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Microsoft private cloud with Cisco and Netapp - Flexpod solution
This document discusses FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud, an integrated solution from NetApp and Cisco for implementing a Microsoft Private Cloud using their technologies. It is a pre-validated reference implementation that is fully integrated with Microsoft System Center 2012 and provides a scalable Hyper-V platform. It accelerates private cloud deployments with reduced risk. Key components include Cisco UCS blade servers and switches, NetApp FAS storage, and tight integration and management capabilities through Cisco UCS Manager and NetApp OnCommand with Microsoft System Center.
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- 1. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute. FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud DC Bootcamp Microsoft Private Cloud Sam Van den Abeele – NetApp Mohamed Agzenay – Cisco Systems
- 2. NetApp: The Foundationof Agile IT 2 Applications/ Databases Virtualization Compute Network Data Management Multivendor SAN
- 3. FlexPod with MicrosoftPrivate Cloud 3
- 4. FlexPod with MicrosoftPrivate Cloud FlexPod™ with Microsoft® Private Cloud, an integrated NetApp® and Cisco® solution for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track, is a prevalidated Microsoft private cloud reference implementation First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design − Fully integrated with System Center 2012 and the Cloud Services Process Pack − Based on FlexPod, an industry-leading packaged data center solution − The most scalable Hyper-V™ platform on the market; save 50% of storage capacity guaranteed! Accelerates private cloud deployments at reduced risk − All HW components are shipping now − Reference implementation is available now − Learn more: − www.netapp.com/microsoftsolutions − www.netapp.com/guarantee Cisco® UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers and UCS Manager Cisco Nexus® Family Switches NetApp® FAS Storage Systems 4
- 5. FlexPod with MicrosoftPrivate Cloud Validated with Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenDesktop is the first validated workload on FlexPod™ with Microsoft® Private Cloud First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design − Fully integrated with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 − Validated to run 2,000 virtual desktops − The most scalable VDI solution on the market − Save 50% of storage capacity, guaranteed! Accelerates VDI deployments at reduced risk − Provision and manage large VDI environments quickly and efficiently − Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with traditional SAN − All HW components are shipping now − Reference implementation is available now Learn more: − www.netapp.com/microsoftsolutions − www.netapp.com/guarantee Cisco® UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers and UCS Manager Cisco Nexus® Family Switches NetApp® FAS Storage Systems 5
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- 7. 7 A Perfect Compliment ProtocolSupport Unified Storage Industry Leadership Storage Virtualization Focus Leading Storage Innovator Ethernet Expertise 10GbE leader 1st FCoE Storage Open Unified Management Simplified Data Management Unified Fabric Servers & Networking 1st Virtualized Severs Ethernet Market Leader Simplified Network Infrastructure
- 8. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 8. What is Microsoft Private Cloud?
- 9. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 9. The Microsoft Private Cloud Journey Hybrid Cloud Virtualization Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Private Cloud IaaS, PaaS, SaaS Public Cloud Automation – Orchestration Microsoft Private Cloud Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 and System Center Consolidation “FlexPod”
- 10. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 10. Simplify Your Journey to the Cloud Cooperative Services and Support (geography dependant) Microsoft Private Cloud on FlexPod Validated Data Center Design Enterprise Apps VDI Secure Multi-Tenancy MS Apps Validated Designs SQL Server ® Exch 2010 Share Point ® VDI J o i n t P a t h w a y s Storage Servers Apps Network Hybrid
- 11. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 11. Unification of Industry Leading Technologies Prevalidated technologies from industry leaders in computing, storage, networking, and server virtualization One platform built from unified computing, fabric, and storage technologies, with popular and trusted software virtualization Integrated components that help you centrally manage all your infrastructure pools Open management framework that integrates with your existing third-party infrastructure management solutions FlexPod – A Simple, Secure Microsoft Private Cloud Solution Address current virtualization needs and simplify the evolution to ITaaS infrastructure
- 12. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 12. End-to-end VLANs Physical and virtual resiliency Path isolation from the VM through the network to the disk Infrastructure Tenant No single point of server, network, or storage failure Tenant Tenant Tenant Cisco and NetApp Integration: Multi Tenants and Resiliency
- 13. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 13. Memory Optimized Server – Max VM Density Virtual network connectivity PCIe x16 10GbE/FCoE vNICs Eth 0 FC 1 2 FC 3 Eth 256 vnics Unified Fabric with I/O Virtualization and Consolidation VM Network Visibility and Control Cisco Nexus 1000V High availability high density blade Higher density virtual host means reduced server cost Provision SAN and LAN connections similar to a virtual machine Return network management to the networking team Cisco + Microsoft Integration: Smaller Hardware Footprints, Virtual Network, and Control Microsoft Windows Server/Hyper-V
- 14. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 14. Integrated backup at the VM and application layer, CVS 2.0 supported SnapMirror enhanced with Microsoft System Center Unified backup and business continuance Production data deduplication NetApp Data deduplication Efficient, automated, and array base Integrated backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solution Half the disks and reduces replication bandwidth SnapManager for Hyper-V (SMHV), Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint NetApp and Microsoft Windows Server Integration Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Space Savings
- 15. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 15. Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V on FlexPod Virtualized Storage Virtualization drives up hardware requirements: De-dupe saves up to 65% in Virtual Desktop environment De-dupe saves up to 50% in Virtual Server environment FlexClone for rapid, easy deployment Intelligent Cache–more I/Os, less disk Manage data not disks: Single pane management with Microsoft System Center and/or PowerShell Hyper-V Cluster
- 16. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 16. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V
- 17. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 19. FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud Management Integration – Key Components Applications Microsoft Data ONTAP PowerShell toolkit for integration and automation FlexClone for rapid provisioning OnCommand Plug-In for Microsoft SnapMirror for disaster recovery SnapManager for backup and recovery - SMHV, SMSQL, SMEXCH, SMSHPT NetApp
- 18. Management OnCommand 3.2 Pluginfor Microsoft with SCOM • Leverage your existing storage management tools and skills. • Use the same consistent interface to manage all of your NetApp storage systems. • Simplify your data management through integration with Microsoft technology. • Support SNMP and MIB management standards OnCommand 3.2 Plugin for Microsoft with SCVMM / SSP • VM to storage mapping • PRO tips • Integration with Microsoft Self Service Portal Management Manage processes and operations MPs, PRO Tips, SSP 2.0 Scripts
- 19. Orchestration Orchestration End-to-end workflows Opalis IntegrationPacks Data ONTAP FlexClone PowerShell cmdlets
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- 21. Management Management Manage processes andoperations MPs, PRO Tips, SSP 2.0 Scripts Discovery Alerting Performance Reporting Pro Tips
- 22. Microsoft SCVMM –SMI-S Unified Storage Architecture
- 23. SnapManager for Hyper-V •Fast Backups and Restores – Back up with automated, low impact, policy-based data protection. • Simplified Disaster Recovery – Automate remote replication for streamlined disaster recovery. • Reduced Storage Costs – Deploy space-efficient backup and cloning, data deduplication, and volume thin provisioning to reduce storage costs for your Microsoft virtualized environment. • Nondisruptive Operations – Maintain operations during storage infrastructure maintenance and upgrades and easily scale storage without taking systems offline.
- 24. Microsoft SCVMM –Feature Integration Unified Storage Architecture
- 25. Windows 2012, Hyper-Vand NetApp 27 • Support for Hyper-V on SMB 3.0 – Data ONTAP Operating in Cluster-Mode • Key Scenarios – Data ONTAP Continuous Availability Shares – Windows 2012 ODX – Support for VSS for SMB file shares CAshares VSS for SMB
- 26. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 28. Embedded in Cisco UCS products: Provides end-to-end management of the Cisco UCS platform Eliminates the need for an external management server Enables rapid provisioning and scaling of IT infrastructure Comprehensive XML API gives customers programmatic capability to choose or build their management tools UCS Manager Cisco UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft System Center tools such as Operations Manager, Orchestrator, and Virtual Machine Manager • Utilization of Cisco power to enhance your existing management tools and skill sets • Operation of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor, measure and automate at every layer • One management system for both of physical and virtual machines Cisco UCS and Microsoft System Center 2012 Measure and Automate at Every Layer with
- 27. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 29. Cisco UCS brings software control to hardware infrastructure that is easily managed by Microsoft System Center 2012 UCS Manager A single point of management for the entire system IO Fabric Chassis and Servers Adapters and Virtual I/O Centralized A policy-driven device manager Configuration Fault Monitoring UCS Manager Unified management platform Monitoring Troubleshooting Inventory Reporting Data protection Patching Standardized provisioning of application services Virtual machine management Process automation tools Cisco UCS and Microsoft System Center 2012 Provide A Powerful Solution
- 28. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 30. Microsoft Operations Manager and Cisco UCS Manager Simplify Monitoring Holistic view of converged infrastructure health Monitor alerts and faults on chassis, blades, fabric interconnects, I/O power supply, fan modules, etc. Manage multiple Cisco UCS domains with single management pack Simple and powerful visualizations Graphical views of Cisco UCS topology Graphical views of physical and logical entities and relationships Reliable information Cisco UCS XML API provides a powerful, supported interface for Operations Manager
- 29. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 31. FlexPod Management Architecture System Center Powershell APIs Cisco UCS APIs Cisco DCNM APIs NetApp Manageability APIs System Center Orchestration/ITSM Management Provisioning Troubleshooting Self-Service Portal Cisco UCS Manager NetApp Operations, Provisioning,, and Protection Managers “OnCommand”
- 30. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 32. Microsoft Server Applications in Private Cloud Environment
- 31. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 33. Operations Manager Orchestrator Management Pack Integration Pack .NET Library NetApp FAS Storage Cisco Unified Compute System Software Integration Infrastructure UCS Manager + NetApp OnCommand Physical Virtual and FlexPod and Microsoft System Center 2012 Are Tightly Integrated Ease IT management through a single interface
- 32. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 34. COMPUTE Logical View of the Cisco UCS LAN SAN A SAN B
- 33. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 35. Mgmt Server Cisco Unified Computing Solution A single system that encompasses: Network: Unified fabric Compute: Industry standard x86 Storage: Access options Virtualization optimized Unified management model Dynamic resource provisioning Efficient Scale Cisco network scale and services Fewer servers with more memory Lower cost Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power consumption Fewer points of management
- 34. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 36. 36 Efficiency Legacy FlexPod©
- 35. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 37. Service Profile UUID, MAC,WWN Boot info firmware LAN, SAN Config LAN, SAN Counts Firmware… Stateless Computing Service profiles simplify orchestration: Server mobility Detached from physical devices Reusable configuration Web Server Hyper-V Host File Server Service Profile Migration
- 36. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 38. Access Layer Consolidation with Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco UCS consolidates entire Access Layer into a single point of management Reduction in real estate in data center power and cooling Reduction in time to deploy Chassis Mgmt Unified Network Mgmt LAN SAN A SAN B
- 37. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 39. A Single, Logical, Expandable Blade Server Chassis Add One UCS Blade Chassis Add One UCS Blade Chassis Add One UCS Blade Chassis Architectural limit of 320 supported as of 2.0.2
- 38. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 40. Cisco UCS Consolidated Rack and Blade Management – Cisco UCM Consolidates the server provisioning process onto a single tool Role-based access control (RBAC) allows independent LAN, SAN, and server administrators management domains
- 39. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 41. Cisco UCS Management Ecosystem Manage Cisco UCS with industry standard tools Service Orchestration Provisioning and Configuration Monitoring and Analysis Microsoft Systems Center and PowerShell Unified Control API Service Profiles Cisco UCS Pools Cisco UCS Manager Application Stack Cisco UCS Visibility and Control Operating System and Software Management Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud NetApp OnCommand Management Microsoft PowerShell, System Center
- 40. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 42. 42 Cisco UCS Market Momentum $1.6 billion revenue run rate +15 800 Customers #3 market share in x86 blades; #2 in US +2600 Channel Partners >64 world record performance benchmarks
- 41. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 44. NetApp and Microsoft Private Cloud
- 42. Unified: Much Morethan Multi-Protocol One Architecture One O/S Low-to-High Scalability Flash Cache SSD FlexCache ® Multi-Vendor Virtualisation Cost/Performance FC FCoE iSCSI NFS CIFS HTTP Protocols Same tools & processes: learn once, run everywhere Integrated data management Integrated data protection Unified Management
- 43. Hardware is Merelya Means to Scale 46 NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only Natively multiprotocol Architectural repeatability Operational consistency 2.4 - 2.9PB FAS6200 480TB – 1.9PB FAS3200 68 - 272TB FAS2000 Virtualize 3rd Party Arrays V-Series X - YTB VM Ontap-v VSA Data Ontap NetApp® Storage Portfolio
- 44. 2010 2011 20122013 2014 2015 Decision Support Business Processing IT Infrastructure Collaborative Web Infrastructure Application Development Industrial R&D Relentless Data Growth NetApp Confidential – Limited Use If you were storing 100TB of online data in 2010, you will store: 1.1 PB in 2016 (11x) 2.5 PB in 2018 (25x) 5.8 PB in 2020 (58x) 47 Worldwide Storage Consumption 10 Exabytes 20 Exabytes 25 Exabytes 15 Exabytes Projected Enterprise Workload Growth 2010-2015 A Decade of Monumental Growth* Terabytes Source: IDC Multi-Client Study, Storage Workloads 2011, September 2011 * Based on industry average 50% annual growth
- 45. Today’s Opportunity andChallenges Data Growth Impact On Business Unleashes new business innovation Enables new products and services Becomes a competitive advantage Data Growth Impact On IT Becomes harder to manage at scale Constant growth becomes cost prohibitive Rapid growth makes it harder for IT to say “yes” to the business 48 NetApp Confidential – Limited Use
- 46. Storage Efficiency Low-cost components SATA drives RAID-DP ® Flash Cache Data reduction Deduplication Compression Increased utilization Thin Provisioning Unified architecture Fewer full copies FlexClone® Deduped backup 49 NetApp Confidential – Limited Use Benefit: Cost containment in an era of monumental growth Uncontrolled Data Growth Snapshot™ Technology SATA/ RAID-DP Thin Provisioning Cloning Compression Deduplication Flash Cache Cost Data Growth Over Time
- 47. NetApp Confidential –Limited Use 50 Unix NFS Administration NFS NIS Server Oracle /home/dir Windows CIFS Administration CIFS Microsoft Active Directory Windows Clients Exchange Server SQL Server ISCSI FC Switch Tier 1 /vol/exchlun Synch Replication /vol/oracldata /vol/eng/users Tier 2 Tier 3 /vol/oraclmirror Asynch Replication Backup and Administration Ethernet Switch /vol/sqllun /vol/sqllun LUN Administration FCoE FCP /vol/exch/backup /vol/orcl/backup /vol/user/backup Agile Data Infrastructure Traditional Storage Infrastructure Shared Storage Tiers Workloads & Users Big Data Content Servers Virtualized Servers Non-virtualized Servers A B C D E Policy-Based Data Management B C D E A Unified Data Network FCP FCoE iSCSI CIFS/SMB NFS/pNFS
- 48. 51 NetApp Confidential –Limited Use Agile Data Infrastructure Workloads & Users Big Data Content Servers Virtualized Servers Non-virtualized Servers A B C D E Policy-Based Data Management Replication Copy Creation - Workload A Unexpected Growth in Workload B Backup Copy Creation - Workload C Performance Issue - Workload D Unexpected Growth -Workload E System Upgrade Needed Performance Issue Resolved Capacity Expansion Needed Growth Issue Resolved All Actions Occur Without Disruption to Users A1 C1 B C D E A Unified Data Network FCP FCoE iSCSI CIFS/SMB NFS/pNFS
- 49. Cisco and NetAppConfidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute 52. Thank You
Editor's Notes
- #4 Goal of slide: Highlight the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud entry on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track page.Key Points: FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is the NetApp reference implementation of Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track.Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track (also previously known as Hyper-V Fast Track) is a prevalidated, best-in-class Microsoft Private Cloud reference implementation.NetApp’s entry is the first multivendor private cloud reference implementation.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, and MicrosoftMicrosoft infrastructure software (Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Systems Center 2012 including SCVMM, SCOM, SCSM, Orchestrator, and App Controller)Cisco UCS servers and Nexus switchesNetApp storage and softwareAccelerates private cloud deployments at reduced riskTechnical reference architecture, design, build, and operate guidesLink to Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/private-cloud/buy.aspx#tabs-2
- #5 Goal of slide: Provide anoverview of the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud offering.Key Points:Prevalidated best-in-class private cloud reference implementationfrom Microsoft’s partners.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.Customer choice of best-in-class vendors for the compute, network, and storage components that make up a private cloud. (It'snot required to buy all products from the same vendor.)
- #6 Goal of slide: Provide an overview of the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud Validated with Citrix XenDesktop offering.Key Points:Prevalidated best-in-class private cloud reference implementationfrom Microsoft’s partners.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, Citrix, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.Implementation is focused on virtual desktop infrastructure marketplace.Customer choice of best-in-class vendors for the compute, network, and storage components that make up a private cloud. (It'snot required to buy all products from the same vendor.) Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with traditional SAN.
- #8 Industry leadership:General expertise: storage vs Servers & networking. Core competency is storage with FAS Product line & V-Series in front of 3rd party for NetApp (NetApp) and Cisco UCS servers and Nexus Switches for (Cisco)10GbE leadership – storage / serversFCoE leadership – storage/ servers & networkingNetApp #2 in capacity shipped, growing faster than the market. Unified architecture Multiprotocol w/ single storage OS / unified fabric. Multiprotocol storage architecture - Multiprotocol fabric architectureVirtualization innovationstorage/ servers & networking – together, first secure multi-tenancy solutionSimplified data management - Simplified network infrastructureAPIs to leading management tools. NetApp and Cisco both have a simplified management framework that plug into high level management tools.Storage Efficiency - Compute and Network EfficiencyVirtualization optimized - Virtualization optimizedChange Data Center 3.0 to Data Center Business Advantage
- #16 Key Takeaway: What are the storage vendors doing in the virtualization space? The storage decisions to support virtualized environments–are supported by NetApp clusters.NetApp Virtual Storage Console is a vSphere plug designed to simplify storage administration within vSphere deployments; for example, reporting on storage utilization down at the vSphere level. There are tool sets to provide information on setting up optimal SCSI values for VMs and reporting on any mis-configurations or mis-alignments on storage connectivity settings between the NetApp storage controllers and the ESX servers. Settings can be corrected automatically at a click. It also collects troubleshooting support information about the ESX servers.VMware View Composerlinked clones allow you to create multiple identical virtual desktops from a single image–ideal in call centers and other environments where identical desktops are used. The desktop operating system and applications are stored separately from the user data. This allows the users desktop images that have been deployed from linked clones to be patched centrally from a master image without changing user settings or user data. This saves storage space centrally. The most space is used up by individual user data sets however, typically representing more than half of the storage requirement in virtualized installations. NetAppDedupe saves up to 65% with VMware View. In environments that do not support linked clones (operating system, or applications) users can use NetApp Flex-clone technology (a vCenter plug-in). This provides similar storage savings to linked clones of up to 90% on desktop images. NetApp has intelligent or dedupe aware cache, which improves performance that can be otherwise reduced due bottlenecks in desktop provisioning, such as at 9.am when workers boot up their systems. Traditional solutions are designed to augment the cache to compensate for performance bursts. If you reduce the number of drives you write to–you will need more cache at the front to write to or boot from.Dedupe aware cache means that the 100 desktops sharing a master image are loaded into cache only once–to be used 100 times–rather than being loaded into cache 100 times.
- #29 Combining the powerful Cisco UCS tools with System Center’s managing and provisioning tools allows businesses to monitor, provision, configure, and orchestrate their physical infrastructure and Microsoft server and application softwareat every level from one interface.T: All of this is what brings the true benefits for customers.
- #30 Cisco UCS is a powerful solution set. When Microsoft System Center 2012 is added, it enhances UCS in very compelling ways.Together, these technologies provide a unified architecture that help IT Administrators and IT Managers manage and orchestrate server and networking infrastructure as well as the software stack.T: Microsoft System Center functions can be categorized into three broad capabilities.
- #31 When you connect to Cisco UCS using System Center Operations Manager(SCOM), it provides you the complete picture of infrastructure health. You can start by look at the UCS domain at a very high level and continue all the way down to individual components in the UCS. For example, starting at the fabric interconnect you could be looking at the faults coming out of a blade, and follow it all the way down to CPU memory modules, power supplies, and fan modules.T: Management becomes easier when you can see a clear picture of the entire infrastructure.
- #32 Key Takeaway: The FlexPod architecture is designed to leverage third-party orchestration and ITSM tools via a robust suite of APIs at all levels.
- #34 You may recognize this slide from the sales training. The reason that this slide is here is the next 6 slides highlight how Cisco UCS Manager Management Pack and UCS Orchestrator Integration Pack work with System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Orchestrator to enhance the automation and monitoring of Cisco UCS.T: UCS Manager Management Pack enables Operations Manager to easily monitor the health of UCS.
- #39 Standardization are key in building internal DC cloud architectures for application and desktop. UCS places the entire Access Layer, server, LAN and SAN, under one pane of glass to profoundly reduce admin overhead. It exploits IO Consolidation (reducing infrastructure while providing direct SAN storage access), and provides robust servers whereby an enterprise can virtualize those same mid to low-end servers, further reducing CapEx and downtime, with faster provisioning, increased utilization:Unified Fabric: Provides dramatic reduction in network adapters, dramatically reducing the number of devices powered, cooled, secured, and managed.Embedded Multi-Role Management: Is embedded in the fabric interconnects, to manage all aspects of system configuration and operation, while eliminating the need to use separate element managers for each system component. This functionality provides a massive reduction in management modules and consoles while harmonizing data center roles for maximum productivity.VN Link Virtualization Support/Virtualization Adapter: Gives network links connected to VMs the same status as physical links. Now, virtual links can be centrally configured and managed without the complexity of traditional systems that interpose multiple switching layers in virtualized environments. I/O configurations and network profiles move along with the VMs, helping to increase security and efficiency while reducing complexity. This approach improves performance and reduces NIC infrastructure. Dynamic Provisioning with Service Profiles: UCS Manager implements role and policy-based management focused on service profiles and templates. As soon as the servers are in place they can be quickly provisioned for service using standard profiles, providing network and SAN connectivity in minutes, rather than hours or days.
- #42 Cisco UCS is unique in the industry: its open, XML API management interface delivers both the broadest options for third party management tools AND deep functional integration with capabilities only UCS can deliverAdministrators can manage UCS with their existing tools and gain the benefits that UCS provides without upending their IT Processes.Over 9000 objects in UCSM available to developers via XML APIBACKGROUND:It’s important to understand the differences between UCS Manager and third-party management software and how they integrate for a complementary solution. UCS Manager is embedded within every UCS instance at no cost and focuses on infrastructure-level control and configuration.Operating systems and application stacks sit atop UCS to deliver business services. IT manages these software layers within a datacenter and across multiple locations. This is where third-party management solutions come into play.Numerous management software products have built deep integrations to UCS, enabling users to take advantage of unique UCS capabilities within the context of existing IT processes.At its heart, UCS is a standard x86 platform, providing a seamless application management experience.UCS service profiles speed application provisioning and make datacenter automation tools more powerful by extending configuration management to the infrastructure layer.UCS works with IT’s monitoring and performance tools of choice so that administrators have a painless experience migrating from legacy platforms.Cisco’s UCS management ecosystem includes leading systems management vendors, big and small, allowing users to pick what is right for their environment.UCS helps IT migrate services from legacy infrastructure by providing a seamless management experience with monitoring and provisioning tools. Monitoring tools combine standard UCS interfaces with UCS’s unified view of the compute infrastructure for deep visibility into application health.Provisioning tools deploy standard x86 operating systems on UCS Service Profiles to quickly build new application instances.Workload agility seeks to match application capacity with demand, leading to repeated deployment and configuration of application stacks. Deployment and configuration tools can provision the complete hardware-software stack by leveraging Service Profiles in combination with existing OS-and-above capabilities. UCS Service Profiles provide policy-enforcement to guarantee consistently deployed infrastructure.IT is increasingly turning to pre-approved service offerings that users and administrators choose from a catalog.Whether in the context of cloud or self-service IT initiatives , users and administrators want integrated services spanning server, network, and storage.UCS’s comprehensive management API helps unify infrastructureelements with pools and service profiles to speed the service definition and orchestration process.To achieve service assurance, IT proactively identifies and monitors application infrastructure to ensure customer success. UCS provides monitoring tools with deep visibility into network and compute health to proactively avoid service disruptions caused by performance bottlenecks or other degradation.Analysis and performance tools can quickly identify infrastructure resources and map their relationships through UCS ‘s unified interface into the compute infrastructure.UCSM Release 1.4 includes support for C-SeriesThe UCS C-Series integration with UCS Manager fulfills Cisco’s commitment to providing an easy, incremental migration path from traditional, operationally intensive rack-mount architectures to unified computing. Now IT managers have a means of centrally managing all UCS blade and rack-mount servers in a UCS Manager domain, enjoying the Unified Computing System’s unique operational efficiency and agility regardless of form-factor. Integration of the UCS C-Series into UCS Manager helps create a standardized, form factor-neutral, efficient, agile and scalable application service delivery platform.
- #46 We are starting to see some announcements in the industry around unified storage. But unified is about being much more than multi-protocol.It’s about multiple profiles (performance, cost, etc.) being satisfied by the same architecture, without having to pick and choose and learn. Avoid rip and replace, etc. It’s about reducing complexity, and driving up utilization.You see, with our unified architecture, it’s a single operating system to give you control over your storage, regardless of how you access it in your data center.You have many applications in your data center, but many times in the past you have had to use different types of storage to satisfy the requirements of each application. With Data ONTAP, you can run the same operating system across a variety of storage controllers, taking advantage of a feature set that gives you the flexibility to virtualise storage on other vendor’s disk arrays, accelerate data sets with SSD’s, and operate it from a single pane of glass. This simplified management will allow you to focus on performance, growth, and efficiency.Next slide: One Architecture for many Workloads
- #49 Purpose of the slide: Discuss the current situation and the drivers behind monumental data growthKey points:A new abundance is data has been largely driven by two factors 1)machine generated data and 2)the consumerization of IT. Lets look at each, starting with machine generated data. By some estimates, there are nearly 1 trillion devices that can be connected to the internet. Many of these devices are data generators – smart meters, traffic sensors, and medical devices to name a few. Businesses love this new access to data because it provides levels of insight that were unheard of just a few years ago. Services can be enhanced, efficiencies can be increased – in short, data is becoming a competitive advantage.Next there is the consumerization of IT. It started with rich media attachments to email – a picture is worth a thousand words, right? Then came YouTube, and it seemed that every company started to create videos to promote themselves. Now we have Facebook, with 800 million users worldwide. Once people saw how easy it was to communicate with their friends outside work, they started to form online communities to connect with co-workers in the workplace.While the move to data-driven has created business opportunities, it is not without challenges. IT is now faced with ever-increasing demands to serve more data to more people, and to do this continuously. Storage capacity is fairly easy to scale, but data and more importantly data management is not so easy. Controlling costs and providing 100% online access to data becomes very difficult to scale.
- #50 Purpose of the slide: To explain how the storage efficiency capabilities of Data ONTAP® are second to none, delivering substantial savings to both capex and opex.Key points:Storage efficiency is something that a lot of people talk about, so let’s take a moment to discuss what’s so different about NetApp's approach. To us, storage efficiency is not a feature, it's a way of designing. It’s a commitment to a long-term technology agenda where we exploit every possible opportunity to drive the cost per gigabyte down.We employ multiple agendas. We design for using the lowest-cost components, like SATA drives, and we provide either a performance acceleration or a reliability profile to those SATA drives. This is very, very different from what the raw building block can do. The combination of SATA with software innovation in the brain like RAID-DP, while being able to apply Flash as a technology for performance acceleration, leads to an endpoint where, for half the cost, you get double the capacity for the same performance. When you talk about getting different results, “twice as much for half the cost” is a great example.We also employ a variety of data reduction techniques, including primary-level deduplication, compression, and more. The variety of data reduction techniques reduce the amount of data on the disk and traveling over the network. We also go after your raw utilization; if you have a bucket, you can force more into it. You can apply thin provisioning, you can apply the fact that with a unified architecture you don’t have stranded assets in the various silos driving overall utilization up.And finally, you can make fewer copies. One of the biggest cost drivers in the storage infrastructure is the fact that every time a primary copy of data is created, roughly about 20 to 25 copies of that data are also created — test and development copies, backup copies, and disaster recovery copies. These are full copies of data, and they all require raw storage. So if you can eliminate any of those copies by providing those copies to the applications in a virtualized environment, you reduce the cost of storage.So storage efficiency is a way of thinking. We seek every single way in which we can drive the dollar per effective gigabyte down. Our recent market share gains are proof that users like you are seeing these kinds of results and coming back for more. Once they're familiar with our storage efficiency story, they begin to realize that they can apply us in more applications, because they can get benefit of the lower dollar per gigabyte. That’s what a mature storage operating system can do.
- #51 Purpose of the slide:Compare a traditional storage infrastructure to an agile data infrastructureKey points:For decades, we’ve been deploying storage in silos – one silo for Financial Apps, one for Engineering, one for Email – all based on different technologies and the capabilities needed to support the requirements of that silo. Over time, we improved the capabilities of the silo, starting with SAN and NAS, and then Unified, shared storage – but as you can see, the data was still locked within its silo.
- #52 Purpose of the slide:Introduce the agile data infrastructureKey points:With today’s monumental data growth and the complexity of managing data at scale, the silo’d approach soon begins to break down. Each silo has specific characteristics that cannot be shared with other silos. On the other hand, an agile data infrastructure shares all characteristics between all storage devices in the infrastructure. One of the benefits of this is a single management layer that enforces policies for automated provisioning and protection throughout the infrastructure (intelligent.)Another benefit is continuous access to data from a single storage pool, regardless of the need for upgrades and replacements (immortal.)Finally, this infrastructure provides unlimited, seamless scaling in 3 dimensions – Capacity, Performance, and Operational (Infinite.)You’ll notice that there is a lot happening on this slide. Volumes are growing, copies are being made for backup and replication, performance bottlenecks are being addressed – its hard to keep up with it all – just like its hard to keep up with your IT operations. But you’ll notice that despite everything that’s changing, data is still being fed to and from users. That’s a key point in agility, to keep operations moving in spite of constant change.