Customer Case Study on Power and Cooling Efficiency Increase with Cisco UCS

• Multi-billion dollar organization experiencing significant datacenter growth• Based on growth the current datacenter and service design would rapidly fill the existing facility• The project was to build a private cloud with the following goals: 1) Reduced cabling 2) Reduced power consumption 3) Reducing physical server deployment time frames 4) Increased server density/better floor space utilization 5) Faster service deployment 6) Increased service availability© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

Main Distribution Area• POD • EDA - Equipment Distribution Area • HDA - Horizontal Distribution Area • 800 sq ft • 6 – 8 Servers per Cabinet • 120x CAT 7a Copper & 48x LC Fibre to MDA • 40 Server Cabinets • ~2.5kW Power Cabinet • 128x analog and 32x serial KVM ports to MDA • 24x CAT 7a Copper Ports to HDA • 4x telecom relay racks • 100kW Power • 24x LC Fibre Ports every third cabinet to • 2x server access switches (2x 10GbE & 312 GbE • 240-320 Servers storage MDA ports) • 1x Utility Switch(2x 10GbE, 312 GbE ports) © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3

• POD • Micro POD EDA - Equipment Distribution Area • HDA - Horizontal Distribution Area • 800 sq ft • 32 Servers per Cabinet/ 160 Per Micro • 48x CAT 7a Copper & 48x LC Fibre to MDA POD • 40 Server Cabinets • 2x telecom relay racks • ~7kW Power Cabinet • 280kW Power • 2x Optional storage/legacy server racks • 8-16x CAT 7a Copper to HDA • 2x server access switches (N5K) • ~1280 Servers • 72-96x LC Fibre Ports to HDA © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4

POD Type Cabinets/ Sq footage Power/ POD Servers/ POD Servers/ Power/ Power/ POD sq foot Server CabinetLow 40 800 ft2 100 kW 280 0.35 / ft2 357 watts 2.5 kWDensityHigh 40 800 ft2 280 kW 1,280 1.6 / ft2 219 watts 7.0 kWDensityChange 0% 0% 180% 350% 350% (39%) 180%© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5

• Traditionally IT divided into separate areas Network Servers Storage• Changes to installed base required sign-off by all 3• New installs required additional sign-off by Facilities• Physical connection layout dictated a servers role• Each team dedicated to maximizing the effective use of their own assets but little co- ordination on providing the most effective service© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7

Integrated, Policy-Based Infrastructure Management 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 Server Policy… Service Profile LAN, SAN Config Templates Firmware Policy Storage Policy… Network Policy… Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Virtualization Policy… Boot Information Service ProfileTemplates Associating Service Profiles with LAN, SAN Config Create Service Profiles Hardware Configures Servers Application Profiles… Firmware Policy Automatically© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8

VDI Users VDI Servers In Use Servers Needed – 140 Peak 3000 150 2000 100 1000 50 0 0 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 • Significant amounts of unused server capacity in off-hours • UCS Service Profiles enable dynamic H/W re-provisioning • Servers can repurposed to other jobs • Compute farm • Sell unused capacity Customer use example: http://www.chrisatkinson.com/?p=81© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9

• Current implementation of 400 servers Power Saved = 55.2kW $48,355 per annum• Full POD – 1280 servers 176.6kW power saved $154,736 per annum 2,800 sq feet of floor space Total Cable Savings $90,000. 4380 Cat7a cables at $20 per cable 72 LC Fibre Cables at $75 per cable• Provisioning Time 20:1 reduction in provisioning time© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10

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