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Natius van der Watt

Data Centre Product Sales Specialist

Cisco Unified Data Centre: Changing the Economics of the Data Centre

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Business and Technology Impacting the Data Center

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Business Agility

24x7 Business

Security and

Compliance

Reducing

Operational Costs

OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES

Managing Capacity

Availability and

Business Continuance

Evolving Application

Environment

Changing IT Service

Delivery Model


The New Way of Thinking Infrastructure

Legacy Infrastructure “IT-as-a-Service”

• Complex

• Expensive to Manage

• Slow to Provision

Modular Design

Resource Pooling

Service Orchestration

On-Demand Self-Service

Control API’s


Cisco Unified Data Center

Changing the Economics of the Data Center

30% Less Cost

60% Less Cost

90% Less Cost

50% Faster

2x Capacity

No Staff

Increase

50% Faster

IT Staffing Deployment

Times

Power and

Cooling

Disaster

Recovery

Infrastructure

Costs

Application

Performance


Unified Data

Center

Network

Storage

Compute

Security

Management

Cisco Unified Data Center Platform

UCS Central

UCS Manager UCS Director

UCS Fabric Interconnects

Nexus 1000V

Nexus Switches

MDS Multiprotocol SAN

switches

Unified Computing

System Blade Chassis

Rack Servers


Cisco Unified Fabric

Delivering Architectural Flexibility

Consolidated Infrastructure

Simplified Management

Reduced Cost

Investment Protection

Evolves With Business

Geographic Span

Integrated Application Delivery

Seamless VM Networking

VM-Aware Security


Cisco’s Data Center Nexus OS

Leading with Innovation

Resilient, High Performance,

Scalable Fabric

Operational Efficiency/ Consistency

Workload Mobility Within/Across DCs

Secure Separation/ Multi-tenancy

LAN+SAN Convergence

CISCO NX-OS: From Hypervisor to Core CISCO DCNM: Single Pane of Management

NX-OS

Nexus 3K Nexus 5K MDS 9000

Nexus 2K

Nexus 7K

Nexus 1K

Blade Offerings

Nexus 6000

Nexus 9000


Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure


Unified Data

Center

Network

Storage

Compute

Security

Management



Cisco Unified Computing System

Built from the Ground up for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Efficient Scaling

Simplified management

Consistent alignment of

policy, configuration, and

workload

Superior IT productivity

Orchestration ready


More Data. Faster Data. Complex Data.

Volume (Capacity)

• Continually Collect as much data as possible

Velocity (Time)

• Accelerate the writing & reading of application workload data

Variety (Type)

• Understand different sources & formats together


Cisco UCS Invicta Series

Up to 1.2 Million IOPS*

Up to 12 GBps* Bandwidth

Up to 240 TB Raw

UCS Invicta

Appliance

UCS Invicta

Scaling System Scalability

Modularity

Application Acceleration

Data Optimization

Multiple Workloads

Tuning-Free Performance

Shipping NOW

200,000 IOPS

1.2 GBps Bandwidth

Up to 24 TB Raw

*Read IOPS, refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”

*refer to earlier slide “A Note on Numbers”


41 15K

HDDs

25 7.2K

HDDs 3 Flash

Drives

TOTAL IOPS: 114,950

TOTAL CAPACITY: 63.2 TB

Faster. Simpler. Flexible. Scalable.

114,950 IOPS 63.2 TB

200,000 IOPS 64 TB

Reference Architecture for 1,000 Desktops

3 types of drives, 3 types of RAID


Unified Data

Center

Network

Storage

Compute

Security

Management



Challenges:

• Manual processes

• Complex handoffs between teams and domains

• Static resource allocation

Result:

• Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services

• High operational cost

• Rigid silos

• Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization

Management - Complex IT Processes to Deploy Application Resources

Ne

two

rk A

dm

Update

Trunks

Create

VLANs

Configure

SAN Zoning

Create UCS

Service Profiles

Create

Network Policies

Se

rver

Ad

min

s

Configure

Servers

Bare metal

Provisioning

Setup

Servers

Add VLAN to

Service Profile

Create

VLAN

Create Storage

Resources (LUNs

and Volumes)

Sto

rage

Add vFilers

to Group

Create

vFilers

Create

IP space

UCS Blade

Power On

Create

Storage Policy

Map

NetApp LUN

Add Users

and Groups

IT

Planning

Approvals Define

Cost Models

Bu

sin

ess A

pp

lica

tion

Re

quire

men

ts

1

2

3

4

5

6


Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

On-Demand

Automated Delivery

Policy-Driven

Provisioning

Secure Cloud

Container

VMs Compute Network Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B C A

Network and Services

VM VM Bare Metal

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation

and

Lifecycle Management


Automated Self-Service Provisioning

Cisco Unified Management

Automated Self-Service Provisioning


Best of Breed Components to Build Your Own

Reference Architecture to Integrate Building Blocks

Total Solutions that Accelerate Time to Production


Innovation Tailored to Your Environment

Appliance RISC Migration

Vblock FlexPod

NAS

S

i

S

i


Business

Agility

Business

Scalability

Business

Resiliency

Operational

Efficiency

Network Storage Virtualization Mgmt. Compute Security

Reduce TCO

Manage Risk

Manage Growth

Expand Business Opportunities

Technologies

Bu

sin

ess A

dva

nta

ge


The Architectural Advantage


Architecture supporting best of breed, end-to-end solutions and integration

into existing infrastructure


Cisco Differentiation

Built from the ground up

for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Transition from a cost center to service-driven

IT Broadest ecosystem of storage, management,

virtualization and application partners

Cisco Unified Data Center—

Changing the Economics of the Data Center

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