Datacenter Overview and UCS Markus Kunstmann, Systems Engineer Cisco Data Center Channels March 2010
Data Centers Are under Increasing Pressure Collaboration Empowered User SLA Metrics New Business Pressures Global Availability 24 x 7 Reg. Compliance Operational Limitations Power & Cooling Asset Utilization Provisioning Security Threats Bus. Continuance 2
Data Center Evolution Path Location Freedom HW Freedom Provisioning Freedom Consolidation Virtualization Automation Utility Cloud Inter - Cloud Enterprise Class Clouds Unified Computing Unified Fabric Data Center Networking Cisco Inc., Company Confidential 3
Cisco Data Center Product Portfolio Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Data Center Security Cisco UCS High Performance Blade Servers UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects UCS 2100 FEX FCoE adapters Nexus 7000 High Bandwidth Ethernet switch Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch Nexus 4000 FCoE Blade switch Nexus 2000 FEX Catalyst 6500 Series switches Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches MDS 9500 FC Directors MDS 9100/9200 Fabric Switches MDS 9124e Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance ACE GSS Global Site Selector WAAS Wide-Area Application Services FWSM Firewall Services Module IDSM-2 Intrusion Detection System Cisco IronPort Nexus 1000v virtual switch 4
Cisco Data Center Product Portfolio Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Data Center Security Cisco UCS High Performance Blade Servers UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects UCS 2100 FEX FCoE adapters Nexus 7000 High Bandwidth Ethernet switch Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch Nexus 4000 FCoE Blade switch Nexus 2000 FEX Catalyst 6500 Series switches Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches MDS 9500 FC Directors MDS 9100/9200 Fabric Switches MDS 9124e Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance ACE GSS Global Site Selector WAAS Wide-Area Application Services FWSM Firewall Services Module IDSM-2 Intrusion Detection System Cisco IronPort Nexus 1000v virtual switch 5
Features, Scalability, Longevity Catalyst Switching Portfolio for the DC Catalyst 6500 Catalyst 4948 Catalyst 6500 Blade switches Catalyst 6500: Industry s best investment protection Lowest TCO Highest availability Integrated services Catalyst 4948: Wire-speed switching and services Optimizes rack modularity and cabling GbE and 10GbE ports Blade server switches: Integrated L2+ Ethernet switches for IBM, HP, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens blade chassis Integrated InfiniBand switches for IBM and Dell blade chassis 6
Cisco Data Center Product Portfolio Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Data Center Security Cisco UCS High Performance Blade Servers UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects UCS 2100 FEX FCoE adapters Nexus 7000 High Bandwidth Ethernet switch Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch Nexus 4000 FCoE Blade switch Nexus 2000 FEX Catalyst 6500 Series switches Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches MDS 9500 FC Directors MDS 9100/9200 Fabric Switches MDS 9124e Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance ACE GSS Global Site Selector WAAS Wide-Area Application Services FWSM Firewall Services Module IDSM-2 Intrusion Detection System Cisco IronPort Nexus 1000v virtual switch 7
Nexus Data Center Product Portfolio 15Tb/s 7.5Tb/s VM Nexus 1000V Fabric Extender Nexus 2000 1Tb/s 520G Nexus 5020 Nexus 5010 Nexus 7010 Nexus 7018 VN-Link NX-OS Server Access Aggregation/Core 8
NX-OS: Purpose Built for the Data Center Cisco IOS SAN-OS NX-OS 9
The Nexus Family Nexus 7000 Core / Aggregration Nexus 5000 10GE & FCoE Server Access Unified Fabric DC Virtual Access Nexus 2000 1GE Server Connectivity Nexus 1000v VM-Aware Policy Switching 10
Unifying the Data Center 12
Unified I/O (FCoE) Fewer CNAs (Converged Network adapters) instead of NICs, HBAs and HCAs Limited number of interfaces for Blade Servers FC HBA FC Traffic FC HBA NIC NIC FC Traffic LAN Traffic LAN Traffic CNA CNA All traffic goes over 10GE NIC Mgmt Traffic NIC Backup Traffic HCA IPC Traffic 13
Unified I/O Architecture Consolidation Today I/O Consolidation with FCoE LAN SAN A SAN B LAN SAN A SAN B Nexus 5000 Ethernet FC FCoE 14
Cisco Nexus 5000 Server Access Switch Delivering Unified Fabric Today 56-Port L2 Switch 40 fixed ports 10GE/FCoE/ Data Center Ethernet 16x1GE 2 Expansion Modules 28-Port L2 Switch 20 fixed ports 10GE/FCoE/ Data Center Ethernet 8x1GE 1 Expansion Module Ethernet 6 ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet/ FCoE/DataCenterEthernet Ethernet + FC 4 Ports 10 Gigabit Ethernet/ FCoE/DataCenterEthernet 4 ports 1/2/4G FC NX-OS Fibre Channel 8 ports 1/2/4G FC DC-NM and Fabric Manager 15
The Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender Simplifies Data Center architecture and operations: Significantly increases port density for N5000 solutions Cost-effective 1GE connectivity for legacy servers Integrated management domain with N5000 Nexus 2000 acts as a remote linecard on N5000 Cisco Nexus 2148T Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Virtualized Chassis 1GE FEX (1RU) 48x1GE + 4x10GE Ports Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX 17
Data Center Access Architecture vpc Redundancy Models Dual Chassis vpc provides two redundancy designs for the virtualized access switch Option 1 - MCEC connectivity from the server Two virtualized access switches bundled into a vpc pair Full redundancy for supervisor, line card, cable or NIC failure Logically a similar HA model to that currently provided by VSS Two Virtualized access switches Each with a Single Supervisor vpc peers MCEC from server to the access switch 19
Nexus 5000 Solves Cabling Problems Drives down Layer 1 costs Addresses Operational Challenges Cooling, Power and Space Problems Nexus 5000 Learning Curve Keep FC untouched Disk and Tape Web, Apps NAS/File Blades Appl n Routing Security Delivery LAN Servers SAN Storage 20
I/O in einer Virtuellen Welt? vmware Softswitch Nexus 5000 Disk and Tape NAS/File FCoE Appl n Routing Security Delivery LAN Servers SAN Storage 21
Nexus 1000V vmware Softswitch Nexus 1000V Nexus 1000V VMW ESX NIC NIC Nexus 5000 Disk and Tape NAS/File FCoE Appl n Routing Security Delivery LAN Servers SAN Storage 22
Cisco Nexus 1000V Cisco VN-Link: Virtual Network Link Policy-Based VM Connectivity Mobility of Network & Security Properties Non-Disruptive Operational Model VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Nexus 1000V VEM Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere vsphere vcenter Nexus 1000V VSM 24
Cisco Nexus 1000V Faster VM Deployment Cisco VN-Link: Virtual Network Link Policy-Based VM Connectivity Mobility of Network & Security Properties Non-Disruptive Operational Model VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Defined Policies WEB Apps HR DB DMZ Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere VM Connection Policy Defined in the network Applied in Virtual Center Linked to VM UUID vcenter Nexus 1000V VSM 25
Cisco Nexus 1000V Richer Network Services Cisco VN-Link: Virtual Network Link Policy-Based VM Connectivity Mobility of Network & Security Properties Non-Disruptive Operational Model VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VMs Need to Move VMotion DRS SW Upgrade/Patch Hardware Failure Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere VN-Link Property Mobility VMotion for the network Ensures VM security Maintains connection state vcenter Nexus 1000V VSM 26
Cisco Nexus 1000V Increased Operational Efficiency Cisco VN-Link: Virtual Network Link Policy-Based VM Connectivity Mobility of Network & Security Properties Non-Disruptive Operational Model VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VI Admin Benefits Maintains existing VM mgmt Reduces deployment time Improves scalability Reduces operational workload Enables VM-level visibility Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere Nexus 1000V VEM vsphere Network Admin Benefits Unifies network mgmt and ops Improves operational security Enhances VM network features Ensures policy persistence Enables VM-level visibility vcenter Nexus 1000V VSM 27
Features of the Nexus 1000V Switching Security Provisioning Visibility Management L2 Switching, 802.1Q Tagging, VLAN Segmentation, Rate Limiting (TX) IGMP Snooping, QoS Marking (COS & DSCP) Policy Mobility, Private VLANs w/ local PVLAN Enforcement Access Control Lists (L2 4 w/ Redirect), Port Security Automated vswitch Config, Port Profiles, Virtual Center Integration Optimized NIC Teaming with Virtual Port Channel Host Mode VMotion Tracking, ERSPAN, NetFlow v.9 w/ NDE, CDP v.2 VM-Level Interface Statistics Virtual Center VM Provisioning, Cisco Network Provisioning, CiscoWorks Cisco CLI, Radius, TACACs, Syslog, SNMP (v.1, 2, 3) 28
Cisco Data Center Product Portfolio Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Data Center Security Cisco UCS High Performance Blade Servers UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects UCS 2100 FEX FCoE adapters Nexus 7000 High Bandwidth Ethernet switch Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch Nexus 4000 FCoE Blade switch Nexus 2000 FEX Catalyst 6500 Series switches Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches MDS 9500 FC Directors MDS 9100/9200 Fabric Switches MDS 9124e Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance ACE GSS Global Site Selector WAAS Wide-Area Application Services FWSM Firewall Services Module IDSM-2 Intrusion Detection System Cisco IronPort Nexus 1000v virtual switch 29
What is the role of the MDS? FC SAN Encryption FICON Data Protection FC Unified I/O iscsi FC FCoE SAN Virtualization SAN Consolidation FCIP FICON UCS FC FCoE MDS 9000 Remote Datacenter MDS Provides Multi-Layer SANs for DC 3.0 Multi-protocol storage connectivity Integrated storage services 30
Cisco Solution : The MDS 9000 Multilayer Fabric Switches Multilayer Directors MDS 9134 MDS 9222i MDS 9124 MDS 9216 and 9216i MDS 9506 MDS 9509 MDS 9513 Supervisor-1 MDS 9506 & 9509 8-port IPS iscsi + FCIP 18/4 MSM 4Gb FC, iscsi, FCIP SME, DMM, SANTap 4-port 10Gb 4/44 port 8Gb FC Linecard Supervisor-2 MDS 9506, 9509, 9513 16/32 port 2Gb FC Linecards 14/2 MPS 2Gb FC, iscsi, FCIP 12/24/48 port 4Gb FC Linecards 24/48 port 8Gb FC Linecards SSM Module Intelligent Services Virtualization, SANTap 31
Delivering Performance and Flexibility at a Compelling Value Cisco MDS 9148 #1 #2 #3 Optimized for performance, power and space with 48 line-rate 8Gbps ports for green SAN deployments Highest line-rate 8Gbps port density per rack unit in the industry. Least power consumption in the industry for 48 ports or higher. Flexibility for growth and virtualization. Expandable from 16 to 48 8G ports Deployable in stand alone, top-of-the-rack or core-edge architectures. Enables Virtual Machine (VM) aware SANs Lowest price SAN switch with Enterprise-class capabilities. The most cost-effective switch in the industry Full-fabric features and functionality with no hidden licenses. #4 Easy to sell. Bundled with full-fabric features, while offering programs and promotions to increase partner profit margins. 32
Cisco Data Center Product Portfolio Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Networking Ethernet Networking Storage Networking Application Network Services Data Center Security Cisco UCS High Performance Blade Servers UCS 6100 Fabric Interconnects UCS 2100 FEX FCoE adapters Nexus 7000 High Bandwidth Ethernet switch Nexus 5000 FCoE Switch Nexus 4000 FCoE Blade switch Nexus 2000 FEX Catalyst 6500 Series switches Catalyst 4900M Top-of-Rack Catalyst Blade Server Switches MDS 9500 FC Directors MDS 9100/9200 Fabric Switches MDS 9124e Blade Switches ACE Application Delivery Module and Appliance ACE GSS Global Site Selector WAAS Wide-Area Application Services FWSM Firewall Services Module IDSM-2 Intrusion Detection System Cisco IronPort Nexus 1000v virtual switch 33
Cisco Inc., Company Confidential - NDA Required 34 34 Cisco Datacenter Technologie-Zeitachse Nexus 7000 DCE 2008 2009 Nexus 1000v VN-Link Unified Computing System Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Nexus 5000 Unified Fabric Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender
Was ist Unified Computing System? Disk and Tape Web, Apps UCS NAS/File Blades Appl n Routing Security Delivery LAN Servers SAN End-2-End Virtualization Storage 35
Cisco Unified Computing System Designed to dramatically reduce datacenter total cost of ownership while simultaneously increasing IT agility and responsiveness. Unified Fabric Fabric Extender Virtualized Adapter Scale Out Extended Memory Virtualization Optimization Fine-grained control, portability, and visibility of network, compute, and storage attributes More than double the memory capacity of competing systems Industry Standard Servers Intel Xeon processor 5500 series 150% generational performance increase Intelligent platform for performance and energy efficiency Unified Fabric Wire once, low latency FC and Ethernet Virtualization aware Less than half the normal amount of adapters, switches, cables Automated Provisioning Embedded single point of management and provisioning Visibility and control across datacenter organizations Infrastructure policy management and compliance 36
Physical Building Blocks Unified Computing System Manager Embedded in Fabric Switch Fabric Switch 20 Port 10Gb FCoE 40 Port 10Gb FCoE Fabric Extender Logically part of Fabric Switch Inserts into Blade Enclosure Enclosure Flexible bay configurations Logically part of Fabric Switch Server Blade Different blade types Mix blade types within enclosure Adapters Three adapter options Mix adapters within blade 37
Cisco s innovations reduce TCO Scale without complexity Significant infrastructure reduction through Cisco innovation: Unified Fabric Fabric Extender Virtual Interface Card Expanded Memory Unified Management Drives down cost relative to legacy infrastructures 39
Memory Unified Computing System Unified Fabric Fabric Extender Virtualized Adapter Database Scale Out VM VM CRM VM VM ExtendedMemory Analytics ERP CPU Data Warehouse 40
Wire for Bandwidth, Not Connectivity Uplinks 20Gb/s 40Gb/s 80Gb/s Wire Once Architecture All links can be active all the time Policy-driven bandwidth allocation Virtual interface granularity 41
Server Limitations - Memory 1 3 2 4 Servers need more memory Virtualization, large data, transactions Multi-core processors taxing available memory Scaling requires either More servers: more power, licensing, networking, points of management Large SMP servers: higher costs, more expensive licensing 43
Memory Expansion 1 3 3 2 4 4 Power Savings Cisco Memory Expansion Technology (for both B & C series) Next-gen Intel processor 4x the memory: up to 384GB 100% standard (good for distribution model) Industry standard DIMMs, CPUs OS, Apps Reduce infrastructure Less power & cooling Increase performance for memory bound applications Huge potential around license savings 44
Potential Savings - Memory Extension 70%-80% Lower mainstream memory costs Unmatched High End Capacity Industry Standard DDR3 384 GB Not available $60.720 192 GB $10.992 Not available 144 GB $8.240 $30.510 Cisco Competitors 96 GB $5.760 $20.310 48 GB $2.808 $2.760 NOTE: DDR3 10600 memory pricing as of 9/29/09 45
Cisco UCS M81KR VIC Overview Mezzanine Card for B-Series Converged Network Adapter designed for both single-os and VM-based deployments Virtualize in Hardware PCIe compliant 10GbE/FCoE High Performance 2x 10Gb >500K IOPS Eth FC FC Eth The OS/Hypervisor sees up to ~128 distinct PCIe devices Ethernet vnic and FC vhba Management from the network User Definable vnics 0 1 2 3 127 VN-Link in Hardware Ideal for Virtualization Environments Bypass vswitch to deliver VN-Link in hardware Tight integration with Vmware vcenter PCIe x16 46
Options for VMware Environments VN-link in Software VN-Link in Hardware VN-Link in Hardware with VM Direct Path 47
Service Profile Efficiencies Scale out ESX clusters faster Fail-over service profiles Scale out applications quickly Reduce errors from manual deployment Reduce the size of spare pools and share resources across applications With VICs - True wire once architecture Cisco IT went from 200 hours to 1 hour to deploy SAN MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 VLAN: 55 Boot Order, Firmware, etc Chassis 1, Blade 1 MAC : 08:00:69:02:02:FC 08:00:69:02:03:FC WWN: 5080020000075750 5080020000075760 VLAN: 55 Boot Order, Firmware, etc Chassis 5, Blade 34 LAN Chassis 10, Blade 32 Chassis 20, Blade 162 48
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UCS C-Series Rack Mount Servers Joseph Ezerski, CCIE #8588 Cisco Systems Session_ID Presentation_ID 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 51
Cisco Innovation Customer Choice Fabric Nexus 5000 Unified UCS B-Series Compute UCS C-Series Innovations Unified Fabric Fabric Extender VN-Link Innovations Unified Management Unified Fabric Extended Memory Fabric Extender Virtualized Adapter Hypervisor Bypass VN-Link Innovations Extended Memory Virtualized Adapter VNLink Hypervisor Bypass Unified Management Works in any data center environment 52
C-Series Value Proposition UCS C250 M1 UCS C210 M1 Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers extend unified computing innovations to an industry-standard form factor to help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. Extends Unified Computing innovations and benefits to rack-mount servers Offers the first rack-mount servers available anywhere with a built-in future migration path to unified computing Increases customer choice with unique benefits in a familiar rack-mount package UCS C200 M1 53
C-Series Product Details UCS C250 M1 UCS C210 M1 UCS C200 M1 Item CPU Size Memory Disks Adaptor UCS C250 M1 UCS C210 M1 UCS C200 M1 Intel Nehalem EP Intel Nehalem EP Intel Nehalem EP 2RU 2RU 1RU 48 DIMM 384 GB 12 DIMM 96 GB 12 DIMM 96GB 8 SFF SAS/SATA Drives 16 SFF SAS/SATA Drives 4 x 3.5 SAS/SATA Drives 5 PCIe 5 PCIe 2 PCIe 54
B-Series <> C-Series TCO Positioning Unified Fabric Embedded Unified Management Extended Memory Technology VN Link Virtualized Adapter Dynamic Provisioning - Service Profiles Simplify I/O Infrastructure and Management Reduce Support Infrastructure up to 50% Nics, HBA s, Chassis Interconnects, Cabling Single, Highly Available, Point of Management Reduce management tools, consoles, modules with full interoperability via XML API More Economical footprint for memory intensive workloads and higher consolidation ratios. Large Dataset workloads on two socket servers. I/O consolidation and increased cpu performance Network policy control and transparancy to the VM level. Faster provisioning - reduced HA & Burst spares Enables consistent infrastructure policies w/rbac B-Series Blade Servers Additional CAPEX and OPEX Savings from High Density Blade Form Factor C-Series Rack- Mount Servers Additional CAPEX and OPEX Savings from versatility and investment protection 55
Unified Data Centers - Today N7000 MDS Unified Access Layer FCOE N5000 FCOE N2000 N5000 FCOE NEXUS 1000v VM VM VM VM VM VM NEXUS 1000v VM VM VM VM VM VM blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 NEXUS 1000v VM VM VM VM blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 VM VM blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 blade1 slot 1 blade2 slot 2 blade3 slot 3 blade4 slot 4 blade5 slot 5 blade6 slot 6 blade7 slot 7 blade8 slot 8 1G & 10GE C-Series Rack Mount Servers 1G and 10GE Blade Servers Pass-Thru HP/IBM/Dell N4K - DCB Blade Switch IBM 10GE Blade (HP) UCS Compute Pod <160 Servers UCS Compute Pod <160 Servers 56
We re not going alone Session_ID Presentation_ID 2008 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 57
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