Post on 14-Feb-2017
UCS Refresh 2014
Sascha Merg Technical Solutions Architect
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Agenda
§ UCS Leadership & Momentum
§ Compute Update
§ Fabric Update
§ UCS Manager Update
§ UCS Director Update
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Cisco UCS Leadership & Momentum Fastest Growing Product in the Market
30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS 2
Top 5 Server Vendor 1
88 world record performance benchmarks to date
3,850+ UCS CHANNEL PARTNERS
#2 WW market share in x86 blades 1
Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013, Aug 2013, Revenue Share Source: 2 As of Cisco Q4FY13 earnings results
More than 75% of all customers have invested in UCS
Fortune 500
$2B+ UCS Annualized Revenue Run Rate 2
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UCS Innovations for Converged Solutions
Infrastructure Management
UCS Director
Density Optimized Solutions
UCS “All-in-One” Solution
C-Series Rack
Integration Single Wire
Management
Next-Gen Servers Ivy Bridge, Brickland &
Grantley
UCS Central Multi-UCS
Domain Manager Virtual Interface Card VM-FEX for ESX and Hyper-V,
10GBaseT, 40Gb, Ethernet, USNic, RoCE
UCS Storage Innovations
Compute Update
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Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
Current UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
UCS C220 M3 Versatile, General Purpose
Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server
Enterprise Performance
UCS C240 M3 Ideal Platform for Big Data,
ERP and Database Applications
UCS B200 M3 Optimal Choice for VDI,
Private Cloud, or Dense
Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads
Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS B420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-
Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications
UCS C420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Server for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal, and Virtualized Applications
UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack
Server for Storage Intensive Workloads
UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web
Infrastructure Applications
UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web
Applications
Scale Out
Rac
k B
lade
UCS C260 M2 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket
Extended Memory Server for Large, Memory-Intensive
Applications
UCS C460 M2 Mission-Critical, 4-
Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications
UCS B440 M2 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications UCS B230 M2
Density-optimized CPU and Memory-Intensive 2-Socket Blade for Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications
Available
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Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
Post-Brickland Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio
UCS C220 M3 Versatile, General Purpose
Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server
Enterprise Performance
UCS C240 M3 Ideal Platform for Big Data,
ERP and Database Applications
UCS B200 M3 Optimal Choice for VDI,
Private Cloud, or Dense
Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads
Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS B420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-
Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications
UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack
Server for Storage Intensive Workloads
UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web
Infrastructure Applications
UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web
Applications
Scale Out
Rac
k B
lade
Orderable
UCS B260 M4 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS B460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications
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Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise
Post-Grantley Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio
Enterprise Performance
Intensive/Mission Critical
UCS B420 M4 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-
Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications
Scale Out
Rac
k B
lade
UCS B200 M4 Optimal Choice for VDI,
Private Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/
Consolidation Workloads
UCS C220 M4 Versatile, General Purpose
Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server
UCS C240 M4 Ideal Platform for Big Data,
ERP and Database Applications
CQ4’14
UCS B260 M4 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS B460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal
and Virtualized Applications
UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications
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E5 v2 Refresh Highlights
§ Ivy Bridge is manufactured on Intel’s 22nm process technology – Ivy Bridge is a die shrink (“Tick”) of Sandy Bridge microarchitecture
§ This is a refresh to E5-based M3 UCS servers: – B420 M3, B200 M3, B22 M3, C220 M3, C240 M3, C24 M3 & C22 M3
§ Ivy Bridge refresh is a hardware drop-in (field upgradeable): – No changes to the hardware as a result of supporting E5-v2 CPUs – Firmware / BIOS must be upgraded
§ New systems support all new CPU / memory features: – Max core count increases to 10 in Standard SKUs and 12 in Segment Optimized E5-2600 v2 SKUs – Memory speeds increase across the board - Max Speed will move to 1866MHz
§ Existing UCS servers were designed for Ivy Bridge: – Performance, power, mechanical and thermal design of M3 servers optimized for Ivy Bridge
compatibility
Romley / Ivy Bridge Refresh
Starting CQ3’13
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Seven E5 v2 World Record Performance Highlights Cisco UCS with the Intel E5-2600 v2 family delivered up to
48% better performance over the prior generation of Intel Xeon processors across a wide range of workloads
+21% Oracle E-Business Suite Applications
R12 Benchmark - Cisco UCS B200 M3
+35% Java business logic
performance Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack
+48% Java server performance
Cisco UCS B200 M3
+12% General CPU performance Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack
Server
+37% General CPU performance
Cisco UCS B200 M3
NEW #1’s Parallel computing
performance Cisco's first result for
Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server
Desktop Virtualization performance
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
first in the industry for VMware View Planner benchmark
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Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication
VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2
VMmark 2.1 2-socket Blade B200 M2
VMmark 1.x 2 –socket Blade B230 M1
VMmark 1.x 2-socket B200 M1
VMmark 1.x 2-socket B250 M2
VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1
VMmark 2.1 Overall C460 M2
VMmark 2.1 Two–node 4-socket C460 M2
VMmark 2.1 4-socket C460 M2
VMmark 2.1 Two–node 2-socket B200 M3
VMmark 2.1 Eight–node 2-socket B200 M3
VMmark 2.5 Two-node 2-socket C240 M3
Vmware View Planner 2-socket B200 M3
TPC-C Oracle DB 11g & OEL C250 M2
TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2
TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2
TPC-C Oracle 11g C240 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Order-to-Cash B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3
SPECjEnterprise2010 Overall B440 M1
SPECjEnteprise2010 2-node B440 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll Batch B230 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3
SPECjbb2005 2-socket C260 M2
SPECjbb2005 2-socket B230 M2
SPECjbb2005 4-socket B440 M2
SPECjbb2005 2-socket B230 M2
SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket B200 M2
SPECjbb2005 X86 4-socket C460 M1
SPECjAppServer2004 2-node B230 M1
SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket B230 M1
SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket C220 M3
SPECjbb2013 X86 2-socket C220 M3
SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2
SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket B230 M2
SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket B230 M2
SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2
SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2
LinPack 2-socket B200 M2
LS-Dyna 4-socket C460 M1
SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M1
SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M1
SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2
SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket C240 M3
SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket C220 M3
Oracle E-Business Suite XL model payroll B200 M3
SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket B200 M3
SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket C220 M3
SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1
SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-socket C260 M2
SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2
SPECint_rate_base 2006 2-socket C260 M2
SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2
SPECint_rate 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M2
SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1
SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1
SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3 SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3
SPECfp_base2 006 X86 2-socket C220 M3 SPECint_rate_ base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3
SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C420 M3
SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M3
SPECint®_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220M3
VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1
VMmark 1.x Blade Server B440 M1
VMmark 1.x 2-socket B200 M1
TPC-H 1000GB Microsoft SQL Server C460 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll Batch B200 M2
SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket B230 M1
SPECjAppServer 2004 1-node 2-socket C250 M2
SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2
SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2
SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2
SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1
Best Virtualization & Cloud Performance
Best Database Performance
Best Enterprise Middleware Performance
SPEComp® G_base2012 2-socket C240 M3
Best CPU Performance
Best HPC Performance
Best Enterprise Application Performance
TPC-H 3000GB Price/Performance X86 Single- node C420 M3
Cisco UCS Performance: 88 Records
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UCS Compute Blade Roadmap
Brickland
IVB Refresh
Expandable Servers (2S –EX)
Expandable Servers (4S –EX)
B200 M3
B230 M2
Brickland
IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP)
Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh
Grantley
Grantley
B22 M3
B440 M2
B420 M3
Next Gen 2S –EP Blade
Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)
Next Gen 4S –EP Blade
Q1CY 2013
Q2CY 2013
Q3CY 2013
Q4CY 2013
Q1CY 2014
Q2CY 2014
Q3CY 2014
Q4CY 2014
Q1CY 2015
B260 M4
B460 M4
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M4 Scalable EX Blade Highlights
Up to 6 TB of memory Up to 96 DIMM sockets *64GB DIMMs available
Post-FCS
UCS B260 M4 Full-Width, 2-Socket
(Brickland EX – up to 30 cores), 48 DIMMs
UCS B460 M4 Double-High -Full-Width, 4-Socket
(Brickland EX – up to 60 cores), 96 DIMMs
• Designed for the most processor, memory, and IO-intensive workloads
• Provides mission-critical RAS features • Offers the benefits of blade density and
ecosystem with the added flexibility of a truly scalable system
Launched
Four E7v2 CPUs Up to 60 Xeon
cores Dual / Quad Socket EX scalable design
Optimized for both 2 and 4 socket scale (w/ required Scalability connector)
Up to 320 Gb of IO Bandwidth Optimized for Cisco VIC
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Q1CY 2013
Q2CY 2013
Q3CY 2013
Q4CY 2013
Q1CY 2014
Q2CY 2014
Q3CY 2014
Q4CY 2014
Q1CY 2015
UCS Compute Rack Roadmap
Expandable Servers (2S –EX)
Expandable Servers (4S –EX) Brickland
Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)
IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP)
Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh
Grantley
C24 M3
C220 M3
C260 M2
C420 M3
C460 M2
C22 M3
C240 M3 IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley
Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (2U)
Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (1U)
C460 M4
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Security Bezel Optional
Four E7v2 CPUs Up to 15 cores per
socket 10 PCIe 3.0 Slots
Four Full / Full, GPU-ready Modular LOM (mLOM)
VIC or CNA Options
96 DIMM Slots DDR3 w/ upgrade path to
DDR4
Next Gen 4S–EX Rack Highlights
12 Drive Bays Two PCIe-capable
• Designed for the most demanding server workloads such as in-memory database, EDA and CPU / GPU rendering
• Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations • Provides mission-critical RAS features • Ultimate scale-up platform
A “No-Compromise” balance of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 4U form-factor
UCS C460 M4 Performance-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server
Launched
Fabric Update
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2011-12 Raising the Bar
§ Unified ports: Dynamic - Lossless Ethernet/ FC
§ Latency and power improvements
§ Load balancing on chassis uplinks; New Optics options
UCS 6200, UCS 2200
UCS Fabric Interconnect & IO Module
2009 Industry Firsts
§ Ethernet + Storage convergence
§ High performance lossless Ethernet
§ VM awareness
UCS 6100, UCS 2100
Planning
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VIC 1227T
VIC 1227
VIC 1340
VIC 1380
VIC 1280
PCIe Adapter
Blade MLOM
VIC 1240
Q4CY 2013
Q1CY 2014
Q2CY 2014
Q3CY 2014
Q4CY 2014
Q1CY 2015
Blade Mezz
PCIe MLOM
Gen 3 VIC
Gen2 VIC SFP
Gen2 10GBaseT
VIC 1385
VIC 1225
VIC 1225T
Gen3 40Gb
Gen 3 VIC
Q2CY 2015
Q3CY 2015
VIC 1285
UCS VIC Roadmap
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§ Description Two port 40Gb QSFP PCI-E Card based on the Sereno ASIC.
§ Features – PCI-e Gen2 x16 – Sereno ASIC – Broadcom Phy – Two QSFP ports – Link/Activity LEDs for SFP+ port – NC-SI Connection (100Mb) – Temperature sensor – FRUID EEPROM – I2C and MDIO/MDC Bus – Supports 4x10 connectivity with SR-4 Fiber and CR-4 Copper QSFP
§ Performance Sereno PCIe Gen2 limited to 64Gb per slot For high bandwidth applications, dual 40Gb VIC’s can be directed to dedicated sockets for maximum performance (100Gb + bandwidth)
VIC 1285 - Dual Port 40Gb VIC
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40Gb Infrastructure
§ 40Gb Switch Options Nexus 6004 Nexus 3016 Nexus 3132Q
§ 10Gb Switch Options 4x10 attach to 2K, 3K and 5K switches – Ethernet Only No UCSM support at FCS
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User Space NIC Kernel Bypass Technology for Low Latency
What it is: Ultra Low latency technology based on VIC 1200s
What it can do: Improve node to node communication performance of clustered applications on UCS Consolidate dedicated cluster interconnect traffic on Cisco Unified Fabric
Since when it is available: C-Series standalone (Q3 CY 2013)
10Gb: Nexus N3548, N5K, N6K
B-Series (Q4 CY 2013)
Starting CQ3’13
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Designer 25M Seats
Power User 200M Seats
Knowledge Worker
400M Seats
Task Worker Traditional VDI Market
Manufacturing
• Catia • Solidworks • Creo • ProE • PLM NX
Oil and Gas
• Petrel • CUDA Apps • Siesmic • Predictive
• Exploration
Medical
• Radiology • MRI • Tomography
Government
• ARCGIS • Google Earth
• CUDA Apps
Media
• Photoshop • AfterEffects • CS6
AEC
• AutoCAD • Revit • Rhino3D • Showcase
Cisco and NVIDIA partner to deliver exceptional VDI solutions Cisco UCS C240 M3 supports up to two NVIDIA Kepler GPU’s Tesla K10, K20, K20X for HPC
NVIDIA Kepler-based GRID GPU enables new VDI markets
UCS GPU solutions K1, K2, K10, K20, and K20X for HPC
Enhanced GPU support in UCS Available
Served by best-in-class Cisco desktop virtualization solutions FlexPOD - Vblock
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UCS Storage Accelerators Available in a variety of form-
factors
Supported Platforms Cisco UCS B200 M3, B22 M3
and B420 M3 Cisco UCS C240 M3, C220
M3, C420 M3, C260 M2 and C460 M2
Available Accelerators Fusion-io: Blade Mezz – 365 GB and 785 GB
Fusion-io: Rack PCIe – 365 GB, 785 GB, 1.2 TB and 3 TB
LSI: Blade Mezz – 400 GB SLC
UCS Storage Accelerators
• Optimize your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by increasing scalability and performance for non persistent desktops
• Offload full or partial database structures to improve Database performance with less maintenance and tuning
• An assortment of vendor, capacity and form-factor available to fit virtually any use-case
Acceleration solutions allow storage performance to be decoupled from capacity through the integration of a powerful new memory tier uniquely designed to accelerate
applications
Available
UCS Management
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API API
Basic Management Functionality
API
API
UCS Director API
Stand-Alone UCS C-Series Unified
Computing System
UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-
Domain Management
UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure
Management and Orchestration
CIMC
Integrated & Converged
Infrastructure
UCS Manager Domain 1
UCS Manager Domain x
FlexPod
vBlock
Storage
Virtual Machines
Network Devices
Servers
Non-‐Cisco Infrastructure
Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation
UCS Invicta (Whipt
ail)
UCS Management Portfolio
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UCS Manager 2.2(1) “El Capitan” Features Overview
• Fabric scaling: VLANs, VIFs, IGMP Groups, Endpoints • IPv6 Management Support • Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD) Support • User Space NIC (usNIC) for Low Latency • Support for Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)
• Direct Connect C-series to FI without FEX • Two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager Logins • VM-FEX for Hyper-V Mgmt with Microsoft SCVMM • Cisco IMC In-band Management • Direct KVM Access • Server Firmware Auto Sync
• Secure Boot • Enhanced Local Storage Management • Flash Adapters & HDD Firmware Mgmt • Precision Boot Order Control • FlexFlash (Local SD card) Support • Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Inventory • DIMM Blacklisting and Correctable Error Reporting
Fabric Enhancements
Operational Enhancements
Compute Enhancements
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• El Capitan syncs to new underlying NxOS switch code, which enables UCS to increase the fabric scale numbers on the 6200 Fabric Interconnects:
• VLANs (2000) • VIFs (2750) • IGMP Groups (4000) • Adapter Endpoints (240)
Physical network adapters across all servers in the UCS domain
• Also, increase the number of supported vHBAs from 160 to 240 per Fabric Interconnect
• Support larger customer environments requiring more VLANS, VIFs, IGMP Groups, Endpoints
• OVen required in Service Provider and Cloud IT Environments
Customer benefits
Feature details
Fabric Scaling
Features < 2.2 2.2
VLANs 1000 2000
VIFs 2000 2750
IGMP Groups 1000 4000
Endpoints 160 240
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• Enable IPv6 support for management port on the FI and on CIMC (In-‐band only)
• UCS management IP addresses: 3 per cluster (1 for each FI and 1 for cluster) are IPv6 capable
• Added support for IP pools to be IPv6 capable • Allow access to external services (e.g. NTP, DNS) over
IPv6 • External facing client applica[ons (e.g. scp, Vp, \tp)
and external facing services (e.g. sshd, h]pd, snmpd) are accessible over IPv6 addresses
• Allow management of UCSM and Servers over IPv6
• Compliance for RFPs requiring IPv6 support
Customer benefits
Feature details
IPv6 Support
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• Supported for Single Wire Management only (Data and management traffic on single wire to the Fabric Interconnect).
• Supported for rack servers with VIC 1225 adapter only:
• C260 M2, C460 M2 • C22 M3, C24 M3, C220 M3, C240 M3, C420 M3
• A maximum of 120 virtual interfaces will be allowed on each adapter directly connected to the Fabric Interconnect
• No limit to the number of servers that can be connected to the FI (all ports could be used)
• Economics tradeoff • port-‐license cost vs. FEX cost
• Support direct connec[ons of C-‐Series rack servers to the Fabric Interconnect without having to invest in a 2232PP FEX
Customer benefits
Feature details
Direct Connect C-Series To FI without FEX
VIC 1225 10G SFP Adapter ports
CIMC NC-SI C-Series Rack Mount Server
vNIC vNIC
vHBA vHBA
Mgmt
Ethernet Traffic FC Traffic Management Traffic
Single Connect (aka Single Wire Management)
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• In-‐band Management: CIMC management traffic takes the same path as the data path via the FI uplink ports.
• Support In-‐band CIMC access over IPv4/IPv6 (IPv6 access not supported Out-‐of-‐band due to NAT limita[ons)
• CIMC In-‐band access supports the following services (KVM console, vMedia, SoL)
• No change to CIMC over Out-‐of-‐band
• FI management only supported Out-‐of-‐band
• Only supported on M3 servers onwards
• Separate CIMC management traffic from UCSM management traffic
• Increased bandwidth for management port • Enable IPv6 access to CIMC
Customer benefits
Feature details
CIMC In-band Management
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• Direct KVM access launches KVM via URL • h]p://<IP_address of CIMC> or • h]ps://<IP_address of CIMC>
• The Fabric Interconnect hosts the CIMC IP URLs • The hos[ng is on default port for HTTPS (443). HTTP
URL is redirected to HTTPS. • Requires authen[ca[on of the user by UCSM • Supported over out-‐of-‐band only (Direct KVM access
over in-‐band is not supported) • Supported only for IPv4 CIMC access • A global knob to enable/disable Direct KVM access
(enabled by default)
• System admin does not need to give UCSM IP address to server admins to access the KVM console
• Be]er management policy
Customer benefits
Feature details
Direct KVM Access
CIMC IP Address
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• Support for crea[ng UCSM Boot Policies with mul[ple instances of Boot Devices (FlexFlash, Local LUN, USB, vMedia, LAN, SAN, and iSCSI)
• Full control for mixing, matching and ordering all boot devices in the system
• Precision control over all devices in the system • Mul[ple Local Boot Devices (RAID LUN/SD
Card/Internal USB/External USB) and SAN • Local & Remote vMedia devices • PXE/SAN boot in mul[path environments
• Supported for M3 servers onwards
• Enables the crea[on of boot policies with mul[ple local boot devices
• Provides precision control over the actual boot order
Customer benefits
Feature details
Precision Boot Order Control
Pre UCSM 2.2
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• UCSM provides inventory and monitoring of the FlexFlash controller and SD Cards.
• Local Disk Policy contains seings to enable ‘FlexFlash RAID Repor[ng’
• FlexFlash controller supports only one RAID level which is RAID-‐1 (Mirroring)
• Number of FlexFlash Cards (0, 1, 2) is added as a qualifier for server pools
• Customers can now manage the FlexFlash Controller configura[on from UCSM
• Redundant configura[ons are supported
Customer benefits
Feature details
FlexFlash (Local SD Card) Support
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UCS Central 1.1
Centralized multi-domain management across local and remote datacenters, including: • Global Service Profiles and
Templates, Policies, and pool management for cross-domain consistency
• Centralized Fault Management for quicker troubleshooting
• Global Inventory, Statistics and Reporting to simplify asset management and sizing
Global Fault Management
Domain Group Hierarchy
Equipment Inventory and
Status
Tree Group Similar to
UCS Manager
UCS Central 1.1(2a) available as of March 10, 2014
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UCS Central 1.1(2a) Release Summary – March 2014
• Import UCS Manager Policies • Remote Actions – Power, LED, Acknowledgement and more • Sequential IDs • VLAN/VSAN localization/globalization • Scheduled Backups to Remote File Share* • Separate UCS Central Operational Policies
• 3rd Party Certificates Support* • Multi-Version Support • Authentication Domain Selection • IPv6 Support*
• Microsoft SQL Database Support • Power Consumption Reports • Temperature Reports • Fan Speed Reports
Infrastructure Enhancements
Operational Enhancements
Statistics Enhancements
* Note: some features will require a future maintenance release of UCS Manager 2.2(xx)
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UCS Central Policy Import
§ Search for existing policies and service profiles templates in registered UCS Manager domains
§ Import UCS Manager policies and templates including the option to include any dependent policies
§ Estimate Impact provides full regression of the modified policies.
§ Policy import is supported on UCS Manager 2.2(1b) and later.
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UCS Central Remote Actions
§ Remote control of key actions including: – Power On – Power Off – Power Reset – Locator LED On/Off – Chassis Acknowledgements – Chassis Decommission
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3rd Party SSL Certificate Support
§ UCS Central now allows the registration of 3rd party certificates instead of self-signed certificates.
§ 3rd Party certificates are required by the security organization at some customers.
§ Note: 3rd Party SSL Certificate Support will require a future UCS Manager 2.2 Maintenance Release
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Authentication Domain Selection
§ UCS Central 1.1(2a) includes native and LDAP authentication – LDAP Nest Group Support has been
available since UCS Central 1.1(1b) – Authentication Domain can now be
selected from the log on screen.
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Network Enhancements
What’s New: Cisco UCS Director 4.1
• Scalability -Scale-as-you-grow architecture -Support for 5K devices; 50K VMs using Advanced Deployment Model
• SDK available on cisco.com & DevNet (CDN) -Open automation for partners looking to create new device connector -15 partners currently in program
• VSG application container support
• Localization
• Custom tasks
UCS Director Platform
• UCS Integration -Local disk provisioning and policies -Workflow tasks for vNIC templates
and service profile -Assign blade or server pool to group -Cloning of profile and profile template
• UCS Central Integration -Multidomain Manager concept -Inventory for UCS-M elements -Local/global service profile and
templates -Pools and policies for network and
storage equivalent to UCS-M -Select/deselect UCS domain assigned
to POD
• CIMC Enhancements -CIMC 1.5 and Double Peak support -Inventory of C-server via XML API -Storage, VIC, and network adapter
reports -Launch KVM console of C-Server
through UCS-D -Fibre channel and SAN local and bare
metal boot
Compute Enhancements
• Whiptail -Invicta, Acella API Version 1.5 support -Inventory reports -CRUD actions, workflows, and reports -Converged and stack views
• NetApp Clustered ONTAP 8.2 -CRUD operations equivalent to ONTAP 7-mode -New context mapping
• EMC VMAX and VNX Enhancements
Storage Enhancements
• Nexus 1110, 6K, 9K support • MDS 9250i • SAN zone tasks • SSH tasks • Nexus 1K inventory
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UCSD Scalability Features
§ UCSD 4.1 will be certified for following scalability – Up to 50,000 VMs – Up to 5000 Physical Nodes
§ Standard Deployment Model – For Up to 2000 VMs, < 500 Physical Nodes – Single OVF Deployment with Embedded Database for UCSD
§ 8 GB RAM § 4 vCPUS
– BMA and Powershell agents are additional VMs as in 4.0
§ Advanced Deployment Model – For Up to 50,000 VMs, Up to 5000 Physical Nodes – Multiple OVF Deployment (Each 8GB+ RAM, 4 vCPUs) for UCSD – All deployed from
a single OVF template § UCSD Primary Instance (Quantity 1) § UCSD Service Node Instances (Quantity 1+) § Inventory DB § Performance DB
– BMA and Powershell agents are additional VMs as in 4.0
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UCS Invicta Support
§ Support for Invicta API Version 1.5.
§ Inventory Reports (SSN, SSR)
§ CRUD operations (both UI Actions/Workflow Tasks) & Reports: – Volume Group – LUNs – Initiator Groups – VLAN – Physical Interfaces – Bond
§ Converged View
§ Workflows – attaching storage as Datastore (iSCSI, FC) – SMT (iSCSI, FC) – Bare Metal (iSCSI, FC)
§ Stack View