Cisco UCS Servers Presentation
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Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is a system rather than a server, leading the market in x86 blade revenue and performance. It boasts over 59,000 customers, streamlined provisioning times, and high deployment speeds for big data and hyperconverged infrastructure. Cisco UCS emphasizes integrated infrastructure, operational simplicity, and adapts to application needs using continuous optimization and policy-based configurations.
Cisco UCS Servers Presentation
- 1. It’s not a server. Cisco UCS It’s a system.
- 2. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Unified Computing System Momentum Integrated Infrastructure (Cisco UCS, Nexus) #1 Americas Revenue Market Share in x86 Blades #1 Global Revenue Market Share in x86 Blades #2 World Record Performance Benchmark 150+ Total Storage Deployed 800 PB Big Data Revenue Growth in 3 Years 15x Customers 59,000+ of Fortune 500 Have Invested in UCS >85% HyperFlex Customers 1600+ Source: 1 IDC, 2016 Q3, Nov 2016, Vendor Revenue Share Source: As of Cisco Q2FY16 earnings results. Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V
- 3. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco UCS: Driving Better Business Outcomes Proven Value and Over 59,000+ Customers Worldwide “Cisco’s server infrastructure helps us break down data center silos and establish a single compute platform that’s completely integrated with those of other vendors, making us immensely agile.” Ben Issa Head of IT Strategy, ING DIRECT Australia Cisco UCS 12 Weeks to 10 Minutes Reduced Provisioning Times Converged Infrastructure 4x Better Performance Hyperconverged Infrastructure 400% Faster Deployment Big Data 12.5x Faster Queries Source: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks
- 4. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Too Many Parts, Moving Too Fast Edge Data Center Multi Cloud Risk of Silos Manual Processes Limited Visibility Operational Simplicity and Automation Dev Ops FriendlySeamless Data Center Extension to Edge and Clouds Private Clouds Partner Clouds Public Clouds Customer Needs
- 5. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Component Any Workload. Any Scale. One System. Hyperconverged Infrastructure Converged Infrastructure ROBO Fifth Generation UCS HyperFlex Systems UCS Mini E-Series Data Intensive S-Series Storage Optimized C-Series Rack Servers UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions CoreEdge Cloud Cisco Intersight
- 6. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco’s Intent Based Data Center Learning Continuous infrastructure optimization driven by application analytics Adapting Infrastructure as code: Capable of driving changes on a real-time basis as the environment or the app requires Protecting Safeguards applications in multi-tenant environments with policy-based endpoint configuration Modern IT Infrastructure Must Be Constantly:
- 7. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential
- 8. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Fabric Centric Design UCS High Performance 40 GB/s Ethernet; 320 GB/s per Chassis Unified Fabric Single Cable for Network, Storage, and Management Traffic Easy to Scale Single Point of Management: Add Cables for Bandwidth vs. Fabric Type UCS Manager (Service Profiles) Management Ethernet Storage Form Factor Agnostic: Blades, Racks or HX
- 9. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Enterprise Performance Cisco UCS M5 Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications Cloud Scale Intensive/Mission Critical C240 M5 56 Cores – 20% more cores per socket 100% more memory 80% more NVMe drives C220 M5 56 Cores – 20% more cores per socket 100% more memory 80% more NVMe drives B200 M5 100% more memory 55% more storage – 20.5TB Double the GPU support S3260 Ideal Capacity-Optimized Platform for Large Object Storage at Scale (Purley Skylake refresh targeting Q4’CY17) C480 M5 Triple the number of GPUs 63% more drive bays 94% more NVMe support B480 M5 Quadruple the number of GPUs 80% more storage – 39TB 20% better memory bandwidth
- 10. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential UCS Mini B200 M5 Blade Server B480 M5 Blade Server C240 M5 Rack Server UCS Manager C220 M5 Rack Server 6324 Fabric Interconnects Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale Connect up to 7 C-Series rack servers for expanded capacity New architectural entry point for Unified Computing UCS in an All-in-One package: • Compute • Networking • UCS Management • Unified Computing in 6U • Chassis-Integrated Fabric Interconnects • Standard UCS Blades / Fans / Power Supplies UCS Mini
- 11. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential HyperFlex Systems Core Data CentersBranches SMB HyperFlex Hyperconverged Simplicity from Data Center to the Edge C O M M O N H X M A N A G E M E N T HyperFlex Edge HyperFlex Edge RetailGovernment ManufacturingTransportationHealthcare Hospitality Finance SMB Operations Limited IT Minimal Application Growth
- 12. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco UCS Management Innovation 3 key areas of UCS innovation for management 1. Software Object Model: Hardware is not configured directly 2. API is foundational: everything is programmatic 3. Virtual Interface Card (VIC): NIC is programmable