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Cisco Confidential© 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1
Cisco Solutions forHitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
Mike MeditzConsulting System Engineer
October 11, 2012
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• HDS and Cisco are both strategic Technology Partners with VMware
• HDS + Cisco = successful partnership for almost a decade
Shared vision for the data center
Complementary strengths
Mutual go-to-market channel partners
• Mutually investing in resources to enhance our value to our customers, and the marketplace
Cisco and HDS Partnership
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The Blueprint
• A collaborative effort between Cisco and Hitachi Data Systems to develop enterprise data center virtualized solutions
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select
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UCP Select Program Overview
• UCP Select Program
Ecosystem Developed Solutions
Series of reference architectures
VMware, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat
• UCP Select with Cisco UCS
Cisco Validated Design (CVD)
Greater Value Together
Reduce Risk and Accelerate Time to Value
• Channel Sales ModelEnable our Mutual Cisco and HDS Channel Partners
ESX/ESXi
Hypervisor Compute
UCS B-series
Network
Nexus & MDS
Storage
Virtual StoragePlatform
Reference Architecture
Cisco Validated Design (CVD)
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select forVMware vSphere with Cisco UCS
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HighPerformance
Flexibility Resilience
Leverage IntelligentHardware
ReduceComplexity
EliminateSingle Points
of Failure
UCP Select Integrated Solution Benefits
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Cisco UCS B200-M3 and B230-M2 Convergence – Flexibility – Performance
Over 60 record-setting benchmarks VMware VMmark 2.1: Cloud Computing Performance Cisco UCS
B200 M3 Server SPECjbb2005: Cisco UCS C220 M3: Java Business Application
Performance Performance for 2-Socket Servers SPECjEnterprise2010: Cisco UCS B440 M2 Server: Record-Setting
Enterprise Application Performance
Cisco Nexus 5500UP and MDS 9500 Directors with Gen4 Integrated multi-protocol SAN Platform Scalability and Performance
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform with 3D Scale Scale Up for performance Scale Out for capacity with up to 2048 internal drives Native, Non-Disruptive Migration Industry first - 100% Data Availability Warranty
UCP Select Components
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Internal Switch Matrix Controller
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
vStorage API for Array Integration (T10 – 5 x Primitives)
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tora
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PI fo
r Sto
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Aw
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ness (V
AS
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VMware vCenter Server
Profile-driven Storage
+Storage DRS
VMFS-5 LUNs
Hitachi Storage Manager / Cisco UCSUCS and DCNM / VMware vCenter
Nexus 5500UP & MDS
Cisco UCS
Virtual Storage Platform
Solution Formula – VMware Integration
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• Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect
• Cisco Gen 2 I/O Modules
• MDS 9500 Directors
• Nexus 5500UP
• Cisco DCNM Management
• Hitachi VSP
• HDS Command Suite
• VMware native multi-pathing
• Continuous operation in the event of a server, fabric node, or storage controller failure
Access
Compute
SAN/Storage
vPC
4x10GE
4x10GE
4x10GE
4x10GE
FC FC
vPC
FC FC
Cisco Nexus 5500UP
CiscoUCS 6200 FI
UCS Blade Servers
Cisco MDS 9500 Directors
HDS VSP Array
Key Resiliency BenefitsHigh Availability
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Use Cases
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
• More VMs with less physical storage
High performance UCS blades
• Over 60 record-setting benchmarks
Cisco Unified Fabric
• Manage multiple workloads on the
same infrastructure
Server Consolidation at Scale
HDSVSP
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Use Cases
Cloud Computing
• Abstract, Automate, Orchestrate
• Self Service and On-Demand
• Charge Back / Bill Back
Solution Benefits
• Massively scalable compute,
network, and storage components
• Elastic
• Reduce Complexity
• Multitenancy
Private Cloud
HDSVSP
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Use Cases
VDI
• VMware vSphere + View/Citrix
Benefits
• High Density of Hosted Virtual
Desktops
• Security
• Performance
• High availability
• Lower costs (Thin Provisioning)
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
HDSVSP
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Summary and Additional Information
Support all standard services, installation resources, and sparing requirements
Joint framework built on shipping products which are customizable
http://www.cisco.com/go/hds
All components are fully qualified by HDS + Cisco
Thank you.