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Product Manager, SAVTG
Joseph Ezerski, CCIE #8588
Cisco UCS Fundamentals
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• 20 Years in IT, 8 of them at Cisco
• CCIE #8588 (R&S)
• Product Manager, UCS
• Living and Working from The Neth
• Misses the Sunshine
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• UCS – The question on everyone’s
• UCS versus Legacy Architecture
• UCS Advantage – Stateless Compu
• Extending and Simplifying Manage
• Where to find out more
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Wait a sec! Cisco se
SERVERS??
QUESTION #1
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• 17,800 unique UCS Custo
• #3 market share in x86 bl America & US)
• 2,300 UCS channel partne
• 44 ISVs writing to UCS AP
• Ten of thousands of suppapplications
• 70 world record performato date
• Numerous industry awarcertifications
Fastest Growing Product in the Marke
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So What Is UCS?
QUESTION #1-A
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A SINGLE COMPONDOES NOT MAKE A SUCS
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TO UNDERSTAND UCS
YOU NEED TO SEE THE
WHOLE PICTURE
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Email and Internet on a PC
You’ve
Got Mail!
Dedicated MP3 Player
Portable DVD player
Portab
Digita
P
You
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• All tools in one device
• One User Interface• Consistent Experience• Scalable (More Apps)• Ground Breaking Innovations• Built for the Cloud
The magic is how Smartphone makers unifyall tools together within a singular device and
manages it all with a single user interface
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Every customer,in every data center,already has a set of
common technologies:
Servers
Storage
Networking
Management
Definition of Fabr
Computing:
A set of compute, sto
memory & networ
components joined thra fabric interconnect a
software to configu
and manage them
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How did we get here
QUESTION #2
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Blade Server Chassis
Chassis Manager $$
Ethernet Modules $$
FC Modules $$
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Management Network
Ethernet Network
Storage Area Network
All this stuff costs money and I h
pay to license and manage it
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Mgmt Server MgmEmbed management
Unify Fabrics (wire once)
Optimize virtualization –Treat a virtual object like physical object (VNLink)
–Performance and Scale (more vm per server)
Remove unnecessary –switches
–adapters
–management modulesLess than 1/3rd the supportinfrastructure for a given workload
Mgmt Server
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Mgmt Server• A single system that encompasses: – Network: Unified fabric
– Compute: Industry standard x86 – Storage: FC, FCoE, iSCSI
– Virtualization optimized
• Unified management model – Dynamic and rapid resource provisioning (Service Profiles)
• Efficient Scale
– Cisco network scale & services – Fewer servers with more memory
• Lower cost – Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables
– Lower power consumption
– Fewer points of management
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UCS ManagerEmbedded – manages entire UCS
UCS Fabric Interconnect10GE unified fabric switch
UCS Fabric ExtenderIO Module
UCS Blade Server ChassisFlexible bay configurations
UCS Blade and Rack Servers
x86 industry standardPatented extended memory
UCS I/O Adapters
Choice of multiple adapters
AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OPTIMIZES DATA CENTER
EFFICIENCY
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Server Health Monitoring
Multi-Chassis Server Identity Manager
Servers 1-8
Servers 17-24
1 Logica
Servers 33-40
Servers 49-56
Servers 65-72
Servers 81-88
Servers 97-104
Servers 113-120
Servers 129-136
Servers 145-152
Ethernet
Fiber Channel
Server Hea
Multi-chassis Serv
Blade & Chass
Fabric Interconnect A
Legacy Blade Architecture
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 1: Servers 1-16
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 2: Servers 17-32
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 3: Servers 33-48
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 4: Servers 49-64
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 6: Servers 1-16
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 5: Servers 65-80
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 7: Servers 97-112
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 8: Servers 113-138
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 9: Servers 139-154
Enet Switch Enet SwitchFC Switch FC SwitchCMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 10: Servers 154-160
Cisco U
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How can I manage and futilize all this technologwithout adding complex
and doing it quickly?
QUESTION #3
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Every house requires a
detailing how to build it
To build that house we nof inter-working, necessfrom plumbing, electricity
air, waste, and structure
We can think of servers same way….
Simply A Blueprint
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Legacy Servers require a lot of manual intervention
NIC MACs
HBA WWNs
Server UUID
VLAN Assignments
VLAN Tagging
FC Fabrics AssignmentsFC Boot Parameters
Number of vNICs
Boot order
PXE settings
IPMI Settings
Number of vHBAs
QoS
Call Home
Template Association
Org & Sub Org Assoc.
Server Pool Association
Statistic Thresholds
BIOS scrub actionsDisk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
Adapter firmware
BMC firmware
RAID settings
Advanced NIC settings
Serial over LAN settings
BIOS Settings
SAN
LAN
Server Identity &Personality
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Service
Profile1
ServiceProfile2
ServiceProfile3
ServiceProfile x
UCS Service Profiles reduce complexity and speed up deployment
NIC MACs
HBA WWNs
Server UUID
VLAN Assignments
VLAN Tagging
FC Fabrics AssignmentsFC Boot Parameters
Number of vNICs
Boot order
PXE settings
IPMI Settings
Number of vHBAs
QoS
Call Home
Template Association
Org & Sub Org Assoc.
Server Pool Association
Statistic Thresholds
BIOS scrub actionsDisk scrub actions
BIOS firmware
Adapter firmware
BMC firmware
RAID settings
Advanced NIC settings
Serial over LAN settings
BIOS Settings
Server Identity &PersonalityTo build our server…
Make one or more uniqueprofile copies from a
template (i.e. ourblueprint )
Associate a single profile
to a single server.Repeat for more servers
as needed
Rapidly deploy anynumber of servers in just
a few clicks!
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• Extremely Rapid Deployment
• Rapid Recovery In Event of Failure
• Easy Migration Path to Upgrade of Servers to new H
• Repurpose Blades as needed
• Disaster Recovery• Works with both Rack and Blade
• Other ideas?
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• Fewer manual steps – Adjust BIOS, Firmware, NIC & SAN Settings: 120 parameters in all, a “s
– Edit storage controller settings
• Decreased chances of human error – Firmware updates become automatic with the update of the master s
• Easier repeatability and faster server provisioning – Higher RAS
– Lower software costs• Enforce greater consistency
• Simplified cloning and copying
• Move service profiles from rack to blade and blade to
• Group, undo and single-operation firmware updates
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What about managing
rest of my data cente
QUESTION #4
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UCSM Takes Care of All In
the UCS Domain
– Discovery, Inventory, MonitoriStatistics Collection, Configur
Blades, Storage Connections,
Speaks GUI, CLI, SNMP, IP
CLP
AND / OR
UCS Manager
GUI
CLI Packaged SystemsManagement Software
User Developed Portal,Tools, Utilities
OPEN XML APIs for integ
new and existing data ce
infrastructure
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Manage UCS with Industry Standard Tools
Service OrchestrationProvisioning and Configuration
Monitoring and Analysis
Third Party Management
Unified Control APIService Profiles
Cisco UCS Pools
Cisco UCS Manager
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Unified Management at Scale
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 1
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 2
• Unifies management of multi UCS domains
• Simplify global operations with centralizedinventory, faults, logs and server consoles
• Delivers global policies, service profiles, IDpools and templates
• Foundation for high availabilirecovery and workload mobil
• Model based API for large sca
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• Turn-Key Solution; ready for use in ho• A single, integrated, out-of-the-box so
• Enforce Best Practices with ConsistenInfrastructure Policies
• Seamless virtual and physical resourc
• Hypervisor agnostic• End-to-End Automation
• Model-based automation - no need fo
• Single-click policy-driven provisioning
• Ongoing lifecycle management
Self Service Infrastructure Provisioning
QUESTION #5
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OK, you have myattention. Where can
to find out more?
QUESTION #5
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• Data Sheets
• Validated Designs• White Papers• Quick Start Guides• Bundles & Promos
Or you can ask your local DCTeam for a demonstration
www.cisco.co
• Data Sheets
• Validated De• White Paper• Best Practic• Quick Start G• Bundles & P
Or you can asDC Teamdemonst
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• UCS is a truly innovative way of bringing together infrastr
all have in the data center, but we understand that infrastonly the foundation. The real value is in applications and
• Sign up for my other session on UCS and Applications. Aon how UCS can act as the foundation upon which your a
can run better than ever.
• Today 14:15-15:15 in Session Room #2
QUESTIONS?
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…AND THANK YOU
QUESTIONS?