UCS Storage Options July 2015 Bertalan Dergez Consulting Systems Engineer
Agenda UCS Direct Attached Storage Options Cisco Converged Infrastructure Solutions Software Defined Storage / Hyperconvergence Cisco High Density Storage Server Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data UCS Invicta 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2
Direct Attached Storage Options 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3
UCS M4 Blade Servers An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor Flexible Storage Options SAS HDD Options SAS/SATA SSD Options FlexFlash SD Card for Booting UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized Enterprise Class, Blade Server PCIe attached Flash Drives All Managed by UCSM Two Intel Xeon E5 family processors 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Cisco FlexStorage Controller / Cache / Media Options Up to 80GbE of I/O One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot Modular LOM (mlom) 3rd Generation VIC 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4
Cisco UCS M4 Rack Servers A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 2RU form-factor Multiple RAID Controllers, with Write Cache Options SFF, LFF Server Version SAS HDD Options SAS/SATA SSD Options FlexFlash SD Card for Booting PCIe attached Flash Drives All Managed by UCSM UCS C240 M4 Storage and IO-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server Two Intel Xeon E5 family processors 24 DDR4 DIMM Slots Up to 2133 MHz speeds Security Bezel Optional Six PCIe 3.0 Slots Four Full / Full - Four NCSI Modular LOM (mlom) VIC or CNA Options Cisco FlexStorage Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF +2 SFF boot drives 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5
Cisco Converged Infrastructure Solutions 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6
Cisco UCS: Foundation for for Integrated Infrastructure Cisco is #1 and a Partner in ~50% of All Integrated Infrastructure Solutions Dell Others 6,6% 2,2% Lenovo 5,5% Integrated Infrastructure Market Share (Q4 2014 vendor revenue) With Cisco UCS HP 16,0% 28.6% 21.8% Cisco/Net App VCE Hitachi 2,4% EMC 16,9% Cisco UCS 50.4% Cisco is exclusive in the top 2 solutions Vblock and FlexPod Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Tracker Q4 2014 Vendor Revenue
Cisco Converged Infrastructure Vision Cisco captured the vision of Converged Infrastructure 5 years ago Cisco based Converged Infrastructure solutions lead the industry Bring the same simplicity model to all Converged Infrastructure solutions Not dependent on a specific storage type (Physical, SdS, HCI, or All Flash) 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8
Cisco Converged Infrastructure Pretested and preconfigured bundled solutions, acting as whole, consisting of compute, network, storage and management software. Provide platform to meet customer challenges and growing infrastructure demands Consistent, financially efficient, operationally simplified, independently scalable solution Rapidly deployable, allows granular upgrades Customer Challenges & Infrastructure Demands Proliferation of applications; Need for any application on any device Roll out new and/or business critical database applications quickly & consistently Single system operation Reduced Infrastructural and management complexity Add capacity and storage when needed Accelerated implementation Streamlined support FLEXPOD VBLOCK VSPEX VersaStack UCP- Select SmartStack Cisco UCS 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. UCS Director Cisco Nexus Cisco Confidential 9
Cisco Converged Infrastructure SmartStack UCS Director API UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration FLEXPOD API UCS Manager Domain VSPEX VersaStack UCP- Select Open Eco-System with industry leading partners Example of compelling partners (EMC, Netapp, IBM, Hitachi, Nimble) Cisco Validated to minimize business risk Delivered with all of the programmatic and operational benefits of Cisco UCS Unified Management UCS Director integration Unified Fabric Cisco Converged Infrastructure
Converged Infrastructure Support Coordinated Model Cisco Solution Support Services (SSPT) Customer or Channel Partner Any issue may go to SSPT SSPT Contract Cisco Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure Coordinate Coordinate Product-level Support Product-level Support Cisco Solution Technology Partners 1 Access a team of Cisco DC Infrastructure experts who are ready to lead in resolution of any issues found within the supported infrastructure 2 Providing Solution expertise and Coordinating support actions required by any product support team 3 The Solution Support team will work with you to get your issue resolved, regardless of where that issue leads or who needs to be involved in resolution 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11
Software Defined Storage/Hyperconvergence 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12
Billions Market Trends Cisco Converged Infrastructure Hyper- Converged Hyper-Convergence is evolving, growing & disruptive to traditional storage 18 1,8 16 1,6 14 1,4 12 1,2 10 1 Increasing overlap Minimize Risk (Pre-Validated Designs) Any workload (Mission Critical Apps) Flexibility (Virtualized and Bare Metal) Independent Scale out (building blocks) Fast Deployment (Hours not Days) Management and Operation Simplicity (Intuitive UI) Simple Elasticity (automatic scale) Cost efficiency (predictable step growth) 8 6 4 2 0 0,8 0,6 0,4 0,2 0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Integrated Systems Hyper-converged
What is Software Defined Storage (SdS) The programming that controls the storage is decoupled from the physical hardware Hosts Consists of the Storage Tier Only Emphasizes storage services such as deduplication or replication, instead of storage hardware A shared pool that runs on commodity hardware Often referred to as Storage Virtualization and is part of a bigger industry trend of Software Defined Datacenter Software Defined Storage Local Physical Storage Storage Software can run on bare metal or as a VM on a hypervisor host
What is Hyper-convergence? New Converged Infrastructure offering utilizing Software Defined Storage Tight integration of x86 servers for compute and storage, networking and virtualization in all-in-one appliance. Packaging Integration of hypervisors and physical infrastructure Simple Scale one unit/appliance at a time Simple deployment measured in hours Storage presentation via a distributed filesystem or object store Controller VM Controller VM Controller VM VM VM VM Hypervisor Local Physical Storage VM VM VM Hypervisor Local Physical Storage VM VM VM Hypervisor Local Physical Storage
UCS Hyper-Convergence Ecosystem Small Branch Site Small Remote/Branch Cisco UCS Office C-Series Large Remote Office SW Defined Storage Enterprise DC Storage UCS Mini+ C-Series Cisco UCS C-Series UCS Blades + C-Series Other storage SW options:
Small Remote Office/Branch Office Customer Requirements Cisco UCS C-Series Simple deployment, setup, and management No requirements for advanced storage services Site to Site replication Advanced clone and snapshot Compression, Dedupe not required Low cost entry for hardware and software Minimum number of nodes per site Often only want 2 or 3 servers per location Most solutions require min of 3 nodes Recommended solution order StorMagic, VSAN, DataCore
Large Remote Office/Branch Office Customer Requirements Cisco UCS Mini + C-Series Compute and low cost storage needs Traditional SAN viewed as too expensive/complex Simple setup and management Adequate performance for larger workloads Advanced storage services a bonus Ability to scale compute and storage Recommendation Solution Order Simplivity, StorMagic, VSAN, Maxta, Springpath
Enterprise Datacenter Storage Alternative Customer Requirements Lower Centralized storage costs than traditional storage Cisco UCS Blades + C-Series Maximum Performance for Enterprise Workloads Requires advanced storage services Site to Site replication Advanced clone and snapshot Compression, Dedupe Simple and predictable linear scaling Scale one node at a time Simple Centralized Management Mix of compute and storage nodes
Datacenter Software Defined Storage Customer Requirements Lower Centralized storage costs than traditional storage Technically acceptable performance needs for VDI/TestDev/Private Cloud Desire for advanced storage services Site to Site replication Advanced clone and snapshot Compression, Dedupe Simple and predictable linear scaling Scale one node at a time Simple Centralized Management Cisco UCS C-Series
UCS Software Defined Storage Strategy UCS Director API UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration UCS B-Series API UCS Manager Domain UCS C-Series Unified Computing System Open Eco-System with industry leading partners Example of compelling partners (SimpliVity, StorMagic, VSAN, Maxta, Springpath) Cisco Validated to minimize business risk Delivered with all of the programmatic and operational benefits of Cisco UCS Unified Management UCS Director integration Unified Fabric UCS and Hyper-Converged Software
Cisco High Density Storage Server 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23
UCS C3000 Rack Server Family Shared Local Resources Designed for large unstructured data repositories, media streaming and content distribution Compute Resources Full-Featured Two-Socket Xeon Server Stand-alone CIMC Management Storage Resources UCS C3160 Dense Rack Server Massive Local Storage Up to 240TB (with 4TB HDD) @ and 360TB (with 6TB HDD) of dense storage in a compact 4U Form Factor that fits in a standard rack
Capacity Optimized Server UCS C3000 Series Rack Server Family C3160 Rack Storage Server Bare Metal and Virtualization High-density local disk combined with modular high-performance compute Dual processor server with up to 360TB in a compact 4U Form Factor Large scale content storage and data repositories Distributed file-systems Big Data and Hadoop applications Media streaming and transcoding BIG DATA Single/Dual Server Dual CPU Socket per server Up to 1TB Memory 512GB per Server Dual Modular LOM (mlom) Multiple Connectivity Options 4GB RAID Cache Enterprise Storage Features Up to 64 Drive Bays 60 LFF, plus 4 SFF Security Bezel Optional *Dual Server Model Available 2HCY15
Use Cases for the UCS C3000 Server Family Cisco UCS C3160 Service Providers, Enterprise, Cloud Service Providers Enterprise Service Providers, Enterprise Object Store Media Streaming and Content Distribution Exchange Big Data and Analytics
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 27
Hadoop Distributions Distributions and Tools Value Add Package Distribution Like Linux, different companies take a base of open code, add differentiated value to make a profit from selling the public software
Cisco Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data Pre-tested and pre-validated configuration UCS Manager Fabric-based infrastructure integrates computing, networking, and storage resources Programmability accelerates infrastructure deployment, automates management Designed for high performance and availability to accelerate delivery of insights, with a lower TCO UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects LAN Management Optional Nexus 2232 Fabric Extenders LAN/Server Management UCS 240 M4 Servers
Easily Scale Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data SINGLE RACK 16 Servers SINGLE DOMAIN Up to 10 Racks, 160 Servers MULTIPLE DOMAINS UCS Manager UCS Central / UCS Director Express for Big Data
Solutions UCSD Express For Big Data On-Demand Hadoop Deployment Zero Touch Deployment of Hadoop Clusters On Demand Cluster Sizing Accelerating time to value for Hadoop Deployment Single Management Pane for Hadoop Clusters Extends UCS Management value to Hadoop Infrastructure Dashboard for status and health monitoring Centralized End-to-End Visibility
Cisco UCS Invicta 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 32
A Lack of Performance Forces Trade-Offs With HDDs You re Always Trading Performance for Protection or Vice Versa DATA PERSISTENCE RAID RPMs COST HIGHEST PROTECTION Cache FASTEST PERFORMANCE
Trade-offs Are Complex and Inefficient 3 TYPES OF DRIVES, 3 TYPES OF RAID 41 15K HDDs 1,000 Persistent Desktops will require: < 10TB of capacity ~80K backend IOPS TOTAL IOPS: 114,950 TOTAL CAPACITY: 63.2 TB 25 7.2K HDDs 3 Flash Drives Reference Architecture for 1,000 Desktops 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 34
Maximizing Data Center efficiency Dollars per IOPS IOPS per Watt $2,00 $1,80 $1,60 $1,40 $1,20 $1,00 $0,80 $0,60 $0,40 $0,20 $0,00 2.5" SAS 10K 2.5" SAS 15k 2.5" Enterprise SSD PCIe Flash 18000 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 2.5" SAS 10K 2.5" SAS 15k 2.5" Enterprise SSD PCIe Flash 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 35
The Use Case for Flash Memory Is Faster Applications Application Performance FAST 24 Hybrid HDDs 12,750 IOPS, Milliseconds HYPER-FAST 24 SSDs 290,000 IOPS, Fractions-of-Milliseconds SLOW 24 HDDs 4,500 IOP, Milliseconds
UCS Invicta Appliance Primary Advantages and Use Cases VDI Non Persistent 2MB 5TB OLAP Batch Reporting UCS Invicta Appliance Up to 290,000 IOPS* 1,160 MB/s Bandwidth Up to 24 TB RAW FC & iscsi *100% 4k Random Reads Data Optimization Multiple Workloads Tuning-Free Performance
Cisco UCS UCS Invicta Appliance Faster Applications = Faster Business Operations Analytics and Intelligence Virtual Desktops Batch Processing Image and Media Applications Database Loads OLTP
UCS Invicta Appliance Operating Modes and Performance UCS UCSD INVICTA OS OPERATING MODES HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA REDUCTION DATABASES VDI REDUCE QUERY TIME REDUCE BATCH TIME IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE
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UCS Integrated Infrastructure Strategy Bringing the same simplicity model to ANY storage type Centralized-Simple Management Interface UCS Director API UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and Orchestration One Button Infrastructure Deployment Simple Scale UCSM/Central API UCS Manager Domain Big Data Analytics Cisco Converged Infrastructure 2013-2014 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Software Defined Storage (SdS) Hyper-converged Infrastructure Cisco Storage Products: UCS Invicta / Colusa Application specific Infrastructure Cisco Confidential 41
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