Next Generation Computing for the Virtualized World discusses how computing infrastructure is becoming increasingly virtualized. This is driving new architectural patterns around scalability, availability, performance, efficiency, mobility, and automation. The document outlines how Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) addresses these new patterns through its unified fabric, extended memory technology, virtual interface cards, and dynamic provisioning capabilities. It provides examples of how UCS simplifies infrastructure management and improves application performance.

1. Next Generation Computing
for the Virtualized World
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2. Business Virtualized Cisco UCS
Dynamics Computing
The Data Patterns Next Generation
Center as And Computing
Change Agent Characteristics
2

3. Life : Increasingly Virtual …
COMPUTE AND STORAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE

4. … and So is the Enterprise
COMPUTE AND STORAGE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Mail Intranet HRMS Expenses Collab

5. Business Dynamics driving New Architectures
Market Pressure Business Demands IT Drivers

6. Architectural Patterns/Characteristics
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Scalability Availability Performance
Shared Stateless In Memory
Nothing Computing Computing
Virtualization
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Efficiency Mobility Automation

7. Next Generation Computing Today
• Simplify I/O
Unified Fabric
• Reduce Support Infrastructure up to 50%
Extended Memory • For memory intensive workloads
Technology • Large Dataset workloads on 2S servers
• I/O consolidation
VN Link – Virtual
Interface Card • Network Control and transparency to the
VM level
Dynamic • Faster provisioning - reduced spares
Provisioning - • Enables consistent infrastructure policies
Service Profiles w/RBAC

8. Unified Fabric
Convergence, Efficiency and Simplicity
ATTRIBUTES IT BENEFITS
Simpler
Unified LAN & SAN
Consistent OS
Ethernet Simpler management
CONVERGENCE
Network
More Scalable & Resilient
Data Scale with capacity
Storage
center Scale with simplicity
Network
OS Scale with resiliency
SCALE
Smarter
Virtual machine connectivity
Virtual machine mobility
Virtualized network asset
INTELLIGENCE
Industry’s Most Complete and Advanced Portfolio

9. Optimizing Memory with the Xeon 5600
Classic
Xeon 5600 Xeon 5600
• 12 DIMMs • 18 DIMMs
• Max 96GB Or • Max 144GB
• Higher Performance • Lower Performance
Cisco UCS With
Memory Extension
Xeon 5500 Xeon 5500
• 48 DIMMs
• Max 384GB
• Higher
Performance

10. Application Level Performance
Built on Record-Setting Network & Compute Performance
World record performance across the new line:
#1 position on 11 results
“Best in Class” single node results
Infrastructure requirements lowered by 80%
30% greater application throughput
76% greater consolidation
65% better client performance

11. Phase 1 Virtualization
Applications Consolidated, More Virtual Infrastructure Needed
App App App
App App App
App App App
OS App OS App OS App
OS OS OS
OS OS OS
OS OS OS
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

12. Phase 2 Virtualization: Mobility
Network Policies Tied to vSwitch – Not Mobile
App App App
OS OS OS
Net State Net State Net State
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

13. Cisco VN-Link: Virtualization Aware Network
Network Policies Tied to Virtual Machine
App App App
OS OS OS
Net State Net State Net State
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
vSwitch vSwitch vSwitch

14. Cisco VN-Link: Virtualization Aware Network
Network Policies Transcend Server Boundaries
App App App
OS OS OS
Net State Net State Net State
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
vSwitch vNetwork Distributed VN-Link Domain
vSwitch Switch vSwitch

15. Installing Servers Today: Component Centric
•RAID settings
•Disk scrub actions
•Number of vHBAs
•HBA WWN assignments
•FC Boot Parameters
•HBA firmware
•FC Fabric assignments for HBAs
•QoS settings
•Border port assignment per vNIC
•NIC Transmit/Receive Rate SAN
Limiting
•VLAN assignments for NICs
•VLAN tagging config for NICs
•Number of vNICs LAN
•PXE settings
•NIC firmware
•Advanced feature settings
•Remote KVM IP settings
•Call Home behavior
•Remote KVM firmware
•Server UUID
•Serial over LAN settings
•Boot order
•IPMI settings
•BIOS scrub actions
•BIOS firmware
•BIOS Settings

16. UCS Service Profiles: Workload Centric
SAN
LAN

17. Zero Touch Integration
Decouple Complexity & Scale
Physical Inventory
Name: UCS 12
• Increase capacity, not complexity
Class: System
• New equipment self integrates
ID: 77449-32
Chassis: 1
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 2
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 3
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 4
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 5
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Name: UCS 5108
2104
Class: Chassis
FEX
ID: 234222-33
IOM 1: UCS 2104
IOM 2: UCS 2104
Blade slot occupied: 8
Fans: 8

18. Zero Touch Integration
Decouple Complexity & Scale
Physical Inventory
Name: UCS 12
• Increase capacity, not complexity
Class: System
• New equipment self integrates
ID: 77449-32
Chassis: 1
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
• Inventory & status updated
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 2
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 3
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 4
- IOM 1: UCS 2104
- IOM 2: UCS 2104
Policy Inventory
- Blade slots occupied: 8
Chassis: 5Profile:
ServiceUCS 2104 Default 1
- IOM 1:
ServiceUCS 2104 HR-App1
- IOM 2: Profile:
- Blade slots occupied: 8

19. Zero Touch Integration
Decouple Complexity & Scale
• Increase capacity, not complexity
• New equipment self integrates
• Inventory & status updated
• Immediately apply existing policies
Policy Inventory
Service Profile: Default 1
Service Profile: HR-App1

20. Gartner Identifies Fabric Computing as Preferred
Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud
Figure 2. Which vendor would you perceive to be the most competent to deliver on a fabric-
based strategy in your enterprise?
Gartner report: Fabric Computing Poised as a Preferred Infrastructure for Virtualization and Cloud Computing,
February 11, 2011, George J. Weiss and Andrew Butler Report. ID number: G00210438.
Full Gartner report here: http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/cisco/210438.html

21. • What is happening in the data center today is a
once in a 20 year occurrence
• Understanding the evolution allows you to build
competitive differentiators
• Learn more at http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

22. santdsou@cisco.com