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Cisco UCS & CloudPlatformCloud from the ground up

Joy ABOIM

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Hundreds of Management Points

Physical/Virtual Frontier

VirtualAutomated

and Dynamic

PhysicalManual

and Static

Virtualization and Automation Tools

Fixed Infrastructure

Virtual Resource Pools

Accidental Architecture

Technology silos

Difficult integration

Labor-intensive

Costly to integrate, maintain, upgrade, scale, secure

Legacy Systems Cannot Respond to Changing Cloud Workloads

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Demand for data center innovation has vaulted Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) to the #3 leader in the fast-growing segment of the x86 server market

UCS impacting growth of established vendors like HPLegacy offerings flat-lining or in declineCisco growth out-pacing the market

Customers have shifted 14% of the global x86 blade server market to Cisco and over 21% in North America

UCS #3 and climbing

Cloud demand fuels UCS

growth

Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q1 2012 Revenue Share, May 2012

WW X86 Server Blade Market Share

Cloud Requires A New Infrastructure

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Cisco Unified Computing SystemSimplifies Cloud Infrastructure

A single system that unifies Compute: Industry standard x86 Network: Unified fabric Connectivity: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI Virtualization: Control, scale, performance

Embedded management Increase scalability without added complexity Dynamic resource provisioning

Highly efficient Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power and cooling requirements Increase compute efficiency by removing I/O and

memory bottlenecks

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Unified, Embedded ManagementAligns People, Policy, and Configuration With the Cloud

Server Policy…

Storage Policy…

Network Policy…

Virtualization Policy…

Application Profiles…

Subject Matter Experts Define Policies1

StorageSME

ServerSME

NetworkSME

Policies Used to Create

Service Profile Templates

2

Service Profile Templates

Create Service Profiles

3Associating Service

Profiles with HardwareConfigures Servers

Automatically

4

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWN

Boot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

Server NameUUID, MAC, WWNBoot InformationLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware Policy

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UCS & CloudPlatform Architecture

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ServersServers NetworkNetworkStorageStorage

Virtualization Layer Virtualization Layer

Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.)Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.)

Resource ManagementResource Management

ServersServers StorageStorage NetworkNetwork

Dynamic Workload ManagementDynamic Workload Management

BackupBackup LBLB HAHA MonitoringMonitoring

User InterfaceUser Interface Developer APIDeveloper APIAmazonAmazon CustomCustom

Image LibrariesImage LibrariesApplication CatalogApplication Catalog

Custom TemplatesCustom Templates

Operating System ISOsOperating System ISOsInte

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PIIn

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API

AdministratorAdministrator End UserEnd User ConsoleConsole

Physical Infrastructure UCSMUCSMXML-APIXML-API

ServersServers

StorageStorage

NetworkNetwork

• Unified Compute simplifies & empowers cloud infrastructure

• Single point for physical infrastructure management

• Programmatic control over physical infrastructure

• UCS Reference Architecture for CloudPlatform

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UCS & CloudPlatform Reference ArchitectureTried & True Cloud Architecture

Save time Reduce the amount of time to roll out

cloud by using a predesigned architecture

Do it right Leverage the knowledge of subject

matter experts for design & configuration best practices

Know your capabilities Example scaling data helps you

understand the capabilities of your cloud before you even deploy

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UCS: The Infrastructure Used by Cloud Leaders

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