Optimize Your SQL Server 2014 Workloads with Cisco UCS

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Cisco Data Center Solutions

The Optimal Infrastructure For Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Workloads

Aaron RigneyConsulting Systems Engineer

Date 9/20/2014

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Reduce costs

Decrease database and virtualization sprawl

Increase deployment availability and scale

Business Realities Are DrivingReduced Costs and ConsolidationRunning Your Microsoft Environment on UCS Allows You to…

Resulting in

1990 2014

Hardware computing capacity

Number of database apps

Number of DBA’s

• Underutilized Hardware• Overburdened Administrators

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The Solution: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Networking• Cisco Nexus 1000V

• Cisco UCS VM-FEX

Manageability• Cisco UCS Manager

• Cisco UCS PowerTool

• Cisco Integration With System Center

Compute• Cisco Unified Computing

(UCS)

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Simplify and Standardize SQL Server DeploymentsWith UCS Service Profiles

UCS Service Profiles are XML files that contain metadata for the server

Stateless servers require that a UCS Service Profile is associated with each workload

Once applied to a blade, turn on and bring up a new service profile in minutes to serve end users

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Quickly and Easily Deploy SQL Servers

Introduce SQL Server workloads into production with service profiles

Bring failed SQL Server workloads back in minutes instead of hours or days

Customize your operations with automated PowerShell scripts

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Pre-integrated data center components

Blade Servers Adapters Fabric Interconnects Extenders

Common Embedded Management System

Fewer System Components

Manageable Efficient Flexible

Unified Fabric Reduces

Components Management

Touch Points Efficient Agile

Cisco Unified Compute SystemOverview

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Cisco UCS Converged Adapters

Cisco UCS B & C Series Extended Memory Blade Server

(Interior View)

Efficiency and Performance

Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Compatibility

Cisco UCS M7 1KRConverged Network Adapters

Virtualization

Cisco UCSVirtual Interface Cards

Cisco ExtendedMemory Technology

48 DIMMs

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Service Profile Elements In Stateless Hardware

• Profiles to define a service and/or service elements reduces configuration errors and increase consistency across deployments.

Service definitions may define servers, networks, firewall policies, etc.

• Profiles can quickly and efficiently repurpose resources based on dynamic business requirements.

• Minimizing RTO in a more interconnected world requires additional mechanisms to increase availability

Self-healing

Restarting processes

In service software upgrades

Service Profile NIC MACs HBA WWNs Server UUID VLAN Assignments VLAN Tagging FC Fabrics Assignments FC Boot Parameters Number of vNICs Boot order PXE settings IPMI Settings Number of vHBAs QoS Call Home Template Association Org & Sub Org Assoc. Server Pool Association Statistic Thresholds BIOS scrub actions Disk scrub actions BIOS firmware Adapter firmware BMC firmware RAID settings Advanced NIC settings

SAN

LAN

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Service Profile Templates

Reduced Labor Cost

Reduced Error Rate

Simplified Tools Portfolio

Policy 1<data><data>

Service Profile 1

UIDs

Policy 1

Policy 2

Resources

Pool Data

Template 1

UID Placeholders

Policy 1

Policy 2

Resources

Pool Data

Policy 2<data>

Associate with Server

New Service Profiles From Template

Service Profile to Template

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Enforce Standardization in Your OrganizationWith Service Profile Templates

Configure Service Profile Templates specifically for your SQL Servers

Create new service profiles in seconds once you have a template

Foster consistent standardization of your SQL Server implementations with the standards set by your organization

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Monitor, Manage, and Maintain Your Infrastructure & SQL Server ImplementationsWith System Center 2012 R2

Proactively and efficiently manage and monitor your Cisco UCS Hardware with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

Automate, standardize and extend Cisco UCS deployment and management with Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

View and manage Cisco UCS infrastructure directly from System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager with the UI Extension Add-in for SCVMM

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Automate Your Data Center with Cisco UCS and Microsoft PowerShell Integration

Cisco UCS PowerTool is a user-friendly, PowerShell-based library integrated with Microsoft tools

A simple way to utilize Windows PowerShell to customize workflows to meet your business needs

Automate the deployment of SQL Server hosts and guests

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UCS Manager

Physical Virtual

Manage Your UCS Hardware With System Center 2012 R2 And PowerShell

“Single Pane of Glass”Operations Manager Orchestrator Virtual Machine Mgr

Unified Computing System

Software

Integration

Infrastructure &

Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V

Cisco Virtual Networking Solutions for Hyper-V

VM-FEX Nexus 1000V

Storage

Provision and Manage Windows Server 2012 R2 Physical and virtual environments supported by Cisco UCS and Cisco Virtual Networking Infrastructure.

UCSM integration is available for System Center 2012 R2

Cisco Nexus 1000V switch extension for Hyper-V is available with SC 2012 R2

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Use CaseService Profile Portability with SQL

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SQL Server-Physical

ApplicationServer-VM

WebServer-VM

Move Service Profile:Server NameUUID, MAC,WWNBoot infofirmwareLAN, SAN ConfigFirmware…

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Control Your Server Consolidation and Scale Your Virtual Deployments

Cisco UCS provides vast amounts of compute and memory per standard rack unit

Implement large, virtualized SQL Server workloads with sufficient I/O to service workloads without adding more blades and/or ports to the environment

Support for Scale-Out or Scale-Up virtual deployments

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Speed Your Transition to the Cloud With Cisco Validated Designs

Compute Cisco Unified

Computing (UCS)

Networking Cisco Nexus 1000V Cisco UCS VM-FEX

Manageability Cisco UCS Manager Cisco UCS PowerTool Cisco Integration With

System Center

• Rapidly launch to the cloud with a preconfigured solution

• Approach the private cloud with lower risk

• Scale up and out with ease

• Have confidence with a validated solution built on Microsoft Reference Architecture

orFlexPod

Manage With PowerShell System Center

VSPEX

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