Presentation of Cisco UCS, it\'s modules, the connectivity, and a quick introduction to Service Profiles.

1. Cisco Unified Computing Erik Bussink Senior Virtualization Specialist 17/02/2011

2. Agenda Cisco Unified Computing System How we got here ? UCS Introduction UCS Components Service Profile Use Cases Demo

3. Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Server Deployment: Rackmounts First generation Rack-optimized Top of Rack or End of Row switches Cables Benefits Space utilization Highly flexible Weakness Cabling Serviceability Power efficiency Rack Rack

5. Integrated switches

7. Cable aggregation

9. Management Aggregation

10. Large chassis needed to amortize switch/mgmt costsRack Rack

13. Additional cost overhead

14. Need chassis aggregation management

16. Flexibility

18. Power & Cooling

22. Consistent policies

23. Diagnostics

24. Training

26. More servers & switches than ever

27. More switches per server

29. More difficult to maintain policy coherence

30. More difficult to secure

33. Compute: Industry standard x86

34. Storage: Access options

37. Lower power consumption

40. Oversubscription 1:1

41. Uplink: 2x 10Gb

42. Oversubscription 1:8

43. Uplink: 4x 10Gb

49. B-Series Family Comparison UCS B230 M1 Compact -Performance Blade Server UCS B200 M2 General Purpose Blade Server UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Server Compute & memory-intensive server for enterprise-critical workloads Memory-intensive server for virtualized and large-data-set workloads Compute & memory-intensive server for enterprise-critical workloads High-density server with balanced compute performance and I/O flexibility

50. Three Pronged Adapter Strategy Cost Compatibility Virtualization Existing Driver Stacks “Free” SAN Access for Any Ethernet Equipped Host Virtual Machine Aware: Virtualization and Consolidation “Palo” Converged network adapters (CNA) Ability to mix and match adapter types within a system Automatic discovery of component types

51. C-Series Product Details Cisco’s Unified Computing System C-Series Rack-Mount servers now address the vast majority of data center compute requirements UCS C200 M2 High-Density Rack-Mount Server UCS C210 M2 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server UCS C250 M2 Extended Memory Rack-Mount Server UCS C460 M1 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server High-density server with balanced compute performance and I/O flexibility General-purpose server for workloads requiring economical, high-capacity, internal storage High-performance, memory-intensive server for virtualized and large-data-set workloads Compute & memory-intensive server for enterprise critical workloads

52. 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

54. Configuration—Server Requirements, Boot Order, Firmware, etc.

55. Connectivity—VLAN, VSAN, QoS, etc.ServiceProfile Physical Resources ServiceProfileTemplate Policies Logical Resources

56. Service Profile Components

57. Server Mobility with Service Profiles Compute Node A is being upgraded. Service Profile Service Profile can be manually migrated to Compute Node B.

58. Logical Server Mobility Time A Identity LAN/SAN Configuration Service Profile: WebServerA Time B

60. Server Upgrades:

61. Within a single Cisco UCS system

62. Across Cisco UCS systems

63. Dynamic Server Provisioning

64. High Availability

67. Same availability withfewer spares Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Blade Virtual Interface Card Service Profiles Cisco UCS enablers:

68. Demo

69. Questions