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Sebastiaan de Haas

September 2013

Cisco Datacenter Architecture

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Cisco’s Commitment to Data Center “I am very confident in our data center strategy and in our ability to lead in

this market transition. Together with Virtualization and Cloud, Data Center

is one of our five corporate priorities that will help us drive growth and

productivity for our customers and partners.”

– John Chambers

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Business Challenges

Technology Trends

Cloud Data Deluge

Budget Constraints

Security and Compliance

24x7 Business Business

Agility

Proliferation of Devices

Energy Efficiency

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SERVER-RELATED SPEND (CAPEX+OPEX) WW Spending on Servers, Power & Cooling, and Mgmt./Administration

OVERALL SPEND DISTRIBUTION

29%

22% 12%

11%

10%

7%

7% 2%

People Software Energy / Facilities

Servers Networking Storage

Disaster Recovery Overhead

Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio” Source: IDC, “New Economic Model for the Datacenter”

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

Power & Cooling Expense

Mgmt. & Administration—Virtual Servers

Mgmt. & Administration—Standalone Servers

High

OPEX

IDC, 2011

Custo

mer

Spendin

g (

$B

)

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Legacy Computer Platform

100% Physical

Average

TCO

Speed of Delivery

6 to 8 Weeks

Speed of Delivery

2 to 3 Weeks

Speed of Delivery

15 Minutes

-37%

Legacy Computer Platform

46% Physical : 54% Virtual

Average

TCO

Unified Computing Platform

25% Physical : 75% Virtual

100% Automated

Average

TCO IT Maintenance/

Innovation

70% / 30%

-27%

Virtualization Unified Infrastructure and Automation

IT Maintenance/

Innovation

60% / 40%

IT Maintenance/

Innovation

40% / 60%

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The Platform for Delivering IT as a Service

UNIFIED

COMPUTING

Modular, Stateless

Computing Elements

UNIFIED

MANAGEMENT

Automated

Resource Management

(Physical and Virtual)

UNIFIED

FABRIC

Highly Scalable,

Secure Network Fabric

OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE

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Gartner about UCS

“Cisco helped all of us rethink the server architecture with UCS, and I would have never thought that I’d say this 3 years ago when they came out with it; the UCS architecture changed the industry by paving the way to the logical disaggregation of the physical server through fabric computing; they proved that you can buy white box components from any vendor, even one that had never built servers before, and pay a premium for them, as long as they’re assembled to achieve a true separation of logical and physical design; Cisco did that with blades and is now doing the same with rack-mount servers, and they’re selling a ton of them; the interesting thing is that while everybody thought that true virtualization would lead to a drop in the price point of servers, this innovation has had the opposite effect, because customers are starting to realize that TCO is way more important than the cost of servers; don’t tell vendors that I said this when you negotiate with them, but a couple of percentage points in price pale in comparison to the all the other costs; power and cooling alone will cost you more than the initial purchase price over the lifetime of a server”.

David Cappuccio Managing V.P. and Chief of Research at Gartner.

From keynote address “The Infinite Data Center” delivered at

Gartner Data Center Conference London Nov 2012

“Cisco helped all of us

rethink the server

architecture with UCS”

“UCS architecture changed

the industry by paving the

way to the logical

disaggregation of the

physical server through

fabric computing”

“TCO is way more

important than the cost of

servers”

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26k+

CU

ST

OM

ER

S

$2B+ 21.5% WW X86 BLADE MARKET SHARE RUNRATE REVENUE

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Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q3 2012, December, 2012, Revenue Share

X86 S

erv

er

Bla

de M

ark

et

Share

, Q

2C

Y13

1

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Change Creates New Opportunities

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CORE CAPACITY

Network Connectivity

Management

Compute

Scale

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Server Health Monitoring

Multi-Chassis Server Identity Manager

Servers 1-8

Servers 17-24

1 Logical Chassis

Servers 9-16

Servers 25-32

Servers 33-40

Servers 49-56

Servers 65-72

Servers 81-88

Servers 97-104

Servers 113-120

Servers 129-136

Servers 145-152 Servers 153-160

Servers 41-48

Servers 57-64

Servers 73-80

Servers 89-96

Servers 105-112

Servers 121-128

Servers 137-144

Ethernet Ethernet

Fiber Channel Fiber Channel

Server Health Monitoring

Multi-chassis Server Identity Manager

Blade & Chassis Management

Fabric Interconnect A

Fabric Interconnect B

Legacy Blade Architecture

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 1: Servers 1-16

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 2: Servers 17-32

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 3: Servers 33-48

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 4: Servers 49-64

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 6: Servers 1-16

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 5: Servers 65-80

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 7: Servers 97-112

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 8: Servers 113-138

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 9: Servers 139-154

Enet Switch Enet Switch FC Switch FC Switch

CMC/OA CMC/OA

Enclosure 10: Servers 154-160

Cisco UCS

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UCS MANAGER GUI

UCS MANAGER SOFTWARE

FABRIC INTERCONNECT

FABRIC EXTENDER

CHASSIS

BLADE SERVER

RACK SERVER

UCS MANAGER API INTERFACE

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20G per Chassis 40G per Chassis 80G per Chassis 160G per Chassis

• Wire once architecture

• All links active

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UCS Central 10.000+ Servers

UCS Manager 160 Servers

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Unpacked, Racked, Cabled and Powered.

Interfaces enabled, discover new chassis & blades

Assign Service-Profile to new blade and boot ESXi

Video and blog at:

http://www.tbijlsma.com/2011/03/adding-an-extra-ucs-chassis

http://www.tbijlsma.com/2011/04/adding-a-extra-ucs-chassis-the-

configuration-minutes

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Stateless Computing Configuration Mobility

SIM CARD* Personality for a Phone

Personalitiy for a Server

SERVICE PROFILE

* plus AppleID

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VM admin spends hours/days building THE

PERFECT Virtual Machine.

It is so good, 20 people want it

Build 20 new versions Clone it…

So why do we do that to hardware when we talk about a new host? Network connectivity, BIOS, WWPN, MAC, Turn off USB, enable VT etc…

Uhm…..

UCS Service Profiles are like a hypervisor to hardware

Strip all state from the physical blades

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LAN

SAN

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“It is the complete software control of the hardware that makes UCS an ideal platform for Cloud”

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UCS XML API layer

UCS Manager Software

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UCS XML API layer

UCS Manager Software

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Manage UCS with Industry Standard Tools

Service Orchestration

Provisioning and Configuration

Monitoring and Analysis

Third Party Management

Unified Control API

Service Profiles

Cisco UCS Pools

Cisco UCS Manager

Application

Stack

UCS Visibility

and Control

OS and

Software

Management

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Single Console “Auto Pilot” GUI

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CIMC

vCenter

Nexus Cmd Line

OnCommand

Single Pane

Cloud

Enablement

Solution Key Benefits

• Improve IT Responsiveness/Time to Value • Accelerate Technology Adoption • Reduce Operational Costs (OpEx) • Simplify Support Staff Learning Curve

Features

Workflows

Functionality

Library of 400+

Tasks Orchestration

Physical

Mgmt

FlexPod

Validated

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Cisco® UCS B-Series

Blade Servers and

UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches

NetApp® FAS

OnCommand

Software Suite

10GE and FCoE

Features

Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class

converged platform

Virtualized and

non-virtualized environments

Flexible: One platform scales up or out to

fit many mixed workloads

Add applications and workload

Benefits

Flexibility

Built-in data center efficiencies

Reduced risk

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Build Your Own

Best Of Breed Components

VSPEX

Proven Infrastructure

Vblock

Converged Infrastructure

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> 50% Faster

Many Weeks or Months

Service Request

Design and

Size

DC

Planning Procure

Detailed

Design Deploy Test

Service Available

Traditional

With FlexPod Reference BoM

Validated design

Precise deployment

Standard test plan

DC

Planning Procure Deploy Test

Preprovisioned FlexPod Rapid deployment of applications

Shared pools meet most requirements

Service Available

DC

Planning Procure Deploy Test

Service Available

Benefits Agile service delivery

Higher productivity

Faster deployment

Higher quality

Simpler planning

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Reduce Risk Improve Efficiency

For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/

Increase Flexibility

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Thank you.