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June 1, 2016
Cisco UCS Mini Solutions
Cisco UCS Mini Integrated Infrastructure
SmartStack with VMware vSphere 6.0
• Cisco UCS Mini
• Nimble Storage CS300 Array
• VMware vSphere 6.0
• Optional Nexus 9372 PX
• Optional C-Series rack serves
• Flexible configuration options
• Adaptive Flash platform
• In-line compression
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Design CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-SmartStack-CVD
Deployment CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-SmartStack-Deploy
SmartStack for VDI – VMware Horizon 6 View
• Cisco UCS Mini
• Nimble Storage CS300 Array
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & SQL Server 2012
• VMware Horizon 6 with View Composer
• VMware Horizon 6 with View Connection server and
administration console
• Self-contained virtualization solution to host 350
desktops.
• VMware Horizon 6 with View.
• Showcases non-persistent linked clone-based
virtual desktops and VMware Horizon RDSH
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Cisco Nexus Switches
Cisco 6324 FI
Cisco 5108Blade Chassis
4x B200 Servers
Nimble StorageCS300 Array
10 GE
AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-AAG
Configuration Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-VD2
SmartStack for VDI – Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
Pooled Hosted Virtual
Desktops
Windows 7 with Office 2010
Hosted Shared Desktops
Windows Server 2012 with
Office 2010
• Cisco UCS Mini
• Nimble Storage CS300 Array
• VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 and vCenter 5.5
• Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers
(optional)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6
• Self-contained desktop virtualization solution for
500 desktops
• Based on Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Uses non-persistent virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI) desktops and remote desktop service
(RDS) server desktops
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-AAG
Configuration Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-VD1
FlexPod Design Guide Overview
Overview of the UCS Mini FlexPod CVDs
Design Guide: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Design-Guide
FlexPod Data Center with Cisco UCS Mini Direct
Attached SAN Storage Design
FlexPod Data Center with Cisco UCS Mini IP-
Base Storage Design
FlexPod Express with Fibre Channel
• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12
servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.
• FAS 2552 supports maximum of
144 drives.
• VMware 5.5 U 1 hypervisor
• Direct FC connection between compute
and storage – reduced cost & latency.
• VM redundancy through Ethernet
switches (vMotion).
• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for
remote management.
UCS-Mini
FAS 2552
Standard Switch
Workload VMs
VMware ESX Cluster
Web
ESX -Node1
to Node8
VM
Management &
Infrastructure VMs
db
App
VM
VM
vCenter SQL db
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Express
FlexPod Data Center with Fibre ChannelNexus 9300
UCS-Mini
FAS 2552
UCS C-Series
UCS Ethernet Only UCS FC Direct Attached
• Up to either 14 (Ethernet only) or 12
servers (FC & Ethernet) when fully scaled.
• FAS 2552 supports maximum of 144
drives.
• VMware 5.5 U1 hypervisor
• Direct FC connection between compute
and storage – reduced cost & latency.
• VM redundancy through Ethernet
switches (vMotion).
• UCS Central and/or UCS Director for
remote management.
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-VMware
FlexPod Express with iSCSI
• UCS Mini
• NetApp FAS 255x
• Nexus 3524
• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor
• iSCSI booted hosts
• Ethernet storage only
• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual
PortChannels (vPCs)
• Support for up to 14 servers
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Express-iSCSI
FlexPod Data Center with iSCSI
• UCS Mini
• NetApp FAS 255x
• Nexus 9372PX
• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor
• iSCSI booted hosts
• Ethernet storage only
• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual
PortChannels (vPCs)
• Support for up to 14 servers
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-iSCSI
FlexPod Data Center with iSCSI
• UCS Mini
• NetApp FAS 255x
• Nexus 9372PX
• VMware 6 hypervisor
• iSCSI booted hosts
• Ethernet storage only
• Highly available design with Cisco Virtual
PortChannels (vPCs)
• Support for up to 12 servers
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-DC-IP-VM6
FlexPod Express – XenDesktop & vSphere
• UCS Manager 3.0(2c)
• UCS B200 M4
• NetApp FAS2552
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• Nexus 9372 (standalone)
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6
• VMware vSphere 5.5 U2
• Up to 700 mixed use-case users
• N+1 server fault tolerance
• 10 RU solution
• 100% virtualized solution
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-Flex-Exp-Xen-vSphere
VersaStack with IP Storage
• UCS Mini
• IBM Storwize V5000
• Nexus 9372 or 9396
• VMware 5.5 U2 hypervisor
• iSCSI SAN
• Support for C-Series rack servers
• IBM Thin-provisioning & Easy Tier
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-VersaStack
Nexus Switches
UCS Mini with
6324 FIs
Optional C-Series
Rack Servers
IBM Storwize V5000
VSPEX VMware Branch Office - 100 VMs
• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory
• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s
• Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload
• VMware 5.5 u 1 hypervisor
• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management
• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini • Central management with UCS Central• File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on
EMC VNXe 3200 storage
Remote /Branch Office
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
Workload VMs
Management &
Infrastructure VMs
db
App
Web
vCenter SQL
db
Node1 to Node8
VMware Cluster
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-vSphere-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-vSphere
VSPEX Hyper-V Branch Office - 100 VMs
• 4xB200 M3 blades, each with 256 GB memory
• 2 blades for infrastructure VM’s
• Sized for up to 100 reference VM workload
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
• UCSM integrated with UCS Central for remote management
Remote /Branch Office
VM VM
VM VM
VM VM
Workload VMs
Management &
Infrastructure VMs
db
App
Web
SCVMM
SQL
db
Node1 to Node8
Hyper-V Cluster
• Scalable architecture with UCS Mini
• Central management with UCS Central
• File (NFS/CIFS) and Block (FC/iSCSI) on
EMC VNXe 3200 storage
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-HyperV-SB
CVD: http://cs.co/Mini-BO-HyperV
FlashStack Mini
• Cisco UCS Mini
• Pure Storage Flash Array M10
• Up to 25TB of effective capacity in 3 RU
• ~100,000 32K IOPS
• 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-FlashStack
Business Applications
JD Edwards Solution
Oracle DB
Server VM
Enterprise
Server VM
HTML
Server VM
Oracle
VM
Manager
Enterprise
Server VM
HTML
Server VM JDE
Deployment
Server
Manager• Cisco UCS Mini
• Nimble Storage CS300
• Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1
• Oracle Database 11gR2
• Oracle Linux with un-breakable enterprise kernel (uek)
• Oracle VM (with Oracle VM template for JD Edwards)
• Highly reliable Oracle JD Edwards environment
• 7-10x faster deployment time
• Lower TCO – Oracle licenses based on vCPU (not total cores)
• Supports 1200-1400 users
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solution Brief: http://cs.co/Mini-JDE-SB
White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-JDE
Nimble Storage SmartStack with Microsoft Applications
Microsoft
Windows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
• Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
• Nimble Storage CS-Series storage array
• Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash, eliminating
the flash memory performance and
capacity trade-off
• Capability to scale storage performance
and capacity independently and non-
disruptively
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-Nimble-SS-MS-Apps-AAG
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Nimble Storage CS-Series storage array
VDI with C240 M4 and NVIDA GRID GPUMicrosoft
Windows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server
• Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
• Cisco UCS C240 M4 with
NVIDIA GRID K1 or K2
• Accelerated high-performance and
graphics-intensive applications for smaller
environments
• Cisco UCS Manager integration for
management of the servers and GRID
cards
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-C240-GRID
Cisco UCS Mini with 6324 Fabric Interconnect
C240 M4 with NVIDA GRID K1 or K2
SAP and HANA TDIMicrosoft
Windows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
• B200 M3/M4 Blade Servers
• C220/C240 M3/M4 Rack Servers
• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers and Intel
Xeon processor E5-2699v3 CPUs yields a SAP
Application Performance Standard (SAPS) score
of up to 689,872.
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
AAG: http://cs.co/Mini-SAP-AAG
Other Storage Solutions
StorMagic on Blades
• Cisco UCS Mini
• B200 M4 Blades
• StorMagic SvSAN VSA
• VMware vSphere
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Single addressable storage pool across multiple nodes
• Simple, factory-preconfigured solution
• Quick to deploy: designed with ROBO environments in
mind
• Centralized storage management across multisite
deployments
Solution Brief – http://cs.co/Mini-StorMagic-Blades
Deployment Guide – http://cs.co/Mini-SvSAN-DG
Windows Storage Services
Cisco UCS Mini Chassis
Cisco UCS C240 M3
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RAID 1 RAID 5 RAID 5
Cisco UCS C240 M3 (LSI Mega RAID)
Storage
Spaces
Storage
Pool
Storage
Pool
Microsoft Windows
File Server
Hyper-V ClusterCisco
UCS
B200 M3
SMB
Highly Available VMs Microsoft
Windows Server
2012 R2 Hyper-V
Windows
2012 R2
Storage
Virtualization
Layer
Share1 Share2
\\FS\Share2
• Cisco UCS Mini with B-200 M3 and C-240
M3 Servers
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
• Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Storage
Virtualization
• All read and cached data from the UCS-
Mini / C240 M3
• Transactional data synchronized with
Data Center
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
White Paper: http://cs.co/Mini-MS-Storage-Server
Software Defined Storage (SDS)
• Cisco UCS Mini
• SDS Software
TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Eliminates downtime of business critical applications at
the edge
• Eliminates need for SAN and expensive shared storage
• Enables management of sites from one central platform
StorMagic C240 M3 White Paper – http://cs.co/Mini-StorMagic-WP
Where is all this stuff?
• UCS Mini product page
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-mini/index.html
• Box
https://cisco.box.com/UCS-Mini-One-Stop-Shopping
• Cisco Validated Design Program
http://cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone
• DCG
https://dcg.cisco.com/ucs-pm-files/ucs-mini-overview
Where is all this stuff?