Cisco UCS Enables OpEx and CapEx Savings• Significant savings on OpEx and CapEx compared to traditional server

architectures, through consolidation, reductions in cabling and rack space, reduced power and cooling needs, and the elimination of backup hot spare or standby servers.

• Increase in server provisioning productivity through Cisco® server profiles that let administrators provision servers in an automated, consistent, holistic manner, saving time for other critical tasks.

Cisco UCS Allows Faster, Simpler Management• Application-centric Cisco UCS® Manager software automatically configures and

maintains Cisco UCS rack and blade servers through policies called service profiles. These profiles offer speed, consistency, and simplicity. A servers’ hardware identity and configuration is controlled by software, bringing the flexibility of virtualized systems to the physical world in a way no other server architecture can.

• White papers and videos (rack and blade) show faster migration of server Identities to rack and blade servers with fewer steps using Cisco UCS Manager service profiles compared to equivalent HP servers.

• Cisco customers see an 84 percent reduction in provisioning times, based on the experiences of 71 customers.

Cisco UCS Provides SingleConnect Technology• One connection:

- Rack servers and blade servers

- LAN, SAN, and systems management

- Physical servers and virtual machines

• Easy: This “wire once and walk away” solution (Figure 1) eliminates manual, time-consuming tasks traditionally required to connect servers in the data center. Cisco UCS with SingleConnect technology is a self-integrating system, with policy-based, automated configuration of server identity and I/O.

• Efficient: SingleConnect technology combines three network layers into one: top of rack, blade chassis, and server hypervisor switching. It simultaneously unifies LAN, SAN, and server systems management networks on a single fabric. Fabric extenders scale connectivity from centralized fabric interconnects to as many as 160 servers.

• Intelligent: SingleConnect technology creates a virtualization-aware system, providing simplified, transparent virtual machine (VM) mobility and advanced security capabilities for multitenant environments.

• Cisco UCS customers see a 77 percent reduction in cabling, with an average cost savings of 71 percent.

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• An automation-friendly design lets IT professionals use an entire ecosystem (Figure 3) of high-level tools to configure and manage servers through an open and fully documented XML API.

• Cisco customers see a 61 percent reduction in ongoing administrative and management costs.

• Cisco UCS Manager exposes nearly all hardware devices and software architectures and integrated infrastructure solutions to speed deployment and reduce risk. Its XML API is tested and validated over a broad array of third-party management tools.

Cisco UCS Has an Automation-Friendly, Open APIFigure 3. Cisco UCS Manager Third-Party Management Interface

Unique stepping-stone into UCS:

• Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server customers have a choice: Run the servers in standalone mode or move to an environment managed by UCS, now or in the future.

Lower costs for UCS management tools:

• For UCS C-Series servers running in standalone mode, Cisco doesn’t require an additional software license for its full-featured Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC). In contrast, HP, Dell, and IBM charge extra for features such as collaboration, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)/Active Directory, full virtual media support, power capping, and Converged Network Adapter (CAN) management.

• Competitors can take up to seven different blade management tools and licenses to accomplish what Cisco UCS Manager does. (HP’s iLO, VCEM, and Matrix; Dell’s iDRAC Enterprise and ASM; and IBM’s IMM2). Unlike competitors, UCS Manager integrates local and remote administration, hardware fault alerts, firmware updates, inventory tracking, virtualized LAN/SAN connectivity, multi-chassis server address management, logical server abstraction, and power management.

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Greater Control, Greater PerformanceCisco UCS Director unifies an existing data center environment by supporting Cisco and third-party hardware. This gives administrators a holistic, converged infrastructure management experience. It can also help reduce the time required to deploy virtual and physical resources from weeks to minutes.

Outstanding overall performance:

On virtualized or bare-metal workloads, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack and B-Series Blade Servers have set 81 world records and counting.

Cisco VM Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) virtualization support:

VM-FEX (Figure 4) allows virtual switching of VM traffic in upstream fabric interconnect hardware switches, instead of a software switch within the hypervisor. As a result, Cisco UCS achieves greater virtualization performance through consolidation of virtual and physical access layers. IT professionals maintain full visibility and management capability for each individual virtual port on every VM.

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Accelerate sales and improve customer results with Cisco Services:

Cisco offers services across the plan-build-manage IT lifecycle that accelerate the transition to a Cisco UCS architecture while reducing migration risks. Partners can complement their practice by choosing to purchase and deliver Collaborative Services and/or sell Cisco Branded Services. Cisco Services engagements have resulted in measurable business gains for our customers, who have achieved benefits such as 15 to 20 percent faster time to revenue, 30 percent lower infrastructure costs, 50 percent faster disaster recovery, and 90 percent reduction in deployment time.

For more information:

• Go the UCS White Papers URL and search for “HP,” “IBM,” or “Dell” to obtain additional competitive material

• Also visit the Partner Central Competitive website

• Cisco Services: go2.cisco.com/ucsservices

• Cisco Data Center Services for partners: go2.cisco.com/dcservices4partners

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