Cisco Unified Computing SystemUCS-4784

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Cisco Unified Computing System

Core Technology Innovation James Leach

Arnab Basu

UCS Product Management


Technical Leadership

Unified Infrastructure: Compute, networking, virtualization, storage access, management software

Management Automation: UCS Manager and Service Profiles across blade and rack servers

Ideal for enterprise applications: proven for both bare metal and virtualized enterprise deployments

Design flexibility: Scale across systems and across data centers

Ideal Cloud Infrastructure: UCS is winning the cloud build-out (72% of top 50 cloud providers)

Cisco UCS Leadership and Momentum

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Market Momentum

UCS $1.3 billion annualized revenue run rate (CQ4-2011)

#2 US blade server market share with 19%

#3 WW blade server market share with 12%

Nearly 11,000 UCS customers

2,000 UCS channel partners; 838 achieved Data Center Specialization Certification

44 ISVs and counting writing to Cisco UCS API

Innovation on Cisco UCS Hardware UCS Fabric Interconnect and IO Module


2012 Raising the Bar AGAIN

2X density, scale performance

Roadmap for advanced networking features

Backward and forward compatible

UCS 6296, UCS 2204

2011 Raising the Bar

Unified ports: Dynamic ports—Lossless ethernet/FC

Latency and power improvements

Load balancing on chassis uplinks; Optics options

UCS 6248, UCS 2208

Innovation on the UCS Fabric Interconnect

and IO Module

50%Fewer Management Points

2009 Industry Firsts

Ethernet + Storage convergence

High performance lossless ethernet

VM awareness

UCS 6100, UCS 2100

40% Less Power

40% Lower Latency

Utilization + Flexibility + Performance


Product Features and Specs UCS

6120XP UCS

6140XP UCS 6248UP UCS 6296UP

Switch Fabric Throughput 520 Gbps 1.04 Tbps 960 Gbps ~2Tbps

Switch Footprint 1RU 2RU 1RU 2RU

Flexibility with Unified Ports No No Yes Yes

1 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 8 16 48 96

10 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 26 52 48 96

8G Native FC Port Density 6 12 48 96

Port-to-Port Latency 3.2us 3.2us 2.0us 2.0us

Compatible with IOM’s of different Generation NO NO YES YES

Support for 5+ generations of Intel CPUs TBD TBD YES YES

UCS 6000: Fabric Interconnects Significant Improvements vs. Generation 1

Shipping Now


Unified Port

UCS 6200: Unified Ports Dynamic Ports Allocation: Lossless Ethernet or Fibre Channel

Native Fibre

Channel

Convert protocol support on

the same port dynamically

All ports on UCS

6200 Series

16-port Expansion Module

for 6248UP Lossless Ethernet:

1/10GBE, FCOE, ISCSI, NAS

Use-Cases

Flexible LAN and storage convergence based on business needs

Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic

Benefits

Simplify switch purchase—remove ports ratio guess work

Increase design flexibility

Remove specific protocol bandwidth bottlenecks


UCS 6200: Low Network Latency* at Scale

Sub 3.2 usec Network latency for Server to Server traffic

– 40% Reduction in Network latency with UCS 6200/UCS 2200

Network latency at a scale of 160 Servers

+ Latency 2us Latency 0.6us + Latency 0.6us

* Network latency ~15% of end to end application level latency

+ Latency 3.2us Latency 1us + Latency 1us = Total Network Latency 3.2us = Total Network Latency 5.2us

40% Lower Latency

AND Better Application Response


UCS 6200: Power Optimized

AC Power Supply Available in UCS Power Calculator

DC Power Supply Expected Q3CY11

Use-Cases

80 PLUS Gold Efficiency Standard (87%+ Efficiency at all loads)

40% lower per port power consumption compared with 6100 Series

Flexible and Resilient

1:1 Dual Redundant Power Supplies

Auto-sensing 110V /220V

Warnings to protect against unexpected failures

Remote power cycle option

AC and DC power supplies

Saving of $5,000/Year

for a Six System Deployment


Product Features and Specs UCS 2104 UCS 2204 UCS 2208

Network Facing BW 40G 40G 80G

Port channeling on Network Facing Links NO YES YES

Host facing BW 80G 160G 320G

Port-to-Port Latency 1.0us 0.6us 0.6us

Compatible with FI’s of

different Generation NO YES YES

Support for 5+ generations of Intel CPUs TBD YES YES

UCS 2200: Series IO Modules Significant Improvements vs. Generation 1

Shipping Now


Parent Switch

Cisco’s Fabric Extension

UCS Fabric Interconnect:

High performance packet switching up to 96 ports

UCS Manager for simple comprehensive management

Convergence of ethernet and storage

Wealth of features in Nexus Operating System (NX-OS)

Start with an Industry-Leading

Access Switch



Parent Switch

Extend the Fabric

to the Top of Rack

Scale Out

Nexus 2000 and UCS Fabric Extender:

Increase switch size to over 1000 ports, 1G and 10G

Single point of management

Any feature, anywhere



Parent Switch

Reach the Fabric

Into the Server

Scale Out

Adapter FEX:

Logical division of 10Gb network adapter

Network visibility and policy enforcement on per-workload basis

Scale Deep



Parent Switch

Integrate with the

Virtualized Environment

Scale Out

VM FEX:

Single-touch provisioning of virtual machines and network— 4000+ Virtual Ports

Network visibility and policy enforcement on per-VM basis

Scale Deep



Parent Switch

Scale Out

All Benefits Made Possible with the Same

Innovative Technology, Pioneered by Cisco,

and Driven to Standard with 802.1br

Scale Deep

Virtual

Modular

Switch


80 GBPS 160 GBPS

40 GIG

PER

FABRIC

2208XP 2104XP

80 GIG

PER FABRIC

UCS 2200: Doubling Chassis Throughput

1. PINNED OR

2. ETHER-

CHANNEL FOR

IMPROVED BW

UTILIZATION


UCS 2200

Cost-effective transceiver for 10G FEX connections

Supported for connections between UCS 6200 and UCS 2200 ONLY

Available as cost effective bundles

SFP+ form-factor

Multimode fiber (MMF): Reach: 25m (OM2) 100m (OM3)

Low power: Approximately 1 watt (W) per transceiver

Cisco Proprietary; Incompatible with SR optics

Introducing Cisco FET Optics on UCS

Distance of SR at Prices

Comparable to TwinAx


UCS Fabric: Low ‘Total Cost of Ownership’

Lower operational and capital expenses

Backward and forward compatibility

Long lifecycle

Lifespan of 8½ +yrs!

March 2009

UCS 6100/UCS 2100 Introduction

November 2012

UCS 6100/UCS 2100 End of Sale

November 2017

UCS 6100/UCS 2100 End of Service


Innovation on the UCS Virtual Interface Card


Modular LOM

Redundant adapters

VM-FEX for MSFT HyperV

SR-IOV

Application benefits

UCS VIC 1240


256 vNICs or vHBAs

Dual 4x10Gb bandwidth

HW based ether channel

VM-FEX for Red Hat KVM

VMDirectPath for VMWare

High performance

Virtual networks

UCS VIC 1280

40%Lower Latency


128 vNICs or vHBAs

Dual 10Gb bandwidth

Fabric failover

Adapter FEX

VM-FEX for VMware

UCS M81KR

Twice vNICs orvHBAs

4 Times Bandwidth

Flexibility + Redundancy + Performance


Progression Slide

March 2009 March 2012

Unified Management

Administrative parity for blade and rack servers Scale to 1000s servers across Datacenters

RESULT: Removal of management barriers

NICs

BW Industry-leading Compute Without Compromise

Up to 8X Memory and 4X I/O Highest performing CPUs 62% Performance per Watt per RU

RESULT: Leading application performance; lower power

IOPS High Performance Virtual Networks

Up to 80 Gbps to each server 128X vNICs— 256 per server Blade servers at IOPs parity to Rack Servers

RESULT: Ideal for demanding bare metal and virtualized workloads

VM-FEX Highest Scale, Low Latency Networking

4X Bandwidth—2 Tbps 40% decrease in latency—Sub 2 uS 48 10G unified ports per RU

RESULT: Higher application scalability within and across data centers


Virtualization Manager

Server

VM VM VM VM

Cisco UCS

VM-FEX

Hypervisor

Server

VM VM VM VM

Cisco UCS

VM-FEX

Hypervisor

Server

VM VM VM VM

Cisco UCS

VM-FEX

Hypervisor

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Virtual Ethernet ports (vEth) Virtual Ethernet ports (vEth)

UCS Virtual Machine Fabric Extender

Expanding the FEX Architecture to Virtual Machines


Each virtual machine connects to a vEth

Collapse the virtual machine traffic on to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Manage virtual machine traffic from UCS manager

Cisco UCS VM-FEX

Extends physical network all the way to the virtual machines

Provides each virtual machine with dedicated “port” on the physical network

Collection of Cisco UCS VM-FEX and Fabric Interconnect 1 vNetwork Distributed switch


Virtualization Manager

VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM

Connect 1000s of VMs directly to the UCS Fabric Interconnect

UCS Virtual Machine Fabric Extender

Expanding the FEX Architecture to Virtual Machines


Virtual Ethernet ports (vEth) Virtual Ethernet ports (vEth)


Each virtual machine connects to a vEth

Collapse the virtual machine traffic on to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect

Manage virtual machine traffic from UCS manager

Cisco UCS VM-FEX

Extends physical network all the way to the virtual machines

Provides each virtual machine with dedicated “port” on the physical network

Collection of Cisco UCS VM-FEX and Fabric Interconnect 1 vNetwork Distributed switch


Real World Impact of Innovation

Application IO Performance Low

High Performance IO for Blade Servers

Industry’s 1st 80 Gbps to the blade solution

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency

Up to 10% more throughput at 30% lower CPU

utilization compared to a software switch

Up to 40% lower end-to-end

latency than a software switch

Up to 15% more performance

(Database workload)

VM-FEX (Hypervisor Bypass)

Expanding the Scope of Virtualization High Performance Virtual Networks

High


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Real World Impact of Innovation Latency

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency

Up to 10% more throughput at 30% lower CPU

utilization compared to a software switch

Up to 40% lower end-to-end

latency than a software switch

Up to 15% more performance

(Database workload)

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Real World Impact of Innovation Latency

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Distribution Across VMs

vSwitch Latency Affected by

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1/3rd Latency

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Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency


Network Throughput CPU Utilization

VMDirectPath Throughput Performance

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Hypervisor vSwitch CPU% Cisco VM-FEX CPU%

30% Less CPU for the

Same Workload 10% Greater Throughput

for the Same Workload

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency


VMDirectPath Status: Application Studies SQL workload on VM-FEX (UPT) on ESX 5.0

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency

6 VMs, 4 vCPU/VM, 16GB Mem/VM



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Up to 16% Higher Performance with VM-FEX


VMDirectPath Status: Application Studies SAP workload on VM-FEX on Red Hat KVM

Throughput

Application

Performance

Latency


Cisco Virtual Interface Card 1200 Series

For UCS B-series

2x4x10Gb, Unified Fabric

VIC 1240 and VIC 1280 for B-series:

PCIe gen 2 x16

Network Interface Virtualization

‒ HW capable of up to 256 PCIe devices*

‒ Devices can be tradition NICs or tradition HBAs

‒ Complete network separation for each device

Virtual Machine Fabric Extender

‒ Collapse virtual and physical switching

‒ Improved application performance

VMDirectPath with vMotion

‒ Bypass the hypervisor layer

‒ Virtualization performance without compromise


UCS VIC 1240 Modular LOM

Unparalleled Flexibility

‒ 256 PCIe devices, vNICs or vHBAs

Industry leading Performance

‒ Aggregate 80Gbps to the half width blade

‒ Aggregate 160Gbps to the full width blade

Simplicity and enhanced virtual networking

with VM-FEX

‒ Line rate to the VMs with VMDirectPath

‒ Consolidate virtual and physical network

with VM-FEX

‒ VMWare, RedHat and MSFT HyperV (Future)

Dual 2x10G


Flexibility and Benefits of Mezzanine Slot

Flexible Mezzanine Slot

‒ Port Expander Card

‒ Redundant VIC card

‒ Future special function Mezz cards

Benefit

‒ Enable full 80Gb of BW

‒ Without adding device

‒ Port Expander enable full 80Gb to the server

Dual 4x10G


50%Fewer Management Points

Innovation on UCS Compute Platforms


Third generation of fabric computing

24 DIMMs + 80Gb I/O + highest-performing CPUs in a half-width Server Blade

UCS B200 M3


Most dense compute blade (UCS B230)

2nd generation of Extended Memory Technology—1TB RAM in a Two-Socket Server

UCS B230, UCS C260


First generation of Fabric Computing

First truly integrated compute, networking and management in a single solution

UCS B200

2x More Memory

4x I/O Bandwidth

Utilization + Capacity + Performance


Unified Computing in an Enterprise-Class Blade Server for Memory and I/O-Intensive Collaboration, Decision Support and Virtualized Applications

B200 M3 Blade Server Industry-Leading Density Without Compromise

UCS B200 M3 Performance-Optimized Enterprise

Blade Server

Half-Width Blade

Form Factor

2x E5-2600 CPUs

Dual 2x 10Gb Modular I/O

24x DDR3 DIMMs

2x Hot Plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

Mezzanine slot (Gen 3)

Enterprise performance and advanced capabilities

Expanded feature set I/O and integrated dual 20GbE

Balanced performance and density

Advanced features without compromise


Mgmt Traffic

Data Traffic

(LAN and

FCoE)

Unified Management Extending Benefits of UCS Manager to Rack Servers

Nexus 2232

UCS 6100 or 6200 UCS 6100 or 6200

OS or Hypervisor

PCIe Adapter GE LOM

CIMC

Nexus 2232

Managed by

UCS

Manager

Nexus 2232

Reduces cost server connectivity

10Gb Unified Fabric Performance

All UCS C-Series supported

Scale to 160 C-Series per UCS domain


Unified Computing in an Enterprise-Class, Rack-Mount Server for EDA,

Decision Support and Virtualized Applications

C220 M3 Rack Server

Industrial design enhancements

Best server consolidation economics and footprint

Silicon and system level enterprise

features for datacenter general purpose compute

Expanded feature set Storage and I/O

Expanding the Unified Computing Portfolio

UCS C220 M3 Density-Optimized, Enterprise-Class

1 RU Rack Server

2x E5-2600 CPUs

1RU Rack form factor

8x SFF Hot Plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

Dual 1GbE LOM

2x PCIe Gen 3 Slots

2x Common

Form-Factor PSUs

(90+ Platinum)


C240 M3 Rack Server Expanding the Unified Computing Portfolio

Unified Computing in an Enterprise-Class, Rack-Mount for Storage-

Intensive, Collaboration, Decision Support and Virtualized Applications

Ideal for Storage-optimize enterprise workloads

Expanded feature set for Storage, network and I/O

Silicon and system level enterprise features for datacenter general purpose compute

Tool-less access and enhanced usability features

UCS C240 M3 Storage-Optimized, Enterprise Class,

2 RU Rack Server

2x E5-2600 CPUs


24x SFF Hot Plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

24x DDR3 DIMMs

5x PCIe Gen 3 Slots

2x Common

Form-Factor PSUs

(90+ Platinum)


B22 M3 Blade Server Expanding the Unified Computing Portfolio

Half width blade

form factor

Dual 2 x 10Gb

optional modular

LOM (for VIC

1240)

2 x Flexible

Flash 16GB

SD Cards

12 x DDR3 1600-

MHz DIMMs

2 x hot plug

SAS / SATA

HDD / SSD

Internal USB 2.0

port

1 or 2 x E5-2400

CPUs

1 x Mezzanine slot for VIC 1280

or 3rd party mezzanine

Balanced Price/Performance Feature Set to Address Quick

Deployment of Scalable IT Infrastructure and Web 2.0 Applications

Ideal for distributed workloads

Two-socket expandable capabilities with cost-optimized feature set

Up to 8x10 GbE throughput (redundant 4x10GbE)

Integrated LSI HW RAID

UCS B22 M3 Cost-Optimized,

Entry-Level Blade Server

Half width blade form factor

1 or 2x E5-2400 CPUs

12x DDR3

1600-MHz DIMMs

2x hot plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

2x Flexible Flash 16GB

SD Cards

Internal USB 2.0 port

1x Mezzanine slot for VIC

1280 or 3rd party mezzanine

Dual 2x 10Gb optional

modular LOM (VIC 1240)



Unified Computing in an Entry-level, Efficient and Affordable Rack-Mount

Server for HPC, Big Data, IT, Distributed and Web Infrastructure Workloads

Ideal for HPC scale out applications and SMB customers

Enterprise compute with entry-level economics

Industrial Design Enhancements

Most dense, cost-optimized rack server UCS C22 M3

Affordable, Space-Optimized 1 RU Rack Server

2x E5-2400 CPUs


8x SFF Hot Plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

Dual 1GbE LOM

2x PCIe Gen 3 Slots

Common Form-Factor PSUs

(90+ Platinum)



Unified Computing in an Entry-Level, Efficient and Expandable, Rack-Mount Server

for Storage-Intensive Big Data, IT Infrastructure and Small Database Workloads

Ideal for distributed, storage-intensive applications

Expanded feature set Storage, I/O and Quad 1 GbE LOM

Large, 24 HDDs of internal storage

1 + 1 redundant power UCS C24 M3

Affordable, Space-Optimized 2 RU Rack Server

2x E5-2400 CPUs


24x SFF Hot Plug

SAS/SATA HDD/SSD

12x DDR3 DIMMs

up to 192GB

5x PCIe Gen 3 Slots

2x Common

Form-Factor PSUs

(90+ Platinum)


Cisco UCS Performance: 63 World Records A History of World Record Performance on Industry Standard Benchmarks

Cisco UCS Benchmarks that held world record performance records as of date of publication

Best Virtualization

Performance

Best Cloud

Computing

Performance

Best Enterprise

Application

Performance

Best Enterprise

Middleware

Performance

Best HPC

Performance

VMmark 2.0 Overall B200 M2

VMmark 2.1 2-socket Blade B200 M2

VMmark 1.x 2 –socket Blade B230

M1

VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x 2-socket B200 M1


VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x

Blade Server B440 M1


VMmark 2.1 Overall C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 Two–node 4-socket

C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 4-socket C460 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll

B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model

Order-to-Cash B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model

Order-to-Cash B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll

Batch B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 2-socket C260 M2

SPECjbb2005 2-socket B230 M2



SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECjAppServer2004 2-node B230 M1



SPECjAppServer2004 1-node 2-socket C250

M2

SPECfp_rate_base2006 2-socket C260 M2

SPECint_rate_base2006 2-socket C260 M2

SPECint_rate2006 X86 4-socket C460 M2

SPECint_rate_base2006

X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base2006

X86 2-socket B200 M1

SPECfp_rate_base2006

X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECfp_rate_base2006

X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

SPECjEnterprise2010 Overall B440 M1

SPECjEnteprise2010 2-node B440 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll

Batch B230 M2

TPC-C Oracle DB 11g & OEL

C250 M2

TPC-H 1000GB Microsoft SQL Server

C460 M2

SPECjbb2005 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_base2006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2

SPECompLbase2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase2001 2-socket B230 M2


SPECompMbase2001 4-socket C460 M2



LinPack 2-socket B200 M2

LS-Dyna 4-socket C460 M1






SPECompLbase2001 2-socket C220 M3

Best CPU

Performance


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