For more information on Network Management, visit: http://www.solarwinds.com/network-management-software.aspx View this webcast: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/webcasts/managing-next-gen-data-center-networks.html The data centers of today are substantially different and have unique management requirements. Consolidation of computing infrastructures, virtualization, high-capacity data center technologies, and the distribution of enterprise users create a need for advanced management tactics and tools. During this webcast we discuss some of these technologies and best practices for managing them. Mark Balch, a member of Cisco’s UCS product management team will co-host this webcast. Join us for “Managing Next-Gen Data Center Networks” when we will discuss: • Leveraging data from VMware’s vCenter as a part of your overall data center management strategy • Data center switching technologies and management best practices • Overview of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and management best practices for it • Using Orion’s Dynamic Service Groups for data center monitoring

2. A Big “Howdy” from SolarWinds® in Austin, TX Josh Stephens, VP of Technology & Head Geek Joe Sirriani, Senior Director of Strategy Mark Balch, Cisco’s UCS Product Manager Today’s Topic: Managing Next Generation Data Center Networks Who is SolarWinds? What we do… Who are our customers? The SolarWinds community… Introduction

4. Today’s Data Center Landscape

5. Data Center Management Challenges

6. Data Center Management Best Practices

7. Data Center Management with Orion NPM 10.1

9. We only have an hour

10. No attendee left behind…

11. Ask questions!!!

12. Don’t be afraid to ask deeper questions

13. Don’t wait until the end – ask away

14. Today’s session is being recorded

15. Recorded session on SolarWinds.com

16. Slides available on slideshare.comJ0sher2014

18. Consolidation – servers & storage & politicians

19. Integration – network components

21. High-speed, highly-dense Ethernet

22. Fiber Channel over Ethernet

24. VMware and vCenter

26. Computer: Industry standard x86

27. Network: Unified fabric

28. Virtualization: Control, scale, performance

29. Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI

30. Embedded management

31. Increase scalability without added complexity

32. Dynamic resource provisioning

33. Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem

34. Energy efficient

35. Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables

36. Lower power and cooling requirements

38. Building Block for Dynamic Data Center

39. Dynamic provisioning

40. Fast infrastructure repurposing

41. Deploy in minutes, not days

42. Service Profiles: one-click configuration of LAN, SAN and firmware parametersUCS Manager with XML-API Service Profile: HR-App1 Network: HR-VLAN Network QoS: High MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC-E WWN: 5080020000075740-3 BIOS: Version 1.03 Boot Order: SAN, LAN App OS Firmware Network

44. Increase VM density

48. Data Center Focused Monitoring Highly scalable for dense-computing environments Granular polling for high-performance, local systems Broad coverage of technology types: Networking Systems and Applications Storage Virtualization

50. Conditional Group Dependencies – Intelligent network alerts based on parent/child dependencies

51. Virtual Infrastructure Monitor – Monitor virtualization from the data center to the VM to the network infrastructure

52. Cisco UCS Support – Manage Cisco UCS components in a single unified view

53. VSAN Monitoring – Real time, threshold based alerting of VSAN performance

54. Other Cool Features

55. Message Center –View alerts, syslog, events, traps in a single pane of glass

56. Mobile Views – Android, Blackberry, iPhone

57. Active Directory Integration –Leverage existing AD accounts and groups

59. Summary and Q&A Thank you for attending! To learn more or to download a free 30-day trial of SolarWinds products visit: www.SolarWinds.com Contact information: Josh Stephens, Head Geek headgeek@solarwinds.com twitter: sw_headgeek Blog: http://solarwinds.com/geek