Cisco UCS & HP Blades A Look At TCO

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Cisco UCS and HP Blades: A Look at TCO

Cisco Systems Product Solutions Marketing | DCC

Unified Computing System

February 2014

Thomas Cloyd

© 2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.


Maintained #2 in Americas (28.7%),

#2 in N. America (29.9%, and

#2 in the US (30.4%)1

Q3CY13 – UCS x86 Blade Server revenue

WW grew 46% Y/Y, and

USA grew 55%1

Maintained to #2 worldwide

in x86 Blades with 22%1

UCS momentum is fueled by game-

changing innovation; Cisco is quickly

passing established players

UCS #2 in Only

Four Years

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1 Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q3 2013, December 2013, Revenue Share

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HP

Cisco

IBM

Dell

Hitachi

NEC

Fujitsu

Oracle

Worldwide

UCS #2

with 22%

0 10 20 30 40 50

Oracle

SGI

Dell

IBM

Cisco

HP

UCS #2

with 28.7%

Americas


X86 Blade Market Share Numbers

WW and US Q3 2011 to Q3 2013 Share Changes

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q3 2013, December 2013

Worldwide

Market Share of WW

x86 Blade Total

Factory Revenue

Market Share of WW

x86 Blade Total Units

Revenue Share

Change

Unit Share

Change

Cisco + 10.1% + 7.2%

Dell + 1.7% + 3.0%

HP - 7.1% - 4.4%

IBM - 1.0% - 3.5%

All Others - 3.7% - 2.3%

USA

Market Share of USA

x86 Blade Total

Factory Revenue

Market Share of USA

x86 Blade Total Units

Revenue Share

Change

Unit Share

Change

Cisco + 10.9% + 8.1%

Dell + 2.7% + 5.1%

HP - 13.1% - 9.4%

IBM - 1.8% - 2.5%

All Others + 1.3% - 1.2%

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• Brings out the best of Intel

Xeon Processors

• Optimized Resource Utilization

for Compute, Networking and Management

• No Trade-offs for Function

• Enhanced Design Capability

• Designed for the Future, Today

• Better TCO / ROI

• Networking with fewer components

• Lower cost and easier scaling

• Fewer Management Touch Points

• Automated Deployment / Provisioning

• Unification leads to reduced Complexity

• Management via a single interface

Cisco UCS — Unified Infrastructure, Scalability and Management Automation


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• Management via a single interface • Networking with fewer components



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Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter”

Billions of Dollars – WW Server Management Spend Total Server

Related Spend Year Physical Servers Virtual Servers

2003 $ 64 $ 3 $ 135

2007 $74 $ 28 $ 191

2013 $50 $105 $250

31% - 32% 275% - $24 + $ 77 + $ 58

WW Server Related Spend (CapEx + OpEx) - Servers, Power & Cooling, and Mgmt./Administration

Data Center Spending

•Server purchase spending is flat

•Physical server management is down

•Virtual server management costs are way up


Growing Capacity Requires

Infrastructure Change

Constant Infrastructure with Growth

HP UCS

12 Server ID Presets

$57,641 – Cost of 17th Server Capacity

(server not included)

Scale Requires Large Server Increments (16)

Larger Embedded Cost, Larger Footprint (10U)

127+ Server ID Settings

Completely Automated Including

Firmware and I/O Devices

$11,556 – Cost of 17th Server Capacity (server not included)

Scale in Smaller Server Increments (8),

Lower Cost, Smaller Footprint (6U)

Simpler Architecture Scale without Complexity

Mgmt switch

LAN

SAN A

SAN B

LAN Mgmt switch Mgmt switch

LAN LAN SAN A SAN B

Mgmt switch

Cisco UCS •Compute added in smaller increments

•Networking with fewer components

•Management via a single interface

HP c7000 •Large hardware blocks to add compute capacity

•Multiple networking components

•Multiple touch points

•Multiple management points for servers and networking

64 blades shown here 80 blades shown here

Fabric Interconnects 2

Intra Chassis Switches 0

Chassis Mgmt Module 0

Total Mgmt Points 1




Total Mgmt Points 8

Mgmt switch

LAN

SAN A

SAN B

LAN Mgmt switch

32 blades – 2 x HP c7000

32 blades – 4 x Cisco UCS

Mgmt switch LAN

LAN SAN A

SAN B

Mgmt switch

Mgmt switch

LAN

SAN A

SAN B

LAN Mgmt switch

64 Blades – 4 x HP c7000 80 Blades – 10 x Cisco UCS 5108




Total Mgmt Points 16




Total Mgmt Points 1





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• Automated deployment / provisioning

• Unification leads to reduced complexity



Blade server and Rack

servers managed separately

Blade and Rack servers

managed via a single interface

HP UCS

Scale requires large increments

Growing capacity

increases complexity

Deploying servers very manual

and time consuming

Scale in smaller increments

Unification yields constant,

leveraged infrastructure.

77% faster and 67% less steps.

UCS Automated Deployment / Provisioning

Faster, More Flexible Unification Reduces Complexity

Legacy Infrastructure Designs

• Infrastructures designed separately – not as a unified system

• Marketed as “converged”, but really management layers on top of multiple infrastructure silos

• Sprawling patchwork of tools, agents and management points

Complexity Drives Up Management Costs

• Rigid models to upgrade and maintain system-level designs

• Multiple tools means multiple points of configuration

• Brittle design with complex inter-dependencies

Eliminating Silos – Fabric Centric Architecture – Single Point of Mgmt.

CISCO UCS UNIFIED by DESIGN

HP Server Hardware Management

Multiple Layers of Software Required

16 blade servers

0 rack servers

Separate Management – Every Chassis, All Software

Separate Enet & Fibre Channel I/O leaving the chassis

• UCS Manager

• 1 Console

16 blade servers

6 rack servers

Unified Compute, Unified Management, Unified Fabric

Unified by Design

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

HP Insight Control

System Insight Manager (SIM)

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

• No Added Cost

• Rack and Blade Together

HP c7000 Cisco UCS








Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager $$$$

HP Insight Control $$$$

System Insight Manager (SIM)






HP Server Hardware Management

Multiple Layers of Software Required

64 blade servers

0 rack servers

Separate Management – Every Chassis, All Software

Separate Enet & Fibre Channel I/O leaving the chassis

• UCS Manager

• 1 Console

• No Added Cost

• Rack and Blade Together

HP c7000 Cisco UCS

160 blade or rack mount servers

Unified Compute, Unified Management, Unified Fabric

Unified by Design


XML API

Third Party UCS CLI + UCS Manager + UCS Central +

UCS Director

goUCS Automation Tools

CDN .NET/ Windows PowerShell

Python, Perl XML

UCS M Data Center 1

UCS M Single UCS Domain

UCS M Data Centers 3, 4 . . . .

UCS M Data Center 2

Customer

• Blade and Rack Servers

in the same domain –

Form Factor Agnostic

• Standards-based XML

API presents bidirectional

single interface to entire

solution

• UCS offers the

customers the broadest

choice of Cisco or 3rd party

management tools

UCS

Manager CLI

UCS

Central UCS

Director



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• Brings out the best of Intel Xeon Processors

• Optimized Resource Utilization for Compute,

Networking and Management


Updating requires multiple touches

Cisco single touch updates /

deploys faster

HP UCS

16 DIMMs in the BL460 Gen8

60 Gbps / blade, expensive

Indeterminate latency

24 DIMMs in the B200 M3

80 Gbps per blade, for much less.

Identical latency

between blade servers

High Performance


Read the White Paper http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns2

24/ns944/ucs77_faster_v_hp_for_blade_deployment.pdf

Watch the Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSQfNt7SFk

1 blade scenario 2 blade scenario 1 blade scenario 2 blade scenario

Cisco UCS - Model-based Management with Faster Deployment

More Automation - Fewer Touches Reduces Errors

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/ucs77_faster_v_hp_for_blade_deployment.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/ucs77_faster_v_hp_for_blade_deployment.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSQfNt7SFk


Read the White Paper http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns2

24/ns944/cisco_ucs_migrates.pdf

Watch the Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN-aLzGCpEI

Cisco UCS - Model-based Management with Faster Deployment

More Automation - Fewer Touches Reduces Errors

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/cisco_ucs_migrates.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/cisco_ucs_migrates.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN-aLzGCpEI




• Bringing out the best of Intel® Xeon

® E5 & E7 Processors

• Optimized balance of CPU, Memory, I/O

• UCS B230: greatest memory density of any comparable blade server

• Highest scale, low latency networking: UCS 6296UP Fabric Interconnect and 2208XP Fabric Extender

• 4x Bandwidth — 2 Tbps

• 40% decrease in latency — sub 2 uS

• Industry’s first 40 Gbps-to-the-blade, integrated modular LOM solution with up to 80Gbps

• 50x vNICs and vHBAs — over 256 per server

• Higher VM consolidation — 100s per server

• Virtual I/O using vSwitch leads to 30% reduction in CPU utilization

Investment Protection:

Cisco Is Delivering Server Generational Support, Without the Need for New Chassis

New UCS innovations mark the third generation of fabric computing

and extend the exceptional capabilities of the industry’s first truly unified data center platform.

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VMmark 2.0

Overall B200 M2

VMmark 2.1

2-socket Blade

B200 M2

VMmark 1.x

2 –socket Blade

B230 M1

VMmark 1.x

2-socket B200 M1

VMmark 1.x

2-socket B250 M2

VMmark 1.x

Overall C460 M1

VMmark 2.1

Overall C460 M2

VMmark 2.1

Two–node 4-socket

C460 M2

VMmark 2.1

4-socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1

Two–node 2-socket

B200 M3

VMmark 2.1

Eight–node 2-socket

B200 M3

VMmark 2.5

Two-node 2-socket

C240 M3

VMware View Planner

2-socket B200 M3

TPC-C

Oracle DB 11g & OEL

C250 M2

TPC-H 100GB

VectorWise

C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB

VectorWise

C250 M2

TPC-C

Oracle 11g

C240 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite

Medium Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2


Xtra Large Model Payroll

B200 M3


Medium Model

Order-to-Cash

B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3

SPECjEnterprise2010

Overall B440 M1

SPECjEnteprise2010

2-node B440 M2

Oracle E-Business

Suite Xtra Large Model

Payroll Batch B230 M2

Oracle E-Business

Suite XL Model Payroll

B200 M3


Large Model Order-To-

Cash

B200 M3

Oracle E-Business

Suite XL Model Payroll

B200 M3


Large Model Order-To-

Cash B200 M3

SPECjbb2005

2-socket C260 M2

SPECjbb2005

2-socket B230 M2

SPECjbb2005

4-socket B440 M2

SPECjbb2005

2-socket B230 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86

2-socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86

4-socket C460 M1

SPECjAppServer2004

2-node B230 M1

SPECjbb2005 X86

2-socket B230 M1

SPECjbb2005 X86

2-socket C220 M3

SPECjbb2013 X86

2-socket C220 M3

SPECompLbase 2001

2-socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase 2001

2-socket B230 M2

SPECompLbase 2001 2-

socket B230 M2

SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2

SPECompLbase 2001 2-

socket B200 M2

LinPack

2-socket B200 M2

LS-Dyna

4-socket C460 M1

SPECompMbase 2001

4-socket

C460 M1

SPECompMbase 2001

4-socket C460 M1

SPECompMbase 2001

4-socket C460 M2

SPECompMbase 2001

2-socket C240 M3

SPECompLbase 2001

2-socket C220 M3


XL model payroll

B200 M3

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM

X86 2-socket B200 M3

SPECjbb2005 X86

2-socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket B200

M1

SPECfp_rate_base

2006 2-socke

C260 M2

SPECfp_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket

B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base

2006 2-socket

C260 M2

SPECint_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket

B200 M2

SPECint_rate 2006

X86 4-socket

C460 M2

SPECfp_rate_base

2006 X86 4-socket

C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base

2006 X86 4-socket

C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

SPECfp_base2

006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base

2006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2

006 X86 4-socket

C420 M3

SPECfp_rate_base20

06 X86 2-socket

B200 M3

SPECint®_base 2006

X86 2-socket

C220M3

VMmark 1.x

Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x

Blade Server B440 M1

VMmark 1.x

2-socket B200 M1

TPC-H 1000GB

Microsoft SQL Server

C460 M2


Medium Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2


Ex-large Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2

SPECjbb2005


SPECjAppServer 2004

1-node 2-socket C250 M2

SPECompMbase

2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase

2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base 2006


SPECfp_rate_base 2006


Best

Virtualization

& Cloud

Performance

Best Database

Performance

Best Enterprise

Middleware

Performance

SPEComp®

G_base2012

2-socket C240 M3

Best CPU

Performance

Best HPC

Performance

Best Enterprise

Application

Performance

TPC-H 3000GB

Price/Performance

X86 Single- node

C420 M3

VMmark 2.5.1

Two-node 2-socket

B260 M4

SPECint®_rate_base

2006 4-socket

C460 M4

SPECint®_rate_base

2006 2-socket

B260 M4

SPECfp_rate_base

2006 2-socket B260

M4

SPEComp®

G_base2012

4-socket C460 M4

SPEComp®

G_base2012

2-socket B260 M4

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM

X86 2-socket C240 M3

SPECfp_rate_base20

06 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

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Cisco UCS Performance: 90 Records

21 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

6 Database

14 Enterprise

Application

15 Enterprise

Middleware

17 HPC

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• Better TCO/ROI


Back of each blade chassis has a

“rack’s worth of infrastructure”

One infrastructure for multiple

blade chassis and racks

HP UCS

Simpler Architecture Lower Cost

Costly to add more I/O to each chassis

Back of each chassis

has expensive components

HP “accidental mini-rack” chassis

design has high cost burden to scale

Scaling is a plug and play operation

Low cost FEX integrates

Management and I/O

(Enet, FC and Mgmt) - FCoE

UCS delivers lower TCO by design

with easy, lower cost scaling


$64,103

2 x UCS 6248UP FI

2 x UCS 5108 chassis

$ 64,103

$60,545 HP c7000 chassis

$60,545

HP c7000 chassis

$ 87,575 $23,472


16 server

capacity 16 server

capacity

HP: $ 3,784 / server UCS: $ 2,737 / server

$ 60,545

$121,090

HP No benefit from scale

• Doubling capacity.

• Doubles Incremental Cost.

• No leverage.

• Flat infrastructure cost / server

• $3,784 / server

UCS True benefit of scale

• Doubling capacity

• Much Lower Incremental Cost

• Lower infrastructure cost / server

• From $4006 to $2260 / server

HP c7000 Platinum chassis, each with:

• 10 fans, 6 power supplies & cords

• 16 Insight Control Licenses

• 2 Enclosure Management Modules

• 2 Flex Fabric switches

• HP VC Enterprise Manager

UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects, each with:

• All fans, power supplies & cords, and access kits

Cisco UCS chassis, each with:

• 8 fans, 4 power supplies & cords

• 2 – UCS 2208 I/O modules per chassis

• 4 – 10Gb SFP+ cables

All pricing is online / retail and publically available on 02/12/2014.

Cisco UCS

28% less than HP

28% Less

$33,515 Less

32 Servers

16

32


Cisco UCS

40% less than HP

40% Less,

$95,826 Less

$64,103

2 x UCS 6248UP FI


$60,545 HP c7000 chassis

$60,545

HP c7000 chassis

$60,545

HP c7000 chassis

$60,545

HP c7000 chassis

$181,635 $111,047 $ 23,472


$23,472


$23,472 2 x UCS 5108 chassis

16 server

capacity 16 server

capacity

HP: $ 3,784 / server Flat per server cost for all capacities.

16 servers @ $3,784 / server

64 servers @ $3,784

No benefit of scale

UCS: $ 2,287 / server Adding capacity leverages UCS architecture



$242,180 $146,354

$ 60,545

$121,090

$ 64,103

$ 87,575

64 Servers

16

32

48

64

All pricing is online / retail and publically available on 02/12/2014.


Cisco pricing MSRP on 02/12/2014.

HP pricing publically available on 02/12/2014.

IBM pricing publically available 02/12/2014.

Pricing is for blade chassis and chassis

networking / mgmt only. Servers are not included.

$64,103 $75,839 $99,311

$128,700

$146,354

$181,661

$216,967

$60,545

$121,090 $181,635

$242,180

$302,725

$363,270

$78,656

$144,063

$209,470

$274,877

$340,284

$405,691

$471,098

$0

$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

13 14 16 17 24 32 40 48 55 56 64 72 80 88 96

Total Number of Chassis Blade Server Slots

Cisco UCS

HP c7000

IBM Flex

Ch

assis

an

d I/O

Co

st

UCS: UCS 5108 chassis with UCS

6248 FI (two uplinks per FEX)

HP: HP c7000 Plat chassis w/ 2x VC

Flex Fabric and 16x HP IC. Price

includes HP VCEM each chassis

IBM: IBM Flex Chassis with 2x CN4093

switches, one Mgmt Node every 4

chassis, FSM license each chassis

HP is $44,631 more to get

ready to add a 17th server.

Cisco UCS is 37% less than HP.

IBM Flex is $79,340 more to get

ready to add a 14th server.

Cisco UCS is 55% less than IBM.

Cisco UCS B200 M3 MSRP pricing

available on the “Build to Order” tab at

http://buildprice.cisco.com/catalog/ucs/mo

dels/B200M3

Blade Chassis Savings at Scale — Blade Slot Solution

http://buildprice.cisco.com/catalog/ucs/models/B200M3

http://buildprice.cisco.com/catalog/ucs/models/B200M3


$0

$200,000

$400,000

$600,000

$800,000

$1,000,000

$1,200,0003 Year Warranty

3 Year Power Costs

Cabling

TOR Switches

Management Software

Chassis, Interconnects, Hdw Mgt

Server Hardware

So

luti

on

Co

st

8 16 32 48 64 80 # of Servers

HP Trend Line

Cisco Trend Line

Servers

HP: BL460 Gen8

Cisco: B200 M3

All chassis fully populated with servers (starting at qty 16)

Each server has two E5-2620 v2 Intel Xeon processors with 64GB memory (eight 8GB DIMMs)

Cisco HP Cisco HP Cisco HP Cisco HP Cisco HP Cisco HP

HP retail and Cisco MSRP pricing on 02/13/2014

Servers

HP: BL460 Gen8

Cisco: B200 M3

All chassis are

populated with

servers (starting at qty 8)

Each server has two E5-2620 v2 Intel Xeon processors with 64GB memory (eight 8GB DIMMs)













Xeon Processors




TCO/ROI Advisor: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns517/ns224/tools/data_center_value_zone.html#~Overview

NEW IT Projects – No Additional Budget

Existing Maintenance

Budget

100%

Funded

Project

Funded

Project

Funded

Project

Maintenance Now

40-50%

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns340/ns517/ns224/tools/data_center_value_zone.html


Automates IT processes

to support any workload in minutes

Lower infrastructure cost per server

Operational integration of physical &virtual

Consistent, error free alignment

of policy, configuration, and workload

Eliminates cost manual integration Single Unified System

Unified Management

Intelligent Infrastructure

Unified Fabric

Superior price/performance and

IT productivity for lower cost of computing Server Innovations

Thank you.

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