UCS Mini Solutions

Agenda

Introduction Cisco Integrated Infrastructure UCS Fabric Update

• Cisco Data Center Strategy • Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI) • Fabric Interconnect Bundles
• IOM Modules
• UCS-Mini Overview VSPEX
FlexPod • B and C Series Blade Updates
• Management & Automation
Express
• Cisco UCS-Mini Positioning Data Center
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Citrix XenDesktop
VMware
Introduction
 Cisco UCS Vision UCS Management

Connecting to Opportunity Deeper Insight & Faster Capacity on Demand

Decisions

UCS Mini
UCS M-Series &
C-3160 Servers

Edge/Branch Computing Data Center Cloud Computing

Management Use Cases

Internet (VPN) / WAN

SMB /
Branch Cisco ISR SMB / Branch
Office Branch Office
Office HQ / Main
Router Cisco ISR Office Main Office
Branch Router
Office
Router Remote
Local
Admin Admin

UCS-Mini
UCS-Mini

Autonomous (Local Admin) Autonomous (Remote Admin)

Low-touch/Lights-out
Internet (VPN) /

SMB / Branch
WAN
WAN Link Characteristics:
Office
HQ / Main Main Office
Office Router
Cisco ISR
Branch
Mini-UCS Office UCS-Central (VM) T1-Link: 1.544 Mbits/secs
Router
Remote
Latency: 200-500ms
Admin Jitter: 20 ms.
Packet Error rate : 0.1%
UCS-Mini

Centralized Management
Low-touch/Lights-out
 UCS Mini
6324 Fabric
New Entry Point for Interconnects
Unified Computing
at 1~15 server scale

UCS in an all-in-one package:

• Compute
• Networking
• UCS Manager
• Standard UCS Blades /
Fans / Power Supplies
Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale
Connect up to 7 C-Series
UCS Mini Rack Servers for Expanded Capacity

UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO

29% CapEx
Savings 36% Less TCO 34% Lower
Power 80% Fewer
Cables
 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Management Port
Current: (FCS July 2014) Q2/Q3 CY15:
USB Port 10/100/1000 Mbps
8 Blades + 7 Rack Servers 2 Chassis + 4 Rack Servers
(Firmware
upgrades)

1x40G QSFP+
License Required 4 x10G SFP+
Eth/FCoE only Unified Ports
4x10G break out [or] Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE)
1x40G (Post FCS) Server – Direct-attached only.
Scalability port Appliance port
Direct-attached C-series. FC/FCoE Storage Port
Appliance Port Supports 1G or 10G
FCoE Storage Port

Console Port
 UCS Mini Positioning
Scalability

UCS B Series
UCS Mini

UCS C-Series
UCS E-Series
L
6 RU, High Compute
1RU-4RU, Integrated resources
1 RU, Compact All in Compute, Network Central Management,
one Server and Storage
External Storage
Distributed Storage and
environments – Small compute intensive Regional Data Centers, Large 6 RU, Compute intensive
Retail, Healthcare, environments Retail Industrial, Healthcare, Dedicated External Storage
Education Enterprise, Commercial
Large scale Data Centers

Performance
Storage Architectural Support
Network Attached Storage Direct Attached Storage SAN Attached Storage

iSCSI/NAS/ iSCSI/NAS/
iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS FC/FCoE FC/FCoE LAN SAN
Cisco MDS/
ETH 1 ETH 2 Nexus 5000

ETH 1 ETH 2

FC/FCoE
Switch Mode

Network Attached File/Block

No certification required
 UCS Management: Hierarchy
Cisco UCS Director API
Single office locations
Cisco UCS Director • Single-pane management of servers, storage
Non-Cisco
Infrastructure and networking
API Datacenters
Cisco UCS Central Software • Comprehensive Cisco Management Suite
Virtual Machines • Integrated with third-party ecosystems
(Microsoft, VMware, CA, IBM)
API API API
• Common management of all UCS components
Network Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS across locations
Devices Manager Domain Manager Domain 6324 Domain
API
Cisco
Centralized Management
IMC
Internet
Storage (VPN) / WAN HQ /
SMB / Main Main
Stand-Alone Branch Office Office
Cisco Unified Office Cisco ISR Router
Cisco UCS
Branch Remote
Rack Server Computing Office Router
Servers Admin
Basic Management System UCS-Central
Functionality Advanced Infrastructure (VM)
Abstraction & Automation

UCS-Mini
UCS Director Provisioning
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies

4 System is ready for Use

3 Provision Physical and VI
Server Name
UUID, MAC, WWN
Boot Information Virtual Infrastructure vvSwitch
VI Configuration
LAN, SAN Config Nexus 1000v
SME
Firmware Policy
SAN Zoning Server Name
Create and MAP LUN UUID, MAC, WWN
Storage Server Network Boot Information
SME SME SME LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy
Server Policy… 2
Network Configuration
Network Policy…
Policies Used to
Storage Policy… Create Service
Profile SAN and
Virtualization Policy… Storage Storage Configuration
Application Profiles…

Aligns People, Policy and Configuration with Business

 UCS Director Orchestration
Secure Cloud
Container
Domain
On-Demand Managers
Network Compute VMs Storage Automated Delivery
OS and Bare
Policy-Driven Virtual VM VM
Metal
Provisioning Machines Virtual and Bare-Metal

Compute and
Compute Hypervisor

UCS Director Single Pane of Glass

A B C
Network
End-to-End Automation and Network Services
Lifecycle Management
Tenant Tenant Tenant
Storage A C
B
Cisco Integrated Infrastructure
VSPEX with VMware Branch Office up to 100 VMs

Management & Remote /Branch Office

Infrastructure VMs TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
Workload VMs
• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory
Web VM VM
• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s
App VM VM • Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload
vCenter
• VMware 5.5 u 1 hypervisor
SQL db VM VM
• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management
db

VMware Cluster
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini
• Central management with UCS Central
Node1 to Node8 • File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on
EMC VNXe 3200 storage
VSPEX with Hyper-V Branch Office up to 100 VMs

Management & Remote /Branch Office

Infrastructure VMs TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
Workload VMs
• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory
Web VM VM
• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s
App VM VM • Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
SQL db VM
SCVMM db
VM
• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management

Hyper-V Cluster
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini
• Central management with UCS Central
Node1 to Node8 • File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on
EMC VNXe 3200 storage
FlexPod Express with UCS-Mini

Standard
Switch TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12
Management & servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.
Infrastructure VMs Workload VMs
• FAS 2552 supports maximum of
Web VM 144 drives.
UCS-Mini • VMware 5.5 U 1 hypervisor
ESX -Node1
to Node8 App VM

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
vCenter SQL db db VM
• Direct FC connection between compute
VMware ESX Cluster and storage – reduced cost & latency.
• VM redundancy through Ethernet
FAS 2552 switches (vMotion).
• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for
remote management.
 FlexPod Data Center with UCS Mini

UCS Ethernet Only Nexus 9300 UCS FC Direct Attached

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
UCS-Mini
• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12
servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.
• FAS 2552 supports maximum of 144
drives.
• VMware 5.5 U1 hypervisor
UCS C-Series
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Direct FC connection between compute

FAS 2552 and storage – reduced cost & latency.
• VM redundancy through Ethernet
switches (vMotion).
• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for
remote management.
SmartStack for VDI – VMware Horizon 6 with View

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES

• Cisco UCS Mini

• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & SQL Server
2012
• VMware Horizon 6 with View Composer
• VMware Horizon 6 with View Connection server and
administration console

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Self-contained virtualization solution to host 350

desktops.
• VMware Horizon 6 with View.
• Showcases non-persistent linked clone-based
virtual desktops and VMware Horizon RDSH
 SmartStack for VDI – Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
• Cisco UCS Mini
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 and vCenter 5.5
• Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers
(optional)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6

Hosted Shared Desktops Pooled Hosted Virtual TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

Windows Server 2012 with Desktops
Office 2010 Windows 7 with Office 2010 • Self-contained desktop virtualization solution for
500 desktops
• Based on Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Uses non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI) desktops and remote desktop service
(RDS) server desktops
Ordering Guidance
 JD Edwards SmartStack Bundle

SmartStack Starter Bundle:

1. UCS-SP8-M-B200-EP
Cisco UCS Mini B200 Entry Plus SmartPlay
• Four B200 M3 Blade Servers
• 2x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v2
• 2.10 GHz, 6-core, 80W, Cache 15MB
• 64GB RAM (8x 8GB 1866 MHz)
• Cisco Virtual Interface Card 1240
• Dual 6324 Fabric Interconnects
• Single chassis

2. CS300-2P-12T-640F
Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Array
• 12TB raw capacity, up to 16TB usable Simple to Configure, Quote and Order.
• 640GB flash cache
• 2x10Gb ports per controller, direct connect to UCS F.I’s. Just Two Line Items!
CiscoOne – Secure Cloud Services

CiscoONE Virtual
UCS Application
Director
(UCSD) Enterprise
Prime Services
Catalog (PSC)
Container
Services
(VACS)
Inter-Cloud Fabric
(ICF)

Physical & Virtual

Infrastructure Management
Cloud Suite
On-Demand Services &
Stack Designer for
Virtual Application
Segmentation on shared
Hybrid Cloud
Migration
and Orchestration Application Developers Infrastructure
CiscoOne Bundles
Use Case
Enterprise Cloud
Infrastructure Automation + Self-service
provisioning and lifecycle management
of hybrid-ready private cloud.
Infrastructure Automation
Vendor agnostic, integrated infrastructure
management and orchestration.
Integrated Products
Cisco ONE for Data Center
Prime Service Catalog
UCS Director
UCS Performance Manager
Virtual Application Container Services Enterprise Cloud Suite
(includes Nexus 1KV Advanced)
Prime Service Catalog Foundation Foundation for Compute
Intercloud Fabric for Business
(4 hybrid ports for 1 year subscription)
UCS Director Foundation
Unified Computing System (UCS)
Nexus 1KV Essentials
UCS Performance Manager Foundation
UCS Central
Energy Management
UCS Fabric Infrastructure
Portfolio
Cisco UCS Fabric Infrastructure Portfolio
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS 2100 and 2200 Series Fabric Extenders
Comparison for UCS B Series Blades
Comparison for UCS C Series Blades
Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards
Summary
Thank you.