Panagiotis Golemis

Consulting Systems Engineer – Datacenter

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Data Center Economics

People 29%

Software 22%

Energy/Facilities 12%

Servers 11%

Networking 10%

Storage 7%
of Overall IT
Disaster Recovery 7%
Spent on OpEx
Overhead 2% (People, SW, and Facilities)

Source: Gartner-Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

2

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Market Traction &
Accomplishments

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• In Q2FY16, Data Center revenue1 was $859M growing 24% Y/Y
• As of Q2FY16 UCS momentum continues with a revenue run rate of
$3.5B
• As of Q2FY16 Cisco UCS has over 48,000 unique UCS customers
which represents 24% Y/Y growth
• More than 85% of all Fortune 500 customers have invested in UCS
• As of Q1FY16 have over 23,000 repeat customers which represents
28% Y/Y growth
• Over 3,750 Channel Partners are actively selling UCS worldwide and
approximately 2,200 UCS specialized partners
• In CY15 Q3 Cisco is still one of the Top 5 Server Vendors based on
Worldwide Revenue2 Share1
• 100+ World Record Performance Benchmarks to date
*Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V

Source: 1 As of Cisco Q1FY16 earnings results Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V
Source: 2 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2015 Q3, December 2015, Vendor Revenue Share
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Cisco UCS Leading Overall Server Growth (Y/Y)

Market
$14.2B $11B $9.5B $3.4B $2.2B $1.7B $54.3B

23%

5%

7% 9%
7%

-6%
$50.6B
-10%
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2015 Q3, December 2015, Vendor Revenue Share for top vendors. Y/Y growth based on cumulative 4 quarters revenue
(Q4CY14 – Q3CY15).

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26 17 9 18 15 19 6
CPU Virtualization/ Database Enterprise Enterprise HPC Big
Cloud Application Middleware Data

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” at [Link]

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 A Platform for Tomorrow’s Data Center.
And Today’s.
• Run any application: virtualized or non-
virtualized
• Integrate with existing networks, storage,
and management infrastructure
• Run side by side with legacy
infrastructure
• Self integrating: Deploy rapidly &
increase productivity

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 Cisco Unified Fabric
Delivering Architectural Flexibility for All Data Centers
SCALE
Resilient, High Performance
Revolutionary Scale
Geographic Span CONVERGENCE
Wire Once for LAN/SAN
Storage Single Point of Management
Ethernet Network
Network
for LAN/SAN
Device Consolidation
INTELLIGENCE
Seamless VM Networking Secure Separation/Multitenancy
Workload Mobility Integrated Application Delivery

When Network Is You Get CONSISTENCY

the
UNIFIED Across Physical, Virtual, and Cloud
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 Many VL’s per physical link
Ability to support QoS queues within the lanes
VL2 - No Drop Service - Storage VL1 – LAN Service – LAN/IP
DCE
CNA
LAN/IP access

VL1
DCE VL2
CNA VL3

Campus Core/
Internet
DCE
CNA

VL3 – Delayed Drop Service - IPC

Storage Area
Storage Access
Network

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 Decouple Scale & Complexity: Lower Costs

Cross-bar & Supervisor

Modular Switch
= Fabric Extenders

Distributed Modular Chassis

Fixed backplane 10Gb Ethernet for the Backplane

FEX-Link Technology: Available in UCS and the Nexus 5000 + Nexus 2000
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UCS VM-FEX Portfolio
VMware, KVM and Hyper-V (Windows server 2012)

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

VMWare ESX Red Hat KVM Microsoft Hyper-V

Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

VM-FEX VM-FEX VM-FEX
Server Server Server

Virtual Ethernet ports Virtual Ethernet ports

(vEth) (vEth)

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

vCenter
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 Unified Ports
Compelling Business Value
Unified Port

 Allows repurposing of any switch port as either

Fibre Channel or Ethernet
CAPEX Eth
FC
 Eliminates CAPEX lock-in with specific port-
types
Native Fibre Channel Lossless Ethernet

 Reduces physical management points with higher density Fibre Channel and Ethernet
OPEX available on a common device
 Provides rapid and seamless transition from Fibre Channel to Fibre Channel over Ethernet

 Simplifies the purchasing decision

BUSINESS
AGILITY  Makes port-type decisions a thing of the past
 Allows IT to respond faster to changing business needs

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 Nexus 5000 and Nexus 2000 Series
Versatility and Flexibility
Cisco Nexus® 5000

LAN SAN

Unified Access Layer

Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Nexus 2000 Direct Attach 10GE

GE and10 GE
GE Rack-Mount 10 GE Rack Mount 10 GE Rack Mount
Blade Servers w/
Servers Servers Servers
Pass-Thru
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•
UCS Management
 Reduced time to deploy new apps STANDARD
 Reallocate resources quickly and efficiently XML API APIs

Unified Fabric
 Reduced infrastructure
 Cohesive resource pools

Virtualized I/O
 Improved scalability and flexibility
 Increased performance

Compute With NO Compromise

 Blade and rack servers in a single
UCS managed domain
 Physical and virtual workloads

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 Legacy Blade Architecture
Multi-Chassis Server Identity Manager (VCEM)
Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
Server Health Monitoring (SIM)
Multi-chassis Server Identity Manager
Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Server Health Monitoring
FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch
Blade & Chassis Management
CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA
Ethernet Ethernet
Enclosure 1: Servers 1-16 Enclosure 2: Servers 17-32
Fiber Channel Fiber Channel
Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch
FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch Servers 1-8 Servers 9-16
CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA
Servers 17-24 Servers 25-32
Enclosure 3: Servers 33-48 Enclosure 4: Servers 49-64
Servers 33-40 Servers 41-48
Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch
FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch
Servers 49-56 Servers 57-64
CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA
Enclosure 5: Servers 65-80 Enclosure 6: Servers 81-96 Servers 65-72 Servers 73-80

Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Servers 81-88 Servers 89-96
FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch
CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA Servers 97-104 Servers 105-112

Enclosure 7: Servers 97-112 Enclosure 8: Servers 113-128

Servers 113-120 Servers 121-128
Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch Enet Switch
FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch FC Switch Servers 129-136 Servers 137-144
CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA CMC/OA
Servers 145-152 Servers 153-160
Enclosure 9: Servers 129-144 Enclosure 10: Servers 145-160

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 LAN SAN A
Mgmt Any IEEE Compliant LAN Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN SAN B
Any ANSI T11 Compliant SAN

One Logical Chassis to Manage*

LAN Connectivity
SAN Networking
Blade Chassis’
Server Blades
Rack Servers
Server Identity Management
Monitoring, Troubleshooting
etc.

*POD architectural limit of 160 servers

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 Uplinks

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 FI 6300 series vs FI 6200 series

FI 6300 Series FI 6200 Series

• 40GbE • 10GbE
• 40G FCoE • 10G FCoE
• 16G FC • 8G FC
• B-Series or C-Series • B-Series, C-Series or M-Series
• Requires UCSM 3.1(1) • UCSM 2.x(x) or 3.1(1)

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 Dynamic Port Allocation: Lossless Ethernet or Fibre Channel

FC Eth

Native Fibre Channel Lossless Ethernet:

1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS

Benefits Use-cases
 Simplify switch purchase - remove ports  Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business
ratio guess work needs
 Increase design flexibility  Service can be adjusted based on the demand for
specific traffic
 Remove specific protocol bandwidth
bottlenecks

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Capitola Release Feature Preview

Customer benefits

 Double the bandwidth to the chassis (80 Gb per side)

Feature details
• PID: UCS-IOM-2208XP
• Double the uplink bandwidth 8X10GE network-facing (160Gbps
throughput)
• This means 80Gbps to the half-width blade (40Gbps left and
right)
• Or 160Gbps to the full-width blade (double mezz)

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 FI 6300 Series and IOM 2304
FI 6332
• 32 x 40GbE QSFP+ port
• 2.56Tbps switching performance
• 1RU fixed form factor, two power supplies & four fans
FI 6332-16UP
• 24 x 40GbE QSFP+ & 16 x UP ports (1/10GbE or 4/8/16G FC)
• 2.43Tbps switching performance
• 1RU fixed form factor, two power supplies & four fans
IOM 2304
• 8 x 40GbE server links & 4 x 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks
• 960Gbps switching performance
• Modular IOM for UCS 5108

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 FI 6332 (Front View) FI 6332-16UP (Front View)

L1 & L2 26 x 40G QSFP+ * 6 x 40G QSFP+ L1 & L2 16 x UP 18 x 40G QSFP+ 6 x 40G QSFP+
High or High Or
avail 98 x 10G SFP+ ** avail 72 x 10G SFP+ *
ports ports 16 x 1/10G SFP+
or
16 x 4/8/16G FC

2 x Power Supplies
6300 Series
Serial Ports
(Rear View)
4 x Fans

* QSA module required on ports 13-14 to provide 10G support

** Requires QSFP to 4xSFP breakout cable
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 UCS Compute Portfolio
Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

Enterprise
Cloud Scale Intensive/Mission Critical
Performance

Rack
UCS C460 M4
UCS C240 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket
Ideal Platform for Big Data, ERP, Server for Large, CPU-
UCS C3000 Series and Database Applications Intensive Applications
Ideal Capacity-Optimized
Platform for Large Object Storage
at Scale

UCS C220 M4
Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise
Infrastructure, and Application Server

Blade
UCS B420 M4 UCS B260 M4 UCS B460 M4
UCS M-Series Modular Servers
Enterprise Class, 4- Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Mission-Critical, 4-
Modular servers optimized for Cloud- UCS B200 M4
Socket Blade for Large, Blade for Large, CPU- Socket Blade for Large,
scale deployments Optimal Choice for VDI, Private
Memory-Intensive Bare Intensive Bare Metal CPU-Intensive Bare
Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/
Metal and Virtualized Applications Metal
Consolidation Workloads
and Virtualized and Virtualized
Applications Applications

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 Launched
UCS B200 M4 Sept.
2014

Next Gen Density-Optimized Blade Server

An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and
expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor
• Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads
including virtualization and bare metal applications
• Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features
• Ultimate density-optimized general compute blade
platform

Two E5v4 CPUs 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Flexible Storage

Up to 22 cores per Up to 2400 MHz speeds Controller / Cache / Media Options UCS B200 M4
socket Density-Optimized
Enterprise Blade Server
Up to 80G of I/O Modular LOM (mLOM)
One additional PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot 3rd Generation VIC
in addition to VIC 1340/1240 slot
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 Sept. 2014

Half-Width Blade
Up to 8 per 5108 Chassis

Modular Storage Subsystem Two E5 v4 CPUs VIC (Virtual Interface Card)

Configurable with SAS / SATA / SSDs Up to 22 cores per socket slot

Modular Storage 24 DDR4 DIMM Sockets x16 PCIe 3.0 Slot

Modular HDD controller/drive bays 12 per CPU Socket Fabric and Flash Options

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Next Gen Dense 4-Socket Blade Server
Designed for demanding virtualization and database workloads, the UCS B420 M4
combines a large memory footprint with four-socket scalability, leveraging the Intel®
Xeon® processor E5-4600 v3 product family.

 Four socket performance

 Up to 18 cores per processor
 3.0 TB of memory
 160Gb/s aggregate I/O bandwidth
 Full-width blade form factor

Four E5v4 UCS B420 M4

48 DDR4 DIMM Slots Density-Optimized
CPUs Up to 2133 MHz speeds Enterprise Blade Server
Up to 22 cores per socket

Up to 160Gb of I/O VIC technology Flexible Storage

Three PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots 3rd Generation VIC Controller / Cache Options

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 UCS C220 M4 Sept.
2014

Next Gen Density-Optimized Rack Server

A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion
capabilities in a dense 1U form-factor
• Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads
including virtualization and bare metal applications
• Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations
• Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features
• Ultimate density-optimized, modular general compute
platform

Two E5v4 CPUs 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Security Bezel UCS C220 M4
Up to 22 cores per socket Up to 2400 MHz speeds Optional Density-Optimized
Enterprise Rack Server
Two PCIe 3.0 Slots Modular LOM (mLOM) Flexible Storage
Two NCSI “VIC-Optimized” VIC or CNA Options Up to 8 SFF or 4 LFF drives
PCIe SSD support
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 Cisco Flexible Flash
Two E5 v4 CPUs Redundant Cisco Flexible Flash SD Cards
Up to 22 cores per socket 32GB or 64GB capacities

Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 Slots

Two NCSI-capable (VIC-ready)

Maximum Reliability, Modular LOM (mLOM) Slot

(on motherboard under PCIe riser 1)
Availability, Serviceability Supports Cisco UCS VIC1227 or 1227T
(RAS) features with:
Tool-less CPUs RISER 2
Hot-swappable fans, drives, power
supplies

RISER 1

Cisco RAID Controller

PCIe Riser
Dedicated riser with horizontal
Super Cap Power Module socket for Cisco 12G SAS Modular
(RAID Backup) mounting bracket 24 DDR4 DIMM Sockets RAID Controller
12 per CPU Socket Available with 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB
FBWC options

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 UCS C240 M4 x24 HDD Backplane UCS C240 M4 x12 HDD Backplane
Maximum Storage Expandability & Performance Maximum Storage Capacity
Up to 24 x 2.5-inch 12Gbps HDD or SSDs + optional two internal Up to 12 x 3.5-inch 12Gbps HDDs + optional two internal
2.5-inch boot drives 2.5-inch boot drives

UCS C240 M4 x16 HDD Backplane UCS C240 M4 x8 HDD Backplane

Balanced Cost & Expandability Cost Effective 2U Server
Up to 16 x 2.5-inch 12Gbps HDD or SSDs Up to 8 x 2.5-inch 12Gbps HDD or SSDs

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Innovative UCS I/O Cards
Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs

• IO consolidation, scale, and • Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, • Tier-0 storage/server side flash • GPU acceleration
flexibility managed Fibre Channel, and CNAs for VDI
by UCSM • High performance:
• Fiber and copper interfaces 100K + IOPS • Rich graphics experience on
• Industry-leading performance thin clients
• Broad support for most popular • Significantly reduce application
• Robust ecosystem operating systems and storage latency and response time • GPU pass through or sharing for
with storage and OS qualifications 20 users
or more

Number of Units Shipped

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Blade VIC’s
• 3rd Generation
VIC 1340 mLOM
optional port expander card
VIC 1380 Mezz
• 2nd Generation
VIC 1240
optional port expander card
VIC 1280

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Stateless Computing
For Workload Mobility
UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

New Physical Workloads

Unified New Virtual Workloads

Management
New Workloads Across VM
Clusters

Server

Service Profiles Adapter OS

Applications

OS
LAN and SAN Connectivity Applications

OS
Applications

Abstraction
of the OS and
Application
Moving Hypervisors and Guests

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 •RAID settings
•Disk scrub actions

•Number of vHBAs
•HBA WWN assignments
•FC Boot Parameters
•HBA firmware

•FC Fabric assignments for HBAs

•QoS settings
•Border port assignment per vNIC SAN
•NIC Transmit/Receive Rate Limiting

•VLAN assignments for NICs

•VLAN tagging config for NICs

•Number of vNICs LAN

•PXE settings\
•NIC firmware
•Advanced feature settings

•Remote KVM IP settings

•Call Home behavior
•Remote KVM firmware
•Server UUID
•Serial over LAN settings
•Boot order
•IPMI settings
•BIOS scrub actions
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•BIOS Settings
 SAN

LAN

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UCS: Bare Metal Abstraction
Automated, Policy-Based
Configuration of Entire
Hardware Stack
Programmable
Infrastructure Network Interface Cisco UCS 6100 and 6200
Card (NIC) Configuration: Series Fabric Interconnects
• Abstraction of bare metal
MAC Address, VLAN, and QoS
configuration Settings;
Host Bus Adapter
• Encapsulated in Cisco
HBA Configuration: Worldwide
service profiles Names (WWNs), VSANs, and Cisco Virtual
Bandwidth Constraints, and Interface Cards
• Available through Firmware Revisions
an intuitive GUI,
CLI, or XML API
• Over 9000 Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server
or C-Series Rack-Mount Server
objects in system
management model Cisco Service
Profile

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 Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels

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
Uplink port configuration, Service profile assigned to server,
chassis slot, or pool
VLAN, VSAN, QoS, and
EtherChannels
Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels

Storage Server Network

Server port configuration including
Server port configuration LAN and SAN settings

including LAN and SAN settings Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,
VLAN, and QoS settings;

SME SME SME Network interface card (NIC)

host bus adapter HBA configuration:
worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,
and bandwidth constraints;
and firmware revisions

Unique user ID (UUID),

firmware revisions,

configuration: MAC address, and RAID controller settings

Service profile assigned to server,

VLAN, and QoS settings; chassis slot, or pool

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs, Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels

and bandwidth constraints; Server port configuration including

LAN and SAN settings

and firmware revisions 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,
Unique user ID (UUID), and RAID controller settings

Service profile assigned to server,

firmware revisions, chassis slot, or pool

and RAID controller settings

Uplink port configuration, VLAN,
Service profile assigned to server, VSAN, QoS, and EtherChannels

Server port configuration including

chassis slot, or pool 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

1 2 3 4
Subject Matter Expert Service Profile Templates Associating Service Profiles
Policies Used to Create
Define Policies Create Service Profiles with Hardware Configures
Service Profile Templates
Servers Automatically

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 UCS UCS UCS goUCS
CLI
Manager Central Director
Automation Tools
CDN .NET/
Windows PowerShell Blade and rack servers
Python, Perl XML in the same domain—
form factor agnostic
UCS CLI + UCS Manager + UCS Central + UCS Director Third Party Customer
Standards-based XML
XML API API presents
bidirectional single
UCS M UCS M UCS M UCS M interface to entire
Single UCS Domain Data Center 1 Data Center 2 Data Centers 3, 4 .... solution

UCS offers the

customers the broadest
choice of Cisco or third-
party management tools

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 UCS 2.0 System Connectivity
SAN
Direct Attach LAN

Direct Attach
LAN Switch SAN Switch
FCoE Storage FC Storage

Appliance

1 Link 2 Link 4 Link 8 Link

20 Gb per chassis 40 Gb per chassis 80 Gb per chassis 160 Gb per chassis

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UCS “All-in-One” Solution C2H’14

UCS innovation optimized for Branch Office and Remote Sites

Integrated server, networking and management in
a single chassis
• New Fabric Interconnects fit in current IOM bays
• Same compute blades, fans, power supplies
• New 110v AC PSU option
• Fully capable UCS Manager
• Connectivity to external storage
• At FCS: iSCSI, FCoE
• Post FCS: FC
• Service Profiles, UCS Central, XML APIs, etc…
Simple to setup, leverages UCS Central for remote
site management at scale

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 Connection Examples with UCS “All-in-One” Solution
Architecture supported at Max Scale Architecture supported post-
FCS FCS (~+1-2 quarters)

New low-power option

Can use 110v or 208v PSUs
Connect up to 20 servers
16 blades + 4 rack mount servers

Uses existing UCS servers

Use the same compute and storage
blades
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 Core Enterprise Workloads Cloud Scale

Online
SCM ERP/Financial Legacy CRM Email Content Gaming Mobile IoT E-Commerce

Single Single
Server Server Application

Hypervisor

Many Many
Applications Servers

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UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO
TCO Power
77% Faster
Provisioning 8x Server
Density 95% Fewer
Peripherals 38% Improvement 22% Efficiency

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 UCS M-Series Overview Typical Rack Deployment

Front View
10 Gb 62xx Fabric
2 RU Interconnects
8 Cartridges

1 2

Compute
Cartridge
Rack Capacity
Chassis – 20
Servers – 320
Intel Xeon E3 (4 Cores) 32 GB Memory Cores – 1280 40 Gb ports

Memory – 10TB
4 x SSD – Scale from 480 GB SATA Storage – 128TB
to 6.4 TB SAS

Power Supplies –
2 x 1400 Watts

Rear View
2 x 40 Gb Uplinks

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Extending the UCS Fabric inside the server

Compute Shared Infrastructure

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 UCS M-Series
EXPANDING PORTFOLIO OF CARTRIDGES

Early Adopters
of M-Series

1 2

UCS M142 UCS M1414 UCS M2814

Density 16 Single Socket Servers in 2 RU 8 Single Socket Servers in 2 RU 4 Dual Socket Servers in 2 RU

Intel Xeon E3 L Intel Xeon E3 Intel Xeon E5

Processor (TDP < 45W per CPU) (highest clockspeed) (TDP < 105W per CPU)

Static web page serving, Electronic design automation, Dynamic content delivery,
Targeted dedicated hosting, online game seismic research, datacenter application containers, cloud
Workloads delivery, genomics research graphics computing
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 • Intel Xeon E5 v3
• E5-2630v3 – 2.4 GHz, 20MB Cache, 8 core, 85W
• E5-2640v3 – 2.6 GHz, 20MB Cache, 8 core, 90W
• E5-2650v3 – 2.3 GHz, 25MB Cache, 10 core, 105W
• E5-2660v3 – 2.6 GHz, 25MB Cache, 10 core, 105W
• E5-2680v3 (1 Socket ONLY) – 2.6 GHz, 30MB Cache, 12 core, 120W

• 2 Sockets Per Server (except 2680v3)

• Up to 10 Cores per Socket (20 per
Server)
• 2 DIMMs per Channel 16 DIMM Slots
• 16GB-DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
supported (Max 256GB per server)

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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution Available

On-Demand
Domain
Secure Cloud Automated Delivery Managers
Container
OS and
Network Compute VMs Storage Virtual Bare
VM VM
Metal
Machines
Virtualized and Bare-Metal
Policy-Driven
Provisioning Single Pane of Glass Compute
Compute and Hypervisor

End-to-End
UCS Director Automation and Network A B C
Lifecycle Management Network and Services

Tenant Tenant Tenant

Storage A B C

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 Integrated Solutions
VBLOCK
Information

Applications
Operating Systems
Virtualization

Compute

Vertical Network

Solution
Focus VSPEX
Healthcare Financial Services Manufacturing Retail

Business Analytics/
Enterprise Apps Databases Virtual Desktop
Big Data

FLEXPOD
Applications

VXI

Management

RISC Migration

Operating
System and
Hypervisor

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