Ucs Nexus Overview

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UCS Technical Training Overview

Describe Data Center Trends

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Evolution of Server Scalability
Bladed and Rack servers
Multi-Socket / Multi-core
CPUs
X64 platforms (Intel / AMD)
Commoditized OS
Virtual Machine Density

Management complexity
Cloud Computing / Dynamic
Resourcing
Monolithic servers
Large numbers of CPUs
Proprietary platform
Proprietary OS
Many apps per server
High cost / Proprietary
Large failure domain
Scale Up
Commoditized servers
1 APP / 1 Physical Server
X86 platform
Commoditized OS
Servers under-utilized
Power & cooling
Scale Out
Scale In
The 90s Early 2000s Now
Evolution of Server Scalability: Changes
in server design
Console, power,
networking, and
storage
connectivity to
each blade
Console, power,
networking, and
storage connectivity
shared in chassis
Evolution of Server Scalability: CPU
Density
core core
core core
single
core
CPU
single socket for 1 CPU
single socket, 1 CPU, 4
processing cores
single socket for 1 CPU
Sockets Slot in machine board for processing chip
CPU Processing Chip
Core the actual processing unit inside CPU
Terminology
Server Impact
More cores in a CPU = More Processing
Critical for application that become processing bound
Core densities are increasing 2/4/6/8/12/16
CPUs are x64 based
Evolution of Server Scalability: Memory
Density
DIMM Slots
DIMM
DIMMs Dual Inline Memory Module - a series of dynamic random-
access memory integrated circuits. These modules are mounted on a
printed circuit board
Ranking memory modules with 2 or more sets of DRAM chips
connected to the same address and data buses. Each such set is
called a rank. 1 dual and quad ranks exist
Speed Measured in MHz most server memory is DDR3 and PC3-
10600 = 1333 MHz
As Server memory increases clock speed will sometimes drop in
order to be able to utilize such large memory amounts
Adapter Buses - PCIe
PCIe BUS
In virtually all server compute
platforms PCIe bus serves as the
primary motherboard-level
interconnect to hardware
Interconnect: A connection or link between 2 PCIe ports, can consist of 1
or more lanes

Lanes: A lane is composed of a transmit and receive pair of differential
lines. PCIe slots can have 1 to 32 lanes. Data transmits bi-directionally over
lane pairs. PCIe x16 where x16 represents the # lanes the card can use

Form Factor: A PCIe card fits into a slot of its physical size or larger
(maximum 16), but may not fit into a smaller PCIe slot (16 in a 8 slot)

Growing Use of Platform Virtualization
Platform Virtualization:
Physical servers host multiple Virtual Servers
Better physical server utilization (Using more of
existing resources)
Virtual Servers are managed like physical
Access to physical resources on server are
shared
Access to resources are controlled by
hypervisor on physical host

Key Technology for :
VDI / VXI
Server Consolidation
Cloud Services
DR
Challenges:
Pushing Complexity into virtualization
Who manages what when everything is virtual
Integrated and virtualization aware products
Server Management Challenge
Server Mgr
Network Mgr
Chassis Mgr
Server Mgr
Network Mgr
Chassis Mgr
Server Mgr
Network Mgr
Chassis Mgr
Server Orchestrators / Manager of Manager
Vendor A Vendor B Vendor C
Characteristics of Movement Toward Cloud
1960 1970 1980 1990
2000 2010
Mainframe
Mini Comp
Client Srv
Web
Virtualization
Cloud
Define the Nature of Typical Cloud Services
Platform as a Service:
Providing data center infrastructure via the
cloud
Cloud
Computing
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service
Providing infrastructure for cloud based services.
Software as a Service:
Providing software infrastructure via cloud

Management
3Tera
RightScale
Scala
Vertabra
Applications
SalesForce
Gmail
BaseCamp
Square Space
Platforms:
Python Google
App Engine
Facebook
Appistry
Force.com
Service Providers
Amazon Web Services
Joyent
Flexiscale
Cloud Layer Review
Compute
- UCS B Series
- UCS C Series
Network
- FCoE
- Nexus 7K, 5K,
4K, 3K, 2K,
Virtualization
- Nexus 1KV
- VM-FEX - UCS
- A-FEX - VIC
- Virt Appliance
- VSG
Orchestration / Management / Monitoring
- Tidal, New Scale, Altiris
- UCSM ECO Partner Integration (MS, IBM, EMC, HP)
- UCSM XML API
VDI CRM
Web
Store
Service Catalog
Orchestration
and
Management
Infrastructure
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Mgmt Server
Server Deployment Today
Over the past 20 years
An evolution of size, not thinking
More servers & switches than ever
Management applied, not integrated
Virtualization has amplified the problem

Result
More points of management
More difficult to maintain policy coherence
More difficult to secure
More difficult to scale
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Mgmt Server
Unified Computing Solution
Embed management
Unify fabrics
Optimize virtualization
Remove unnecessary
switches,
adapters,
management modules
Less than 1/3rd the
support infrastructure for
a given workload

Mgmt Server
Unified Computing System (UCS)
Single Point of Management
Unified Fabric
Blade Chassis / Rack Servers
UCS Manager
Embedded
Manages entire system

UCS Fabric Interconnect

UCS Fabric Extender
Remote line card
UCS Blade Server Chassis
Flexible bay configurations
UCS Rack / Blade Server
Industry-standard architecture
UCS Virtual Adapters
Choice of multipleadapters
Cisco UCS and Nexus Technology
CNAs with FCoE
Nexus 2000
Fabric Extender
Nexus 5000/ 5500
Unified Fabric
Nexus Products UCS Components
System Components - Logical
Fabric Interconnect

Chassis
Up to 8 half width blades or 4 full width blades

Fabric Extender
Host to uplink traffic engineering

Adapter
Adapter for single OS and hypervisor systems

Compute Blade
- Half Width or Full Width

Compute Chassis
x86 Computer x86 Computer
X
I I
x8 x8 x8 x8
B
MGMT
S S
B
X X X X X
C C
A
G G
G G
SAN
G
R
A
G
G G
G
R
G
P M P
SAN LAN
Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Extender
Fabric
Extender
Compute Blade
(Half slot)
Adapter
Compute Blade
(Full slot)
Adapter Adapter
System Topology
Mgmt
SAN A
LAN
SAN B
FC
Embedded Management (UCS Manager)
Single point of device management
Adapters, blades, chassis, LAN & SAN connectivity
Embedded manager
GUI &CLI

Standard APIs for systems management
XML, SMASH-CLP, WSMAN, IPMI, SNMP
SDK for commercial & custom implementations

Designed for multi-tenancy
RBAC, organizations, pools & policies UCS Manager
XML API
Custom Portal
Standard APIs CLI
GUI
Systems Management
Software
Hardware State Abstraction
Separate firmware, addresses, and parameter settings from server hardware
Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components
Easy to move OS & applications across server hardware
State abstracted from hardware
LAN Connectivity SAN Connectivity OS & Application
Chassis-1/Blade-2
Chassis-8/Blade-5
LAN SAN

UUID: 56 4dcd3f 59 5b
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
BMC Firmware MAC Address
NIC Firmware
NIC Settings
Drive Controller F/W
Drive Firmware
UUID
BIOS Firmware
BIOS Settings
Boot Order
WWN Address
HBA Firmware
HBA Settings
Service Profiles
Contain server state information

User-defined
Each profile can be individually created
Profiles can be generated from a template

Applied to physical blades at run time
Without profiles, blades are just anonymous hardware
components

Consistent and simplified server deployment pay-as-you-grow deployment
Configure once, purchase & deploy on an as-needed basis

Simplified server upgrades minimize risk
Simply disassociate server profile from existing chassis/blade and associate to new chassis/blade

Enhanced server availability purchase fewer servers for HA
Use same pool of standby servers for multiple server types simply apply appropriate profile during
failover
Run-time
association
Server Name
UUID
MAC
WWN
Boot info
LAN Config
SAN Config
Server Name
UUID
MAC
WWN
Boot info
LAN Config
SAN Config
Server Name
UUID, MAC,WWN
Boot info
firmware
LAN, SAN Config
Firmware

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