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Page 1: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS): Changing the Economics of the Data Center

Changing the Economics of the Data Center CONNECTING UCS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS TO TCO IMPROVEMENT

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

December 2014

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Connecting UCS Technology Innovations to TCO Improvement

Real World Customer Results

Q&A

Agenda

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Data Center Economics

Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

29%

22% 12%

11%

10%

7%

7% 2%

Overall Spend Distribution

People Software Energy / Facilities

Servers Networking Storage

Disaster Recovery Overhead

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

Server-Related Spend WW New Server, Power, Cooling, Management,

and Administration Spending Share

New Server Server Admin Power and Cooling

Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management

and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014

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Cost Categories Impacted by Cisco UCS T

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Unified Fabric • Radical infrastructure simplification

• Efficient scaling

• High performance

SingleConnect,

Networking, Cabling,

and Warranty Power and

Cooling

Servers and

Warranty

Unified Management • Embedded device management

• Self-integrating

• Stateless

• Automated

• Programmable

Provisioning and

Ongoing Administration Systems

Management Software

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Provisioning

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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Provisioning and Admin Cost Reduction

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

UCS Manager Embedded in All System Devices

UCS Manager: Auto-discovery, Self-integrating Components

ELIMINATE MANUAL

CONFIGURATION

UCS Service Profiles

Policy-based Management

AUTOMATION

REPLACES

REPETITIVE TASKS

Seamless Integration with Existing Tools = No Stranded Systems Management Investments

EXTEND INVESTMENT

IN EXISTING TOOLS

UCS Manager and UCS Central Allow Administrators to Scale Across Larger Installations and Across Data Center/Geos

EXTEND THE REACH

OF SME’s

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System Management

True “Single Pane of Glass” Management

UCS Manager for a Single Domain (160 Servers and Access Layer Networking)

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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System Management

True “Single Pane of Glass” Management

UCS Manager for a Single Domain (160 Servers and Access Layer Networking)

UCS Central Across Multiple Domains

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Traditional Element Configuration

Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

• Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores

• Serial processes and multiple touches inhibit provisioning speed

• Configuration drift and maintenance challenges

• QoS settings

• Border port assignment per vNIC

• NIC transmit/receive rate limiting

LAN SAN

• VLAN assignments for NICs

• VLAN tagging config for NICs

• Remote KVM IP settings

• Call home behavior

• Remote KVM firmware

• Server UUID

• Serial over LAN settings

• Boot order

• IPMI settings

• BIOS scrub actions

• BIOS firmware

• BIOS settings

• FC fabric assignments for HBAs

• Number of vHBAs

• HBA WWN assignments

• FC boot parameters

• HBA firmware

• RAID settings

• Disk scrub actions

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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• Abstraction of bare-metal configuration and server identity

• Encapsulated in Cisco service profiles

• Available through an intuitive GUI, CLI, or XML API

UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction

Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server or

C-Series Rack-Mount Server

Cisco UCS 6200

Series Fabric Interconnects

Cisco Service Profile Automated, Policy-based

Configuration of Entire Hardware Stack

• Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannel

• Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings

• Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions

• Unique user ID (UUID), firmware

revisions, and RAID controller settings

• Service profile assigned to server,

chassis slot, or pool

Cisco Virtual Interface Cards

Programmable

Infrastructure

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Unified, Embedded Management

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1

Unified

Management

Application Profiles

Virtualization Policy

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Unified, Embedded Management

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1 Policies Used to Create

Service Profile Templates 2

Application Profiles

Virtualization Policy

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

Unified

Management

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Unified, Embedded Management

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1 Policies Used to Create

Service Profile Templates 2 Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles

3 Associates Service Profiles with Hardware Configures Servers Automatically

4

Application Profiles

Virtualization Policy

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

Storage

SME

Server

SME

Network

SME

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

Unified

Management

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

• Server name

• UUID, MAC, WWN

• Boot information

• LAN, SAN config

• Firmware policy

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“...Bringing up a new server hosting several virtual machines took only 4 hours

rather than the 3 days we had experienced before. One thing that stood out is

that a single person can accomplish the task of building a system rather than

requiring three people to deal with the same need.”

“…Server deployment time has been reduced by between 80 and 90 percent,

which means IT staff can focus more on mission critical or value added tasks.”

Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge

“With Cisco UCS Manager, provisioning 64 Cisco UCS Blade Servers to

develop a new customer solution takes about an hour,” Shah says.

“Provisioning 64 of our other servers generally takes 8–16 hours of staff time."

Average 83% Reduction in Provisioning Times BASED ON 95 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Ongoing Administration

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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Industry-Leading Compute Infrastructure API

Standards-Based XML API Presents Bi-Directional

Single Interface to Entire Solution

UCS Offers the Customers the Broadest Choice

of Cisco or Third-Party Management Tools

UCS CLI Cisco UCSM UCS Central UCS Director Third Party Customer

XML API

goUCS Automation Tools

CDN .NET/PowerShell,

Perl XML

UCS Platform Emulator

UCSM Single UCS Domain UCSM Data Center 1 UCSM Data Center 2, 3,…

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Cisco UCS: Systems Management Choice

Seamless Management Across Global Operations

Automated Infrastructure Deployment

Consistent Infrastructure Policies Enforce Best Practices

Manage Hardware with the Flexibility of Software

Cisco Unified Computing System Management Ecosystem: Service Orchestration, Provisioning and Configuration, and Monitoring

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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• Unifies management of multiple UCS domains and thousands of servers

• Centralizes global policies, service profiles, ID pools, and templates

• Simplifies global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs, and server consoles

• Foundation for efficient global administration, high availability, and workload mobility

• Built on UCS Manager technology; combines local performance and tiered control

• Model-based API for large scale automation and integration

Extend SME Reach and Scale

UCS Central A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

UCS Manager

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

Data Center 1

UCS Manager

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

Data Center 2

UCS Manager

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

Data Center 4

UCS Manager

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

A

D

F

A

D

F

A

Data Center 3

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Furthermore, with the UCS platform, AUS is seeing a two-fold improvement in performing

routine administrative tasks. “For example, operations that once took a minute are now taking

just under 30 seconds,” says Nujumi. “Multiply that by the thousands of such minor tasks we

do, and it translates into the team spending much more time on service improvement and

strategic issues.” Naji Nujumi, Systems Engineer, American University of Sharjah

“The Cisco environment is so easy to manage that we were able move more

than 50% of the staff to other high-value roles,” says McIntosh. “Staff is now

contributing to other vital areas of the business, such as disaster recovery

planning and other activities.”

“In the past an IT manager could manage 15 systems.

Now they can manage 50 systems.”

Average 67% Reduction of Ongoing Administrative/Management Costs BASED ON 45 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Servers

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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Server Cost Reduction

Virtual Interface Cards and Unified Fabric

BUY FEWER SERVERS

ELIMINATE I/O ADAPTERS

Pool and Reduce Hot Spares Using UCSM Service Profiles

Eliminate Management Servers

Improve Consolidation with Large Memory and Industry-leading Performance

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Virtual Interface Cards

Replaces Traditional

Approach of

Multiple NICs and

HBAs per Server:

SingleConnect

256 Interfaces vs.

8 to 14 per

2-Port Adapter

Up to 80 Gb

Bandwidth vs. 20 Gb VM-FEX

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Eliminating Server I/O Adapters

1 x 1-Gbps Management

2 x 1-Gbps Production Data

1 x 1-Gbps Production Data

1 x 1-Gbps vMotion

1 x 1-Gbps VM Console

1 x 1-Gbps VMkernel

2 x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel

Top-of-Rack Switches

Ethernet Top-of-

Rack Switches

Ethernet Management

Network Switch Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects

Cisco Nexus

Fabric Extenders

2 x 10-Gbps Unified

Fabric Data and

Management

Traditional Rack Server Per Server Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server

4 Physical NICs/HBAs 1

9 Cables 2

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Buy Fewer Servers

Hot Spare Burst Capacity Spare Live/Production

Total Servers: 18

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Rack

Rack

Rack

Rack

Rack

Database

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Virtualized Apps

Blade

Blade

Blade

Blade

Web

Rack

Rack

Rack

Database

Blade

Blade

Blade

Virtualized Apps

Blade

Blade

Rack

Total Servers: 14

Blade

Spares Pool

Without UCS Service Profiles:

Silos Individually Provisioned for Peak Demand and Failures

Idle Hotspare Servers Require Application-Specific HW and Firmware Image Configurations

With UCS Service Profiles:

Configure and Provision Bare Metal on the Fly with Application-specific Service Profile Templates

Availability and Burst Capacity Delivered with Fewer Spares

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS

Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance

23 CPU

17 Virtualization and Cloud

7 Database

17 Enterprise Application

18 Enterprise Middleware

18 HPC

Superior Performance

Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System

and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results

• Improved end-user experiences

• Increased business velocity

• Reduced software licensing costs

• Reduced infrastructure footprint

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Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS

17 Virtualization

Fewer VMware Licenses

$995–$3,495+

$323–$874 Support

Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance

Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System

and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results

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Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS

23 CPU

17 Virtualization and Cloud

7 Database

17 Enterprise Application

18 Enterprise Middleware

18 HPC

Fewer Servers and Fewer OS Licenses

Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance

Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System

and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results

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Infrastructure and Cabling

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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Infrastructure Cost Reduction

Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers

ELIMINATE CABLES

ELIMINATE SWITCHES

Fewer Switches = Fewer Cables

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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UCS Cabling: Radical Simplification

Traditional Rack

Ad Hoc and Inconsistent

Traditional Blade

Structured, but Siloed and Complicated

Cisco UCS

Simplified

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Evolution of Complexity

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

Traditional Rack

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40 x Rack Servers

2 x FC Switches

2 x Enet Switches

2 x Rack Mgrs for

40 Rack Servers

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Infrastructure

Servers

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Evolution of Complexity

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TCO Examples

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Administration Servers Power and Cooling

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2 x Rack Mgrs for

40 Rack Servers

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Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric

Complexity in Traditional

Environments

Ethernet

Fibre Channel

Management

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric

Complexity in Traditional

Environments

Ethernet

Fibre Channel

Management

Single, Multi-

Protocol Fabric

SingleConnect

Unified Fabric

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric

Complexity in Traditional

Environments One Network

Fabric

One Network

One Layer

SingleConnect

Ethernet

Fibre Channel

Management

Single, Multi-

Protocol Fabric

SingleConnect

Physically

Distributed,

Centrally Managed

Cisco Fabric

Extender Architecture Unified Fabric

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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SingleConnect

• Common access layer networking model

• Ethernet, SAN, management combined

• Cable for bandwidth vs. connectivity

Fabric-Based Infrastructure BLADE AND RACK

Management

Ethernet

Storage

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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$67,056 $78,884 $90,711

$114,367 $149,857

$185,348

$220,838

$63,338 $126,676

$190,014

$253,352

$316,690

$380,028

$72,116 $129,778

$187,440

$245,102

$317,218

$374,880 $432,542

$0

$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

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

Blade Infrastructure Costs: Chassis/Switching BLADE CHASSIS SAVINGS AT SCALE–BLADE SLOT SOLUTION

Cisco pricing MSRP on December 17, 2014; HP pricing publically available on December 17, 2014; IBM pricing publically available December 17, 2014.

All pricing is for blade chassis and networking only. Servers are not included.

Cisco UCS 5108: UCS 5108 chassis with UCS 6248 FI (Two Uplinks per FEX)

HP c7000: HP c7000 Plat Chassis with 2x VC Flex Fabric and 16x HP IC; Price Includes HP VCEM Each Chassis

IBM Flex: IBM Flex Chassis with 2x CN4093 Switches, One Management Node Every Four Chassis, FSM License Each Chassis

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

Number of Chassis Slots

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Unified Fabric: Rack Server Environment

1x 1-Gbps Management

2x 1-Gbps Production Data

1x 1-Gbps Production Data

1x 1-Gbps vMotion

1x 1-Gbps VM Console

1x 1-Gbps VMkernel

2x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel

Top-of-Rack Switches

Ethernet Top-of-

Rack Switches

Ethernet Management

Network Switch

Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects

Cisco Nexus

Fabric Extenders

2x 10-Gbps Unified

Fabric Data and

Management

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Comparison of Rack Server I/O

Traditional Rack Server Cisco Rack Server Cisco Wins: Deltas

1 Server 4 Adapters 1 Adapters 3

9 Cables 2 Cables 7

10 Servers 40 Adapters 10 Adapters 30

90 Cables 20 Cables 70

50 Servers 200 Adapters 50 Adapters 150

450 Cables 100 Cables 350

100 Servers 400 Adapters 100 Adapters 300

900 Cables 200 Cables 700

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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3-Year TCO

• 46% overall savings

• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9

Savings Breakdown

Server hardware and warranty 27%

Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 73%

Power and cooling 49%

Initial provisioning and ongoing server

and networking administration 46%

Systems management software

licenses and warranty 100%

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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3-Year TCO

• 46% overall savings

• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings

Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9

1 Gb Ethernet

Access

10 Gb Ethernet

Aggregation

Fibre Channel

Edge

Fibre Channel

Core

OOB

Management

Complexity of Traditional Rack Server Environment

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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3-Year TCO

• 46% overall savings

• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings

Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9

VS.

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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3-Year TCO

• 46% overall savings

• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings

Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9

Fabric

Interconnects

Simplified UCS Rack Solution

Nexus 2232

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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3-Year TCO

• 46% overall savings

• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings

Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9

20 Fewer

Switches

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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$3,662,511 $284,355

$466,096

$85,973

$760,872

$100,470 $1,964,536

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$3,500,000

$4,000,000

Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers

UC

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SingleConnect,

Networking, Cabling

and Warranty

Power and

Cooling

Servers and

Warranty

Provisioning and

Administration Systems

Management

This graph compares the 3-year TCO for 100 HP ProLiant DL380 G9 Servers with the 3-year TCO for 100 Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Servers. Each server has two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2609v3 CPUs, 64

GB of memory. HP networking includes six 1 Gigabit Ethernet and two 16-Gbps Fibre Channel connections for the HP rack servers. This is compared with the Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM dual-port 10-Gbps Unified

Fabric adapter for Cisco rack servers and corresponding switches. Pricing is as of December 17, 2014.

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Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Average 77% Reduction in Cabling with an Average Cost Savings of 73% BASED ON 31 AND 8 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES, RESPECTIVELY

“The savings on cabling alone were around 90 percent. And this means not

only one-off savings on investment costs, but also similarly reduced installation

and maintenance expenses in Virtual Core customer projects.”

KAMP Netzwerkdienste GmbH

“Cabling costs alone have dropped by about 70 percent in the new data center,

a significant figure, because they used to represent up to 30 percent of each

new deployment.”

Almaviva Tele Sistemi Ferroviari

“UCS has cut the number of cables required by more than 60 percent.”

Groupe Steria SCA

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Power and Cooling

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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Power and Cooling Cost Reduction

ELIMINATE INFRASTRUCTURE

Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers

Fewer Switches

Fewer Servers

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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• Smaller blade server increments reduces “stranded capacity”

• Fewer adapters to support I/O requirements

• Easier power management with UCS Manager

• No extra software to buy saving both CapEx and OpEx

• Industry-leading virtualization performance improves server consolidation ratios

• Fewer switches with a Unified Fabric

• In the chassis and ToR

• Fewer cables for better airflow through the rack

Power and Cooling SYSTEM-LEVEL SAVINGS

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Average 49% Reduction in Power and Cooling Costs BASED ON 69 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES

“Efficient Cisco UCS servers have also significantly reduced power and cooling in the data

center. Transitioning to Cisco UCS lowered the average temperature in the data center from

73 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit, decreasing the need for powerful cooling fans. Combined with

the reduced power consumption associated with the Cisco UCS blade servers, OCS cut

power consumption by two thirds in the data center for a significant cost savings.”

“Minnesota Wild reduced power by 63 percent and operated the

data centers with 68 percent lower cooling costs.”

“We’ve seen a 90 percent reduction in energy use.”

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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System Management

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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System Management Software

UCS Manager Embedded in the Product, No Additional Charge

ELIMINATE MANAGEMENT SERVERS

ELIMINATE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT LICENSING

UCS Manager Runs in the Fabric Interconnects, Accessed via API

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Complexity vs. Simplicity

Function HP Cisco

Local and Remote Administration iLO/Onboard Administrator

UCS Manager

Detect Hardware Faults Systems Insight Manager

Update System Software Systems Insight Manager

Inventory Tracking Systems Insight Manager

Spot Deploy Critical Server Updates Onboard Administrator

Virtualized LAN/SAN Connectivity Virtual Connect

Multi-chassis Address Server Management Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

Logical Server Abstraction Matrix Operating Environment

Power Management Insight Control/iLO

Required Management Interfaces 7 1

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity

HP c7000 Cisco UCS

HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required

HP Insight Control

HP System Insight Manager

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

UCS Manager

1 Console

No Added Cost

Rack and Blade Together

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity

HP c7000 Cisco UCS

HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required

HP Insight Control

HP System Insight Manager

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

UCS Manager

1 Console

No Added Cost

Rack and Blade Together

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity

HP c7000 Cisco UCS

HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required

HP Insight Control

HP System Insight Manager

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem

Virtual Connect Manager

Onboard Administrator

No Mixing of Rack and Blade

Separate Management: Every Chassis, All Software

Separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel I/O Leaving the Chassis

UCS Manager

1 Console

No Added Cost

Rack and Blade Together

Up to 160 Blade Servers

Up to 160 Total Servers: Rack or Blade Unified Management and Unified Fabric

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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UCS Manager

Extend Reach of SMEs Globally

Server Chassis Domain

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Extend Reach of SMEs Globally

UCS Central

UCS Manager

Server Chassis Domain

Single Data Center Global Data Centers

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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Real World TCO Examples

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers

Power and

Cooling

System

Management

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“When we compared the legacy server and network with one based on Cisco UCS, TCO effectively halves over a five-year investment lifecycle.”

Dr. Phil Richards Director of IT, Loughborough University

Loughborough University

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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5-Year TCO

• 48% overall savings

• $18,542 5-year per node overall savings

Loughborough University

Savings Breakdown

Server hardware and warranty 38%

Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 80%

Power and cooling 49%

Initial provisioning and ongoing server

and networking administration 79%

Virtualization software licenses

and warranty 39%

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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$1,814,456 $272,990

$245,195

$214,253

$14,531 $131,820 $935,667

Loughborough University

UC

S S

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tion

Networking, Cabling

and Warranty

Power and

Cooling

Servers and

Warranty

Provisioning

Virtualization

Software

Comparison of existing 47 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth transitioning to Cisco UCS B200. 5-year lifecycle.

Study conducted May 1, 2012 to July 26, 2012.

Exis

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$871,476

Savings

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

$2.0M

$1.8M

$1.6M

$1.2M

$0.8M

$0.6M

$0.4M

$0

$1.4M

$1.0M

$0.2M

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5-Year TCO

• 39% overall savings

• $11,522 5-year per node overall savings

Major Travel Services Provider

Savings Breakdown

Server hardware and warranty 18%

Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 54%

Power and cooling 69%

Initial provisioning 79%

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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$14,273,022 $1,470,939

$1,055,931

$2,037,077

$989,691

$8,719,384

Major Travel Services Provider

UC

S S

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tion

Networking, Cabling

and Warranty

Power and

Cooling

Servers and

Warranty

Initial

Provisioning

Comparison of existing 482 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth vs. Cisco UCS B-Series. 5-year lifecycle.

Study conducted May 2011 to September 2011.

Com

pe

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$5,553,638

Savings

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

$14M

$13M

$12M

$11M

$9M

$8M

$7M

$5M

$10M

$6M

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Real Innovation Improves TCO T

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So

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UC

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• Radical infrastructure simplification

• Efficient scaling

• High performance

SingleConnect,

Networking, Cabling

and Warranty Power and

Cooling

Servers and

Warranty

Unified Management • Embedded device management

• Self-integrating

• Stateless

• Automated

• Programmable

Provisioning and

Ongoing Administration Systems

Management Software

Provisioning Infrastructure and

Cabling

Real World

TCO Examples

Ongoing

Administration Servers Power and Cooling

System

Management

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