Steve Gillaspy – Sr. Director of UCS Product Management

Nikul Sheth – UCS Fabric Interconnect Product Manager

Jacob Van Ewyk – UCS Management Product Manager

February 2016

Adopt the Power of Unification, Innovation and Scalability

Cisco UCS Innovations

Kurt Miller – Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Architecture , Cannon Design

Jon Hildebrand – Senior Cloud Engineer and Cisco Champion, LightEdge Solutions, Inc.

Agenda

Industry Trends

UCS Product Enhancements • Third-generation Fabric Interconnects and Virtual Interface Cards • New Acceleration options for Cisco UCS servers

• Customer Experience–Kurt Miller, Cannon Design

• Enhanced Solution scalability

Q&A Discussion

UCS Management Update • One System, One Management Environment

UCS Multi-Domain Management Update • Enterprise-class Centralized Management and Scalability

Cisco Champions Experience • Jon Hildebrand - Senior Cloud Engineer, LightEdge Solutions, Inc.

Need to Invert the IT Budget Ratios

100%

25%

Time

0%

Maintaining Current Operations (Mode 1 Operations)

Investment in Innovation (Mode 2 Operations) 75%

50%

Pe

rce

nt

of

IT B

ud

ge

t

Silos Create Barriers to Optimized IT

Operations

Many

More OPERATIONS

MANAGER

NETWORK

ADMIN

STORAGE

ADMIN

VIRTUALIZATION

ADMIN

SERVER

ADMIN

CHANGE

MANAGER

Management Tools Can Reinforce Barriers

NETWORK

ADMIN

STORAGE

ADMIN

SERVER

ADMIN

Different tools used by different teams increase the boundaries

• Inconsistent data and reporting

• Unable to gain holistic view of problems

• Troubleshooting and analysis become extremely complex

Many manual processes and meetings to handle daily activities

Difficulty implementing automation and orchestration to reduce TCO

Data Center Modernization Mode 1–Mode 2

Efficiency and Speed

1 Modernize and “Load Balance” 2 Automate and Orchestrate

Standardization

Consolidate storage,

network, compute

Virtualization

Server virtualization

Resource pooling

Automation

Provisioning

Upgrades

Patching/maintenance

Orchestration

Workflows across

infrastructure

Application release

automation

IT Broker

Fully composable

resources

Service managed

SLA optimized

Traditional DC

Private Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Reduces Provisioning Times Average 83%

Based on 103 Customer Case Studies

“Our staff can now provision a test

environment in minutes, not

months, so we can test new ideas

very rapidly. It’s given us a

competitive edge.”

“UCS service profiles have made

server deployment easier and

about three times faster.”

“The improvements in provisioning

and implementation have

dramatically reduced the load

on Allianz’s IT professionals,

freeing them to focus on more

strategically important projects.”

Reduction of Ongoing Admin/Mgmt Costs Average 66%

Based on 48 Customer Case Studies

“Thanks to the Cisco UCS

Manager, the same staff of

seven engineers who previously

managed 90 servers now

manages 150 Cisco servers.”

“We estimate a productivity

improvement of 30 percent for the

IT team as a whole, with our

people now able to focus on more

strategic matters and new areas

like energy efficiency.”

"Staff morale is soaring as

technical teams are freed from

break-fix issues and manual

processes required to keep

dozens of different systems

running."

Investment in

Innovation Cost of Ongoing Operations

Provisioning

83% Ongoing

Admin.

66% Project

Execution

75%

Faster Time

to Market

100%

25%

Time

0%

75%

50%

How UCS Helps Invert the Budget Ratios

Cisco UCS Innovations

UCS Mini Edge-Scale Computing Scale out Computing

UCS M-Series Core Data Center Workloads

Enhanced Scalability

with UCS Mini Secondary UCS Mini Chassis Support

New Acceleration Options

for M-Series New M-Series Compute Cartridge

UCS B-Series and C-Series

Unified Management for ALL UCS Server Platforms – UCS B-Series, C-Series, M-Series and UCS Mini

One System, One Management Environment

3rd Generation Fabric Interconnect and Virtual Interface Cards

3rd Generation UCS Fabric

New Acceleration Options

for UCS Servers New Accelerator Cards + GPU + SSD

3rd Generation Fabric Interconnect

UCS FI and IOM Overview FI 6300 Series and IOM 2304

High-density 40GbE ports • FI 6300 series coupled with B-Series and C-Series enables an

end-to-end 40GbE solution

• FI 6300 series couple with Cisco MDS enables an end-to-end

40GbE FCoE solution

High speed Fibre Channel 16G FC ports • Provides high performance SAN (4/8/16G FC) connectivity for

blades and rack servers

• Simplifies management by reducing the number of links required

between end points

Enabling a high-performance, low-latency and lossless fabric

UCS FI and IOM Models FI 6300 Series and IOM 2304

FI 6332

• 32 x 40GbE QSFP+ ports

• 2.56Tbps switching performance

• 1RU fixed form factor, two power supplies and four fans

IOM 2304

• 8 x 40GbE server links and 4 x 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks

• 960Gbps switching performance

• Modular IOM for UCS 5108

FI 6332-16UP

• 24 x 40GbE QSFP+ and 16 x UP ports (1/10GbE or 4/8/16G FC)

• 2.43Tbps switching performance

• 1RU fixed form factor, two power supplies and four fans

FI 6332 Use Case

FI 6248

FI 6296

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

Existing Infrastructure

UCS

B-Series

B200

B260

B460

and

IOM 2204

IOM 2208

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

10G 10G

10G

10G / FC

10G

10G / FC

FI 6332

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

FI 6332 Use Case

UCS

B-Series

B200

B260

B460

and

IOM 2304

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

40G 40G

40G

40G FCoE

40G

40G FCoE

FI 6332-16UP Use Case

FI 6248

FI 6296

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

Existing Infrastructure

UCS

B-Series

B200

B260

B460

and

IOM 2204

IOM 2208

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

10G 10G

10G

8G FC

10G

8G FC

FI 6332-

16UP

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

FI 6332-16UP Use Case

UCS

B-Series

B200

B260

B460

and

IOM 2304

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

40G 40G

40G

16G FC

40G

40G FCoE

FI 6300 Series Use Cases with C-Series

FI 6332-16UP

FI 6332

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

C-Series Direct

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

40G 40G

40G

FC / FCoE

10G

8G FC

FI 6332-16UP

FI 6332

MDS

9506/9/13

9706/10

Storage

Array Nexus

7K/9K

C-Series / FEX

UCS

C-Series

C220

C240

C460

40G 40G

40G

FC / FCoE

10G

40G 40G

40G

40G FCoE

Cisco VIC Overview

Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC) UCS Silicon Innovation

Feb 2010

• M81KR, P81E

• 128 PCIe devices

• Dual 10Gb, 16x PCIe Gen1

• Hypervisor Bypass

for ESX, KVM

April 2012

• VIC 1280, 1240, 1225, 1225T

• 256 PCIe Device

• Dual 40Gb, 16x PCIe Gen

• Single Wire Management

• SR-IOV for Win 2012 HyperV

2015-2016

• VIC 1285, VIC 1227, 1227T

• Low Latency, USNIC

• SCVMM Integration

• DPDK

• NetFlow

*Some features may be introduced post-FCS

2013-2015

3rd Gen VIC

• VIC 1340, VIC 1380, VIC 1385,

• VIC 1387 (NEW !)

• PCIe Gen 3

• NVGRE and VXLAN

• High Performance Ethernet

Support

1st Gen

VIC

Two

Products

2nd Gen

VIC

Products

2nd Gen

Enhancements

3rd Gen

VIC

Products

UCS 3rd Gen VIC 1387 UCS C-Series Rack Servers

40Gb Ethernet and FCoE Support • Dual Port 40G QSFP+ mLOM

• 4 x 10G support with Breakout Cables

• PCIE Gen 3 for greater bandwidth

• 40G BIDI support

Support for Overlay Networks • Support for Overlay Networks using NVGRE and VXLAN

• Support for RDMA for SMB-Direct, ROCE Libfabric

• Over 256 Virtual Devices

UCSC-MLOM-C40Q-03 (=)

List Price of $2,192

Support with C220M4, C240M4 and

C3160 Rack Servers

Enabling Server Virtualization Deployments

New Platform Capabilities

UCS Mini 2nd Chassis Support

UCS Mini Expands to 2 Chassis • Expand from 8 to 16 blades

• Supports 2204XP/2208XP in 2nd chassis

• Additional support for up to 4 Rack servers

• Max configuration 20 servers

UCS Mini Investment Protection • Add more servers without adding more server management

M-Series w/ Xeon E3-1200 v4 Processors Optimized for Graphic Intensive Workload

Intel Xeon E3 v4 (New !) • E3-1265 v4 – 2.3 GHz, 6MB cache,

4 core, 35W

• E3-1270 v4* – 3.0 GHz, 6MB cache,

4 core, 45W

Intel Xeon E3 v3 • E3-1220Lv3

• E3-1240Lv3

• E3-1275Lv3

2 Servers per cartridge

(64G/Server)

Intel Xeon E3 v4 (New !) • E3-1285Lv4 - 3.4 GHz, 6MB cache,

4 core, 65W

• E3-1285v4 - 3.5 GHz, 6MB Cache,

4 core, 95W

Intel Xeon E3 v3 • E3-1231v3

• E3-1241v3

• E3-1271v3

• E3-1281v3

Single Servers per cartridge

(64G/Server)

E3-1200 V4 Processors

Up to 1.4x more Transcoding Performance

Up to 1.8x graphics performance

• Over 4300 simultaneous streams

• Remote workstations for 3D

application collaboration

• Lower cost

• Lower power consumption

UCS M142 Dual Server E3 Cartridge

* Does not include integrated graphics capabilities

UCS M1414 Single Server E3 Cartridge

Workload Optimized for Video Delivery

New Hardware Acceleration Options

New Storage Acceleration Options on UCS Most Powerful In-server Storage Experience

• Flexible capacity point options (1.3TB – 6.4TB)

• Up to ~35TB in C240M4 and ~54TB in C460M4 of the world’s fastest enterprise-class storage

• Fusion io now on SanDisk NAND for more efficiency and better economics

• 15µs Latency and ~400,000 read/write IOPS per device

• >600 UCS Customers already deployed

• 800GB and 1.6TB Capacity Point options

• Pre-enabled for B200M4, C220 and C240M4, C460M4

• Great performance option between SanDisk/Fusion io and 12Gb SAS

• 20µs Latency and up to ~700,000 read IOPS per device

All Storage Accelerators Have Full UCS-Manager Integration

New NVIDIA M6/M60 GPUs on Cisco UCS With Full UCS-Manager Integration

M60 (UCSC-GPU-M60/=) M6 (UCSB-GPU-M6/=)

GPU Dual High-end Maxwell Single High-end

CUDA Cores 4096 1536

Memory Size 16 GB GDDR5 8 GB GDDR5

H.264 1080p30 streams 36 18

GRID vGPU Concurrent Users 2 / 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 / 16

Form Factor PCIe 3.0 Dual Slot, x16 lanes MXM (blade servers), x16 lanes

Power 240W / 300W (225W opt) 100W (75W opt)

Thermal active / passive bare board

• All high-end CPU’s

supported

• Fully UCS –

Managed including

firmware

• GRID SW License

will enable VDI

One per Cisco B200M4. Approximately K2-Level

of Performance

Up to two per Cisco C240M4 or C460M4

Customer Experience: Cannon Design Kurt Miller Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Architecture

UCS Management Value Proposition

UCS Management: Policy and Model-Driven

Application Profiles

Virtualization Policy

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

1 Subject Matter Experts

Define Policies 5 System Configures Hardware

Elements Automatically and

Eliminates Configuration Drift 4 Model-Driven Framework

to Abstract Resources 2 Policies Used to Create

Service Profile Templates

Storage SME

Network SME

Server SME

3 Service Profile Templates

Create Service Profiles

Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

Fabric Interconnect

UCS Manager

Creates Object Model

Defines Model and Platform

• Automate and speed provisioning time

• Automate upgrades

• Simplify operations, minimize manual tasks

• Reduces the risk of errors

• Establish consistency and ensure compliance

Benefits of Profiles and Templates

Automation Provisioning

Upgrades

Step to Mode 2

Reduce the Barriers Between Teams

NETWORK

ADMIN

STORAGE

ADMIN

VIRTUALIZATION

ADMIN

SERVER

ADMIN

CHANGE

MANAGER

Summary

UCS Manager 3.1

UCS Manager 3.1 Summary

Unified UCS Manager release (single code base)

HTML 5 Based UI; On Next Reboot Maintenance Policy

End-to-end 40GbE and 16Gb FC with 3rd Generation

UCS Fabric Interconnect Infrastructure

M-Series cartridges w/ Intel Xeon E3 v4 Processors

UCS Mini Support for Second Chassis

New NVIDIA M6 and M60 GPUs

New PCIe Base Storage Accelerators

Crypto Card for Mobility Solution (MITG)

UCS Management

Unified Management Across UCS Portfolio

UCS Mini

Edge-Scale

Computing Cloud-Scale

Computing

UCS M-Series Composable Infrastructure

UCS B-Series Blade Servers

UCS C-Series Rack Servers

Core Data Center Workloads

UCS Manager 3.1 HTML5 UI Support for HTML5 GUI in Addition to the Java GUI

Layout, Colors, Icons and Text

Are Almost Identical Between the

Java and HTML5 GUI to Provide

a Seamless User Transition

UCS Manager And KVM

Manager Both Support HTML5

Reducing Customer Dependency

on Java Note that Java Is Still Required for the KVM Client

UCS Multi-Domain Management Update UCS Central 1.4

Centralized Management Across

Domains, Infrastructure and Geographies

UCS Central: Unparalleled Situational Awareness

Data Center 3

Cisco UCS Manager

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Cisco UCS Manager

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Data Center 2

Cisco UCS Manager

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Unified control plane for all the

elements in the system

• Centralized logs for compute,

network and storage

• Single source of truth

accessible to tools via API

Centralizes global policies,

service profiles, inventory, ID

pools and templates for up to

10,000 servers

Policy-Based Management Architecture

User Access

User Access Element

Manager

Element

Manager

Element

Manager

UCS

Manager

Full two way configuration

changes with traceability

UCS Central

UCS Central: Not your typical Manager of Managers

• Simplified, Centralized Management

• Based on UCS Manager, which remains the execution engine

• Global policies are read-only in UCS Manager and are only stored on UCS Manager instances when they are in use

• Local policies are read-only in UCS Central with visibility to all policies in all UCS Manager instances

• Global policies, local policies, or a combination of both may be used at the same time

Why Should Customers Use UCS Central? Feature Functions Benefit

Information

Dashboard

Centralized hardware inventory, centralized

faults/logs, and up to one year of statistics

across UCS Mini and Classic UCS domains

Improved visibility across local and remote domains

reduces the administrative time to monitor,

troubleshoot, inventory, and do capacity planning

Centralized

KVM

Access KVM sessions on all UCS managed

servers from a single location

Users no longer need to know which domain to

access to set up a KVM session.

Centralized

Backup

Scheduled backup of UCS Manager and UCS

Central instances.

Automated backups to a central location improves

resiliency with minimal administrative impact

Administrative

Configuration

Cross-domain administrative settings and

cross-domain ID pools that new UCS Manager

instances have access to upon registration

Set up new domains in minutes with limited

administrative effort while maintaining cross-domain

consistency saving hours of set up time per domain.

Operational

Control

Global policies and settings that can deployed

and enforced across domains

Policy and settings standardization and

enforcement across domains helps ensure

compliance, reduces configuration issues, and

reduces troubleshooting time.

Workload

Mobility

Global Service Profiles with optional site

specific settings for localization

Consistent deployments across UCS domains with

the flexibility to quickly provision, de-provision, or

move workloads between servers or domains.

User Interface

Enhancement

• Search and Task Based HTML 5 User interface improvements – Unified KVM launcher

– Inventory Overview

– Reporting Improvement

Licensing • Per Server Licensing using Cisco Smart Licensing

Hardware Support • New Hardware support in UCS Manager 3.1(1) – 3Gen FI ( UCS 63XX Series )

Feature Enhancements • Additional Policy Support – Advanced Host Firmware Pack

– Equipment Policy – Chassis Discover, etc.

– vNIC Adaptor Policies - USNic, VMQ, CDN, etc

– Adaptor Policies – PVLAN, RDMA for SMB Direct, etc.

– Direct Attached Storage

• Fabric Interconnect Configuration – Port Configuration, policies and Disjoint L2 VLan Support

• TACACS and RADIUS authentication

• Smart Call Home

• SNMP support for UCS Central Faults

• Global Service Profile Enhancements such as FSM visibility

UCS Central 1.4 Release Features Overview

Note: Some features require specific UCS Manager versions. Please see the UCS Central Release Notes for details

UCS Director Enhancements

Support for UCS Manager 3.1(1)

Support for UCS-M series servers in UCS Director • UCS M-series server inventory and reports

• UCS M-series Bare Metal Provisioning

• UCS M-series Storage Profile Management

• UCS M-series Cartridge Management

UCS Central Task Library Use Cases and Task Enhancements

• Support for Bare Metal OS automation

Bare Metal OS Deployment automation on Standalone Servers: UCS C-series and UCS E-series

Integration with Gold Town 2.0 (IMC Sup)

Cisco Champion Experience Jon Hildebrand Senior Cloud Engineer and Cisco Champion LightEdge Solutions, Inc.

Cisco UCS Innovations: Adopt the Power of Unification, Innovation and Scalability

Cisco UCS Innovations

UCS Mini Edge-Scale Computing Scale out Computing

UCS M-Series Core Data Center Workloads

Enhanced Scalability

with UCS Mini Secondary UCS Mini Chassis Support

New Acceleration Options

for M-Series New M-Series Compute Cartridge

UCS B-Series and C-Series

Unified Management for ALL UCS Server Platforms – UCS B-Series, C-Series, M-Series and UCS Mini

One System, One Management Environment

3rd Generation UCS Fabric

New Acceleration Options

for UCS Servers

NVIDIA M6 GPU Support

NVIDIA M60 GPU support

Support PCIe SSD

Support Crypto Card

Support LSI 9286CV-8e RAID Controller

3rd Gen Fabric Interconnects, 2304 IOM and FEX

3rd Gen VIC 1385/1387 (40G PCIe/mLOM VIC Adapter)

For more information on Cisco UCS innovations reviewed in the webcast, please visit:

www.cisco.com/go/ucs

Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS Central Software

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