Using Advanced Features on Cisco UCS Dan Hanson, Technical Marketing Manager, Data Center Group

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2 Using Advanced Features on Cisco UCS Dan Hanson, Technical Marketing Manager, Data Center Group 2

3 UCS Bundled Upgrades Useful for Staging, Labs, and Non Productions This does a very quick fast upgrade with internal coordination No need to step through component level upgrades Complete UCS system outage (not the server, but I/O) is tradeoff 3

check and ensure firmware interrelations are at supported level This is one

4 Checking Firmware Conformance To Ensure the Servers and Infrastructure Firmware are all at a consistent version This is a very useful method to check and ensure firmware interrelations are at supported level This is one of the most key items with customer cases Infrastructure Check B and C package Check 4

Port Channels within UCS System For Balance and Availability Port Channels on Gen 2 HW 62xx, 22xx, VIC 12xx Between Gen2 HW we can channel, otherwise discreet links that use pinning VIC

5 Port Channels within UCS System For Balance and Availability Port Channels on Gen 2 HW 62xx, 22xx, VIC 12xx Between Gen2 HW we can channel, otherwise discreet links that use pinning VIC 12xx to IOM 22xx This will always channel from the server to the IOM (5 tuple) Not user configurable IOM 22xx to FI 62xx This can be configured per the drawing when chassis acknowledged 5

6 UCS 62xx Fabric Interconnect and Unified Ports Can modify the Ethernet and/or FC port types in blocks via slider Reboot required today

7 Fabric Hot Spot Monitoring and Reporting/Alerting Internal Fabric Hot Spots of periodic saturation (set measurement to 30s interval) Uplink periodic saturation reporting from the UCS side to the Data Center

8 Fabric Hot Spot Monitoring and Reporting/Alerting Internal Fabric Hot Spots of periodic saturation (set measurement to 30s interval) Uplink periodic saturation reporting from the UCS side

9 Fabric Monitoring and Reporting/Alerting Create alerts based on these hot spots of congestion Syslog of this Alerts to external systems

10 Schedules / Maintenance Policies Schedule definition for one time vs. recurring

11 Schedules / Maintenance Policies Assigning a schedule to a maintenance policy Pending Changes will fire, but no PNUOS activity

12 Smart Call Home Call Home for defined events Mail events to TAC, and customer help desk Can define the priority at which to send messages Not 1:1 Alerts to Call Home events, what would we want?

13 Smart Call Home Profiles for whom to alert

14 Smart Call Home Enable/Disable Policies System Inventory to TAC

Uplink Group Server Interface List UCS Fabric

Boundary 10,11,12 E1/1,E1/2 Blade1 NIC0 & NIC1,

(1-20) Adapter s Fabric Extender Fabric Extender

& NIC1 Adapter Adapter Adapter 501 FC0,FC1 Blade

15 UCS v2.x and Segmented Layer 2 Networks LAN 2 VLAN List Uplink Group Server Interface List UCS Fabric Interconnects LAN 1 LAN 3 UCS Forwarding Boundary 10,11,12 E1/1,E1/2 Blade1 NIC0 & NIC1, Blade 2 NIC0 20,21,22 E1/10,E1/11 None Chassis (1-20) Adapter s Fabric Extender Fabric Extender 30,31,32 E1/20,E1/21 Blade 2 NIC1, Blade 3 NIC0 & NIC1 Adapter Adapter Adapter 501 FC0,FC1 Blade 1 vhba0, Blade 2 vhba0 Half Width Blade Network1 Half Width Blade Network1,3 Half Width Blade Network3

16 UCS v2.x and Segmented Layer 2 Networks Mapping VLANs to Uplinks Uplink ports or channels Pinning within a group of ports VLAN Pruning to match G port

17 vnic vnic vnic vnic Fabric Failover Fabric Failover at Adapter Level LAN SAN A SAN B ~1s mapping No OS teaming/bonding drivers Always recommend unless HW cannot support, or Virtualization host Using this? UCS Fabric Interconnects Chassis VIC or Menlo Fabric Extender Fabric Extender Adapter Adapter Half Width Blade Half Width Blade

18 vnic vnic vnic vnic Traffic Uplink Balancing Multiple uplinks from UCS fabric LAN SAN A SAN B Port Channels or Discrete links (no MCEC) System evaluates link loads and re-balances based on numbers of VIFs mapped Run every 300s UCS Fabric Interconnects Chassis Fabric Extender Fabric Extender VIC or Menlo Adapter Adapter Half Width Blade Half Width Blade

19 vnic Templates Catalogs of Adapters with allowed networks Updating Templates in most cases (to easily add VLANs to multiple servers in UCS)

20 vhba Templates Catalogs of HBA s with allowed storage fabrics Updating Templates in most cases

21 Updating SP Templates Updating SP Templates to make mass changes Maintenance Policies block any outage-forcing events Audit for conformance to approved template

22 Server Pre-Provisioning WWPN Export for zoning Install Server to LUN, then archive until chosen HW arrives Can create complete server infrastructures right away, only wait on HW as final close

23 Server Pools and Qualification Policies Pool servers by location Pool servers within a chassis or between them Blade or Rack

24 Server Pools and Qualification Policies Can qualify server by attributes prior to adding to pool Can qualify server within given pools by attributes within the Service Profile

25 De-commission of Server in Pool for in-hours maintenance Hardware Failure/Issue of a Server in a Pool If blade is in a given pool it can be decommissioned and the service profile will automatically move to next server in pool Check against server pool qualification policy prior to moving Ensures very short recovery time, later forensic analysis Instead of off-hours troubleshooting, decommissioned servers can be examined and/or replaced during business hours on weekly/monthly basis On site facilities personnel can replace decommissioned hardware Reduce rolls of IT professionals to remote DCs -Allow facilities professionals ability To swap equipment in-hours

26 Common Sparing with Organizations Pools of objects are created within a given organization MAC WWNN WWPN UUID Etc. Name of pool is the key when we are utilizing via the profile If pool is exhausted then UCS recursively looks up to parent organization until root If pool with same name exists, that resource will be used This applies also to pools of servers themselves UCS can then support a common spare set of servers even with different attributes (as qualification policies will ensure service level) Organizations can then back-fill the server blades that were used

27 Fiber Channel Port Channel and Trunking Put multiple ports in a port channel to MDS Can handle individual link loss without new FLOGI or reliance on multipathing SW Can handle multiple VSANs on trunked ports

28 Blade and Rack Management Integrated Blade and Rack Management and Training Profiles can be applied to both/either PCIe Slots now open, more DAS, etc. FEX with 2232 on v2.0(2)

29 Bandwidth (Gbps) VMDirectPath 2 and ESXi Temporary transition from VMDP to standard I/O vmotion to secondary host Time (sec) 8GB VM, sending UDP stream using pckgen (1500MTU) UCS B200 blades with UCS VIC card vsphere technology preview

30 Easy VM-FEX Tool Tool to simplify the administrative setup between UCS, vcenter, ESX hosts (v4.1 and 5.0) On CDN

Interface Control Logic VN Tag @ 10Gbe UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) Virtual Interface Control Logic Mgmt Uplink 0 Internal Connections 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 UCS 6x00 Physical Ports 2 3 4

31 Easy VM-FEX and SPAN, Counters, Security, etc. Ethernet Uplink Ports Fiber Channel Uplink Ports 1 2 Fiber Channel Uplink Ports 1 2 Ethernet Uplink Ports Mgmt Uplink 0 UCS Fabric Interconnect A (port profiles) Virtual Interface Control Logic VN 10Gbe UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) Virtual Interface Control Logic Mgmt Uplink 0 Internal Connections UCS 6x00 Physical Ports UCS 6x00 Physical Ports Chassis IOM Ports Server Ports Chassis IO Module A vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces Chassis IO Module B Chassis IOM Ports Server Ports Cisco Adapter 0 1 VIC CPU CIMC KVM etc.

32 Easy VM-FEX and SPAN, Counters, Security, etc. Mgmt Uplink 0 VM-FEX veth10 Ethernet Uplink Ports 7 Server Ports 8 Chassis IOM Ports Cisco Adapter Fiber Channel Uplink Ports UCS Fabric Interconnect A (port profiles) veth3 veth4 vfc0 vfc1 veth3 veth4 veth Chassis IO Module A Virtual Interface Control Logic VN 10Gbe Internal Connections UCS 6x00 Physical Ports vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU Fiber Channel Uplink Ports 1 2 Virtual Interface Control Logic Chassis IO Module B Ethernet Uplink Ports UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) UCS 6x00 Physical Ports Chassis IOM Ports 7 8 Server Ports Attempts by Guest OS to improperly mark traffic blocked Mgmt Uplink 0 vhba0 HBA 0 ESX 4.0u1+ vnic1(s) CIMC KVM etc. d-vnic3 ESX Kernel Pass Through Module Kernel d-vnic4 Service Console vnic2(s) vhba1 HBA 1

33 Easy VM-FEX and SPAN, Counters, Security, etc. Mgmt Uplink 0 VM-FEX veth10 Server Ports veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 vfc0 vfc1 veth1 veth2 veth3 veth4 veth10 Chassis IOM Ports 1 2 Fiber Channel Uplink Ports UCS Fabric Interconnect A (port profiles) Cisco Adapter 3 4 Virtual Interface Control Logic Chassis IO Module A VN 10Gbe Internal Connections UCS 6x00 Physical Ports vcenter Controlled interfaces on VMs with forwarding rules enforced on dynamic adapters and signaled on Private Interfaces VIC CPU Fiber Channel Uplink Ports 1 2 UCS Fabric Interconnect B (port profiles) Virtual Interface Control Logic Chassis IO Module B UCS 6x00 Physical Ports Chassis IOM Ports 7 8 Server Ports Attempts by Guest OS to improperly mark traffic blocked 0 Mgmt Uplink vhba0 HBA 0 ESX 4.0u1+ CIMC vnic1(s) d-vnic1 d-vnic2 KVM etc. d-vnic3 d-vnic4 vnic2(s) ESX Kernel Pass Through Module Kernel Service Console vhba1 HBA 1

34 Easy VM-FEX and SPAN, Counters, Security, etc. Set SPAN destination on UCS port Analyze traffic directly on VM vnic in either direction

35 Advanced Features Recommended Viewing UCS Advantage Videos on YouTube Playlist UCS Technical Videos Overview Cisco UCS Advantage 35

36 Advanced Features Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS server Service Profiles and Templates UCS server Organizations and Roles UCS server Extended Memory Technology UCS server Server Pre-Provisioning UCS server BIOS Policies UCS server RAID Policies UCS server Firmware Policies UCS server Server Pools and Qualification Policies UCS server Maintenance Policies UCS server High Availability During Upgrades UCS server Monitoring with BMC BPPM UCS server Microsoft Hyper-V on UCS 36

37 Advanced Features Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS I/O Adapter Templates UCS I/O Network Interface Virtualization UCS I/O Adapter Fabric Failover UCS I/O Extend the Network to the Virtual Machine UCS I/O Traffic Analysis of All Servers UCS I/O Ethernet Switching Modes UCS I/O Fibre Channel and Switch Modes UCS I/O FC Port Channels and Trunking 37

38 Advanced Features Recommended Viewing Category Title URL UCS Infrastructure UCS Infrastructure UCS Infrastructure UCS Infrastructure UCS Infrastructure UCS Infrastructure Lights-Out Management Easy VM-FEX Deployment Server Power Grouping Blade and Rack-Mount Management Manager Platform Emulator Cisco Developer Network and Sandbox

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