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The document outlines best practices for optimizing Cisco UCS environments, detailing essential information about UCS architecture, management, and support. It highlights the importance of planning and maintenance, presents a comprehensive agenda for a related webinar, and offers resources for effective UCS implementation. Additionally, it covers Cisco UCS product features, interoperability, and the significance of adhering to supported solutions.

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Cisco UCS Best Practices Daniel DeBusschere Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer SLED Data Center +1 678-352-3792, ddebussc@cisco.com, @ddebuss Version: cisco_datacenter_ucs-best-practices_ddebussc_2015d Get the most out of your UCS environment
Cisco Confidential 2© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Data Center CSE Profile • Daniel DeBusschere • Role: Cisco Datacenter Consulting Systems Engineer • Organization: Cisco SLED Data Center • Phone: 678-352-3792 • Email: ddebussc@cisco.com • Twitter: @ddebuss, #CiscoUCS • Web Site: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/ • Background: • Industry Experience: 23+ years (1992) • Joined Cisco: November 09, 2009 – 4 Months after UCS first shipped. • Overview: My entire 17+ year career at IBM was focused on technical selling to all types of customers including very large enterprises, SMB, SLED, and partner technical enablement. • Product areas: Assigned Regional Designated Specialist (RDS) in multiple technical skill areas including Systems Management, BladeCenter, Virtualization (including VMware), and high-end servers. • Publication: Co-writer of Implementing IBM Director Management Solutions, IBM Redbook, December 2001, 556 pages, ISBN-10: 0738423785. • Publication: Co-developer of IBM professional certification exam 000-079 System x IBM Director v5.2 • Certifications: Dozens of professional technical certifications from IBM, Microsoft, and Novell (most from IBM). • Education: Graduated with honors from Eastern Michigan University with degrees in Finance and Economics. • History: • 11/2009 – Present: Cisco Data Center Consulting Systems Engineer • 10/2000 – 11/2009: IBM BladeCenter, System x, iDataplex, xSeries Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS) • 02/1999 – 10/2000: IBM Netfinity Channel Technical Sales Specialist (CTSS), Advanced Technical Support (ATS) • 05/1996 – 02/1999: IBM K-12 Global Education Technical Sales Specialist • 09/1992 – 05/1996: IBM K-12 Global Education Marketing Sales and Services Specialist
Cisco Confidential 3© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • The content here details the things that most customers need to watch for closely, occasionally have wrong, or they just plain didn’t know. There are additional hidden slides which will be available in the downloaded version of this presentation. • The full list of things I watch out for when reviewing a UCS system can be found on my web site at • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist About this Webinar
Cisco Confidential 4© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update. • Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c • Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431 UCS Overview and Update Webinar A simpler Solution for your IT Challenges
Cisco Confidential 5© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 6© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 7© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Unified Computing Modular, Stateless Computing Elements Unified Fabric Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric Unified Management Automated Resource Management (Physical and Virtual) Unified Cloud Networking Services Automated L4–7 Virtual Services Provisioning and Deployment Cisco Unified Data Center The Platform for Delivering Cloud Services OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE
Cisco Confidential 8© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Center Economics 2% 7% 7% 10% 11% 12% 22% 29% Overhead Disaster Recovery Storage Networking Servers Energy/Facilities Software People Source: Gartner-Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio” of Overall IT Spent on OpEx (People, SW, and Facilities)
Cisco Confidential 9© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Management – Product has equal or better management than competing product(s) with a focus on simplicity and admin effort. • Ask your partner or Cisco for a management demo • Capability – Product has equal or better capabilities and value than competing product(s). • Ask your partner or Cisco for a product overview and management demo • Cost – Product is equal or less expensive than competing product(s) INCLUDING support (SMARTnet). • Ask your partner and/or Cisco for competitive quote before purchasing a competitive solution. Cisco UCS Product Design Perspectives
Cisco Confidential 10© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Unified Computing System Server Vendor World-record Performance Benchmarks to Date UCS Channel Partners Of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate Unique UCS Customers Americas Market Share in x86 Blades, #2 Worldwide 41k+ #1 $3B+ Top 5 >85% 3,850+ 100
Cisco Confidential 11© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% SGI Hitachi Lenovo Dell IBM Cisco HP UCS # 2 with 26.3% Worldwide UCS momentum 41,000+ Unique Customers 19,500+ Repeat Customers X86 Server Blade Market Share CY 2014 Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014 Q4, March 2015, Vendor Revenue Share 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% SGI Lenovo IBM Dell HP Cisco UCS #1 with 39.0% US #1 in US for 2014 (39.0%), growing 28% YoY1 #2 Worldwide for 2014 (26.3%)1 growing 29% YoY1
Cisco Confidential 12© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 23 CPU 17 Virtualization/ Cloud 7 Database 17 Enterprise Application 18 Enterprise Middleware 18 HPC Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document “Cisco Unified Computing System and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results” at http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/le_32801_pb_ucs_worldrecords.pdf Cisco UCS Performance: 100 Records World-Record Performance
Cisco Confidential 13© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Center Silos Virtualization New Emerging Applications Why Have We Seen Such Momentum UCS Value Proposition Legacy Apps Web Apps Collaboration Apps Business Critical Apps Dev./Test Sandboxes Desktop Virtualization Private Public HYBRID Big Data & Business Analytics Mobile Applications Social Media Applications Back End Consumer Applications
Cisco Confidential 14© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
Cisco Confidential 15© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 16© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Domain • A UCS Manager instance based on a pair of UCS Fabric Interconnects and all servers attached to it including any B-Series chassis, M-Series chassis, C-Series servers connected directly or through a Nexus 2232. • UCS Manager • Management interface to UCS in XML-API • UCS Manager GUI – Application used to configure UCS • UCS Manager CLI – CLI functionality of UCS Manager • Policy • A rule that consistenly configures the server, LAN, and SAN abstracting it from the server type, server age, and server size. Concepts, Definitions, and terms
Cisco Confidential 17© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Pool • A group of identities that can be used once per UCS domain • Service Profile • A management definition that is used to apply all configuration options including Policies, Pools, vNIC templates, vHBA templates, Storage templates to a specific server. • Templates: • A template consistently configures service profiles for similar workloads • vHBA Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an HBA on a server • vNIC Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an NIC on a server • Service Profile Template - A template that can be used to consistently deploy service profiles. Can contain vHBA and vNIC templates. Concepts, Definitions, and terms
Cisco Confidential 18© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Server related pools • Server Pool – Used to quickly assign multiple servers quickly. Avoid except for large similar envionrments. • UUID Pool - Used to assign UUID to the servers and is migrated when a service profile is migrated. Generally used for software licensing. • LAN related pools • IP Pool Ext-mgmt – Used to assign hardware management addresses to the servers • IP Pool iscsi-initiator-pool – Used to assign iSCSI addresses for iSCSI boot • MAC Pool - Used to assign MAC address to vNIC interfaces. Each MAC for each vNIC for each Service Profile should be configured to use addresses from MAC Pools. • SAN related pools • WWNN Pool – World Wide Node Name: Each server with a VIC and an HBA gets a WWNN. • WWPN Pool – World Wide Port Name: Each vHBA gets a WWPN for each HBA being presented to the OS. • IQN Pool – Used for iSCSI boot Concepts, Definitions, and terms
Cisco Confidential 19© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Service Profiles Configuration Portability SIM Card Identity for a Phone Service Profile Identity for a Server UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management Network Policy Storage Policy Server Policy
Cisco Confidential 20© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Promoting agility and consistency BIOS Policies Firmware Policies Boot Order Policies QoS Policies MAC Pools WWNN Pools Server Pools Service Profile Template 1 ESX Service Profile Template 2 HyperV Service Profile Template 3 Linux ESX-01 ESX-03 ESX-07 ESX-08 ESX-02 ESX-04 ESX-05 ESX-06 HyperV-02 HyperV-03 HyperV-04 HyperV-05 HyperV-06 HyperV-07 HyperV-08 HyperV-01 Linux-04 Linux-05 Linux-06 Linux-03 Linux-01 Linux-02ESX-01 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 01… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075701 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-02 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 02… MAC: 08:00:69:02:02:FC WWN: 5080020000075702 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-03 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 03… MAC: 08:00:69:02:03:FC WWN: 5080020000075703 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-04 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 04… MAC: 08:00:69:02:04:FC WWN: 5080020000075704 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-05 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 05 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:05:FC WWN: 5080020000075705 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-06 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 06 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:06:FC WWN: 5080020000075706 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-07 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 07 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:07:FC WWN: 5080020000075707 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-08 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 08 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:08:FC WWN: 5080020000075708 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On
Cisco Confidential 21© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 22© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Planning • UCS Education: Overview • UCS Education: UCS Technical Orientation • Supported Environments • Site and Power Planning • LAN Planning • SAN Planning • Boot Devices • Test Environments
Cisco Confidential 23© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 Initial exposure to UCS architecture and components. 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 Technical exposure to the system including review of the architecture, installation, maintenance, and control of the environment. 3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing
Cisco Confidential 24© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Insure you are implementing a supported solution • Most current OS and hardware is supported but check versions and caveats. • B-Series Interoperability – Includes most B-Series and C-Series UCS Manager integrated UCS hardware, adapters, and OS support. • C-Series Interoperability – Includes standalone rack server hardware, adapters, and OS support. • Storage Interoperability – Includes the support for attachment to storage including storage devices and SAN switches. • Some hardware not on the Cisco Interoperability Matrix’s may be supported by those vendors with UCS. Check with your hardware vendor. • Cisco may approve unique environments via RPQ process Supported Environments
Cisco Confidential 25© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Review the site planning guide for physical requirements • Most equipment comes with rails designed for 4 post racks. 3rd party for 2 post racks. • Insure you have the power whips in place or get them installed. Identify and label them. • Insure you have racks or order Cisco racks. • Insure you have PDUs or order Cisco PDUs. Order the right power cords for the devices! • Management arms are ordered as options for the rack servers and are usually not configured. • If your rack has square holes you will need a square hold adapter kit: N20-CRMK2-RHA=) • Rack mounting screws are only included with the racks. Cisco sells them separately. • RACK-FASTEN-001= Mounting screws (qty 100), M6 and RACK-FASTEN-002= Cage nuts (qty 50), M6 • Insure the site infrastructure team is available during the install • Physically connects the new hardware and PDUs to the infrastructure • Run any physical wires (ideally this is done in advance) Site and Power Planning
Cisco Confidential 26© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • LAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS. • Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc). • Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance. • Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation. • LAN addressing planning • 3 addresses for Fabric Interconnects and cluster. • 1 address for each server considering growth – 1 address for each SP if remote booting. • Insure the LAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure. • Configuring northbound switches, port channels, vPC’s, Jumbo frames, and appropriate vLANs. LAN Planning
Cisco Confidential 27© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • SAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS • Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc) • Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance • Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation. • Insure the SAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure • If planning to attach UCS directly to a FC storage device, insure it’s on Storage Interop Matrix. • If attaching UCS to a FC switch, enabling NPIV on the switch if not already enabled • If attaching UCS to a Cisco MDS FC switch, use port channels when possible • Allocating storage for boot and/or storage luns (including iSCSI and NFS connections). • Zoning service profiles/vHBA’s to storage. Directly connected FC storage can “auto-zone” SAN Planning
Cisco Confidential 28© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Boot Devices Small OS footprint (ESX, Linux, etc) 1. Boot from SAN (Stateless) 2. Boot from LAN (Stateless) 3. Secure Digital (SD)* 4. USB* 5. Hard Drives (HDD) 6. Solid State Drives (SSD) 7. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless) Large OS footprint (Windows) 1. Boot from SAN (Stateless) 2. Hard Drives (HDD) 3. Solid State Drives (SSD) 4. Boot from LAN (Stateless)? 5. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless) 6. Secure Digital (SD)? 7. USB? Don’t forget to order your OS/boot device!
Cisco Confidential 29© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Test environments are a great idea but not required • Most small customers do not choose to implement a test environment. • Most medium to large customers do choose to implement a test environment. • Advantages to a test environment • Impact of changes – Better enables you to determine and plan for change impacts. • Test new solutions – Testing is best done in non-production environments. • Flexibility – Test systems can be borrowed to grow production while orders in process. • Training – Staff has real hardware available for education and training. Test Environments
Cisco Confidential 30© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Planning • UCS Overview – Get exposed to the architecture concepts • UCS Technical Orientation – Get exposed to the GUI and concepts (UCSPE) • Supported Environments – Make sure what you want to do is supported • Site and Power Planning – Insure you have the right power in the right place • LAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available • SAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available • Boot Devices – Understand how you will boot your servers short and long term • Test Environments – Consider an environment for lab and test use
Cisco Confidential 31© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Interoperability Matrix • B-Series and C-Series: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html • Storage: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html • UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool: http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html • UCS Site Planning Guide • http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/site-prep-guide/ucs_site_prep.html • UCS Power Calculator • http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com/ • UCS Health Check • Description: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-health-check • Review items: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist • UCS Setup Prerequisites • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-prerequisites UCS Planning Resources
Cisco Confidential 32© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 33© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education: Mentored Installation • Operating Systems • Naming Conventions • Pools and Addresses • Templates • Policies • Fabric Failover • Redundancy Check • Stateless Computing UCS Installation
Cisco Confidential 34© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 3. Mentored install (~6-16 hours): Day 0 • A UCS expert mentors the admin team through the installation process using best practices. It starts with an un-configured system and ends with a fully configured and functioning system that’s fully tested for redundancy. Demo statelessness. 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0+~90 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing
Cisco Confidential 35© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Plan for the OS’s that will initially be installed on UCS. Consider installing other OS’s you might later decide to use while your mentor is there to help build the policies and templates. • VMware optimized installation media for Cisco. We highly recommend that you use those versions. • From the VMware web site 1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware 2. Click the Custom ISOs tab 3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs 4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column. • Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner 4.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U3 5.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U3 5.1: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U3 5.5: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U2 6.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 6.0 GA • Other OS vendors may provide Cisco optimized media in the future. Operating Systems
Cisco Confidential 36© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Most objects can’t be renamed in UCS. • Single exception is Service Profiles when recent firmware is installed. • Service Profile Templates can be cloned with a new name which can accomplish a similar result. • Names in UCS should make sense to anyone using UCS. • Create a standard and stick with it. • Name should describe what an object is used for. • Service Profile Template and Bios policy names should usually include some versioning detail. • Example names • Host firmware package: ESX-Host-Fw01 or 20140420_esx_fw • Service profile template: ESX-Host-Tu01 Naming Conventions
Cisco Confidential 37© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Use pools for all addressing • Local addressing is possible but is strongly discouraged. • Sequential pools are non-default option but often desirable. • Make them big enough for a bunch of servers. They are free! 256 or 512 is best. • Each UCS domain should have a set of unique pools defined • This is especially important if they may end up on the same network as one another. • For most environments use a minimal set of pools like the default pools (WWPN’s are exception). • For larger and more complex environments customers might find value using multiple pools to help identify workload types and interfaces via assigned addresses. • Be cautious with Server Pools • It’s best to avoid using pools except for larger for dynamic environments. Pools and Addresses
Cisco Confidential 38© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Policies are rules which define settings in service profiles. • Policies exist in Servers, LAN, and SAN areas of the GUI. • Should avoid changing policies if used in production especially bios policies. Create new policy that incorporates old settings and new settings. Change the policy used in the Service Profile Templates. This allows fast and reliable rollback of previously good settings. • Server Policies • Maintenance policy default: SHOULD BE CHANGED TO USER-ACK. • Host Firmware Package: Should generally be set on all service profiles and service profile templates. • Bios policy: Do not set settings you are not sure about. Set things you know for sure you want. • Local disk policy: Be sure to select protect configuration so disassociation does not zero hard disks. Policies
Cisco Confidential 39© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Templates one of the most useful things in UCS. • They insure consistency by reducing human error and steps to provision • They ease operations by reducing the number of management touch points • Avoid changing production Service Profile Templates. Clone the template and modify the clone. • Templates available • vNIC Templates: Used to consistently create LAN interfaces on servers. Almost always use! • vHBA Templates: Used to consistently create FC interfaces on servers. Almost always use! • Service Profile Templates: Used to consistently create service profiles. Almost always use! • Types of templates • Initial: Template values are copied into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent changes to the template DO NOT effect the previously deployed objects. • Updating : Template values and linked into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent changes to the template ARE deployed to previously deployed objects. Templates
Cisco Confidential 40© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Use EITHER fabric failover or teamed vSwitch configuration with hypervisors • Almost always used with non-virtualized bare-metal workloads. • Almost never used with hypervisor platforms. • Configured in the vNIC or via the vNIC template in the LAN tab. Remember use a vNIC template. • Best practice is to avoid unique vNIC configuration. Primarily use vNIC templates. • Requires adapter with built-in capabilities. • All VIC models ever made • Older M71 adapters (no longer sold) • Does not apply to FC traffic • Use SAN multipathing software for equivalent function on FC networks regardless of the adapter type. Fabric Failover
Cisco Confidential 41© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Fabric Failover: Hypervisor Configuration Examples Traffic Type vSwitch Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Hypervisor Management vSwitch 1 Standard frames Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming Hypervisor Migration vSwitch 2 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Passive/Active teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming Storage Networking vSwitch 3 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming Storage Networking vSwitch 4 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming VM Networking vSwitch 5 to X Standard frames No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming Do NOT use both Fabric Failover AND multiple vNICs with Hypervisor/OS teaming If configured correctly the Hypervisor Migration traffic will stay on a single fabric Option 2 most closely matches vSwitch configuration of competitive solutions
Cisco Confidential 42© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Insure you are redundant as a “system” not just as a platform • Test redundancy before going into production by creating physical and logical failures and insuring a test workload stays online • Periodically retest the system when major changes are made if opportunity allows. • Perform redundancy tests with a test workload. Avoid testing with production workloads. • Basic tests • Survive Fabric Interconnect failure. • Survive power failure of fabric, chassis, and servers. • Survive multiple uplink failures of LAN and SAN. • Survive downlink failures between fabric and chassis and servers. • A link to a couple web pages with example redundancy tests can be found at the end of this section. Redundancy Checks
Cisco Confidential 43© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Stateless Computing is the idea of not embedding the OS onto the server by installing it on local media. This allows the UCS service profile to be migrated to another server seamlessly. It’s generally pretty quick to get setup and tested. • Stateless boot methods: • Boot from SAN (FC) • Boot from iSCSI • Boot from LAN Stateless Computing
Cisco Confidential 44© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Mentored installation – Flatten the learning curve with a mentored installation. • Operating Systems – Make sure they are available. Use Cisco versions! • Naming Conventions – Each object’s name should describe it’s use. • Pools and Addresses – Plan for expansion. Don’t complicate without value. • Templates– Almost always use templates. Updating preferred if used carefully. • Policies – ALWAYS change default maintenance policy to user-ack. • Fabric Failover – Use fabric failover only when you need to. • Redundancy Check – Test the “system” for high availability. • Stateless Computing – Check it out during the install. UCS Installation
Cisco Confidential 45© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • VMware optimized installation media for Cisco • From the VMware web site 1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware 2. Click the Custom ISOs tab 3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs 4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column. • Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner • Redundancy check • Basic: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist#Section-09 • Advanced: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-test-redundancy • Boot from SAN troubleshooting • Article: UCS Boot-from-SAN Troubleshooting with the Cisco VIC (Part 2) UCS Installation Resources
Cisco Confidential 46© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 47© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education: Installation Refresher • UCS Education: Health Check • UCS Education: Training and Certifications • Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access • User Accounts and Access • Backups • Call Home • Fault Monitoring • Firmware Management UCS Maintenance
Cisco Confidential 48© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90 1. Engages a UCS expert to review of a system and staff skill and knowledge of the system. The goal is to insure that admin staff is completely comfortable in working with the system and develop plan to close remaining skills gaps. 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 1. A UCS expert to review an already running and configured UCS system including the latest practices in use, current configuration, and review for potential issues. 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing 1. Insure your team is equipped to know the latest about the UCS product as well as educate new team members.
Cisco Confidential 49© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Education: Cisco has great training partners to provide UCS Education • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do • Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT) • Installing Cisco UC on UCS in a Virtualized Environment • Configuring Cisco Data Center Unified Computing(DCUCS) • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing System C-Series Troubleshooting (DCUCSCTS) • Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD) • Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) • Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCT) • UCS Certifications • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist • Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist • Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Implementation and Administration Specialist UCS Education and Certifications
Cisco Confidential 50© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Sub-Organization are used for role based access and security • Avoid using them unless you need to restrict users access to some objects. • Should not be used to “mimic” an active directory. The simpler the layout the better. • Create objects (policies/pools/templates) that will be used in multiple Sub-Organization units as close to the root as possible. Users with Sub-Organization can use the policies in the root rather than creating unique policies. • Role based access • There are pre-defined roles defined in UCS. The documentation details each of these roles. • Unique roles can be created to allow more refined access. • An individual user can be restricted to both Role and OU. • For example when using both a role and an OU you can make it so a specific user can only impact power on a specific server. Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access
Cisco Confidential 51© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Authentication methods • UCS Directory integration is excellent. Try it out! • Local authentication is great as well. • Most customers do both local and directory based authentication. • Latest firmware allows two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager logins. • User accounts • Users should be logging in as themselves. UCS allows multiple admin users. • Admin local account should be reserved only for emergencies. • User rights • Give a user only the level of access required to accomplish their job role. User Accounts and Access
Cisco Confidential 52© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • When to backup • Where: Admin Tab > All object – Found in general and Policy Backup & Export sections. • Backup your system before ANY and ALL major changes (and some minor ones). • Backup your system periodically regardless of change being made • Automated backup available through Admin tab of UCS Manager GUI. • Automated backup through UCS Central. • Types of backups • Do BOTH full configuration and all configuration backups • Full configuration creates a full binary backup of the UCS environment. Full restore only. • All configuration creates an XML data backup of all UCS objects. Partial restore option. Backups
Cisco Confidential 53© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • It can (you choose what it does): • Send emails to any email addresses alerting to failures or thresholds. • Automatically contact Cisco and proactively open a case in the event of a failure. • Notify Cisco of your inventory so Cisco has better data for parts stocking purposes. • Send anonymous reporting data of features being used on your system. • Additional details from the offering description • Cisco® Smart Call Home is an automated support capability that provides continuous monitoring, proactive diagnostics, alerts, and remediation recommendations on select Cisco devices • Smart Call Home can help identify and resolve issues more quickly to achieve higher network availability and increased operational efficiency. This capability is available with an active support contract for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) Call Home
Cisco Confidential 54© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Your system should be free (or relatively free) of faults. • Understand the faults you have • Resolve the ones you can resolve • Develop a plan to resolve the rest • Call Home and SNMP can let you know when you have faults. • Fix faults before making any major changes to your system • Don’t forget your backups before AND after a major cleanup. • Faults often indicate important problems where changes could cause an outage. Fault Monitoring
Cisco Confidential 55© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • When to consider updating firmware • There’s a new feature you want to use • There’s a bug fixed in the old firmware you want to address • There’s a new server model you want to install that is newer than the current firmware • Your firmware is 6 months old and are planning for maintenance. • How to upgrade firmware • Review and understand defects in release notes before upgrading. • Maintenance window is not required if the system is properly configured for redundancy. • Use auto install for infrastructure. Faults should clear before acknowledging the pending activity. • Use policies to install server firmware (through default policy and/or template-based policy). • Update a small number of servers and let them run for a few days before doing the rest. Firmware Management
Cisco Confidential 56© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education – Make sure you know what you are supposed to. • Health Check – Get a periodic review of your system from an expert. • Training and Certifications – Lots of great certification offerings for UCS. • Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access – Used to restrict access • User Accounts and Access – Everyone shouldn’t be using “admin” • Backups – Before major changes and periodically. Setup auto-backup. • Call Home – Please turn it on! It’s there to help. • Fault Monitoring – Your global fault values should all be 0’s. • Firmware Management – Yearly or when needed. Bug fixes, New features? UCS Maintenance
Cisco Confidential 57© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Backing up your UCS • UCS Central Best Practices Guide: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-32030 • Unofficial manual documentation: http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/03/cisco-ucs-b-series-infrastructure.html • Unofficial automated documentation: http://www.laneroush.com/automated-cisco-ucs-backup/ • UCS Call Home Configuration: • Smart Call Home Quick Start Configuration Guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/smart_call_home/QuickStart_UCS.pdf • Official documentation: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2- 2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_1_chapter_0101110.html • Education resources • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do • Ciscoquicklinks: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Training UCS Maintenance Resources
Cisco Confidential 58© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 59© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Entitlement – Be sure the hardware is properly registered with Cisco. • CCO – Be sure the people that will open cases are tied to the hardware. • Proactive entitlement – Open online case with SN’s and ask to validate • Online case – Cases can be opened online as sev-3 then escalated via phone. • Follow-the-sun – UCS support moves around the world through the day. • Escalation – If unhappy with support ask to be reassigned or a duty manager. • Cisco User Community – Lots of resources provided by Cisco and others • Other external resources – Details on additional external resources UCS Support
Cisco Confidential 60© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco User Community • Web Based End User Community • http://communities.cisco.com/ucs • Tools, Downloads, Examples • UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE) • goUCS Automation Tool • XML API, PowerShell code Examples • Cisco UCS PowerTool (PowerShell Module) • Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCVMM UI Extension for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCO Integration Pack for Cisco UCS • Documentation • Programming & Developer Guides • Whitepapers • Reference Guides (XML Model, Faults) • Collaboration • Blogs, Peer to peer forums, Videos, Access to Cisco, Subject Matter Experts Free!!
Cisco Confidential 61© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO). Install firmware on C-Series. • SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO). Install OS & run diagnostics on C-Series. • Cisco Driver Update Utility – Install and upgrade UCS drivers for your OS. • UCS Diagnostics (bootable ISO) – Test your B-Series server • UCSPE – UCS Platform Emulator • UCS PowerTool – Powershell tools for UCS • UCS Performance Manager – Single console visibility into UCS for performance monitoring and capacity planning including ties app performance to physical and virtual performance. • UCS Central – Manage and control multiple UCS domains together. • UCS Director - Replaces manual data center provisioning with automated workflows to increase IT consistency and speed. Replaces multiple consoles with single console. Users can self-provision. Tools
Cisco Confidential 62© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Diagnostics Enhanced User diagnostic capabilities Memory Noise, Random Address tests ECC, DIMM SPD error tests March, Walk, Address NUMA Storage S.M.A.R.T, Background Self Tests Hard Drive/Logical Drive Tests PCI and Board Mgmt PCI Bus Tests, CIMC Self Test, I2C Bus Test CPU Temperature, Stress tests Cache Validation tests Calculation, QPI Link Tests Network Adapter Adapter Tests – Loopback, Register, EEPROM, Interrupt Link Tests • UCS Diagnostics is focused on improved visibility of UCS HW • Provides customers the ability to do RMA verifications, burn-in tests on HW onsite • Highlight of diagnostics requirements shown here • A standalone utility initially - integration with UCSM may happen in the future UCS diagnostic capabilities for greater visibility and predictability at a user level UCS Diagnostics Available
Cisco Confidential 63© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 63 UCS Platform Emulator  Full-featured emulator for the UCS Manager  Installs as a virtual machine  Provides complete support for all XML API calls  Object browser to peruse the UCSM model  Import and replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory  Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators  Drag-and-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory  Use cases: Developers, dry-run changes, training, demonstrations  Download at: http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe
Cisco Confidential 64© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper • Cmdlet definition and structure • Get-help support • .NET UCS Namespace Library • XML API call construction • Class Definition • Validation • PowerShell Design • .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration • Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware Cisco UCS PowerTool Module UCS .NET Namespace UCS XML API cmdlets
Cisco Confidential 65© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Single console for device health and performance monitoring (Compute, Network, Storage and Hosts) • Out of the box configurations, thresholds to prevent under provisioning and resource constraints • Quickly identify degraded/disabled components, Identify bottlenecks, detect performance anomalies • Integrated Infrastructure Capacity planning • Trends/graphs, Reporting, filtering, search • Scalable and modular system for easy expansion • Simple to install, configure, use UCS Performance Manager Features and Capabilities
Cisco Confidential 66© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Performance Manager Differentiators • Works across compute, storage, network, and defined workloads • Supports VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod, EMC VSPEX, and Cisco custom designs Unified Infrastructure View • Rapid deployment • No agents • Web user interface Immediate Value Pre-configured: Focused Analytics • Optimized for UCS Fabric • Finds constrained resources and identifies contributing components and configuration issues Integrated Infrastructure Performance Management and Assurance
Cisco Confidential 67© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Microsoft Integration - System Center 2012 and SCCVM integration – • VMware Integration – vCenter plugin gives visibility into UCS from VMware • Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS – Manage UCS from Oracle • Openstack integration – UCS Automation with Openstack • Other integrations – There are many integrations are available Integrations
Cisco Confidential 68© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • http://software.cisco.com/download/type.html?mdfid=283850978&catid=282558030 Download Management Packs from Cisco.com
Cisco Confidential 69© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Downloads:  All integrations  UCS Platform Emulator  Scripting samples  Perl  PowerShell  Python  Documentation:  Reference guides  Training guides  Collaboration:  Blogs  Peer to peer forums  Access Cisco experts Free!! http://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations
Cisco Confidential 70© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 71© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Resources • Cisco Worldwide Contacts - For customers with contracts, Cisco provides around-the-clock, award-winning technical support services, online and by phone. • TAC Support Case Manager - Open a case with Cisco TAC online • Service Programs & Acquisitions - Describes Cisco UCS support offerings including details on hard drive retention. • Cisco SMARTnet Service for Cisco Unified Computing System Describes via downloadable PDF Cisco UCS support options. • Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the B-Series platform • Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the C-Series rack server platform • Cisco UCS interoperability matrix list - Detailed UCS compatibility information for hardware and software. • Cisco UCS Storage Interoperability Matrix - Detailed UCS storage compatibility information for hardware and software. • Cisco UCS Management Emulator (UCSPE) - Enveloped to enable the use of Cisco UCS Manager and the UCS XML API without physical hardware. UCS Resources
Cisco Confidential 72© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. http://ciscoquicklinks.com
Cisco Confidential 73© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 74© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Lifecycle transition plan • We will continue to offer and sell B200/C220/C240 M3 through at least end of Calendar 2016 • We will continue to provide service and support for B200/C220/C240 M3 through end of Calendar 2021 (5 years after last sell date) • We will sell key options such as CPU and memory and VICs for at least 12-18 months past the last sell date of the B200/C220/C240 M3 (~End of Calendar year 2017 to Mid Calendar 2018)
Cisco Confidential 75© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Tick-Tock Development Model Cisco’s B200/C220/C240 M4 lines up with Grantley/Haswell (“Tock”) and its future Broadwell “Tick” that follows Haswell
Cisco Confidential 76© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Key Differences Between E5-2600 v2 & E5-2600 v3
Cisco Confidential 77© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.
Cisco Confidential 78© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.
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Cisco Confidential 81© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DDR4 More Performance Integer Operation Floating Point Operation 39%29% * Benchmark result (16GB 2DPC@DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V) DDR3 DDR3 DDR4DDR4
Cisco Confidential 82© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DDR4 Lower Power Consumption Memory Power System Power DDR3 1.35V DDR3 DDR4 DDR4 1.2V *Condition: 16GB 2DPC@ DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V 15% 6%
Cisco Confidential 83© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS E5-xxxx B2xx and C2xx M4 CPU Options Select one or two Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 product family CPUs Some vendors are challenged by the higher power requirements making customers compromise between CPU model and memory quantity The MORE CPU you have, The More Memory you need!
Cisco Confidential 84© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. B200 M4  Key Competitive Compares NOTE: DIMM slots 4 and 5 are not accessible when either the E5-2699 v3, the E5-2697 v3, the E5-2643 v3, the E5- 2637 v3, or the E5-2667 v3 is used. In a 2 processor configuration, there are twelve (12) total available DIMM slots. Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D
Cisco Confidential 85© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. B200 M4  Key Competitive Compares Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D
Cisco Confidential 86© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Performance Scalability UCS Products 1 RU, Compact All in one Server Distributed environments – Small Retail, Healthcare, Education UCS E-Series 1RU-4RU, Integrated Compute, Network and Storage Storage and compute intensive environments UCS C-Series 6 RU, High Compute resources Central Management, External Storage Regional Data Centers, Large Retail Industrial, Healthcare, Enterprise, Commercial UCS Mini UCS “Classic” or “Scalable” 6 RU, Compute intensive Dedicated External Storage Large scale Data Centers
Cisco Confidential 87© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications UCS C460 M4 4 RU - Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM Slots - 10 PCIe Slots Mission-Critical Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications UCS C240 M4 2 RU - Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 6 PCIe Slots – up to 26 HDD Optimal Platform for Big Data, ERP, and Database Applications UCS C220 M4 1 RU – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 2 PCIe Slots – up to 8 HDD Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server Half-Width Blade – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - up to 80Gb of IO Ideal for Bare Metal Enterprise, VDI, or Dense Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads UCS B200 M4 UCS B420 M4 Full-Width Blade - Four E5v3 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO Dense 4-Socket Blade for -Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B260 M4 Full-Width Blade – Two E7v2 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for CPU- Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B460 M4 Double-Height Blade – Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM Slots – Up to 320Gb of IO Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for CPU- Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS C3160 4 RU - Two E5v2 CPUs – 16 DIMM Slots – up to 60 LFF HDD - up to 240TB Ideal for large unstructured data repositories, media streaming and content distribution UCS M-Series 2 RU – 16 E3v3 Servers –4 DIMMs / Server - up to 32 Cores / RU Designed for Cloud Scale Applications and Deployment
Cisco Confidential 88© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS B200 M4 Blade Server An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 80GbE of I/O One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of workloads from web infrastructure to distributed database. • World-record performance • Provides enterprise-level capabilities without configuration constraints UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise –Class, Blade Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
Cisco Confidential 89© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. IO/Infrastructure configurations – support matrix
Cisco Confidential 90© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS B420 M4 Blade Server A density-conscious quad-socket blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a full blade form-factor 48 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 160GbE of I/O Three PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features • Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform Four Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 family processors UCS B420 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise –Class, Blade Server
Cisco Confidential 91© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS M4 Scalable EX Blade A scalable and flexible blade server perfectly suited for a wide range of resource intensive and mission critical applications 48 to 96 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 320GbE of I/O Via PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features • Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform Two or Four Intel® Xeon® E7 v3 family processors UCS B260 M4 UCS B460 M4
Cisco Confidential 92© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a dense 1RU form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options Two PCIe 3.0 Slots One PCIe slot “VIC- Optimized” Security Bezel Optional Cisco FlexStorage Up to 8 SFF or 4 LFF drives • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Ultimate density-optimized, modular general compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities and features • Standalone or UCS-managed operations UCS C220 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
Cisco Confidential 93© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 2RU form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options Six PCIe 3.0 Slots Four Full / Full - Four NCSI Security Bezel Optional Cisco FlexStorage Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF +2 SFF boot drives • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization, big data, and bare metal applications • Ultimate configurable, modular general compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities and features • Standalone or UCS-managed operations UCS C240 M4 Storage and IO-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
Cisco Confidential 94© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. C3160 Rack Storage Server Bare Metal and Virtualization • High-density local disk combined with modular high-performance compute • Dual processor server with up to 360TB in a compact 4U Form Factor Capacity Optimized Server UCS C3000 Series Rack Server Family • Large scale content storage and data repositories • Distributed file-systems • Big Data and Hadoop applications • Media streaming and transcoding BIG DATA Single / Dual Server Dual CPU socket per server Up to 1TB Memory 512GB per server Up to 64 Drive Bays 60 LFF, plus 4 SFF 4GB RAID Cache Enterprise storage features Dual Modular LOM (mLOM) Multiple Connectivity Options Security Bezel Optional Openstack
Cisco Confidential 95© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Modular Architecture of the UCS C3160 Drives: Top Load 4 Rows of 14 drives - 56 drives 1 to 4 rows of 4TB/6TB HD 1 row of 7 or 14 Enterprise SSD FANS 8 hot-pluggable fans Server Node 2x E5-2600 V2 CPUs 128/256GB RAM 1GB/4GB RAID Cache Optional Disk Expansion 4x hot-swappable rear-load LFF 4TB/6TB HDD OS/Boot Drives Two 120GB SSDs System I/O Controller (SIOC) Cisco mLOM Slot Power Supply 4 hot-pluggable PSUs
Cisco Confidential 96© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco C880 M4 Rack Server High Performance Analytics Platform Built with SAP HANA in Mind 192 DDR3 DIMM Slots Up to 1866 MHz speeds UCS Director Integration For Scale up and Scale out configurations Specific SAP HANA Configurations 2TB and 6TB – Scale up and Scale out SAP configs that will be certified for 8 socket • 2T stand alone • 6T stand alone • 2T with EMC/NTAP • 6T with EMC/NTAP • 2T Scale OUT cluster with EMC Cisco C880 M4 8-Socket Server for SAP HANA Eight Intel® Xeon® E7-8890 v2 processors
Cisco Confidential 97© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS M-Series True Server Disaggregation Compact Chassis 8 Compute cartridges Shared Local Resources Network and storage resources Lightweight Compute Cartridge Two Independent Intel Xeon E3 Servers No adapters or HDDs Based on Cisco System Link Technology 3rd Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server Shared Local Resources Four shared SSDs in the chassis Shared dual 40Gb connectivity Compute Density 16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis Each cartridge holds two independent compute nodes
Cisco Confidential 98© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Built upon the C240M3 platform • Converged target (FC/iSCSI) and media management (BTL) • Workgroup / POD focused 250,000 IOPS 1.9 GB/s Bandwidth Up to 24 TB RAW Cisco UCS Invicta Series UCS Invicta Appliance Application Acceleration Data Optimization Multiple Workloads Tuning-Free Performance
Cisco Confidential 99© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Innovative UCS I/O Cards Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs • IO consolidation, scale, and flexibility managed by UCSM • Industry-leading performance • Robust ecosystem with storage and OS qualifications • Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and CNAs • Fiber and copper interfaces • Broad support for most popular operating systems and storage • Tier-0 storage/server side flash • High performance: 100K + IOPS • Significantly reduce application latency and response time • GPU acceleration for VDI • Rich graphics experience on thin clients • GPU pass through or sharing for 20 users or more
Cisco Confidential 100© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
Cisco Confidential 101© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 102© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. XML API UCS Is Redefining Server Management 10,000 UCS Servers: Monitor and Manage Seamlessly Third PartyUCS CLI + UCS Manager + UCS Central + UCS Director goUCS Automation Tools CDN .NET/ Windows PowerShell Python, Perl XML UCS M Data Center 1 UCS M Single UCS Domain UCS M Data Centers 3, 4 .... UCS M Data Center 2 Customer Blade and rack servers in the same domain— form factor agnostic Standards-based XML API presents bidirectional single interface to entire solution UCS offers the customers the broadest choice of Cisco or third-party management tools UCS ManagerCLI UCS Central UCS Director
Cisco Confidential 103© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Manager 3.0: HTML5 support
Cisco Confidential 104© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
Cisco Confidential 105© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Management Embedded and Centralization
Cisco Confidential 106© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC Overview • Key Features: • Out of Band management controller (Includes KVM/Media) • Always On (standby power) • XML API Interface to CIMC • Provides Integration to UCSM • Provides HTML GUI or SSH CLI management • Configure BIOS Settings • Configure BIOS Boot Order • HW Inventory • Power controls/policy; Launch KVM and remote media (included) • Monitor hardware events; configure to send SNMP/Syslog events • Centralized Authentication CIMC Software runs on Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) Embedded on the System Board
Cisco Confidential 107© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC Remote KVM and Remote Media • Included feature of ALL UCS servers • No extra hardware or keys to purchase • Remote KVM • Launched from CIMC toolbar or server summary page • Can be used access any boot utilities (e.g. Boot menu, BIOS, CIMC config, network boot) • Remote Media • Provides a way to mount and ISO or IMG file from local workstation to be used by server. • Eliminates the need to install media in an optical drive or to physically be present wit the server. • Presented to BIOS as a virtual CD/DVD for boot. • Requires USB ports to be active.
Cisco Confidential 108© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility (hereafter referred to as the "HUU") is a tool that you can use to upgrade the firmware on one or multiple Cisco UCS C-Series servers. • Selective Upgrade of drivers is also possible. • SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (UCS SCU) is an application that helps you easily set up manage and run diagnostics your servers from a single application • Cisco Driver Update Utility • The Cisco Driver Update Utility enables you to install or update drivers for all supported devices. • Install driver updates individually or collectively • UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool • http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html Add on Tools for System Management
Cisco Confidential 109© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Management Embedded and Centralization Cisco IMC Supervisor
Cisco Confidential 110© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Reduce costs and increase efficiency in managing Cisco Standalone Servers Platforms Supported: • C-Series M3 & M4 Servers • E-Series M1 & M2 Servers IMC Supervisor Core Features: • Platform Hardware Inventory • Hardware Health Status • vKVM Launcher (Incl. vMedia) • Firmware Inventory + Mgmt • Call Home (E-mail Alerting) Scale: FCS Target: 1,000 Servers PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! 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Cisco Confidential 111© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Grouping Group Servers Listed Group Members
Cisco Confidential 112© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Health & Faults Fault views are available: - Global View - Group View - Server View
Cisco Confidential 113© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Tagging Create tags and associate to servers. Tagged servers can be queried and actions performed on groups
Cisco Confidential 114© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Discovery Discover servers by: - Server IP - IP Range - Subnet Mask - CSV List
Cisco Confidential 115© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Action Perform activities by server including: - Power On/Off - Reset - Power Cycle - Launch KVM - Launch GUI - Turn-on Locator LED - Set User Label - Set Tag(s)
Cisco Confidential 116© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Inventory Server view includes: - Summary Data - Inventory by Subsystem(s)
Cisco Confidential 117© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Embedded and Centralization UCS Manager Mini Domain x Cisco IMC Supervisor
Cisco Confidential 118© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Manager GUI UCS Manager CLI Packaged Systems Management Software User Developed Portal, Tools, Utilities … Embedded Device Manager • Discovery, inventory, monitoring, diagnostics, statistics collection, configuration Unifies many UCS HW components into a single, cohesive system • Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric interconnects APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure • SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP • XML SDK for commercial and custom implementations Key feature: Service profiles • Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints
Cisco Confidential 119© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper • Cmdlet definition and structure • Get-help support • .NET UCS Namespace Library • XML API call construction • Class Definition • Validation • PowerShell Design • .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration • Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware Cisco UCS PowerTool Module UCS .NET Namespace UCS XML API cmdlets
Cisco Confidential 120© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Embedded and Centralization Cisco IMC Supervisor UCS Manager Mini Domain x
Cisco Confidential 121© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. All Workloads, Common Platform Unified Management Big Data Cluster UCS Manager Data Center 6 Scale-Out Apps Data Center 3 UCS Manager Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Data Center 2 Test Dev Exchange vSphere UCS Manager Virtualized Servers and Apps Data Center 4 Test Dev ExchangeTest Dev Exchange Tenant 1 Tenant 2 UCS Manager Cloud Data Center 1 SAP HANA Oracle E-Biz UCS Manager Performance Intensive, Scale-Up Apps Data Center 5 UCS Manager Web Server App Server E-commerce Platform E-Commerce Apps UCS Central
Cisco Confidential 122© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central: Inventory HW Inventory • Blade Type • CPU Type and Quantity • Memory DIMMs and serial numbers • Power Supply Information Logical Inventory • Service Profile • vNIC, vHBA, iSCSI vNIC System Inventory • Available Network VIFs, • VLAN • VSAN • VLAN port capacity • zone capacity Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch n Global Inventory Details
Cisco Confidential 123© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central: Standardization HW Configuration Policies • BIOS Settings • VLAN Settings • VNICs & VHBA Operational Polices • Date & Time: NTP, Timezone • DNS • Remote Access • SNMP • Debug Settings • Call Home • Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) • Equipment Power and SEL policies • Firmware Global Admin Policies Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch n
Cisco Confidential 124© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central Benefits Summary • Benefits for a Multiple Domains: • Information Dashboard • Inventory • Faults / Logs • KVM Launch • Statistics • Server Policies • Component Settings • Policy Subscription • Identifier / ID Pool Management • Multi-Domain Infrastructure Policies • Admin Settings & Enforcement • Workload Mobility • Global Service Profiles • Site Specific Settings • Benefits for a Single Domain: • Information Dashboard • Inventory • Faults / Logs • KVM Launch • Statistics Collection - Long term collection of Network/Power statistics • Planning for the future • Why migrate to UCS Central when you can start day one.
Cisco Confidential 125© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor UCS Manager Mini Domain x
Cisco Confidential 126© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
Cisco Confidential 127© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
Cisco Confidential 128© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution On-Demand Automated Delivery Policy-Driven Provisioning Secure Cloud Container VMsComputeNetwork Storage UCS Director Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines Storage Network Compute Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Virtualized and Bare-Metal Compute and Hypervisor B CA Network and Services VM VM Bare Metal Single Pane of Glass End-to-End Automation and Lifecycle Management
Cisco Confidential 129© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Automate Service Delivery Architect Design Where Can We Put It? Procure Install Configure Secure Is It Ready? Manual Capacity On-Demand Policy-Based Provisioning Adaptive From Weeks to Minutes Automated Self-Service Provisioning
Cisco Confidential 130© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Administrator’s Dashboard Rapid configuration and monitoring Customizable view Quick status across critical components
Cisco Confidential 131© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Rapid Detection and Resolution: Utilization Reports VM Count by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 Default Group DEMO-Group NumberofVMs <20% 20%-40% 40%-60% 60%-80% 80%-100% VM Utilization % by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Default Group DEMO-Group NumberofVMs Inactive VMs Active VMs
Cisco Confidential 132© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS On-Demand Trend Data
Cisco Confidential 133© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Converged Infrastructure View Rapidly View Converged Infrastructure Stacks
Cisco Confidential 134© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Self-Service Infrastructure Catalog Technical User Perspective Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure Role-based access for technical users
Cisco Confidential 135© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director for Integrated Infrastructure FlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX, and Vblock (Hitachi and more coming…) Define and manage resource pools Open API for 3rd Party Integration UCS Central Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning Consistent Management Across Pods Enforce Best Practices with Global UCS Policies UCS Director Available
Cisco Confidential 136© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS Director End-to-End Operations and Provisioning • Single-click provisioning • Intelligent resource allocation • Automated, controlled delivery Result: Improved time to market Minutes
Cisco Confidential 137© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Task Library Rapid Creation of Orchestration Workflows • Over 467 tasks across industry standard devices • Drag ‘n drop creation UCS Tasks • Select UCS Server • Reset UCS Server • Power On UCS Server • Power Off UCS Server • Create UCS Service Profile from Template • Create UCS Service Profile • Select UCS Service Profile • Modify UCS Service Profile Boot Policy • Delete UCS Service Profile • Associate UCS Service Profile • Disassociate UCS Service Profile • Create UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID • Clone UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy WWPN • Add VLAN • Delete UCS Boot Policy • Delete UCS VLAN • Add VLAN to Service Profile • Add iSCSI vNIC to Service Profile • Add vNIC to Service Profile • Delete vNIC from Service Profile • Create Service Profile iSCSI Boot Policy • Modify Service Profile Boot Policy to Boot from iSCSI
Cisco Confidential 138© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Reports • Workflow Service Status Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations
Cisco Confidential 139© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
Cisco Confidential 140© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
Cisco Confidential 141© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
Cisco Confidential 142© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
Cisco Confidential 143© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update. • Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c • Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431 UCS Overview and Update Webinar A simpler Solution for your IT Challenges
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Cisco datacenter ucs-best-practices_ddebussc_2015d

  • 1. Cisco UCS Best Practices Daniel DeBusschere Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer SLED Data Center +1 678-352-3792, ddebussc@cisco.com, @ddebuss Version: cisco_datacenter_ucs-best-practices_ddebussc_2015d Get the most out of your UCS environment
  • 2. Cisco Confidential 2© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Data Center CSE Profile • Daniel DeBusschere • Role: Cisco Datacenter Consulting Systems Engineer • Organization: Cisco SLED Data Center • Phone: 678-352-3792 • Email: ddebussc@cisco.com • Twitter: @ddebuss, #CiscoUCS • Web Site: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/ • Background: • Industry Experience: 23+ years (1992) • Joined Cisco: November 09, 2009 – 4 Months after UCS first shipped. • Overview: My entire 17+ year career at IBM was focused on technical selling to all types of customers including very large enterprises, SMB, SLED, and partner technical enablement. • Product areas: Assigned Regional Designated Specialist (RDS) in multiple technical skill areas including Systems Management, BladeCenter, Virtualization (including VMware), and high-end servers. • Publication: Co-writer of Implementing IBM Director Management Solutions, IBM Redbook, December 2001, 556 pages, ISBN-10: 0738423785. • Publication: Co-developer of IBM professional certification exam 000-079 System x IBM Director v5.2 • Certifications: Dozens of professional technical certifications from IBM, Microsoft, and Novell (most from IBM). • Education: Graduated with honors from Eastern Michigan University with degrees in Finance and Economics. • History: • 11/2009 – Present: Cisco Data Center Consulting Systems Engineer • 10/2000 – 11/2009: IBM BladeCenter, System x, iDataplex, xSeries Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS) • 02/1999 – 10/2000: IBM Netfinity Channel Technical Sales Specialist (CTSS), Advanced Technical Support (ATS) • 05/1996 – 02/1999: IBM K-12 Global Education Technical Sales Specialist • 09/1992 – 05/1996: IBM K-12 Global Education Marketing Sales and Services Specialist
  • 3. Cisco Confidential 3© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • The content here details the things that most customers need to watch for closely, occasionally have wrong, or they just plain didn’t know. There are additional hidden slides which will be available in the downloaded version of this presentation. • The full list of things I watch out for when reviewing a UCS system can be found on my web site at • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist About this Webinar
  • 4. Cisco Confidential 4© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update. • Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c • Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431 UCS Overview and Update Webinar A simpler Solution for your IT Challenges
  • 5. Cisco Confidential 5© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 6. Cisco Confidential 6© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 7. Cisco Confidential 7© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Unified Computing Modular, Stateless Computing Elements Unified Fabric Highly Scalable, Secure Network Fabric Unified Management Automated Resource Management (Physical and Virtual) Unified Cloud Networking Services Automated L4–7 Virtual Services Provisioning and Deployment Cisco Unified Data Center The Platform for Delivering Cloud Services OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE
  • 8. Cisco Confidential 8© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Center Economics 2% 7% 7% 10% 11% 12% 22% 29% Overhead Disaster Recovery Storage Networking Servers Energy/Facilities Software People Source: Gartner-Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio” of Overall IT Spent on OpEx (People, SW, and Facilities)
  • 9. Cisco Confidential 9© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Management – Product has equal or better management than competing product(s) with a focus on simplicity and admin effort. • Ask your partner or Cisco for a management demo • Capability – Product has equal or better capabilities and value than competing product(s). • Ask your partner or Cisco for a product overview and management demo • Cost – Product is equal or less expensive than competing product(s) INCLUDING support (SMARTnet). • Ask your partner and/or Cisco for competitive quote before purchasing a competitive solution. Cisco UCS Product Design Perspectives
  • 10. Cisco Confidential 10© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Unified Computing System Server Vendor World-record Performance Benchmarks to Date UCS Channel Partners Of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate Unique UCS Customers Americas Market Share in x86 Blades, #2 Worldwide 41k+ #1 $3B+ Top 5 >85% 3,850+ 100
  • 11. Cisco Confidential 11© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% SGI Hitachi Lenovo Dell IBM Cisco HP UCS # 2 with 26.3% Worldwide UCS momentum 41,000+ Unique Customers 19,500+ Repeat Customers X86 Server Blade Market Share CY 2014 Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014 Q4, March 2015, Vendor Revenue Share 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% SGI Lenovo IBM Dell HP Cisco UCS #1 with 39.0% US #1 in US for 2014 (39.0%), growing 28% YoY1 #2 Worldwide for 2014 (26.3%)1 growing 29% YoY1
  • 12. Cisco Confidential 12© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 23 CPU 17 Virtualization/ Cloud 7 Database 17 Enterprise Application 18 Enterprise Middleware 18 HPC Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document “Cisco Unified Computing System and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results” at http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/le_32801_pb_ucs_worldrecords.pdf Cisco UCS Performance: 100 Records World-Record Performance
  • 13. Cisco Confidential 13© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Data Center Silos Virtualization New Emerging Applications Why Have We Seen Such Momentum UCS Value Proposition Legacy Apps Web Apps Collaboration Apps Business Critical Apps Dev./Test Sandboxes Desktop Virtualization Private Public HYBRID Big Data & Business Analytics Mobile Applications Social Media Applications Back End Consumer Applications
  • 14. Cisco Confidential 14© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
  • 15. Cisco Confidential 15© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 16. Cisco Confidential 16© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Domain • A UCS Manager instance based on a pair of UCS Fabric Interconnects and all servers attached to it including any B-Series chassis, M-Series chassis, C-Series servers connected directly or through a Nexus 2232. • UCS Manager • Management interface to UCS in XML-API • UCS Manager GUI – Application used to configure UCS • UCS Manager CLI – CLI functionality of UCS Manager • Policy • A rule that consistenly configures the server, LAN, and SAN abstracting it from the server type, server age, and server size. Concepts, Definitions, and terms
  • 17. Cisco Confidential 17© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Pool • A group of identities that can be used once per UCS domain • Service Profile • A management definition that is used to apply all configuration options including Policies, Pools, vNIC templates, vHBA templates, Storage templates to a specific server. • Templates: • A template consistently configures service profiles for similar workloads • vHBA Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an HBA on a server • vNIC Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an NIC on a server • Service Profile Template - A template that can be used to consistently deploy service profiles. Can contain vHBA and vNIC templates. Concepts, Definitions, and terms
  • 18. Cisco Confidential 18© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Server related pools • Server Pool – Used to quickly assign multiple servers quickly. Avoid except for large similar envionrments. • UUID Pool - Used to assign UUID to the servers and is migrated when a service profile is migrated. Generally used for software licensing. • LAN related pools • IP Pool Ext-mgmt – Used to assign hardware management addresses to the servers • IP Pool iscsi-initiator-pool – Used to assign iSCSI addresses for iSCSI boot • MAC Pool - Used to assign MAC address to vNIC interfaces. Each MAC for each vNIC for each Service Profile should be configured to use addresses from MAC Pools. • SAN related pools • WWNN Pool – World Wide Node Name: Each server with a VIC and an HBA gets a WWNN. • WWPN Pool – World Wide Port Name: Each vHBA gets a WWPN for each HBA being presented to the OS. • IQN Pool – Used for iSCSI boot Concepts, Definitions, and terms
  • 19. Cisco Confidential 19© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Service Profiles Configuration Portability SIM Card Identity for a Phone Service Profile Identity for a Server UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management Network Policy Storage Policy Server Policy
  • 20. Cisco Confidential 20© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Promoting agility and consistency BIOS Policies Firmware Policies Boot Order Policies QoS Policies MAC Pools WWNN Pools Server Pools Service Profile Template 1 ESX Service Profile Template 2 HyperV Service Profile Template 3 Linux ESX-01 ESX-03 ESX-07 ESX-08 ESX-02 ESX-04 ESX-05 ESX-06 HyperV-02 HyperV-03 HyperV-04 HyperV-05 HyperV-06 HyperV-07 HyperV-08 HyperV-01 Linux-04 Linux-05 Linux-06 Linux-03 Linux-01 Linux-02ESX-01 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 01… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075701 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-02 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 02… MAC: 08:00:69:02:02:FC WWN: 5080020000075702 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-03 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 03… MAC: 08:00:69:02:03:FC WWN: 5080020000075703 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-04 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 04… MAC: 08:00:69:02:04:FC WWN: 5080020000075704 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-05 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 05 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:05:FC WWN: 5080020000075705 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-06 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 06 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:06:FC WWN: 5080020000075706 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-07 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 07 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:07:FC WWN: 5080020000075707 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On ESX-08 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 08 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:08:FC WWN: 5080020000075708 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On
  • 21. Cisco Confidential 21© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 22. Cisco Confidential 22© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Planning • UCS Education: Overview • UCS Education: UCS Technical Orientation • Supported Environments • Site and Power Planning • LAN Planning • SAN Planning • Boot Devices • Test Environments
  • 23. Cisco Confidential 23© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 Initial exposure to UCS architecture and components. 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 Technical exposure to the system including review of the architecture, installation, maintenance, and control of the environment. 3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing
  • 24. Cisco Confidential 24© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Insure you are implementing a supported solution • Most current OS and hardware is supported but check versions and caveats. • B-Series Interoperability – Includes most B-Series and C-Series UCS Manager integrated UCS hardware, adapters, and OS support. • C-Series Interoperability – Includes standalone rack server hardware, adapters, and OS support. • Storage Interoperability – Includes the support for attachment to storage including storage devices and SAN switches. • Some hardware not on the Cisco Interoperability Matrix’s may be supported by those vendors with UCS. Check with your hardware vendor. • Cisco may approve unique environments via RPQ process Supported Environments
  • 25. Cisco Confidential 25© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Review the site planning guide for physical requirements • Most equipment comes with rails designed for 4 post racks. 3rd party for 2 post racks. • Insure you have the power whips in place or get them installed. Identify and label them. • Insure you have racks or order Cisco racks. • Insure you have PDUs or order Cisco PDUs. Order the right power cords for the devices! • Management arms are ordered as options for the rack servers and are usually not configured. • If your rack has square holes you will need a square hold adapter kit: N20-CRMK2-RHA=) • Rack mounting screws are only included with the racks. Cisco sells them separately. • RACK-FASTEN-001= Mounting screws (qty 100), M6 and RACK-FASTEN-002= Cage nuts (qty 50), M6 • Insure the site infrastructure team is available during the install • Physically connects the new hardware and PDUs to the infrastructure • Run any physical wires (ideally this is done in advance) Site and Power Planning
  • 26. Cisco Confidential 26© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • LAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS. • Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc). • Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance. • Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation. • LAN addressing planning • 3 addresses for Fabric Interconnects and cluster. • 1 address for each server considering growth – 1 address for each SP if remote booting. • Insure the LAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure. • Configuring northbound switches, port channels, vPC’s, Jumbo frames, and appropriate vLANs. LAN Planning
  • 27. Cisco Confidential 27© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • SAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS • Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc) • Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance • Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation. • Insure the SAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure • If planning to attach UCS directly to a FC storage device, insure it’s on Storage Interop Matrix. • If attaching UCS to a FC switch, enabling NPIV on the switch if not already enabled • If attaching UCS to a Cisco MDS FC switch, use port channels when possible • Allocating storage for boot and/or storage luns (including iSCSI and NFS connections). • Zoning service profiles/vHBA’s to storage. Directly connected FC storage can “auto-zone” SAN Planning
  • 28. Cisco Confidential 28© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Boot Devices Small OS footprint (ESX, Linux, etc) 1. Boot from SAN (Stateless) 2. Boot from LAN (Stateless) 3. Secure Digital (SD)* 4. USB* 5. Hard Drives (HDD) 6. Solid State Drives (SSD) 7. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless) Large OS footprint (Windows) 1. Boot from SAN (Stateless) 2. Hard Drives (HDD) 3. Solid State Drives (SSD) 4. Boot from LAN (Stateless)? 5. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless) 6. Secure Digital (SD)? 7. USB? Don’t forget to order your OS/boot device!
  • 29. Cisco Confidential 29© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Test environments are a great idea but not required • Most small customers do not choose to implement a test environment. • Most medium to large customers do choose to implement a test environment. • Advantages to a test environment • Impact of changes – Better enables you to determine and plan for change impacts. • Test new solutions – Testing is best done in non-production environments. • Flexibility – Test systems can be borrowed to grow production while orders in process. • Training – Staff has real hardware available for education and training. Test Environments
  • 30. Cisco Confidential 30© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Planning • UCS Overview – Get exposed to the architecture concepts • UCS Technical Orientation – Get exposed to the GUI and concepts (UCSPE) • Supported Environments – Make sure what you want to do is supported • Site and Power Planning – Insure you have the right power in the right place • LAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available • SAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available • Boot Devices – Understand how you will boot your servers short and long term • Test Environments – Consider an environment for lab and test use
  • 31. Cisco Confidential 31© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Interoperability Matrix • B-Series and C-Series: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html • Storage: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html • UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool: http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html • UCS Site Planning Guide • http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/site-prep-guide/ucs_site_prep.html • UCS Power Calculator • http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com/ • UCS Health Check • Description: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-health-check • Review items: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist • UCS Setup Prerequisites • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-prerequisites UCS Planning Resources
  • 32. Cisco Confidential 32© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 33. Cisco Confidential 33© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education: Mentored Installation • Operating Systems • Naming Conventions • Pools and Addresses • Templates • Policies • Fabric Failover • Redundancy Check • Stateless Computing UCS Installation
  • 34. Cisco Confidential 34© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 3. Mentored install (~6-16 hours): Day 0 • A UCS expert mentors the admin team through the installation process using best practices. It starts with an un-configured system and ends with a fully configured and functioning system that’s fully tested for redundancy. Demo statelessness. 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0+~90 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing
  • 35. Cisco Confidential 35© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Plan for the OS’s that will initially be installed on UCS. Consider installing other OS’s you might later decide to use while your mentor is there to help build the policies and templates. • VMware optimized installation media for Cisco. We highly recommend that you use those versions. • From the VMware web site 1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware 2. Click the Custom ISOs tab 3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs 4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column. • Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner 4.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U3 5.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U3 5.1: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U3 5.5: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U2 6.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 6.0 GA • Other OS vendors may provide Cisco optimized media in the future. Operating Systems
  • 36. Cisco Confidential 36© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Most objects can’t be renamed in UCS. • Single exception is Service Profiles when recent firmware is installed. • Service Profile Templates can be cloned with a new name which can accomplish a similar result. • Names in UCS should make sense to anyone using UCS. • Create a standard and stick with it. • Name should describe what an object is used for. • Service Profile Template and Bios policy names should usually include some versioning detail. • Example names • Host firmware package: ESX-Host-Fw01 or 20140420_esx_fw • Service profile template: ESX-Host-Tu01 Naming Conventions
  • 37. Cisco Confidential 37© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Use pools for all addressing • Local addressing is possible but is strongly discouraged. • Sequential pools are non-default option but often desirable. • Make them big enough for a bunch of servers. They are free! 256 or 512 is best. • Each UCS domain should have a set of unique pools defined • This is especially important if they may end up on the same network as one another. • For most environments use a minimal set of pools like the default pools (WWPN’s are exception). • For larger and more complex environments customers might find value using multiple pools to help identify workload types and interfaces via assigned addresses. • Be cautious with Server Pools • It’s best to avoid using pools except for larger for dynamic environments. Pools and Addresses
  • 38. Cisco Confidential 38© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Policies are rules which define settings in service profiles. • Policies exist in Servers, LAN, and SAN areas of the GUI. • Should avoid changing policies if used in production especially bios policies. Create new policy that incorporates old settings and new settings. Change the policy used in the Service Profile Templates. This allows fast and reliable rollback of previously good settings. • Server Policies • Maintenance policy default: SHOULD BE CHANGED TO USER-ACK. • Host Firmware Package: Should generally be set on all service profiles and service profile templates. • Bios policy: Do not set settings you are not sure about. Set things you know for sure you want. • Local disk policy: Be sure to select protect configuration so disassociation does not zero hard disks. Policies
  • 39. Cisco Confidential 39© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Templates one of the most useful things in UCS. • They insure consistency by reducing human error and steps to provision • They ease operations by reducing the number of management touch points • Avoid changing production Service Profile Templates. Clone the template and modify the clone. • Templates available • vNIC Templates: Used to consistently create LAN interfaces on servers. Almost always use! • vHBA Templates: Used to consistently create FC interfaces on servers. Almost always use! • Service Profile Templates: Used to consistently create service profiles. Almost always use! • Types of templates • Initial: Template values are copied into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent changes to the template DO NOT effect the previously deployed objects. • Updating : Template values and linked into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent changes to the template ARE deployed to previously deployed objects. Templates
  • 40. Cisco Confidential 40© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Use EITHER fabric failover or teamed vSwitch configuration with hypervisors • Almost always used with non-virtualized bare-metal workloads. • Almost never used with hypervisor platforms. • Configured in the vNIC or via the vNIC template in the LAN tab. Remember use a vNIC template. • Best practice is to avoid unique vNIC configuration. Primarily use vNIC templates. • Requires adapter with built-in capabilities. • All VIC models ever made • Older M71 adapters (no longer sold) • Does not apply to FC traffic • Use SAN multipathing software for equivalent function on FC networks regardless of the adapter type. Fabric Failover
  • 41. Cisco Confidential 41© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Fabric Failover: Hypervisor Configuration Examples Traffic Type vSwitch Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Hypervisor Management vSwitch 1 Standard frames Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming Hypervisor Migration vSwitch 2 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Passive/Active teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming Storage Networking vSwitch 3 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming Storage Networking vSwitch 4 Jumbo frames No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming VM Networking vSwitch 5 to X Standard frames No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming Do NOT use both Fabric Failover AND multiple vNICs with Hypervisor/OS teaming If configured correctly the Hypervisor Migration traffic will stay on a single fabric Option 2 most closely matches vSwitch configuration of competitive solutions
  • 42. Cisco Confidential 42© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Insure you are redundant as a “system” not just as a platform • Test redundancy before going into production by creating physical and logical failures and insuring a test workload stays online • Periodically retest the system when major changes are made if opportunity allows. • Perform redundancy tests with a test workload. Avoid testing with production workloads. • Basic tests • Survive Fabric Interconnect failure. • Survive power failure of fabric, chassis, and servers. • Survive multiple uplink failures of LAN and SAN. • Survive downlink failures between fabric and chassis and servers. • A link to a couple web pages with example redundancy tests can be found at the end of this section. Redundancy Checks
  • 43. Cisco Confidential 43© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Stateless Computing is the idea of not embedding the OS onto the server by installing it on local media. This allows the UCS service profile to be migrated to another server seamlessly. It’s generally pretty quick to get setup and tested. • Stateless boot methods: • Boot from SAN (FC) • Boot from iSCSI • Boot from LAN Stateless Computing
  • 44. Cisco Confidential 44© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Mentored installation – Flatten the learning curve with a mentored installation. • Operating Systems – Make sure they are available. Use Cisco versions! • Naming Conventions – Each object’s name should describe it’s use. • Pools and Addresses – Plan for expansion. Don’t complicate without value. • Templates– Almost always use templates. Updating preferred if used carefully. • Policies – ALWAYS change default maintenance policy to user-ack. • Fabric Failover – Use fabric failover only when you need to. • Redundancy Check – Test the “system” for high availability. • Stateless Computing – Check it out during the install. UCS Installation
  • 45. Cisco Confidential 45© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • VMware optimized installation media for Cisco • From the VMware web site 1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware 2. Click the Custom ISOs tab 3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs 4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column. • Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner • Redundancy check • Basic: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist#Section-09 • Advanced: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-test-redundancy • Boot from SAN troubleshooting • Article: UCS Boot-from-SAN Troubleshooting with the Cisco VIC (Part 2) UCS Installation Resources
  • 46. Cisco Confidential 46© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 47. Cisco Confidential 47© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education: Installation Refresher • UCS Education: Health Check • UCS Education: Training and Certifications • Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access • User Accounts and Access • Backups • Call Home • Fault Monitoring • Firmware Management UCS Maintenance
  • 48. Cisco Confidential 48© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Education 1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180 2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10 3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0 4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90 1. Engages a UCS expert to review of a system and staff skill and knowledge of the system. The goal is to insure that admin staff is completely comfortable in working with the system and develop plan to close remaining skills gaps. 5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 1. A UCS expert to review an already running and configured UCS system including the latest practices in use, current configuration, and review for potential issues. 6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing 1. Insure your team is equipped to know the latest about the UCS product as well as educate new team members.
  • 49. Cisco Confidential 49© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Education: Cisco has great training partners to provide UCS Education • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do • Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT) • Installing Cisco UC on UCS in a Virtualized Environment • Configuring Cisco Data Center Unified Computing(DCUCS) • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing System C-Series Troubleshooting (DCUCSCTS) • Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD) • Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) • Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCT) • UCS Certifications • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist • Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist • Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Implementation and Administration Specialist UCS Education and Certifications
  • 50. Cisco Confidential 50© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Sub-Organization are used for role based access and security • Avoid using them unless you need to restrict users access to some objects. • Should not be used to “mimic” an active directory. The simpler the layout the better. • Create objects (policies/pools/templates) that will be used in multiple Sub-Organization units as close to the root as possible. Users with Sub-Organization can use the policies in the root rather than creating unique policies. • Role based access • There are pre-defined roles defined in UCS. The documentation details each of these roles. • Unique roles can be created to allow more refined access. • An individual user can be restricted to both Role and OU. • For example when using both a role and an OU you can make it so a specific user can only impact power on a specific server. Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access
  • 51. Cisco Confidential 51© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Authentication methods • UCS Directory integration is excellent. Try it out! • Local authentication is great as well. • Most customers do both local and directory based authentication. • Latest firmware allows two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager logins. • User accounts • Users should be logging in as themselves. UCS allows multiple admin users. • Admin local account should be reserved only for emergencies. • User rights • Give a user only the level of access required to accomplish their job role. User Accounts and Access
  • 52. Cisco Confidential 52© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • When to backup • Where: Admin Tab > All object – Found in general and Policy Backup & Export sections. • Backup your system before ANY and ALL major changes (and some minor ones). • Backup your system periodically regardless of change being made • Automated backup available through Admin tab of UCS Manager GUI. • Automated backup through UCS Central. • Types of backups • Do BOTH full configuration and all configuration backups • Full configuration creates a full binary backup of the UCS environment. Full restore only. • All configuration creates an XML data backup of all UCS objects. Partial restore option. Backups
  • 53. Cisco Confidential 53© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • It can (you choose what it does): • Send emails to any email addresses alerting to failures or thresholds. • Automatically contact Cisco and proactively open a case in the event of a failure. • Notify Cisco of your inventory so Cisco has better data for parts stocking purposes. • Send anonymous reporting data of features being used on your system. • Additional details from the offering description • Cisco® Smart Call Home is an automated support capability that provides continuous monitoring, proactive diagnostics, alerts, and remediation recommendations on select Cisco devices • Smart Call Home can help identify and resolve issues more quickly to achieve higher network availability and increased operational efficiency. This capability is available with an active support contract for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) Call Home
  • 54. Cisco Confidential 54© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Your system should be free (or relatively free) of faults. • Understand the faults you have • Resolve the ones you can resolve • Develop a plan to resolve the rest • Call Home and SNMP can let you know when you have faults. • Fix faults before making any major changes to your system • Don’t forget your backups before AND after a major cleanup. • Faults often indicate important problems where changes could cause an outage. Fault Monitoring
  • 55. Cisco Confidential 55© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • When to consider updating firmware • There’s a new feature you want to use • There’s a bug fixed in the old firmware you want to address • There’s a new server model you want to install that is newer than the current firmware • Your firmware is 6 months old and are planning for maintenance. • How to upgrade firmware • Review and understand defects in release notes before upgrading. • Maintenance window is not required if the system is properly configured for redundancy. • Use auto install for infrastructure. Faults should clear before acknowledging the pending activity. • Use policies to install server firmware (through default policy and/or template-based policy). • Update a small number of servers and let them run for a few days before doing the rest. Firmware Management
  • 56. Cisco Confidential 56© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • UCS Education – Make sure you know what you are supposed to. • Health Check – Get a periodic review of your system from an expert. • Training and Certifications – Lots of great certification offerings for UCS. • Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access – Used to restrict access • User Accounts and Access – Everyone shouldn’t be using “admin” • Backups – Before major changes and periodically. Setup auto-backup. • Call Home – Please turn it on! It’s there to help. • Fault Monitoring – Your global fault values should all be 0’s. • Firmware Management – Yearly or when needed. Bug fixes, New features? UCS Maintenance
  • 57. Cisco Confidential 57© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Backing up your UCS • UCS Central Best Practices Guide: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-32030 • Unofficial manual documentation: http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/03/cisco-ucs-b-series-infrastructure.html • Unofficial automated documentation: http://www.laneroush.com/automated-cisco-ucs-backup/ • UCS Call Home Configuration: • Smart Call Home Quick Start Configuration Guide: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/smart_call_home/QuickStart_UCS.pdf • Official documentation: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2- 2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_1_chapter_0101110.html • Education resources • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do • Ciscoquicklinks: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Training UCS Maintenance Resources
  • 58. Cisco Confidential 58© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 59. Cisco Confidential 59© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Entitlement – Be sure the hardware is properly registered with Cisco. • CCO – Be sure the people that will open cases are tied to the hardware. • Proactive entitlement – Open online case with SN’s and ask to validate • Online case – Cases can be opened online as sev-3 then escalated via phone. • Follow-the-sun – UCS support moves around the world through the day. • Escalation – If unhappy with support ask to be reassigned or a duty manager. • Cisco User Community – Lots of resources provided by Cisco and others • Other external resources – Details on additional external resources UCS Support
  • 60. Cisco Confidential 60© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco User Community • Web Based End User Community • http://communities.cisco.com/ucs • Tools, Downloads, Examples • UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE) • goUCS Automation Tool • XML API, PowerShell code Examples • Cisco UCS PowerTool (PowerShell Module) • Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCVMM UI Extension for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCO Integration Pack for Cisco UCS • Documentation • Programming & Developer Guides • Whitepapers • Reference Guides (XML Model, Faults) • Collaboration • Blogs, Peer to peer forums, Videos, Access to Cisco, Subject Matter Experts Free!!
  • 61. Cisco Confidential 61© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO). Install firmware on C-Series. • SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO). Install OS & run diagnostics on C-Series. • Cisco Driver Update Utility – Install and upgrade UCS drivers for your OS. • UCS Diagnostics (bootable ISO) – Test your B-Series server • UCSPE – UCS Platform Emulator • UCS PowerTool – Powershell tools for UCS • UCS Performance Manager – Single console visibility into UCS for performance monitoring and capacity planning including ties app performance to physical and virtual performance. • UCS Central – Manage and control multiple UCS domains together. • UCS Director - Replaces manual data center provisioning with automated workflows to increase IT consistency and speed. Replaces multiple consoles with single console. Users can self-provision. Tools
  • 62. Cisco Confidential 62© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Diagnostics Enhanced User diagnostic capabilities Memory Noise, Random Address tests ECC, DIMM SPD error tests March, Walk, Address NUMA Storage S.M.A.R.T, Background Self Tests Hard Drive/Logical Drive Tests PCI and Board Mgmt PCI Bus Tests, CIMC Self Test, I2C Bus Test CPU Temperature, Stress tests Cache Validation tests Calculation, QPI Link Tests Network Adapter Adapter Tests – Loopback, Register, EEPROM, Interrupt Link Tests • UCS Diagnostics is focused on improved visibility of UCS HW • Provides customers the ability to do RMA verifications, burn-in tests on HW onsite • Highlight of diagnostics requirements shown here • A standalone utility initially - integration with UCSM may happen in the future UCS diagnostic capabilities for greater visibility and predictability at a user level UCS Diagnostics Available
  • 63. Cisco Confidential 63© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 63 UCS Platform Emulator  Full-featured emulator for the UCS Manager  Installs as a virtual machine  Provides complete support for all XML API calls  Object browser to peruse the UCSM model  Import and replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory  Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators  Drag-and-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory  Use cases: Developers, dry-run changes, training, demonstrations  Download at: http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe
  • 64. Cisco Confidential 64© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper • Cmdlet definition and structure • Get-help support • .NET UCS Namespace Library • XML API call construction • Class Definition • Validation • PowerShell Design • .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration • Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware Cisco UCS PowerTool Module UCS .NET Namespace UCS XML API cmdlets
  • 65. Cisco Confidential 65© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Single console for device health and performance monitoring (Compute, Network, Storage and Hosts) • Out of the box configurations, thresholds to prevent under provisioning and resource constraints • Quickly identify degraded/disabled components, Identify bottlenecks, detect performance anomalies • Integrated Infrastructure Capacity planning • Trends/graphs, Reporting, filtering, search • Scalable and modular system for easy expansion • Simple to install, configure, use UCS Performance Manager Features and Capabilities
  • 66. Cisco Confidential 66© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Performance Manager Differentiators • Works across compute, storage, network, and defined workloads • Supports VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod, EMC VSPEX, and Cisco custom designs Unified Infrastructure View • Rapid deployment • No agents • Web user interface Immediate Value Pre-configured: Focused Analytics • Optimized for UCS Fabric • Finds constrained resources and identifies contributing components and configuration issues Integrated Infrastructure Performance Management and Assurance
  • 67. Cisco Confidential 67© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Microsoft Integration - System Center 2012 and SCCVM integration – • VMware Integration – vCenter plugin gives visibility into UCS from VMware • Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS – Manage UCS from Oracle • Openstack integration – UCS Automation with Openstack • Other integrations – There are many integrations are available Integrations
  • 68. Cisco Confidential 68© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • http://software.cisco.com/download/type.html?mdfid=283850978&catid=282558030 Download Management Packs from Cisco.com
  • 69. Cisco Confidential 69© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.  Downloads:  All integrations  UCS Platform Emulator  Scripting samples  Perl  PowerShell  Python  Documentation:  Reference guides  Training guides  Collaboration:  Blogs  Peer to peer forums  Access Cisco experts Free!! http://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations
  • 70. Cisco Confidential 70© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 71. Cisco Confidential 71© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Resources • Cisco Worldwide Contacts - For customers with contracts, Cisco provides around-the-clock, award-winning technical support services, online and by phone. • TAC Support Case Manager - Open a case with Cisco TAC online • Service Programs & Acquisitions - Describes Cisco UCS support offerings including details on hard drive retention. • Cisco SMARTnet Service for Cisco Unified Computing System Describes via downloadable PDF Cisco UCS support options. • Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the B-Series platform • Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the C-Series rack server platform • Cisco UCS interoperability matrix list - Detailed UCS compatibility information for hardware and software. • Cisco UCS Storage Interoperability Matrix - Detailed UCS storage compatibility information for hardware and software. • Cisco UCS Management Emulator (UCSPE) - Enveloped to enable the use of Cisco UCS Manager and the UCS XML API without physical hardware. UCS Resources
  • 72. Cisco Confidential 72© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. http://ciscoquicklinks.com
  • 73. Cisco Confidential 73© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 74. Cisco Confidential 74© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Lifecycle transition plan • We will continue to offer and sell B200/C220/C240 M3 through at least end of Calendar 2016 • We will continue to provide service and support for B200/C220/C240 M3 through end of Calendar 2021 (5 years after last sell date) • We will sell key options such as CPU and memory and VICs for at least 12-18 months past the last sell date of the B200/C220/C240 M3 (~End of Calendar year 2017 to Mid Calendar 2018)
  • 75. Cisco Confidential 75© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Tick-Tock Development Model Cisco’s B200/C220/C240 M4 lines up with Grantley/Haswell (“Tock”) and its future Broadwell “Tick” that follows Haswell
  • 76. Cisco Confidential 76© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Key Differences Between E5-2600 v2 & E5-2600 v3
  • 77. Cisco Confidential 77© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.
  • 78. Cisco Confidential 78© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.
  • 79. Cisco Confidential 79© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  • 80. Cisco Confidential 80© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  • 81. Cisco Confidential 81© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DDR4 More Performance Integer Operation Floating Point Operation 39%29% * Benchmark result (16GB 2DPC@DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V) DDR3 DDR3 DDR4DDR4
  • 82. Cisco Confidential 82© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. DDR4 Lower Power Consumption Memory Power System Power DDR3 1.35V DDR3 DDR4 DDR4 1.2V *Condition: 16GB 2DPC@ DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V 15% 6%
  • 83. Cisco Confidential 83© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS E5-xxxx B2xx and C2xx M4 CPU Options Select one or two Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 product family CPUs Some vendors are challenged by the higher power requirements making customers compromise between CPU model and memory quantity The MORE CPU you have, The More Memory you need!
  • 84. Cisco Confidential 84© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. B200 M4  Key Competitive Compares NOTE: DIMM slots 4 and 5 are not accessible when either the E5-2699 v3, the E5-2697 v3, the E5-2643 v3, the E5- 2637 v3, or the E5-2667 v3 is used. In a 2 processor configuration, there are twelve (12) total available DIMM slots. Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D
  • 85. Cisco Confidential 85© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. B200 M4  Key Competitive Compares Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D
  • 86. Cisco Confidential 86© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Performance Scalability UCS Products 1 RU, Compact All in one Server Distributed environments – Small Retail, Healthcare, Education UCS E-Series 1RU-4RU, Integrated Compute, Network and Storage Storage and compute intensive environments UCS C-Series 6 RU, High Compute resources Central Management, External Storage Regional Data Centers, Large Retail Industrial, Healthcare, Enterprise, Commercial UCS Mini UCS “Classic” or “Scalable” 6 RU, Compute intensive Dedicated External Storage Large scale Data Centers
  • 87. Cisco Confidential 87© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications UCS C460 M4 4 RU - Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM Slots - 10 PCIe Slots Mission-Critical Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications UCS C240 M4 2 RU - Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 6 PCIe Slots – up to 26 HDD Optimal Platform for Big Data, ERP, and Database Applications UCS C220 M4 1 RU – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 2 PCIe Slots – up to 8 HDD Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server Half-Width Blade – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - up to 80Gb of IO Ideal for Bare Metal Enterprise, VDI, or Dense Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads UCS B200 M4 UCS B420 M4 Full-Width Blade - Four E5v3 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO Dense 4-Socket Blade for -Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B260 M4 Full-Width Blade – Two E7v2 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for CPU- Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS B460 M4 Double-Height Blade – Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM Slots – Up to 320Gb of IO Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for CPU- Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications UCS C3160 4 RU - Two E5v2 CPUs – 16 DIMM Slots – up to 60 LFF HDD - up to 240TB Ideal for large unstructured data repositories, media streaming and content distribution UCS M-Series 2 RU – 16 E3v3 Servers –4 DIMMs / Server - up to 32 Cores / RU Designed for Cloud Scale Applications and Deployment
  • 88. Cisco Confidential 88© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS B200 M4 Blade Server An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 80GbE of I/O One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of workloads from web infrastructure to distributed database. • World-record performance • Provides enterprise-level capabilities without configuration constraints UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise –Class, Blade Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
  • 89. Cisco Confidential 89© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. IO/Infrastructure configurations – support matrix
  • 90. Cisco Confidential 90© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS B420 M4 Blade Server A density-conscious quad-socket blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a full blade form-factor 48 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 160GbE of I/O Three PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features • Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform Four Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 family processors UCS B420 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise –Class, Blade Server
  • 91. Cisco Confidential 91© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS M4 Scalable EX Blade A scalable and flexible blade server perfectly suited for a wide range of resource intensive and mission critical applications 48 to 96 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Up to 320GbE of I/O Via PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Modular LOM (mLOM) 3rd Generation VIC • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features • Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform Two or Four Intel® Xeon® E7 v3 family processors UCS B260 M4 UCS B460 M4
  • 92. Cisco Confidential 92© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a dense 1RU form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options Two PCIe 3.0 Slots One PCIe slot “VIC- Optimized” Security Bezel Optional Cisco FlexStorage Up to 8 SFF or 4 LFF drives • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications • Ultimate density-optimized, modular general compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities and features • Standalone or UCS-managed operations UCS C220 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
  • 93. Cisco Confidential 93© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 2RU form-factor 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Modular LOM (mLOM) VIC or CNA Options Six PCIe 3.0 Slots Four Full / Full - Four NCSI Security Bezel Optional Cisco FlexStorage Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF +2 SFF boot drives • Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization, big data, and bare metal applications • Ultimate configurable, modular general compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities and features • Standalone or UCS-managed operations UCS C240 M4 Storage and IO-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Two Intel® Xeon® E5 family processors
  • 94. Cisco Confidential 94© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. C3160 Rack Storage Server Bare Metal and Virtualization • High-density local disk combined with modular high-performance compute • Dual processor server with up to 360TB in a compact 4U Form Factor Capacity Optimized Server UCS C3000 Series Rack Server Family • Large scale content storage and data repositories • Distributed file-systems • Big Data and Hadoop applications • Media streaming and transcoding BIG DATA Single / Dual Server Dual CPU socket per server Up to 1TB Memory 512GB per server Up to 64 Drive Bays 60 LFF, plus 4 SFF 4GB RAID Cache Enterprise storage features Dual Modular LOM (mLOM) Multiple Connectivity Options Security Bezel Optional Openstack
  • 95. Cisco Confidential 95© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Modular Architecture of the UCS C3160 Drives: Top Load 4 Rows of 14 drives - 56 drives 1 to 4 rows of 4TB/6TB HD 1 row of 7 or 14 Enterprise SSD FANS 8 hot-pluggable fans Server Node 2x E5-2600 V2 CPUs 128/256GB RAM 1GB/4GB RAID Cache Optional Disk Expansion 4x hot-swappable rear-load LFF 4TB/6TB HDD OS/Boot Drives Two 120GB SSDs System I/O Controller (SIOC) Cisco mLOM Slot Power Supply 4 hot-pluggable PSUs
  • 96. Cisco Confidential 96© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco C880 M4 Rack Server High Performance Analytics Platform Built with SAP HANA in Mind 192 DDR3 DIMM Slots Up to 1866 MHz speeds UCS Director Integration For Scale up and Scale out configurations Specific SAP HANA Configurations 2TB and 6TB – Scale up and Scale out SAP configs that will be certified for 8 socket • 2T stand alone • 6T stand alone • 2T with EMC/NTAP • 6T with EMC/NTAP • 2T Scale OUT cluster with EMC Cisco C880 M4 8-Socket Server for SAP HANA Eight Intel® Xeon® E7-8890 v2 processors
  • 97. Cisco Confidential 97© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS M-Series True Server Disaggregation Compact Chassis 8 Compute cartridges Shared Local Resources Network and storage resources Lightweight Compute Cartridge Two Independent Intel Xeon E3 Servers No adapters or HDDs Based on Cisco System Link Technology 3rd Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server Shared Local Resources Four shared SSDs in the chassis Shared dual 40Gb connectivity Compute Density 16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis Each cartridge holds two independent compute nodes
  • 98. Cisco Confidential 98© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Built upon the C240M3 platform • Converged target (FC/iSCSI) and media management (BTL) • Workgroup / POD focused 250,000 IOPS 1.9 GB/s Bandwidth Up to 24 TB RAW Cisco UCS Invicta Series UCS Invicta Appliance Application Acceleration Data Optimization Multiple Workloads Tuning-Free Performance
  • 99. Cisco Confidential 99© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Innovative UCS I/O Cards Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs • IO consolidation, scale, and flexibility managed by UCSM • Industry-leading performance • Robust ecosystem with storage and OS qualifications • Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and CNAs • Fiber and copper interfaces • Broad support for most popular operating systems and storage • Tier-0 storage/server side flash • High performance: 100K + IOPS • Significantly reduce application latency and response time • GPU acceleration for VDI • Rich graphics experience on thin clients • GPU pass through or sharing for 20 users or more
  • 100. Cisco Confidential 100© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
  • 101. Cisco Confidential 101© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 102. Cisco Confidential 102© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. XML API UCS Is Redefining Server Management 10,000 UCS Servers: Monitor and Manage Seamlessly Third PartyUCS CLI + UCS Manager + UCS Central + UCS Director goUCS Automation Tools CDN .NET/ Windows PowerShell Python, Perl XML UCS M Data Center 1 UCS M Single UCS Domain UCS M Data Centers 3, 4 .... UCS M Data Center 2 Customer Blade and rack servers in the same domain— form factor agnostic Standards-based XML API presents bidirectional single interface to entire solution UCS offers the customers the broadest choice of Cisco or third-party management tools UCS ManagerCLI UCS Central UCS Director
  • 103. Cisco Confidential 103© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Manager 3.0: HTML5 support
  • 104. Cisco Confidential 104© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
  • 105. Cisco Confidential 105© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Management Embedded and Centralization
  • 106. Cisco Confidential 106© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC Overview • Key Features: • Out of Band management controller (Includes KVM/Media) • Always On (standby power) • XML API Interface to CIMC • Provides Integration to UCSM • Provides HTML GUI or SSH CLI management • Configure BIOS Settings • Configure BIOS Boot Order • HW Inventory • Power controls/policy; Launch KVM and remote media (included) • Monitor hardware events; configure to send SNMP/Syslog events • Centralized Authentication CIMC Software runs on Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) Embedded on the System Board
  • 107. Cisco Confidential 107© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC Remote KVM and Remote Media • Included feature of ALL UCS servers • No extra hardware or keys to purchase • Remote KVM • Launched from CIMC toolbar or server summary page • Can be used access any boot utilities (e.g. Boot menu, BIOS, CIMC config, network boot) • Remote Media • Provides a way to mount and ISO or IMG file from local workstation to be used by server. • Eliminates the need to install media in an optical drive or to physically be present wit the server. • Presented to BIOS as a virtual CD/DVD for boot. • Requires USB ports to be active.
  • 108. Cisco Confidential 108© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility (hereafter referred to as the "HUU") is a tool that you can use to upgrade the firmware on one or multiple Cisco UCS C-Series servers. • Selective Upgrade of drivers is also possible. • SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (UCS SCU) is an application that helps you easily set up manage and run diagnostics your servers from a single application • Cisco Driver Update Utility • The Cisco Driver Update Utility enables you to install or update drivers for all supported devices. • Install driver updates individually or collectively • UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool • http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html Add on Tools for System Management
  • 109. Cisco Confidential 109© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Management Embedded and Centralization Cisco IMC Supervisor
  • 110. Cisco Confidential 110© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Reduce costs and increase efficiency in managing Cisco Standalone Servers Platforms Supported: • C-Series M3 & M4 Servers • E-Series M1 & M2 Servers IMC Supervisor Core Features: • Platform Hardware Inventory • Hardware Health Status • vKVM Launcher (Incl. vMedia) • Firmware Inventory + Mgmt • Call Home (E-mail Alerting) Scale: FCS Target: 1,000 Servers PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! UCS C220 M3 3 8 2 7 1 654 CONSOLE! UCS C460 M1/M2 3 8 4 9 5 10 6 11 7 12 PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB 1 2 PSU MEM CPU ID !ID //! UCS C220 M3 3 8 2 7 1 654 CONSOLE! UCS C460 M1/M2 3 8 4 9 5 10 6 11 7 12 PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB 1 2 PSU MEM CPU ID !ID //! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! 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UCS C460 M1/M2 3 8 4 9 5 10 6 11 7 12 PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB 1 2 PSU MEM CPU ID !ID //! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! 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UCS C460 M1/M2 3 8 4 9 5 10 6 11 7 12 PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB 1 2 PSU MEM CPU ID !ID //! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS PWR SYS CONSOLE UCS C240 M3 ! 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UCS C460 M1/M2 3 8 4 9 5 10 6 11 7 12 PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB PWR SYS A03-0300GA2 10kSAS 300GB 1 2 PSU MEM CPU ID !ID //!
  • 111. Cisco Confidential 111© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Grouping Group Servers Listed Group Members
  • 112. Cisco Confidential 112© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Health & Faults Fault views are available: - Global View - Group View - Server View
  • 113. Cisco Confidential 113© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Tagging Create tags and associate to servers. Tagged servers can be queried and actions performed on groups
  • 114. Cisco Confidential 114© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Discovery Discover servers by: - Server IP - IP Range - Subnet Mask - CSV List
  • 115. Cisco Confidential 115© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Action Perform activities by server including: - Power On/Off - Reset - Power Cycle - Launch KVM - Launch GUI - Turn-on Locator LED - Set User Label - Set Tag(s)
  • 116. Cisco Confidential 116© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco IMC Supervisor: Inventory Server view includes: - Summary Data - Inventory by Subsystem(s)
  • 117. Cisco Confidential 117© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Embedded and Centralization UCS Manager Mini Domain x Cisco IMC Supervisor
  • 118. Cisco Confidential 118© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Manager GUI UCS Manager CLI Packaged Systems Management Software User Developed Portal, Tools, Utilities … Embedded Device Manager • Discovery, inventory, monitoring, diagnostics, statistics collection, configuration Unifies many UCS HW components into a single, cohesive system • Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric interconnects APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure • SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP • XML SDK for commercial and custom implementations Key feature: Service profiles • Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints
  • 119. Cisco Confidential 119© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper • Cmdlet definition and structure • Get-help support • .NET UCS Namespace Library • XML API call construction • Class Definition • Validation • PowerShell Design • .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration • Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware Cisco UCS PowerTool Module UCS .NET Namespace UCS XML API cmdlets
  • 120. Cisco Confidential 120© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. CIMC UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Embedded and Centralization Cisco IMC Supervisor UCS Manager Mini Domain x
  • 121. Cisco Confidential 121© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. All Workloads, Common Platform Unified Management Big Data Cluster UCS Manager Data Center 6 Scale-Out Apps Data Center 3 UCS Manager Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Data Center 2 Test Dev Exchange vSphere UCS Manager Virtualized Servers and Apps Data Center 4 Test Dev ExchangeTest Dev Exchange Tenant 1 Tenant 2 UCS Manager Cloud Data Center 1 SAP HANA Oracle E-Biz UCS Manager Performance Intensive, Scale-Up Apps Data Center 5 UCS Manager Web Server App Server E-commerce Platform E-Commerce Apps UCS Central
  • 122. Cisco Confidential 122© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central: Inventory HW Inventory • Blade Type • CPU Type and Quantity • Memory DIMMs and serial numbers • Power Supply Information Logical Inventory • Service Profile • vNIC, vHBA, iSCSI vNIC System Inventory • Available Network VIFs, • VLAN • VSAN • VLAN port capacity • zone capacity Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch n Global Inventory Details
  • 123. Cisco Confidential 123© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central: Standardization HW Configuration Policies • BIOS Settings • VLAN Settings • VNICs & VHBA Operational Polices • Date & Time: NTP, Timezone • DNS • Remote Access • SNMP • Debug Settings • Call Home • Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) • Equipment Power and SEL policies • Firmware Global Admin Policies Branch 1 Branch 2 Branch 3 Branch n
  • 124. Cisco Confidential 124© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Central Benefits Summary • Benefits for a Multiple Domains: • Information Dashboard • Inventory • Faults / Logs • KVM Launch • Statistics • Server Policies • Component Settings • Policy Subscription • Identifier / ID Pool Management • Multi-Domain Infrastructure Policies • Admin Settings & Enforcement • Workload Mobility • Global Service Profiles • Site Specific Settings • Benefits for a Single Domain: • Information Dashboard • Inventory • Faults / Logs • KVM Launch • Statistics Collection - Long term collection of Network/Power statistics • Planning for the future • Why migrate to UCS Central when you can start day one.
  • 125. Cisco Confidential 125© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor UCS Manager Mini Domain x
  • 126. Cisco Confidential 126© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
  • 127. Cisco Confidential 127© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
  • 128. Cisco Confidential 128© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution On-Demand Automated Delivery Policy-Driven Provisioning Secure Cloud Container VMsComputeNetwork Storage UCS Director Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines Storage Network Compute Tenant B Tenant C Tenant A Virtualized and Bare-Metal Compute and Hypervisor B CA Network and Services VM VM Bare Metal Single Pane of Glass End-to-End Automation and Lifecycle Management
  • 129. Cisco Confidential 129© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Automate Service Delivery Architect Design Where Can We Put It? Procure Install Configure Secure Is It Ready? Manual Capacity On-Demand Policy-Based Provisioning Adaptive From Weeks to Minutes Automated Self-Service Provisioning
  • 130. Cisco Confidential 130© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Administrator’s Dashboard Rapid configuration and monitoring Customizable view Quick status across critical components
  • 131. Cisco Confidential 131© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Rapid Detection and Resolution: Utilization Reports VM Count by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 Default Group DEMO-Group NumberofVMs <20% 20%-40% 40%-60% 60%-80% 80%-100% VM Utilization % by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Default Group DEMO-Group NumberofVMs Inactive VMs Active VMs
  • 132. Cisco Confidential 132© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS On-Demand Trend Data
  • 133. Cisco Confidential 133© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Converged Infrastructure View Rapidly View Converged Infrastructure Stacks
  • 134. Cisco Confidential 134© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Self-Service Infrastructure Catalog Technical User Perspective Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure Role-based access for technical users
  • 135. Cisco Confidential 135© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director for Integrated Infrastructure FlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX, and Vblock (Hitachi and more coming…) Define and manage resource pools Open API for 3rd Party Integration UCS Central Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning Consistent Management Across Pods Enforce Best Practices with Global UCS Policies UCS Director Available
  • 136. Cisco Confidential 136© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco UCS Director End-to-End Operations and Provisioning • Single-click provisioning • Intelligent resource allocation • Automated, controlled delivery Result: Improved time to market Minutes
  • 137. Cisco Confidential 137© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Task Library Rapid Creation of Orchestration Workflows • Over 467 tasks across industry standard devices • Drag ‘n drop creation UCS Tasks • Select UCS Server • Reset UCS Server • Power On UCS Server • Power Off UCS Server • Create UCS Service Profile from Template • Create UCS Service Profile • Select UCS Service Profile • Modify UCS Service Profile Boot Policy • Delete UCS Service Profile • Associate UCS Service Profile • Disassociate UCS Service Profile • Create UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID • Clone UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy WWPN • Add VLAN • Delete UCS Boot Policy • Delete UCS VLAN • Add VLAN to Service Profile • Add iSCSI vNIC to Service Profile • Add vNIC to Service Profile • Delete vNIC from Service Profile • Create Service Profile iSCSI Boot Policy • Modify Service Profile Boot Policy to Boot from iSCSI
  • 138. Cisco Confidential 138© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Reports • Workflow Service Status Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations
  • 139. Cisco Confidential 139© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
  • 140. Cisco Confidential 140© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration CIMC FlexPod vBlock Non-Cisco Infrastructure UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain Management UCS Manager Domain x UCS Manager Domain 1 UCS Management Portfolio Cisco IMC Supervisor VersaStack UCS Manager Mini Domain x UCS Invicta
  • 141. Cisco Confidential 141© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agenda • Introduction • UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning • UCS Installation • UCS Maintenance • UCS Support • UCS Resources • UCS Update • UCS Management • Conclusion
  • 142. Cisco Confidential 142© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps • Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization • SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started • Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server • Solution Design Assistance Technical support • Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator
  • 143. Cisco Confidential 143© 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update. • Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c • Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431 UCS Overview and Update Webinar A simpler Solution for your IT Challenges