1. Cisco Unified Computing

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

3. Server Deployment: Blades
Second generation
• Blade servers
• Integrated switches
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
• Fixed backplane
Server Server
Benefits
Server Server • Space utilization
Server Server • Cable aggregation
• Power efficient
Server Server
Weakness
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server Server Server
• I/O flexibility
• Management Aggregation
Server Server
• Large chassis needed to
Server Server amortize switch/mgmt costs
Rack Rack

4. Server Deployment Management
Chassis Management
• New management layer
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Benefits
• Consistency in chassis
• Shared chassis infrastructure
monitoring
Weakness
• Additional mgmt overhead
• Additional cost overhead
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
• Need chassis aggregation
management
• Artificial aggregation point
Management Management

5. Server Deployment: Applications
Application Deployment
• Single application per OS
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Benefits
• Isolation
• Flexibility
• Simplicity
Weakness
• Low utilization
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
• Power & Cooling
• Server sprawl
Management Management

6. Server Deployment
Software Switch Software Switch Software Switch
Management Management

7. Server Deployment Virtualization
Infrastructure
• Servers & Switches
• Physical & Virtual
Challenges
• Many points of management
• Consistent policies
• Diagnostics
Software Switch Software Switch Software Switch
• Training
• Security
Management Management

8. Server Deployment Today
Mgmt Server
Over the past 10 years
• An evolution of size, not system
• More servers & switches than ever
• More switches per server
• Management applied, not integrated
Result
• More points of management
• More difficult to maintain policy
coherence
• More difficult to secure
Management • More difficult to scale
Management

9. Cisco Unified Computing System
Mgmt Server • Embed management Mgmt Server
• Unify fabrics
• Optimize virtualization
• Remove unnecessary
– switches,
– adapters,
– management modules
• Less than 1/3rd infrastructure

10. Cisco Unified Computing System
Mgmt Server
A single system that encompasses:
• Network: Unified fabric
• Compute: Industry standard x86
• Storage: Access options
• Virtualization optimized
Unified management model
• Dynamic resource provisioning
Efficient Scale
• Cisco network scale & services
• Fewer servers with more memory
Lower cost
• Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables
• Lower power consumption
• Fewer points of management

11. Building Blocks
UCS Manager
Embedded– manages entire system
UCS Fabric Interconnect
20 Port 10Gb FCoE
40 Port 10Gb FCoE
UCS Fabric Extender
Remote line card
UCS Blade Server Chassis
Flexible bay configurations
UCS Blade Server
Industry-standard architecture
UCS Virtual Adapters
Choice of multiple adapters

12. Overall System (Rear)
Converged Network
Uplinks
• Uplink: 2x 10Gb • Uplink: 4x 10Gb • Uplink: 8x 10Gb
• Oversubscription 1:8 • Oversubscription 1:2 • Oversubscription 1:1

13. System Components
SAN LAN MGMT SAN
• Fabric Interconnect
G G S S G G
(40 or 20 10GE ports) + (2 or 1 GEM slots)
Fabric Fabric
A A
Interconnect Interconnect
G G G G G G
• Chassis
Upto 8 half width blades or 4 full width
Compute Chassis blades
Fabric Fabric
R I C C I R
Extender Extender
x8 x8 x8 x8
• Fabric Extender
Host to uplink traffic engineering
Up to 80Gb Flexible bandwidth allocation
M P P
B B
Adapter Adapter Adapter
• Compute Blade
X X X X X X
• Adapter
x86 Computer x86 Computer
Virtualized adapter for single OS and
hypervisor systems
Compute Blade Compute Blade
(Half slot) (Full slot)

14. UCS Fabric Interconnect Portfolio
UCS 6100
Family
20-Port Fabric Interconnect 40-Port Fabric Interconnect
• 20 fixed ports 10GE/FCoE, fixed • 40 fixed ports 10GE/FCoE, fixed
• 1 Expansion Module • 2 Expansion Modules
Expansion
Modules
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel FC + Ethernet Ethernet
• 8 Ports 1/2/4G FC • 6 Ports 1/2/4/8G FC • 4 Ports 10GbE/FCoE • 6 Ports 10GE/FCoE
• 4 Ports 1/2/4G FC

15. UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
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 2104 Fabric Extender
• All items hot-pluggable
• Up to 40 chassis per UCS system

16. B-Series Family Comparison
UCS B230 M1
UCS B200 M2 Compact -
General UCS B250 M2 UCS B440 M1 High-
Performance Blade Performance
Purpose Extended Memory Blade Server
Blade Server Blade Server Server
Compute &
High-density server with Memory-intensive Compute & memory- memory-intensive
balanced compute server for virtualized intensive server for server for
performance and I/O and large-data-set enterprise-critical enterprise-critical
flexibility workloads workloads workloads
CPU
Item Size CPU Memory Disks I/O
Sockets
Intel Xeon 12 DIMM
UCS B200 M2 Half 2 2 SFF SAS 1 Mezz
5600 96 GB
Intel Xeon 48 DIMM
UCS B250 M2 Full 2 2 SFF SAS 2 Mezz
5600 384 GB
Intel Xeon 32 DIMM 4 SFF
UCS B440 M1 Full 4 2 Mezz
7500 256GB SAS/SATA
Intel Xeon 32 DIMM 2 7MM
UCS B230 M1 Half 2 1 Mezz
6500/ 7500 256GB SSD

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

18. 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 UCS C210 M2 UCS C250 M2 Extended UCS C460 M1 High-
High-Density Rack- General-Purpose Rack- Memory Rack-Mount Performance Rack-
Mount Server Mount Server Server Mount Server
High-density server General-purpose server High-performance, Compute & memory-
with balanced compute for workloads requiring memory-intensive server intensive server for
performance and I/O economical, high- for virtualized and large- enterprise critical
flexibility capacity, internal storage data-set workloads workloads
Item CPU Size Memory Disks I/O
Intel Xeon 64 DIMM 12 SFF
UCS C460 M1 4RU 10 PCIe
7500 512GB SAS/SATA
Intel Xeon 48 DIMM 8 SFF
UCS C250 M2 2RU 5 PCIe
5600 384 GB SAS/SATA
Intel Xeon 12 DIMM 16 SFF
UCS C210 M2 2RU 5 PCIe
5600 96 GB SAS/SATA
Intel Xeon 12 DIMM 4 x 3.5‖
UCS C200 M2 1RU 2 PCIe
5600 96GB SAS/SATA

19. 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

20. Service Profiles
A service profile is a logical representation of a server that specifies its:
• Identity—UUID, MAC, WWN, etc.
• Configuration—Server Requirements, Boot Order, Firmware, etc.
• Connectivity—VLAN, VSAN, QoS, etc.
Policies
Physical
Service Resources
Service
Profile
Profile
Template Logical
Resources

21. Service Profile Components
Server
Boot Policy Service Profile Requirements
• Boot Devices • Identity (UUID, BIOS, etc) • Specific Blade
• Boot Order • Local Storage Policy • Blade Pool
• Firmware Update Group • Qualification Criteria
vHBA • Stats Policies
vHBA vNIC
• Identity vHBA vNIC
• Identity • Identity vNIC
• Identity (WWPN)
• Fabric Connectivity Operational Policy • Identity
• Fabric Connectivity • Identity (MAC)
• Fabric connectivity
• Fabric Connectivity
• Configuration • Fabric connectivity
• Configuration • Scrub Policy • Fabric Connectivity
• High Availability
• Configuration • High Availability
• Health Policy • High Availability
• QoS policy
• External Management Access • QoS policy
• QoS policy
• Configuration
• Configuration
• Configuration

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

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

24. Use Cases
• Server Deployment
• Server Upgrades:
• Within a single Cisco UCS system
• Across Cisco UCS systems
• Dynamic Server Provisioning
• High Availability
• Disaster Recovery

25. Server Availability
Today’s deployment: Oracle Web VMware
 Provisioned for peak Blade Blade Blade
capacity Blade Blade Blade
Blade Blade
 Spare node per Blade
workload Blade Blade Blade Burst capacity
Blade Blade Blade HA spare
With server profiles: Oracle Web VMware
Blade Blade Blade
 Resources
Blade Blade Blade
provisioned as needed
Blade Blade Blade
 Same availability with
Blade
fewer spares
Blade
Cisco UCS enablers: Service Profiles Virtual Interface Card

26. Demo

27. Questions