Cisco datacenter ucs-best-practices_ddebussc_2015d

Cisco UCS Best Practices

Daniel DeBusschere

Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer SLED Data Center +1 678-352-3792, [email protected], @ddebuss

Version: cisco_datacenter_ucs-best-practices_ddebussc_2015d

Get the most out of your UCS environment

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Cisco Data Center CSE Profile

• Daniel DeBusschere • Role: Cisco Datacenter Consulting Systems Engineer • Organization: Cisco SLED Data Center • Phone: 678-352-3792 • Email: [email protected] • Twitter: @ddebuss, #CiscoUCS • Web Site: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/

• Background: • Industry Experience: 23+ years (1992) • Joined Cisco: November 09, 2009 – 4 Months after UCS first shipped. • Overview: My entire 17+ year career at IBM was focused on technical selling to all types of customers including very large enterprises, SMB, SLED, and

partner technical enablement. • Product areas: Assigned Regional Designated Specialist (RDS) in multiple technical skill areas including Systems Management, BladeCenter, Virtualization

(including VMware), and high-end servers. • Publication: Co-writer of Implementing IBM Director Management Solutions, IBM Redbook, December 2001, 556 pages, ISBN-10: 0738423785. • Publication: Co-developer of IBM professional certification exam 000-079 System x IBM Director v5.2 • Certifications: Dozens of professional technical certifications from IBM, Microsoft, and Novell (most from IBM). • Education: Graduated with honors from Eastern Michigan University with degrees in Finance and Economics.

• History: • 11/2009 – Present: Cisco Data Center Consulting Systems Engineer • 10/2000 – 11/2009: IBM BladeCenter, System x, iDataplex, xSeries Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS) • 02/1999 – 10/2000: IBM Netfinity Channel Technical Sales Specialist (CTSS), Advanced Technical Support (ATS) • 05/1996 – 02/1999: IBM K-12 Global Education Technical Sales Specialist • 09/1992 – 05/1996: IBM K-12 Global Education Marketing Sales and Services Specialist

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• The content here details the things that most customers need to watch for closely, occasionally have wrong, or they just plain didn’t know. There are additional hidden slides which will be available in the downloaded version of this presentation.

• The full list of things I watch out for when reviewing a UCS system can be found on my web site at • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist

About this Webinar

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This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update.

• Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c

• Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431

UCS Overview and Update Webinar A simpler Solution for your IT Challenges

https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c


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Agenda

• Introduction

• UCS Best Practices • UCS Planning

• UCS Installation

• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


Unified Computing

Modular, Stateless

Computing Elements

Unified Fabric

Highly Scalable, Secure

Network Fabric

Unified Management

Automated Resource

Management (Physical and

Virtual)

Unified Cloud Networking

Services

Automated L4–7 Virtual

Services Provisioning

and Deployment

Cisco Unified Data Center The Platform for Delivering Cloud Services

OPEN RESILIENT SECURE SCALABLE


Data Center Economics

2%

7%

7%

10%

11%

12%

22%

29%

Overhead

Disaster Recovery

Storage

Networking

Servers

Energy/Facilities

Software

People

Source: Gartner-Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”

of Overall IT Spent on OpEx

(People, SW, and Facilities)


• Management – Product has equal or better management than competing product(s) with a focus on simplicity and admin effort. • Ask your partner or Cisco for a management demo

• Capability – Product has equal or better capabilities and value than competing product(s). • Ask your partner or Cisco for a product overview and management demo

• Cost – Product is equal or less expensive than competing product(s) INCLUDING support (SMARTnet). • Ask your partner and/or Cisco for competitive quote before purchasing a competitive solution.

Cisco UCS Product Design Perspectives


Cisco Unified Computing System

Server Vendor

World-record Performance Benchmarks to Date

UCS Channel Partners

Of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS

Data Center Annualized Revenue Run Rate

Unique UCS Customers

Americas Market Share in x86 Blades, #2 Worldwide

41k+

#1

$3B+

Top 5

>85%

3,850+

100


0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

SGI

Hitachi

Lenovo

Dell

IBM

Cisco

HP

UCS # 2

with 26.3%

Worldw

ide

UCS momentum

41,000+ Unique Customers

19,500+ Repeat Customers

X86 Server Blade Market Share CY 2014

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2014 Q4, March 2015, Vendor Revenue Share

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

SGI

Lenovo

IBM

Dell

HP

Cisco UCS #1

with 39.0%

US

#1 in US for 2014 (39.0%), growing

28% YoY1

#2 Worldwide for 2014 (26.3%)1

growing 29% YoY1


23 CPU

17 Virtualization/

Cloud

7 Database

17 Enterprise Application

18 Enterprise

Middleware

18 HPC

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication For details, please see source document “Cisco Unified Computing System and Intel

Xeon Processors: 100 World-Record Performance Results” at http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/le_32801_pb_ucs_worldrecords.pdf

Cisco UCS Performance: 100 Records World-Record Performance


Data Center Silos Virtualization New Emerging Applications

Why Have We Seen Such Momentum UCS Value Proposition

Legacy Apps Web Apps

Collaboration Apps

Business Critical Apps

Dev./Test Sandboxes

Desktop Virtualization

Private Public HYBRID

Big Data & Business Analytics

Mobile Applications

Social Media Applications

Back End Consumer Applications


Next Steps

• Engage with your partner and/or Cisco See a management demo Get a more in-depth product update Ask for comparative configuration Ask for a review of your current environment Ask about desktop virtualization

• SmartPlay Bundles Includes all the server parts to get started

• Cisco® Validated Design Reference Architectures Predefined system and network configurations Joint testing at scale 100 or more virtual desktops per server

• Solution Design Assistance Technical support

• Analysis Power Calculator, ROI tool and TCO calculator


Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


• UCS Domain • A UCS Manager instance based on a pair of UCS Fabric Interconnects and all servers attached

to it including any B-Series chassis, M-Series chassis, C-Series servers connected directly or through a Nexus 2232.

• UCS Manager • Management interface to UCS in XML-API

• UCS Manager GUI – Application used to configure UCS

• UCS Manager CLI – CLI functionality of UCS Manager

• Policy • A rule that consistenly configures the server, LAN, and SAN abstracting it from the server type,

server age, and server size.

Concepts, Definitions, and terms


• Pool • A group of identities that can be used once per UCS domain

• Service Profile • A management definition that is used to apply all configuration options including Policies, Pools,

vNIC templates, vHBA templates, Storage templates to a specific server.

• Templates: • A template consistently configures service profiles for similar workloads

• vHBA Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an HBA on a server

• vNIC Template – A template that can be used to consistently deploy an NIC on a server

• Service Profile Template - A template that can be used to consistently deploy service profiles. Can contain vHBA and vNIC templates.



• Server related pools • Server Pool – Used to quickly assign multiple servers quickly. Avoid except for large similar envionrments.

• UUID Pool - Used to assign UUID to the servers and is migrated when a service profile is migrated. Generally used for software licensing.

• LAN related pools • IP Pool Ext-mgmt – Used to assign hardware management addresses to the servers

• IP Pool iscsi-initiator-pool – Used to assign iSCSI addresses for iSCSI boot

• MAC Pool - Used to assign MAC address to vNIC interfaces. Each MAC for each vNIC for each Service Profile should be configured to use addresses from MAC Pools.

• SAN related pools • WWNN Pool – World Wide Node Name: Each server with a VIC and an HBA gets a WWNN.

• WWPN Pool – World Wide Port Name: Each vHBA gets a WWPN for each HBA being presented to the OS.

• IQN Pool – Used for iSCSI boot

• LAN related pools • UUID Pool - Used to assign UUID to the servers and is migrated when a service profile is migrated. Generally used

for software licensing.

• WWNN Pool



UCS Service Profiles Configuration Portability

SIM Card Identity for a Phone

Service Profile Identity for a Server

UCS Service Profile Unified Device Management

Network Policy

Storage Policy

Server Policy


Promoting agility and consistency

BIOS Policies

Firmware Policies

Boot Order Policies

QoS Policies

MAC Pools

WWNN Pools

Server Pools

Service Profile

Template 1

ESX

Service Profile

Template 2

HyperV

Service Profile

Template 3

Linux

ESX-01

ESX-03

ESX-07

ESX-08

ESX-02

ESX-04

ESX-05

ESX-06

HyperV-02

HyperV-03

HyperV-04

HyperV-05

HyperV-06

HyperV-07

HyperV-08

HyperV-01

Linux-04

Linux-05

Linux-06

Linux-03

Linux-01

Linux-02 ESX-01 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 01… MAC: 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075701 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On

ESX-02 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 02… MAC: 08:00:69:02:02:FC WWN: 5080020000075702 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On



ESX-05 Template name: esx UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 05 61… MAC: 08:00:69:02:05:FC WWN: 5080020000075705 Boot order: SAN, LAN Bios firmware: xx.yy.zz Bios settings: VT - On





Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


UCS Planning

• UCS Education: Overview

• UCS Education: UCS Technical Orientation

• Supported Environments

• Site and Power Planning

• LAN Planning

• SAN Planning

• Boot Devices

• Test Environments


UCS Education

1. UCS Overview (~2 hours): Day 0 minus 30-180

Initial exposure to UCS architecture and components.

2. UCS Technical Orientation (Optional ~2-8 hours): Day 0 minus ~10

Technical exposure to the system including review of the architecture, installation, maintenance, and control of the environment.

3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0

4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90

5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed)

6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing


• Insure you are implementing a supported solution • Most current OS and hardware is supported but check versions and caveats.

• B-Series Interoperability – Includes most B-Series and C-Series UCS Manager integrated UCS hardware, adapters, and OS support.

• C-Series Interoperability – Includes standalone rack server hardware, adapters, and OS support.

• Storage Interoperability – Includes the support for attachment to storage including storage devices and SAN switches.

• Some hardware not on the Cisco Interoperability Matrix’s may be supported by those vendors with UCS. Check with your hardware vendor.

• Cisco may approve unique environments via RPQ process

Supported Environments


• Review the site planning guide for physical requirements • Most equipment comes with rails designed for 4 post racks. 3rd party for 2 post racks.

• Insure you have the power whips in place or get them installed. Identify and label them.

• Insure you have racks or order Cisco racks.

• Insure you have PDUs or order Cisco PDUs. Order the right power cords for the devices!

• Management arms are ordered as options for the rack servers and are usually not configured.

• If your rack has square holes you will need a square hold adapter kit: N20-CRMK2-RHA=)

• Rack mounting screws are only included with the racks. Cisco sells them separately.

• RACK-FASTEN-001= Mounting screws (qty 100), M6 and RACK-FASTEN-002= Cage nuts (qty 50), M6

• Insure the site infrastructure team is available during the install • Physically connects the new hardware and PDUs to the infrastructure

• Run any physical wires (ideally this is done in advance)

Site and Power Planning


• LAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS.

• Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc).

• Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance.

• Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation.

• LAN addressing planning • 3 addresses for Fabric Interconnects and cluster.

• 1 address for each server considering growth – 1 address for each SP if remote booting.

• Insure the LAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure.

• Configuring northbound switches, port channels, vPC’s, Jumbo frames, and appropriate vLANs.

LAN Planning


• SAN connectivity planning • Identify the ports and port speeds for connecting the UCS

• Identify the specific media you will use for the connections (SFP’s Etc)

• Identify the specific cables required based on the media and distance

• Make sure all of the above is available and/or ordered in advance of installation.

• Insure the SAN infrastructure team is available during the install • Connect UCS to the infrastructure

• If planning to attach UCS directly to a FC storage device, insure it’s on Storage Interop Matrix.

• If attaching UCS to a FC switch, enabling NPIV on the switch if not already enabled

• If attaching UCS to a Cisco MDS FC switch, use port channels when possible

• Allocating storage for boot and/or storage luns (including iSCSI and NFS connections).

• Zoning service profiles/vHBA’s to storage. Directly connected FC storage can “auto-zone”

SAN Planning


Boot Devices

Small OS footprint (ESX, Linux, etc)

1. Boot from SAN (Stateless)

2. Boot from LAN (Stateless)

3. Secure Digital (SD)*

4. USB*

5. Hard Drives (HDD)

6. Solid State Drives (SSD)

7. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless)

Large OS footprint (Windows)

1. Boot from SAN (Stateless)

2. Hard Drives (HDD)

3. Solid State Drives (SSD)

4. Boot from LAN (Stateless)?

5. Boot from iSCSI (Stateless)

6. Secure Digital (SD)?

7. USB?

Don’t forget to order your OS/boot device!


• Test environments are a great idea but not required • Most small customers do not choose to implement a test environment.

• Most medium to large customers do choose to implement a test environment.

• Advantages to a test environment • Impact of changes – Better enables you to determine and plan for change impacts.

• Test new solutions – Testing is best done in non-production environments.

• Flexibility – Test systems can be borrowed to grow production while orders in process.

• Training – Staff has real hardware available for education and training.

Test Environments


UCS Planning

• UCS Overview – Get exposed to the architecture concepts

• UCS Technical Orientation – Get exposed to the GUI and concepts (UCSPE)

• Supported Environments – Make sure what you want to do is supported

• Site and Power Planning – Insure you have the right power in the right place

• LAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available

• SAN Planning – Right cables, connectors, and ports available

• Boot Devices – Understand how you will boot your servers short and long term

• Test Environments – Consider an environment for lab and test use


• UCS Interoperability Matrix • B-Series and C-Series: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html

• Storage: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html

• UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool: http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

• UCS Site Planning Guide • http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/site-prep-guide/ucs_site_prep.html

• UCS Power Calculator • http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com/

• UCS Health Check • Description: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-health-check

• Review items: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist

• UCS Setup Prerequisites • http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-prerequisites

UCS Planning Resources

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/Matrix8.html


http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/hw/site-prep-guide/ucs_site_prep.html





http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com/

http://ucspowercalc.cisco.com/

http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-health-check


















http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-prerequisites










Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


• UCS Education: Mentored Installation

• Operating Systems

• Naming Conventions

• Pools and Addresses

• Templates

• Policies

• Fabric Failover

• Redundancy Check

• Stateless Computing

UCS Installation


UCS Education



3. Mentored install (~6-16 hours): Day 0 • A UCS expert mentors the admin team through the installation process using best practices. It starts

with an un-configured system and ends with a fully configured and functioning system that’s fully tested for redundancy. Demo statelessness.

4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0+~90

5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed)

6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing


• Plan for the OS’s that will initially be installed on UCS. Consider installing other OS’s you might later decide to use while your mentor is there to help build the policies and templates.

• VMware optimized installation media for Cisco. We highly recommend that you use those versions. • From the VMware web site

1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware 2. Click the Custom ISOs tab 3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs 4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column.

• Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner 4.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 4.1 U3 5.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.0 U3 5.1: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U2 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.1 U3 5.5: VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 GA VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U1 VMware / Cisco ESXi 5.5 U2 6.0: VMware / Cisco ESXi 6.0 GA

• Other OS vendors may provide Cisco optimized media in the future.

Operating Systems




https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=ESX4U2-CISCO-OEM-ISO&productId=136

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI41U2-CISCO&productId=230











https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.0.0U2-GA-MAY2012&productId=229

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.0.0-U1-28AUG2012&productId=229








https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.0.0U3-GA&productId=229




https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0-GA-25SEP2012&productId=285

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0U1-MAY2013&productId=285




https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=CISCO-ESXI-5.1.0U2&productId=285








https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI55GA-CISCO&productId=353









https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI60GA-CISCO&productId=491


• Most objects can’t be renamed in UCS. • Single exception is Service Profiles when recent firmware is installed.

• Service Profile Templates can be cloned with a new name which can accomplish a similar result.

• Names in UCS should make sense to anyone using UCS. • Create a standard and stick with it.

• Name should describe what an object is used for.

• Service Profile Template and Bios policy names should usually include some versioning detail.

• Example names • Host firmware package: ESX-Host-Fw01 or 20140420_esx_fw

• Service profile template: ESX-Host-Tu01

Naming Conventions


• Use pools for all addressing • Local addressing is possible but is strongly discouraged.

• Sequential pools are non-default option but often desirable.

• Make them big enough for a bunch of servers. They are free! 256 or 512 is best.

• Each UCS domain should have a set of unique pools defined • This is especially important if they may end up on the same network as one another.

• For most environments use a minimal set of pools like the default pools (WWPN’s are exception).

• For larger and more complex environments customers might find value using multiple pools to help identify workload types and interfaces via assigned addresses.

• Be cautious with Server Pools • It’s best to avoid using pools except for larger for dynamic environments.

Pools and Addresses


• Policies are rules which define settings in service profiles. • Policies exist in Servers, LAN, and SAN areas of the GUI.

• Should avoid changing policies if used in production especially bios policies. Create new policy that incorporates old settings and new settings. Change the policy used in the Service Profile Templates. This allows fast and reliable rollback of previously good settings.

• Server Policies • Maintenance policy default: SHOULD BE CHANGED TO USER-ACK.

• Host Firmware Package: Should generally be set on all service profiles and service profile templates.

• Bios policy: Do not set settings you are not sure about. Set things you know for sure you want.

• Local disk policy: Be sure to select protect configuration so disassociation does not zero hard disks.

Policies


• Templates one of the most useful things in UCS. • They insure consistency by reducing human error and steps to provision

• They ease operations by reducing the number of management touch points

• Avoid changing production Service Profile Templates. Clone the template and modify the clone.

• Templates available • vNIC Templates: Used to consistently create LAN interfaces on servers. Almost always use!

• vHBA Templates: Used to consistently create FC interfaces on servers. Almost always use!

• Service Profile Templates: Used to consistently create service profiles. Almost always use!

• Types of templates • Initial: Template values are copied into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent

changes to the template DO NOT effect the previously deployed objects.

• Updating : Template values and linked into the vNIC(s), vHBA(s), or Service Profile(s). Subsequent changes to the template ARE deployed to previously deployed objects.

Templates


• Use EITHER fabric failover or teamed vSwitch configuration with hypervisors • Almost always used with non-virtualized bare-metal workloads.

• Almost never used with hypervisor platforms.

• Configured in the vNIC or via the vNIC template in the LAN tab. Remember use a vNIC template.

• Best practice is to avoid unique vNIC configuration. Primarily use vNIC templates.

• Requires adapter with built-in capabilities. • All VIC models ever made

• Older M71 adapters (no longer sold)

• Does not apply to FC traffic • Use SAN multipathing software for equivalent function on FC networks regardless of the adapter type.

Fabric Failover


UCS Fabric Failover: Hypervisor Configuration Examples Traffic Type vSwitch Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4

Hypervisor Management

vSwitch 1 Standard frames

Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming

No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming

No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Passive teaming

Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-A) No teaming

Hypervisor Migration

vSwitch 2 Jumbo frames

No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Passive/Active teaming

Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming

Fabric Failover enabled 1 vNIC (1-B) No teaming

Storage Networking


No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-A) No teaming




Storage Networking


No Fabric Failover 1 vNICs (1-B) No teaming




VM Networking

vSwitch 5 to X Standard frames

No Fabric Failover 2 vNICs (1-A, 1-B) Active/Active teaming




Do NOT use both Fabric Failover AND multiple vNICs with Hypervisor/OS teaming

If configured correctly the Hypervisor Migration traffic will stay on a single fabric

Option 2 most closely matches vSwitch configuration of competitive solutions


• Insure you are redundant as a “system” not just as a platform • Test redundancy before going into production by creating physical and logical failures and insuring a

test workload stays online

• Periodically retest the system when major changes are made if opportunity allows.

• Perform redundancy tests with a test workload. Avoid testing with production workloads.

• Basic tests • Survive Fabric Interconnect failure.

• Survive power failure of fabric, chassis, and servers.

• Survive multiple uplink failures of LAN and SAN.

• Survive downlink failures between fabric and chassis and servers.

• A link to a couple web pages with example redundancy tests can be found at the end of this section.

Redundancy Checks


• Stateless Computing is the idea of not embedding the OS onto the server by installing it on local media. This allows the UCS service profile to be migrated to another server seamlessly. It’s generally pretty quick to get setup and tested.

• Stateless boot methods: • Boot from SAN (FC)

• Boot from iSCSI

• Boot from LAN

Stateless Computing


• Mentored installation – Flatten the learning curve with a mentored installation.

• Operating Systems – Make sure they are available. Use Cisco versions!

• Naming Conventions – Each object’s name should describe it’s use.

• Pools and Addresses – Plan for expansion. Don’t complicate without value.

• Templates– Almost always use templates. Updating preferred if used carefully.

• Policies – ALWAYS change default maintenance policy to user-ack.

• Fabric Failover – Use fabric failover only when you need to.

• Redundancy Check – Test the “system” for high availability.

• Stateless Computing – Check it out during the install.

UCS Installation


• VMware optimized installation media for Cisco • From the VMware web site

1. Go to the download page for your version of VMware

2. Click the Custom ISOs tab

3. Expand OEM Customized Installer CDs

4. Find the version you wish to use and select “Go to Downloads” from the right column.

• Quick links to most VMware downloads for Cisco at: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Partner

• Redundancy check • Basic: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-setup-checklist#Section-09

• Advanced: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-test-redundancy

• Boot from SAN troubleshooting • Article: UCS Boot-from-SAN Troubleshooting with the Cisco VIC (Part 2)

UCS Installation Resources















http://ciscoquicklinks.com/Tip-datacenter-ucs-test-redundancy









http://jeffsaidso.com/2012/02/ucs-boot-from-san-troubleshooting-with-the-cisco-vic-part-2/






Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


• UCS Education: Installation Refresher

• UCS Education: Health Check

• UCS Education: Training and Certifications

• Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access

• User Accounts and Access

• Backups

• Call Home

• Fault Monitoring

• Firmware Management

UCS Maintenance


UCS Education



3. Mentored install (~6-12 hours): Day 0

4. Installation refresher (~0-2 hours): Day 0 plus ~90 1. Engages a UCS expert to review of a system and staff skill and knowledge of the system. The goal is to insure that

admin staff is completely comfortable in working with the system and develop plan to close remaining skills gaps.

5. Health check (1-3 hours): Day 0 plus ~180 (1-2x per year as needed) 1. A UCS expert to review an already running and configured UCS system including the latest practices in use, current

configuration, and review for potential issues.

6. Education and training (Varies): Ongoing 1. Insure your team is equipped to know the latest about the UCS product as well as educate new team members.


• Education: Cisco has great training partners to provide UCS Education • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do

• Introducing Cisco Data Center Technologies (DCICT)

• Installing Cisco UC on UCS in a Virtualized Environment

• Configuring Cisco Data Center Unified Computing(DCUCS)

• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing System C-Series Troubleshooting (DCUCSCTS)

• Designing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCD)

• Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI)

• Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCT)

• UCS Certifications • Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist

• Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist

• Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist

• Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Implementation and Administration Specialist

UCS Education and Certifications

http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do


• Sub-Organization are used for role based access and security • Avoid using them unless you need to restrict users access to some objects.

• Should not be used to “mimic” an active directory. The simpler the layout the better.

• Create objects (policies/pools/templates) that will be used in multiple Sub-Organization units as close to the root as possible. Users with Sub-Organization can use the policies in the root rather than creating unique policies.

• Role based access • There are pre-defined roles defined in UCS. The documentation details each of these roles.

• Unique roles can be created to allow more refined access.

• An individual user can be restricted to both Role and OU.

• For example when using both a role and an OU you can make it so a specific user can only impact power on a specific server.

Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access


• Authentication methods • UCS Directory integration is excellent. Try it out!

• Local authentication is great as well.

• Most customers do both local and directory based authentication.

• Latest firmware allows two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager logins.

• User accounts • Users should be logging in as themselves. UCS allows multiple admin users.

• Admin local account should be reserved only for emergencies.

• User rights • Give a user only the level of access required to accomplish their job role.

User Accounts and Access


• When to backup • Where: Admin Tab > All object – Found in general and Policy Backup & Export sections.

• Backup your system before ANY and ALL major changes (and some minor ones).

• Backup your system periodically regardless of change being made

• Automated backup available through Admin tab of UCS Manager GUI.

• Automated backup through UCS Central.

• Types of backups • Do BOTH full configuration and all configuration backups

• Full configuration creates a full binary backup of the UCS environment. Full restore only.

• All configuration creates an XML data backup of all UCS objects. Partial restore option.

Backups


• It can (you choose what it does): • Send emails to any email addresses alerting to failures or thresholds.

• Automatically contact Cisco and proactively open a case in the event of a failure.

• Notify Cisco of your inventory so Cisco has better data for parts stocking purposes.

• Send anonymous reporting data of features being used on your system.

• Additional details from the offering description • Cisco® Smart Call Home is an automated support capability that provides continuous monitoring,

proactive diagnostics, alerts, and remediation recommendations on select Cisco devices

• Smart Call Home can help identify and resolve issues more quickly to achieve higher network availability and increased operational efficiency. This capability is available with an active support contract for the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS)

Call Home


• Your system should be free (or relatively free) of faults. • Understand the faults you have

• Resolve the ones you can resolve

• Develop a plan to resolve the rest

• Call Home and SNMP can let you know when you have faults.

• Fix faults before making any major changes to your system • Don’t forget your backups before AND after a major cleanup.

• Faults often indicate important problems where changes could cause an outage.

Fault Monitoring


• When to consider updating firmware • There’s a new feature you want to use

• There’s a bug fixed in the old firmware you want to address

• There’s a new server model you want to install that is newer than the current firmware

• Your firmware is 6 months old and are planning for maintenance.

• How to upgrade firmware • Review and understand defects in release notes before upgrading.

• Maintenance window is not required if the system is properly configured for redundancy.

• Use auto install for infrastructure. Faults should clear before acknowledging the pending activity.

• Use policies to install server firmware (through default policy and/or template-based policy).

• Update a small number of servers and let them run for a few days before doing the rest.

Firmware Management


• UCS Education – Make sure you know what you are supposed to.

• Health Check – Get a periodic review of your system from an expert.

• Training and Certifications – Lots of great certification offerings for UCS.

• Sub-Organizations and Role-based Access – Used to restrict access

• User Accounts and Access – Everyone shouldn’t be using “admin”

• Backups – Before major changes and periodically. Setup auto-backup.

• Call Home – Please turn it on! It’s there to help.

• Fault Monitoring – Your global fault values should all be 0’s.

• Firmware Management – Yearly or when needed. Bug fixes, New features?

UCS Maintenance


• Backing up your UCS • UCS Central Best Practices Guide: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-32030

• Unofficial manual documentation: http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/03/cisco-ucs-b-series-infrastructure.html

• Unofficial automated documentation: http://www.laneroush.com/automated-cisco-ucs-backup/

• UCS Call Home Configuration: • Smart Call Home Quick Start Configuration Guide:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/smart_call_home/QuickStart_UCS.pdf

• Official documentation: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2-2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_1_chapter_0101110.html

• Education resources • Cisco Learning Locator: http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do

• Ciscoquicklinks: http://ciscoquicklinks.com/#Datacenter-Training

UCS Maintenance Resources

https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-32030



http://terenceluk.blogspot.com/2011/03/cisco-ucs-b-series-infrastructure.html









http://www.laneroush.com/automated-cisco-ucs-backup/







http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/smart_call_home/QuickStart_UCS.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/2-2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_2/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_2_1_chapter_0101110.html



http://tools.cisco.com/GlobalLearningLocator/LLocatorHome.do





Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


• Entitlement – Be sure the hardware is properly registered with Cisco.

• CCO – Be sure the people that will open cases are tied to the hardware.

• Proactive entitlement – Open online case with SN’s and ask to validate

• Online case – Cases can be opened online as sev-3 then escalated via phone.

• Follow-the-sun – UCS support moves around the world through the day.

• Escalation – If unhappy with support ask to be reassigned or a duty manager.

• Cisco User Community – Lots of resources provided by Cisco and others

• Other external resources – Details on additional external resources

UCS Support


Cisco User Community

• Web Based End User Community • http://communities.cisco.com/ucs

• Tools, Downloads, Examples • UCS Platform Emulator (UCSPE) • goUCS Automation Tool • XML API, PowerShell code Examples • Cisco UCS PowerTool (PowerShell Module) • Microsoft SCOM Management Pack for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCVMM UI Extension for Cisco UCS • Microsoft SCO Integration Pack for Cisco UCS

• Documentation • Programming & Developer Guides • Whitepapers • Reference Guides (XML Model, Faults)

• Collaboration • Blogs, Peer to peer forums, Videos, Access to Cisco,

Subject Matter Experts

Free!!

http://communities.cisco.com/ucs


• HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO). Install firmware on C-Series.

• SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO). Install OS & run diagnostics on C-Series.

• Cisco Driver Update Utility – Install and upgrade UCS drivers for your OS.

• UCS Diagnostics (bootable ISO) – Test your B-Series server

• UCSPE – UCS Platform Emulator

• UCS PowerTool – Powershell tools for UCS

• UCS Performance Manager – Single console visibility into UCS for performance monitoring and capacity planning including ties app performance to physical and virtual performance.

• UCS Central – Manage and control multiple UCS domains together.

• UCS Director - Replaces manual data center provisioning with automated workflows to increase IT consistency and speed. Replaces multiple consoles with single console. Users can self-provision.

Tools


UCS Diagnostics Enhanced User diagnostic capabilities

Memory Noise, Random Address tests ECC, DIMM SPD error tests

March, Walk, Address NUMA

Storage S.M.A.R.T, Background Self Tests

Hard Drive/Logical Drive Tests

PCI and Board Mgmt PCI Bus Tests, CIMC Self Test,

I2C Bus Test

CPU Temperature, Stress tests

Cache Validation tests Calculation, QPI Link Tests

Network Adapter Adapter Tests – Loopback, Register,

EEPROM, Interrupt Link Tests

• UCS Diagnostics is focused on improved visibility of UCS HW

• Provides customers the ability to do RMA verifications, burn-in tests on HW onsite

• Highlight of diagnostics requirements shown here

• A standalone utility initially - integration with UCSM may happen in the future

UCS diagnostic capabilities for greater visibility and predictability at a user level

UCS Diagnostics Available

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UCS Platform Emulator

Full-featured emulator for the UCS Manager

Installs as a virtual machine

Provides complete support for all XML API calls

Object browser to peruse the UCSM model

Import and replicate existing live UCS Manager physical inventory

Share saved physical inventories among UCS Platform Emulators

Drag-and-drop hardware builder to create custom physical inventory

Use cases: Developers, dry-run changes, training, demonstrations

Download at: http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe

http://communities.cisco.com/ucspe




• Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper

• Cmdlet definition and structure

• Get-help support

• .NET UCS Namespace Library

• XML API call construction

• Class Definition

• Validation

• PowerShell Design

• .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration

• Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases

Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware

Cisco UCS

PowerTool Module

UCS .NET Namespace

UCS XML API

cmdlets


• Single console for device health and performance monitoring (Compute, Network, Storage and Hosts)

• Out of the box configurations, thresholds to prevent under provisioning and resource constraints

• Quickly identify degraded/disabled components, Identify bottlenecks, detect performance anomalies

• Integrated Infrastructure Capacity planning

• Trends/graphs, Reporting, filtering, search

• Scalable and modular system for easy expansion

• Simple to install, configure, use

UCS Performance Manager Features and Capabilities


UCS Performance Manager Differentiators

• Works across compute, storage, network,

and defined workloads

• Supports VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod,

EMC VSPEX, and Cisco custom designs

Unified Infrastructure View

• Rapid deployment

• No agents

• Web user interface Immediate Value

Pre-configured: Focused

Analytics

• Optimized for UCS Fabric

• Finds constrained resources and

identifies contributing components and

configuration issues

Integrated

Infrastructure

Performance

Management and

Assurance


• Microsoft Integration - System Center 2012 and SCCVM integration –

• VMware Integration – vCenter plugin gives visibility into UCS from VMware

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Plug-in for UCS – Manage UCS from Oracle

• Openstack integration – UCS Automation with Openstack

• Other integrations – There are many integrations are available

Integrations


• http://software.cisco.com/download/type.html?mdfid=283850978&catid=282558030

Download Management Packs from Cisco.com


Downloads: All integrations UCS Platform

Emulator Scripting samples

Perl PowerShell Python

Documentation: Reference guides

Training guides

Collaboration: Blogs

Peer to peer forums

Access Cisco experts

Free!! http://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations

http://communities.cisco.com/ucsintegrations


Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


UCS Resources • Cisco Worldwide Contacts - For customers with contracts, Cisco provides around-the-clock, award-winning technical support

services, online and by phone.

• TAC Support Case Manager - Open a case with Cisco TAC online\

• Service Programs & Acquisitions - Describes Cisco UCS support offerings including details on hard drive retention.

• Cisco SMARTnet Service for Cisco Unified Computing System Describes via downloadable PDF Cisco UCS support options.

• Cisco UCS B-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the B-Series platform

• Cisco UCS C-Series Servers Documentation Roadmap - Links to most of the documentation associated with the C-Series rack server platform

• Cisco UCS interoperability matrix list - Detailed UCS compatibility information for hardware and software.

• Cisco UCS Storage Interoperability Matrix - Detailed UCS storage compatibility information for hardware and software.

• Cisco UCS Management Emulator (UCSPE) - Enveloped to enable the use of Cisco UCS Manager and the UCS XML API without physical hardware.

UCS Resources

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/tsd_cisco_worldwide_contacts.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/tsd_cisco_worldwide_contacts.html

https://tools.cisco.com/ServiceRequestTool/scm/mgmt/case

http://forums.cisco.com/ecom/web/service-programs-acquisitions/supportarticles/-/kb/751066

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/services/ps2827/SMARTnet_for_UCS.pdf




http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/overview/guide/UCS_roadmap.html



http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/overview/guide/UCS_rack_roadmap.html



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Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


Lifecycle transition plan

• We will continue to offer and sell B200/C220/C240 M3 through at least end of Calendar 2016

• We will continue to provide service and support for B200/C220/C240 M3 through end of Calendar 2021 (5 years after last sell date)

• We will sell key options such as CPU and memory and VICs for at least 12-18 months past the last sell date of the B200/C220/C240 M3 (~End of Calendar year 2017 to Mid Calendar 2018)


Tick-Tock Development Model

Cisco’s B200/C220/C240 M4 lines up with Grantley/Haswell (“Tock”) and its future Broadwell “Tick” that follows Haswell


Key Differences Between E5-2600 v2 & E5-2600 v3


Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.


Pick a much less expensive CPU for similar performance - Or - Pick fewer higher end servers for similar performance.




DDR4 More Performance

Integer Operation Floating Point Operation

39% 29%

* Benchmark result (16GB 2DPC@DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V)

DDR3 DDR3 DDR4 DDR4


DDR4 Lower Power Consumption

Memory Power System Power

DDR3 1.35V

DDR3 DDR4 DDR4 1.2V

*Condition: 16GB 2DPC@ DDR3 1.35V, DDR4 1.2V

15% 6%


Cisco UCS E5-xxxx B2xx and C2xx M4 CPU Options

Select one or two Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 product family CPUs

Some vendors are challenged by the higher power requirements making customers compromise between CPU model and memory quantity The MORE CPU you have, The More Memory you need!


B200 M4 Key Competitive Compares

NOTE: DIMM slots 4 and 5 are not accessible when either the E5-2699 v3, the E5-2697 v3, the E5-2643 v3, the E5-2637 v3, or the E5-2667 v3 is used. In a 2 processor configuration, there are twelve (12) total available DIMM slots.

Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D


B200 M4 Key Competitive Compares

Vendor H Vendor H Vendor D


Performance

Scala

bili

ty

UCS Products

1 RU, Compact All in one Server

Distributed environments – Small

Retail, Healthcare, Education

UCS E-Series

1RU-4RU, Integrated Compute, Network

and Storage

Storage and compute intensive

environments

UCS C-Series

6 RU, High Compute resources Central Management, External

Storage

Regional Data Centers, Large Retail Industrial, Healthcare,

Enterprise, Commercial

UCS Mini

UCS “Classic” or “Scalable”

6 RU, Compute intensive Dedicated External Storage

Large scale Data Centers


UCS Compute Portfolio Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications

UCS C460 M4 4 RU - Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM

Slots - 10 PCIe Slots

Mission-Critical Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications

UCS C240 M4 2 RU - Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 6 PCIe Slots – up to 26 HDD

Optimal Platform for Big Data, ERP, and Database Applications

UCS C220 M4 1 RU – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - 2 PCIe Slots – up to 8 HDD

Versatile, General Purpose Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server

Half-Width Blade – Two E5v3 CPUs – 24 DIMM Slots - up to 80Gb of IO

Ideal for Bare Metal Enterprise, VDI, or Dense Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads

UCS B200 M4

UCS B420 M4

Full-Width Blade - Four E5v3 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO

Dense 4-Socket Blade for -Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

UCS B260 M4

Full-Width Blade – Two E7v2 CPUs – 48 DIMM Slots – Up to 160Gb of IO

Mission-Critical, 2-Socket Blade for CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

UCS B460 M4

Double-Height Blade – Four E7v2 CPUs – 96 DIMM Slots – Up to 320Gb of IO

Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Blade for CPU-Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

UCS C3160

4 RU - Two E5v2 CPUs – 16 DIMM Slots –up to 60 LFF HDD - up to 240TB

Ideal for large unstructured data repositories, media streaming and content

distribution

UCS M-Series 2 RU – 16 E3v3 Servers –4 DIMMs

/ Server - up to 32 Cores / RU

Designed for Cloud Scale Applications and Deployment


UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

An uncompromised combination of CPU, Memory, IO, and expansion capabilities in a modular blade form-factor

24 DDR4 DIMM Slots

Up to 2133 MHz speeds

Up to 80GbE of I/O

One PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot

Cisco FlexStorage

Controller / Cache / Media Options

Modular LOM (mLOM)

3rd Generation VIC

• Designed for a wide range of workloads from web infrastructure to distributed database.

• World-record performance

• Provides enterprise-level capabilities without configuration constraints

UCS B200 M4 Density-Optimized

Enterprise –Class,

Blade Server

Two Intel® Xeon®

E5 family processors


IO/Infrastructure configurations – support matrix


UCS B420 M4 Blade Server

A density-conscious quad-socket blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a full blade form-factor

48 DDR4 DIMM Slots


Up to 160GbE of I/O

Three PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slot

Cisco FlexStorage


Modular LOM (mLOM)

3rd Generation VIC

• Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization and bare metal applications

• Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features

• Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform

Four Intel® Xeon®

E5 v3 family processors

UCS B420 M4 Density-Optimized

Enterprise –Class,

Blade Server


UCS M4 Scalable EX Blade

A scalable and flexible blade server perfectly suited for a wide range of resource intensive and mission critical applications

48 to 96 DIMM Slots


Up to 320GbE of I/O

Via PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots

Cisco FlexStorage


Modular LOM (mLOM)

3rd Generation VIC


• Provides enterprise-level capabilities and features

• Ultimate 4-socket density-optimized enterprise blade platform

Two or Four Intel® Xeon®

E7 v3 family processors

UCS B260 M4

UCS B460 M4


Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server

A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a dense 1RU form-factor

24 DDR4 DIMM Slots


Modular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

Two PCIe 3.0 Slots

One PCIe slot “VIC-Optimized”

Security Bezel

Optional

Cisco FlexStorage

Up to 8 SFF or 4 LFF drives


• Ultimate density-optimized, modular general

compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities

and features

• Standalone or UCS-managed operations UCS C220 M4 Density-Optimized

Enterprise Rack Server

Two Intel® Xeon®



Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server

A modular blend of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 2RU form-factor

24 DDR4 DIMM Slots


Modular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

Six PCIe 3.0 Slots

Four Full / Full - Four NCSI

Security Bezel

Optional

Cisco FlexStorage

Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF

+2 SFF boot drives

• Designed for a wide range of enterprise workloads including virtualization, big data, and bare metal applications

• Ultimate configurable, modular general compute platform with enterprise-level capabilities and features

• Standalone or UCS-managed operations

UCS C240 M4 Storage and IO-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server

Two Intel® Xeon®



C3160 Rack Storage Server Bare Metal and Virtualization

• High-density local disk combined with modular high-performance compute

• Dual processor server with up to 360TB in a

compact 4U Form Factor

Capacity Optimized Server UCS C3000 Series Rack Server Family

• Large scale content storage and data repositories

• Distributed file-systems

• Big Data and Hadoop applications

• Media streaming and transcoding

BIG DATA

Single / Dual Server

Dual CPU socket per server

Up to 1TB Memory

512GB per server

Up to 64 Drive Bays

60 LFF, plus 4 SFF

4GB RAID Cache

Enterprise storage features

Dual Modular LOM (mLOM)

Multiple Connectivity Options

Security Bezel Optional

Openstack


Modular Architecture of the UCS C3160 Drives: Top Load

4 Rows of 14 drives - 56 drives

1 to 4 rows of 4TB/6TB HD

1 row of 7 or 14 Enterprise SSD

FANS

8 hot-pluggable fans

Server Node

2x E5-2600 V2 CPUs

128/256GB RAM

1GB/4GB RAID Cache

Optional Disk Expansion

4x hot-swappable rear-load LFF 4TB/6TB HDD

OS/Boot Drives

Two 120GB SSDs

System I/O Controller (SIOC)

Cisco mLOM Slot

Power Supply

4 hot-pluggable PSUs


Cisco C880 M4 Rack Server

High Performance Analytics Platform Built with SAP HANA in Mind

192 DDR3 DIMM Slots


UCS Director Integration

For Scale up and Scale out configurations

Specific SAP HANA Configurations

2TB and 6TB – Scale up and Scale out

SAP configs that will be certified for 8 socket

• 2T stand alone

• 6T stand alone

• 2T with EMC/NTAP

• 6T with EMC/NTAP

• 2T Scale OUT cluster with EMC

Cisco C880 M4 8-Socket Server for SAP HANA

Eight Intel® Xeon®

E7-8890 v2 processors


UCS M-Series Modular Servers

UCS M-Series

True Server Disaggregation

Compact Chassis 8 Compute cartridges

Shared Local Resources Network and storage resources

Lightweight Compute Cartridge Two Independent Intel

Xeon E3 Servers

No adapters or HDDs

Based on Cisco System Link Technology

3rd Gen VIC extends UCS fabric to within the server

Shared Local Resources

Four shared SSDs in the chassis

Shared dual 40Gb connectivity

Compute Density

16 Intel Xeon E3 Compute nodes in 2RU chassis

Each cartridge holds two independent compute nodes


• Built upon the C240M3 platform

• Converged target (FC/iSCSI) and media management (BTL)

• Workgroup / POD focused

250,000 IOPS 1.9 GB/s Bandwidth Up to 24 TB RAW

Cisco UCS Invicta Series

UCS Invicta Appliance Application Acceleration

Data Optimization

Multiple Workloads

Tuning-Free Performance


Innovative UCS I/O Cards

Cisco VIC Third-Party Adapters Flash Card GPUs

• IO consolidation, scale, and flexibility managed by UCSM

• Industry-leading performance

• Robust ecosystem with storage and OS qualifications

• Best-of-breed options for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and CNAs

• Fiber and copper interfaces

• Broad support for most popular operating systems and storage

• Tier-0 storage/server side flash

• High performance: 100K + IOPS

• Significantly reduce application latency and response time

• GPU acceleration for VDI

• Rich graphics experience on thin clients

• GPU pass through or sharing for 20 users or more


Next Steps







Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


XML API

UCS Is Redefining Server Management 10,000 UCS Servers: Monitor and Manage Seamlessly

Third Party UCS CLI + UCS Manager + UCS Central + UCS Director

goUCS Automation Tools

CDN .NET/ Windows PowerShell

Python, Perl XML

UCS M Data Center 1

UCS M Single UCS Domain

UCS M Data Centers 3, 4 ....

UCS M Data Center 2

Customer

Blade and rack servers in the same domain— form factor agnostic

Standards-based XML API presents bidirectional single interface to entire solution

UCS offers the customers the broadest choice of Cisco or third-party management tools

UCS Manager CLI UCS Central

UCS Director


UCS Manager 3.0: HTML5 support


UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure Management and

Orchestration

CIMC FlexPod vBlock

Non-Cisco Infrastructure

UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-Domain

Management

UCS Manager Domain x

UCS Manager Domain 1

UCS Management Portfolio

Cisco IMC Supervisor

VersaStack

UCS Manager Mini Domain x

UCS Invicta


CIMC

UCS Management Embedded and Centralization


CIMC Overview

• Key Features: • Out of Band management controller (Includes KVM/Media)

• Always On (standby power)

• XML API Interface to CIMC

• Provides Integration to UCSM

• Provides HTML GUI or SSH CLI management • Configure BIOS Settings

• Configure BIOS Boot Order

• HW Inventory

• Power controls/policy; Launch KVM and remote media (included)

• Monitor hardware events; configure to send SNMP/Syslog events

• Centralized Authentication

CIMC Software runs on Baseboard Management

Controller (BMC) Embedded on the System Board


CIMC Remote KVM and Remote Media

• Included feature of ALL UCS servers • No extra hardware or keys to purchase

• Remote KVM • Launched from CIMC toolbar or server summary page

• Can be used access any boot utilities (e.g. Boot menu, BIOS, CIMC config, network boot)

• Remote Media • Provides a way to mount and ISO or IMG file from local

workstation to be used by server.

• Eliminates the need to install media in an optical drive or to physically be present wit the server.

• Presented to BIOS as a virtual CD/DVD for boot.

• Requires USB ports to be active.


• HUU – Host Upgrade Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco Host Upgrade Utility (hereafter referred to as the "HUU") is a tool that you can use to

upgrade the firmware on one or multiple Cisco UCS C-Series servers.

• Selective Upgrade of drivers is also possible.

• SCU – Software Configuration Utility (bootable ISO) • The Cisco UCS Server Configuration Utility (UCS SCU) is an application that helps you easily set

up manage and run diagnostics your servers from a single application

• Cisco Driver Update Utility • The Cisco Driver Update Utility enables you to install or update drivers for all supported devices.

• Install driver updates individually or collectively

• UCS HW and SW Interoperability Tool • http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html

Add on Tools for System Management

http://www.cisco.com/web/techdoc/ucs/interoperability/matrix/matrix.html


CIMC




Reduce costs and increase efficiency in managing Cisco Standalone Servers

Platforms Supported:

• C-Series M3 & M4 Servers

• E-Series M1 & M2 Servers

IMC Supervisor Core Features:

• Platform Hardware Inventory

• Hardware Health Status

• vKVM Launcher (Incl. vMedia)

• Firmware Inventory + Mgmt

• Call Home (E-mail Alerting)

Scale:

FCS Target: 1,000 Servers

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Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Grouping

Group Servers

Listed Group Members


Cisco IMC Supervisor: Health & Faults

Fault views are available: - Global View - Group View - Server View


Cisco IMC Supervisor: Tagging

Create tags and associate to servers. Tagged servers can

be queried and actions performed on groups


Cisco IMC Supervisor: Discovery

Discover servers by: - Server IP - IP Range - Subnet Mask - CSV List


Cisco IMC Supervisor: Server Action

Perform activities by server including: - Power On/Off - Reset - Power Cycle - Launch KVM

- Launch GUI - Turn-on Locator LED - Set User Label - Set Tag(s)


Cisco IMC Supervisor: Inventory

Server view includes: - Summary Data - Inventory by Subsystem(s)


CIMC







UCS Manager

GUI

UCS Manager

CLI Packaged Systems

Management Software

User Developed Portal, Tools, Utilities

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Embedded Device Manager

• Discovery, inventory, monitoring, diagnostics, statistics collection, configuration

Unifies many UCS HW components into a single, cohesive system

• Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric interconnects

APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure • SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP

• XML SDK for commercial and custom implementations

Key feature: Service profiles

• Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints


• Architected for Flexibility and coverage • PowerShell Wrapper

• Cmdlet definition and structure

• Get-help support

• .NET UCS Namespace Library

• XML API call construction

• Class Definition

• Validation

• PowerShell Design

• .NET Namespace provides common base for all Microsoft integration

• Targeted to support full manageability of UCS across multiple releases

Cisco UCS PowerTool Programmatic control over UCS hardware

Cisco UCS

PowerTool Module

UCS .NET Namespace

UCS XML API

cmdlets


CIMC


Management







All Workloads, Common Platform Unified Management

Big Data Cluster

UCS Manager

Data Center 6

Scale-Out Apps

Data Center 3

UCS Manager

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery

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Test Dev Exchange

vSphere

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Virtualized Servers and Apps

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Exchange

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Cloud

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SAP HANA Oracle E-Biz

UCS Manager

Performance Intensive,

Scale-Up Apps

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Web Server App Server

E-commerce Platform

E-Commerce Apps

UCS Central


UCS Central: Inventory

HW Inventory • Blade Type • CPU Type and Quantity • Memory DIMMs and serial numbers • Power Supply Information

Logical Inventory • Service Profile • vNIC, vHBA, iSCSI vNIC

System Inventory • Available Network VIFs, • VLAN • VSAN • VLAN port capacity • zone capacity

Branch 1

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UCS Central: Standardization

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HW Configuration Policies • BIOS Settings • VLAN Settings • VNICs & VHBA

Operational Polices • Date & Time: NTP, Timezone • DNS • Remote Access • SNMP • Debug Settings • Call Home • Authentication (LDAP, Radius, TACACS) • Equipment Power and SEL policies • Firmware

Global Admin Policies Branch 1

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UCS Central Benefits Summary

• Benefits for a Multiple Domains: • Information Dashboard

• Inventory

• Faults / Logs\

• KVM Launch

• Statistics

• Server Policies

• Component Settings

• Policy Subscription

• Identifier / ID Pool Management

• Multi-Domain Infrastructure Policies

• Admin Settings & Enforcement

• Workload Mobility

• Global Service Profiles

• Site Specific Settings

• Benefits for a Single Domain: • Information Dashboard

• Inventory

• Faults / Logs

• KVM Launch

• Statistics Collection - Long term collection of Network/Power statistics

• Planning for the future

• Why migrate to UCS Central when you can start day one.

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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution

On-Demand Automated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud Container

VMs Compute Network Storage

UCS Director

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Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation and

Lifecycle Management


Automate Service Delivery

Architect Design Where Can We Put It?

Procure Install Configure Secure Is It Ready?

Manual

Capacity On-Demand

Policy-Based Provisioning

Adaptive

From Weeks to Minutes

Automated Self-Service Provisioning


Administrator’s Dashboard

Rapid configuration and monitoring Customizable view

Quick status across critical components


Rapid Detection and Resolution: Utilization Reports

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Converged Infrastructure View

Rapidly View Converged Infrastructure Stacks


Self-Service Infrastructure Catalog Technical User Perspective

Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure Role-based access for technical users


UCS Director for Integrated Infrastructure FlexPod, ExpressPod, VSPEX, and Vblock (Hitachi and more coming…)

Define and manage resource pools

Open API for 3rd Party Integration

UCS Central

Self-Service Infrastructure Provisioning

Consistent Management Across Pods

Enforce Best Practices with Global UCS Policies

UCS Director

Available


Cisco UCS Director End-to-End Operations and Provisioning

• Single-click provisioning • Intelligent resource allocation • Automated, controlled

delivery

Result: Improved time to market

Minutes


Task Library

Rapid Creation of Orchestration Workflows

• Over 467 tasks across industry standard devices

• Drag ‘n drop creation

UCS Tasks

• Select UCS Server • Reset UCS Server • Power On UCS Server • Power Off UCS Server • Create UCS Service

Profile from Template • Create UCS Service

Profile • Select UCS Service

Profile • Modify UCS Service

Profile Boot Policy • Delete UCS Service

Profile • Associate UCS

Service Profile • Disassociate UCS

Service Profile • Create UCS Boot

Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy LUN ID

• Clone UCS Boot Policy • Modify UCS Boot Policy

WWPN • Add VLAN • Delete UCS Boot Policy • Delete UCS VLAN • Add VLAN to Service

Profile • Add iSCSI vNIC to

Service Profile • Add vNIC to Service

Profile • Delete vNIC from Service

Profile • Create Service Profile

iSCSI Boot Policy • Modify Service Profile

Boot Policy to Boot from iSCSI


Reports

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Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations



Orchestration

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Agenda

• Introduction



• UCS Maintenance

• UCS Support

• UCS Resources

• UCS Update

• UCS Management

• Conclusion


Next Steps







This webinar was designed to provide a technical understanding of the Cisco UCS solution and architecture as well as to provide detailed information on UCS Mini, a UCS product update (including details on the UCS Storage server), and a UCS Management portfolio update.

• Replay link for Session 1: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=b6c01417499048368dce82d48ea3cd0c

• Replay link for Session 2: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?RCID=9109f1520def455e8637253c5f6fc431

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