Compute Infrastructure for a Hybrid Cloud

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Compute Infrastructure for a Hybrid CloudWillem Van Schaik – UCS Consulting Systems EngineerJacob Van Ewyk – UCS Management Product Manager

January 30, 2018

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Cisco UCS Update


Cisco UCS | Momentum

Source: 1 IDC, 2017 Q3, December 2017, Server TrackerSource: As of Cisco Q4FY17 earnings results. Data Center Revenue is defined as Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V

60,000+Customers

1 ExabyteTotal Storage Deployed

>85%of Fortune 500

have invested in UCS

150+ World Record Performance

Benchmark

2000+HyperFlex Customers

15xBig Data Revenue Growth in 3 Years

#1Converged Infrastructure

(Cisco UCS, Nexus)

#1Global Revenue

Market Share in x86 Blades

#1Americas Revenue

Market Share in x86 Blades

Cisco UCS: Driving Business OutcomesProven value and over 60,000 customers world wide

“We’re able to offer leading-edge solutions to our customers and continue to expand our business.”

Reduction in Provisioning

Times

84%Reduction of Management

Costs

61%Reduction of Power and

Cooling Costs

54%Cabling

Reduction

77%World-record Performance Benchmarks

120+

“Our Cisco Unified Computing System decision is a game-changer.”

Wes WrightCIO, Seattle Children’s

Martin BreslinInfrastructure Architect, SEI

“With Cisco UCS, we can adapt much more quickly to user demand.”

Mark AdamsVP Information Technology, HireRight

Source: Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter, Customer Case Studies, Cisco UCS Performance Benchmarks

Enterprise Performance

Next Generation UCS M5 Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

Rac

kC240 M5Ideal Platform for Big Data

Analytics, ERP, Database and High Performance Applications

C220 M5Versatile, General Purpose

Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server

B200 M5Versatile, Enterprise Class half-

width blade for multiple workloads including

Virtualization, Converged Infrastructure and Enterprise

Applications

Cloud Scale

S3260Ideal Capacity-Optimized Platform for Large Object Storage at Scale

Intensive/Mission Critical

C480 M5Mission-Critical, 4-Socket

Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications

B480 M5Mission-Critical / Enterprise Class, 4-Socket

Blade for Large, CPU and/or Memory-Intensive Bare Metal

and Virtualized Applications

UCS M5 Blade & Rack Servers

B480 M5

B200 M5

C480 M5

C240 M5

C220 M5

CQ3’17CQ3’17

M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel Skylake processors (up to 28

cores)• Up to 2 SFF + 2 M.2/SD (SATA/SAS

HDD/SSD, PCIe NVMe)• Dual GPU support

M5 differentiators:• Quad Intel “Skylake” processors (up

to 28 cores)• Up to 2 SFF + 2 x M.2/SD

• SATA/SAS HDD/SSD, PCIeNVMe

• Quad GPU support

M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel Skylake processors (up to 28 cores)• Up to 10 SFF drive bays • Up to 10 NVMe drive bays• 10G LOM• M.2 support

M5 differentiators:• Dual Intel Skylake processors (up to 28 cores)• Centralized mgmt for RAID for all drives• Hot swap rear drives with HW RAID• Up to 10 NVMe drive bays• 10G LOM• M.2 support

M5 differentiators:• Quad Intel Skylake processors (up to 28 cores)• Up to 24 front facing drives (24 can support NVMe)• Up to 8 top accessible drives (8 can support NVMe)• Up to 6 PCIe GPUs • Up to 12 PCIe slots• M.2 support

Highest Performance UCS 5th Gen Platforms designed for Intensive Enterprise Workloads

High Performance 4S Blade designed for Compute-Intensive and Memory-Intensive Enterprise Workloads

World’s best selling blade enhanced with new CPU and industry leading GPU density

Mission-Critical 4S Rack server with enhanced Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities

2U Rack Server designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization, big data, and bare metal applications

1U Rack Server designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications

CQ3’17

UCS GPU Portfolio with M5 ServersUCS Integrated for accelerated VDI, Deep Learning, and HPC Applications

Cloud VDI

Rac

k

Deep Learning and HPC

UCS M6 Blade GPUGeneral Purpose, Enterprise

Class NVIDIA GPU for Remote Knowledge Workers, Task

Workers and Designers

UCS NVIDIA M60Ultimate choice for Remote Engineering Workstations

and Application Delivery via the Cloud

UCS NVIDIA M10For M4 and M5

Servers. Accelerated Remote Desktop,

Maximum User Density per Server

UCS Tesla K80Price/Performance leader

for HPC applications

UCS Tesla P100Worlds most advanced GPU

for demanding Deep Learning Training and

HPC applications

Available

Available

UCS Tesla P40For M5 Server - Remote

Engineering Workstations and Fast Inferencing for

Deep Learning

UCS Tesla P4Inferencing Engine for Deep

Learning at the edge.

2H’ CY17

UCS P6 Blade GPUFor M5 Blades – Doubles user density for Remote Knowledge

Workers, Task Workers and Designers

2H’ CY17

Available

Available

EoSSoon

UCS AMD 7150 x2For M4 and M5 Servers

based on SRIOVAccelerated Remote Desktop, Engineering

workstation

2H’ CY17

UCSM 3.1.3

FI 6300 Series

• 40GbE

• 40G FCoE

• 4/8/16G FC

• B-Series or C-Series

• Requires UCSM 3.1(1) or later

FI 6200 Series

• 10GbE

• 10G FCoE

• 2/4/8G FC

• B-Series or C-Series

• UCSM 2.x(x) or later

What Fabric Interconnect Do I Need?FI 6300 series vs FI 6200 series


High-density 40GbE ports• FI 6300 series coupled with B-Series & C-Series enables an

end-to-end 40GbE solution• FI 6300 series couple with Cisco MDS enables an end-to-end

40GbE FCoE solution

High speed Fibre Channel 16G FC ports• Provides high performance SAN (4/8/16G FC) connectivity for

blades & rack servers• Simplifies management by reducing the number of links required

between end points

Enabling a high-performance, low-latency & lossless fabric

UCS FI 6300 Series / IOM 2304 Overview

Cisco/NetApp

VCE

Dell5.3%

EMC16.9%

Hitachi2.9%

HP17.2%

Lenovo5.1%

Others2.5%

Cisco is exclusive in the top 2 solutions – Vblock and FlexPod

Integrated Infrastructure Market Share(Q2 2015 vendor revenue)

Cisco UCS: Foundation for Integrated InfrastructureCisco is #1 and a Partner in ~50% of All Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

With Cisco UCS

Source: IDC Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure & Platforms Tracker Q2 2015 Vendor Revenue

23.4%26.8%

Cisco UCS 50.1%

Applications

Cisco UCS Converged & Hyperconverged SolutionsChoice and Flexibility

Data Center Infrastructure

Integrated Infrastructure

Converged Infrastructure w/ Storage Partners Cisco w/Software Defined Storage

Vblock

VCE

VersaStack

IBM

FlashStack

PureStorage

OpenStack

Red HatOpenStack

FlexPod

NetApp

UCS DirectorCisco UCS

CiscoNexus

UCS Integrated Infrastructure

Container Stack

Docker

Big Data & Analytics

All CiscoInfra

Cisco HyperFlex

Hyper Converged

Cisco UCS S3260: Modular Platform

Massive Capacity• 600TB data storage

capacity in 4U• Up to 90TB SSD Flash

LowerCapex34%

Multi-Node Power• Single or Dual Server Options

• New cache acceleration capabilities with NVMe and Fusion IoMemory

I/O flexibility• 40Gb Cisco Virtual Interface

Card (VIC) Technology • 256 virtual adapters per node

plus 16Gb native Fabre Channel options

Total Automation• Scale to Petabytes in

minutes with UCS Manager

• Cisco SystemLink Technology with flexible storage profiles

Lower OngoingManagement80%

LessCabling70% Less

Space60% LowerPower

59%

Significant Benefits Compared to Conventional 2RU Servers

Software Defined and Object Storage

Video Analytics

Big Data and Analytics

Data Protection

Cisco Storage Partner Ecosystem

Data Protection

$5B

Big Data and Analytics$6.2B

Video Analytics

$1B+

IBM Cloud Storage

Software Defined and Object Storage$3.6B

Performance

Capacity

Mainstream Computing Scale Out

UCS S3260

Fourth Generation UCS

Cisco UCS—One Management Platform

HyperFlex Systems

HyperconvergedInfrastructure

Converged Infrastructure

Core Data CenterEdge Cloud

Cisco ONE—Single Infrastructure Management Model

UCS Mini

UCS Manager UCS Director Enterprise Cloud Suite


Cisco Hyperflex Update

Introducing Cisco HyperFlex Systems

Complete Hyperconvergence

Software Defined Compute, Storage & Network

Next Generation Data Management

Always-on Optimization and Flexible Scaling

Future Ready Architecture

Built for Todays Workloads and Emerging Applications

Cisco HyperFlex Systems

1

3

Complete HyperconvergenceUnified Compute and Network Infrastructure

Part of a Complete Data Center StrategyElastic and Secure at Enterprise Scale

Cisco HyperFlex

Cisco HX Data PlatformData Services and Storage Optimization

2 Next Gen Data PlatformDesigned for Distributed Storage

Cisco One Enterprise Cloud SuiteCisco ACI

Cisco Security

Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

HX Data Platform

Add NodesScale Cache or Capacity Within Nodes

HX Data Platform

Scale Compute-Only

BladesIOVisorIOVisor

IOVisorIOVisor

IOVisorIOVisor

IOVisorIOVisor

VM VM VM VM

Non-HyperFlex Hosts Can Connect to

Storage with IOVisor

CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR

VM VMVM

ScaleCompute-Only

Racks

VM VM VM VM

IOVisor

IOVisor


VM VMVM


VM VMVM


VM VMVM

Cisco HyperFlex Configurations

HX240c NodesHybrid / AF / SED

Capacity-heavy 3–16* Node Cluster(VSI: IT/Biz Apps, Test/Dev)

Per-Node1x1.6TB Cache SSD

up to 23 x 1.2TB HDDs / 3.84TB SSDs

SD Card/120GB Back SSD

(Boot/Housekeeping)

HX220c NodesHybrid / AF / SED

Smallest Footprint 3–16* Node Cluster (VDI, ROBO)

Per-Node1x480 GB Cache SSD

6 x 1.2TB HDDs / 3.84TB SSDs

SD Card/120GB SSD

(Boot/Housekeeping)

Hybrid ConfigsHX Nodes + Compute Nodes

Compute-heavy Hybrid(Compute Bound Apps / VDI)

HX220c HX240c

or

B200 M4 C240 M4C220 M4

Compute Nodes (up to 16 per cluster)+

…

(1)

(2)

(3)

(16*)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(16*)

…


HX All Flash Improvements vs. Hybrid

6X IOPS

1/5th Latency

6XBetter Perf

Consistency

3.2XCapacity / Density

Comparison between HX Hybrid and HX All Flash for 70/30 8K Random Read Write Workload with 4.8TB Working Set Size, vmdks were initialized with writes

ESG – Enterprise Strategy Group

http://esg-global.com/cisco-hyperflex/

HyperFlex Edge IT Solution

HX220cSmallest Footprint

(VSI, ROBO)

HybridCluster

HCI Automation

Tuned for 1Gb/sec network

Existing Network

Designed for customers with no plans to upgrade or refresh their network at the remote office

Single Processor

3+ Drives128GB RAM

1Gb/NIC

Dual Processor

6 Drives128GB RAM

1Gb/NIC


HX Management

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

HyperVisor (vSphere, Hyper-V)

VM …….

Application Orchestration

UCS Central

VMware vCenter

UCS Director

CliQr / Cloud Center

UCS Manger

vCenter HX PluginVM VM VM VM VM

Server / Firmware Management

Data Platform Management

Automation / Orchestration


HyperFlex Connect

Primary HyperFlex Use Cases

• Agile provisioning

• Frequent iterations

• Instant cloning and snapshots

Test and Development

• Low upfront costs

• Consistent performance

• Predictable scaling

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

• Reduce operational complexity

• Adaptive scaling

• Always-on resiliency

Server Virtualization

• Simple deployment

• Centralized management

• No “fly-and-fix” missions

Large RemoteBranch Office

• Consistent, low-latency

• High IOPS

• All-flash nodes

Databases


Cisco Intersight Update

Mainstream Computing Scale Out

UCS S3260

Fourth Generation UCS

Cisco UCS—One Management Platform

HyperFlex Systems

HyperconvergedInfrastructure

Converged Infrastructure

Core Data CenterEdge Cloud

Cisco ONE—Single Infrastructure Management Model

UCS Mini

UCS Manager UCS Director Enterprise Cloud Suite

Proven Results with UCS Automation

83% Reduction inprovisioning times4

75% Reduction in project execution time5

29% Faster application development life cycles1

48% Lower IT infrastructure costs1

68% Reduced staff time neededfor server management

30% - 50% IT productivity savings3

528% 5-year ROI1

368% 5-year ROI4

202% ROI2

Sources: 1. IDC, “The Business Value of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions for Running SAP Workloads”,

#US41084916, Dec-162. Forrester Research, “The Total Economic Impact of the SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure Solution”, Jul-16

3. IDC, “The Total Economic Impact of Cisco Unified Computing System”, Jul-144. Based on 103 customer case studies5. IDC, “The Business Value of Cisco UCS as a Platform for SAP HANA:, Sep-14

Speed Efficiency ROI

Simplicity

Agility

Efficiency

Scale

Automated UCS Director

Semi-AutomatedUnified Computing System

ManualHW + Scripts

Hand-crafted:Server-focused

Stateless Computing:Policy-focused

DIY Workflows:Infrastructure-focused

Past Future

Cisco Intersight

Simplicity

Agility

Efficiency

Scale

Intuitive

Adaptive

Automated UCS Director

Semi-AutomatedUnified Computing System

ManualHW + Scripts

Hand-crafted:Server-focused

Stateless Computing:Policy-focused

DIY Workflows:Infrastructure-focused

Intent-Based:Application-focused

AI Powered:Optimization-focused

Past Future

Inflection Point: • Cloud Managed Infrastructure• ML / AI for Operational Analytics

UCS Evolution

Server

Tools

Network

Tools

Storage

Tools

Conventional Infrastructure

is Software

Silos of Manual Element Management

UCS CentralGlobal Resource Pooling and Policy Management

Cloud-ManagedCisco Hosted (Initial Release)

MSP Hosted | Customer Hosted

UCS DirectorInfrastructure-as-a-Service and Orchestration

Third Party Infrastructure

• Infrastructure Management and Orchestration-as-a-Service

• Global Resource and Policy Management

• Analytics, Machine Learning, Recommendation Engine,Autonomic Functions

Intersight

UCS

UCSbecomes SaaS

UCS ManagerPolicy-based,

Unified Element Management

HyperFlex Connect

Hyperconverged Management

Cisco Intersight: Management as-a-Service (MaaS)

Telemetryand Analytics

Policy BasedOrchestration

API Driven,DevOps Enabled

Secure andCompliant

ConnectedTAC

App Store

Stand-AloneUCS C-Series

HyperFlex

UCS S-Series

UCS Mini

UnifiedComputing System

HyperFlex

UnifiedComputing System

Data Center 2

Data Center 1

Branch A

Branch N

Intersight


Cisco Intersight Benefits

Unified ManagementSingle pane of glass, consistent operations model and experience for managing all systems and solutions

RecommendationsEmbedded recommendation platform with insights sourced from across Cisco installed base and tailored to each customer

SaaS/SubscriptionHosted management will free customers from care/feeding of management tools and eliminate upgrade dependencies

Enhanced Support ExperienceHosted platform allows Cisco to address issues platform-wide and experience extends into TAC supported platforms

ProgrammabilityEnd to end programmability with native API, SDK’s and popular DevOps toolsets will enable customers to consume natively

No-Impact TransitionIMC/UCSM/HX embedded connector will allow customers to start consuming benefits without forklift upgrade


Base Edition – Available• Supports Cisco UCS and HyperFlex

Systems• Global inventory, health status, and

customizable dashboard• Tagging and basic global search• Context-launch of element managers• Cisco HyperFlex installation

Essentials Edition• All functionality of the Base Edition• Server HCL compliance check*• Virtual Keyboard-Video-Mouse (vKVM)

launch*• UCS C-Series policy-based

configuration with Service Profiles• Detailed inventory and firmware

management

Cisco Intersight: Edition Comparison

* Coming Soon


Cisco Intersight – Now AvailableIntersight.com

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