Powering Virtual Workspaces At Every Scale

Cisco UCS Foundation for Workspaces

Aniket Patankar

UCS Product Manager

In Collaboration with Intel®

Cisco Unified Computing System Fastest Growing Product in the Market

Server Vendor

World-record Performance Benchmarks to Date

UCS Channel Partners

Of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS

Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate

Unique UCS Customers

Worldwide Revenue Share in x86 Blades

41,000+

#1

$3B+

Top 5

>75%

3,800+

100+

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS Fabric Extender Remote Line Card Two per Chassis

UCS Blade and Rack Servers x86 Industry Standard Patented Extended Memory

UCS Fabric Interconnect 10GE Unified Fabric switch

UCS Manager Service Profiles Automation Friendly

UCS Virtual Interface Adapter Creating NICs and HBAs in SW

Why Is the Cisco UCS Different? Fewer Physical Components, Fully Integrated

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS Mini

Powering Applications at Every Scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation

Edge-Scale Computing Core Data Center Workloads

Unmatched Continuum of Scale

UCS Director

Enhancements

UCS Blade & Rack

M4 Servers

UCS Invicta Blade UCS M-Series

UCS C3160 Server

Cloud-Scale Computing

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

Powering Applications at every scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation

Core Data Center Workloads

UCS Director

Enhancements

UCS Blade & Rack M4

Servers

UCS Invicta Blade

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

Cisco UCS M4 New Generation Servers Many Form Factors, One

System

UCS C220 M4 Rack Server

Density-optimized enterprise-class

rack server for general purpose

workloads

UCS C240 M4 Rack Server

Storage and I/O-optimized for big

data analytics, virtualization, and

bare metal applications

UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

Delivers market-leading

performance, versatility, and density

without compromise

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS Mini

B200 M4 Blade Server C240 M4 Rack Server

UCS Manager 3.0

C220 M4 Rack Server

6324 Fabric Interconnects

Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale

Connect up to 7 C-Series rack servers for expanded capacity

New architectural entry point for

Unified Computing

UCS in an All-in-One package:

• Compute

• Solid-state

• Networking

• UCS Manager

• Unified Computing in 6U

• Chassis-Integrated Fabric

Interconnects

• UCS Manager

• Standard UCS Blades / Fans

/ Power Supplies UCS Mini

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS Mini

B200 M4 Blade Server C240 M4 Rack Server

UCS Manager 3.0

C220 M4 Rack Server

6324 Fabric Interconnects

Enterprise Capability at Edge Scale

Connect up to 7 C-Series rack servers for expanded capacity

New architectural entry point for

Unified Computing

UCS in an All-in-One package:

• Compute

• Solid-state

• Networking

• UCS Manager

• Unified Computing in 6U

• Chassis-Integrated Fabric

Interconnects

• UCS Manager

• Standard UCS Blades / Fans

/ Power Supplies UCS Mini

Up to

29%

CapEx

Savings

Up to

36%

TCO

Up to

34%

Lower Power

Up to

80%

Fewer Cables

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

Cloud Scale Turns Computing Architecture Upside-Down

Mainstream IT

Applications

Server

Fixed Application Size

Cloud Scale

Applications Horizontal Scaling

Hypervisor

Single

Server

Many

Applications

Many

Servers

Single

Application

Virtualized Applications Multi-Threaded on Bare Metal Software Built for the Cloud Grid Computing

Disaggregated

Server Shared Local Resources

Shared Local Resources

• Improved utilization of resources

• Resource amortization over smaller nodes

Modular Design

• Improved subsystem lifecycle management

• Ability to scale individual subsystems independently

Lean Componentry

• Improved compute density

• Cost and power optimization

Shared Local Resources

PCIe

Compute Cartridges

Deconstructing the Monolithic Server

Traditional vs Disaggregated Servers-16 Server Footprint

Traditional vs Disaggregated Servers-16 Server Footprint

16 x Traditional 1U Rack Servers 32 x HDD 32 x PSU 16 x 1GbE NIC Cards

32 x Sets

of cables

32 x Redundant

Fan kits

16 x RAID

Controllers

Traditional vs Disaggregated Servers-16 Server Footprint

The Foundation for New Cloud-Scale Applications

UCS M-Series Using Cisco Innovation to

Disaggregate the Server

Based on Cisco Virtual Interface Card

3rd Gen VIC creates local fabric for compute nodes

Shared Local resources

4 shared SSDs in the chassis

Shared dual 40Gb connectivity

Compute Density

16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis

Each cartridge holds 2 independent compute nodes

Introducing UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS fabric for local server resources

Compact Chassis

8 Compute cartridges

Shared Local Resources

Network & storage resources

Lightweight

Compute Cartridge

Two Independent Intel

Xeon E3 Servers

No adapters or HDDs

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS M-Series Modular Servers

Up to

47%

Less Time

to Provision

Up to

8x

Server

Density

Up to

95%

Fewer

Peripherals

Up to

3x

Lifecycle

Efficiency

Up to

5x

Power

Efficiency

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

UCS Mini UCS M-Series

UCS C3160 Server

Edge-Scale Computing Core Data Center Workloads Cloud-Scale Computing

Unmatched Continuum of Scale

Core Data Center

UCS Management

IoE Sensor Data Retail Operations

Virtual Desktops Customer Premise

Equipment

UCS Director

Enhancements

UCS Blade & Rack

M4 Servers

UCS Invicta Blade

Compute Network Storage Virtualization

Management and Automation

Powering Applications at every scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

Lower cost for compute + network infrastructure

Greater virtual desktop density without performance impact

Simpler Operation— start in minutes, scale in seconds

Massive Scalability—scales easily to 1000s of desktops per UCS system

Expansive memory and I/O to avoid desktop virtualization bottlenecks

Best in class virtual workspace delivery for Every Scale

Modular

Core

Edge

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor

Industry Leading Benchmarks

310 Windows 7 Desktops

on a Single B200 M4

Blade Server

29% more responsive

app virtualization

sessions with…

5,000 Virtual desktop

users booted

within 30 minutes

50% Lower cost storage

per desktop and…

**with Cisco UCS Storage

16x

Less power consumed

per desktop **

53% Better CPU Utilization

UCS Central

Policy Driven Multi DC,

Multi-Domain Management

CIMC

UCS Manager

Domain 1 UCS Manager

Domain x

FlexPod vBlock

Non-Cisco

Infrastructure

UCS

Invicta

UCS Director

Policy Driven, Application Centric

Infrastructure Management and Orchestration

Management Portfolio for Simplified Operations

Controller

for network

automation

Networking, Cabling and

Warranty Power and Cooling

Provisioning and Ongoing

Administration Systems Management

Software

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UC

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Servers and

Warranty

Unified Fabric • Radical Infrastructure Simplification

• Efficient scaling

• High performance

Unified Management • Embedded device

management

• Self-integrating

• Stateless

• Automated

• Programmable

UCS Lowers TCO for Desktop Virtualization

Ecosystem of Desktop Virtualization Industry Leaders

Partner Technologies Optimizing the Cost of Implementing VDI

ACCELERATED PATH TO VDI ROI

Backed by Cisco and Partner Reference Configurations

GUESSWORK ELIMINATED

Optimized for SMB Through Large Enterprise

Best of Breed Capabilities, Integrated with Cisco UCS and Unified Data Center

INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS

Integrated Solution With Tier-0 Storage

on Server

Storage “Appliance” Model

Medium Scale

Scale-out Environment with Shared Storage

Medium and Large Scale

Turnkey Solutions with Integrated

Compute Stacks

Medium and Large Scale

Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution Architectures

Cisco Desktop and Application Virtualization Solutions

On-board

Architecture

Simplified

Architecture

Scalable

Architecture

Integrated

Architecture

Hyper-Converged

Architecture

Integrated Storage, Compute, Network and

Hypervisor Stacks

Medium Scale

Powering Virtual Workspaces at Every Scale The Next Wave of UCS Innovation

Infrastructure optimized for application performance: not constrained by it

Extending UCS into new markets, with new use cases: to drive new business outcomes for customers

Continuing to innovate original differentiation of the UCS Architecture: taking it to the next level

With Intel®

Xeon ® processor