unified computing system: architecture & solutions

Unified Computing System: Architecture & Solutions

Majed Alwineyan, CCIE/VCP

Systems Engineer

Cisco Connect, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 29-30, 2014

Cisco Unified Computing System Fastest Growing Product in the Market

30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS2

Top 5 Server Vendor1

90 World Record Performance Benchmarks to Date

3,600+ UCS CHANNEL PARTNERS

#2 WW Market Share in x86 Blades1

More Than 75% of All Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS

$2B+ UCS Annualized

Revenue Run Rate2

1IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q413, February 2014, Revenue Share 2As of Cisco Q3FY13 earnings results


Maintained #2 in Americas (28.7%),

#2 in North America (29.9%), and

#2 in the US (30.4%)1

UCS x86 Blade servers revenue grew

46% Y/Y in Q3CY131

Worldwide

Maintained #2 worldwide in x86 Blades

with 22.0%

UCS momentum is fueled by game-

changing innovation; Cisco is quickly

passing established players

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Customers Have Spoken

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UCS #2 with 30.2%

Americas


They Said It Couldn’t Be Done

UCS impacting growth of established

vendors like HP

Legacy offerings flat-lining

or in decline

Cisco growth out-pacing the market

Customers have shifted 22.6% of the

global x86 blade server market to Cisco

and over 30.2% in the Americas (Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker,

Q413 Revenue Share, February 2014)

Worldwide X86 Server Blade Market Share

Demand for Data Center Innovation Has Vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System

(UCS) to the #2 Leader in the Fast-Growing Segment of the x86 Server Market

Customer Demand

for Innovation Fuels

UCS Growth

UCS #2 and

Climbing

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q313 Revenue Share, December 2013


VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2

VMmark 2.1 2-Socket Blade B200 M2

VMmark 1.x 2–Socket Blade B230 M1

VMmark 1.x 2-Socket B200 M1


VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 2.1 Overall C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 2–Node, 4-Socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 4-Socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 2-Node, 2-Socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.1 8–Node, 2-Socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.5 2-Node, 2-Socket C240 M3

VMware View Planner 2-Socket B200 M3

TPC-C Oracle DB 11g and OEL C250 M2

TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-C Oracle 11g C240 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Order-to-Cash B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3

SPECjEnterprise2010 Overall B440 M1

SPECjEnteprise2010 2-Node B440 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll Batch B230 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3


Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

SPECjbb2005 2-Socket C260 M2

SPECjbb2005 2-Socket B230 M2



SPECjbb2005 X86 2-Socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86 4-Socket C460 M1

SPECjAppServer2004 2-Node B230 M1




SPECompLbase 2001 2-Socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase 2001 2-Socket B230 M2


SPECompMbase 2001 4-Socket C460 M2


LinPack 2-Socket B200 M2

LS-Dyna 4-Socket C460 M1



SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2


SPECompLbase 2001 2-Socket C220 M3


SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-Socket B200 M3


SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-socke C260 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base 2006 2-Socket C260 M2

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate 2006 X86 4-Socket C460 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 4-Socket C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 4-Socket C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket C220 M3

SPECfp_base2 006 X86 2-Socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket C220 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 4-Socket C420 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-Socket B200 M3

SPECint®_base 2006 X86 2-Socket C220M3

VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x Blade Server B440 M1


TPC-H 1000GB Microsoft SQL Server C460 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll Batch B200 M2


SPECjAppServer 2004 1-Node, 2-Socket C250 M2



SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket B200 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-Socket B200 M1

Best Virtualization and Cloud Performance

Best Database Performance

Best Enterprise Middleware Performance

SPEComp® G_base2012 2-Socket C240 M3

Best CPU Performance

Best HPC Performance

Best Enterprise Application Performance

TPC-H 3000GB Price/Performance X86 Single- node C420 M3

VMmark 2.5.1 2-Node, 2-Socket B260 M4

SPECint®_rate_base 2006 4-Socket C460 M4

SPECint®_rate_base 2006 2-Socket B260 M4

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-Socket B260 M4

SPEComp® G_base2012 4-Socket C460 M4

SPEComp® G_base2012 2-Socket B260 M4

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket C240 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-Socket C220 M3

Cisco UCS Performance: 90 Records A History of World Record Performance on Industry-Standard Benchmarks

Cisco UCS benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication.

Unified Computing System (UCS)


Traditional Element Configuration

Subject matter experts

consumed by manual

configuration chores

Serial processes and

multiple touches inhibit

provisioning speed

Configuration drift and

maintenance challenges

FC fabric assignments

for HBAs

RAID settings

Disk scrub actions

Number of vHBAs

HBA WWN assignments

FC boot parameters

HBA firmware

Number of vNICs

PXE settings

NIC firmware

Advanced feature settings

VLAN assignments for NICs

VLAN tagging config for NICs

QoS settings

Border port assignment per vNIC

NIC transmit/receive rate limiting

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

LAN SAN

Network SME

Server SME

Storage SME

Compute, LAN, SAN Seamlessly Through Software


Cisco Unified Computing System

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SAN B Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

Mgmt

SAN A Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

LAN Any IEEE Compliant LAN

One Logical Chassis to Manage 160 Servers

LAN Connectivity

SAN Connectivity

Multiple Chassis

Blade & Rack Servers

Server Identity Management

Monitoring, Troubleshooting


Cisco UCS Architecture

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UCS Manager

XML API Standard APIs

APIs

Fabric Extenders

Compute

UCS Manager

Fabric Interconnects


Unified Management

A Single Unified System

For Blade and Rack Servers

UCS Manager

C-Series Rack Optimized Servers

B-Series Blade Servers

Service Profile: HR_App1

VNIC1

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2E

HR_WEB_VLAN (ID=50)

VNIC2

MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2F

HR_DB_VLAN (ID=210)

HBA 1 and 2

WWN: 5080020000075740

WWN: 5080020000075741

VSAN ID: 12

Boot Order: SAN

BIOS Settings:

Turbo On

HyperThreading On

• Integral part of UCS system

• Manages all aspects of the UCS

• Single point of management for UCS

• Open API

• Integrated Automation

• Add capacity without complexity

UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy

Unified Management

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UCS Benefits

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Highest Scale Unified Fabric

Virtual

Adapters

Fabric

Extenders

Fabric Interconnects

UCS C-series

UCS B-Series

Unified Management

Industry-leading compute without compromise

Unified Management

High Performance

Virtual Networks


UCS Manager

• Embedded—manages entire UCS Domain

Fabric Interconnect

• 10GE unified fabric switch

Chassis IO Module

• Remote line card

Blade Server Chassis

• Flexible bay configurations

Blade and Rack Servers

• x86 industry standard

• Patented extended memory

I/O Adapters

• Choice of multiple adapters

Building Blocks of Cisco UCS An Integrated System Optimizes Data Center Efficiency

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System Component Connectivity

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Fabric

Interconnect

Fabric

Interconnect

Fabric

Extender

Fabric

Extender

Compute Blade

(Half slot)

Adapter

Compute Blade

(Full slot)

Adapter Adapter

Fabric Interconnect

‒32 Fixed Unified Ports + 4 or 1 Expansion slots to a maximum of 48 or 96 Unified Ports

Chassis

‒Upto 8 half width blades or 4 full width blades

Fabric Extender

‒Host to uplink traffic engineering

‒Up to 160Gb Flexible bandwidth allocation

Adapter

‒Virtualized adapter for single OS and hypervisor systems

Compute Blade


Wire for Bandwidth, Not Connectivity

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Wire Once Architecture

All links can be active all the time

Policy-driven bandwidth allocation

Virtual interface granularity

20G per Chassis 40G per Chassis 80G per Chassis 160G per Chassis


Simplify your Data Center

From ad hoc and

inconsistent…

…to structured, but siloed,

complicated and costly… …to simple, optimized and

automated

What does your Data Center organization look like?


UCS Manager Embedded in Fabric Interconnect

UCS Fabric Interconnects 6100 6200

UCS Fabric Extenders Logically part of Fabric Interconnect Inserts into Blade Enclosure

UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations Logically part of Fabric Interconnect

UCS Blade Servers Different blade types Mix blade types within enclosure

UCS Rack Servers

Different server types

Standalone or UCSM integrated

UCS Adapters Three adapter options Mix adapters within blade

Building Blocks

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Unified Computing System Manager

• Embedded device manager for family of UCS components

• Enables stateless computing via Service Profiles

• Efficient scale: Same effort for 1 to N blades

• APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure

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Repurpose Compute Resources in Minutes

Core Virtualized Apps

BMC Manager

Reporting

Production

Subnet

Pre-Production

Subnet

Other

Production

Subnet

General WWW Server

Live Transcoding Application

Live Transcoding

Application Security Apps

Offline

Transcoding

Application

Reporting Core Virtualized

Apps

Security Apps Offline

Transcoding

Application Live Transcoding Application

Security

Apps


UCS Manager

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UCS Manager

GUI Custom Portal or Tools

Systems Management Software

CLI

Single point of management for UCS system of

components

‒Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric

interconnects

Embedded device manager

‒Discovery, Inventory, Configuration, Monitoring,

Diagnostics, Statistics Collection

‒Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints

APIs for integration with new and existing data

center infrastructure

‒SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP

‒XML-based SDK for commercial & custom

implementations


Management Protocols

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Call-home

SMASH CLP

Remote KVM UCS CLI and GUI

UCS XML API

CIM XML

IPMI

SNMP

Serial Over LAN

syslog


UCS Central Unified Computing at Global Scale

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UCS Manager UCS Manager Data Center

1 UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 2

UCS Manager Data Center

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Multi-UCS Manager

• Unifies management of multi UCS domains

• Leverages UCS Manager technology

• Simplify global operations with centralized inventory,

faults, logs, and server consoles

• Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID pools, and

templates

• Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery, and

workload mobility

• Model based API for large scale automation







UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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UCS 6200UP Fabric Interconnect

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• High Density 48 ports in 1RU

• 1Tbps Switching capability

• All ports can be used as uplinks or downlinks

• All ports can be configured to support either 1Gb or 10Gb speeds

• Unified Ports

• 1 Expansion slots

• 2us Latency

• 80 PLUS Gold PSUs

• Backward and forward Compatibility

6248UP Feature details

• High Density 96 ports in 2RU

• 2Tbps Switching capability

• All ports can be used as uplinks or downlinks

• All ports can be configured to support either 1Gb or 10Gb speeds

• Unified Ports

• 4 Expansion slots

• 2us Latency

• 80 PLUS Gold PSUs

• Backward and forward Compatibility

6296UP Feature details


UCS Unified Ports Dynamic Port Allocation: Lossless Ethernet or Fibre Channel

Use-cases

Native Fibre Channel

Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business needs

Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic

FC Eth

Lossless Ethernet:

1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS

Benefits

Simplify switch purchase - remove ports ratio guess work

Increase design flexibility

Remove specific protocol bandwidth bottlenecks

Convert protocol support on the same port

dynamically

All ports on UCS 6200 Series

16-port Expansion Module for 6248UP and 6296UP


UCS 6200 Expansion Module

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UCS-FI-E16UP • 16 “Unified Ports”

• Ports can be configured as either

Ethernet or Native FC Ports

• Ethernet operations at 1/10 Gigabit

Ethernet

• Fibre Channel operations at 8/4/2/1G

• Uses existing Ethernet SFP+ and

Cisco 8/4/2G and 4/2/1G FC Optics


Unified Port Management

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UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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UCS 2200XP I/O Module

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• Increased uplink bandwidth

• 4 x 10 Gig network-facing ports

• Double the server-facing bandwidth

• 16 x 10 Gig = 4 per half width slot

• Two I/O Modules per chassis

• 40Gbps to a single half-width blade (20Gbps left and right)

• 80Gbps to a full-width blade

• Built in chassis management

• Fully managed by UCSM

2204 Feature details

• Double the uplink bandwidth

• 8 x 10 Gig network-facing ports

• Quadruple the server-facing bandwidth

• 32 x 10 Gig = 4 per half width slot

• Two I/O Modules per chassis

• 80Gbps to a single half-width blade (40Gbps left and right)

• 160Gbps to a full-width blade

• Built in Chassis Management

• Fully Managed by UCSM

2208 Feature details







UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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UCS 5108 Blade Chassis

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Chassis

• Up to 8 half slot blades

• Up to 4 full slot blades

• 4x power supplies, N+N grid redundant

• 8x fans included

• 2x UCS 2200 Fabric Extender

• All items hot-pluggable


4 to 8 Blades

4 Power

Supplies

6U, 19” Rack

8 Fan Modules

4 Power

Connectors

2 Fabric

Extenders

UCS 5108 Blade Chassis Parts

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Redundant data and management paths

I/O Modules

Blade

Connectors

PSU

Connectors

UCS 5108 Blade Chassis Backplane

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UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

Enterprise Performance

UCS B200 M3 Optimal Choice for VDI,

Private Cloud, or Dense

Virtualization/Consolidation

Workloads.

2xE5-2600 V2, 768 GB, 24

DIMMs

Intensive/Mission Critical

UCS B420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-

Socket Blade for Large,

Memory-Intensive Bare

Metal and Virtualized

Applications.

4xE5-4600, 1.5 TB, 48

DIMMs

UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT

Infrastructure and Web

Applications.

2xE5-2400, 384 GB, 12

DIMMs

Scale Out

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UCS B260 M4 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket

Blade for Large, CPU-

Intensive Bare Metal and

Virtualized Applications.

2xE7 V2, 1.5 TB, 48 DIMMs

UCS B460 M4 Mission-Critical,

4-Socket Blade for

Large, CPU-Intensive

Bare Metal and

Virtualized Applications.

4xE7 V2, 3 TB, 96

DIMMs







UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

Enterprise Performance Intensive/Mission Critical Scale Out

Bla

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UCS C240 M3 Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP,

and Database Applications.

2xE5-2600 v2, 768 GB, 24

DIMMs

UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack Server

for Storage Intensive Workloads.

2xE5-2400 v2, 384 GB, 12

DIMMs

Rack

UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large,

CPU-Intensive Applications.

4xE7-8800 v2, 6 TB, 96 GB DIMMs

UCS C220 M3 Versatile, General Purpose

Enterprise Infrastructure, and

Application Server.

2xE5-2600 v2, 512 GB, 16 DIMMs

UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed

and Web Infrastructure

Applications.

2xE5-2400 v2, 384 GB, 12 DIMMs







UCS Rack Servers




Building Blocks

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High Performance 10Gbps per port maximum throughput for high bandwidth SAN and LAN traffic

Full hardware offload for FCoE protocol processing

Full support for TCP/IP and Ethernet with enhancements

Priority-based Flow Control (802.1Qbb)

Jumbo frames

Checksum offloads

Segmentation offloads

Common driver for CNAs and HBAs

Adapters for B-Series M72KR-Q / M72KR-E

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Full 10Gbps network performance

with support both LAN and SAN traffic

Full hardware offload for FCoE protocol processing

Integrated data buffer and code space memory

Theoretical 10Gb FC throughput

Common driver for UCNAs and HBAs

Support for Jumbo frames

Cannot do per priority pause on Ethernet traffic.


I/O Adapters for B-Series M61KR-I / M51KR-B

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Interface Type PCIe v2.0 (5.0GT/s)

Full support for TCP/IP and Ethernet with enhancements:

Priority-based Flow Control (802.1Qbb)

Jumbo frames

Checksum offloads

Segmentation offloads

Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter

iSCSI offload

Virtual LANs (VLANs), IEEE 802.1q

IEEE 802.3x flow control

TCP, IP, UDP checksum offload - TCP segmentation

iSCSI Boot capable


UCS 1280 VIC

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• Dual 4x10 Gbps port-channel to a single slot

• Host connectivity PCIe Gen2 x6

• HW Capable of 256 PCIe devices

• OS restriction apply

• PCIe virtualization OS independent

• Single OS driver image for both VICs

• FabricFailover supported

• No user configuration required for 4x10Gb port channel

• Not limited to 10Gig bandwidth per vNIC

• Flows from each vNIC can be load balanced

80 Gb I/O connectivity per adapter VM-FEX scale to 116 VM

Customer benefits

Feature details


Automates IT processes

to support any workload in minutes

Lower infrastructure cost per server

Operational integration of physical and virtual

Consistent, error free alignment

of policy, configuration, and workload

Eliminates cost manual integration Single Unified System

Unified Management

Intelligent Infrastructure

Unified Fabric

Superior price/performance and

IT productivity for lower cost of computing Server Innovations

Cisco Unified Computing System Benefits Beyond Efficiency: More Effective IT

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