Cisco and SUSE: Your Trusted Partners for RISC/UNIX Migrations

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Cisco and SUSE: Your Trusted Partners for RISC/UNIX Migrations

November 2013


Quotes taken from Cisco 2010 Global CIO Focus Groups

“I need to achieve greater cost efficiency

and increased IT agility…an elusive

combination…”

“…need a solution that enables us

to respond to customers within hours

instead of days”

“At the end of the day, I just want

to simply, confidently say “yes” to

my business.”


• Five years ago, RISC/UNIX was the right choice

• Current challenges of RISC/UNIX implementations

High costs in the face of shrinking budgets

Poor price-to-performance ratio

Unable to meet business flexibility and agility needs

Environmental factors

Uncertainty about RISC/UNIX futures

But:

• Hesitant to migrate business-critical applications to a new operating system and platform


Cost Reduction • IT budget constraints

• Increasing project

costs

• Support and

maintenance costs

Demand for Agile Performance • New projects

• User growth

• Regulatory

requirements

• Greater total capacity

Challenges and Opportunities • Server utilization

• Space and

consolidation

• Power and cooling

• Hardware, OS, and

application refresh

Platform Strategy • Standards-based

architecture

• Broadest solution

portfolio

• Leading platform for

innovation

• Fewer than 10% not

considering migration

(IDC)


• We understand the scalability, security, availability, and reliability requirements of mission-critical applications in the data center

• We collaborate to deliver technology innovations and services to meet your needs

Cost reductions

Agile performance, scalability, and reliability

Simplified hardware, OS, and application refresh

Improved server utilization

Improved environmental capabilities

• We are industry leaders with vast mission-critical application experience

• Open, scalable and trusted platforms

• World-class services


SUSE • Leading platform for SAP solutions

on Linux

• #1 recommended and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA

• Only Enterprise Linux optimized for all SAP solutions

• #1 Linux and UNIX development platform for SAP solutions

• First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for integration with SAP NetWeaver

Cisco UCS • Over 26,000 unique UCS customers

which represents 63% Y/Y growth

• More than 75% of all Fortune 500 customers have invested in UCS

• As of Q4FY13 we have over 11,000 repeat customers which represents 79% Y/Y growth

• #2 worldwide in x86 Blades

• In CY13 Q1 Cisco is one of the Top 5 Server Vendors based on Worldwide Revenue Share1

• 80+ World Record Performance Benchmarks to date


• Linux is the operating system of choice for migrations to x86

• Thousands of enterprises host mission-critical workloads on SUSE Enterprise Linux

• SUSE Linux Enterprise is highly optimized for Intel Xeon processors, providing:

Reliability and availability

Intelligent performance

Virtualization performance and efficiency

Automated energy efficiency

• Leverage Staff UNIX skills


• Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) is highly available

Stateless computing characteristics of Cisco UCS significantly improve availability

Redundant, hot-plug power and cooling, hot-swap blades, and fabric extenders

• Intel Xeon processors have mission-critical RAS features

• SUSE Linux Enterprise has advanced RAS features

Service availability 24X7

Shared and Scaled data-access

Virtualization Agnostic

Disaster tolerance


Unified Model-Based

Management

Significantly reduce OpEx

Eliminate a major source of errors that can cause downtime

Cisco® Fabric

Extender Architecture

Reduce costs by condensing three

network layers into one, eliminating

blade server and hypervisor-based

switches

Smart

Infrastructure

Improve business agility with quick,

accurate, and automatic server

deployments

Efficiently migrate applications through

automatic, programmed deployment

Unified Fabric

Drastically lower complexity and

management overhead with fewer

adapters, cables, and switches


Built to reduce cost

• Fewer components

• Reduced complexity

• Single embedded management domain

• Rapid provisioning

• Lower power consumption

• Virtualization optimization

High reliability

• Built for redundancy

• Automated configuration

• Advanced processor reliability

Excellent Performance

• Broad range of servers

• More than 80 world performance records

XML API STANDARD

API’S

Fabric Extenders

(I/O modules)

UCS Manager

Blade Form Factor

Rack Form Factor

Industry

Standard APIs

FABRIC

INTERCONNECTS


13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration

• Front runner technologies

‒ 1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP

‒ 1st validated open source HA

‒ 1st validated virtualization

• Strategic OS for:

‒ SAP HANA

‒ SAP BWA

‒ SAP Business ByDesign


The only operating system optimized for SAP Applications

• Built in HA components to enable you to protect Mission Critical Applications

• Extended Update Cycle (18 months) to fit your needs

• Enables High Performance of Large Workloads

• Integrated Priority Support from both SUSE and SAP

• Enables Fast and Easy Deployment with Installation Wizard


Migrations to Cisco Unified Computing System™ have achieved:

• CapEx and OpEx savings of more than US$7 million

• 93% reduction in floor space

• 69% reduction in power consumption

• 58% fewer cables

• 400% performance improvement over traditional systems


“With Cisco UCS, for example, time to install a blade server has decreased by a factor of 10 compared with conventional rackmount systems.” - Gerd Neuland, Team Leader

CUSTOMER STATS

Industry: Machinery and

plant engineering

Location: Headquartered

in Neutraubling, Germany

Employees: 12,000

CHALLENGE

• Improve IT efficiency and agility

• Deliver technology migration while minimizing interference to other departments

WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS

• Cisco Smart+Connected Manufacturing solution, based on Cisco Unified Data Center validated design and built using Cisco Unified Computing System with SUSE Linux and Cisco Nexus switches

BENEFITS

• Greater availability of IT solutions supporting business processes

• Server provisioning time improved by factor of 10

• 90 percent reduction in cabling and power supplies, with fewer ports

CISCO DATA CENTER

ENVIRONMENT

• Cisco UCS B230 and B440

servers

• Cisco UCS 6248UP Series

Fabric Interconnects

• Cisco Nexus 5000 and

7000 Series Switches

Operating System

SUSE Linux Enterprise

Applications

• Oracle Database

• SAP Netweaver (ABAP

and JAVA)

“Our initial estimates were based upon 350,000 SAPS, but with our Cisco UCS solution, we can scale to 600,000 if we need to.”- Gerd Neuland, Team Leader


RISC/UNIX

Migration

Acceleration

RISC/UNIX

Migration Strategy

RISC/UNIX

Migration Planning

RISC/UNIX

Migration Execution

You are considering RISC/UNIX migration

You understand the benefits and

now want a migration strategy

You are ready to move and want help

with sizing and detailed planning

RISC/UNIX Migration Service

You engage Cisco’s

industry leading,

cost effective

Migration Factory

(COTS and Custom)


http://www.cisco.com/go/migratetoucs

Schedule a migration workshop

http://www.cisco.com/go/migratetoucs

Thank you.

Cisco and SUSE: Your Trusted Partners for RISC/UNIX Migrations

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