UCS Technical Deep Dive: Getting to the Heart of the Matter Session ID
Agenda Introductions UCS Architecture, Innovations, Topology Physical Building Blocks Logical Building Blocks Typical Use Cases (Live UCS Demo) Programmable Infrastructure Model Driven Management 3
UCS Architectural Goals Administrative Leverage Deepest possible abstraction of hardware and connectivity Reduce server provisioning time Both physical and logical servers Fully programmable 4
Cisco Key Innovations Unified Fabric FEX-Link Fabric Extender Adapter-FEX VM-FEX (aka VN-Link, VN-Tag ) Virtualized Adapter Extended Memory Unified Management 5
Unified Computing System (UCS) Unified Fabric Single Point of Management Stateless Servers with Virtualized Adapters 6
UCS Connectivity LAN CLOUD SAN Switch FC STORAGE NAS STORAGE LAN Switch UCS Fabric Interconnect 7
4 Deployments of Cisco s FEX Technology #1 Rack FEX #2 Chassis FEX #3 Adapter FEX #4 VM-FEX Nexus 5k + Nexus 2k UCS 6k + UCS 2k UCS 6k + VIC UCS 6k + VIC + VM Mgmt Link 1 2 32 Switch 1 2 8 Switch 1 2 58 Switch 1 2 54 Switch UCS Manager FEX 1 2 32 Server Rack Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Blade Server Chassis FEX 8 2 1 O S FEX 1 2 58 Blade/RackServer Hypervisor VM VM FEX 1 2 54 VM Host VM Managemen t Plane Integration vcenter/vmm 8
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 9
UCS Logical Building Blocks Service Profile Service Profile... Service Profile SAP-1 SAP-2 SAP-N Templates Service Profile Templates VNIC VHBA Pools Policies Isolation UUID MAC WWNN / WWPN Boot Devices/Order Host F/W QoS Local Disk VLANs VSANs Pin Groups 10
Live UCS Demonstration (No PPT!) (60 min duration) < Hardware Abstractions > < Instantiating from Template > < Pre-provisioning Infrastructure > - Combining Domain Managers (UCS, SAN, Storage) < Server Pool Policy Qualifications > 11
Live UCS Demonstration (No PPT!) < UCS Manager GUI Trace > < UCS Backups > < goucs Programming Examples > < PowerShell Provider Examples > < UCS Platform Emulator > 12
Latest UCS Manager Highlights Support For Disjointed Layer 2 Networks Provides increased flexibility to support a wider range of network configuration without need for additional networking hardware Support For iscsi Boot Configuration Management via UCS Service Profile Customer choice between SAN or iscsi for remote boot devices; all managed via the same UCS Service Profile Support for VM-FEX on Hyper-V and RedHat KVM Increased Hypervisor support for Cisco s VM-FEX technology Enhanced Server HDD Monitoring Integrate server HDD monitoring into UCS Manager 13
Latest UCS Fabric Highlights Increased Fabric Capacity with the new UCS 6296UP More than doubles the number of ports per RU Increase Configuration Flexibility with Unified Ports Simplifies fabric purchase decision by allowing any port to be Eth or FC Double the Chassis Bandwidth with the new UCS 2208XP With 16x 10GE uplinks provide up to 160Gb of bandwidth per chassis Increase Bandwidth To Each Blade Using Port-Channeling Provides up to 2x 80 Gig shared bandwidth to each blade Quadruple Blade Bandwidth with the UCS VIC 1280 Adapter Four times more I/O per blade; up to 40 Gbps burst per virtual interface Increased Virtual Interface Scale Per Adapter Higher density of VMs when using VM-FEX 14
UCS C-Series Integration to UCSM Management and Data path via FEX 6200 running UCSM 6200 running UCSM Mix of B & C Series is supported Nexus 2232 Nexus 2232 2 LOM ports exclusive CIMC connectivity C200, C210, C250, C260 GE LOM CIMC PCIe Adapter CPU Mem OS or Hypervisor Adapter support: Emulex CNA Qlogic CNA Intel 10g NIC Broadcom 10g NIC Cisco VIC Mgmt Traffic Data Traffic 15
UCS is Model Driven Pools Policies Templates Logical Service Profiles VNICs / VHBAs Port Profiles In-band Mgmt KVM Power Mgmt Virtual Media (CD/DVD) IPMI UCS MODEL Mgmt Access GUI CLI XML-based API Physical Auto Discovery Device Inventory 16
developer.cisco.com UCSPE: UCS Platform Emulator that fully exports the XML API goucs : Extensible framework for creating XML wrappers and scripts UCS Dashboard: Read-only view into multiple Cisco UCS domains SNMP/MIB SCOM and PowerShell 17
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