UCS C460 M4

UCS Refresh 2014

Sascha Merg Technical Solutions Architect

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Agenda

§ UCS Leadership & Momentum

§ Compute Update

§  Fabric Update

§ UCS Manager Update

§ UCS Director Update

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Cisco UCS Leadership & Momentum Fastest Growing Product in the Market

30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS 2

Top 5 Server Vendor 1

88 world record performance benchmarks to date

3,850+ UCS CHANNEL PARTNERS

#2 WW market share in x86 blades 1

Source: 1 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Q2 2013, Aug 2013, Revenue Share Source: 2 As of Cisco Q4FY13 earnings results

More than 75% of all customers have invested in UCS

Fortune 500

$2B+ UCS Annualized Revenue Run Rate 2


UCS Innovations for Converged Solutions

Infrastructure Management

UCS Director

Density Optimized Solutions

UCS “All-in-One” Solution

C-Series Rack

Integration Single Wire

Management

Next-Gen Servers Ivy Bridge, Brickland &

Grantley

UCS Central Multi-UCS

Domain Manager Virtual Interface Card VM-FEX for ESX and Hyper-V,

10GBaseT, 40Gb, Ethernet, USNic, RoCE

UCS Storage Innovations

Compute Update


Cisco UCS: Many Server Form Factors, One System Industry-Leading Compute Without Compromise

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

UCS C220 M3 Versatile, General Purpose

Enterprise Infrastructure, and Application Server

Enterprise Performance

UCS C240 M3 Ideal Platform for Big Data,

ERP and Database Applications

UCS B200 M3 Optimal Choice for VDI,

Private Cloud, or Dense

Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads

Intensive/Mission Critical

UCS B420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Blade for Large, Memory-

Intensive Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

UCS C420 M3 Enterprise Class, 4-Socket Server for Large, Memory-Intensive Bare Metal, and Virtualized Applications

UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack

Server for Storage Intensive Workloads

UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web

Infrastructure Applications

UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web

Applications

Scale Out

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UCS C260 M2 Mission-Critical, 2-Socket

Extended Memory Server for Large, Memory-Intensive

Applications

UCS C460 M2 Mission-Critical, 4-

Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications

UCS B440 M2 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket

Blade for Large, CPU-Intensive Bare Metal

and Virtualized Applications UCS B230 M2

Density-optimized CPU and Memory-Intensive 2-Socket Blade for Bare Metal and Virtualized Applications

Available



Post-Brickland Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio







Private Cloud, or Dense

Virtualization/ Consolidation Workloads




UCS C24 M3 Entry, Expandable Rack

Server for Storage Intensive Workloads

UCS C22 M3 Entry Rack Server for Distributed and Web

Infrastructure Applications

UCS B22 M3 Entry Blade Server for IT Infrastructure and Web

Applications

Scale Out

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Orderable



and Virtualized Applications




UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications



Post-Grantley Consolidated UCS Compute Portfolio





Scale Out

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Private Cloud, or Dense Virtualization/

Consolidation Workloads





CQ4’14







UCS C460 M4 Mission-Critical, 4-Socket Server for Large, CPU-Intensive Applications


E5 v2 Refresh Highlights

§  Ivy Bridge is manufactured on Intel’s 22nm process technology –  Ivy Bridge is a die shrink (“Tick”) of Sandy Bridge microarchitecture

§  This is a refresh to E5-based M3 UCS servers: –  B420 M3, B200 M3, B22 M3, C220 M3, C240 M3, C24 M3 & C22 M3

§  Ivy Bridge refresh is a hardware drop-in (field upgradeable): –  No changes to the hardware as a result of supporting E5-v2 CPUs –  Firmware / BIOS must be upgraded

§  New systems support all new CPU / memory features: –  Max core count increases to 10 in Standard SKUs and 12 in Segment Optimized E5-2600 v2 SKUs –  Memory speeds increase across the board - Max Speed will move to 1866MHz

§  Existing UCS servers were designed for Ivy Bridge: –  Performance, power, mechanical and thermal design of M3 servers optimized for Ivy Bridge

compatibility

Romley / Ivy Bridge Refresh

Starting CQ3’13


Seven E5 v2 World Record Performance Highlights Cisco UCS with the Intel E5-2600 v2 family delivered up to

48% better performance over the prior generation of Intel Xeon processors across a wide range of workloads

+21% Oracle E-Business Suite Applications

R12 Benchmark - Cisco UCS B200 M3

+35% Java business logic

performance Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack

+48% Java server performance

Cisco UCS B200 M3

+12% General CPU performance Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack

Server

+37% General CPU performance

Cisco UCS B200 M3

NEW #1’s Parallel computing

performance Cisco's first result for

Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server

Desktop Virtualization performance

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server

first in the industry for VMware View Planner benchmark


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

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 2-socket B200 M1


VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 2.1 Overall C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 Two–node 4-socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 4-socket C460 M2

VMmark 2.1 Two–node 2-socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.1 Eight–node 2-socket B200 M3

VMmark 2.5 Two-node 2-socket C240 M3

Vmware View Planner 2-socket B200 M3

TPC-C Oracle DB 11g & OEL C250 M2

TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-C Oracle 11g C240 M3

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 Order-to-Cash B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-to-Cash B200 M3

SPECjEnterprise2010 Overall B440 M1

SPECjEnteprise2010 2-node B440 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Xtra Large Model Payroll Batch B230 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite XL Model Payroll B200 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite Large Model Order-To-Cash B200 M3

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




SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket B200 M2

SPECompMbase 2001 2-socket B230 M2


SPECompMbase 2001 4-socket C460 M2


LinPack 2-socket B200 M2

LS-Dyna 4-socket C460 M1





SPECompLbase 2001 2-socket C220 M3

Oracle E-Business Suite XL model payroll B200 M3

SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM X86 2-socket B200 M3


SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 2-socket C260 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M2

SPECint_rate_base 2006 2-socket C260 M2


SPECint_rate 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M2

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECint_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C460 M1

SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3 SPECint_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_base2 006 X86 2-socket C220 M3 SPECint_rate_ base 2006 X86 2-socket C220 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 4-socket C420 M3

SPECfp_rate_base2006 X86 2-socket B200 M3

SPECint®_base 2006 X86 2-socket C220M3

VMmark 1.x Overall C460 M1

VMmark 1.x Blade Server B440 M1


TPC-H 1000GB Microsoft SQL Server C460 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Medium Model Payroll Batch B200 M2

Oracle E-Business Suite Ex-large Model Payroll Batch B200 M2


SPECjAppServer 2004 1-node 2-socket C250 M2




SPECfp_rate_base 2006 X86 2-socket B200 M1

Best Virtualization & Cloud Performance

Best Database Performance

Best Enterprise Middleware Performance

SPEComp® G_base2012 2-socket C240 M3

Best CPU Performance

Best HPC Performance

Best Enterprise Application Performance

TPC-H 3000GB Price/Performance X86 Single- node C420 M3

Cisco UCS Performance: 88 Records


UCS Compute Blade Roadmap

Brickland

IVB Refresh

Expandable Servers (2S –EX)


B200 M3

B230 M2

Brickland

IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP)

Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh

Grantley

Grantley

B22 M3

B440 M2

B420 M3

Next Gen 2S –EP Blade

Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)

Next Gen 4S –EP Blade

Q1CY 2013

Q2CY 2013

Q3CY 2013

Q4CY 2013

Q1CY 2014

Q2CY 2014

Q3CY 2014

Q4CY 2014

Q1CY 2015

B260 M4

B460 M4


M4 Scalable EX Blade Highlights

Up to 6 TB of memory Up to 96 DIMM sockets *64GB DIMMs available

Post-FCS

UCS B260 M4 Full-Width, 2-Socket

(Brickland EX – up to 30 cores), 48 DIMMs

UCS B460 M4 Double-High -Full-Width, 4-Socket

(Brickland EX – up to 60 cores), 96 DIMMs

•  Designed for the most processor, memory, and IO-intensive workloads

•  Provides mission-critical RAS features •  Offers the benefits of blade density and

ecosystem with the added flexibility of a truly scalable system

Launched

Four E7v2 CPUs Up to 60 Xeon

cores Dual / Quad Socket EX scalable design

Optimized for both 2 and 4 socket scale (w/ required Scalability connector)

Up to 320 Gb of IO Bandwidth Optimized for Cisco VIC


Q1CY 2013

Q2CY 2013

Q3CY 2013

Q4CY 2013

Q1CY 2014

Q2CY 2014

Q3CY 2014

Q4CY 2014

Q1CY 2015

UCS Compute Rack Roadmap


Expandable Servers (4S –EX) Brickland

Enterprise Class Server (4S –EP)

IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP)

Value Server (2S –EN) IVB Refresh

Grantley

C24 M3

C220 M3

C260 M2

C420 M3

C460 M2

C22 M3

C240 M3 IVB Refresh Enterprise Class Server (2S –EP) Grantley

Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (2U)

Next Gen 2S –EP Rack (1U)

C460 M4


Security Bezel Optional

Four E7v2 CPUs Up to 15 cores per

socket 10 PCIe 3.0 Slots

Four Full / Full, GPU-ready Modular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

96 DIMM Slots DDR3 w/ upgrade path to

DDR4

Next Gen 4S–EX Rack Highlights

12 Drive Bays Two PCIe-capable

•  Designed for the most demanding server workloads such as in-memory database, EDA and CPU / GPU rendering

•  Stand-alone or UCS-managed operations •  Provides mission-critical RAS features •  Ultimate scale-up platform

A “No-Compromise” balance of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO and expansion capabilities in a 4U form-factor

UCS C460 M4 Performance-Optimized Enterprise Rack Server

Launched

Fabric Update


2011-12 Raising the Bar

§  Unified ports: Dynamic - Lossless Ethernet/ FC

§  Latency and power improvements

§  Load balancing on chassis uplinks; New Optics options

UCS 6200, UCS 2200

UCS Fabric Interconnect & IO Module

2009 Industry Firsts

§  Ethernet + Storage convergence

§  High performance lossless Ethernet

§  VM awareness

UCS 6100, UCS 2100

Planning


VIC 1227T

VIC 1227

VIC 1340

VIC 1380

VIC 1280

PCIe Adapter

Blade MLOM

VIC 1240

Q4CY 2013

Q1CY 2014

Q2CY 2014

Q3CY 2014

Q4CY 2014

Q1CY 2015

Blade Mezz

PCIe MLOM

Gen 3 VIC

Gen2 VIC SFP

Gen2 10GBaseT

VIC 1385

VIC 1225

VIC 1225T

Gen3 40Gb

Gen 3 VIC

Q2CY 2015

Q3CY 2015

VIC 1285

UCS VIC Roadmap


§  Description Two port 40Gb QSFP PCI-E Card based on the Sereno ASIC.

§  Features –  PCI-e Gen2 x16 – Sereno ASIC – Broadcom Phy – Two QSFP ports –  Link/Activity LEDs for SFP+ port –  NC-SI Connection (100Mb) –  Temperature sensor – FRUID EEPROM – I2C and MDIO/MDC Bus – Supports 4x10 connectivity with SR-4 Fiber and CR-4 Copper QSFP

§  Performance Sereno PCIe Gen2 limited to 64Gb per slot For high bandwidth applications, dual 40Gb VIC’s can be directed to dedicated sockets for maximum performance (100Gb + bandwidth)

VIC 1285 - Dual Port 40Gb VIC


40Gb Infrastructure

§  40Gb Switch Options Nexus 6004 Nexus 3016 Nexus 3132Q

§ 10Gb Switch Options 4x10 attach to 2K, 3K and 5K switches – Ethernet Only No UCSM support at FCS


User Space NIC Kernel Bypass Technology for Low Latency

What it is: Ultra Low latency technology based on VIC 1200s

What it can do: Improve node to node communication performance of clustered applications on UCS Consolidate dedicated cluster interconnect traffic on Cisco Unified Fabric

Since when it is available: C-Series standalone (Q3 CY 2013)

10Gb: Nexus N3548, N5K, N6K

B-Series (Q4 CY 2013)

Starting CQ3’13


Designer 25M Seats

Power User 200M Seats

Knowledge Worker

400M Seats

Task Worker Traditional VDI Market

Manufacturing

• Catia • Solidworks • Creo • ProE • PLM NX

Oil and Gas

• Petrel • CUDA Apps • Siesmic • Predictive

• Exploration

Medical

• Radiology • MRI • Tomography

Government

• ARCGIS • Google Earth

• CUDA Apps

Media

• Photoshop • AfterEffects • CS6

AEC

• AutoCAD • Revit • Rhino3D • Showcase

Cisco and NVIDIA partner to deliver exceptional VDI solutions Cisco UCS C240 M3 supports up to two NVIDIA Kepler GPU’s Tesla K10, K20, K20X for HPC

NVIDIA Kepler-based GRID GPU enables new VDI markets

UCS GPU solutions K1, K2, K10, K20, and K20X for HPC

Enhanced GPU support in UCS Available

Served by best-in-class Cisco desktop virtualization solutions FlexPOD - Vblock


UCS Storage Accelerators Available in a variety of form-

factors

Supported Platforms Cisco UCS B200 M3, B22 M3

and B420 M3 Cisco UCS C240 M3, C220

M3, C420 M3, C260 M2 and C460 M2

Available Accelerators Fusion-io: Blade Mezz – 365 GB and 785 GB

Fusion-io: Rack PCIe – 365 GB, 785 GB, 1.2 TB and 3 TB

LSI: Blade Mezz – 400 GB SLC

UCS Storage Accelerators

•  Optimize your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by increasing scalability and performance for non persistent desktops

•  Offload full or partial database structures to improve Database performance with less maintenance and tuning

•  An assortment of vendor, capacity and form-factor available to fit virtually any use-case

Acceleration solutions allow storage performance to be decoupled from capacity through the integration of a powerful new memory tier uniquely designed to accelerate

applications

Available

UCS Management


API API

Basic Management Functionality

API

API

UCS Director API

Stand-Alone UCS C-Series Unified

Computing System

UCS Central Policy Driven Multi DC, Multi-

Domain Management

UCS Director Policy Driven, Application Centric Infrastructure

Management and Orchestration

CIMC

Integrated & Converged

Infrastructure

UCS Manager Domain 1

UCS Manager Domain x

FlexPod

vBlock

Storage

Virtual Machines

Network Devices

Servers

Non-‐Cisco Infrastructure

Advanced Infrastructure Abstraction & Automation

UCS Invicta (Whipt

ail)

UCS Management Portfolio


UCS Manager 2.2(1) “El Capitan” Features Overview

•  Fabric scaling: VLANs, VIFs, IGMP Groups, Endpoints •  IPv6 Management Support •  Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD) Support •  User Space NIC (usNIC) for Low Latency •  Support for Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ)

•  Direct Connect C-series to FI without FEX •  Two-factor Authentication for UCS Manager Logins •  VM-FEX for Hyper-V Mgmt with Microsoft SCVMM •  Cisco IMC In-band Management •  Direct KVM Access •  Server Firmware Auto Sync

•  Secure Boot •  Enhanced Local Storage Management •  Flash Adapters & HDD Firmware Mgmt •  Precision Boot Order Control •  FlexFlash (Local SD card) Support •  Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Inventory •  DIMM Blacklisting and Correctable Error Reporting

Fabric Enhancements

Operational Enhancements

Compute Enhancements


•  El Capitan syncs to new underlying NxOS switch code, which enables UCS to increase the fabric scale numbers on the 6200 Fabric Interconnects:

•  VLANs (2000) •  VIFs (2750) •  IGMP Groups (4000) •  Adapter Endpoints (240)

Physical network adapters across all servers in the UCS domain

•  Also, increase the number of supported vHBAs from 160 to 240 per Fabric Interconnect

•  Support larger customer environments requiring more VLANS, VIFs, IGMP Groups, Endpoints

•  OVen required in Service Provider and Cloud IT Environments

Customer benefits

Feature details

Fabric Scaling

Features < 2.2 2.2

VLANs 1000 2000

VIFs 2000 2750

IGMP Groups 1000 4000

Endpoints 160 240


•  Enable IPv6 support for management port on the FI and on CIMC (In-‐band only)

•  UCS management IP addresses: 3 per cluster (1 for each FI and 1 for cluster) are IPv6 capable

•  Added support for IP pools to be IPv6 capable •  Allow access to external services (e.g. NTP, DNS) over

IPv6 •  External facing client applica[ons (e.g. scp, Vp, \tp)

and external facing services (e.g. sshd, h]pd, snmpd) are accessible over IPv6 addresses

•  Allow management of UCSM and Servers over IPv6

•  Compliance for RFPs requiring IPv6 support

Customer benefits

Feature details

IPv6 Support


•  Supported for Single Wire Management only (Data and management traffic on single wire to the Fabric Interconnect).

•  Supported for rack servers with VIC 1225 adapter only:

•  C260 M2, C460 M2 •  C22 M3, C24 M3, C220 M3, C240 M3, C420 M3

•  A maximum of 120 virtual interfaces will be allowed on each adapter directly connected to the Fabric Interconnect

•  No limit to the number of servers that can be connected to the FI (all ports could be used)

•  Economics tradeoff •  port-‐license cost vs. FEX cost

•  Support direct connec[ons of C-‐Series rack servers to the Fabric Interconnect without having to invest in a 2232PP FEX

Customer benefits

Feature details

Direct Connect C-Series To FI without FEX

VIC 1225 10G SFP Adapter ports

CIMC NC-SI C-Series Rack Mount Server

vNIC vNIC

vHBA vHBA

Mgmt

Ethernet Traffic FC Traffic Management Traffic

Single Connect (aka Single Wire Management)


•  In-‐band Management: CIMC management traffic takes the same path as the data path via the FI uplink ports.

•  Support In-‐band CIMC access over IPv4/IPv6 (IPv6 access not supported Out-‐of-‐band due to NAT limita[ons)

•  CIMC In-‐band access supports the following services (KVM console, vMedia, SoL)

•  No change to CIMC over Out-‐of-‐band

•  FI management only supported Out-‐of-‐band

•  Only supported on M3 servers onwards

•  Separate CIMC management traffic from UCSM management traffic

•  Increased bandwidth for management port •  Enable IPv6 access to CIMC

Customer benefits

Feature details

CIMC In-band Management


•  Direct KVM access launches KVM via URL •  h]p://<IP_address of CIMC> or •  h]ps://<IP_address of CIMC>

•  The Fabric Interconnect hosts the CIMC IP URLs •  The hos[ng is on default port for HTTPS (443). HTTP

URL is redirected to HTTPS. •  Requires authen[ca[on of the user by UCSM •  Supported over out-‐of-‐band only (Direct KVM access

over in-‐band is not supported) •  Supported only for IPv4 CIMC access •  A global knob to enable/disable Direct KVM access

(enabled by default)

•  System admin does not need to give UCSM IP address to server admins to access the KVM console

•  Be]er management policy

Customer benefits

Feature details

Direct KVM Access

CIMC IP Address


•  Support for crea[ng UCSM Boot Policies with mul[ple instances of Boot Devices (FlexFlash, Local LUN, USB, vMedia, LAN, SAN, and iSCSI)

•  Full control for mixing, matching and ordering all boot devices in the system

•  Precision control over all devices in the system •  Mul[ple Local Boot Devices (RAID LUN/SD

Card/Internal USB/External USB) and SAN •  Local & Remote vMedia devices •  PXE/SAN boot in mul[path environments

•  Supported for M3 servers onwards

•  Enables the crea[on of boot policies with mul[ple local boot devices

•  Provides precision control over the actual boot order

Customer benefits

Feature details

Precision Boot Order Control

Pre UCSM 2.2


•  UCSM provides inventory and monitoring of the FlexFlash controller and SD Cards.

•  Local Disk Policy contains seings to enable ‘FlexFlash RAID Repor[ng’

•  FlexFlash controller supports only one RAID level which is RAID-‐1 (Mirroring)

•  Number of FlexFlash Cards (0, 1, 2) is added as a qualifier for server pools

•  Customers can now manage the FlexFlash Controller configura[on from UCSM

•  Redundant configura[ons are supported

Customer benefits

Feature details

FlexFlash (Local SD Card) Support


UCS Central 1.1

Centralized multi-domain management across local and remote datacenters, including: •  Global Service Profiles and

Templates, Policies, and pool management for cross-domain consistency

•  Centralized Fault Management for quicker troubleshooting

•  Global Inventory, Statistics and Reporting to simplify asset management and sizing

Global Fault Management

Domain Group Hierarchy

Equipment Inventory and

Status

Tree Group Similar to

UCS Manager

UCS Central 1.1(2a) available as of March 10, 2014


UCS Central 1.1(2a) Release Summary – March 2014

•  Import UCS Manager Policies •  Remote Actions – Power, LED, Acknowledgement and more •  Sequential IDs •  VLAN/VSAN localization/globalization •  Scheduled Backups to Remote File Share* •  Separate UCS Central Operational Policies

•  3rd Party Certificates Support* •  Multi-Version Support •  Authentication Domain Selection •  IPv6 Support*

•  Microsoft SQL Database Support •  Power Consumption Reports •  Temperature Reports •  Fan Speed Reports

Infrastructure Enhancements

Operational Enhancements

Statistics Enhancements

* Note: some features will require a future maintenance release of UCS Manager 2.2(xx)


UCS Central Policy Import

§  Search for existing policies and service profiles templates in registered UCS Manager domains

§  Import UCS Manager policies and templates including the option to include any dependent policies

§  Estimate Impact provides full regression of the modified policies.

§  Policy import is supported on UCS Manager 2.2(1b) and later.


UCS Central Remote Actions

§  Remote control of key actions including: –  Power On –  Power Off –  Power Reset –  Locator LED On/Off –  Chassis Acknowledgements –  Chassis Decommission


3rd Party SSL Certificate Support

§ UCS Central now allows the registration of 3rd party certificates instead of self-signed certificates.

§  3rd Party certificates are required by the security organization at some customers.

§ Note: 3rd Party SSL Certificate Support will require a future UCS Manager 2.2 Maintenance Release


Authentication Domain Selection

§ UCS Central 1.1(2a) includes native and LDAP authentication –  LDAP Nest Group Support has been

available since UCS Central 1.1(1b) –  Authentication Domain can now be

selected from the log on screen.


Network Enhancements

What’s New: Cisco UCS Director 4.1

•  Scalability -Scale-as-you-grow architecture -Support for 5K devices; 50K VMs using Advanced Deployment Model

•  SDK available on cisco.com & DevNet (CDN) -Open automation for partners looking to create new device connector -15 partners currently in program

•  VSG application container support

•  Localization

•  Custom tasks

UCS Director Platform

•  UCS Integration -Local disk provisioning and policies -Workflow tasks for vNIC templates

and service profile -Assign blade or server pool to group -Cloning of profile and profile template

•  UCS Central Integration -Multidomain Manager concept -Inventory for UCS-M elements -Local/global service profile and

templates -Pools and policies for network and

storage equivalent to UCS-M -Select/deselect UCS domain assigned

to POD

•  CIMC Enhancements -CIMC 1.5 and Double Peak support -Inventory of C-server via XML API -Storage, VIC, and network adapter

reports -Launch KVM console of C-Server

through UCS-D -Fibre channel and SAN local and bare

metal boot

Compute Enhancements

•  Whiptail -Invicta, Acella API Version 1.5 support -Inventory reports -CRUD actions, workflows, and reports -Converged and stack views

•  NetApp Clustered ONTAP 8.2 -CRUD operations equivalent to ONTAP 7-mode -New context mapping

•  EMC VMAX and VNX Enhancements

Storage Enhancements

•  Nexus 1110, 6K, 9K support •  MDS 9250i •  SAN zone tasks •  SSH tasks •  Nexus 1K inventory


UCSD Scalability Features

§ UCSD 4.1 will be certified for following scalability –  Up to 50,000 VMs –  Up to 5000 Physical Nodes

§  Standard Deployment Model –  For Up to 2000 VMs, < 500 Physical Nodes –  Single OVF Deployment with Embedded Database for UCSD

§  8 GB RAM §  4 vCPUS

–  BMA and Powershell agents are additional VMs as in 4.0

§  Advanced Deployment Model –  For Up to 50,000 VMs, Up to 5000 Physical Nodes –  Multiple OVF Deployment (Each 8GB+ RAM, 4 vCPUs) for UCSD – All deployed from

a single OVF template §  UCSD Primary Instance (Quantity 1) §  UCSD Service Node Instances (Quantity 1+) §  Inventory DB §  Performance DB

–  BMA and Powershell agents are additional VMs as in 4.0


UCS Invicta Support

§  Support for Invicta API Version 1.5.

§  Inventory Reports (SSN, SSR)

§ CRUD operations (both UI Actions/Workflow Tasks) & Reports: –  Volume Group –  LUNs –  Initiator Groups –  VLAN –  Physical Interfaces –  Bond

§ Converged View

§ Workflows –  attaching storage as Datastore (iSCSI, FC) –  SMT (iSCSI, FC) –  Bare Metal (iSCSI, FC)

§  Stack View

UCS C460 M4

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