unified computing system the platform of innovation

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Unified Computing SystemThe Platform of Innovation

Justin BiggerSolution SpecialistData Center Technologies

[email protected]


What is UCS?Continued Stream of Innovations Continued Architectural Innovation

CONVERGENCE

SCALE

INTELLIGENCE

Service-Profiles

Templates

Policies

FSM

VIC

Extended Memory

VN-Link

Virtualizes Compute Hardware

Rapid Deployment

Deployment Consistency

Configuration Coherency

Virtualized NICs/HBAs

DIMM Slot Virtualization

Virtualizes the Network Port

Unified IT WorkflowsUnified Management

FEX-Link Optimized Scaling, Lower TCO

Deterministic I/ODCB/FCoE


Apr '14

Feb '14

Dec '13

Aug '13

May '13

May '12

May '11

May '09

33,000

30,000

28,000

26,000

23,000

13,000

5,400

900Rapid Rate of Adoption; Cisco UCS Customers WW

Cisco UCS in Five YearsDemand for Data Center Innovation Has Attracted 33,000 Customers and 75% of Fortune 500


Q3CY09

Q1CY14 Q3CY09 vs

Q1CY14

2.4%

47.7%

34.4%

9.2%0.1%

3.6%2.0%

0.5%

Cisco UCS #1 in North America X86 Blade Server MarketQ3CY09 vs. Q1CY14 Vendor Shares1

0.1%

40.0%

34.9%

10.2%

12.0% 0.0%1.5%

0.5%

0.1%

0.9%

Source:1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014Q1, May 2014, Vendor Revenue Share

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Cisco’s Vision for Virtualization

• Stateless Chassis

• Stateless Servers

• Stateless Connectivity

• Simplified Connectivity

• Simplified Management

• Mobility of resources

• Leverage Assets

• Leverage Datacenters

“Virtualization doesn’t start nor stop at the Hypervisor”


Uplinksto Existing LAN/SAN

CHASSISREAR VIEW

CHASSISFRONT VIEW

2 x Unified Fabric Interconnects

(Embedded mgmt,access layer for multiple

UCS chassis)

2 x FabricExtenders(I/O MUX, CMC)

Stateless compute blades w/ CIMC, CNA, opt. HDDs

6U chassis(one or more)

Building Block: 2 x FI + chassis

Simple Building Block


LANAny IEEE Compliant LAN SAN B

Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

MgmtSAN AAny ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

Cisco Unified Computing System

One Logical Chassis to Manage*

LAN ConnectivitySAN NetworkingBlade Chassis’Server BladesRack ServersServer Identity ManagementMonitoring, Troubleshootingetc.

*architectural limit of 320 servers with 160 servers supported as of 1.4(1)


Cable it…


Cable it (part II)


Service Profile it…


This is what a fully cabled chassis looks like…


UCS Mezzanine AdaptersCisco Virtualized Adapter, Emulex, Qlogic, Intel, Broadcom

UCS Blade Servers Industry Standard Architectures

UCS 5108 – Blade ChassisBlade inserts into the ChassisBlades are a logical part of the chassis

UCS Fabric Extender – I/O ModuleInserts into Blade ChassisChassis is logical part of the Fabric Extender

UCS Fabric Interconnect Fabric Extender is a logically part of the Fabric Interconnect

UCS ManagerManagement resides in the Fabric Interconnect

UCS Components and Relationships

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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 320 blades

• APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure


UCS Manager – Pools and PoliciesA Key Enabler for Dynamic Data Centers

• Each admin has their view of:

• UCS Policies•Qualify a given compute node against requirements for a given application.

• UCS Pools•Provide an inventory of resources a compute node needs.

Server Network Storage


Unified Management at Scale

Unified Management for a Multi UCS Environment

This is an upcoming product—Feature set for first release subject to change

• 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

Multi-UCS Manager

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 1

UCS Manager UCS Manager

Data Center 2

UCS Manager

Data Center 3

Multi-UCS Manager


“I want to manage my physical servers just like my virtual machines”


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Service Profiles in UCSHardware “State” is abstracted from components

• Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware

• Separate access port settings from physical ports

• Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

• Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware

• Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware

• Separate access port settings from physical ports

• Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components

• Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware

BMC FirmwareBMC Settings

BMC FirmwareBMC Settings

MAC AddressNIC FirmwareNIC Settings

MAC AddressNIC FirmwareNIC Settings

HDD Controller F/WController settings

Drive Firmware

HDD Controller F/WController settings

Drive Firmware

UUIDBIOS FirmwareBIOS Settings

Boot Order

UUIDBIOS FirmwareBIOS Settings

Boot Order

WWN AddressHBA FirmwareHBA Settings

WWN AddressHBA FirmwareHBA Settings

LANConnectivityLANConnectivity

SANConnectivitySANConnectivityOS & ApplicationOS & Application


Database

WWW

ESX

DataBase

Attributes decoupled from hardware components

Not just identity:

FW, Boot Device, BIOS, etc

Dynamic Provisioning

Deploy in minutes, not days

Simplified infrastructure repurposing

Seamless server mobility

Integrated with 3rd party tools

Integrated Stateless Computing

Service Profile: DataBaseNetwork1: DB_vlan1Network1 QoS: PlatinumMAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FCWWN: 5080020000075740Boot Order: SAN, LANFW: DataBaseSanBundle

Service Profile: DataBaseNetwork1: DB_vlan1Network1 QoS: PlatinumMAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FCWWN: 5080020000075740Boot Order: SAN, LANFW: DataBaseSanBundle

Service Profile: ESX-HostNetwork1: esx_prodNetwork1 QoS: GoldMAC : 08:00:69:11:19:EQWWN: 5080020000074312Boot Order: SAN, LANFW: ESXHostBundle

Service Profile: WebServerNetwork1: www_prodNetwork1 QoS: GoldMAC : 08:00:69:10:78:EDBoot Order: LOCALFW: WebServerBundle


Stateless Computing: UCS Service Profiles

LAN

SAN

•RAID settings•Disk scrub actions

•Number of vHBAs•HBA WWN assignments•FC Boot Parameters•HBA firmware

•FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

•QoS settings•Border port assignment per vNIC•NIC Transmit/Receive Rate Limiting

•VLAN assignments for NICs•VLAN tagging config for NICs

•Number of vNICs•PXE settings\•NIC firmware•Advanced feature settings

•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


Stateless Computing: UCS Service Profiles

LAN

SAN

Cisco UCSService Profile

NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN Assignments VLAN Tagging FC Fabrics Assignments FC Boot Parameters Number of vNICs Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vHBAs QoS Call Home Template Association Org & Sub Org Assoc. Server Pool Association Statistic Thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settingsBIOS Settings


“Firmware management was like cavities… we ignored ‘em until it was to late”


Chassis ManagementController

UCS Manager andFabric Interconnect

Fabric ExtenderInfrastructure Bundle

Adapter

RackmountServer Firmware

BIOS and CIMC

RAID and Disk

Server Bundles:•B-Series Blade Server Bundle

•C-Series Rack-Mount Server Bundle

Simplified System-wide Firmware Management

•Easy change of firmware on servers from one version to another•Mapping of applications with specific firmware through service profiles•One step change of firmware for multiple servers


VN-Link Brings VM Level GranularityProblems:

VN-Link:• Extends network to the VM • Consistent services • Coordinated, coherent management

VMotion

vSwitch

vSwitch

vSwitch

• VMotion may move VMs across physical ports—policy must follow

• Impossible to view or apply policy to locally switched traffic

• Cannot correlate traffic on physical links—from multiple VMsVLAN

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Cisco UCS VIC Differentiators:• Stateless computing: 256 PCIe devices (NICs or

HBAs)

• High Performance Virtualization:

• High Performance virtual network (VM-FEX)

• Storage Performance

Market & Eco System Momentum • 500,000 10Gb cumulative VIC ports sold in 24

months

• Approx. 40% of total 10Gb blade server ports

• Approx. 95% of UCS B-series attach

Storage Certified \ Multi OS Certified

256 PCIe devices

vFC

vHBAs

vNIC

vNIC

vNIC

vEth

vEth

vEth

vNIC

vNIC

vSphere

vEth

vEth

Cisco Virtualization Interface Card


UCS 2.0 System Topology

1 Link20 Gb per chassis



Flexible per chassis bandwidth allocation



UCS System Connectivity

LAN Switch

Appliance

SAN SwitchFCoE Storage FC Storage

Direct Attach

Direct Attach LAN





SAN


Cisco UCS – Rack Server Management Consolidation

• Oversubscribe the port licenses for much better costs

• 16 servers per UCS “virtual chassis”

• Scale to 160 Servers is the target (10 sets of 2232)

Single-wire becomes a cabling and SW effort instead of HW

• C200M2, C210M2, C250M2, C200M2SFF, C260M2, C460M2

• Generation 2 IO adapters

UCS 6100 or 6200

Nexus 2232 Nexus 2232

UCSManager

Mgmt/Data Connection

10 Gb 1225 VIC


SMB/Remote Office Environments

Complex Multiple HW vendors Physical sprawl Multiple management

tools

Inefficient Higher costs More downtime Inconsistent with central IT

Rigid No IT flexibility Not easy to scale

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UCS MiniThe power of UCS for SMB and Branch

Scaleable solution for office IT

Proven management simplicity

Integration with std management tools

Simplified management for Central IT

Simplified networking


UCS Mini Chassis

Hot plug redundant power supplies

B200 M3 Blades

Redundant out of band management

Redundant SFP+ Uplinks 10GBIt or 1Gbit

2 QSFP+ Scalabilityports


UCS Mini – Servers

No compromise compute capability

B200 M3 - feature rich, two-socket half-width server Support for all CPU

configurations Up to 768GB DDR

memory Up to 40Gbit Bandwidth

per blade in UCS Mini


Simplified Networking

Easily connect to upstream networks with end host mode

SFP+ supports 10Gbit &1GbE for future proofing

Redundant networking capability built in

Simple expansion for additional compute


UCS Mini: Expansion

Up to 8 Blades Cisco UCS B200 M3

Up to 7 rack mount servers C220M3 C240M3

Managed through UCSM


UCS Mini Storage Connectivity

ETH 1

ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS

ETH 1

ETH 2

iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE

Network attached storage Direct Attach storage


B22 M3 B200 M3 B230 M2 B420 M3 B440 M2

Slots 1 1 1 2 2

Cores 16 16 20 32 40

DIMMs 12 24 32 48 32

Max GB 384GB 768GB 512GB 1.5TB 512GB

Disk 2 x 2.5” 2 x 2.5” 2 SSD 4 x 2.5” 4 x 2.5”

Raid 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1/5/6 0/1/5/6

Integrated I/O Dual 10Gb Dual 20Gb No Dual 20Gb No

Mezz 1 1 1 2 2


C22 M3 C24 M3 C220 M3 C240 M3 C260 M2 C420 M3 C460 M2

RU 1 2 1 2 2 2 4

Cores 16 16 16 16 20 32 40

DIMMs 12 12 16 24 64 48 64

Max GB 192GB 192GB 512GB 768GB 1TB 1.5TB 512GB

Disk 8 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”

24 x 2.5” or12 x 3.5”

8 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5”

24 x 2.5” or12 x 3.5”

16 x 2.5” or 32 x SSD

16 x 2.5” 16 x 2.5”

LoM 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 2 x 1Gb 4 x 1Gb2 x 1Gb + 2 x

10Gb2 x 10Gb

2 x 1Gb +2 x 10Gb

PCIe Slots

2 x PCIe 5 x PCIe 2 x PCIe 3.0

4 x PCIe 3.0

6 x PCIe 2.0 6 x PCIe 3.0 10 x PCIe 2.0

Internal Storage

USB Port USB PortUSB PortFlexFlash

USB PortFlexFlash

USB PortFlexFlash

USB PortFlexFlash

eUSB


Unified Computing System Innovation

Performance optimized for any type of workloadIntegrated Design

Service Profiles

UCS Manager

Unified Fabric

Virtualized I/O

Form Factor Independence

UCS Central

Extended Memory

Agility and Reduced time to deploy and provision applications

Role Based Management, Automation, Ease of Integration

Centralized Multi Domain Management, Alerting and Visibility

Simplified Infrastructure

Security Isolation per application, Scale, Improved Performance

Supports both blades and rack mount servers in a single domain

Cost Effective Application Performance, Scale

Thank you.

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