This presentation will offer an Overview of the UCS System Architecture, including all of the technical innovations that serve as the foundation. Among the topics covered will be overviews on Unified Fabric, Service Profiles, Hardware Abstraction, Fabric Extension, Memory Expansion and the UCS Manager. Further insight will be offered into the XML -based API and the basic set of managed objects, including Pools, Policies and Templates.

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Toronto, Canada
May 30, 2013
UCS System
Architecture
Roger Andersson
Director Technical Marketing, SAVTG

2. Agenda
• Cisco UCS
Architecture
Design Aspects
• Cisco UCS Manager
Architecture
Policies, Pools, Templates, Identifiers
Service Profile
• Cisco UCS Central
High level Overview
• Live Demo
UCS Manager and UCS Central

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Cisco UCS

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Too Many Points of Management…
Mgmt Server
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Over the past 20 years
• An evolution of size, not thinking
• More servers and switches than ever
Traditional architectures have multiple points
of management:
• Each blade
• Each chassis
• Each LAN switch in chassis
• Each SAN switch in chassis
• LAN and SAN switches at TOR/EOR
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M = Point of Management

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Mgmt Server
Common Server Deployment Architecture
An accidental architecture
• Still a 1980’s PC model
Result: Complexity
• More points of management
• More difficult to maintain policy coherence
• More difficult to secure
• More difficult to scale

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Mgmt Server
UCS Solution
Mgmt Server• 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

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Mgmt Serve
Our Solution: Cisco UCS
• A single system that encompasses:
Network: Unified fabric
Compute: Industry standard x86
Virtualization optimized
• Unified management model
Dynamic resource provisioning
• Efficient Scale
Cisco network scale & services
Fewer servers with more memory
• Lower cost
Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables
Lower power consumption
Fewer points of management

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SAN B
Our Solution: Cisco UCS
• Single, scalable integrated system
• Network + compute virtualization
• Stateless Dynamic resource provisioning
Mgmt SAN ALAN

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UCS Manager

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§ Reduced management costs
§ Easier to integrate with existing frameworks
– Single consistent API for all managed objects
UCS, Consolidated Management
Cisco Solution
Mgmt ServerMgmt Server
Today
Blade Manager
Chassis Manager
Connectivity Manager
Multi-Chassis
Connectivity Manager
Single Embedded Device Manager

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Both GUI and CLI are built on a comprehensive XML API
XML API - Access to 100% of UCM Components
UCS

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UCS Manager…
Common Information Model Map
(CIM-MAP)
Management Information Tree
(MIT)
Transaction Control
CIM-Object Manager
(CIMOM)
SMASH
Command Line Protocol
(CLP)
Common Information Model XML
(CIM-XML)
UCS
Command Line Interface
(UCSCLI)
UCS Object API
Data Management Engine
(DME)
Customer specific
systems management
tool
CMDB
Power Tool
Existing
CIM XML
tools
Embedded Manager
Read/Write Interface Read-Only Interface Internal Component
Native
XML API
Custom Scripts

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MAC Address Pool
Server Pool
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08:00:69:02:01:FC
08:00:69:02:01:FC
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WWN Address Pool
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08:00:69:02:01:FC
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UUID Pool
UCS System Pool Types
Server
Resources
Identities
Resources
Server Pool
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MAC Address Pool
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08:00:69:02:01:FC
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5080020000075740
WWN Address Pool
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UUID Pool
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Manual Pool Assignment
Server Pool: Application_A
Server Pool:
ESX VMs
Server Pool: Application_B

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Automatic Pool Assignment
Server Pool: Application_A
Server Pool:
ESX VMs
Pool Policy: App_Pool_A
Qualification: APP
Pool: Application_A
Pool Policy: ESX_Pool
Qualification: ESX
Pool: ESX_VMs
Server Pool: Application_B
Pool Policy: App_Pool_B
Qualification: APP
Pool: Application_B
Qualification Policy: ESX
Min 32 GB RAM
2 CPU’s
Qualification Policy: APP
Min 8 GB RAM
Max 16 GB RAM

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§ Separate firmware, identifiers, and settings from server hardware
§ Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components
§ Easy to move OS and applications across server hardware
State abstracted from hardware
LAN Connectivity SAN ConnectivityOS & Application
Chassis-1/Blade-2
LAN SAN
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
BMC FirmwareMAC Address
NIC Firmware
NIC Settings
Drive Controller F/W
Drive Firmware
UUID
BIOS Firmware
BIOS Settings
Boot Order
WWN Address
HBA Firmware
HBA Settings
Hardware “State” Abstraction, SP

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Server Profile and Templates
Server Profile
Template
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot Parameters
WWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
Server Name UUID Boot Order
Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address
SAN Attributes LAN Attributes

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• Server identity no longer has to be tied to physical server
hardware
– Profiles provide identity
– Seamless server mobility
– Stateless components
• Boot over network (LAN or SAN)
– Boot order and boot devices are part of the pre-
defined logical server profile
– On-board disks can be used for temp, swap, etc.
• LAN and SAN connectivity
– # of NICs
– # of HBAs
Server Name: LS-A
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Chassis-1/Blade-1
Chassis-9/Blade-5
Server Name: LS-A
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61…
UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61…
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FD
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FE
MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FF
WWN: 5080020000075740
WWN: 5080020000075740
Boot Order: SAN, LAN
§ No changes to infrastructure changes needed when
moving a service profile
UCS, Stateless Computing, Benefits
SAN LAN

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Cisco UCS Central

20. Compute Capacity: Units of Scale
Server
Chassis
Domain
Single
Datacenter
Global
Datacenters
UCS Manager

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This is an upcoming product—Feature set for first release subject to change
Unified Management
at Scale
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 1
UCS Manager UCS Manager
Data Center 2
UCS Manager
Data Center 3
UCS Central
• Unifies management of multi UCS domains
• Leverages UCS Manager technology
• Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs
and server consoles
• Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID
pools and templates
• Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and workload
mobility
• Model based XML API for large scale automation
UCS Central

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UCS Central Summary, Version 1.0
§ Inventory
§ Audit, Fault, Event Log Aggregation
§ Global ID Pools
§ Firmware Updates
§ Backups
§ Global Administrative Policies
§ UCS Manager & KVM Launch
§ Domain Groups
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UCS Central Summary, Version 1.1
§ Deep Inventory
§ HA, UCS Central
§ Statistics Aggregation
§ Global VLAN’s (with Aliases)
§ Global Policies
§ Global Templates
§ Global Server Pools
§ Global Service Profiles
§ Licensing
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