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UCS CentralA Preview Deep Dive Into Multi UCS Management
Krish Sivakumar, Roger Andersson, Brad TerEick
June 2012
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Legal Disclaimer
Many products and features described herein remain in varystages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-
available basis.
This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of C
and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failu
deliver any of the products or features set forth in this docum
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UCS Central
UCS Manager
Compute Capacity: Units of Scale
ServerChassis
Domain
Single Datacenter
Global
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Growth of UCS
Increased Number of Servers, Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Data
Centralized Management
Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployme
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UCS Central Summary
Deployable as an external virtual machine based application
Delivered in two phases:
Phase 1:
Inventory, Fault, Log, Event Aggregation
Global ID Pools, Firmware Updates, Backups and Global Admin
Policies
Phase 2:
Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies
Statistics Aggregation HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage
Timelines:
Phase 1 in sync with next major UCS SW Release Del Mar
2HCY2012
Phase 2 delivered few months after Del Mar
Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters
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UCS Central Architecture
IDM OM RM PM SM
UCS Central Framework
Hardened Guest OS
UCS Central Virtual Machine Appliance
Hypervisor
Storage for
DB, SW
Repository
XML API
Cisco.com
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UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management
Define Policies
UCS Manager
ServerEnd Point
Fabric InterconnectEnd Point
ChassisEnd Point
UC
pol
End
pol
UC
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UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management
Define Policies
UCS Central
UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manage
Mo
UC
pol
UC
the
UC
bec
recApply
Policies
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UCS Central Using UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management
Define PoliciesUCS Central
UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Managern
ServerEnd Point
Fabric
InterconnectEnd Point
ChassisEnd Point
Def
one
UC
Use
pol
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Con
comcon
gro
env
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UCS Central
Phase 1 Features
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Centralized Inventory
Domains grouped in tree
under the domain groups
Global inventory of allcomponents of UCS
organized by domain
Refreshes on
customizable
schedules
Tree view of devices
similar to UCS manager
man
Faults
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Central Fault SummaryAndAudits, Logs Too
Global Fault
Summary Panel
Fault Summary by
domain and by type
of Fault
Fault detail with cross
launch to UCS manager
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Global ID Pooling
UCS Central
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27:77:77:6e:66:75:6e:27
75:75:69:64:72:6f:63:6b
68:70:73:75:63:6b:73:21
Global Pool
ID Usage From Both
Local and Global Pools67:6c:6f:62:61:6c:69:64
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UCS1
UCS2
UCS3
Pool2
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Pool3
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Pool1
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Centralized sourcing of IDs from global pools
Real-time ID usage summaries
Avoidance of ID conflicts among UCS domains
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Centralized Firmware Upgrades
Cisco.com
Global Firmware PUCS Central Firmware Library
Automated
Scheduled
Downloads from
Cisco.com Firmware Auto In
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UCS Central Domain Groups
UCS Central
DomainGroup 1
DomainGroup 2Domain
Group 3
Domain Group (DG) is arbitrary grouping of UCS domains
Domains can be a part of only one DG at a time
Policies defined in the DG are in effect for all domains in the DG
Domains can move between DGs
DG to DG move for domain can be disruptive depending on new
policies
Domain can auto-join DG based on qualification policies at registration
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UCS Central Domain Groups
UCS Central
DomainGroup 1
DomainGroup 2Domain
Group 3
London
NewY
ork
Bangalore
e.g.Geographic
Domain Groups
e.g.
Organizational
Domain Groups
Domain Groups can be created based on operational needs
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Domain Groups can have up
to 5 levels of sub domains
Sub domains have
hierarchical relationship with
their parent
Easy to manage policyexceptions while
administering large number
of UCS domains
UCS Central Domain and Sub Domain
UCS Centra
Domain GroupEurope
Domain US
Domain GroupAsia-Pacific
Sub DomainGroup
New York
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Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group
Global Admin Policies
Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone
DNS
Remote Access
SNMP
Debug Settings
Call Home
Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)Equipment Power and SEL Policies
Admin Policies are defined at the domain group
Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies
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Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group
Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone
DNS
Remote Access
SNMP
Debug Settings
Call Home
Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)Equipment Power and SEL Policies
Global Admin Policies
Admin Policies are defined at the domain group
Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies
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Global Admin Policies in Sub DomainsDomain Group: US Data Centers
Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone
DNS
Remote Access
SNMP
Debug Settings
Call Home
Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)
Equipment Power and SEL Policies
Date and Time:Time Zone Eastern
Date and Time:Time Zone Central
Date and Time:Time Zone Pacific
Sub Domain Group: New York
Sub Domain Group: Dallas
Sub Domain Group: Los Angeles
Sub domain groups inherit properties from
Easy way to manage exceptions to mast
Exceptions get defined at the sub-domain Any domain in the sub-domain has all pa
The local policies defined at the sub-dom
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UCS Manager Registration
UCS Central UCSMUCSMUCSMUCSM
At Registration:
1. Registration initiated by admin on UCS Manager
2. Requires UCS Central IP or DNS name and (optionally) domain group
3. Secure process through the use of Shared Secret
After Registration:1. All policies for the domain group take effect at registration
2. All resources from the local pools become available in the Global Pools
Bulk Registration:
1. Registrations can be done through the XML API
2. Scripts can be written with lists of UCS Domain IP addresses to bulk reg
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Cross Launch of UCS Manager and KV
Access to all registered UCS Managers
and server consoles from one location
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Global Service Profiles and Templates
Global Service Profile TemplateHR-AppsNetwork: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: High
BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Global Service ProfileHR-App1Network: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:20WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:70BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Global Service ProfileHR-App2Network: HR-VLAN
Network QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:21WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:72BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Global Service ProfileHR-App3Network: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:23WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:73BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Global Templates defined in UCS Central
Global templates use global policies
Global Service Profiles derived from Global
SP templates
Global Service Profiles can be attached to
Global Server Pools and Identifier Pools
Global Server Pools can have membersfrom multiple domains
Global SPs can be deployed to domain of
choice manually or through automatic
association to a server in a pool
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Global Service ProfilesWorking With UCS Manager
UCS Ma
Local ServiceProfile Template
Local Service
Local Resource
Local Po
UCS Central
Global ServiceProfile Template
Global Service Profile
Global Resource Pools
Global Policies
Globalize
Localize
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Statistics Aggregation
External DBOracle, MS
SQL Server
UCS CentralExternal Reporting
Limited Internal Reports
Bandwidth
Power
Thermal
Limited Stora
and Processi
Capacity on t
Fabric Intercon
SQL
UCS Manager collects large number of statistics
UCS Central provides long term retention of the data
Use of retained statistical data for analysis
Stored in external databaseavailable for externaldirect access
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DemoThis is a preview demo.
Please visit us at the Data Center booth for a more detailed demo.
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