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2 UCS Management Deep Dive Jeff Silberman UCS Technical Marketing Engineer 2

3 Agenda Introductions UCS Architecture, Innovations, Topology Physical Building Blocks Logical Building Blocks Typical Use Cases (Live UCS Demo) Programmable Infrastructure UCS Central UCSM 2.1 Features Model Driven Management 3

4 What to Expect This session will not cover UCS hardware components Please check out BRKCOM-1005 UCS Architecture Overview for that This session will not cover Storage best practices Please check out BRKCOM-2002 UCS Storage Best Practices for that This session will not cover Networking in detail Please check out BRKCOM-2003 UCS Networking Deep Dive w/ VM-FEX for that On the other hand, this session will cover UCSM quite a bit! 4

5 UCS Architectural Goals Administrative Leverage Deepest possible abstraction of hardware and connectivity Reduce server provisioning time Both physical and logical servers Fully programmable 5

6 Cisco Key Innovations Unified Fabric FEX-Link Fabric Extender Adapter-FEX VM-FEX (aka VN-Link, VN-Tag ) Virtualized Adapter Extended Memory Unified Management 6

7 Unified Computing System (UCS) Single Point of Management Unified Fabric Stateless Servers with Virtualized Adapters 7

8 UCS Connectivity LAN CLOUD SAN Switch FC STORAGE NAS STORAGE LAN Switch UCS Fabric Interconnect 8

FEX 8 2 1 OS 4 Deployments of Cisco s FEX Technology #1 Rack FEX #2 #3 Chassis FEX

VIC + VM Mgmt Link 1 2 32 1 2 1 2 256 1 2 256 Server Rack Switch 1 2 32 FEX Rack

Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Switch/FI Blade Server

Blade Server Blade Server Chassis Switch/FI FEX 1 2 58 Blade/Rack Server

9 FEX OS 4 Deployments of Cisco s FEX Technology #1 Rack FEX #2 #3 Chassis FEX Adapter FEX Nexus 5k + Nexus 2k UCS 6k + UCS 2k UCS 6k + VIC #4 VM-FEX UCS 6k + VIC + VM Mgmt Link Server Rack Switch FEX Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Rack Server Switch/FI Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Chassis Switch/FI FEX Blade/Rack Server Hypervisor VM V Host M FEX V M Switch/FI V M UCS Manager Management Plane Integration vcentre/vmm 9

10 UCS Physical Building Blocks UCS Manager Embedded manages entire system UCS Fabric Interconnect 48 or 96 Port 10Gb FCoE with Unified Ports UCS Fabric Extender Remote line card : 4 x 10GE or 8 x 10GE UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations UCS Server Industry-standard architecture Blade and rack-mount, 2 and 4 socket UCS Virtual Adapters Choice of multiple adapters 10

11 UCS Logical Building Blocks Service Profile EXCH-1 Service Profile EXCH-2... Service Profile EXCH-N Templates Service Profile Templates VNIC VHBA Pools UUID MAC WWNN / WWPN Policies Boot Devices/Order Host F/W QoS Local Disk Isolation VLANs VSANs Pin Groups 11

12 UCSM UCS Manager: behind the scenes Custom Application GUI telnet, ssh, netconf UCSM Management Information Model Summary: UCS CLI Native XML API Data Management Engine MIT Smash CLP Component Data Management Engine (DME) contains full representative object model stored in the Management Information Tree (MIT) Management Controller Application Gateway Nic AG Host AG Port AG Dcos AG Interaction with DME occurs via Northbound External Interface Layer IOM (CMC) UCS 2100 MEZZ_CARD M*KR UCS UOS B200/B250 (BMC) NXOS(A) UCS 6100 NXOS(B) UCS 6100 Northbound interfaces all resolve down to XML API Application Gateways couple UCSM with end points 12

13 It s Demo Time! (No PPT!) < Relational Nature of UCSM > < Hardware Abstractions > < Instantiating from Template > < Pre-provisioning Infrastructure > < Server Pool Policy Qualifications > 13

14 Live UCS Demonstration (No PPT!) < UCS Manager GUI Trace > < UCS Backups > < PowerShell Provider Examples > < Python SDK Examples > < UCS Platform Emulator > < UCS Central > 14

15 It s Demo Time

16 Release 2.1: over 15 new features 16

17 Operational Enhancements Service Profile Renaming FSM Tab Enhancements Fault Suppression ID Pool Sequential Allocation UCSM Upgrade Validation UCSM Auto Install Scheduled backups 17

18 Service Profile Renaming Customer benefits Customers can simplify operations by aligning Service Profile names with their naming conventions Feature details Users will have the ability to rename a Service Profile in its current place in the org tree Old IDs (e.g., UUID, MAC, WWN) are retained New audit logs, events, and faults reference the new name Existing audit logs, events, and faults from the original Service Profile remain available under the original name No server reboot is necessary Only Service Profiles can be renamed. Nothing else. 18

19 FSM Tab Enhancement: GUI GUI now shows all FSM Stage details in additional to overall FSM status details. 19

20 Sequential ID Pool allocation Much better control over SP to ID pools (MAC, WWN, etc.) allocation! 20

21 UCSM Upgrade Validation Starting with Del Mar (2.1) it is possible to do a dry run of system upgrades Automatic rollback in case of problem 21

22 Firmware auto-install 5 different features actually: Host Firmware Package creation using simple mode Deprecation of Management Firmware Package Removal of ignore compatibility check Firmware Monitoring Firmware Auto Install Install Infrastructure Firmware Install Server Firmware 22

23 Org-aware VLANs VLANs today are not confined to specific Orgs They are available as a free-for-all resource Any SP vnic can use any VLAN 2.1 changes this with Org-aware VLANs Opt-in feature: by default, an Org has access to all VLANs If enabled, Org is limited to specific VLANs 23

24 Org-aware VLANs 24

25 Org-aware VLANs We created a VLAN called ORGWARE with Org membership = DEMO SPs that are not in Org DEMO do not see the ORGAWARE VLAN 25

26 developer.cisco.com UCS Powershell Library UCS Python SDK UCSPE: UCS Platform Emulator that fully exports the XML API SNMP/MIB SCOM communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter Tags : ucs ucs_central data_center unified_computing ucs_management ucs_demo 26

27 UCS is Model Driven Logical Pools & policies Service Profiles & Templates Port Profiles vnics & vhbas Management Access GUI CLI PowerShell / Python XML API UCS Model In-Band Management KVM & Virtual Media Power Management IPMI Physical Auto Discovery Device Inventory 27

28 Q & A

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UCS Management Architecture Deep Dive

UCS Management Architecture Deep Dive Agenda Introductions UCS Architecture, Innovations, Topology Physical Building Blocks Logical Building Blocks Typical Use Cases (Live UCS Demo) Programmable Infrastructure