Ucs clle 2014-v6

Local Edition

Cisco Unified Computing

Todd Rodgers – CCNP Datacenter

Consulting Systems Engineer

Cisco

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Session Objectives

Unified Computing System (UCS)

This session will provide a short overview of UCS with a longer description of the latest ecosystem hardware and features. Learn why customers are choosing to drop their legacy platforms for UCS and how existing UCS customers can improve their existing environments. Understand why the UCS Managed solutions and standalone C-Series rack solutions are leading the market through better management, product differentiation, and innovation.

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Agenda

• Major Innovations

• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage

• Automation and integration

• Conclusion

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Maintained #2 in Americas (31.1%), #2 in N. America (32.9%) and #2 in the US (33.9%)1

UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew 34% Y/Y in Q2CY131

Worldwide

US

Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades with 21.5%

UCS momentum is fueled by game-changing innovation; Cisco is quickly passing established players

UCS #2 with 33.9%

UCS #2 with 21.5%

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Customers Have Spoken

UCS #2 for the last 2 years and aiming for #1 this year!

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They Said It Couldn’t Be Done

UCS impacting growth of established vendors like HP

Legacy offerings flat-lining or in decline

Cisco growth out-pacing the market

Customers have shifted 21.5% of the global x86 blade server market to Cisco and over 31% in the Americas (Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2’13 Revenue Share, August 2013)

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013 Revenue Share, August 2013

Worldwide X86 Server Blade Market Share

Demand for Data Center Innovation Has Vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to the #2 Leader in the Fast-Growing Segment of the x86 Server Market

UCS #2 and Climbing Customer Demand

for Innovation Fuels UCS Growth

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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 Ports

Virtualized 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


Best-of-Breed UCS Network Fabric

Sizes for Every Need

FEX LinkUnified Fabric

1M Ports Shipped on UCS Fabric Interconnects

• IO Consolidation with FCoE resulting in fewer interfaces to manage, power, and cool

• Configuration simplicity with “unified ports”

• Enables operational simplicity at scale, with a single point of policy and management

• Broad portfolio with options at the high and low ends in terms of performance and scale

FC

Enhanced Ethernet and FCoE

LAN SAN A SAN BUCS-FI-6248UP

UCS-FI-6296UP

UCS-FI-2204XP

UCS-IOM-2208XP

Ethernet

Rack FEXUCS 6200+ N2232

Chassis FEXUCS 6200

+ UCS 2200

Adapter FEXUCS 6200+ UCS VIC

VM-FEXUCS 6200 + UCS VIC

+ Management

Switch

1 2 32

FEX

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

Rack Server

1 2 32

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server

Blade Server Chassis

FE

X1

28

Switch

1 2 8

Bare MetalBlade/Rack Server

FEX1 2 58

Switch

1 2 58

VM Host

UCS Mgr

ManagementPlane

Integration

Switch

1 2 54

FEX

Hypervisor

1 2 54

vCenter/VMM


Innovative UCS I/O Cards

Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs

• IO consolidation, scale, and flexibility managed by UCSM

• Industry-leading performance

• Robust ecosystem with storage and OS qualifications

• Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and CNAs

• Fiber and copper interfaces

• Broad support for most popular operating systems and storage

• Tier-0 storage/server side flash

• High performance: 100K + IOPS

• Significantly reduce application latency and response time

• GPU acceleration for VDI

• Rich graphics experience on thin clients

• GPU pass through or sharing for 20 users or more


Wire-Once InfrastructureOperational Flexibility for Workload Mobility

Infrastructure Standardization Results in Application Agility

Flexibility of Running File and Block on Same Infrastructure

Unprecedented Operational Simplicity

FC

FCoE

NAS/iSCSI

United Fabric

FC, FCOE NAS

“Wire-Once” Fabric Computing Infrastructure

Unified Compute

Virtual Workloads


Traditional Element Configuration

• Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores

• Serial processes and multiple touches inhibit provisioning speed

• Configuration drift and maintenance challenges

• FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

• RAID settings• Disk scrub actions

• Number of vHBAs• HBA WWN assignments• FC boot parameters• HBA firmware

• Number of vNICs• PXE settings• NIC firmware• Advanced feature settings

• VLAN assignments for NICs• VLAN tagging config for NICs

• QoS settings• Border port assignment per vNIC• NIC transmit/receive rate limiting

• Remote KVM IP settings• Call home behavior• Remote KVM firmware

• Server UUID• Serial over LAN settings• Boot order• IPMI settings• BIOS scrub actions• BIOS firmware• BIOS settings

LAN SAN

NetworkSME

ServerSME

StorageSME

Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software


UCS Manager

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


UCS Service ProfilesConfiguration Portability

SIM CardIdentity for a Phone

Service ProfileIdentity for a Server

UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy


• 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

UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction

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


Policies Used to Create Service Profile Templates

Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles

Associating Service Profiles With Hardware Configures Servers

Automatically

UCS: Embedded AutomationIntegrated, 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





















Subject Matter Expert Define Policies

1 2 3 4

NetworkSME

ServerSME

StorageSME


UCS: Programmable Infrastructure

Virtual Pool of Resources

ProgrammableInfrastructure

XML API

InfrastructureManagement

Virtual ResourcePools

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Extends Abstraction Beyond the Hypervisor to

System Elements

Infrastructure Automation Through

API and Policy

Truly Elastic

Fully Orchestrated

Workload Defined


Unified Management

Service Profiles

Abstraction

of the OS and Application

Stateless ComputingFor Workload Mobility

New Workloads Across VM Clusters

New Virtual Workloads

New Physical Workloads

OSApplications

OSApplications

OSApplications

Moving Hypervisors and Guests

Adapter

LAN and SAN Connectivity

Server

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT


Unified Management Blade and Rack Servers Managed a Cohesive Resource Pool

UCS Manager

C-Series Rack Optimized Servers

B-Series Blade Servers

Service Profile: HR_App1VNIC1

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2EHR_WEB_VLAN (ID=50)

VNIC2MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2FHR_DB_VLAN (ID=210)

HBA 1 and 2WWN: 5080020000075740WWN: 5080020000075741VSAN ID: 12

Boot Order: SANBIOS Settings:

Turbo OnHyperThreading On

UCS Service ProfileUnified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

A SINGLE UNIFIED SYSTEM FOR BLADE AND RACK SERVERS

A Major Market Transformation in Unified Server Management

Benefits of UCS Manager and Service Profiles for Both Blade and Rack-

Optimized Servers

Add Capacity Without Complexity


Agenda


• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage


• Conclusion

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Cisco UCS™ 6200 and 2200 with Unified Ports

Cisco UCS 6140/ 6120

Forward compatible with Second Generation

I/O Modules

At UCS Launch

Typical Deployments

UCS-FI-6248UP

48 Port Fabric Interconnect

• Performance for typical deployments with 1TB switching and 48 ports in 1RU

• Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports• Investment protection

High End Deployments

UCS-FI-6296UP

96 Port Fabric Interconnect

• High Application performance with 2TB switching• High workload density 96 ports in 2RU• Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports• Investment protection

Forward compatible with Second Generation

I/O Modules

Cisco UCS 2104I/O Module

16 Port I/O Module

UCS-FI-2204XP

• 80G/ chassis, 20G to the Blade• Entry point pricing• Improved Utilization with Port Channels

32 Port I/O Module

UCS-IOM-2208XP

• 160G/ chassis, 40G to the Blade for bursty traffic• Improved Resiliency • Improved Utilization with Port Channels

Cisco UCS™ 6100 and 2100

UCS FabricInterconnects

UCS I/O Modules

Cisco UCS Fabric Infrastructure Portfolio


Cisco UCS Fabric InterconnectsCisco UCS 6100 and 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects: Generation Comparison

Feature Cisco UCS™ 6100 Series Cisco UCS 6200 Series

Flash memory 16-GB eUSB 32-GB iSATA

DRAM 4-GB DDR3 16-GB DDR3

Processor Single-core Celeron 1.66 GHz Dual-core Jasper Forest 1.66 GHz

Number of ports per unified port controller (UPC) 4 8

Number of virtual interfaces (VIFs) per UPC 128; port fixed 4096 programmable

Buffering per port 480 KB 640 KB

VLANs 1000 1000 (4000 future)

Active SPAN sessions 2 4 (with dedicated buffer)

Latency 3.2 microseconds 2 microseconds

MAC address table 16,000 16,000 (32,000 future)

Data Center Bridging (DCB) forwarding Future Future

Layer 3 switching No Future

IGMP entries 1000 4000 (future)

PortChannels 16 48 (96 in 6296)

Cisco® FabricPath No Future

Flexibility

Performance


Cisco UCS I/O ModulesCisco 2100 and 2200 Series Fabric Extenders: Generation Comparison

Bandwidth

Resiliency

Feature Cisco UCS™ 2104XP Cisco UCS 2208 Cisco UCS 2204

QoS Simple register ACL based ACL based

Host ports 8 32 16

Network ports 4 8 4

Classes of service 4 (3 enabled) 8 8

Port speed 1/10-GB fixed location 1/10-GB anywhere 1/10-GB anywhere

EtherChannels HI > NI only 4 ports Both directions 8 ports Both directions 8 ports

Policers None 64 per 8 ports 64 per 8 ports

IEEE 1588 support No Yes Yes

Latency ~800 nanoseconds ~500 nanoseconds ~500 nanoseconds

Adapter redundancy 1 mLOM only mLOM and mezzanine mLOM and mezzanine


Cisco UCS Virtual Interface CardsCisco UCS VIC M81KR, VIC 1280 and VIC 1240: Generation Comparison

Feature Cisco UCS M81KR VIC Cisco UCS 1200 VIC

Bandwidth Dual 10Gbps Dual 40Gbps

PCIe Devices 128 256

Network connectivity 2x10Gb 2x4x10Gb

Host connectivity 16 lanes of PCIe Gen1 16 lanes of PCIe Gen2

Virtual Machine Fabric Extender Capabilities VMware, Redhat KVM and HyperV (Future)

VMware, Redhat KVM and HyperV (Future)

Classification Capabilities No Future

Operating System Support VMware, Windows, RedHat, Novell, Citrix, Oracle

VMware, Windows, RedHat, Novell, Citrix, Oracle

Flexibility

Scalability


Wire for Bandwidth, Not Connectivity

Wire Once ArchitectureAll links can be active all the timePolicy-driven bandwidth allocationVirtual interface granularity

20G per Chassis 40G per Chassis 80G per Chassis 160G per Chassis


Agenda


• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage


• Conclusion

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Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One SystemIndustry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

Current UCS Compute PortfolioPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

UCS C220 M3Versatile, General Purpose

Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server

Enterprise Performance

UCS C240 M3Ideal Platform for Big Data,

ERP, and Database Applications

UCS B200 M3Optimal Choice for VDI,

Private Cloud, or Dense

Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads

Intensive/Mission Critical

UCS B420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal

and Virtualized Applications

UCS C420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Server for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal, and Virtualized Applications

UCS C24 M3Entry, Expandable Rack Server for Storage Intensive Workloads

UCS C22 M3Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web

Infrastructure Applications

UCS B22 M3Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web

Applications

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UCS C260 M2Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Extended Memory Server for Large, Memory-

Intensive Applications

UCS C460 M2Mission-Critical, 4-Socket

Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications

UCS B440 M2Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal

and Virtualized ApplicationsUCS B230 M2Density-optimized CPU and

Memory-Intensive 2-Socket Blade for Bare Metal and Virtualized

Applications

Available


Post-Brickland Consolidated UCS Compute PortfolioPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

UCS C220 M3Versatile, General Purpose

Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server

Enterprise Performance

UCS C240 M3Ideal Platform for Big Data,

ERP, and Database Applications

UCS B200 M3Optimal Choice for VDI,

Private Cloud, or Dense

Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads

Intensive/Mission Critical

UCS B420 M3Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal


UCS C24 M3Entry, Expandable Rack Server for Storage Intensive Workloads

UCS C22 M3Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web

Infrastructure Applications

UCS B22 M3Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web

Applications

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UCS C460 M4Mission-Critical, 4-Socket

Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications





Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One SystemIndustry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

CQ1’14


UCS Compute Blade Roadmap

Brickland

IVB Refresh

Expandable Servers (2S –EX)


B200 M3

B230 M2

Brickland

IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP)

Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh

Grantley

Grantley

B22 M3

B440 M2

B420 M3

Next Gen 2S –EP Blade

Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)

Next Gen 4S –EP Blade

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Next Gen 4S -EX Blade

Next Gen 2S -EX Blade


M4 Scalable EX Blade Highlights

Dual / Quad Socket EX scalable designOptimized for both 2 and 4 socket scale

(w/ required Scalability connector)

Up to 60 CoresUp to 6 TB of memory

(up to 96 DIMM sockets)

Up to 320 Gb of IO Bandwidth

Single ConfigurationUCS B260 M4

Full-Width, 2-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 30 cores), 48 DIMMs

Scaled ConfigurationUCS B460 M4

Double-High -Full-Width, 4-Socket (Brickland EX – up to 60 cores), 96 DIMMs

• Designed for the most processor, memory, and IO-intensive workloads

• Provides mission-critical RAS features• Offers the benefits of blade density and

ecosystem with the added flexibility of a truly scalable system

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UCS Compute Rack Roadmap


Expandable Servers (4S –EX) Brickland

Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)

IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP)

Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh

Grantley

C24 M3

C220 M3

C260 M2

C420 M3

C460 M2

C22 M3

C240 M3IVB RefreshEnterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley

Next Gen 4S –EX Rack

Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (2U)

Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (1U)


Security BezelOptional

Four E7v2 CPUsUp to 15 cores per

socket10 PCIe 3.0 Slots

Four Full / Full GPU-readyModular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

96 DIMM SlotsDDR3 w/ upgrade path to

DDR4

Next Gen 4S–EX Rack Highlights

12 Drive BaysTwo PCIe-capable

• Designed for the most demanding server workloads such as in-memory database, EDA and CPU / GPU rendering

• Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations• Provides mission-critical RAS features• Ultimate scale-up platform

A “No-Compromise” balance of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 4U form-factor

UCS C460 M4 Performance-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server

CQ1’14


Agenda


• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage


• Conclusion

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UCS Invicta Product Overview (formerly Whiptail)Transitioning to UCS & Nexus platforms

INVICTA

2-6 Nodes6TB-144TB

650,000 IOPS7GB/s Bandwidth

ACCELA3TB – 24TB

250,000 IOPS1.9 GB/s Bandwidth

INVICTA – INFINITYUp to 720TB

650,000 – 4 Million IOPS40GB/s Bandwidth

Entry-Level

High-EndMid-Range

Upgrade path withinvestment protection


Performance•Maximizes write and read performance of NAND Flash•Provides symmetrical writes and reads to/from NAND•Optimizes protected writes (RAID)

Data Protection•RAID 5/6 •Asynchronous Replication with Open Targets (Linux/Windows) •SnapShots& Clones v(5.0 November 2013)

Storage Services & Management •Dedup (v4.5)•Thin Provisioning (v4.5)•Web based UI/API integrated with UCS Director and UCS Manager

Connectivity•NFS•iSCSI, Fibre Channel block•FCOE (end calendar 2013)

UCS Invicta RaceRunner Operating SystemProprietary flash translation layer

• Role Based access controls• VAAI / vCenter Support


Invicta OS Streamlines the Write process

Receive•Data blocks of Various size arrive from Hosts from network interconnects

Protect•Data Blocks are stored in the power loss buffer and passed onto the Block Translation Layer (BTL)

Optimize•The Block Translation Layer Aggregates and sizes Data Blocks for the RAID Layer and Flash Media

•Hash tags are created for each block

Commit •BTL Optimized Data is flushed across the RAID stripe and Flash erase blocks concurrently


Invicta OS Fast & Efficient Writing Flash Optimization & Data Protection

Write the RAID stripe and the 2MB Erase Blocks concurrently


Inbound data blocks

Invicta OS Optimization = High Performance

Cache

Block Translation Layer Optimize

Inbound data blocks

Write Write

Fill


Agenda


• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage


• Conclusion

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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


UCS Central 1.1Centralized 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 1.1 available as of July 15, 2013

Available


Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

On-DemandAutomated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud

Container

VMsComputeNetwork Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Tenant

BTenant

CTenant

A

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B CA

Network and Services

VM VM BareMetal

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation and

Lifecycle Management

Available


UCS Director for Integrated InfrastructureFlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX, and Vblock (Hitachi and more coming…)

Define and manage resource pools

Open API for 3rd Party Integration

UCS Central

Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning

Consistent Management Across Pods

Enforce Best Practices with Global UCS Policies

UCS Director

Available


Integration Tools

UCSPE – UCS Platform Emulator – UCS PowerTool – Powershell tools for UCSUCS Central – Manage and control multiple UCS domains

together.Microsoft Integration - System Center 2012 and SCCVM

integration – VMware Integration – vCenter plugin gives Vmware visibility

into UCSOracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS – Manage

UCS from OracleOpenstack integration – UCS Automation with Openstack


UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE)

No UCS Hardware Needed for API integration Development• Full featured emulator for the UCS Manager that installs as a Virtual Machine

• Provides complete support for all XML API calls and object browser

• Import & replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory

• Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators

• Drag-n-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory

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Cisco UCS PowerToolProgrammatic control over UCS hardware

Architected for Flexibility and coverage• PowerShell Wrapper

• Cmdlet definition and structure

• Get-help support

• .NET UCS Namespace Library

• XML API call construction

• Class Definition

• Validation

PowerShell Design.NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft

integrationTargeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple

releases

Cisco UCSPowerTool Module

UCS .NET Namespace

UCS XML API

cmdlets


UCS Management with System Center 2012Ease IT management through a single interface

“Single Pane

of Glass”Operations

ManagerOrchestrator

Management Pack

Integration Pack

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Orchestrator


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MicrosoftApplications

MicrosoftInfrastructure

Cisco and NetApp PowerShell

Integration Libraries

Cisco: UCS Manager, PowerTool NetApp: OCPM, Data ONTAP, PowerShell Toolkit

Configuration & Provisioning Physical and Virtual Machine Monitoring Network Management Back Up & Recovery Disaster Recovery

FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud

with Hyper-V

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Provisioning Monitoring AutomationCisco & NetAppManagement

Cisco & NetAppHardware:• Compute• Network• Storage


Provide a single point of administration for both physical and virtual infrastructure

Streamline infrastructure management by tracking virtual & physical relationships

Extend vCenter visibility into Cisco’s advanced virtual networking technologies (VMFex, Virtual Interface Card, etc)

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Cisco UCS vCenter PluginUnify VMware & UCS Administration


Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCSWhat is monitored? Why Use This Plug-in?

Technical Details

• Continue to use OEM 12c to now manage Cisco UCS

• Incoming data formatted for 12c• Utilize the capabilities of UCS

manager such as service profiles• Manage all Oracle and Cisco UCS

environment from one screen

Product Details• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R2• UCS Manger 2.1+• Operating System Supported:

• Oracle Linux/RHEL Priority 1• Windows Priority 2• Solaris 10/11 Priority 3

• All UCS blades/chassis supported• All Rack Optimized (C-Series)

supported

• Product FCS – Summer 2014 (July)• Price $0• Support – Cisco TAC• Downloadable from Cisco.com• Available world wide• Free upgrade to version 2 in CY

Q4’14

• All system components• Blade details, CPU, memory, etc• Performance metrics• Health status/Environmental• Current, voltage, thermal, fan• Network – data transfer, pause, loss,

error• Config details, firmware, identifier

pools• Exposing native Cisco events -

incidents


Monitor UCS with Operations Manager 9.1(a.k.a Openview)

• Qualified event (XML) receiver for UCS

• 2 versions for UCS Manager and Cisco IMC

• Windows and Linux versions

• Automate UCS workflows with HP Operations Orchestration 9.0

• Out of the box UCS flows and actions

• Single click provisioning of UCS servers

• Capability to include Python scripts in workflows

Manage UCS with HP Software


Nagios plugins

Open source platform for monitoringCisco plugins for both UCS Manager and Cisco IMCFoundational capabilities

• Complete domain and server inventory

• Health summary and status

• Complete fault and event information

• UCS specific graphical interface

• CLI for common configuration and query operations


Cisco UCS servers

Extend python based automation to UCS servers seamlessly

Architected for Flexibility and coverage

Comprehensive coverage of all supported operations

Fully classed object definition

Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases

Sample scripts for shorter ramp up

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Python SDKProgrammatic control over UCS

UCS Manager or Cisco IMC

3rd party tools

Python SDK (UCS/IMC XML wrapper)

UCS XML API

Custom scripts


UCS Automation with OpenStackIntegrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management

Configuration Automation

Optimized workload placement

OpenStack Deployment Automation

1Virtual & Bare metal services (BMaaS Integration)

2 3 4

Single touch deployment across 1000’s nodes

HYPERVISOR

Physical Server Provisioning (BMaaS)

Virtual Server Provisioning

5 Dense storage server (storage nodes)

Dense compute server (compute nodes)

New UCS Product Lines for scale-out & OpenStack Platforms


OpenStack: Scripted Install of OpenStack on UCS

Chassis/Server Discovery

Service Profile Association

PXE boot devices deployed

Cobbler database update

Register Nodes Provision UCS Servers

Step 1 : Configuring Nodes using Python SDK

Updates the newly added node info in puppet

Puppet apply

Add hosts/system in OpenStack

Event Listener

PXE boot for initial OS install

RHEL 6.4 installation on bare-metal servers

Sync all the plugins from Puppet Master

Host OS Install

Inventory of nova nodes on controller

VM Provisioning

OpenStack Services Deployment

OpenStack Handover

Hostname / IP address

Logical credentials

Resource allocation preferences Only Point of User Touch

Pre-configure UCS

Step 2 : Cobbler/Puppet based Node Subscription

Good example: http://1-cloud.net/havate

http://1-cloud.net/havate


Agenda


• Infrastructure

• Compute

• Storage


• Conclusion

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• Visit detailed information. – www.ciscoquicklinks.com

• Cisco UCS Architecture Session– Engage your account team or Consulting Systems Engineer

• Download UCS Emulator– http://developer.cisco.com

• Cisco UCS Website– www.cisco.com/go/ucs

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http://www.ciscoquicklinks.com/

http://developer.cisco.com/

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs


Continue Your Education

• Demos in the Cisco Campus

• Walk-in Self-Paced Labs

• Table Topics

• Meet the Engineer 1:1 meetings

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Register for CiscoLive! – San Francisco

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CiscoLive! – San FranciscoMay 18 – 22, 2014www.ciscolive.com/us

http://www.ciscolive.com/us


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Reminders

• Drawing for the Cisco and sponsor prizes will be at 2:15 where lunch was served. You must be present to win.

• Visit the sponsor booths during breaks, at lunch, and between sessions.

• Complete your event evaluation so we can have events like this in the future.

• Scan the QR code to the right or visit http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoPublicSector/tagged/CLLE%20Midsouth to access and download all the presentations and other information.

http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoPublicSector/tagged/CLLE%20Midsouth





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Data Center ScheduleTime Session Name

8:00 to 8:30 Arrival and registration8:30 to 9:45 Unified Computing System9:45 to 10:00 Break and visit with sponsors10:00 to 11:00 Desktop Virtualization11:00 to 12:00 Invicta Accelerated Storage12:00 to 1:00 Lunch1:00 to 2:15 Datacenter Fabric Futures2:15 to 2:30 Break, visit with sponsors, and drawings2:30 to 3:30 UCS Management Best Practices and Tools3:30 to 4:30 UCS Director4:30 Conclusion of Cisco Live Local Edition event

Local Edition

Technology

Ucs clle 2014-v6