The document discusses Cisco's unified computing system (UCS) and how it provides a flexible, integrated intelligent infrastructure for data centers. It highlights key benefits of UCS such as simplified management, reduced costs, ability to evolve with business needs, and optimized performance for virtualization. UCS combines computing, networking, management, and storage access into a single integrated architecture to reduce complexity and improve agility.

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CLOUD
MOBILITY
BYOD
BIG DATA
Internet of
Things
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3. Flessibilità:
Miglior utilizzo delle risorse
Velocità:
Introduzione di nuovi serizi
Affidabilità:
Riduzione incidenti/downtime
Opex:
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Bassi costi di esercizio
I DC oggi hanno bisogno di:
Connettività
Virtualizzazione
Semplificazione
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4. ntegrare la tecnologia per creare Vantaggi per il Business
Cisco “oggi”
VALUE
usiness Solutions
Servizi
consulenziali
Ecosistema
Cisco “ieri”
Business
Transformation
Prodotti
Infrastruttura
Mid-Mgmt
Mindshare
CxO
influenza il Business sia per i vantaggi che può abilitare sia per i limiti che impone
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29%
People
22%
Software
12%
Energy / Facilities
11%
Servers
10%
Networking
Storage
7%
Disaster Recovery
7%
Overhead
Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
2%
Data center
makes up
of overall
IT spend
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WW Spending on Servers, Power & Cooling, and Mgmt./Administration
$300
Customer Spending ($B)
$250
Power & Cooling
Expense
$200
Mgmt. & Administratio
—Virtual Servers
$150
$100
Mgmt. & Administratio
—Standalone Servers
$50
Server Spending
$0
1996
2000
Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter”
2004
2008
2012
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7. Legacy Infrastructure
“IT-as-a-Service”
On-Demand
Self-Service
Control
API’s
Service
Orchestration
Modular
Design
Resource
Pooling
Complex
Expensive to Manage
Slow to Provision
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Appliance Architectures
Fabric-Based Architecture
Specialized Infrastructure
Integrated Intelligent Infrastructure
Legacy Architectures
Virtual Overlay Architecture
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Commodity Server, Network and Security
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9. Vantaggi per il Business
Delivery Time
(weeks)
Compute TCO ($/Qtr/
OS instance)
Cloud privato di Cisco abbassa drasticamente il TCO e i tempi di provisioning
$4000
$3000
LEGACY
TCO
down
37%
TCO
down
27%
(100% physical)
$2000
LEGACY
(50% virtualized)
$1000
LEGACY
(75% virtualized)
0
TODAY
(80% virtualized)
2
4
TCO
Down
33%
6-8 weeks
2-3 weeks
3 – 5 days E2E
15 minutes
6
8
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Virtualization
Unified Computing
Cloud
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UCS Fabric Interconnects
Nexus 1000V
Unified Computing
System Blade
Chassis
Rack Servers
Network
Security
Nexus Switches
MDS Multiprotocol SAN
switches
Networking and Security
Services
Unified
Data
Center
Storage
UCS Central
UCS Manager
Management
Compute
Intelligent Automation for Cloud
UCS Director
Data Center Network Manag
Prime Network Controller
Cisco ONE Controller
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11. ower of the Ecosystem
Business Apps
Analytics and
Big data
Databases
Cloud Apps
Application Desktop
Collaboration
Applications
Virtualization
OS
The
HANA
& BWA
The image
Virtual
Platform
Compute
Cisco Unified
Management
Network
Storage
FLEXPOD
HDS UCP
Cisco UCS
Cisco Servers with Intel® Xeon® processors
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VSPEX
VBLOCK
Cisco Nexus
Infra
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12. antaggi per il Business
Flessibilità:
utilizzo delle risorse
Velocità:
introduzione di nuovi serizi
2x
Affidabilità:
riduzione incidenti/downtime
50-75%
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2-3x
Riduzione TCO per utente/transazione
Source: IDC, Italy –
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15. CPU
GHz/Cores
RAM
UCS
GB, latency, density
NEXUS
Storage
TB, IOPs, latency
Fabric
Gbps/latency/protocol/hop count/port density/oversubscription
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16. Mgmt Server
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• Non pensate per una crescita
Management
• Richiedono più Switch e più cavi
• La Virtualizzazione crea un server agi
SAN
ma non un sistema agile
LAN
• Management aumenta
drammaticamente per gestire:
Blades
Blade chassis
Blade switches
Environmental
Software
Virtualization
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SERVER DI OGGI
SET DI RISORSE FISSO
APPLICAZIONE
ARCHITETTURA SERVER PER
VIRTUALIZZAZIONE E CLOUD
NETWORKED POOLS OF COMPUTING
APPLICAZIONE
HYPERVISOR
Processor
Memory
HBAs
API
NICs
Network interface
card (NIC) configuration:
MAC address, VLAN,
and QoS settings; host
bus adapter
HBA configuration:
worldwide names
WWNs), VSANs, and
bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions
Configuration
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Industry
Standard APIs
UCS Manager
Fabric Interconnects
Fabric Extenders
(I/O modules)
Compute
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor
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19. • Singola interfaccia di management per più di 160 server (blade o rackmount)
• Accesso amministrazione basato su ruoli (calcolo, LAN, SAN)
• Consolidamento cablaggi con FCoE
• Virtualizzazione della Rete
• Clonazione/migrazione/creazione di Server fisici simili alle VM
SAN
Network
LAN
Server
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Mgmt
SAN A
SAN B
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1
Unify
Fabrics
Fibre channel
Ethernet management
Singolo network layer
2
Integrate
Compute
Blades e rack mount
3
Embed
Management
Centralizzazione
4
Optimize For
Virtualization
Astrazione della Server pers
5
Scale Without
Complexity
Crescita senza moltiplicare
punti di management
Extended memory
Elementi autointegrati
Virtual I/O
Riduzione delle componenti
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21. Prima dell’ UCS
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Dopo l’UCS
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UUIDs, WWNs, MACs
Resource Pool assignments
BIOS, Firmware
Local storage configuration
Boot order/targets
I/O Adapter type and quantity
Network/SAN configuration
UUIDs, WWNs, MACs
Resource Pool assignments
§
BIOS, Firmware
Local storage configuration
Boot order/targets
I/O Adapter type and quantity
Network/SAN configuration
UUIDs, WWNs, MACs
Resource Pool assignments
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Memory
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§
Vengono definite le
policy
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Le Policy vengono
usate per creare
dei template di
Service Profile
Service profile
templates creano
profili di servizio
operativi
Associando
service profiles co
l’hardware si
configurano
automaticamente
servers
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23. puting
ione semplificata:
yment di due blade
a il video completo a :
p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSSQfNt7SFk
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24. puting
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+1000
Clienti (piccoli, medi e grandi)
hanno comprato UCS
Validated Design rilasciati insieme a
LEADER tecnologici di mercato
+75 World Records Benchmarks
#1 Market Share FCoE
#3 Market Share x86 Blade Servers
+45 partner certificati (Blade)
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25. d Computing
ms
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2010
2011
2012
2013
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27. Networking Intelligente, Convergente e Scalablile
Virtual
Machines
Legacy
Servers
Multi-protocol
SAN
irtualizzazione
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Cisco Un
Computin
System
Fattori Driving Change in the Data Center Network
Semplicità
Mobility e
Resilienza
Multi-tenancy
Programmabi
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28. rchitettura Flessibile
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Infrastruttura Uni
Semplifica la gestio
Riduce i co
Evolve con il Busine
Performan
Magnitu
Span Geografi
Integrated Application Delive
VM Networki
VM-Aware Secur
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29. Nexus 7K
MDS 9000
Nexus 5K
Nexus 6000
Nexus 3K
Nexus 2K
Nexus 1K
Blade Offerings
NX-OS
CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core
Resilient, High
Performance,
calable Fabric
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Workload Mobility
Within/Across DCs
CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management
Secure Separation/
Multi-tenancy
LAN+SAN
Convergence
Operational
Efficiency/
Consistency
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30. Multi-layer API
Programmatic
APIs
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Controller
Virtual Overlay
(w/ Controller)
Virtual Overlays
a
Controllers and
Agents
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31. d Infrastructure Stacks Supported:
Cloud
Management
rtual Network
Infrastructure
Hypervisor
Cisco IAC
vCloud Director/
DynamicOps
System Center
Open Source
NSM
NSM
NSM
NSM
vPath
vPath
vPath
vPath
Nexus 1KV
Nexus 1KV
Nexus 1KV
Nexus 1KV
vSphere, Hyper-V,
Xen, KVM
vSphere
Hyper-V
Open Source
(Xen, KVM)
Integrated Systems (FlexPod, Vblock, VSPEX)
Virtualized
Infrastructure
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COMPUTE
NETWORK
STORAGE
UCS Blades
Nexus 1000V
MDS
UCS Racks
Nexus 2/3/5/6/7K
Partner Products (EMC, NetApp
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32. Nexus 1000V
InterCloud
Extends security
and management
policies into public
cloud
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VSG
ASA 1000V
vWAAS
CSR 1000V
(Cloud Router)
• VM-level controls
• Edge firewall, VPN
• WAN optimization
• WAN L3 gateway
• Zone-based FW
• Protocol Inspection
• Application traffic
• Routing and VPN
Ecosystem
Services
• Citrix NetScaler
VPX virtual ADC
• Imperva Web Ap
Firewall
VPath
VXLAN
Nexus 1000V
Multi-Hypervisor (VMware, Microsoft*, RedHat*, Citrix*)
Any Hypervisor, Any Service, Any Cloud
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34. utomated Self-Service Provisioning
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Automated
Self-Service
Provisioning
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35. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud
APIs
Self-service Portal and Service Menus
Automation and Orchestration
Lifecycle and Resource Management
Multi-Cloud Management
Cisco UCS Director
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Cisco Virtual Controller
Network Manager
APIs
APIs
Ecosystem of
Partners
APIs
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37. Componenti “Best of Breed”
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Reference Architecture
basata su Building Blocks
Si
Si
Infrastruttura Convergente per
accelerare il
Time to Production
Vblock
VXI
FlexPod
RISC Migration
NAS
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38. ambia l’Economia del Data Center
90%
30%
60%
Less Cost
Less Cost
Less Cost
Power and
Cooling
Deployment
Times
rastructure
Costs
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2x
50%
50%
Capacity
No Staff
Increase
Faster
Faster
IT Staffing
Disaster
Recovery
Applicatio
Performan
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40. o Build Your Unified Data Center
available,
WAAS
cure
orking
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Cisco Intelligent
Automation and
Ecosystem
Integration
Self-service
portal and
catalogue
OTV, LISP,
FabricPath
Unified
Computing
System
LAN/SAN
Convergence
Nexus 100
InterClou
Prime
Network
Controller
Vblock and
FlexPod
Nexus 1000V
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41. o Live 2014 arriva a Milano
Milano: Centro Congressi dal 27-31 Gennaio
6500 partecipanti: dagli IT leader agli Sviluppatori
World of Solutions: oltre 100 POD Cisco e Technology Partner
Uno degli eventi di formazione più innovativi del settore
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