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Krish Sivakumar

Product Management, UCS

August 2012

UCS CentralManaging multiple UCS systems

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Many products and features described herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis.

This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth in this document.

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Trends in Physical Server Deployments*

Uncontrolled Scale Out Consolidation through Virtualization Controlled Scale OutVirtualization Optimization

Web based AppsE-commerceRISC to x86 migrationsWindows/Linux

HypervisorsVirtual Machinesn:1 server reduction

VM sprawlVM networkingVM mobility

Mobile AppsVDIRISC Migration Tier 1 AppsBring Your Own DeviceSelf-Service

Increasing virtual:physical ratios alone cannot solve server sprawl

Good physical server management is key

* Qualitative data based on customer feedback

Time

Ser

vers

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UCS Central

UCS Manager

UCS Growth in Customer Environments

ServerChassis

Domain

Single DatacenterGlobal

Datacenters

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Simplifying Management in a Growing UCS Environment

Increased Number of Servers, Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Datacenters

Centralized Management

Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployments

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UCS Central Summary Deployable as an external virtual machine based application

Delivered in two phases:

Phase 1:

Inventory, Fault, Log, Event Aggregation

Global ID Pools, Firmware Updates, Backups and Global Admin Policies

Phase 2:

Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies

Statistics Aggregation

HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage

Timelines:

Phase 1 in sync with next major UCS Manager SW Release 2.1

Phase 2 delivered few months after Phase 1

Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters

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UCS Central Architecture

UCS Central VM Appliance

HypervisorStorage forDB, SW

Repository

UCS Manager 1

UCS Manager 2

UCS Manager 3

UCS Manager n

XML API

Cisco.com

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UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

Define Policies

UCS Manager

ServerEnd Point

Fabric InterconnectEnd Point

ChassisEnd Point

Apply Policies

UCS Manager is the policy manager

End points resolve the policies defined in UCS Manager

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UCS CentralPolicy Based Management

Define Policies

UCS Central

UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n

Apply Policies

Modeled identical to UCS Manager on how policies work

UCS Central becomes the policy manager

UCS Manager becomes the policy recipient and resolver

Ap

ply

Po

licie

s

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UCS Central Using UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management

Define Policies

UCS Central

UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n

Apply Policies

ServerEnd Point

Fabric Interconnect

End Point

ChassisEnd Point

Apply Policies

Define global policies one time centrally in UCS Central

Use and re-use policies across multiple UCS domains

Consistency, compliance for configurations for a growing UCS environment

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UCS Central

UCS Manager

UCS Central: Simplifying Large Scale Server Management

ServerChassis

Domain

Single DatacenterGlobal

Datacenters