UCS Common Platform Architecture for Big Data

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Increasingly Everything will be Connected to Everything Massive increase in connections between people, process, data, and things

“Smart Connections”

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In the Internet of Everything Era, Big Data will Get Much BIGGER!

All of these connections will be capable of producing data

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Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data Optimized for Big Data Workloads Today and Tomorrow

Pre-tested and pre-validated configuration

Fabric-based infrastructure integrates computing, networking, and storage resources

Programmability accelerates infrastructure deployment, automates management

Designed for high performance and availability to accelerate delivery of insights, with a lower TCO

UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects

Nexus 2232 Fabric Extenders

UCS Manager

UCS 240 M4 Servers

LAN, SAN, Management

LAN, SAN, Management

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Self-aware, self-integrating system

• 33,000+ customers

• #2 position in worldwide x86 blade server market share, (#1 in the Americas) and gaining

• Simplified, programmable design allows cost-effective growth, management as data clusters increase in size

• Industry-leading transistor technology:

─ 40% more energy efficient

─ 35% greater performance

─ Improves I/O bandwidth up to 2x

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Industry-leading compute, networking and management

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Unified Fabric’s SingleConnect Technology Provides an Efficient Foundation for Growth

One connection type for all protocols

SINGLECONNECT TECHNOLOGY

Efficient capacity scaling

Automated I/O bandwidth allocation

Auto-discovery & self-integrating components: network and compute

Direct SAN access

Wire once then manage through software

Traditional Cisco Unified Fabric

As you scale, simplified architecture reduces cost and facilitates growth

SAN A SAN B ETH 1 ETH 2

10 GE Ethernet

FCOE—Fibre Channel over Ethernet (LAN/SAN/Management)

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Comparing Traditional Architectures to UCS CPA for Big Data

As your Big Data deployment grows, significant and ongoing savings create a compelling business case

# CABLES

Traditional Approach With Cisco UCS

At 32 Servers 180 80

At 64 Servers 360 160

At 160 Servers 530-870 400

7 © 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Abstraction of all configuration and identity information into a service profile speeds deployment, reduces errors, lowers costs

Unified Management Robust Management Delivers Superior Programmability, Scalability, and Automation for Big Data Deployments

Traditional UCS Manager Service Profile

LAN

SAN

NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN Assignments VLAN Tagging FC Fabrics Assignments FC Boot Parameters Number of vNICs Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vHBAs QoS Call Home Template Association Org & Sub Org Assoc. Server Pool Association Statistic Thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings Serial over LAN settings BIOS Settings

Server UUID Serial over LAN settings Boot order IPMI settings BIOS scrub actions BIOS firmware BIOS Settings

RemoteKVM IP settings Call Home behavior Remote KVM firmware

Number of vNICs PXE settings NIC firmware Advanced feature settings

VLAN assignments for NICs VLAN tagging config for NICs

Number of vNICs PXE settings NIC firmware Advanced feature settings

FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

Number of vHBAs HBA WWN assignments FC Boot Parameters HBA firmware

RAID settings Disk scrub actions

LAN

SAN

QoS settings Border port assignment per vNIC NIC Transmit/Receive Rate Limiting

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Cisco UCS Optimized Performance for Big Data Deployments

• Cisco UCS with Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 Series delivers high

performance infrastructure

• Intel Hadoop optimizes performance for UCS through deep technology and

engineering collaboration

Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server

SUPERIOR

PERFORMANCE

94 World-record Application

Performance Benchmarks

PERFORMANCE

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• UCS’ fabric-based infrastructure with service profiles allows programmable, policy-based management

• Enables policy-based management between multiple UCS domains

• Delivers end-to-end automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management

• Abstracts complexity of managing individual devices, making components viewable and manageable from single pane of glass

• Automates big data processes to deliver reliable, cost-effective intelligence

Full Suite of Industry-Leading Systems Management

UCS

MANAGER

UCS

CENTRAL

UCS

DIRECTOR

TIDAL ENTERPRISE

SCHEDULER

End-to-end management software offers speed and enterprise-grade reliability, while simplifying deployment and operations

Management

Management Automation that Grows with You

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Enterprise Applications UCS Common Platform Architecture for Big Data

Single Platform for Enterprise and Big Data Applications Easily Pull Data from Enterprise Applications into Hadoop Environment

UCS Rack-

Mount Servers UCS Blade

Servers

NoSQL

Database

SAN/NAS

Arrays

Management

Simplified Operations: Common Management Across Rack and Blade UCS Servers

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Use of service profiles reduces and automates manual tasks to reduce provisioning time from 8 weeks down to only 15 minutes

Consistent and Rapid Deployments with Service Profiles New Infrastructure Deployment in Minutes

Deployment Speed

Lets you cost-effectively keep pace with the growth of big data

Reduction in

Provisioning

Times

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MULTIPLE DOMAINS SINGLE DOMAIN

Up to 10 Racks, 160 Servers

Easily Scale Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data

Scalability

UCS Manager

UCS Central

SINGLE RACK 16 Servers

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The Big Picture: Designed for Massive Scale Lets You Convert Vast Data Clusters into Powerful Insights

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UCS Central lets

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10,000 servers

Tackle the Most Complex Workloads with Big Data Clusters Fueled by

Hundreds of Servers and Petabytes of Storage

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Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data Redefining the Economics of Big Data Infrastructure

TCO

World-Record

Performance

Benchmarks

Reduction in

Management

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Reduction in

Power and

Cooling Costs

Reduction in

Cabling

Reduction in

Provisioning

Times

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Cisco Validated Designs Accelerate Deployment

DESIGNS Big Data

Cisco Validated Designs for all major big data software distributions can be found at:

www.cisco.com/go/bigdata

Thank you.

Cisco Big Data Web Page http://www.cisco.com/go/bigdata