Shivakumar Shastri
Technical Marketing Engineer, Solutions Engineering, Cisco Systems Inc.
EMC VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director
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VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director
• Cisco UCS B, C-Series Servers.
• Cisco Nexus switching: 1000v for Virtual switching
N5K for Access layer.
• EMC VNX Series storage
• VMWare ESXi 5.1 / 5.5
• 300 to 1000 VMs
UCS Director
VMs & Bare-MetalApplication Ready
Infrastructure
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Essential Characteristics
Service Models------------------------------------------
Deployment Models
Rapid ElasticityBroad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Public Private Hybrid Community
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Resource Pooling
VSPEX IaaS with UCS Director NIST Definition
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Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid Elasticity Broad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
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Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid Elasticity Broad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
UCS Manager
Stateless Computing through Service Profiles.
Efficient: Same effort for 1 to 160 blades.
API’s for integration.
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ServerChassis
DomainDatacenter
GlobalDatacenters
UCS Central
UCS Manager
Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid ElasticityBroad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
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Cisco Management Overview
Manage multiple
UCS Domains
Manages ACI Fabric
UCS CENTRAL
UCS DIRECTOR Centralized infrastructure control point for data center
APIC
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION FOR CLOUD Private Cloud, PaaS (DevOps), Hybrid Cloud
Manage Compute, Network &
Storage across data centers.
Manage Single UCS domain
UCS MANAGER
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TrustSec Security:Context & Role BasedDistributedPolicy Driven
Benefits:Scalable -> Secure Gateway Tags Management -> Identity Services Engine
Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid ElasticityBroad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
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Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid ElasticityBroad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
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UCS Director All-Inclusive Consumption Reporting
o Starting point between IT and users of resources on understanding consumption rateso Ability to add costs for chargeback capabilities
o Reporting tool formalizes information for consumers
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Essential IaaS Characteristics
Rapid ElasticityBroad Network
AccessMeasured Service
On-Demand Self Service
Resource Pooling
Out of box Self-Service Portal
Budget validation
Provisioning upon approvals
Alerts/notification on service requests
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UCS Director Approvals
o Approvals for IT admin, change control or other appropriate approvals inserted into workflows o Email, texts to individual when approval is pending
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Challenges:
• Manual processes
• Complex handoffs (silos)
Result:
• Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services
• High operational cost
• Sub-optimal utilization
Application Deployment Process
Net
wo
rk A
dm
in
Update Trunks
Create VLANs
Configure SAN Zoning
Create UCS Service Profiles
Create Network Policies
Ser
ver
Ad
min
Sto
rag
e Create LUNs
Create Storage Pools
Storage PolicyCreate
Mount PointsNFS Mount
Add Users and Groups
IT Planning
ApprovalsDefine
Cost Models
Bu
siness A
pp
lication
R
equ
iremen
ts
1
2
3
4
5
6
AppWebWeb App
Bare-Metal HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR
DB
Hyper-v Host
Bare-Metal
Bare-Metal
Configure
Servers
Bare MetalProvisioning
Setup Servers
Add VLAN to Serv. Profile
Create VLAN
Create Storage Resources – LUNs/Vols
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Server Policy…
Storage Policy…
Network Policy…
Virtualization Policy…
Application Profiles…
Unified Management - Aligns People, Policy, and Configuration with Business
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies
Policies Used to Create Service
Profile SAN and Storage
2
vSwitchNexus 1000vVI
SME
StorageSME
ServerSME
NetworkSME
Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware PolicySAN ZoningCreate and MAP LUN
Provision Physical and VI
3System is ready for Use
4
Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy
Storage Configuration
Virtual Infrastructure Configuration
Network Configuration
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Automated Self-ServiceProvisioning
Architect
Design
Locate
Procure
Install Configure
Secure
Ready
Manual
CapacityOn-Demand
Policy-BasedProvisioning Adaptive
With UCS Director
Faster Time To Market (TTM)
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Secure Simple Scalable
Summary
VISME
StorageSME
ServerSME
NetworkSME
Thank you.
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