accelerate data center efficiency with cisco unified management

Accelerate Data Center Efficiency with Cisco Unified Management

Andrew Blaisdell

Product Marketing Manager Product, Industry and Solutions Marketing

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Agenda

Business Drivers for Automation Cisco Unified Data Center Management and Automation IT as a Service

– Cisco UCS Manager (covered at demo pod)– Cisco UCS Director

Cloud Automation– Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud– Cisco Prime Service Catalog

Hybrid Clouds– Nexus 1000v– Cisco VNMC (Virtual Network Management Center)

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Oracle Solutions All Run On Cisco UCS

Uniquely Cisco Application choice: Cisco Validated Designs,

benchmarks and sizing guides for major applications

Database choice: Scale-up/scale-out for Oracle Database 12C, 11g, 10g or Oracle NoSQL for Big Data

Hypervisor choice: Oracle VM, VMware, Hyper-V

Operating system choice: Oracle Linux, Solaris, Red Hat, Novell, Windows

Storage choice: EMC (Vblock), NetApp (FlexPod), HDS, Oracle, IBM

EnterpriseApplications

Middleware

Database

OperatingSystem

Virtualization

Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel,

JD Edwards, Oracle Fusion

Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite, OracleAS

Oracle Database,Oracle NoSQL Big Data

Oracle Linux

Oracle VM

Consumption Options• Sizing guides, sample configs,

and tools for Oracle on UCS• 27 Oracle Record Performance Benchmarks• FlexPod and Vblock for Oracle DB/RAC• NoSQL Big Data Exclusive certification


Strategic Discussion with CIOs and IT Directors

77%

23%

MaintainValue-Add

• Need to simplify and easily manage is apparent

• Creates focus on what you have vs. deploying new services

• Business Agility and Operational Efficiency • Unified automation and management shifts focus to deploying new services• Allows IT to better respond to needs of business

Source: IDC, 2011


Changing Role for IT

Challenge: Shadow IT services

Traditional Data Center Silos

IaaS

Transitioning from Infrastructure Provider to Business Partner & Service Broker

• Urgency • Capacity needed • Leverage existing

assets• On / Off Premise

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New Management Paradigm Required

Unified Management

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UCS Manager/UCS Central• UCS Manager for single UCS

domain

• UCS Central for multiple UCS domains

• Target User: Server Administrator

UCS Director

• Multi-vendor automation, orchestration & management of infrastructure pools

• Target User: Infrastructure Administrator/ IT Operations

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud• Self-service cloud delivery of

solution stacks

• Target User: Project Managers, Program Managers, Line of Business

Storage

Cloud Platform Cisco IAC, vCloud, System Center, OpenStack,

CloudStack

Physical Network

Compute Platform

HypervisorVMware, Microsoft, Red Hat

Virtual Network

Services ProvisionedApps, Collaboration, IT Services

Cisco Unified Data Center Management & Automation


Cisco UCS Management Choice

Perform automated infrastructure deployment

Provide transparent management across global operations

Consistent infrastructure policies enforce best practices

Manage hardware with the flexibility of software

Service Orchestration Provisioning and Configuration Monitoring

Cisco Unified Computing System Management Ecosystem

Cisco UCS®

Manager

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UCS Director


Model-based Orchestration

Model B

ased

Orchestration

Script-based Orchestration

Model-based Orchestration

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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

Complex IT Processes to Deploy Application Resources

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Update Trunks

Create VLANs

Configure SAN Zoning

Create UCS Service Profiles

Create Network Policies

Ser

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Ad

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Configure Servers

Bare metal Provisioning

Setup Servers

Add VLAN to Service Profile

Create VLAN

Create Storage Resources (LUNs

and Volumes)

Sto

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e 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

ApprovalsDefine

Cost Models

Bu

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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

On-DemandAutomated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud Container

VMsComputeNetwork Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Tenant

BTenant

CTenant

A

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B CA

Network and Services

VM VM BareMetal

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation and

Lifecycle Management


Unified Management and Automation Aligns People, Policy, and Configuration With Business

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies

Policies Used to Create Service

Profile SAN and Storage

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vSwitchNexus 1000vVI

SME

StorageSME

ServerSME

NetworkSME

Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…

Virtualization Policy…

Application Profiles…

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWN

Boot Information

LAN, SAN Config

Firmware Policy

SAN Zoning

Create and MAP LUN

Provision Physical and VI

3

System is ready for Use

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Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Storage Configuration

Virtual Infrastructure Configuration

Network Configuration


UCS Director for Integrated Infrastructure SolutionsFlexPod, Vblock, VSPEX, and More – Deployed in Minutes!

Self-service infrastructure provisioning

Bare-metal and virtual

Model-based automation – no scripting

Management across global operations

Multiple integrated stacks and data centers

Enforce best practices with consistent policies

UCS DirectorEnd-to-End

Infrastructure Management

Network

X86 Server

Hypervisor

Storage


UCS DirectorKey Differentiators

Single Pane:Virtual, Physical,

Bare Metal

Installation & UseModel-based Orchestration

Task Library

Single PurposeSolution

Multi-vendor Support

Manage

Unified Pools of

Infrastructure

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Dashboards for Single System Focus

• Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure

• Role-based access for technical users

• Rapid configuration and monitoring

• Customizable view

• Quick status across critical components


UCS Director: Summary

Delivers IT efficiency to better align with business strategy

Quality: End-to-End Automation and Policies

Simplicity: Turnkey Solution Ready for Use in Hours

Business Agility: Align People, Policies and Infrastructure

Multi-Vendor Support: Bare-Meal and Virtual Infrastructure

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud


UCS Manager/UCS Central• UCS Manager for single UCS

domain

• UCS Central for multiple UCS domains

• Target User: Server Administrator

UCS Director

• Multi-vendor automation, orchestration & management of infrastructure pools

• Target User: Infrastructure Administrator/ IT Operations

Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud• Self-service cloud delivery of

solution stacks

• Target User: Project Managers, Program Managers, Line of Business

Storage

Cloud Platform Cisco IAC, vCloud, System Center, OpenStack,

CloudStack

Physical Network

Compute Platform

HypervisorVMware, Microsoft, Red Hat

Virtual Network

Services ProvisionedApps, Collaboration, IT Services

Cisco Unified Data Center Management & Automation


World of Many Clouds

Business Challenge: Reduce Costs, New Levels of Efficiency Drive Revenue Growth

Access New Services IT Align to Business

PrioritiesAdvance technology

faster

Enterprise GovernmentSmall Business


Cisco UCSNetwork ServicesCisco VNMC

OS/Bare-Metal Provisioning

Email

Service Desk/CMDB

LDAP/Active Directory

IAC

Clo

ud

C

on

ten

t

Heterogeneous Infrastructure

UCS Other 3rd Party Systems

NexusvCenter

Self-Service Portal and Service Catalog Cisco Cloud Portal

Orchestration and AutomationCisco Process Orchestrator

Billing/ Chargeback

Prime Assurance

Prime IP Address Mgmt

Cloud ServiceProviders


Cloud Accelerators


Cisco Cloud DifferentiatorsCloud Sync


Cisco Cloud DifferentiatorsVirtual Data Centers

Hybrid Cloud


Hybrid Cloud Challenges

Growing interest in hybrid cloud deployments – 50% of Fortune 1000 plan to utilize hybrid clouds by 2015

Drivers for Enterprise – IT flexibility– Reduced costs– Faster, more flexible response to market

and business needs

Enterprise Looking for Solution that Solves:– Security policy consistency – Secure communication & data sharing – Seamless integration Gartner 2012

Forrester 2013

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PROVIDER CLOUDS(Public / Utility / Community)

Secure Hybrid Clouds

ENTERPRISE CLOUDS(Private / Hosted / Managed)

Enterprise-Grade Crypto and Firewalling within & across cloudsSecure

Simple Transparent Application Migration; Centralized Management

Flexible Choice of Provider Clouds and Hypervisors

VNMC InterCloud

OtherTenants

VM VM VM

Nexus1000V vSwitch

N1KV InterCloud

L2 VirtualPrivate Cloud

VM VM VM

N1KV InterCloud

Consistent network policies and services across clouds


Management Layer for Hybrid Clouds

Cisco Cloud Portal

Orchestrator manages workflow

across multiple cloud environments

PrivateCloud

Public Cloud

Nexus 1000V (Platform layer)

Policy managerResource manager

Service registryVM Manager

Cloud Provider Manager VM

VM

VM N1KV SwitchingFirewall, RoutingCrypto Secure

Tenant B

VNMC INTERCLOUD (MANAGEMENT LAYER)

(Integrationvia Northbound API)

(Workloads movedvia InterCloud)


User requests cloud services via end-user

portal

Cisco Process Orchestrator


Next Steps….

Demo Pod– Accelerated Administration

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