Cisco UCS has helped customers get more out of their IT by providing a simplified physical environment with more efficient management. However, UCS continues to innovate and deliver additional value. This session will focus on updates and new offerings that have enhanced the Cisco UCS portfolio in the previous year. These include M-Series composable infrastructure, Dense Storage servers, next generation Fabric Interconnects, updated servers, additional storage offerings, and more. This will also cover refreshes and best practices to the UCS Management portfolio. Finally, there will be the opportunity for a questions throughout and after the presentation.

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T-DC-12-I – UCS Update
Efficiently managing your server environment for traditional
enterprise and scale out mode 2 applications
Jacob Van Ewyk - @javanewyk
UCS Management Product Manager
May 19, 2016
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Cisco Data Center Vision
Defined by Applications. Driven by Policy. Delivered as a Service
BUSINESS
REQUIREMENTS
Compute
CloudNetwork
BUSINESS OUTCOMES
Policy
Policy
Policy
Business Agility New Business Models Lower TCO

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Unified Computing: Inspired by Customer Needs
Help Me:
Industry in Transition
• Reduce complexity that drives
OPEX
• Get the most out of
virtualization
• Automate and move faster
• Get ready for cloud
Cisco
UCS
Virtualization
Compute &
Flash
Acceleration
Network
and Storage
Access
Operational
Simplicity
Application
Centricity
Platform for
IT Innovation

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Cisco UCS: Driving Business Outcomes
Proven value and over 48,000 customers world wide
“We’re able to offer leading-
edge solutions to our
customers and continue to
expand our business.”
Reduction in
Provisioning
Times
84%
Reduction of
Management
Costs
61%
Reduction of
Power and
Cooling Costs
54%
Cabling
Reduction
77%
World-record
Performance
Benchmarks
100
“Our Cisco Unified
Computing System
decision is a game-
changer.”
Wes Wright
CIO, Seattle Children’s
Martin Breslin
Infrastructure Architect, SEI
“With Cisco UCS, we can
adapt much more quickly to
user demand.”
Mark Adams
VP Information Technology, HireRight
Source: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks

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Cisco Unified Computing System
A differentiated/revolutionary approach
Unified
Management
• Faster deploy/
provision
• Unification leads to
reduced complexity
• Management via a
single interface
Simplified
Architecture
• Networking with fewer
components
• Lower cost and easier
scaling
• Fewer management
touch points
• Stateless: any
resource, any time
• Better TCO/ROI
Scale
• Ultimate Scalability
• Enhanced design
capability
• Designed for the
future, today
Higher
Performance
• Brings out the best of
x86 architecture
• Optimized resource
utilization for compute,
networking, and
management

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UCS Cabling: Radical Simplification
Ad hoc and inconsistent Structured, but siloed,
complicated
Simplified
Traditional Rack Traditional Blade Cisco UCS

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Eliminating Server I/O Adapters
1x 1-Gbps Management
2x 1-Gbps Production Data
1x 1-Gbps Production Data
1x 1-Gbps vMotion
1x 1-Gbps vmconsole
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
Traditional Rack
Server
Per Server
Cisco UCS C-Series
Rack Server
4 Physical NICs/HBAs 1
9 Cables 2

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3rd Gen Cisco VIC
The ultimate engine for true stateless computing unleashes maximum
network bandwidth, features and performance
Lower Latency
2ns point to point
Multiple Form Factors
Blade mLOM, Mezz, Rack PCIe, mLOM
Support for Overlay Networks
Hardware offloads for NVGRE and VXLAN
• Doubles host PCIe performance, BW and Root complex
resources
• Doubles embedded processing, for datapath (fNIC, sNIC) and
future services
• Hardware enabled support for RDMA for SMB Direct, ROCE
• Advanced Cisco UCS features including VM-FEX, usNIC, and
Single Connect
PCIe Gen 3
Native 40GbE ready
Choice of Interfaces
10Gb SFP+, 10GBaseT, 40Gb QSFP

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UCS Management: Policy and Model-Driven
Application Profiles
Virtualization Policy
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
1 Subject Matter Experts
Define Policies 5
System Configures Hardware
Elements Automatically and
Eliminates Configuration Drift
4 Model-Driven Framework
to Abstract Resources2 Policies Used to Create
Service Profile Templates
Storage
SME
Network
SME
Server
SME
3 Service Profile Templates
Create Service Profiles
Server Name UUID,
MAC, WWN
Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy
Server Name UUID,
MAC, WWN
Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy
Fabric Interconnect
UCS Manager
Creates Object Model
Defines Model and Platform

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Delivering Solutions Through the Power of the Ecosystem
Business Apps Databases
Analytics and
Big data
Cloud Apps
Collaboration
Applications
Desktop
Virtualization
Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus
Cisco Unified
Management
Storage
Partnerships
VBLOCKHDS UCPFLEXPOD VSPEX
HANA &
BWA
UCS Integrated
Infrastructure

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UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Exclusive in the top 2 solutions (FlexPod and Vblock)
and ~50% in the #3 solution (VSPEX)*
UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco
UCS
Cisco
Nexus
UCS Director
VblockFlexPod
HDS UCP
SelectVSPEX SmartStack
*IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, April 29, 2014
VersaStack
UCS for Red
Hat OpenStack
Cisco is #1 and a partner in ~69%
of all Integrated Infrastructure*

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Key Market Transitions and Investment Focus
Greater Agility
Flexibility and
Scale
Software Defined
Moving Closer to
Compute
Different Consumption
Models
Different Technology
Stacks

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UCS Compute Portfolio
Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
Cloud Scale
UCS C460 M4
Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Server for Large, CPU-
Intensive Applications
UCS B420 M4
Enterprise Class, 4-
Socket Blade for Large,
Memory-Intensive Bare
Metal
and Virtualized
Applications
RackBlade
UCS B260 M4
Mission-Critical, 2-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-
Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS B460 M4
Mission-Critical, 4-
Socket Blade for Large,
CPU-Intensive Bare
Metal
and Virtualized
Applications
UCS M-Series Modular Servers
Modular servers optimized for Cloud-
scale deployments
UCS C240 M4
Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP,
and Database Applications
UCS B200 M4
Optimal Choice for VDI, Private
Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/
Consolidation Workloads
UCS C220 M4
Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise
Infrastructure, and Application Server
UCS C3000 Series
Ideal Capacity-Optimized
Platform for Large Object Storage
at Scale
Intensive/Mission Critical
Enterprise
Performance

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UCS FI & Fabric Extender Overview
• Enabling a high-performance, low-latency & lossless fabric
FI 6300 Series and 2304 Fabric Extender
High-density 40GbE ports
• FI 6300 series coupled with B-Series & C-Series enables an
end-to-end 40GbE solution
• FI 6300 series couple with Cisco MDS enables an end-to-end
40GbE FCoE solution
High speed Fibre Channel 16G FC ports
• Provides high performance SAN (4/8/16G FC) connectivity for
blades & rack servers
• Simplifies management by reducing the number of links required
between end points

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Placing Computing at the Source of Demand
Core Data Center
UCS Management
Sensor Data
Retail, Sports and
Entertainment
Branch Office or Clinic Service Provider:
Customer Premise
Equipment

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UCS Mini B200 M3/M4 Blade Server
B420 M3 Blade Server
C240 M3/M4 Rack Server
UCS Manager 3.1
C220 M3/M4 Rack Server
6324 Fabric Interconnects
Enterprise Capability
at Edge Scale
Connect 2 chassis with up to 7 C-
Series rack servers or 1 chassis with
up to 7 C-Series rack servers for
expanded capacity
New architectural entry point for
Unified Computing
UCS in an All-in-One package:
• Compute
• Networking
• UCS Management
• Unified Computing in 6U
• Chassis-Integrated Fabric
Interconnects
• Standard UCS Blades / Fans
/ Power Supplies
UCS Mini

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Applications in the Connected World
SaaS
PaaS IaaS
Traditional
Applications
ERP, Financial,
Client/Server, CRM,
Email
Cloud Native
Applications
IoT, Big Data,
Analytics, Gaming
Cisco Confidential
Data Center Cloud Edge/IoT
Security Everywhere

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Monolithic Servers Are Not the Best Answer for all
types of Workloads
What’s Required?
• Total server subsystem disaggregation: CPU,
Memory, I/O and Accelerators, Local Disk
• Control plane to create composite machines out of
atomic components
• Exposed programmability for composable IT
services
What the Industry
Offers Today
What Customers
Should be Able to Do
Match the Application to
Fixed Infrastructure With
Virtualization
Create Ratio-optimized
Combinations of
Subsystems Tuned for the
Application
Replace Entire Server to
Upgrade One Subsystem
Upgrade Subsystem
Components Independently
as Required
Orchestrate Fixed-ratio,
Monolithic Servers
Applications Invoke
Composable Infrastructure
CPU Memory Storage NetworkMonolithic Servers
Resource Pools

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Cisco Composable Infrastructure
• M-Series for compute intensive applications
• C3260 for data intensive applications
C3260
Data Intensive
M-Series
Compute Intensive
Compute
Intensive
Data
Intensive

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C3160 Rack Storage Server
• Single Server Node
• 40Gbps Connectivity with 4x10Gbps
• Standalone CIMC and CIMC Supervisor
C3260 Rack Storage Server
• Dual Server Node
• Drives available to both Server Nodes, asymmetric
split of drives between nodes available
• 160Gbps with 4x 40Gbps(QSFP)
• Standalone CIMC, IMC Supervisor, and UCSM
Single/Dual
Server
Dual CPU Socket
per server
Up to 1TB
Memory
512GB per Server
Dual System I/O
Multiple Connectivity Options
40G, 10G, 1G
Up to 4GB RAID
Cache
Enterprise Storage
Features
Up to 62 Drive
Bays
60 LFF with support for
up tp 28 SSDs, plus up
to 4 SFF Boot SSD
UCS C3000 Capacity Optimized Server Family
Common Chassis, Drives, PSU, 12Gbps SAS-3 Infrastructure
Up to 12Gbps
SAS-3 4K Native Drives
Supported

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Use Cases for the UCS C3000 Server Family
Service Providers
Public Sector
Service Providers,
Enterprise
Software Defined Storage
Object Store
Media Streaming and Content
Distribution
Video Surveillance
Exchange
Backup and Archive
(as Service)
Service Providers,
Enterprise, Cloud
Storage Spaces
SP COS SP COS VSOM
In a box
Service Providers,
Enterprise
Big Data and Analytics

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Cloud-Scale Inverts Computing Architecture
Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale
Many
Applications
Server
Single
Server
Many
Servers
Single
Application
SCM ERP/
Financial
Legacy CRM Email Online
Content
Gaming Mobile IoT eCommerce
Hypervisor

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Shared Local Resources
PCIe
Compute Cartridges
UCS M Series
Shared Local Resources
Improved utilization of resources
Resource amortization over smaller nodes
Based on Cisco System Link Technology
Third Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server
Modular Design
Improved subsystem lifecycle management
Ability to scale individual subsystems independently
Lean Componentry
Improved compute density
Cost and power optimization
UCS M-Series Composable Server

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UCS M-Series
A full breadth of compute cartridge portfolio
Shipping: M142, M1414, M2814
• Cisco’s first composable infrastructure offering
• Based 0n Cisco System Link Technology
• Modular design supporting up to 16 servers in 2 RU
Virtual Application
Delivery
Video Transcoding Mode-2 Workloads Genome Sequencing
Now Available
• Q1’CY16:
• Support for Xeon E3 v4 processors with
integrated graphics
• Common version of UCS Manager

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Solving Key Customer Challenges
CFOs Expect a
Cloud Economics On-
Premise
Purchasing model
and independent
scaling allow to
pay as you grow
Moving at the
Speed of
Business
Deployment of
computing,
networking and
storage resources
in less than 1 hour
Operationalizing
Speed and
Simplicity
Single management
plane for converged
and hyperconverged
solutions
APPS

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Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems
Complete
Hyperconvergence
Software Defined Compute,
Storage & Network
Next Generation
Data Management
Always-on Optimization and
Flexible Scaling
Future Ready
Architecture
Built for Todays Workloads
and Emerging Applications

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Next Generation Data Platform
Custom Built, Log Structured File System with Flash, Dedup and Compression as Foundational Elements
Independent Scaling and
Scale Out Architecture
Predictable, Pay-as-You-Grow Efficiency
Enterprise Storage Features
Pointer-Based Snapshot
Near Instant Clones
Inline dedup and compression
Enterprise Data Protection
Highly Available/Self-Healing
Single Button Non-Disruptive Rolling Upgrades
Call Home and Onsite 24x7 Support Available
Single Point of Management
Integrated into vCenter
Robust Reporting and Analytics

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Primary HyperFlex Use Cases
• Agile provisioning
• Frequent
iterations
• Instant cloning
and snapshots
Test and
Development
• Low upfront costs
• Consistent
performance
• Predictable
scaling
Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure
• Reduce
operational
complexity
• Adaptive scaling
• Always-on
resiliency
Server
Virtualization
• Simple
deployment
• Centralized
management
• No “fly-and-fix”
missions
Large Remote
Branch Office

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UCS Management
Unified Management Across UCS Portfolio
UCS Mini
Edge-Scale
Computing
Cloud-Scale
Computing
UCS M-Series
Composable Infrastructure
UCS B-Series Blade Servers
UCS C-Series Rack Servers
Core Data Center
Workloads

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