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UCS Management Architecture
Deep Dive BRKCOM-2001
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Agenda
Introductions
UCS Architecture, Innovations, Topology
Physical Building Blocks
Logical Building Blocks
Typical Use Cases (Live UCS Demo)
Programmable Infrastructure
UCS Central
Model Driven Management
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Introduction
This session will not cover UCS hardware components
Please check out BRKCOM-1005 UCS Architecture Overview for that
This session will not cover Storage best practices
Please check out BRKCOM-2002 UCS Storage Best Practices for that
This session will not cover Networking in detail
Please check out BRKCOM-2003 UCS Networking Deep Dive w/ VM-FEX for that
On the other hand, this session will cover UCSM quite a bit!
What to expect
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UCS Architectural Goals
Administrative Leverage
Deepest possible abstraction of hardware and connectivity
Reduce server provisioning time
Both physical and logical servers
Fully programmable
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Cisco Key Innovations
Unified Fabric
FEX-Link
Fabric Extender
Adapter-FEX
VM-FEX (aka VN-Link, VN-Tag)
Virtualized Adapter
Extended Memory
Unified Management
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Unified Computing System (UCS)
Single Point of Management
Unified Fabric
Stateless Servers with Virtualised Adapters
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UCS Connectivity
SAN Switch
LAN Switch
LAN CLOUD FC STORAGE
NAS STORAGE
UCS Fabric Interconnect
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4 Deployments of Ciscos FEX Technology
VM Host
Nexus 5k + Nexus 2k UCS 6k + UCS 2k UCS 6k + VIC UCS 6k + VIC + VM Mgmt Link
Server Rack
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 Rack FEX
FEX
Switch 1 2 32
vCentre/VMM
Man
agem
en
t Plan
e
Inte
gration
UCS Manager
FEX
#2 Chassis FEX
1 2 8
8
2
1
Switch
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server Chassis
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade Server
Blade/RackServer O S
FEX
#3 Adapter FEX
1 2 58
1 2 58
Switch
Hypervisor
VM
VM
FEX
#4 VM-FEX
VM
1 2 54
1 2 54
Switch
1 2 32
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UCS Manager Embedded manages entire system
UCS Fabric Interconnect 48 or 96 Port 10Gb FCoE with Unified Ports
UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card
4 x 10GE or 8 x 10GE
UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations
UCS Server Industry-standard architecture Blade and rack-mount, 2 and 4 socket
UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters
UCS Physical Building Blocks
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Pools
UUID
MAC
WWNN / WWPN
Policies Boot Devices/Order
Host F/W
QoS
Local Disk
Templates
VNIC
VHBA
Templates
Service Profile
Service Profile
SAP-1
Service Profile
SAP-2
Service Profile
SAP-N
. . .
Isolation
VLANs
VSANs
Pin Groups
UCS Logical Building Blocks
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UCS Manager: Behind the Scenes
UCSM Management Information Model
Summary:
Data Management Engine (DME) contains full representative object model
stored in the Management Information
Tree (MIT)
Interaction with DME occurs via Northbound External Interface Layer
Northbound interfaces all resolve down to XML API
Application Gateways couple UCSM with end points
UC
SM
UCS CLI
Data Management Engine MIT
Management Controller Application
Gateway
Nic AG
Host Aggr
Port AG
Dcos AG
NXOS(A) UCS 6100
NXOS(B) UCS 6100
IOM (CMC) UCS 2100
B200/B250 (BMC)
MEZZ_CARD M*KR
UCS UOS
telnet, ssh, netconf
Smash CLP Component
Native XML API
Custom Application GUI
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(No PPT!)
< Relational Nature of UCSM >
< Hardware Abstractions >
< Instantiating from Template >
< Pre-provisioning Infrastructure >
< Server Pool Policy Qualifications >
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Its demo time!
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Live UCS Demonstration (No PPT!)
< UCS Manager GUI Trace >
< UCS Backups; Golden Domain Definitions >
< PowerShell Provider Examples >
< UCS Platform Emulator >
< UCS Central >
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Release 2.1: Over 15 New Features
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Service Profile Renaming
FSM Tab Enhancements
Fault Suppression
ID Pool Sequential Allocation
UCSM Upgrade Validation
UCSM Auto Install
Scheduled backups
Operational Enhancements
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Users will have the ability to rename a Service Profile in its current place in the org tree
Old IDs (e.g., UUID, MAC, WWN) are retained
New audit logs, events, and faults reference the new name
Existing audit logs, events, and faults from the original Service Profile remain available under the original name
No server reboot is necessary
Only Service Profiles can be renamed. Nothing else.
Customers can simplify operations by aligning
Service Profile names with their naming conventions
Customer benefits
Feature details
Service Profile Renaming
Operational
Enhancements
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FSM Tab Enhancement: GUI GUI now shows all FSM Stage details in additional to overall FSM status details.
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Sequential ID Pool Allocation
Much better control over SP to ID pools (MAC, WWN, etc.) allocation!
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UCSM Upgrade Validation
Starting with Del Mar (2.1) it is possible to do a dry run of system upgrades
Automatic rollback in case of problem
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Firmware Auto-install
5 different features actually:
Host Firmware Package creation using simple mode
Deprecation of Management Firmware Package
Removal of ignore compatibility check
Firmware Monitoring
Firmware Auto Install
Install Infrastructure Firmware
Install Server Firmware
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VLANs today are not confined to specific Orgs
They are available as a free-for-all resource
Any SP vnic can use any VLAN
2.1 changes this with Org-aware VLANs
Opt-in feature: by default, an Org has access to all VLANs
If enabled, Org is limited to specific VLANs
Org-aware VLANs
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Org-aware VLANs
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Org-aware VLANs
We created a VLAN called ORGWARE with Org membership = DEMO
SPs that are not in Org DEMO do not see the ORGAWARE VLAN
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UCS
Model
UCS is Model Driven
Logical
Pools & policies Service Profiles &
Templates
Port Profiles vNICs & vHBAs
In-Band Management
KVM & Virtual Media Power Management IPMI
Physical
Auto Discovery Device Inventory
Management Access
GUI CLI PowerShell / Python XML API
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developer.cisco.com
UCS Powershell Library
UCS Python SDK
UCSPE: UCS Platform Emulator that fully exports the XML API
SNMP/MIB
SCOM
communities.cisco.com/community/partner/datacenter/ucs
Tags : ucs ucs_central data_center unified_computing ucs_management ucs_demo
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