UCS Overview and Update

Today‘s Speakers:
Robert Burns
Customer Advanced Engineering

Zintis Perkons
Consulting System Engineer

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Session Agenda
• Intro & Market Update
• What is UCS - Concepts & Differentiators
• Product Portfolio Overview & What‘s new! (B/C Series)
• Partner Ecosystem & Open Management
• Demo
• Q&A

#CiscoPlusCA

Introduction & Market Update

#CiscoPlusCA

Cisco‘s Commitment to Data Center

five corporate priorities

John Chambers

They Said It Couldn‘t Be Done
WW X86 Server Blade Market Share
UCS impacting growth of
established vendors like HP
Legacy offerings flat-lining
or in decline
Cisco growth out-pacing the market

Market appetite
UCS #3 for innovation
and climbing fuels UCS growth
Customers have shifted over
12% of the global x86 blade
server market to Cisco and
19% in the US
Demand for data center innovation has vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System
(UCS) to the #3 leader in the fast-growing segment of the x86 server market
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q4 2011 Revenue Share, February 2012

Customers Have Spoken
UCS momentum is fueled by
X86 Server Blade Market Share, Q4 CY12

WW game-changing innovation;
Cisco is quickly passing
UCS #3 with 12.3% established players
x86 Blade servers are growing
over twice as fast as the overall
UCS momentum is fueled by game- x86 computing market
changing innovation; Cisco is quickly
passing established players UCS After Two
Short Years
1

US

UCS #2 with 19.1%
11,000 UCS Customers WW
$1.3B annualized revenue run
rate for CY11Q4
UCS FY12Q2 growth of 91%
1 2
Y/Y
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q4 2012, February, 2012, Revenue Share IDC Q3 CY11 Server Forecaster, Based on Blade Revenue

Integrated Solutions WHOLE OFFERS
Innovations With Industry Leaders VBLOCK
Information

Applications
Operating
Systems
Virtualization
Vertical Compute
Solution Network

Focus Healthcare Financial Services Manufacturing Retail

FLEXPOD
Business Analytics/
Enterprise Apps Databases Big Data
Virtual Desktop

Applications HANA & BWA

VXI

Management
RISC Migration

Operating
System &
Hypervisor

Cisco UCS Performance-63 Records
A History of World Record Performance on Industry Standard Benchmarks
SPECint_rate_base2006 SPECfp_rate_base20 SPECfp_base2006
SPECfp_rate_base2006 SPECint_rate_base2006 SPECfp_rate_base2006 SPECfp_rate_base2006
X86 2-socket 06 X86 2-socket C220 X86 2-socket
Best CPU X86 2-socket B200 M1 X86 2-socket B200 M1 X86 2-socket B200 M2 X86 4-socket C460 M1
B200 M2 M3 C220 M3
SPECint_rate_base2006 SPECfp_rate_base2006 SPECint_rate_base2006 SPECint_rate2006 SPECint_rate_base20
Performance X86 2-socket 2-socket 2-socket X86 4-socket
SPECint_rate_base2006
06 X86 2-socket C220
X86 4-socket C460 M1
B200 M2 C260 M2 C260 M2 C460 M2 M3

VMmark 1.x VMmark 1.x VMmark 1.x VMmark 1.x
Best 2-socket B200 M1 2-socket B200 M1 2-socket B250 M2 Overall C460 M1
Virtualization
VMmark 1.x VMmark 1.x VMmark 1.x
Performance Overall C460 M1 Blade Server B440 M1 2 –socket Blade B230 M1

VMmark 2.1 VMmark 2.1
VMmark 2.1
Best Cloud 2-socket Blade B200 M2 4-socket C460 M2
Two–node 4-socket
C460 M2
Computing
VMmark 2.0 VMmark 2.1 VMmark 2.1
Performance Overall B200 M2 Overall C460 M2 2-socket B200 M3

Best Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite TPC-C TPC-H 1000GB TPC-H 300GB
Ex-large Model Payroll Medium Model Xtra Large Model Payroll Xtra Large Model Payroll Oracle DB 11g & OEL Microsoft SQL Server VectorWise
Enterprise Batch B200 M2 Order-to-Cash B200 M2 Batch B230 M2 B200 M3 C250 M2 C460 M2 C250 M2
Application Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite TPC-H 100GB
SPECjEnterprise2010 SPECjEnteprise2010
Medium Model Payroll Medium Model Payroll Large Model VectorWise
Overall B440 M1 2-node B440 M2
Performance Batch B200 M2 Batch B200 M2 Order-to-Cash B200 M3 C250 M2

Best SPECjbb2005
SPECjAppServer2004 SPECjbb2005 SPECjbb2005 SPECjAppServer2004 SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket C220
Enterprise 1-node 2-socket C250 M2 X86 2-socket B200 M2 X86 4-socket C460 M1 2-node B230 M1 X86 2-socket B230 M1
M3
Middleware SPECjbb2005 SPECjbb2005 SPECjbb2005 SPECjbb2005 SPECjbb2005
X86 2-socket B230 M1 2-socket C260 M2 2-socket B230 M2 2-socket B230 M2 4-socket B440 M2
Performance
SPECompMbase2001 SPECompLbase2001 LinPack LS-Dyna SPECompMbase2001 SPECompMbase2001 SPECompMbase2001
Best HPC 2-socket B200 M2 2-socket B200 M2 2-socket B200 M2 4-socket C460 M1 4-socket C460 M1 4-socket C460 M1 2-socket C240 M3

Performance SPECompMbase2001 SPECompLbase2001 SPECompMbase2001 SPECompLbase2001 SPECompMbase2001 SPECompMbase2001
2-socket B200 M2 2-socket B200 M2 2-socket B230 M2 2-socket B230 M2 4-socket C460 M2 4-socket C460 M2

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication

UCS Service Provider Customers

Case Studies
The Chinese
University of Hong Kong
̶ less cabling
̶ Provision apps and services
rather than days
̶ Reallocate IT staff to
projects

Hamilton/Clermont Cooperative
Association
̶ Cut app performance enhancements
from 10 minutes to
̶ Had a hard dollar savings that paid for the infrastructure
upgrade in

Walz
̶ Configure a server blade in
̶ Switch ports declined by ratio of

Case Studies Cont‘d
EMC
̶ Improved application response and batch
run-times by
̶ EMC‘s Channel Express, ―Save and Array configuration‖
transactions improved
̶ Customer service quote renewal transactions improved from

Examworks
̶ US $200,000 annually in IT resources
̶ US $333,000 annually in new desktop computers

Erste Bank Serbia
̶ increase in server utilization
̶ reduction in energy costs
̶ Provisioning cut from several weeks to
two hours

Case Studies Cont‘d
Travelport
̶ savings on racking, cabling, server,
network and costs
̶ savings in total support hours
̶ savings in Power and cooling costs
̶ savings in total data center floor
space

Tutor Perini
̶ Reduced data center footprint by
̶ Reduced power consumption by
̶ Provisioning done in under

Cisco UCS Leadership and Momentum
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP MARKET MOMENTUM
• Unified Infrastructure • $1.3 billion revenue run rate

• Management Automation • 11,000 customers: almost
50% of Fortune 500
• Ideal for Enterprise
Applications • #2 US blade server market
share by revenue
• Design Flexibility

• Best Cloud Infrastructure • #3 WW blade server market
share by revenue
• 53 industry benchmark world
records • 2,000 channel partners

What is UCS?
Concepts & Differentiators

What Is Unified Computing?
• UCS is Unified Fabric
Increase workload agility, lower costs, lower power, higher
reliability, simplified setup, higher asset utilization, higher
application performance

• UCS is Revolutionary Embedded
Management
Simplified setup, increased control, lower costs, faster
deployment, higher reliability, higher productivity, fewer errors

• UCS is Policy Computing (Stateless)
Servers waiting for their identity based on Application needs.
Service Profiles push out configuration to available HW.

• UCS is Cisco Innovation
World Class System Performance
Cisco Developed Adapters and Fabric

Unified Fabric
Unified Infrastructure
Fabric consolidation

Cisco Unified Computing Solution
Mgmt Server
Mgmt Server Embed management Mgmt Server

Unify fabrics
Optimize virtualisation
Remove unnecessary
– switches,
– adapters,
– management modules
Less than 1/2 the support
infrastructure for a given
workload

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

Ability to manage up to 20 Blade Chassis (160 servers)
in one Instance
UCS C-Series Rack Server Integration
*Multiple Instances Centrally Managed (coming)

UCS Is Unified Fabric
LAN SAN A
Mgmt Any IEEE Compliant LAN Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN SAN B
Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

UCS Is Unified Fabric
LAN SAN A SAN B
Mgmt Any IEEE Compliant LAN Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN
Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

One Logical Device to Manage*
LAN Connectivity
SAN Networking
Blade Chassis’
Server Blades
Rack Servers
Server Identity Management
Monitoring, Troubleshooting
etc.

Up to 160 servers

Building Blocks of Cisco UCS
An Integrated System Optimizes Data Center Efficiency

UCS Manager
Embedded– manages entire system

UCS Fabric Interconnect
48 Port 10Gb FCoE with Unified Ports

UCS Fabric Extender
Remote line card

UCS Blade Server Chassis
Flexible bay configurations

UCS Server
Industry-standard architecture
Blade and rack-mount, 2 and 4 socket

UCS Virtual Adapters
Choice of multiple adapters

UCS Is Defining Converged Networking

2x 1 Link 2x 2 Link 2x 4 Link 2x 8 Links
20 Gbps per Chassis 40 Gbps per Chassis 80 Gbps per Chassis 160 Gbps per Chassis

• Wire once for bandwidth, not connectivity
• Policy-driven bandwidth allocation

• All links can be active all the time

• All servers connected to LAN and SAN

Legacy Competitors vs. Cisco UCS
Competitors UCS
LAN LAN SAN A SAN B LAN SAN A SAN B
MGMT MGMT

…160 blades
…160 blades

Chassis 1 Chassis 1 Chassis 1 Chassis 4 Chassis 10 Chassis 1/2 Chassis 3/4 Chassis 5/6 Chassis 7/8 Chassis 19/20
Network Devices 8 20 True FCoE of LAN/SAN & Network Devices
Convergence only inside 2 2
each chassis MGMT Chassis Management Devices
Chassis Management Devices 8 20

UCS Advantages Why?
• UCS = Unified Management, Comprehensive • UCS converges management in the fabric to provide
Service Profiles, Open XML API a single, feature-rich, point for all LAN, SAN, and
HW Mgmt. UCS Service Profiles simplify
• Unified Fabric = Unified Ports, Flexibility,
deployment and ongoing management – at no extra
Scalability, Simplicity
cost.
• Policy-based VM connectivity and mobility with • Unified Fabric presents up to 80Gb of redundant BW
VIC 1280 (Virtual Interface Card); Up to 80Gb and all of the benefits of the award-winning VIC
I/O per HW-blade! card.
Cisco Confidential – Internal Use Only

UCS Is Unified Open API for Single

Management
integration
into existing Unified
environments System

Legacy Blade Management Approach

Legacy Management Servers
• Required for Full Functionality
• Have to size, configure, maintain,
separate servers and OS
• Management Server Not
redundant
• Pairs of management controller
boards in EACH enclosure

Legacy Management Software
• Sits on high and ―pokes/peeks‖
hardware
• Tries to present single pain of
glass to multiple hodgepodge of
tools

UCS Is Revolutionary Embedded Management
Legacy UCS
Separate Management HW/SW Converged LAN/SAN AND MGMT Within Fabric
LAN A LAN B SAN A
Mgmt
SAN B

yy

Server = Application Server = Pool of Resources
Inefficient Complex High Cost Fragile Efficient Agile Transformative
• Management is a Separate Fabric Higher Availability, Fewer
• Each enclosure burdened with Connections, Easy HW growth,
HW, FW, Cables for Management. Flexibility to repurpose HW

UCS Is Revolutionary Embedded Management

UCSM Layout
Equipment: Manage Physical ports between Interconnects & Northbound SAN and LAN
Servers: Manage Logical Service Profiles
LAN: Manage LAN Elements
SAN: Manage SAN Elements
VM: Manage Virtual Machine Service Profiles
Admin: Authentication, users, logs, SNMP

UCS Manager Principal Interfaces
GUI Navigation CLI Equivalent to GUI
CA-Dev-A# scope chassis 1
CA-Dev-A /chassis # scope server 1
CA-Dev-A /chassis/server # scope adapter 1
CA-Dev-A /chassis/server/adapter # ?
acknowledge Acknowledge
activate Activate component with specified
image version
scope Changes the current mode
show Show system information
update Update backup firmware with
specified image version

CA-Dev-A /chassis/server/adapter # top
CA-Dev-A# scope adapter 1/1/1
CA-Dev-A /chassis/server/adapter #

UCSM Is
Unified

Policy-Based Policy-based
automation
Integrated
management
Model-
Based
Mgmt.

Policy-Based Management
Unified Management Enables Service Profile Templates

Server Name
Unified UUID, MAC, WWN
Boot Information
Management LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy

Server Name
Subject Matter Experts UUID, MAC, WWN
Define Policies Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Storage Server Network Firmware Policy
SME SME SME
Server Name
UUID, MAC, WWN
Boot Information
LAN, SAN Config
Firmware Policy

Server Name
Policies Used UUID, MAC, WWN
to Create Boot Information
Adapter Firmware Packages Service Profile LAN, SAN Config
Templates Firmware Policy
Storage Controller Firmware Pack…

Fibre Channel Adapters Firmware…
Server Name
UUID, MAC, WWN
3 4
Boot Information
BIOS Firmware Packages Service Profile Associating Service
LAN, SAN Config
Templates Profiles with Hardware
Firmware Policy
HBA Option ROM Packages Create Service Profiles Configures Servers
Automatically

Innovating with Cisco UCS Manager
Tightly Coupled Existing Customer
Partner Management Tools Management Tools • Unified management domain
XML API Traditional APIs
– Automatic discovery
– Dynamic provisioning
• Fewer points of management
• Building blocks of resources for rapid provisioning
• Simplified infrastructure management for data centers
• No added costs

Service Profile: HR-App1 Single-click
Network: HR-VLAN configuration of
Network QoS: High LAN, SAN, and
MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC firmware
WWN: 20:65:32:25:B5:00:A4:28 parameters
BIOS: Version 1.03
Boot Order: SAN, LAN

UCS Is Stateless Computing
Servers as a Resource, Awaiting their Identity

• UCS = Every server already attached to LAN/SAN/Mgmt
– This is the key to a highly utilized and flexible environment
– Question: What would it take for you to do this in your DC today?
• UCSM = Redundant fabric holds workload DNA. Why?
– Settings (FW, BIOS, Adapter, LAN, SAN, Storage, and many more) are
pushed out as profiles to available hardware.
– Legacy server vendors update hardware with bundles/revisions in
anticipation of application. UCS configures HW instantly based on the
profile for that workload type.

Traditional Server Deployment
Server Administrator: Network Administrator:
Storage Administrator:  Configure management LAN  Configure LAN access
 Configure LUN access  Upgrade firmware versions – Uplinks, VLANs
– Masking, binding, boot LUN
– Chassis, BMC, BIOS, adapters  Configure policies
 Configure switch  Configure BIOS settings – QoS, ACLs
– Zoning, VSANs, QoS
 Configure NIC settings
 Configure HBA settings
 Configure boot parameters

 Perform tasks for each server
 Inhibits ―pay-as-you-grow‖ incremental deployment
Needs admin coordination every time
May incur downtime during deployments
 Complex server replacement, upgrade, migration process
Most of these tasks need to be performed for replacement server

UCS Service Profile Entities

Storage Server Network
Optional Disk usage – Identity (UUID) – Uplinks
(Local RAID) – Adapters – LAN settings
SAN settings • Qty • VLAN
LUNs • Type: FC, Ethernet • QoS
Persistent Binding • Identity • etc…
SAN settings • Characteristics – Firmware
vSAN – Firmware • Revisions
Firmware • Revisions
Revisions • Configuration settings

Service Profiles:
Upgrades/Maintenance

Profile Name: finance-01
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Firmware: xx.yy.zz

Old Server New Server
Chassis 1 Blade 1 Chassis 10 Blade 2

 Disassociate service profile from old server

 Associate service profile to new server

 Old server can be upgraded, retired or re-purposed

Service Profiles:
Dynamic Workloads

RAC node 1 RAC node 2 RAC node 3 RAC node 4
ERP HTTP Server
ERP
Spare

• Servers become secure interchangeable hardware components
• Easy to move Database nodes across server hardware
 No LAN, SAN Zoning or any reconfiguration required
• Re-purpose hardware based on changing workloads
 Add Application Tier components or upgrade hardware as
situation demands

UCS Is Open API Open API for Single
integration

Management into existing
environments
Unified
System

UCS Is Open And Standards-Based
Develop with the Infrastructure, Not Just on the Infrastructure
• Standards-based XML API
• Bidirectional access to physical and logical internal components

Self-Serve Portals
Management Tools
Auditing Tools

Direct Cisco UCS™ CLI Cisco UCS GUI Third Party Customer

XML API

APP APP APP APP APP
System Status
OS OS
OS
OS OS
Physical
Inventory
• Broad 3rd party integration support ……
• Faster custom integration for customer use cases Policy
• Consistent data and views across ALL interfaces Inventory

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator
• Fully featured emulator for Cisco UCS™
Manager
• Installs as a virtual machine
• Provides complete support for all XML API
calls
• Object browser to view the Cisco UCS
Manager model
• Imports and replicates existing live Cisco UCS
Manager physical inventory
• Shares saved physical inventories among
Cisco UCS provider edges
• Drag-and-drop hardware builder to create
custom physical inventory

Cisco UCS on Cisco Developer Network
Free
http://developer.cisco.com/web/unifiedcomputing/home
• Four developer guides
• More than 44 samples in XML, Perl, and PowerShell
• Videos, white papers, forums, and blog
• Cisco UCS™ Platform Emulator

Open API
UCSM -There‘s an App for That!

UCS Is Cisco High-Density
design

Innovation Server
Innovations
Extended
Memory
Technology,
Industry-
Standard
Servers

Cisco ASIC Innovation
Balanced, Open Standards-Based, Delivering Unmatched Capabilities in Hardware

ASIC Innovation in a Unified System
Cisco Unified Fabric
0.5 Tbps Fabric 2 Tbps Fabric
Fabric 3.2 uS Latency Sub 2 uS Latency
Dozens of Servers Thousands of Servers

Cisco Virtual Interface
Cards Cisco ASIC
20 Gb 40 Gb; 80Gb Burst
I/O 128 Virtual Adapters Innovation 256 Virtual Adapters

Unified Management
Cisco Extended Memory
Highest Memory Density for 2 Socket Servers
Technology 4X Memory at
Memory 48 DIMMs in 2 socket blades
Highest Speeds
64 DIMMs in 2 socket racks

2009 2012
Generations of Open ASIC Innovation Developed in Concert

Cisco UCS Fabric Innovation
Cisco UCS™ 6200 and 2200 with Unified Ports
NEW
High End Deployments
Cisco UCS™ 6100 and 2100 Typical Deployments
96 Port Fabric Interconnect
At UCS Launch 48 Port Fabric Interconnect

UCS-FI-6296UP
UCS-FI-6248UP • High Application performance with 2TB
Cisco UCS 6140/ 6120
UCS Fabric • Performance for typical deployments switching
with 1TB switching and 48 ports in • High workload density 96 ports in 2RU
Interconnects 1RU
Forward compatible • Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports
with Second Generation • Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports
• Investment protection
I/O Modules • Investment protection

NEW 8 Port I/O Module
4 Port I/O Module
UCS-IOM-2208XP
Cisco UCS 2104
UCS I/O UCS-FI-2204XP • 160G/ chassis, 40G to the Blade for bursty
I/O Module
Modules • 80G/ chassis, 20G to the Blade traffic
Forward compatible • Entry point pricing • Improved Resiliency
with Second Generation • Improved Utilization with Port • Improved Utilization with Port Channels
I/O Modules Channels

Cisco Unified Management
Extending Benefits of UCS Manager to Rack Servers

UCS 6100 or 6200 UCS 6100 or 6200

Nexus 2232 now
managed by UCS
Manager Nexus 2232 Nexus 2232

GE LOM PCIe Adapter

• Reduces cost server connectivity CIMC OS or Hypervisor
• 10Gb Unified Fabric Performance
• All UCS C-Series supported Mgmt Traffic
• Scale to 160 C-Series per UCS domain Data Traffic
(LAN and FCoE)

Unified Management
Extending Benefits of UCS Manager to Rack Servers
Unified Management UCS Manager
A Single Unified System
For Blade and Rack Servers

Service Profile: HR_App1
UCS Service Profile
VNIC1
Unified Device Management
MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2E
HR_WEB_VLAN (ID=50)
Network Policy
VNIC2
MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:2F
HR_DB_VLAN (ID=210)
HBAStorage Policy
1 and 2
WWN: 5080020000075740
WWN: 5080020000075741
VSAN ID: 12Policy
Server
C-Series Rack Boot Order: SAN B-Series Blade
Optimized Servers BIOS Settings: Servers
• A major market transformation in unified • New Nexus Fabric Extender reduces cost,
Turbo On
HyperThreading On
server management increases scale of rack server connectivity
• Benefits of UCS Manager and Service Profiles within Unified Computing
brought to rack optimized servers • Add capacity without complexity

UCS Is World-Class Adapter Design
VM VM VM VM

VIC 1280 – 80 Gbps to the Host
•Port density to match core density Core Core Core Core

– Dual 4x10 Gbps to a single slot
Core Core Core Core
– HW 40 Gbps capable
256 PCIe devices
•PCIe & Network Interface Virtualization
– Up to 256 PCIe devices and associated switch interfaces
– OS independent PCIe Virtualization
•VM FEX Mode (eliminate virtual switching)
– Virtual and physical collapsed into a single network 40 Gbps Unified
Fabric
– VMs get dedicated switch interface (vEth)
• Full network visibility (span, statistic) at vEth level

•Virtual Service Capable
– Hardware support for vPath (for Virtual Services) LAN SAN

UCS Is Designed For Maximum Efficiency
• Designed from the ground up for optimal cooling = no need for
expensive fans or ―zoned‖ technology

• One fundamental design advantage of a true converged fabric is a
smaller backplane connector to each of the blades.

• Group Power Capping Included with UCSM

Latest Portfolio Overview
(Blades, Racks, Adaptors, Mgt)

#CiscoPlusCA

Third Generation Fabric Computing
The Power of Unification Unified Management

UCS 6296
Fabric Interconnect

UCS C-series

VIC 1280
B200 M3
and 1240

UCS 2204

Unified Application High Performance
Management Virtual Networks
Performance
Industry-leading
compute without
Leadership Highest Scale
Unified Fabric
compromise

Intel‘s Tick Tock Model
Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick

45nm 32nm 22nm
New New Ne
Shrink to 45nm architecture Shrink to 32nm architecture Shrink to 22nm archite

Penryn Nehalem Westmere Sandy Bridge Ivy Bridge Has

5500 (EP) 5600 (EP) Romley
7500 (EX) E7-2800 (EX) E5-2400 (EN)
E7-4800 (EX) E5-2600 (EP)
E5-4600 (EP)
E5-2200 (1S)

What‘s New: Compute
Performance Optimized for Bare-Metal, Virtualized and Cloud Applications

Industry-leading compute
without compromise
Scale Out Enterprise Performance Intensive and Mission Critical
Coming
in 2012
New
Rack

Coming
UCS C240 M3 in 2012
2 RU, 2S Xeon E5-2600
Coming 16 cores, 24 DIMM slots, 24 or 12 HDD
in 2012
New
UCS C220 M3
1 RU, 2S Xeon E5-2600
16 cores, 16 DIMM slots, 8 or 4 HDD
Blade

Coming Coming
in 2012 New in 2012

UCS B200 M3
½ width, Xeon E5-2600
16 cores, 24 DIMM slots, 2 HDD, 40Gbe + 1 Mezz

Cisco UCS: Many Form Factors, One System

Cisco UCS Blade Server Portfolio
Mainstream Enterprise-Class Intensive and Mission Critical

UCS B440 M2
New! Intel E7-4800
32 Dimms
Intel E5-2600 4 Sockets
Performance

24 Dimms 40 Cores
2 Sockets UCS B230 M2
16 Cores UCS B200 M3 Intel E7-2800
768GB 32 Dimms
2 Sockets
20 Cores

UCS B250 M2
Intel 5600
48 Dimms
2 Sockets
12 Cores
UCS B200 M2
Intel 5600
12 Dimms
2 Sockets
12 Cores

2S EP 2S / 4S EX


B200 M3 Blade Server
Unified Computing in an enterprise-class blade server for memory-intensive collaboration,
decision support and virtualized applications

 Enterprise performance and
advanced capabilities
 Advanced I/O feature set:
 Dual 20GbE LOM with over
200 vNIC / vHBA
 Expandable to dual 40GbE UCS B200 M3
with Mezzanine card Performance-Optimized Enterprise
Blade Server
 24 DIMM
 Cisco Flexible Flash
UCS Advantages Standard: Unified Fabric; UCS Manager; Optimized for virtualized environments;
Adapter FEX and VM FEX Up to 16 processor cores, ¾ TB of memory in a half-width form factor

Cisco UCS Rack-Mount Server Portfolio
Mainstream Enterprise-Class Intensive and Mission Critical

Intel E5-2600
24 Dimms New!
16 Cores UCS C460 M2
Performance

UCS C260 M2
Intel E5-2600 UCS C240 M3 Extended Memory
16 Dimms
New!
16 Cores
UCS C220 M3

UCS C250 M2
UCS C210 M2 Extended Memory

UCS C200 M2

2S EP 2S / 4S EX


C220 M3 Rack Server
Unified Computing in an enterprise-class, rack-mount server for EDA,

 Industrial design enhancements
 Best server consolidation economics and
footprint
 Silicon and features for datacenter
general purpose compute
 Expanded feature set Storage and I/O
UCS C220 M3
Dense, Enterprise-class 1 RU Rack Server

• UCS Advantages Standard: Unified Fabric; UCS Manager; Optimized for virtualized environments;
Adapter_FEX and VM_FEX
• Up to 16 processor cores, 16 DIMM/512 GB, 2 PCIe , 4/8 SAS/SATA, 1RU form factor

C240 M3 Rack Server
Expanding the Unified Computing Portfolio
Unified Computing in an enterprise-class, rack-mount for storage-intensive, collaboration,

 Ideal for Storage-optimized
enterprise workloads
 Expanded feature set for Storage,
network and I/O
 Silicon and system level
enterprise features for datacenter
general purpose compute
UCS C240 M3
 Tool-less access and enhanced Storage-Optmized, Enterprise Class, 2 RU
usability features Rack Server

UCS Advantages Standard: Unified Fabric; UCS Manager; Optimized for virtualized environments;
Adapter_FEX and VM_FEX Up to 16 cores, 24 DIMM/768 GB, 5 PCIe , 12/16/24 SAS/SATA, 2RU

Cisco Flexible Flash
SD and Internal USB support
B200 M3:
•Includes one internal USB port and two available SD slots
•SD boot support is post-FCS (via manual BIOS setting,
and later, UCSM service profile boot order support).

C220 M3 and C240 M3:
Each server includes one internal USB port and one internal
Cisco Flexible Flash drive (SD card) (1 slot pre-populated
and 1 available slot):

The SD card is pre-loaded with four virtual drives.
The four virtual drives contain:
1. Cisco Server Configuration Utility
2. Cisco Host Upgrade Utility
3. Cisco C-Series server drivers set
4. Blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor.
Note: Dual SD Cards will not be supported at FCS

UCS M3 server Modular LOM slot
Dedicated for UCS VIC 1240
• M3 blade servers“modular LOM” slot ‗

• Unparalleled flexibility
 256 PCIe devices, (vNICs or vHBAs)

• Industry-leading performance
80Gbps to half width M3 blades
160Gbps to full width M3 blades

• Simplicity and enhanced virtual networking with VM-FEX
 Line rate to the VMs with VMDirectPath
 Consolidate virtual & physical network with VM-FEX
 VMware, Red Hat
Microsoft Hyper-V (future)

UCS M3 server Mezzanine slot
Flexible options:
 Port Expander Card for VIC 1240 –
adds dual 2x 10Gb ports to modular
VIC 1240 for resulting bandwidth of
dual 4x 10Gb
 VIC 1280 (with VIC 1240 also
populated in mLOM, this results in
redundant VIC ASICs)
 Gen 3 third party NIC/CNA cards
 QLogic
 Emulex
 Broadcom
 Special function non-IO mezz in
future

What‘s New: Virtualization
High Performance
Virtual Networks

Industry‘s 1st 80 Gbps to the blade solution High Performance IO for Virtual Machines

Software Switch VM-FEX
(Hypervisor Bypass)

Application Up to 15% more performance
Performance (Database workload)

Up to 10% more throughput at 30%
Throughput lower CPU utilization compared to a
software switch

Up to 40% lower end-to-end latency
Latency
than a software switch

What‘s New: Networking
Increasing Performance, Flexibility and Scalability
Highest Scale, Low
Latency Networking
New Building Blocks at Every Level
Fabric Interconnect 6296UP
Double the current fabric bandwidth to 2Tbps
Infrastructure agility with Unified Ports
40% reduction in latency—2uS across 100s of servers

Chassis I/O Module 2204XP
Enhanced Resiliency and Utilization with Port Channeling
Options for both 80 Gbps and 160 Gbps to each chassis

I/O Options VIC 1240
Up to 40 Gbps bandwidth
Industry‘s 1st 80 Gbps to the blade solution

UCS 2204 IO Module
Enable Dual 20 Gbps to Each Blade Server
Q1CY12
UCS-IOM-2204XP
• Bandwidth increase for improved response esp
for bursty Applications
o 40G to the Network
o 160G to the Host Redundant
(2x10G/ Half width slot; 4x10G/ Full width slot)
• Latency Lowered to 0.5us within IOM
• Investment Protection with Backward and
Forward Compatibility

BANDWIDTH FOR BURSTY APPLICATIONS

Partner Ecosystem & Open
Management Update

#CiscoPlusCA

What‘s New: Unified Management for a Multi UCS Environment

Coming in
Unified Management 2H 2012

at Scale

“UCS Central”
Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Center 3
UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager UCS Manager

• Unifies management of multi UCS domains • Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and workload
mobility
• Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs and
server consoles • Model based API for large scale automation
• Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID
pools and templates
This is an upcoming product—Feature set for first release subject to change

Integrated Solutions
Power of the Ecosystem
Business Analytics/
Enterprise Apps Databases BigData
Virtual Desktop RISC Migration

HANA & BWA
Applications

Unified Computing

OS / Hypervisor

Management

Information

Applications
Operating Systems

Virtualization
Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus® NetApp FAS
Infrastructure B-Series Family Switches 10 GE & FCoE
Compute
Cisco UCS Complete
Network Manager Bundle

VBLOCK FLEXPOD STANDARD CONFIGURATIONS

Cisco and SAP Activities
Top priorities for Cisco and Cisco’s SAP Solution Areas
SAP * SAP on Vblock
* In-memory computing * SAP on Flexpod
* Mobility * HANA and BWA
* Cloud

Basics Cisco’s SAP Partnerships
* Validations & Benchmarks * EMC, Netapp, RedHat, Gopa-
* Adaptive computing IT
* Joint technical activity with * Accenture private cloud
new Partner Port and UCS in * TCS Perfect Plant
SAP labs

Cisco Oracle Focus Areas
Solution Testing Oracle Applications
• CVDs • Fortune 500 wins
• VMware scaling • Sizing tools/data

• Bare metal scaling • Migration guides
• Advanced services
• Vblock for Oracle
• Sample configurations

Baseline Top Performance
• Oracle Linux • Leadership across
• Oracle Virtual Machine all tiers
• Solaris • Leading Oracle
E-Business
• Oracle Database, RAC
• Leading Oracle
• Applications Middleware

Cisco‘s Microsoft Focus Areas
Management VDI, DW
• System Center • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
integration R2 Fast Track Data
Warehouse 3.0
• Powershell
• SQL OLTP reference
provider for UCSM configurations for
SQL Server 2008

Server Technologies Applications
• Exchange 2007, 2010
• Windows
• SQL Server 2008 OLTP
• Hyper-V reference configurations
• SQL • Sharepoint 2007, 2010
• Mediaroom 2.0

UCS Management Ecosystem Overview
Manage UCS with Industry Standard Tools

Application Third Party Management
Stack OS and Service Orchestration
Software Provisioning and Configuration
Management Monitoring and Analysis

Cisco UCS Manager
UCS Visibility Unified Control API
and Control Service Profiles
Cisco UCS Pools

UCS PowerTool
Programmatic control over UCS hardwarecapabilities
Goal: Deliver comprehensive infrastructure management
based on .NET and PowerShell by leveraging open UCS XML API
 Architected for Flexibility and coverage
 PowerShell Wrapper
 Cmdlet definition and structure cmdlet
 Get-help support s

 .NET UCS Namespace Library
 XML API call construction
 Class Definition Cisco UCS
 Validation PowerTool
 ‗Good‘ PowerShell Design
UCS .NET
 In-line get-help support
Namespace
 Full Pipelining support
 Fully classed object definition
 All ‗legal‘ verbs
 .NET Namespace provides common base for all
UCS XML API
Microsoft focused integration
 Targeted to support full manageability of UCS
across multiple releases

Ease IT management through a single interface

Software
Operations
Orchestrator
Manager

Management Pack Integration Pack
Integration
.NET Library

UCS Manager

Infrastructure Physical & Virtual

Unified Compute System

OS and Hypervisors for UCS
Sold by Partner Sold by Cisco
Operating
Systems

Hypervisors
RHEV/KVM

Infrastructure - Flexpod
Minimizing time to production by pre-architected, and
validated Infrastructure from Cisco, NetApp and VMware
 Flexpod validated blue-print covers any aspect Application Virtualization
of SAP on the Cloud: SAP® Adaptive Computing
Multi-tenancy
VMware
Provisioning/deprovisioning Server Virtualization vSphere
VMware® vSphere™
Application and data mobility
Monitoring/automation Compute Virtualization
Cisco UCS
Accounting/chargeback
Integrated Backup Network Virtualization
Integrated Archiving Cisco Nexus

Integrated Disaster Recovery
Integration of SAP ACC, Back-Int, Active Storage Virtualization
NetApp® MultiStore®
Directory etc.

Infrastructure - Hitachi Vmware
Access Cisco • Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems and
Nexus 5000 VMware working together to deliver
best-in-class reliability and performance
vPC vPC
Cisco
Compute
UCS Fabric • Installation, pre-sales support/config, pre
Nexus 1000V
Interconnect and post sales services
VMware 4x10GE 4x10GE UCS
• The Storage Reference Architecture
vCenter
VMware
4x10GE 4x10GE Blade provides alternative to static, custom-
vSphere Servers integrated solutions
• The Storage Reference Architecture
SAN/Storage Cisco MDS provides a fast, flexible, low-risk path to
FC FC
a comprehensive, fully-virtualized data
FC FC
center architecture
HDS AMS 2500
Storage
Scalability
HDP – Hitachi
Dynamic
Provisioning Resiliency
Operational Efficiency

Infrastructre - vBLOCK
Network
Rich APIs
 Complete System Integration
Resource
 Seamless support
Management  Trusted partners with best infrastructure elements
 Faster ROI
Security  Optimized for your virtualized apps
 Simpler to manage and operate
 Lower space and energy requirements
Storage
Compute  Reduced risk
 Unparalleled investment protection

Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track

• Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track is a pre-validated, best-in-
class Microsoft private cloud design
• Cisco/NetApp entry is the first multi-vendor private
cloud architecture
– Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco and
UCS B-Series Microsoft
Blade Servers – Microsoft infrastructure software (Microsoft
UCS Manager Hyper-V, Systems Center including SCVMM,
SCOM, SCSM, SCOR)
– Cisco UCS servers and Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus® – NetApp storage & software
Family Switches • Provides fastest time to market for private cloud
deployments at reduced risk
– Technical reference architecture, design, build
and operate guides
NetApp FAS
Storage Systems http://media.netapp.com/documents/wp-7132.pdf

RHEL and VM-FEX INTEGRATION

 The RHEL kernel
natively supports
Cisco VM-FEX
 Using the RHEV hook
mechanism, VM-FEX
virtual interfaces may
be added to any guest

Solaris Certified on UCS
Offering:
• Enables Oracle and Cisco together to support most
demanding Unix environments
• Solaris 10 Certified Today
– C-Series Fully
– B-Series (
– Menlo Qlogic & Emulex CNAs
– Cisco CNA coming in May 2012

• Solaris 11

• Forecasted to be Certified late CY Q2 2012

• Cisco CNA driver planned to be included
Single Source for Information on this offering, see SAVBU webpage.

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