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- 1. Arraya Solutions Confidential ARRAYA SOLUTIONS, INC. 15 Years and Counting Ryan Benner Director, Cisco Practice Chris Meehan Director, Microsoft Practice CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHER ENHANCE DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY, BOOST MICROSOFT APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
- 2. Arraya Solutions Confidential CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHER Cisco and Microsoft offer flexible, open, and innovative solutions. By using Cisco data center solutions for your Microsoft workloads, private cloud solutions, and Windows Server with Hyper-V, you can: Respond rapidly to changing business needs Scale the data center while avoiding complexity Accelerate your transition to private cloud and hybrid cloud environments 7/18/2014 2
- 3. Arraya Solutions Confidential AGENDA UCS for Microsoft Workloads SQL Server Update Microsoft Management for UCS Microsoft Private Cloud Go Hybrid with Cisco InterCloud Our Offer for You 7/18/2014 3
- 4. Arraya Solutions Confidential CISCO UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM 30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS #2 WW Market Share in x86 Blades More Than 75% of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS 90 World Record Performance Benchmarks to Date 7/18/2014 4
- 5. Arraya Solutions Confidential THE NEXT-GENERATION DATA CENTER PLATFORM 7/18/2014 5 That Unifies Computing, Networking, Storage Access, And Virtualization Resources Into A Cohesive System
- 6. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 6 STRONG PORTFOLIO OF CISCO/MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS Solution Details Partners Why UCS CVD? VDI • XenDesktop 5.x • With HyperV 2008 R1 • Extended Memory • Blade Density • Ease of Scale • Integrated, with Storage Yes Business Analytics & DW • SQL Server FastTrack 2012 • SQL Server 2008 FastTrack • OLTP with SQL Server 2012 • Integrated solution with Storage • Extended Memory • Seamless Scalability w/ service profiles Yes Private Cloud with Hyper V • HyperV FastTrack w/ EMC • Management integration – N1kv, VIC • Integration with SC2012 • Integration with Win Server 2012 White Paper Microsoft Applications • SQL Server 2012 Fast Track DW • Exchange 2010 • Sharepoint 2010 • Ease of Scale • Extended Memory • Stateless servers for improved HA • Unified Fabric Yes Managemen t integration • SC 2012 Ops Manager Mgmt Pack • SC 2012 Orchestrator Mgmt Pack • SC 2012 VMM Manager • Cisco commandlet library built on powershell • Automate UCS management • Improve predictability and reduce manual errors with UCS integration pack • Reduce delivery time Yes
- 7. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 7 CURRENT UCS COMPUTE PORTFOLIO Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
- 8. Arraya Solutions Confidential CURRENT UCS BLADE COMPARISON 7/18/2014 8 Model B22 M3 B200 M3 B420 M3 B260 M4 B460 M4 Sockets 2 2 4 2 4 Processor Xeon E5-2400 Xeon E5-2600v2 Xeon E5-4600 Xeon E7 v2 Xeon E7 v2 # DIMM’s 12 24 48 48 96 Max Memory 384 GB 768 GB 1.5 TB 1.5 TB 3 TB Internal Drives 2 2 4 2 4 Mez I/O Slots 2 2 3 3 6 I/O Throughput 80 Gbps 80 Gbps 160 Gbps 160 Gbps 320 Gbps
- 9. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 9 CISCO IS ADDING FLASH MEMORY TO UCS
- 10. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 10 UCS INVICTA SERIES
- 11. Arraya Solutions Confidential THE UCS INVICTA CONQUERS THREE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES 7/18/2014 11 Workload Acceleration Fast I/O High Bandwidth Low Latency Data Reduction Eliminate Redundant Data Efficient Storage Utilization Data Center Efficiency Reduce Energy Consumption Reduce Floor Space Consumption Reduce Management Overhead
- 12. Arraya Solutions Confidential INVICTA ACCELERATES ALL WORKLOADS 7/18/2014 12
- 13. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 13 STRONG PORTFOLIO OF CISCO/MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS Solution Details Partners Why UCS CVD? VDI • XenDesktop 5.x • With HyperV 2008 R1 • Extended Memory • Blade Density • Ease of Scale • Integrated, with Storage Yes Business Analytics & DW • SQL Server FastTrack 2012 • SQL Server 2008 FastTrack • OLTP with SQL Server 2012 • Integrated solution with Storage • Extended Memory • Seamless Scalability w/ service profiles Yes Private Cloud with Hyper V • HyperV FastTrack w/ EMC • Management integration – N1kv, VIC • Integration with SC2012 • Integration with Win Server 2012 White Paper Microsoft Applications • SQL Server 2012 Fast Track DW • Exchange 2010 • Sharepoint 2010 • Ease of Scale • Extended Memory • Stateless servers for improved HA • Unified Fabric Yes Management integration • SC 2012 Ops Manager Mgmt Pack • SC 2012 Orchestrator Mgmt Pack • SC 2012 VMM Manager • Cisco commandlet library built on powershell • Automate UCS management • Improve predictability and reduce manual errors with UCS integration pack • Reduce delivery time Yes
- 14. Arraya Solutions Confidential SQL SERVER UPDATE 7/18/2014 14 Important Dates Todays SQL Challenges New Features of Modern Day SQL Benefits of SQL on UCS
- 15. Arraya Solutions Confidential IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER 7/18/2014 15 SQL Server 2000 End of Life extended support expired on 4/9/2013 SQL Server 2005 End of Life extended support expires on 4/12/2016 Windows Server 2003 End of Life extended support expires on 7/14/2015
- 16. Arraya Solutions Confidential TODAYS CHALLENGES 7/18/2014 16 Increasing demand and complexity Business Insight and analytics Security Availability and Continuity Manageability
- 17. Arraya Solutions Confidential MODERN SQL FOR MODERN CHALLENGES 7/18/2014 17
- 18. Arraya Solutions Confidential SQL SERVER ON UCS.. BETTER TOGETHER 7/18/2014 18 Processing Power Physical Memory Flexible Scalability
- 19. Arraya Solutions Confidential UCS MANAGEMENT WITH SYSTEM CENTER 7/18/2014 19
- 20. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 20 Application Controller • Manage services through intuitive interface using standard templates • Create, manage and move services using web-based interface with customized view by role • Provide comprehensive view of all services and virtual machines with control at each layer Virtual Machine Manager • Service-centric approach to application management Operations Manager • End-to-end views of application health and topology Service Delivery & Automation Application Management Infrastructure Management Microsoft System Center 2012 provides an integrated management platform with a robust set of capabilities Orchestrator • Process automation that simplifies datacenter management • Optimize heterogeneous environments with integrated management • Flexible and reliable datacenter services through orchestrated workflows Service Manager • Publish and consume standardized IT service offerings • Enable self-service requests for private cloud infrastructure • Process workflows built on industry best practices • Closed-loop change and release management Virtual Machine Manager • Pooling and dynamic allocation of datacenter resources • Flexible delegation with control • Infrastructure self-service enablement • Heterogeneous virtual environment management • Dynamic optimization of workloads Operations Manager • Comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds • Monitor services, devices and operations for many computers from a single console Configuration Manager • Enables device freedom • Provides comprehensive client management • Integrates mobile, physical and virtual environments Data Protection Manager • Unified data protection for windows servers and clients • Centralized management • Integrates into existing ticketing systems, workflows and team structures • Supplies enterprise scale, fault tolerance and reliability
- 21. Arraya Solutions Confidential UCS MANAGEMENT WITH OPERATIONS MANAGER Holistic View of Converged Infrastructure Health Monitor alerts and faults on Chassis, Blades, Fabric Interconnects, I/O Power Supply, Fan Modules…. Manage multiple UCS domains with single management pack Simple and Powerful Visualizations Graphical Views of UCS topology Graphical views of physical and logical entities and relationships Rich Alerting and Notifications UCS Alerts are integrated into Operations Manager alerting and notification channels
- 22. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 22 ORCHESTRATOR AND UCS MANAGER HELP AUTOMATE AND STANDARDIZE UCS MANAGEMENT Automate UCS Management Improve predictability and reduce manual errors Reduce time to delivery and reduce TCO Deliver scalable and reliable UCS management through orchestrated workflows Deliver consistent service across multiple systems Packaged workflows to automate UCS operations UCS XML API provides a powerful, supported interface for Orchestrator workflow operations Provides a graphical runbook designer Built on Cisco UCS manager XML API framework Enables runbook actions designed in orchestrator to automate management of UCS
- 23. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 23 CISCO UCS UI EXTENSION FOR SCVMM Manage your private cloud from a single console Physical, compute virtual infrastructure in one place Show UCS inventory in SCVMM Launch UCSM GUI from SCVMM Summary status of servers Basic server functions Service Profile association Launch KVM Change power/server status Service Profile Template Support Instantiate service profiles View templates
- 24. Arraya Solutions Confidential MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD IN ACTION DEMO 7/18/2014 24
- 25. Arraya Solutions Confidential GO HYBRID WITH CISCO INTERCLOUD 7/18/2014 25
- 26. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 26 CUSTOMERS WANT HYBRID CLOUDS, NOT JUST IAAS
- 27. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 27 WHY HYBRID CLOUDS? IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WORKLOAD
- 28. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 28 HYBRID CLOUD CHALLENGES Inability to Access Resources Across Any Cloud, with Security and Ease
- 29. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 29 CISCO’S HYBRID CLOUD APPROACH
- 30. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 30 CISCO INTERCLOUD FABRIC: SOLUTION OVERVIEW
- 31. Arraya Solutions Confidential INTERCLOUD FABRIC DIRECTOR CAPABILITIES Single Console for management of hybrid cloud workloads Administrator portal and self-service user portal Migrate Virtual Machines to public cloud or create Virtual Machines from template in a few clicks Security User groups and provide multi-tenancy support Users with pre-defined user types and permissions provide role-based access-control Workload Placement Policies Administrator creates catalogs to be shared with specific users/user groups Policies to restrict placement of workloads based on max/min number of VMs in a VDC 7/18/2014 31
- 32. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 32 VM MIGRATION PROCESS
- 33. Arraya Solutions Confidential 7/18/2014 33 CISCO INTERCLOUD FABRIC VALUE PROPOSITION FOR YOU
- 34. Arraya Solutions Confidential CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHER Cisco and Microsoft offer flexible, open, and innovative solutions. By using Cisco data center solutions for your Microsoft workloads, private cloud solutions, and Windows Server with Hyper-V, you can: Respond rapidly to changing business needs Scale the data center while avoiding complexity Accelerate your transition to private cloud and hybrid cloud environments 7/18/2014 34
- 35. Arraya Solutions Confidential ARRAYA SOLUTIONS, INC. 15 Years and Counting Ryan Benner Director, Cisco Practice Chris Meehan Director, Microsoft Practice THANK YOU!
Editor's Notes
- Cisco and Microsoft have worked together extensively to create a unified datacenter architecture that combines network, compute, storage, virtualization, and management. This architecture provides one of the best platforms for running your business’s critical workloads. Our intention today is to provide a high level look at some of the technologies within this platform. We’d be happy to schedule individual follow-ups to take a deeper look into the platform.
- How many of you are using UCS today? As you can see from the stats, your peers agree with you. What makes it unique?
- The Cisco UCS Manager provides unified, embedded management of all UCS software and hardware components across multiple chassis, rack-mount servers and thousands of virtual machines, managing the Cisco UCS as a single entity through an intuitive GUI, CLI or XML API. The Intel x86 Architecture is compatible with any existing infrastructure and managed server, networking, and storage resources though a unified approach that: Greatly decreases complexity Provides the capability to deploy and alter applications quickly Increases business agility Reduces TCO T: And Fabric Computing
- Cisco has made a big investment in Microsoft solutions. Cisco Validated Design provide the foundation for systems desing based on common use cases each ones has been comprehensively tested and documented by cisco engineers to ensure faster, more reliable, and predictable deployments
- A quick look at the current compute portfolio…both rack and blade form factors. As you can see, there are quite a few options.
- In general, 3 compute factors impact workload performance processor, memory, and I/O As you can see here, UCS offers a range of performance options in this category as well…from the low end to the high end When the 64 GB DIMMs become available, max memory will double as well
- I/O isn’t just within the server, it also reaches into the storage system Cisco is now adding flash based storage directly into UCS to provide the highest performance possible
- We solve three basic problems, and we address three basic objectives. The first is workload acceleration. Applications come on to our platforms, and they go faster. More data can be consumed, and it can be done very, very quickly (low latency). Next, we can eliminate redundant data. By eliminating redundant data, we can actually store more information on our technology making our platforms very efficient. Then finally for the datacenter, energy consumption and floor space, are both reduced, meaning we consume less of it, and management overhead is reduced because there is just less to manage with our technology it’s much simpler use.
- Cisco has made a big investment in Microsoft solutions. To summarize, cisco and Microsoft have made a big investment in building fully integrated platforms for your business
- SQL server 2000 end of life and extended support expired over 1yr ago. If this is still running in the enterprise, it needs to go! SQL 2005 extended support began in 2011 (meaning only security patches and paid support are available) SQL server 2005 was widely adopted when released, but is closely coming up to it’s end of life. Many SQL Server 2005 instances that exist today were deployed on Windows Server 2003, due to the fact that Win Server 2003 extended support expires in 2015, those SQL workloads need to be addressed now.
- ● Increasing demand and complexity: requires improved performance, enhanced response time, and additional workload capacity. And like many datacenter applications Microsoft SQL Server can be very complex and demanding - especially in terms of helping ensure proper I/O configuration, CPU and Memory ● Increasing demand for business insight: enterprises that wish to remain competitive are more and more required to adopt online transaction processing database and warehousing workloads in greater quantities and sizes. ● Security: Increased demands for data and storage come with increases in the amount of sensitive information being stored. Data loss prevention, regulatory compliance, auditing needs must be addressed. ● Availability and Continuity: IT professionals need to account for not only disasters that can happen at the local software and hardware level (resulting in redundancy in the form of High Availability (HA) solutions) but also for disasters that might render entire data-centers unavailable for extended periods of time ● Manageability: To successfully meet increasing demand for processing power, storage needs, and increased complexity, IT departments need to remain agile. This in turn translates into the need for quicker provisioning, easier scalability and manageability.
- Increasing demand and complexity – As data requirements grow and applications become complex, features such as resource governor, Hyper-V Service Templates and enhanced PowerShell help ensure that IT departments can support the new demands on SQL Server by minimizing footprint, leveraging known industry standard tools and ensure I/O is met. Increasing demand for business insight – Features such as Power View and Power Pivot can help meet BI demands by enabling business analysts and information workers, to easily create and interact with views of data from data models based on PowerPivot workbooks or tabular models deployed to SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services (SSAS) instances Security – Features such as: User defined roles - give administrators the ability to limit access of authorized users according to segregations of duties contained database authentication - eliminates the chances of having orphaned or unused logins on your SQL Server database engine. SQL Server Audit – Server-level. These actions include server operations, such as management changes and logon and logoff operations. Database-level. These actions encompass data manipulation languages (DML) and data definition language (DDL) operations. Audit-level. These actions include actions in the auditing process Extensibility – Availability and Continuity – Features such as: AlwaysOn Failover Clusters which have been enhanced to provide a better means of health checking by dedicating a connection on a separate thread to ensure the proper resources are need to report health status back to the cluster AlwaysOn Ags which are new starting with SQL 2012, providing a high availability and disaster recovery alternative to database mirroring. AlwaysOn AGs contain a single read-write database and up to 8 replicas in disparate locations that can also be use in read only mode. Manageability – With new features and options for consolidation such as configuring SQL instances across NUMA architectures on UCS servers, support for modern hypervisors and installation on Server Core, SQL 2012 and 2014 can be manageable while continuing to provide support for all todays challenges. AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Enhancements - During SQL Server startup, the WSFC service uses the SQL Server Database Engine resource DLL to create a new connection to on a separate thread that is used exclusively for monitoring the health status. This ensures that there the SQL instance has the required resources to report its health status while under load. Using this dedicated connection, SQL Server runs the sp_server_diagnostics (Transact-SQL) system stored procedure in repeat mode to periodically report the health status of the SQL Server components to the resource DLL AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Much like Exchange DAGs, AGs allow for customers to deploy a set of databases in a primary / secondary model with up to 8 secondary copies. The secondary copies can now be used as read only databases unlike secondary copies in database mirroring. Indirect Checkpoints - provides a more accurate guarantee of database recovery time in the event of a crash or a failover than is provided by automatic checkpoints. To ensure that database recovery does not exceed allowable downtime for a given database, you can specify the maximum allowable downtime for that database Power View - a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. It provides drag-and-drop ad hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers Online Database Operations – Index Operations -Indexes containing XML, varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) columns can now be created, rebuilt, and dropped as an online operation In-Memory OLTP* - The In-Memory OLTP engine is designed for extremely high session concurrency for OLTP type of transactions driven from a highly scaled-out middle-tier
- Processing Power UCS servers offer 6, 8, and 10 cores per socket running at speeds of up to 3.3 GHz. The ability to provision up to four high-end processors deliver substantial computing power for Microsoft SQL Server workloads that need to scale up While multiple sockets with up to 10 cores each provide a powerful option for organizations using NUMA architectures to run multiple, distinct, instances of Microsoft SQL Server on physical servers as a non-virtualized form of workload consolidation. Physical Memory - With the capacity to address up to 384, 512, 768, 1024GB, 1.5TB, 3.0 TB of RAM on various Cisco UCS server chassis with two to four sockets, enterprises can easily opt to deploy hosts with full or partial memory complements as needed. This capacity gives organizations the option to gradually meet memory requirements over time as needed, without sacrificing potential capacity. When coupled with NUMA technologies, having the ability to address large amounts of memory can be very beneficial. Flexible Flexibility is facilitated by means of the PCIe expansion slots providing a wide variety of I/O needs such as increased networking capability, on-board high-performance SSD deployment, and extensive interoperability and control for interacting with storage from a wide variety of OEMs and vendors, including EMC, Emulex, QLogic, and Broadcom Scalable Scalability is achieved both through the hardware capabilities exposed by individual Cisco UCS servers and through the capability to scale up to 160 physical servers (and thousands of virtual machines) into a single, cohesively managed datacenter. Close Microsoft SQL Server is demanding. Cisco UCS servers provide the hardware capacity to meet the toughest Microsoft SQL Server challenges. More important, the Cisco Unified Computing System provides the flexibility and management benefits needed to allow enterprises to meet Microsoft SQL Server workload demands without compromising IT agility or overall manageability
- In April of 2012, Microsoft changed the licensing structure of System Center and bundled all products into a single suite and datacenter management platform. When licensed, customers gain access to all products listed above. It can be broken down into various different broad capabilities: App Management Service Delivery & Automation Infrastructure Management Today we will be discussing how Cisco Solutions enable Microsoft customers to reduce overall TCO of datacenters with a few key components: Operations Manager Orchestrator Virtual Machine Manager Private Cloud Functionality
- Operations Manager provides organizations with a best of breed monitoring platform to gain a 360 degree view of the datacenter from the network layer up through the application stack and even into the code of applications. The UCS Management pack provides customers with the ability to: ● View Cisco UCS hardware, service profiles, operating systems, and virtual machines on a single interface ● View the health of Cisco UCS hardware and subsystems in the native Microsoft System Center Operations Manager format ● Visually correlate blades, service profiles, and host operating systems by using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager status views to quickly determine how an event will affect the overall system
- Orchestrator is a component of system center that provides workflow management and automation for the datacenter. Orchestrator lets you automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment. The Cisco UCS integration pack provides administrators with the ability to automate day to day tasks in UCS such as: Service template creation Backup of UCS domain configuration Requests for adding VLANs to existing service templates
- UI Extensions for SCVMM provide administrators with the ability to managed the physical and virtual infrastructure from a single location. Administrators have the ability to: View inventory and status of the physical Cisco infrastructure Launch KVM sessions to physical servers And perform power operations Those are a few examples of how the Cisco and Microsoft private cloud solutions come together to provide a single solutions for provision and datacenter as one.
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