Cisco UCS - CA World 2013

1. Cisco Confidential© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1 Cloud Solutions with the Unified Computing System Mark Balch Director, Product Management, Data Center Business Group April 23 2013
2. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2 Cisco UCS – Operational and Economic efficiency Cisco UCS – Platform for the Cloud Cisco UCS for Virtual Desktops Cisco UCS for Big Data and Analytics CA solutions for Cisco UCS
3. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3 $0 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 Server Spending Mgmt. & Administration—Standalone Servers Mgmt. & Administration—Virtual Servers Power & Cooling Expense Source: IDC, ―New Economic Model for the Datacenter,‖ 2011
4. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Hundreds of Management Points Physical/Virtual Frontier Virtual Automated and Dynamic Physical Manual and Static Virtualization and Automation Tools Fixed Infrastructure Virtual Resource Pools Accidental Architecture  Technology silos  Difficult integration  Labor-intensive  Costly to integrate, maintain, up grade, scale, secure
5. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 As of Q2FY13, Cisco UCS achieved an annualized run rate of 2 Billion dollars 20,000+ unique UCS customers (February 2013) > 50% of Fortune 500 companies 3,000+ channel partners actively selling UCS WW 1,500+ UCS specialized channel partners
6. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6  All links can be active all the time  Policy-driven bandwidth allocation  Virtual interface granularity Uplinks 20Gb/s 40Gb/s 80Gb/s
7. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7 Server Policy… Storage Policy… Network Policy… Virtualization Policy… Application Profiles… Subject Matter Experts Define Policies Storage SME Server SME Network SME Policies Used to Create Service Profile Templates Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles Associating Service Profiles with Hardware Configures Servers Automatically Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Server Name UUID, MAC, WWN Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Server Name UUID, MAC, WW N Boot Information LAN, SAN Config Firmware Policy Unified Management
8. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8  Rack and Blade form factors in a common resource pool  Self Integrating System  Add capacity without complexity Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender C-Series Rack Mount ServersB-Series Blade Servers Unified Management
9. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9  Integrates three layers of networking Less complexity Fewer devices Fewer management points  Directly connects servers to the network  Directly connects Virtual Machines to the network Cisco VM-FEX Technology Server VM Cisco Fabric Extender Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Low Cost Low Power Consumption Zero Management Card Cisco Virtual Interface Card Cisco Adapter FEX Technology Network Wired for Bandwidth, not Connectivity One Network One Network Layer Hypervisor VM Unified Fabric
10. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 ―UCS brings a single operational tool that enhances the efficiency of the data center management teams,‖ says Adam Baum, IT architect for the City of Mesa. ―First, the use of service profiles allows the city to reconfigure equipment as customer requirements change in a matter of minutes, versus hours or days. Second, the single point of management that is inherent in UCS provides the ability to view server, network, and storage health and performance from one pane of glass.‖ ―With Cisco UCS Manager service profiles, we can very quickly reconfigure any server blade so that it’s ready for production in 15-20 minutes.‖ ―… an administrator can change an operating system configuration and then apply it to multiple server blades at the same time, saving time and reducing configuration errors.‖ ―Firmware upgrades are easier as well, because the IT team simply attaches the upgrade to the template, and then Cisco UCS Manager automatically updates all server blades associated with that template. Cisco UCS Manager templates enable the IT team to update all servers in just 30 minutes, compared to 20 hours with the previous computing platform.‖ Support time was also cut dramatically. Thomas and the rest of the team have been freed to work on new projects in what he estimates is a twentyfold increase in productivity. Time saved is now being directed toward expanding the internal team’s expertise and experience with other technologies and applications, as well as launching new initiatives. 59% reduction of ongoing administrative/management costs based on 17 customers. Source: Cisco Data Center and Cloud Blog Posts, 9/27/2012 – 10/31/2012
11. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 59% reduction of ongoing administrative/management costs based on 17 customers. Source: Cisco Data Center and Cloud Blog Posts, 9/27/2012 – 10/31/2012
12. Cisco Confidential© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12
13. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13 “…ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access “…that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” “…to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) NIST SP800-145, September 2011
14. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15 Bare-Metal Performance Enterprise Reliability Auditable Security High Operational Cost Rigid Configurations
15. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16 Generic Cloud Virtualized Flexibility On-Demand Resources Automated Efficiency Lack of Control: Performance, Reliability, and Configurations Bare-Metal Performance Enterprise Reliability Auditable Security High Operational Cost Rigid Configurations
16. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17 On-Demand Enterprise Compute • Quickly deploy physical servers with VM ease • Dynamically configure physical resources to accommodate diverse enterprise workloads • Elastic scaling: reduce power during low demand, rapidly scale out for high demand Seamless Physical-Virtual Network • Enterprise networking capabilities across physical and virtual machines • Virtual switching in hardware for consistent latency and performance – line rate 10 Gbps to the VM • Automated network configuration from VM to physical with leading hypervisors
18. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19 Memory CPU Unified Fabric (FCoE) • Lower cost for compute + network infrastructure • Greater virtual desktop density without performance impact • Simple Operation—start in minutes, scale in seconds • Massive Scalability—scales easily to 1000’s of desktops per UCS system • Extended memory and I/O to avoid desktop virtualization bottlenecks
19. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20 Single VM Latency Multi VM Latency 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 usecs Message Size (bytes) Cisco VM-FEX Hypervisor vSwitch 0 25 50 75 100 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 12 VM 24 VM 36 VM 48 VM StdDev AverageLatency/VM(usecs) Avg Latency Cisco VM-FEX Avg Latency Hypervisor vSwitch Std Dev Cisco VM-FEX Std Dev Hypervisor vSwitch 67% Latency 50% Performance Deterministic Delivery
20. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21 • 175 Desktops on B230 M2 • Knowledge Worker Profile (no Flash) • 384 G memory, Dual E7-2870 / 10 Core CPU • 184 Desktops on B200 M3 • Knowledge Worker Profile (no Flash) • 384 G memory, Dual E5-2690 / 8 Core CPU Industry-leading Density on 2-socket servers Source: Principled Technologies White Paper Current VDI/VXI solutions Details at www.cisco.com/go/vxi
21. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22 Application Performance Optimizations VM-FEX delivering deterministic performance Tier-0 Storage on Server IOPS and storage optimizations Prioritization of Desktop Pools / Workloads UCS QoS and bandwidth controls deliver prioritization to desktop pools Rapid Provisioning of Desktops Service profile templates for rapid provisioning of desktop pools Desktop Density and Scalability Great virtual desktop density with linear performance scalability Networking Visibility and Security to the Desktops Nexus 1000V with VSG and VM-FEX provide VM level controls
23. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 24 Database NoSQL Database Exclusive hardware reference Joint GTM Several joint engagements UCS is exclusive hardware reference Several joint engagementsUCS is the only partner platform Commercial, distributed key-value database. Commercial Document-oriented database NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop (NOSH)
24. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 25 ) • Operational Simplification: Simplified &policy-based management to manage the cluster • Modular Solution: With modular framework, infrastructure and expansion modules simplify deployment • Risk-reduction: Pre- validation, sizing and performance optimization reduces integration and deployment risk • Lower TCO: With reduced managed switch nodes in scale-out solutions Business Benefits • Scalability: Modular building block, scalable up to 7.2 PB with single management domain • Performance: Best in class performance of compute and network for massively scale- out applications • Management & Monitoring: Unified management across cluster (up to 10000 nodes) Architectural Benefits UCS Fabric Interconnects provide Common Management Plane for Scale-out UCS C-Series Rack servers with Internal Storage provide the Compute Nodes
25. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 26 Extendable to multi-data center implementations for disaster recovery and business continuity UCS Rack-Mount Servers UCS Blade Servers UCS Manager Deploy, Manage, Monitor Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler Hadoop Connectors Big Data Ecosystem SAN Arrays Enterprise Applications Availability Backup Snapshot Combine Enterprise and Big Data Platform Into One
26. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27 DATA CENTER FOOTPRINT Two data centers, one in Rochester, NY for production and one in Buffalo, NY for disaster recovery • Scaling • Big data analytics • Enterprise apps • Accelerated Enterprise apps • Improved staff productivity 20% • High availability for cloud services • Faster time to market for new cloud-based services • Transition to cloud- based solutions • Existing data center infra-structure strained • UCS technology advantage—Single scalable integrated system, single point of manag-ement, large memory footprint • Unmatched performance (with large memory capability • Reliability and scalability • Reduced Cost • Simplified Cabling • Flexible and powerful virtual environment using prevalidated Vblock platform, combining Cisco UCS, EMC, and VMware solutions • Cisco Unified Fabric Challenges Turning Point Why Cisco? Solution Impact The performance of SAP applications on Cisco UCS was incredible, even better than we were getting on our existing Environments. Steve Houser, CTO, Xerox Cloud Services Private Cloud Case Study
27. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 28 Summary Operational and Economic efficiency – Real results Platform for the Cloud – Large scale deployments Virtual Desktops A Common platform architecture for Big Data and Analytics
28. Cisco Confidential© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 29 Lax Sakalkale Sr. Director Product Management Virtualization and Clouds Solutions CA Technologies
29. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 30 CA IM 2.2 PERFORMANCE CENTERUnifiedViewAcrossDisciplines Capacity Planning Performance Traffic Analysis Application Latency Availability Voice/Video
30. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 31 Benefits: Detects faults quickly and prevents false alarms. UCS discovery, fault and availability management; event correlation, root- cause analysis, change impact Real-time and historical infrastructure & application performance management Benefits: Proactive problem and capacity management, prevents repeat incidents and persistent problems. Advanced diagnostics, single dashboard, service & business context Benefits: Prioritizes and automates actions according to business SLA’s and impact. Increase workforce productivity Connect with customers Increase agility, lower support costs Virtual Desktop Services / VXI Voice, Video and Collaboration services Cloud and core Business Services Cisco Unified Computing System
31. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 32 Intelligent Analytics Innovative Metric Views Intuitive Guided Workflow Data from “CA Infrastructure Management Business Use Case,” 2012 CA IM 2.0 Performance Center UI Operations Staff Productivity Improvement through Unified Set of Infrastructure Management Tools 30% Network & Systems Level 1/2/3 Support Productivity Improvement through Quicker RCA & Automation 30% Reduced Frequency & Duration of Triage Calls through Visibility into Failed Infrastructure Components 40%
32. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 33 Network Flow Analysis Public and Private Cloud Server, Storage and Network Application and Database End User and Service Response Time Unified view of public and private infrastructure in a simple, powerful, and easy to use package. Support for Citrix and VMware environments
33. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 34 • Discovers and monitors all physical and virtual UCS components Server, Network, Storage, Software, and Virtualization Service level and usage optimization reporting • Modular – No Integration Required • Event correlation and root cause analysis • Customizable, role-based dashboards • True multi-tenant visibility and SaaS delivery Option • Unified Dashboards out of the box • Usage-based metering and billing • End-to-end support for UCS-based Converged infrastructures like VMDC, Vblock, FlexPod, VSPEX etc. Ready
34. © 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35 • Cisco is powering CAWorld2013 IT Network at the show!! • See various Cisco-related Demos on the Exhibition Floor in Service Assurance and Application Delivery areas • Visit Service Assurance Pedestal 557A/B • Attend various Cisco-related and CA Nimsoft sessions. Check the latest sessions schedule • AM011LN Hands-on Lab: Solving WAN and Application Response Problems with CA Converged Infrastructure Management
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Editor's Notes

When administrators try to build clouds using legacy infrastructure, they run into operational complexities created by disconnected technology silos never built to work together seamlessly. Physical infrastructure was traditionally static and difficult to manage. It was built assuming frequent manual intervention. Virtualization, on the other hand, is inherently programmable. The problem comes in layering flexible virtualization software on static infrastructure. This boundary is frought with complexity and expense in setup, configuration, and ongoing management. <click - animation>I call this an accidential architecture. No one wanted things to be this way, but infrastructure was designed largely before virtualization and has retained essentially the same overall design. Until the UCS, of course, which was designed explicitly to bridge the gap between physical and virtual by providing pre-integrated, programmable infrastructure.In fact, UCS was designed by one of the original VMware founders, Ed Bugnion. Ed wrote the original ESX hypervisor and understood as well as anyone, the difficulties in managing infrastructure dependencies in a virtualized environment. As good as his software was, it relied on extensive and costly manual configuration of compute, network, and storage to run applications efficiently in high quality virtual machines. By integrating the physical compute and network layers with hypervisors and their virtual machines, Ed was able to overcome many of the traditional bottlenecks in data center and cloud systems. Beyond performance, which could be considered a capex issue – do I have enough hardware? – the UCS improves operational processes by enforcing and managing the physical/virtual boundaries.
The market has spoken clearly: Cisco UCS is the #2 x86 blade manufacturer in North America and #3 globally. With a run-rate over $1Billion, UCS has sustained market traction and deployment across the world’s leading companies and institutions. Customers including Qualcomm, Freeport McMoran, and Levi Strauss run business-critical workloads on UCS including SAP and Oracle business applications. Travelport, Moses Cone Health System, and Boston University are examples of customers who have utilized UCS rapid deployment and configuration capabilities to more rapidly respond to their application requirements with low operational costs.Qualcomm:http://www.slideshare.net/Ciscodatacenter/why-cisco-ucs-for-oracle-solutions, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/at_a_glance_c45-617345.pdfFreeport:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/dcs_uc_for_erp_freeport.pdfLevi:http://www.sap.com/about-sap/newsroom/press.epx?pressid=13294Travelport:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/casestudy_c36_674549.pdfMoses Cone:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/case_study_c36-588298.pdfBoston University: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/bumc_cs.pdf
If we can say one thing about cloud services – it is that they are growing, resulting in ever increasing workload on system administrators. UCS is a stateless system that leverages the power of dynamic configuration to rapidly deploy compute nodes in whatever configuration is best suited to the applications at hand.UCS understands the concept of infrastructure templates and enables administrators to automatically provision dozens of physical servers at a time with policy-enforced configurations at the compute and network layers. Whenever the administrator wants to expand or create a hypervisor or application cluster, it is only necessary to specify the number of nodes in UCS Manager. UCS will automatically deploy the requested server and network configuration and then boot those nodes with the desired system image. The result is a dramatic savings in time and reduced potential for manual errors.Key points for cloud (beyond the normal UCS service profile value proposition)On-demand physical provisioning like virtualDeliver physical resources programmatically like a VMAutomate physical provisioning like software
Key points for cloud (beyond the normal form-factor independent value proposition)Any physical resource can be delivered on-demand: local storage, PCIe cards, more memory, etc.Treat all types of x86 hardware (blades, racks, PCIe, storage) as pools of resources
Nothing here about virtual machines, linux or Windows, object stores or SANsThis looks like how IT resources are delivered as compared to what those resources actually areSounds a lot like traditional IT– you need resources? let’s consider what you needThere is a big difference between the infrastructure that runs your ERP system versus your public-facing web site
If you have a purely stateless application with minimal performance requirements, you can run almost anywhere; not so if your analytics farm requires low latency network and storage
Using the Cisco Unified Computing System as the basis for your virtual desktop infrastructure unites computing, networking, virtualization, and storage access using technology innovation to bring ideal platform for desktop virtualizationSpecifically, the Cisco UCS costs at least 20% less than competitors due to its radically simplified architecture requiring fewer components .Supports 60% more virtual desktops without impacting user performanceIs easy to deploy and scaleMassive Scalability – Full system scales to 320 servers x 120 virtual desktops/server = up to 38,400 desktopsLargest and most cost-effective memory footprint for a 2-socket server combined with screaming fast, secured I/O avoiding bottlenecks
Another unique benefit that we can offer is the ability to manage existing/new “enterprise applications” and emerging “big data applications” from the same management domain.This is enabled by the unique capability of Cisco UCS to transparently integrate and manage infrastructure for running traditional enterprise applications like Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers (typically deployed with enterprise SAN storage arrays) with infrastructure for deploying Big Data on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers (with internal storage capacity and bandwidth). Integrated Server ManagementIntegrated Network ManagementIntegrated Data Management
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/Xerox_external_case_study_final_11_02_12.pdf
UCS is Cisco’s solution for virtualized data centers. Basically it is an aggregation of Network, Physical and Virtual System and Storage technologies all in one appliance – so everything runs on one appliance.CLICK: You migrate your tier 1 apps to UCS and deliver and manage them more cost-effectively through virtual desktop services. Centralization & virtualization can prove workforce productivity and IT costs – if you have the right management solution!Just as the UCS is a converged or unified infrastructure, you need a unified approach to managing UCS to assure ensure exceptional Quality of Experience for the applications UCS delivers and Quality of Service of the underlying UCS infrastructure. Cisco is an expert at managing service layers 1-3, but we are experts at managing layer 1-7 and also provide automation and more.This requires what we call a CA Service Assurance solution approach to management: End-to-End and Top-to-Bottom visibility and control to End-to-End:from the user all the way through the entire infrastructure and backTop-to-Bottom: from the app all way the to packet on the networkCLICK: First we discover the environment. We connect to the Cisco UCS Manager’s XML API – and we discover the UCS’ components and their interconnectivities (relationships and dependencies)The benefit: detect fault quickly and suppress symptomatic alarms.CLICK:Next we do performance and capacity monitoring of all the components within the USC, traffic between them, and mananeg applications hosted there and the business transactions they drive.The benefit: proactively address infrastructure issues in the USC and the rest of the infrastructure.CLICK: Finally rather than looking at things only from an infrastructure fault and performance perspectives, we have a business service dashboard that shows you how the UCS (and infrastructure around it) impacts that applications that the UCS is hosting to deliver business services.The benefit: manage service quality , risk and availability and SLAs
Mention the Monitor portions and the Service Desk portion too – unified Management in an ITIL focussed ITSM packageDiscovery – important in terms of context – what VMs are running on what blade for instance?

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