructure not designed for easy integration Layers of Management software holding the system together Complexity Drives Up Management Costs Rigid models to upgrade and maintain system-level designs Multiple tools and points of configuration Interoperability Challenges of the Pod approach Converged Infrastructure = Management Software Layers

7. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 Simplified management Physical resources deployed through APIs and policies Infrastructure Requirements Ideal Infrastructure Integrated compute, network, and storage resources Resource abstraction Standardized services with front-end portal Rapid scalability of virtual and physical Automated deployment SELF SERVICE CONSUMPTION MODEL ELASTIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION RAPID PROVISIONING SIMPLIFIED INFRASTURCTURE

8. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8 The Platform for Delivering IT-as-a-Service Unified Computing Unified Fabric Unified Management Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric Modular Stateless Computing Elements Automated Resource Management (Physical and Virtual)

12. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Networked Connection of People, Process, Data, Things Connecting people in more relevant, valuable ways People Leveraging data into more useful information for decision making Data Delivering the right information to the right person (or machine) at the right time Process Physical devices and objects connected to the internet and each other for intelligent decision making Things IoE

15. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 Application Centric Infrastructure Fast IT NetworkCompute Security UCS 2009: Industrys First Application Centric Infrastructure StorageNexus & APIC 2013: ACI for the Data Center Fabric UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions 2014: Leading a New Market Category UCS Director

17. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17 Computing Infrastructure Core DC Apps Front End Applications Transaction Processing ERP / CRM Collaboration Analytics Content Delivery Data Center Bare Metal CloudVirtualized

18. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18 Edge-Scale Computing Connecting to Opportunity Mobility IoT Apps Location Aware Rich Media Connected Sensors Smart Objects Branch Office / Remote Sites Site Operations Productivity (VDI) Security / Asset Protection Shopper Experience Customer Behavior Identity Services Computing Infrastructure Bare Metal CloudVirtualized

20. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20 Edge-Scale Computing Core Data Center Workloads Faster Decisions Cloud-Scale Computing Deeper Insight Recommendation Engines Fraud Detection Real-Time Price Optimization Trend Analysis Big Data Cloud Online Gaming Distributed Analytics Cloud Services Cloud Content Delivery Scale-Out Apps Connecting to Opportunity

21. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21 Edge-Scale Computing Core Data Center Workloads Faster Decisions Cloud-Scale Computing Deeper InsightConnecting to Opportunity

22. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22 UCS Manager Comprehensive 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 Ports Virtualized I/O Innovation for Scalable Flexibility With Industry Leading Performance and a Certified I/O Stack Compute With NO Compromise Support for Both Blade and Rack-Mount Servers in a Single UCS Managed Domain STANDARD APIS XML API

23. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23 6RU Chassis, 32 deep 6 Chassis per 42RU rack 63% Open Space Front-to-Back Airflow 4x 2500W Power Supplies 8x Hot-Swappable Fans 8-Port I/O Module 4-Port I/O Module Dual I/O FEX Modules Up to 160 Gbps I/O 0.7 s latency

24. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24 16-Port Module 1/10GE 2/4/8G FC Fabric Interconnects Expansion Module UCS 6296 48 Fixed Ports Expandable to 96 Ports Performance Features Low-Latency 2.2s port-to-port All Unified Ports 1/10GE 2/4/8G FC Line-rate Forwarding Localized Switching UCS 6248 32 Fixed Ports Expandable to 48 Ports 1GBase-T RJ45 SFP+(copper or optical)

25. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 25 Fabric Interconnects Includes 8 built-in port licenses Expansion Module UCS Licensing based on activated FI ports No other UCS licensed elements 6248 includes 12 ports 6296 includes 18 ports Configuring a port for any role consumes one license Every port has a user-activated 120-day grace period built in A-la-carte Licenses Purchase any quantity of additional port licenses as needed Adding licenses to system is non- disruptive

26. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 26 2x 4 Link 80 Gbps per Chassis 2x 8 Links 160 Gbps per Chassis 2x 2 Link 40 Gbps per Chassis 2x 1 Link 20 Gbps per Chassis Wire Once Architecture Policy-Driven Bandwidth Allocation Virtual Interface Granularity I/O On- Demand via Service Profile

27. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27 A 32 rack server system as the UCS chassis (or 5) Nexus 2232 with 1/2/4/8 10Gb links in channel VIC 1225 Adapter: Management on NC-SI along with All Virtualized Data Paths Nexus 2232 with 1/2/4/8 10Gb links in channel Optional Redundant Path UCS Fabric Interconnect A (can also host UCS Chassis) Up to 32 rack servers off of single 2232 UCS Fabric Interconnect B (can also host UCS Chassis)

28. 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 28 Policies Used to Create Service Profile Templates Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles Associating Service Profiles With Hardware Configures Servers Automatically Integrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Subject Matter Expert Define Policies 1 2 3 4 Network SME Server SME Storage SME

29. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 29 Fewer manual steps Adjust BIOS, Firmware, LAN, SAN, and Storage Controller Settings 96 parameters in all, a server personality Decreased chance of human error Repeatability and faster server provisioning Enforce greater consistency Simplified cloning and copying Easy migration between blade and rack Single-operation firmware updates Control and Automation make Cisco UCS Service Profiles the clear choice

31. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 31 Blade Servers Limited local disk, memory and I/O1 Mgmt ServerMgmt Server Systems Management2 Individual Server Elements Chassis Modules Stand Alone Mgmt Servers Blade Chassis Switches3 Ethernet Fibre Channel Management Ports Top Rack of Switches4 Ethernet Fibre Channel Lots of Cabling 5 Ethernet Fibre Channel Management Complexity Multiplied6 Repeat Points at Management 10U at a Time

32. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 32 Standard APIs UCS Manager XML API Integrate Compute Blades and Rack Mount Extended Memory 2 Unify Fabrics1 Fibre Channel Ethernet Management Single Network Layer Optimize For Virtualization 4 Server Personality Abstraction Virtual I/O Awareness Embed Management3 Centralized All Elements Self Integrating Scale Without Complexity 5 Capacity Instead of Management Points Fewer Components

33. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 Integrate Compute Blades and Rack Mount Extended Memory 2 Unify Fabrics1 Fibre Channel Ethernet Management Single Network Layer Optimize For Virtualization 4 Server Personality Abstraction Virtual I/O Awareness Embed Management3 Centralized All Elements Self Integrating Scale Without Complexity 5 Capacity Instead of Management Points Fewer Components

35. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35 Post-Brickland Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications UCS C220 M3 Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server Enterprise Performance UCS C240 M3 Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP, and Database Applications UCS B200 M3 Optimal Choice for VDI, Private Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads Intensive/Mission Critical UCS B420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack Server for Storage Intensive Workloads UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web Infrastructure Applications UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web Applications Scale Out RackBlade UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications UCS B260 M4 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

36. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 36 Continuing a Tradition of Versatility and Industry-Leading Application Performance UCS B200 M4 Blade Server Versatile performance and density without compromise UCS C220 M4 Rack Server Density-optimized for general purpose workloads Storage and I/O-optimized for big data analytics, virtualization, and bare metal applications UCS C240 M4 Rack Server UP TO 39% Improved TCO UP TO 86% Faster Provisioning UP TO 53% Lower Power UP TO 77% Reduction In Cabling Cisco UCS: Five Years of Game-Changing Customer Results Next generation convergence and virtualization capabilities UCS VIC 1300 Available

37. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 37 UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Blade Server Two E5v3 CPUs Up to 18 cores per socket Up to 80G of I/O One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds UCS B200 M4 Next Gen Density-Optimized Blade Server Flexible Storage Controller / Cache / Media Options Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features Ultimate density-optimized general compute blade platform An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor Order Now

38. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 38 UCS C220 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Security Bezel Optional Two E5v3 CPUs Up to 18 cores per socket Two PCIe 3.0 Slots Two NCSI VIC-Optimized Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds UCS C220 M4 Next Gen Density-Optimized Rack Server Flexible Storage Up to 8 SFF or 4 LFF drives PCIe SSD support Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features Ultimate density-optimized, modular general compute platform A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a dense 1U form-factor Order Now

39. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 39 UCS C240 M4 Storage and IO-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Security Bezel Optional Two E5v3 CPUs Up to 18 cores per socket Six PCIe 3.0 Slots Four Full / Full - Four NCSI Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds UCS C240 M4 Next Gen Storage & IO-Optimized Rack Server Flexible Storage Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF +2 SFF boot drives PCIe SSD support Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization, big data, and bare metal applications Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features Ultimate configurable, modular general compute platform Supports up to two double-wide GPUs A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 2U form-factor Order Now

40. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 40 The ultimate engine for true stateless computing unleashes maximum network bandwidth, features and performance Lower Latency 2ns point to point Multiple Form Factors Blade mLOM, Mezz, Rack PCIe Support for Overlay Networks Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN Doubles host PCIe performance, BW and Root complex resources Doubles embedded processing, for datapath (fNIC, sNIC) and future services Hardware enabled support for RDMA for SMB Direct, ROCE PCIe Gen 3 Native 40GbE ready Available

41. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 41 Brickland / HaswellExpandable Servers (2S EX) Expandable Servers (4S EX) B200 M3 B230 M2 Brickland / Haswell Enterprise Class Server (2S EP) Value Server (2S EN) Grantley Grantley B22 M3 B440 M2 B420 M3 Enterprise Class Server (4S EP) B420 M4 Q4CY 2013 Q1CY 2014 Q2CY 2014 Q3CY 2014 Q4CY 2014 Q1CY 2015 B260 M4 B460 M4 BDW Refresh Q2CY 2015 Q3CY 2015 Q4CY 2015 B200 M4

42. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 42 Expandable Servers (4S EX) Brickland / Haswell Enterprise Class Server (2S EP) Value Server (2S EN) Grantley GrantleyEnterprise Class Server (2S EP) BDW Refresh Enterprise Class Server (4S EP) C24 M3 C220 M3 C260 M2 C420 M3 C460 M4 C22 M3 C240 M3 C460 M4 Q4CY 2013 Q1CY 2014 Q2CY 2014 Q3CY 2014 Q4CY 2014 Q1CY 2015 Q2CY 2015 Q3CY 2015 Q4CY 2015 Value Server (2S EN) BDW RefreshC240 M4 C220 M4

44. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 44 UCS Mini New architectural entry point for Unified Computing at 1~15 server scale Full Power UCS in an all-in-one package: Compute Networking UCS Manager Standard UCS Blades / Fans / Power Supplies Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale Connect up to 7 C-Series Rack Servers for Expanded Capacity UP TO 29% CapEx Savings UP TO 36% TCO UP TO 34% Lower Power UP TO 80% Fewer Cables 6324 Fabric Interconnects Available

45. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 45 UCS-FI-M-6324 4 x10G SFP+ Unified Ports Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE) Server Direct-attached only, no FEX Appliance port FC/FCoE Storage Port Supports 1G or 10G 1x40G QSFP+ Eth/FCoE only 4x10G break out or 1x40G (Post FCS) Scalability port Licensed Server Port 2nd Chassis (post-FCS) Direct-attached C-series, no FEX Appliance Port FCoE Storage Port Management Port 10/100/1000 MbpsUSB Port Firmware upgrades Console Port QSFP to 4 Copper Direct Attach

46. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 46 Expansion FCS release Up to 7 rack mount servers C220M3 and C240M3 Post FCS Release Connect up 2 Chassis 2nd chassis is child (with 2204XP or 2208XP IOM) Licensed 40G scalability port Total 20 Servers 16 Blades 4 Rack Servers Post FCS FCS

47. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 47 UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS innovation optimized for Cloud Scale Computing Hyper-Dense Server Architecture Provides a cost-effective, scalable and easy to manage solution Combines Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) technology and server fabric management with x86 computing elements in a dense, modular architecture that delivers uncompromising application performance Single pane of glass to provision and manage all components in the rack without the need to switch from one console to another Service Profiles augmented with Storage Profiles significantly enables the dynamic slicing of centralized resources and help ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for the deployed workloads Q414

48. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 48 Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale Many Applications Server Single Server Many Servers Single Application SCM ERP/Financial Legacy CRM Email Online Content Gaming Mobile IoT eCommerce Hypervisor

50. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 50 16 Server Footprint 16 x Traditional 1U Rack Servers 32 x HDD 16 x 1GbE NIC Cards 16 x RAID Controllers 32 x Sets of Cables 32 x Redundant Fan kits 32 x PSU The Foundation for New Cloud-Scale Applications

51. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 51 UP TO 77% Faster Provisioning UP TO 8x Server Density UP TO 95% Fewer Peripherals UP TO 38% TCO Improvement UP TO 22% Power Efficiency

52. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 52 2RU 1 2 CPU Intel Xeon E3 1275Lv3, 1240Lv3, 1220Lv3 Memory 8 GB UDIMM 32 GB Max/Cartridge Disks 2 or 4 SSDs SATA (240 GB, 480 GB, 960 GB) SAS (400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB) RAID Ctlr Cisco 12 Gb Modular RAID Controller with 2GB Flash- Backed Write Cache (FBWC) Network 2 * 40 Gb Power 2 * 1400W Aggregate Capacity per Chassis 16 Servers, 64 Cores, 512 GB Memory Compute Cartridge Front View Rear View

53. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 53 The Unstructured Data Explosion Unstructured Data Growing 100X every 10 years Video 5,000,000 KB/movie Photos 1,000 KB/photo Audio 5,000 KB/movie Text 500 Kb/file Organizations often have petabytes of unstructured data High Res 50,000,000 KB/object *Source: IDC and Other Online Research

54. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 54 MUST HAVE Best Sequential I/O Low Cost Per GB Manage Massive Scale (Petabytes) of Data Should not need High IOPS File/Block Size Limitations The Hardware Platform that should be able to achieve massive scale of compute, local storage and networking at low $/GB

55. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 55 UCS C3160 Modular, High density rack server for service providers, enterprises and industry verticals Optimized for large datasets used in environments such as cloud, object storage, and content delivery

56. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 56 Designed for large unstructured data repositories, media streaming and content distribution High-performance compute and storage throughput Stand-alone CIMC Management Up to 240TB (with 4TB HDD) @ launch and 360TB (with 6TB HDD)-post-FCS of dense storage in a compact 4U Form Factor that fits in a standard rack UCS C3160 Dense Rack Server Optional Bezel Single Server Dual CPU socket per server 4GB RAID Cache Enterprise storage features Dual Modular LOM (mLOM) Multiple Connectivity Options Up to 256GB Memory 8 DIMMs per socket Up to 62 Drive Bays 56 LFF, plus 4 LFF, plus 2 SFF

57. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 57 UCS C3160 Service Providers, Enterprise, Cloud Object Store Service Providers Media Streaming & Content Distribution Enterprise Exchange Sharepoint Service Providers, Enterprise Big Data & Analytics Addressable Market >$2B WW* *Source: IDC

58. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 58 Fully Modular Chassis Server Node, HDDs, SSDs, Networking Innovative Airflow design Improved efficiencies for cooling 60+ disks Shorter Depth Less than 32 inches no need for extended rack Modular Network Connectivity With Cisco mLOM/VIC Technology Designed for Future upgradeability Add Disk Expansion Node, Server Node, HDDs, SSDs

59. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 59 HDD 4 Rows of hot- swappable HDD 4TB/6TB Total top load: 56 drives FAN 8 hot-pluggable fans Back View Server Node 2x E5-2600 V2 CPUs 128/256GB RAM 1G/4G RAID Cache Optional Disk Expansion 4x hot-swappable, rear-load LFF 4TB/6TB HDD Two 120GB SSDs OS/Boot System I/O Controller (SIOC) Cisco mLOM Slot

61. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 61 UCS Founding Principles Cisco Unified Computing System Servers UCS Network/Storage Access Application Centricity Operational Simplicity Platform for IT Innovation

62. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 62 UCS Founding Principles Introducing the Cisco UCS Invicta Series Servers FlashMemory UCS Network/Storage Access VISION FOR NEXT GEN UNIFIED COMPUTING Integration of Solid-State Memory Systems into the UCS Fabric UCS Invicta Series Solid-State Systems Application Centricity Operational Simplicity Platform for IT Innovation Address new data velocity and scale requirements Integrate application acceleration into the computing domain

63. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 63 Cisco UCS Invicta Series Up to 1.2 Million IOPS Up to 12GB/s Bandwidth Up to 240TB RAW* Using Invicta OS 5.1.0 *With 24 TB Nodes ** With Data Reduction Enabled UCS Invicta Appliance UCS Invicta Scaling System Scalability Modularity Application Acceleration Data Optimization Multiple Workloads Tuning-Free Performance 180,000 IOPS 1.6 GB/s Bandwidth Up to 24 TB RAW*

64. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 64 Managing Compute and Solid-State Resources in a Unified Fabric Mixed Density Racks/Blades UCS Director Fabric Interconnects Batch, Data Loads Performance Nodes Routers Stateless UCS Servers with Virtualized Adapters Workload Acceleration and Data Reduction Nodes Virtual Desktops Email Data Reduction Nodes OLTP Analytics

65. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 65 Operational Velocity + Application Performance Provision Infrastructure Install UCS and UCS Invicta Assign Resources UCS Director Application Performance REPEAT AS NEEDED End-to-End IT Acceleration

66. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 66 API API Basic Management Functionality API Unified Computing System Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation UCS Director API UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 API Stand-Alone UCS C-Series CIMC Storage Virtual Machines Network Devices Servers Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Management Portfolio Integrated & Converged Infrastructure FlexPod vBlock NimbleStorage

67. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 67 GUI UCS Manager CLI Packaged Systems Management Software User Developed Portal, Tools, Utilities Embedded Device Manager Discovery, inventory, monitoring, diagnostics, statistics collection, configuration Unifies many UCS HW components into a single, cohesive system Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric interconnects APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP XML SDK for commercial and custom implementations Key feature: Service profiles Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints

68. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 68 Configuration Portability SIM Card Identity for a Phone Service Profile Identity for a Server UCS Service Profile Network Policy Storage Policy Server Policy

69. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 69 Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores Serial processes and multiple touches inhibit provisioning speed Configuration drift and maintenance challenges LAN SAN Network SME Server SME Storage SME Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software

70. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 70 Abstraction of bare metal configuration Encapsulated in Cisco service profiles Available through an intuitive GUI, CLI, or XML API Over 9000 objects in system management model Programmable Infrastructure Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server or C-Series Rack-Mount Server Cisco Virtual Interface Cards Automated, Policy-Based Configuration of Entire Hardware Stack Network Interface Card (NIC) Configuration: MAC Address, VLAN, and QoS Settings; Host Bus Adapter HBA Configuration: Worldwide Names (WWNs), VSANs, and Bandwidth Constraints, and Firmware Revisions Cisco Service Profile

71. 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 71 Policies Used to Create Service Profile Templates Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles Associating Service Profiles With Hardware Configures Servers Automatically Integrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions Unique user ID (UUID), firmware revisions, and RAID controller settings Service profile assigned to server, chassis slot, or pool Subject Matter Expert Define Policies 1 2 3 4 Network SME Server SME Storage SME

72. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 72 Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components Service profile templates allow rapid provisioning of new virtual desktops Chassis-8/Blade-4Chassis-1/Blade-2 Profile 1 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, PXE Profile 2 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5d MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FF WWN: 5080020000075742 Boot Order: SAN Profile 3 UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5f MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FB WWN: 5080020000075744 Boot Order: PXE, SAN LAN SAN Desktop Profile 1 120 Knowledge | HVD Win 7 B-250 192GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivty Boot Order Desktop Profile 2 140 Task | ThinAppOLTP B-200 48GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity Boot Order Desktop Profile 3 100 Power | HVD Win 7 B-230 384GB LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity Boot Order Cisco UCS Manager Im not Rahul

73. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 73 Virtual Pool of Resources Programmable Infrastructure XML API Infrastructure Management Virtual Resource Pools AUTOMATED DYNAMIC Extends Abstraction Beyond the Hypervisor to System Elements Infrastructure Automation Through API and Policy Truly Elastic Fully Orchestrated Workload Defined

74. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 74 UCS Platform Emulator Full fledged UCS Manager emulated in a VM Runs right inside a laptop/desktop Sports the entire UCS Manager API Imports config/inventory from real UCS setups Used widely for training & API development Available as a VM (OVA) from http://communities.cisco.com/ucs Available Free

75. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 75 Unified Management at Scale Data Center 1 UCS Central UCS System 1 UCS System 2 Data Center 2 Data Center 3 UCS System 3 UCS System 4 UCS System 5 UCS Management Domain UCS Management Domain UCS Management Domain UCS Management Domain UCS Management Domain Unifies management of multi UCS domains Leverages UCS Manager technology Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs and server consoles Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID pools and templates Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and workload mobility Model based API for large scale automation

76. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 76 Data Center 6Data Center 3Data Center 2 Data Center 4Data Center 1 Data Center 5 Big Data Cluster Test Dev Exchange vSphere Test Dev ExchangeTest Dev Exchange Tenant 1 Tenant 2SAP HANA Oracle E-Biz UCS ManagerUCS ManagerUCS Manager UCS ManagerUCS Manager UCS Manager Web Server App Server E-commerce Platform Scale-Out AppsBusiness Continuity Disaster Recovery Virtualized Servers and Apps CloudPerformance Intensive, Scale-Up Apps E-Commerce Apps UCS Central

78. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 78 UCS Manager Server KVM Console UCS Central UCS Central Access to all registered UCS Managers and server consoles from one location

79. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 79 Automated Scheduled Downloads from Cisco.com to UCS Cisco.com UCS Central Firmware Library Global Firmware Policies Firmware Auto Install

81. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 81 Network Statistics Reporting Basic built in reporting that represents collected statistical data Capacity plan views for bandwidth Drill down capability for top n data from domain to server Domain Chassis Servers

82. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 82 UCS Central Limited storage and processing capacity on the Fabric Interconnect External DB Limited Internal Reports such as top bandwidth usage External Reporting SQL UCS Manager collects large number of statistics including bandwidth, power and thermal statistics UCS Central provides long term retention of the data beyond what UCS Manager can store Use of retained statistical data for analysis Stored in external SQL database available for external direct access by 3rd party reporting tools Stored on-box PostGreSQL or off-box to MS SQL or Oracle XML

83. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 83 UCS Central Deployment Server Requirements VMware ESXi 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 Microsoft HyperV 2008, 2012 Hardware Specs 4x vCPUs 12 GB vRAM 2x 40GB HDs (>125MBps read speed) Client Web Browser IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari Adobe Flash Virtual Appliance Application & Components OS Cisco Provided Customer Provided Hypervisor Deployment Options Standalone Cluster (Active/Standby)

84. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 84 Automated Self-Service Provisioning Arch Design Procure Deploy Install Config Secure Audit Manual Capacity On-Demand Policy-Based Provisioning Adaptive FROM WEEKS TO MINUTES

85. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 85 Challenges: Manual processes Complex handoffs between teams and domains Static resource allocation Result: Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services High operational cost Rigid silos Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization NetworkAdm Update Trunks Create VLANs Configure SAN Zoning Create UCS Service Profiles Create Network Policies ServerAdmins Configure Servers Bare metal Provisioning Setup Servers Add VLAN to Service Profile Create VLAN Create Storage Resources (LUNs and Volumes) Storage Add vFilers to Group Create vFilers Create IP space UCS Blade Power On Create Storage Policy Map NetApp LUN Business Application Requirements Add Users and Groups IT Planning Approvals Define Cost Models

86. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 86 Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution On-Demand Automated Delivery Policy-Driven Provisioning Secure Cloud Container VMsComputeNetwork Storag e UCS DIRECTOR Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines Storage Network Compute Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Virtualized and Bare-Metal Compute and Hypervisor B CA Network and Services VM VM Bare Metal Single Pane of Glass End-to-End Automation and Lifecycle Management

87. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 87 Request for Stateless server from Catalog Invokes a Service Request Service delivered in Minutes Self-Service Portal Request for Bare-metal or Virtual Server

88. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 88 Add SAN boot - Add only SAN Boot to the policy 8 Steps required to configure boot from SAN Create a boot policy - Provide name and description1 2 Enforce vNIC/vHBA/iSCSI name - select checkbox 3 SAN Boot Target - to the Primary vHBA 5 SAN Boot Target WWPN - Add valid WWPN as the Boot Target. Always use boot LUN id of 0 6 Add Secondary SAN Boot and Target - Follow the same process as primary 7 (name vHBAs fc0 and fc1 or vHBA-a or vHBA-b. Name must match with vHBA templates) Add SAN boot - Add only SAN Boot to the policy4 Add Secondary SAN Boot and Target - Follow the same process as primary 8 Note If you are installing a new OS on the boot LUN you might need to add a CDROM drive to the Boot Policy

89. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 89 Seamless Infrastructure Management L4-7 Services Virtualization New! Integrated application containers for secure workload provisioning New! Application Centric Infrastructure configuration New! Open developer kit for ecosystem acceleration New! Hadoop integration to easily manage large clusters Storage UCS Director Nexus Product FamilyUnified Computing System Automation Powered by UCS Director Quality Enforce IT Best Practices Velocity Rapidly Deploy Applications Simplicity Ready for Use in Hours

90. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 90 Application Network Profile Orchestration Frameworks Hypervisor Management OVM Systems Management Centralized Policy Management Open APIs, Open Source, Open StandardsAPIC Fabric Automation Enterprise MonitoringACI Ecosystem Partners End Points Physical & Virtual Physical Networking Nexus 2K Nexus 7K Hypervisors and Virtual Networking Compute L4L7 Services Storage Multi DC WAN and Cloud Integrated WAN Edge

91. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 91 Subject Matter Expert Define Policies 1 SYSTEMS APPROACH: Rapid Deployment of Applications with Scale, Security and Full Visibility Network SME Security SME Application SME APIC 2 Policies Used To Create Application Network Profile Templates 3 Automated policy configuration across the infrastructure Life cycle management for day 1, day 2 operations 4 Physical Networking Compute L4L7 Services StorageHypervisors and Virtual Networking Multi DC WAN and Cloud Nexus 2K Nexus 7K Integrated WAN Edge

93. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 93 UCS Mini Core Data Center Workloads Fourth Generation UCS Servers UCS Management Innovation Compute Network Storage Virtualization Management and Automation Edge-Scale Computing Cloud-Scale Computing UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS C3160

94. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 94 OS / Hypervisor Virtual DesktopDatabasesEnterprise Apps Business Analytics HANA & BWA RISC Migration Unified Computing Infrastructure Compute Network Virtualization Operating Systems Applications Information VBLOCK Cisco UCS B-Series Cisco UCS Manager Cisco Nexus Family Switches NetApp FAS 10 GE & FCoE Complete Bundle FLEXPOD STANDARD CONFIGURATIONS Management Power of the Ecosystem Applications

97. 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 97 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 97 Cisco Unified Computing System A Differentiated/Revolutionary Approach Simpler Architecture Networking with fewer components Lower cost and easier scaling Fewer management touch points Manageability Automated deployment/provisioning Feature-rich Service Profiles Management via a single interface Higher Performance Brings out the best of x86 architecture Optimized resource utilization for compute, networking, and management No Compromises No trade-offs for function Enhanced design capability Designed for the future, today Better TCO/ROI Cisco UCS: Unified Infrastructure, Scalability, and Management Automation

98. 98 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Internet of Everything is Happening Now Applications that Power the IoE Need Infrastructure at the Right Scale Cisco is Disrupting Again with UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale