Natius van der Watt
Data Centre Product Sales Specialist
Cisco Unified Data Centre: Changing the Economics of the Data Centre
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Business and Technology Impacting the Data Center
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Business Agility
24x7 Business
Security and
Compliance
Reducing
Operational Costs
OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES
Managing Capacity
Availability and
Business Continuance
Evolving Application
Environment
Changing IT Service
Delivery Model
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The New Way of Thinking Infrastructure
Legacy Infrastructure “IT-as-a-Service”
• Complex
• Expensive to Manage
• Slow to Provision
Modular Design
Resource Pooling
Service Orchestration
On-Demand Self-Service
Control API’s
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Cisco Unified Data Center
Changing the Economics of the Data Center
30% Less Cost
60% Less Cost
90% Less Cost
50% Faster
2x Capacity
No Staff
Increase
50% Faster
IT Staffing Deployment
Times
Power and
Cooling
Disaster
Recovery
Infrastructure
Costs
Application
Performance
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Unified Data
Center
Network
Storage
Compute
Security
Management
Cisco Unified Data Center Platform
UCS Central
UCS Manager UCS Director
UCS Fabric Interconnects
Nexus 1000V
Nexus Switches
MDS Multiprotocol SAN
switches
Unified Computing
System Blade Chassis
Rack Servers
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Cisco Unified Fabric
Delivering Architectural Flexibility
Consolidated Infrastructure
Simplified Management
Reduced Cost
Investment Protection
Evolves With Business
Geographic Span
Integrated Application Delivery
Seamless VM Networking
VM-Aware Security
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Cisco’s Data Center Nexus OS
Leading with Innovation
Resilient, High Performance,
Scalable Fabric
Operational Efficiency/ Consistency
Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs
Secure Separation/ Multi-tenancy
LAN+SAN Convergence
CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management
NX-OS
Nexus 3K Nexus 5K MDS 9000
Nexus 2K
Nexus 7K
Nexus 1K
Blade Offerings
Nexus 6000
Nexus 9000
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Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
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Unified Data
Center
Network
Storage
Compute
Security
Management
Cisco Unified Data Center Platform
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Cisco Unified Computing System
Built from the Ground up for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
Efficient Scaling
Simplified management
Consistent alignment of
policy, configuration, and
workload
Superior IT productivity
Orchestration ready
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More Data. Faster Data. Complex Data.
Volume (Capacity)
• Continually Collect as much data as possible
Velocity (Time)
• Accelerate the writing & reading of application workload data
Variety (Type)
• Understand different sources & formats together
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Cisco UCS Invicta Series
Up to 1.2 Million IOPS*
Up to 12 GBps* Bandwidth
Up to 240 TB Raw
UCS Invicta
Appliance
UCS Invicta
Scaling System Scalability
Modularity
Application Acceleration
Data Optimization
Multiple Workloads
Tuning-Free Performance
Shipping NOW
200,000 IOPS
1.2 GBps Bandwidth
Up to 24 TB Raw
*Read IOPS, refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”
*refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”
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41 15K
HDDs
25 7.2K
HDDs 3 Flash
Drives
TOTAL IOPS: 114,950
TOTAL CAPACITY: 63.2 TB
Faster. Simpler. Flexible. Scalable.
114,950 IOPS 63.2 TB
200,000 IOPS 64 TB
Reference Architecture for 1,000 Desktops
3 types of drives, 3 types of RAID
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Unified Data
Center
Network
Storage
Compute
Security
Management
Cisco Unified Data Center Platform
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Challenges:
• Manual processes
• Complex handoffs between teams and domains
• Static resource allocation
Result:
• Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services
• High operational cost
• Rigid silos
• Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization
Management - Complex IT Processes to Deploy Application Resources
Ne
two
rk A
dm
Update
Trunks
Create
VLANs
Configure
SAN Zoning
Create UCS
Service Profiles
Create
Network Policies
Se
rver
Ad
min
s
Configure
Servers
Bare metal
Provisioning
Setup
Servers
Add VLAN to
Service Profile
Create
VLAN
Create Storage
Resources (LUNs
and Volumes)
Sto
rage
Add vFilers
to Group
Create
vFilers
Create
IP space
UCS Blade
Power On
Create
Storage Policy
Map
NetApp LUN
Add Users
and Groups
IT
Planning
Approvals Define
Cost Models
Bu
sin
ess A
pp
lica
tion
Re
quire
men
ts
1
2
3
4
5
6
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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution
On-Demand
Automated Delivery
Policy-Driven
Provisioning
Secure Cloud
Container
VMs Compute Network Storage
UCS Director
Domain Managers
OS and Virtual
Machines
Storage
Network
Compute
Tenant
B Tenant
C Tenant
A
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Compute and Hypervisor
B C A
Network and Services
VM VM Bare Metal
Single Pane of Glass
End-to-End Automation
and
Lifecycle Management
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Automated Self-Service Provisioning
Cisco Unified Management
Automated Self-Service Provisioning
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Best of Breed Components to Build Your Own
Reference Architecture to Integrate Building Blocks
Total Solutions that Accelerate Time to Production
Cisco Unified Data Center
Innovation Tailored to Your Environment
Appliance RISC Migration
Vblock FlexPod
NAS
S
i
S
i
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Business
Agility
Business
Scalability
Business
Resiliency
Operational
Efficiency
Network Storage Virtualization Mgmt. Compute Security
Reduce TCO
Manage Risk
Manage Growth
Expand Business Opportunities
Technologies
Bu
sin
ess A
dva
nta
ge
Cisco Unified Data Center
The Architectural Advantage
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Architecture supporting best of breed, end-to-end solutions and integration
into existing infrastructure
Cisco Unified Data Center
Cisco Differentiation
Built from the ground up
for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
Transition from a cost center to service-driven
IT Broadest ecosystem of storage, management,
virtualization and application partners
Cisco Unified Data Center—
Changing the Economics of the Data Center