cisco unified computing system (ucs): changing the economics of the data center
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Changing the Economics of the Data Center CONNECTING UCS TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS TO TCO IMPROVEMENT
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
December 2014
Connecting UCS Technology Innovations to TCO Improvement
Real World Customer Results
Q&A
Agenda
Data Center Economics
Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
29%
22% 12%
11%
10%
7%
7% 2%
Overall Spend Distribution
People Software Energy / Facilities
Servers Networking Storage
Disaster Recovery Overhead
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Server-Related Spend WW New Server, Power, Cooling, Management,
and Administration Spending Share
New Server Server Admin Power and Cooling
Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management
and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014
Cost Categories Impacted by Cisco UCS T
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Unified Fabric • Radical infrastructure simplification
• Efficient scaling
• High performance
SingleConnect,
Networking, Cabling,
and Warranty Power and
Cooling
Servers and
Warranty
Unified Management • Embedded device management
• Self-integrating
• Stateless
• Automated
• Programmable
Provisioning and
Ongoing Administration Systems
Management Software
Provisioning
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers
Power and
Cooling
System
Management
Provisioning and Admin Cost Reduction
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
UCS Manager Embedded in All System Devices
UCS Manager: Auto-discovery, Self-integrating Components
ELIMINATE MANUAL
CONFIGURATION
UCS Service Profiles
Policy-based Management
AUTOMATION
REPLACES
REPETITIVE TASKS
Seamless Integration with Existing Tools = No Stranded Systems Management Investments
EXTEND INVESTMENT
IN EXISTING TOOLS
UCS Manager and UCS Central Allow Administrators to Scale Across Larger Installations and Across Data Center/Geos
EXTEND THE REACH
OF SME’s
System Management
True “Single Pane of Glass” Management
UCS Manager for a Single Domain (160 Servers and Access Layer Networking)
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
System Management
True “Single Pane of Glass” Management
UCS Manager for a Single Domain (160 Servers and Access Layer Networking)
UCS Central Across Multiple Domains
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Traditional Element Configuration
Storage
SME
Server
SME
Network
SME
• Subject matter experts consumed by manual configuration chores
• Serial processes and multiple touches inhibit provisioning speed
• Configuration drift and maintenance challenges
• QoS settings
• Border port assignment per vNIC
• NIC transmit/receive rate limiting
LAN SAN
• VLAN assignments for NICs
• VLAN tagging config for NICs
• Remote KVM IP settings
• Call home behavior
• Remote KVM firmware
• Server UUID
• Serial over LAN settings
• Boot order
• IPMI settings
• BIOS scrub actions
• BIOS firmware
• BIOS settings
• FC fabric assignments for HBAs
• Number of vHBAs
• HBA WWN assignments
• FC boot parameters
• HBA firmware
• RAID settings
• Disk scrub actions
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
• Abstraction of bare-metal configuration and server identity
• Encapsulated in Cisco service profiles
• Available through an intuitive GUI, CLI, or XML API
UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server or
C-Series Rack-Mount Server
Cisco UCS 6200
Series Fabric Interconnects
Cisco Service Profile Automated, Policy-based
Configuration of Entire Hardware Stack
• Uplink port configuration, VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannel
• Server port configuration including LAN and SAN settings
• Network interface card (NIC) configuration: MAC address, VLAN, and QoS settings; host bus adapter HBA configuration: worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, and bandwidth constraints; and firmware revisions
• Unique user ID (UUID), firmware
revisions, and RAID controller settings
• Service profile assigned to server,
chassis slot, or pool
Cisco Virtual Interface Cards
Programmable
Infrastructure
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Unified, Embedded Management
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1
Unified
Management
Application Profiles
Virtualization Policy
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
Storage
SME
Server
SME
Network
SME
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Unified, Embedded Management
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1 Policies Used to Create
Service Profile Templates 2
Application Profiles
Virtualization Policy
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
Storage
SME
Server
SME
Network
SME
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
Unified
Management
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Unified, Embedded Management
Subject Matter Experts Define Policies 1 Policies Used to Create
Service Profile Templates 2 Service Profile Templates Create Service Profiles
3 Associates Service Profiles with Hardware Configures Servers Automatically
4
Application Profiles
Virtualization Policy
Network Policy
Storage Policy
Server Policy
Storage
SME
Server
SME
Network
SME
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
Unified
Management
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
• Server name
• UUID, MAC, WWN
• Boot information
• LAN, SAN config
• Firmware policy
0:17:54 0:18:54
1:18:35 1:23:41
1-Blade Scenario 2-Blade Scenario
Deployment Times
Cisco UCS HP ProLiant
UCS Blades Deploy 77% Faster with 67% Fewer Steps
10
14
31
43
1-Blade Scenario 2-Blade Scenario
Number of Steps
Cisco UCS HP ProLiant
Additional Information Principled Technologies Test Report–July 2013 | YouTube Video
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
“...Bringing up a new server hosting several virtual machines took only 4 hours
rather than the 3 days we had experienced before. One thing that stood out is
that a single person can accomplish the task of building a system rather than
requiring three people to deal with the same need.”
“…Server deployment time has been reduced by between 80 and 90 percent,
which means IT staff can focus more on mission critical or value added tasks.”
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge
“With Cisco UCS Manager, provisioning 64 Cisco UCS Blade Servers to
develop a new customer solution takes about an hour,” Shah says.
“Provisioning 64 of our other servers generally takes 8–16 hours of staff time."
Average 83% Reduction in Provisioning Times BASED ON 95 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Ongoing Administration
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers
Power and
Cooling
System
Management
Industry-Leading Compute Infrastructure API
Standards-Based XML API Presents Bi-Directional
Single Interface to Entire Solution
UCS Offers the Customers the Broadest Choice
of Cisco or Third-Party Management Tools
UCS CLI Cisco UCSM UCS Central UCS Director Third Party Customer
XML API
goUCS Automation Tools
CDN .NET/PowerShell,
Perl XML
UCS Platform Emulator
UCSM Single UCS Domain UCSM Data Center 1 UCSM Data Center 2, 3,…
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Cisco UCS: Systems Management Choice
Seamless Management Across Global Operations
Automated Infrastructure Deployment
Consistent Infrastructure Policies Enforce Best Practices
Manage Hardware with the Flexibility of Software
Cisco Unified Computing System Management Ecosystem: Service Orchestration, Provisioning and Configuration, and Monitoring
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
• Unifies management of multiple UCS domains and thousands of servers
• Centralizes global policies, service profiles, ID pools, and templates
• Simplifies global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs, and server consoles
• Foundation for efficient global administration, high availability, and workload mobility
• Built on UCS Manager technology; combines local performance and tiered control
• Model-based API for large scale automation and integration
Extend SME Reach and Scale
UCS Central A
D
F
A
D
F
A
A
D
F
A
D
F
A
A
D
F
A
D
F
A
UCS Manager
A
D
F
A
D
F
A
A
D
F
A
D
F
A
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D
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A
Data Center 1
UCS Manager
A
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F
A
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A
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A
Data Center 2
UCS Manager
A
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F
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Data Center 4
UCS Manager
A
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F
A
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F
A
Data Center 3
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Furthermore, with the UCS platform, AUS is seeing a two-fold improvement in performing
routine administrative tasks. “For example, operations that once took a minute are now taking
just under 30 seconds,” says Nujumi. “Multiply that by the thousands of such minor tasks we
do, and it translates into the team spending much more time on service improvement and
strategic issues.” Naji Nujumi, Systems Engineer, American University of Sharjah
“The Cisco environment is so easy to manage that we were able move more
than 50% of the staff to other high-value roles,” says McIntosh. “Staff is now
contributing to other vital areas of the business, such as disaster recovery
planning and other activities.”
“In the past an IT manager could manage 15 systems.
Now they can manage 50 systems.”
Average 67% Reduction of Ongoing Administrative/Management Costs BASED ON 45 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Servers
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers
Power and
Cooling
System
Management
Server Cost Reduction
Virtual Interface Cards and Unified Fabric
BUY FEWER SERVERS
ELIMINATE I/O ADAPTERS
Pool and Reduce Hot Spares Using UCSM Service Profiles
Eliminate Management Servers
Improve Consolidation with Large Memory and Industry-leading Performance
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Virtual Interface Cards
Replaces Traditional
Approach of
Multiple NICs and
HBAs per Server:
SingleConnect
256 Interfaces vs.
8 to 14 per
2-Port Adapter
Up to 80 Gb
Bandwidth vs. 20 Gb VM-FEX
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Eliminating Server I/O Adapters
1 x 1-Gbps Management
2 x 1-Gbps Production Data
1 x 1-Gbps Production Data
1 x 1-Gbps vMotion
1 x 1-Gbps VM Console
1 x 1-Gbps VMkernel
2 x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Top-of-Rack Switches
Ethernet Top-of-
Rack Switches
Ethernet Management
Network Switch Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnects
Cisco Nexus
Fabric Extenders
2 x 10-Gbps Unified
Fabric Data and
Management
Traditional Rack Server Per Server Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server
4 Physical NICs/HBAs 1
9 Cables 2
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Buy Fewer Servers
Hot Spare Burst Capacity Spare Live/Production
Total Servers: 18
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Web
Rack
Rack
Rack
Rack
Rack
Database
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Virtualized Apps
Blade
Blade
Blade
Blade
Web
Rack
Rack
Rack
Database
Blade
Blade
Blade
Virtualized Apps
Blade
Blade
Rack
Total Servers: 14
Blade
Spares Pool
Without UCS Service Profiles:
Silos Individually Provisioned for Peak Demand and Failures
Idle Hotspare Servers Require Application-Specific HW and Firmware Image Configurations
With UCS Service Profiles:
Configure and Provision Bare Metal on the Fly with Application-specific Service Profile Templates
Availability and Burst Capacity Delivered with Fewer Spares
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS
Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance
23 CPU
17 Virtualization and Cloud
7 Database
17 Enterprise Application
18 Enterprise Middleware
18 HPC
Superior Performance
Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System
and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results
• Improved end-user experiences
• Increased business velocity
• Reduced software licensing costs
• Reduced infrastructure footprint
Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS
17 Virtualization
Fewer VMware Licenses
$995–$3,495+
$323–$874 Support
Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance
Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System
and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results
Buy Fewer Servers CISCO UCS: 100 WORLD RECORDS
23 CPU
17 Virtualization and Cloud
7 Database
17 Enterprise Application
18 Enterprise Middleware
18 HPC
Fewer Servers and Fewer OS Licenses
Superior Technology Fueling Industry-leading Application Performance
Additional Information Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document Cisco Unified Computing System
and Intel Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results
Infrastructure and Cabling
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers
Power and
Cooling
System
Management
Infrastructure Cost Reduction
Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers
ELIMINATE CABLES
ELIMINATE SWITCHES
Fewer Switches = Fewer Cables
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
UCS Cabling: Radical Simplification
Traditional Rack
Ad Hoc and Inconsistent
Traditional Blade
Structured, but Siloed and Complicated
Cisco UCS
Simplified
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Evolution of Complexity
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
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Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
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Rack Mgrs
40 x Rack Servers
2 x FC Switches
2 x Enet Switches
2 x Chassis Mgrs
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2 x Enet Switches
2 x Chassis Mgrs
16 x Blade Servers
2 x FC Switches
2 x Enet Switches
2 x Chassis Mgrs
16 x Blade Servers
2 x FC Switches
2 x Enet Switches
2 x Chassis Mgrs
16 x Blade Servers
2 x FC Switches
2 x Enet Switches
2 x Rack Mgrs for
40 Rack Servers
Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric
Complexity in Traditional
Environments
Ethernet
Fibre Channel
Management
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric
Complexity in Traditional
Environments
Ethernet
Fibre Channel
Management
Single, Multi-
Protocol Fabric
SingleConnect
Unified Fabric
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
Eliminating Complexity with Unified Fabric
Complexity in Traditional
Environments One Network
Fabric
One Network
One Layer
SingleConnect
Ethernet
Fibre Channel
Management
Single, Multi-
Protocol Fabric
SingleConnect
Physically
Distributed,
Centrally Managed
Cisco Fabric
Extender Architecture Unified Fabric
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
SingleConnect
• Common access layer networking model
• Ethernet, SAN, management combined
• Cable for bandwidth vs. connectivity
Fabric-Based Infrastructure BLADE AND RACK
Management
Ethernet
Storage
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
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Blade Infrastructure Costs: Chassis/Switching BLADE CHASSIS SAVINGS AT SCALE–BLADE SLOT SOLUTION
Cisco pricing MSRP on December 17, 2014; HP pricing publically available on December 17, 2014; IBM pricing publically available December 17, 2014.
All pricing is for blade chassis and networking only. Servers are not included.
Cisco UCS 5108: UCS 5108 chassis with UCS 6248 FI (Two Uplinks per FEX)
HP c7000: HP c7000 Plat Chassis with 2x VC Flex Fabric and 16x HP IC; Price Includes HP VCEM Each Chassis
IBM Flex: IBM Flex Chassis with 2x CN4093 Switches, One Management Node Every Four Chassis, FSM License Each Chassis
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Number of Chassis Slots
Unified Fabric: Rack Server Environment
1x 1-Gbps Management
2x 1-Gbps Production Data
1x 1-Gbps Production Data
1x 1-Gbps vMotion
1x 1-Gbps VM Console
1x 1-Gbps VMkernel
2x 8-Gbps Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Top-of-Rack Switches
Ethernet Top-of-
Rack Switches
Ethernet Management
Network Switch
Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnects
Cisco Nexus
Fabric Extenders
2x 10-Gbps Unified
Fabric Data and
Management
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Cabling
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Comparison of Rack Server I/O
Traditional Rack Server Cisco Rack Server Cisco Wins: Deltas
1 Server 4 Adapters 1 Adapters 3
9 Cables 2 Cables 7
10 Servers 40 Adapters 10 Adapters 30
90 Cables 20 Cables 70
50 Servers 200 Adapters 50 Adapters 150
450 Cables 100 Cables 350
100 Servers 400 Adapters 100 Adapters 300
900 Cables 200 Cables 700
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Cabling
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Management
3-Year TCO
• 46% overall savings
• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9
Savings Breakdown
Server hardware and warranty 27%
Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 73%
Power and cooling 49%
Initial provisioning and ongoing server
and networking administration 46%
Systems management software
licenses and warranty 100%
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
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Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
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Management
3-Year TCO
• 46% overall savings
• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings
Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9
1 Gb Ethernet
Access
10 Gb Ethernet
Aggregation
Fibre Channel
Edge
Fibre Channel
Core
OOB
Management
Complexity of Traditional Rack Server Environment
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Cabling
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Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
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Management
3-Year TCO
• 46% overall savings
• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings
Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9
VS.
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
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Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
3-Year TCO
• 46% overall savings
• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings
Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9
Fabric
Interconnects
Simplified UCS Rack Solution
Nexus 2232
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Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
3-Year TCO
• 46% overall savings
• $16,980 3-year per node overall savings
Switch Hardware and Warranty, Cabling: 73%
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers CISCO UCS C240 M4 VS. HP DL380 G9
20 Fewer
Switches
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Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
$3,662,511 $284,355
$466,096
$85,973
$760,872
$100,470 $1,964,536
$0
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
$2,500,000
$3,000,000
$3,500,000
$4,000,000
Switching and Cabling Savings: Rack Servers
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SingleConnect,
Networking, Cabling
and Warranty
Power and
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Servers and
Warranty
Provisioning and
Administration Systems
Management
This graph compares the 3-year TCO for 100 HP ProLiant DL380 G9 Servers with the 3-year TCO for 100 Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Servers. Each server has two Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2609v3 CPUs, 64
GB of memory. HP networking includes six 1 Gigabit Ethernet and two 16-Gbps Fibre Channel connections for the HP rack servers. This is compared with the Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM dual-port 10-Gbps Unified
Fabric adapter for Cisco rack servers and corresponding switches. Pricing is as of December 17, 2014.
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Average 77% Reduction in Cabling with an Average Cost Savings of 73% BASED ON 31 AND 8 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES, RESPECTIVELY
“The savings on cabling alone were around 90 percent. And this means not
only one-off savings on investment costs, but also similarly reduced installation
and maintenance expenses in Virtual Core customer projects.”
KAMP Netzwerkdienste GmbH
“Cabling costs alone have dropped by about 70 percent in the new data center,
a significant figure, because they used to represent up to 30 percent of each
new deployment.”
Almaviva Tele Sistemi Ferroviari
“UCS has cut the number of cables required by more than 60 percent.”
Groupe Steria SCA
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Cabling
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Power and Cooling
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Power and
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Power and Cooling Cost Reduction
ELIMINATE INFRASTRUCTURE
Unified Fabric for Blade and Rack Servers
Fewer Switches
Fewer Servers
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Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
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Management
• Smaller blade server increments reduces “stranded capacity”
• Fewer adapters to support I/O requirements
• Easier power management with UCS Manager
• No extra software to buy saving both CapEx and OpEx
• Industry-leading virtualization performance improves server consolidation ratios
• Fewer switches with a Unified Fabric
• In the chassis and ToR
• Fewer cables for better airflow through the rack
Power and Cooling SYSTEM-LEVEL SAVINGS
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Cabling
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Average 49% Reduction in Power and Cooling Costs BASED ON 69 CUSTOMER CASE STUDIES
“Efficient Cisco UCS servers have also significantly reduced power and cooling in the data
center. Transitioning to Cisco UCS lowered the average temperature in the data center from
73 to 69 degrees Fahrenheit, decreasing the need for powerful cooling fans. Combined with
the reduced power consumption associated with the Cisco UCS blade servers, OCS cut
power consumption by two thirds in the data center for a significant cost savings.”
“Minnesota Wild reduced power by 63 percent and operated the
data centers with 68 percent lower cooling costs.”
“We’ve seen a 90 percent reduction in energy use.”
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
System Management
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
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Power and
Cooling
System
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System Management Software
UCS Manager Embedded in the Product, No Additional Charge
ELIMINATE MANAGEMENT SERVERS
ELIMINATE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT LICENSING
UCS Manager Runs in the Fabric Interconnects, Accessed via API
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Complexity vs. Simplicity
Function HP Cisco
Local and Remote Administration iLO/Onboard Administrator
UCS Manager
Detect Hardware Faults Systems Insight Manager
Update System Software Systems Insight Manager
Inventory Tracking Systems Insight Manager
Spot Deploy Critical Server Updates Onboard Administrator
Virtualized LAN/SAN Connectivity Virtual Connect
Multi-chassis Address Server Management Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
Logical Server Abstraction Matrix Operating Environment
Power Management Insight Control/iLO
Required Management Interfaces 7 1
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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity
HP c7000 Cisco UCS
HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required
HP Insight Control
HP System Insight Manager
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
UCS Manager
1 Console
No Added Cost
Rack and Blade Together
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Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity
HP c7000 Cisco UCS
HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required
HP Insight Control
HP System Insight Manager
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
UCS Manager
1 Console
No Added Cost
Rack and Blade Together
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UCS Eliminates Management SW Complexity
HP c7000 Cisco UCS
HP Server Hardware Management; Multiple Layers of Software Required
HP Insight Control
HP System Insight Manager
Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem
Virtual Connect Manager
Onboard Administrator
No Mixing of Rack and Blade
Separate Management: Every Chassis, All Software
Separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel I/O Leaving the Chassis
UCS Manager
1 Console
No Added Cost
Rack and Blade Together
Up to 160 Blade Servers
Up to 160 Total Servers: Rack or Blade Unified Management and Unified Fabric
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UCS Manager
Extend Reach of SMEs Globally
Server Chassis Domain
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Cabling
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Management
Extend Reach of SMEs Globally
UCS Central
UCS Manager
Server Chassis Domain
Single Data Center Global Data Centers
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Cabling
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Real World TCO Examples
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Real World
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Power and
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Management
“When we compared the legacy server and network with one based on Cisco UCS, TCO effectively halves over a five-year investment lifecycle.”
Dr. Phil Richards Director of IT, Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
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Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
5-Year TCO
• 48% overall savings
• $18,542 5-year per node overall savings
Loughborough University
Savings Breakdown
Server hardware and warranty 38%
Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 80%
Power and cooling 49%
Initial provisioning and ongoing server
and networking administration 79%
Virtualization software licenses
and warranty 39%
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
$1,814,456 $272,990
$245,195
$214,253
$14,531 $131,820 $935,667
Loughborough University
UC
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Networking, Cabling
and Warranty
Power and
Cooling
Servers and
Warranty
Provisioning
Virtualization
Software
Comparison of existing 47 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth transitioning to Cisco UCS B200. 5-year lifecycle.
Study conducted May 1, 2012 to July 26, 2012.
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$871,476
Savings
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
$2.0M
$1.8M
$1.6M
$1.2M
$0.8M
$0.6M
$0.4M
$0
$1.4M
$1.0M
$0.2M
5-Year TCO
• 39% overall savings
• $11,522 5-year per node overall savings
Major Travel Services Provider
Savings Breakdown
Server hardware and warranty 18%
Switch hardware and warranty, cabling 54%
Power and cooling 69%
Initial provisioning 79%
Provisioning Infrastructure and
Cabling
Real World
TCO Examples
Ongoing
Administration Servers Power and Cooling
System
Management
$14,273,022 $1,470,939
$1,055,931
$2,037,077
$989,691
$8,719,384
Major Travel Services Provider
UC
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Networking, Cabling
and Warranty
Power and
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Servers and
Warranty
Initial
Provisioning
Comparison of existing 482 rack servers and associated switching infrastructure plus projected growth vs. Cisco UCS B-Series. 5-year lifecycle.
Study conducted May 2011 to September 2011.
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$5,553,638
Savings
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Cabling
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Administration Servers Power and Cooling
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Management
$14M
$13M
$12M
$11M
$9M
$8M
$7M
$5M
$10M
$6M
Real Innovation Improves TCO T
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• Radical infrastructure simplification
• Efficient scaling
• High performance
SingleConnect,
Networking, Cabling
and Warranty Power and
Cooling
Servers and
Warranty
Unified Management • Embedded device management
• Self-integrating
• Stateless
• Automated
• Programmable
Provisioning and
Ongoing Administration Systems
Management Software
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Cabling
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