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© 2010 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 1
Krish Sivakumar
Product Management, UCS
August 2012
UCS CentralManaging multiple UCS systems
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Many products and features described herein remain in varying stages of development and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis.
This roadmap is subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco and Cisco will have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to deliver any of the products or features set forth in this document.
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Trends in Physical Server Deployments*
Uncontrolled Scale Out Consolidation through Virtualization Controlled Scale OutVirtualization Optimization
Web based AppsE-commerceRISC to x86 migrationsWindows/Linux
HypervisorsVirtual Machinesn:1 server reduction
VM sprawlVM networkingVM mobility
Mobile AppsVDIRISC Migration Tier 1 AppsBring Your Own DeviceSelf-Service
Increasing virtual:physical ratios alone cannot solve server sprawl
Good physical server management is key
* Qualitative data based on customer feedback
Time
Ser
vers
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UCS Central
UCS Manager
UCS Growth in Customer Environments
ServerChassis
Domain
Single DatacenterGlobal
Datacenters
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Simplifying Management in a Growing UCS Environment
Increased Number of Servers, Chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Datacenters
Centralized Management
Simplified Large Scale UCS Deployments
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UCS Central Summary Deployable as an external virtual machine based application
Delivered in two phases:
Phase 1:
Inventory, Fault, Log, Event Aggregation
Global ID Pools, Firmware Updates, Backups and Global Admin Policies
Phase 2:
Global Service Profiles, Templates & Policies
Statistics Aggregation
HA for UCS Central Virtual Machine with shared storage
Timelines:
Phase 1 in sync with next major UCS Manager SW Release 2.1
Phase 2 delivered few months after Phase 1
Supports UCS deployments in multiple datacenters
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UCS Central Architecture
UCS Central VM Appliance
HypervisorStorage forDB, SW
Repository
UCS Manager 1
UCS Manager 2
UCS Manager 3
UCS Manager n
XML API
Cisco.com
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UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management
Define Policies
UCS Manager
ServerEnd Point
Fabric InterconnectEnd Point
ChassisEnd Point
Apply Policies
UCS Manager is the policy manager
End points resolve the policies defined in UCS Manager
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UCS CentralPolicy Based Management
Define Policies
UCS Central
UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n
Apply Policies
Modeled identical to UCS Manager on how policies work
UCS Central becomes the policy manager
UCS Manager becomes the policy recipient and resolver
Ap
ply
Po
licie
s
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UCS Central Using UCS ManagerPolicy Based Management
Define Policies
UCS Central
UCS Manager 1 UCS Manager 2 UCS Manager n
Apply Policies
ServerEnd Point
Fabric Interconnect
End Point
ChassisEnd Point
Apply Policies
Define global policies one time centrally in UCS Central
Use and re-use policies across multiple UCS domains
Consistency, compliance for configurations for a growing UCS environment
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UCS Central
UCS Manager
UCS Central: Simplifying Large Scale Server Management
ServerChassis
Domain
Single DatacenterGlobal
Datacenters
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