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UCS CentralA Preview Deep Dive Into Multi UCS Management

Krish Sivakumar, Roger Andersson, Brad TerEick

June 2012


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Many products and features described herein remain in varystages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-

available basis.

This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of C

and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failu

deliver any of the products or features set forth in this docum


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UCS Central

UCS Manager

Compute Capacity: Units of Scale

ServerChassis

Domain

Single Datacenter

Global


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Growth of UCS

Increased Number of Servers, Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Data

Centralized Management

Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployme


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UCS Central Summary

Deployable as an external virtual machine based application

Delivered in two phases:

Phase 1:

Inventory, Fault, Log, Event Aggregation

Global ID Pools, Firmware Updates, Backups and Global Admin

Policies

Phase 2:

Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies

Statistics Aggregation HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage

Timelines:

Phase 1 in sync with next major UCS SW Release Del Mar

2HCY2012

Phase 2 delivered few months after Del Mar

Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters



UCS Central Architecture

IDM OM RM PM SM

UCS Central Framework

Hardened Guest OS

UCS Central Virtual Machine Appliance

Hypervisor

Storage for

DB, SW

Repository

XML API

Cisco.com



UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

Define Policies

UCS Manager

ServerEnd Point

Fabric InterconnectEnd Point

ChassisEnd Point

UC

pol

End

pol

UC



UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

Define Policies

UCS Central

UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manage

Mo

UC

pol

UC

the

UC

bec

recApply

Policies



UCS Central Using UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

Define PoliciesUCS Central

UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Managern

ServerEnd Point

Fabric

InterconnectEnd Point

ChassisEnd Point

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UCS Central

Phase 1 Features



Centralized Inventory

Domains grouped in tree

under the domain groups

Global inventory of allcomponents of UCS

organized by domain

Refreshes on

customizable

schedules

Tree view of devices

similar to UCS manager

man

Faults



Central Fault SummaryAndAudits, Logs Too

Global Fault

Summary Panel

Fault Summary by

domain and by type

of Fault

Fault detail with cross

launch to UCS manager


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Global ID Pooling

UCS Central

67:6c:6f:62:61:6c:69:64

22:6d:61:63:69:64:21:22

27:77:77:6e:66:75:6e:27

75:75:69:64:72:6f:63:6b

68:70:73:75:63:6b:73:21

Global Pool

ID Usage From Both

Local and Global Pools67:6c:6f:62:61:6c:69:64

75:75:69:64:72:6f:63:6b

68:70:73:75:63:6b:73:21

UCS1

UCS2

UCS3

Pool2

75:63:73:72

66:63:6f:65

Pool3

75:63:73:6d

76:69:63:70

73:76:63:70

Pool1

62:75:79:75

67:72:6f:77

Centralized sourcing of IDs from global pools

Real-time ID usage summaries

Avoidance of ID conflicts among UCS domains


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Centralized Firmware Upgrades

Cisco.com

Global Firmware PUCS Central Firmware Library

Automated

Scheduled

Downloads from

Cisco.com Firmware Auto In


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UCS Central Domain Groups

UCS Central

DomainGroup 1

DomainGroup 2Domain

Group 3

Domain Group (DG) is arbitrary grouping of UCS domains

Domains can be a part of only one DG at a time

Policies defined in the DG are in effect for all domains in the DG

Domains can move between DGs

DG to DG move for domain can be disruptive depending on new

policies

Domain can auto-join DG based on qualification policies at registration


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UCS Central Domain Groups

UCS Central

DomainGroup 1

DomainGroup 2Domain

Group 3

London

NewY

ork

Bangalore

e.g.Geographic

Domain Groups

e.g.

Organizational

Domain Groups

Domain Groups can be created based on operational needs


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Domain Groups can have up

to 5 levels of sub domains

Sub domains have

hierarchical relationship with

their parent

Easy to manage policyexceptions while

administering large number

of UCS domains

UCS Central Domain and Sub Domain

UCS Centra

Domain GroupEurope

Domain US

Domain GroupAsia-Pacific

Sub DomainGroup

New York


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Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group

Global Admin Policies

Date and Time: NTP, Time Zone

DNS

Remote Access

SNMP

Debug Settings

Call Home

Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)Equipment Power and SEL Policies

Admin Policies are defined at the domain group

Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies


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Global Admin Policies in a Domain Group


DNS

Remote Access

SNMP

Debug Settings

Call Home

Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)Equipment Power and SEL Policies

Global Admin Policies

Admin Policies are defined at the domain group

Any domain that is a member of the DG inherits policies


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Global Admin Policies in Sub DomainsDomain Group: US Data Centers


DNS

Remote Access

SNMP

Debug Settings

Call Home

Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS)

Equipment Power and SEL Policies

Date and Time:Time Zone Eastern

Date and Time:Time Zone Central

Date and Time:Time Zone Pacific

Sub Domain Group: New York

Sub Domain Group: Dallas

Sub Domain Group: Los Angeles

Sub domain groups inherit properties from

Easy way to manage exceptions to mast

Exceptions get defined at the sub-domain Any domain in the sub-domain has all pa

The local policies defined at the sub-dom


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UCS Manager Registration

UCS Central UCSMUCSMUCSMUCSM

At Registration:

1. Registration initiated by admin on UCS Manager

2. Requires UCS Central IP or DNS name and (optionally) domain group

3. Secure process through the use of Shared Secret

After Registration:1. All policies for the domain group take effect at registration

2. All resources from the local pools become available in the Global Pools

Bulk Registration:

1. Registrations can be done through the XML API

2. Scripts can be written with lists of UCS Domain IP addresses to bulk reg


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Cross Launch of UCS Manager and KV

Access to all registered UCS Managers

and server consoles from one location


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UCS CentralPhase 2 Features


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Global Service Profiles and Templates

Global Service Profile TemplateHR-AppsNetwork: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: High

BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN

Global Service ProfileHR-App1Network: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:20WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:70BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN

Global Service ProfileHR-App2Network: HR-VLAN

Network QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:21WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:72BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN

Global Service ProfileHR-App3Network: HR-VLANNetwork QoS: HighMAC: 67:6f:74:75:63:73:21:23WWN: 00:05:9b:67:6f:75:63:73BIOS: Version 1.03Boot Order: SAN, LAN

Global Templates defined in UCS Central

Global templates use global policies

Global Service Profiles derived from Global

SP templates

Global Service Profiles can be attached to

Global Server Pools and Identifier Pools

Global Server Pools can have membersfrom multiple domains

Global SPs can be deployed to domain of

choice manually or through automatic

association to a server in a pool


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Global Service ProfilesWorking With UCS Manager

UCS Ma

Local ServiceProfile Template

Local Service

Local Resource

Local Po

UCS Central

Global ServiceProfile Template

Global Service Profile

Global Resource Pools

Global Policies

Globalize

Localize


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Statistics Aggregation

External DBOracle, MS

SQL Server

UCS CentralExternal Reporting

Limited Internal Reports

Bandwidth

Power

Thermal

Limited Stora

and Processi

Capacity on t

Fabric Intercon

SQL

UCS Manager collects large number of statistics

UCS Central provides long term retention of the data

Use of retained statistical data for analysis

Stored in external databaseavailable for externaldirect access


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DemoThis is a preview demo.

Please visit us at the Data Center booth for a more detailed demo.

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