Cisco Unified
Computing System
Architected for Workload Diversity and Fast IT
Todd Brannon, Director of Product Marketing, Unified Computing
[email protected]
@tobranno
Agenda
• Applications & Architecture Diversity
• Systems Management For FAST IT
• Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Composable Infrastructure and Other Cool Stuff
• UCS Go-Forward Strategy
IT Transformation: The Tale of Two ITs
SPEED
EFFICIENCY
Demands on the Compute Environment
OPERATIONAL VELOCITY WORKLOAD DIVERSITY
Need to Deploy / Re-Deploy
Assets Rapidly Virtualization and Cloud
Zero-touch Environments
Are Essential Scale-Out and Bare Metal
Consistent Policy and In-Memory Analytics
Security
Management Must Span Local and
Remote Data Center and Cloud Fog and IoT
Computing Options are Proliferating
HYPER- CONVERGED BLADE RACK MULTI-NODE AND DISAGGREGATED
CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE SERVERS SERVERS CLOUD SCALE COMPUTE
White Box
Silicon
Photonics
White Box
System Link
CAUTION: SILOS AHEAD Mode 2
Innovation Waves are Coming Faster
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
CLIENT DISTRIBUTED
MAINFRAME MINICOMPUTER SERVER COMPUTING WEB
SOFTWARE DEFINED X
COMPOSABLE
INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVER CONVERGED STORAGE
HYPERCONVERGED
VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE VIRTUALIZATION
Applications Drive Architecture Diversity
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
Mainstream Business Virtualized Applications Big Data DevOps
Lighter, Virtual Only
Applications Cloud
Desktop Virtualization Industrial
VDI
OLTP, ERP, Grid EDA
APPS Database, Collaboration Production Cloud Branch/Remote
Test/Dev
Infrastructure
Pre-Engineered with Appliance Model Bare Metal
A La Carte Design App Sizing
Fixed Resource ratios
Servers, Networking, SAN Platform Level Automation Disk-optimized Rack
Attributes Storage Virtualization
Flexible Resource Ratios Mount Servers
Silos Stifle Speed and Efficiency
A B D C
Utilization Policy Utilization Policy Utilization Policy Utilization Policy
Flexibility Flexibility Flexibility
Resource Resource Resource
Security Automation Sharing Security Automation Sharing Security Automation Sharing Security Automation
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
Supporting Diversity with One Operating Model
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
ONE SYSTEM, ONE OPERATING MODEL
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
Cisco UCS: One System for All Workloads
UCS M-Series
Fourth Generation UCS Modular Servers
C-Series
Rack Servers UCS C3160
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
ONE SYSTEM, ONE OPERATING MODEL
Cisco UCS: One System for All Workloads
UCS M-Series
Fourth Generation UCS Modular Servers
C-Series
Rack Servers UCS C3160
FREESTANDING INTEGRATED
HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT
INFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
ONE SYSTEM, ONE OPERATING MODEL
Fog-Edge Core Data Center Cloud
Infrastructure Management
Complexity Challenge
Element Automation Cloud
Management
UCS Management
Cisco
VACS
Innovation
Prime Service
Catalog
UCS Performance
IMC Supervisor Manager
UCS Central UCS Director
Cisco ONE Cisco ONE
Policy-Driven
Policy-Driven Foundation Enterprise
Infrastructure
Infrastructure for Compute Cloud Suite
Cisco
CiscoUCS
UCS Open
Open
API API Industry Cloud
Standard Platforms
Tools
Open
Standards
UCS is Computing for Fast IT
VACS
Prime Service
Catalog
UCS Performance
IMC Supervisor Manager
FLEXIBLE
UCS Central UCS Director Open source or COTS, Choice of
Hypervisors, Cloud Platforms, Storage
Cisco ONE Cisco ONE
Policy-Driven Foundation Enterprise
Infrastructure for Compute Cloud Suite
FAST
Replaces manual configuration with
Cisco UCS Open API Industry Cloud
Standard Platforms policy driven infrastructure
Tools
FRIENDLY
Open API and deep integrations with
industry standard tools
Hyperconvergence
Video
What is Hyperconvergence?
Customer Technology
Needs Options
Software Defined Storage Solutions Integrated Infrastructure Solutions
Virtual SAN
Simplicity
Single Touch
Provisioning
Speed
Simplicity, Speed, Scale
+
Scale Choice of Storage
Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure Strategy
Bringing the same simplicity model to ANY storage type
UCS Director API UCSM/Central API
UCS Director
Simplicity UCS Manager Domain
Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management & Orchestration
+
Speed
+ Single Touch
Centralized-Simple
Infrastructure
Scale Management Interface
Deployment
Analytics
No SQL MPP Databases
Hadoop
NoSQL Database
Virtual SAN
Big Data Analytics
Ceph/Gluster
OpenStack
Cisco Integrated Software Defined Storage (SdS) Application specific
Infrastructure Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Infrastructure
Composable
Infrastructure and Other
Cool Stuff
Powering Applications from Edge to Cloud
Fourth Generation Blade Second Generation
and Rack Servers Fabric UCS M-Series Modular
UCS Mini Servers
Edge-Scale Cloud-Scale
Computing Core Data Center Computing
Workloads
Simplicity | Speed | Scale
Composable Infrastructure: Here Today
Power 2 x 40 Gb
Cisco System Link & Cooling Uplinks 4 x SSD Drives w/ Controller
Technology
Shared Local Disk + I/O
+ Midplane
16 Processors w/ RAM
16 Independent Servers 2U Rack Mount Chassis
Bringing Unified Computing to Scale-Out Applications
Shared Local Resources
Based on Cisco System Link Technology
UCS M Series
Modular Design and Lean Componentry
UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO
77% Faster
Provisioning 8x Server
Density 95% Fewer
Peripherals 38% TCO
Improvement 22% Power
Efficiency
UCS M-Series Modular Servers
UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO
77% Faster
Provisioning 8x Server
Density 95% Fewer
Peripherals 38% TCO
Improvement 22% Power
Efficiency
UCS M-Series
Targeted Workloads/Use Cases
Web Farms Online Content Delivery Enterprise Grid Dedicated Hosting
• Serving static and • Frontend applications • Highly parallelized • Bare Metal As A Service
dynamic HTML content like Matchmaking and applications that do not • Virtual Desktops
for millions of users Leaderboards in Online need the highest clock
Gaming speed SKU
• Processing internet
transactions like price • Transcoding – • Eg: Genomic research,
comparisons, stock Conversion of media Monte Carlo Simulation,
trades, shopping cart, bill formats to facilitate web Other Data Analytics
pay, etc streaming
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
Massive Local Storage
UCS C3160 Up to 240TB (with 4TB HDD) @ and 360TB (with 6TB HDD)
Dense Rack Server of dense storage in a compact 4U Form Factor
that fits in a standard rack
Capacity-Optimized Server
Targeted Workloads/Use Cases
Media Streaming and Enterprise Application
Object Store Big Data
Content Distribution Storage
• Large, unstructured object • Repository for streaming • Exchange - Mailbox • Hadoop
storage repositories content for applications Server Only Role Or
• Analytics data store
such as Cloud DVR Combined CAS and
• Openstack and Ceph
Mailbox Multi-Role
deployments • Repository for media
Deployment
content pre and post
encoding/transcoding • Database Availability
Group Continuous
Replication for Datacenter
HA and Site Resiliency
UCS Mini for Edge-Scale Computing
Small Scale IT Full Power of UCS at 1-15
Server Scale
Branch Office
No Data Center Required
Service Provider
Centralized Management
Private or for Multi-Site Operations
Hybrid Cloud
UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO
29% CapEx
Savings 36% TCO 34% Lower
Power 80% Fewer
Cables
Solution Development on UCS Mini
UCS Going Forward
Cisco UCS
Best Computing Environment for Digital Transformation
Compute
IT Acceleration with Policy Driven Infrastructure
Open, Programmable Platform for Cloud UCS
Industry-best Computing TCO
Network & Virtualization &
Storage Access Automation
Rise of Policy Driven Infrastructure
Cisco Now Leads Server Market Growth with UCS
Market
$13.6B $11.3B $9.2B $3.2B $2.3B $1.7B $52.8B
32%
8% 6%
4%
2%
0%
$50.6B
-9%
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2015 Q1, May 2015, Vendor Revenue Share for top
vendors. Y/Y growth based on cumulative 4 quarters revenue (Q2CY14 – Q1CY14).
Cisco UCS Strategy
Policy
Application Centric
• Address new customer use cases with Automation and
Governance Open
expanded portfolio
Open Source
Standards
• Deliver solutions and validated designs Powerful Ecosystem
of Industry Leaders
that reduce complexity and time to
deploy
• Expand the depth of Integrated Solutions Intercloud
Secure and efficient
and Management Ecosystem transport of
workloads between
public and private
• Extend the Differentiation and Value clouds
What’s Next
Cisco System Link Technology Enables Next-Gen UCS Architectures
Cisco UCS Cisco System Link Technology
Compute
UCS
Network Virtualization
& Storage and
Access Automation
Disrupting ourselves and the
Disrupted the industry with platform- industry with the first Composable
level control plane Infrastructure
Fabric-Based Computing = Innovation Options
UCS Fabric
Interconnect
Single, Persistent Point of & DATA
Management and UCS Manager CENTER
Connectivity
B-Series Blade M-Series Modular Future Future Future
C-Series Rack Servers Server Form Server Form Storage Form
Servers
Servers Factor X Factor Y Factor Z
Best Data Center and Cloud Portfolio in Industry
Cloud Offers
Policy-Driven Cisco
SaaS
Infrastructure Marketplace Intercloud
Data Center Private and Providers
Automation Hybrid Cloud Big Data
Software Software Enterprise INTERCLOUD Analytics
Cloud
Intercloud
Cisco ACI PaaS IaaS Services
Cisco ONE Cisco ONE Cisco Public
Cisco Cisco Foundation Enterprise OpenStack
Clouds
Cisco Connected
UCS Nexus for Compute Cloud Suite Private Cloud Analytics
Data Center Cloud Edge / IoT
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