ExpressPod / FlexPod Technical Overview

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ExpressPod / FlexPod – Technical Overview Tomáš Michaeli

Oct 3, 2012

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FlexPod®

Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud

Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to public

Public cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchase

Hybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds

Application-

Based Silos Public Cloud

Zones of

Virtualization Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure

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FlexPod®

SAN A

LAN

SAN B

Mgmt

Complexity and Cost inside the

Chassis

• Chassis Management Module

• Ethernet Blade Switch Module(s)

• Fibre Channel Blade Switch Modules

• Virtual Switch Management

No less than THREE

different networks to

deal with!

• LAN

• SAN

• Management

FC Switch Mgmt

Ethernet Switch Mgmt

Lots of cables to manage

Unify and Simplify – Legacy Vendor View

Storage Tiers, BCKP

Mgmt Mgmt

FlexPod®

LAN

Mgmt

UNIFIED FABRIC HERE

Notice we have fewer cables and

more available bandwidth

UNIFIED COMPUTE HERE

Industry Leading Blade

and Rack Servers

UCS B and C series

SAN A

SAN B

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT HERE

Notice we have fewer, more capable devices

thus reducing cost and complexity

FlexPod®

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UCS Manager

UCS Fabric Interconnect

UCS Fabric Extender

UCS Blade Server Chassis

UCS Compute

Options

UCS Virtual

Adapters

& LAN

FlexPod®

Infrastructure Solution Portfolio

8

1

Scale up by

incorporating

Cluster-Mode

into FlexPod

2

Address new market segments and

use cases with a simple, low-cost solution

Solu

tion C

ost

Capability

FlexPod®

ExpressPod


FlexPod®

Positioning of Joint Infrastructure Solutions

ExpressPod

Physical & Virtual Management

Hypervisor

Nexus 3048

UCS C220 M3

FAS2220 or FAS2240

FlexPod

Hypervisor

Nexus 5k + UCS Fabric Interconnect

UCS B-/C-Series server

FlexPod Management Solution

FAS2240 / FAS32xx / FAS62xx

Enterprise-class solution targeting

architectural opportunity

Focus on strategic platform

Existing IT staff

Target: 500 users & above

Preconfigured to target a

transactional opportunity

Focus on simplicity and cost

Limited IT staffing

Target: up to 500 users


FlexPod ExpressPod

Insert solution name

or remove from master

ExpressPod

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ExpressPod for Infrastructure Consolidation

Cisco® UCS Unified

Computing System

C Series Server

Cisco Nexus® 3000

Series Switch

NetApp® FAS2200

Series Storage

Features

Simplifies deployment of IT resources

Cisco UCS C220 M3 servers

Cisco Nexus 3048 switches

NetApp FAS2220 or FAS2240 storage

Physical and virtual resource

management software

Implementation guide to facilitate

deployment

Pretested by Cisco and NetApp

Cooperative support model

Physical and virtual

resource management




Two ExpressPod Configurations

Cisco® Nexus

® 3048 Switch

Cisco UCS C220 M3 Server

NetApp® FAS2220 Storage

Small

Cisco Nexus 3048 Switch

Cisco UCS C220 M3 Server

NetApp FAS2240 Storage

Medium




Implementation Guide for ExpressPod

ExpressPod is tested and

documented by Cisco and NetApp

Documented deployment process

Deployment instructions

Wiring diagrams

Bill of Materials

High-level sizing guidance




Focus on Partners: Channel Topics

Why ExpressPod is relevant to your business

Who can sell the ExpressPod solution

Joint Cisco® and NetApp® partners in good standing

No certification, specialized

technical skills required

Updated tools and resources

Channel sales playbook

Demand generation




FlexPod


FlexPod®

FlexPod Data Center Platform

Prevalidated, Flexible Unified Architecture

Features

Standard, prevalidated, best-in-class converged

platform:

Virtualized and nonvirtualized environments

Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit

many mixed workloads:

Add applications and workload

Benefits

Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet

today’s challenges and scale for future needs

Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total

cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified

deployments and rapid provisioning of

resources

Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with

prescriptive sizing and design guides


Cisco UCS™ B-Series

Blade Servers (and/or

C-Series Rack Mount)

and Cisco UCS

Manager

Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches

NetApp® FAS

OnCommand™

Software Suite

10GE and FCoE

FlexPod®

Future-Proof, Validated FlexPod Meeting Needs of Today and Tomorrow in One Platform

Develop

and Test

Starting Out Data Protection

and Backup

More computing and

less storage

Less computing and

more storage

Deploy entry system,

then scale up

VDI

Higher performance

blades and more

input/output operations

per second (IOPS)

IOPS

CPU

Capacity Memory

Production

Balanced Infrastructure


FlexPod®

FlexPod®

Scale Out with FlexPod Repeatable,

Consistent Deployments

Increased performance and capacity

Scale out with standard and

proven configurations:

Predictable and highly efficient:

Capacity and performance

Floor space, power, and cooling

Benefits:

Reduce effort for architecture,

design, deployment, and testing

Reduce infrastructure deployment

cycle time by up to 50%

Manage pools consisting of

storage, compute, and networking

resources, not individual systems


FlexPod®

> 50% Faster

Many Weeks or Months

FlexPod Helps IT Accelerate the Business

Service Request

Design and

Size

DC

Planning Procure

Detailed

Design Deploy Test

Service Available

Traditional

With FlexPod®

Reference BoM

Validated design

Precise deployment

Standard test plan

DC

Planning Procure Deploy Test

Preprovisioned FlexPod Rapid deployment of applications

Shared pools meet most requirements

Service Available

X X

DC

Planning Procure Deploy Test

Service Available

Benefits Agile service delivery

Higher productivity

Faster deployment

Higher quality

Simpler planning


FlexPod®

Reduce Risk with FlexPod

Prescriptive Deployment Collateral


Step-by-step instructions for repeatable

high-quality deployments, including

these use cases:

Secure multi-tenancy and secure

separation

VMware® vSphere® and View™

SAP® applications

Microsoft® Exchange applications

Wide range of resources available:

validated design, deployment, and

solution guides

FlexPod®

Supported and Validated FlexPod Configurations

(cont.)


IOPS

CPU

Disk Capacity Memory

S upported

V

V alidated

alidated

V alidated

S upported

S upported S upported

Software

and Firmware

Changes

Software

and Firmware

Changes

Adding

Performance

Adding

Performance

FlexPod®

Flexing a FlexPod Configuration

Required Components

Cisco Unified Computing

System™ (Cisco UCS™) chassis

Cisco UCS blades with VIC

adapter

Redundant Cisco UCS Fabric

Interconnects (FIs)

Redundant Cisco Nexus® 5k

Redundant NetApp® FAS

Certain software and redundancy

features

Flexible Components

Cisco UCS blade model and

quantity

Port count of Cisco Nexus 5k

Fabric-attached storage (FAS)

controller size

FAS disk type, count, and size

Add-on cards, modules, and

interfaces


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FlexPod®

Methods to Obtain a FlexPod Data Center

Solution

Purchase individual components through a partner:

Assembled in-house, based on CVDs and other technical

collateral

Leverage existing equipment:

Purchase additional equipment to complete the environment

Leverage CVDs and other technical collateral to assemble

Purchase the complete solution through a partner:

Prepackaged, tested, and validated through a trusted partner

Delivered and ready to deploy


FlexPod®

Leverage Existing Investments


NetApp® V-Series Systems

Cisco

Nexus® Family

Existing

Cisco Unified

Computing System™

Fibre Channel

SAN

Storage

Array

Unify

computing

Unify

fabric

Virtualize

storage

Protect existing investments

Achieve benefits in each layer

as you go

Stepwise rather than all at once

FlexPod®

FlexPod®

FlexPod Connectivity


FlexPod®

FlexPod FCoE Connectivity


FlexPod®

FlexPod FC Connectivity


FlexPod®

FlexPod IP Storage-Based Connectivity


FlexPod®

SAN Boot Benefits

Centralized backup of boot images:

Enables disaster recovery (DR) and ease of backup

Abstract the service profile (MAC, world wide port name

[WWPN], firmware, BIOS, and so on) from the Cisco UCS™

hardware:

Allows easy swap or upgrade of server hardware

NetApp® FlexClone®:

Zero-cost, writable copies of the bare-metal operating system

(OS)

Highly scalable

Reduced deployment time


FlexPod®

Validated Workloads and

Use Cases on FlexPod


FlexPod®

FlexPod Data Center Solutions

VMware® (Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, View™)

Citrix XenDesktop

SAP® applications

Microsoft® private cloud/Hyper-V™

Red Hat Enterprise Linux®

Secure Multi-Tenancy

Validated

workloads

Performance-balanced server,

network, and storage

components

VMware View

MS

Exchange

MS

SharePoint MS SQL

Server


Hyper-V RedHat VMware vSphere®

Secure Separation Optional

security

Bare-metal

OS

FlexPod®

VMware vSphere Built on

FlexPod


FlexPod®

VMware vSphere Built on FlexPod

Base configuration tested and validated

for 1,500 users for four workload

applications simultaneously:

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

(VDI)

Microsoft® Exchange

Microsoft SharePoint®

Microsoft SQL Server®

Plus headroom for multiple applications

Flexibility to support multiple classes of

computing and storage in a single

FlexPod® for VMware data center solution

VMware®

vSphere® and

vCenter™

Cisco UCS™

B-Series and

Cisco UCS

Manager

Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches:

Cisco Nexus

1000V, 1010V

NetApp® FAS

10GbE and

FCoE

Complete data center in one rack cabinet


FlexPod®

Integration Delivers Powerful Benefits

VMware vSphere Cisco UCS and

Cisco Nexus

NetApp Storage

50% less storage required

with unified multiprotocol

storage architecture

First and only server to

storage interconnect for all

protocols

Built-in efficiencies such as

deduplication and thin

provisioning with faster

provisioning

Cisco UCS™ unifies

computing, networking, and

storage

Up to 30% improvement in

network throughput

Save up to 60% of memory

cost by increasing

consolidation ratios

VMware® vSphere® provides

end-to-end virtual machine

(VM) provisioning and faster

cloning

Up to 60% reduction in data

center capital expenses

Save up to 80% in energy costs

by lowering power, cooling, and

real estate needs

Network

Servers


FlexPod®

Microsoft Private Cloud

Built on FlexPod


FlexPod®

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track

Private Cloud Fast Track is a prevalidated,

best-in-class Microsoft® private cloud design

NetApp entry is the first multivendor private

cloud architecture:

Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, and

Microsoft

Microsoft infrastructure software (Microsoft

Hyper-V™, Systems Center including SCVMM,

SCOM, SCSM, and Opalis)

Cisco UCS servers and Cisco Nexus switches

NetApp storage and software

Accelerates private cloud deployments:

Technical reference architecture, design,

build, and operate guides

Unique automation capabilities due to Opalis

plug-ins

Cisco UCS™ B-Series

Blade Servers and

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches

NetApp® FAS

Storage Systems


FlexPod®

Applications

Microsoft

Data ONTAP® Windows Powershell™

Toolkit for integration

and automation

FlexClone® for rapid provisioning

OnCommand™ for health monitoring

SnapMirror® for disaster recovery

SnapManager® backup and recovery

NetApp

Microsoft Private Cloud Built on FlexPod


Cisco Strategy: Multi-Hypervisor and Multi-Orchestration

Síť

vSphere Hyper-V Open Source

(Xen, KVM)

Nexus 2K-7K + ASR 9K (Edge)

UCS Výpočetní systém

Hypervisor vSphere, Hyper-V,

Xen, KVM

vCloud

Director/

DynamicOps

System

Center

Open

Source Orchestrator

UCSM

Úložiště

onePK

UCS

Central

CIAC/

OpenStack/

Partners

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

NSM

ASA 1KV

vWAAS

CSR 1KV

Nexus 1KV

vPath vPath vPath vPath

ONE

Controller

SAP Applications Built on FlexPodTM


Requirements for SAP in the Cloud

Multi-tenancy

Provisioning/deprovisioning

Data protection

Application and data mobility

Monitoring/automation

Accounting/charge back

Enabling a Safe

Journey to

SAP Landscapes

in the Cloud


SAP Applications Built on FlexPod™

VMware vSphere

A single platform

Built on virtualization, standardization, and automation

Easy to scale-up or scale-down

With a modular solution design

Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) for clients, systems, subsidiaries, landscapes

Application and data mobility

Integrated data protection and disaster recovery

Extensible Open Management


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FlexPod Management Solutions


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Integration with hypervisors:

Automate workflows, scalable, extensible

platform

Hypervisor agnostic

Cisco UCS™ Manager:

Embedded unified management

Integrated with vCenter™

NetApp® OnCommand® management

software:

Integrated with unified manager for

provisioning, protection, and automation

VMware® vCenter Server or Microsoft®

System Center

Manage NetApp heterogeneous

environment

Apps NetApp

Storage Plug-ins

Cisco UCS Manager

Centralization and Open Management

Extensible Management with Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

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FlexPod®

CA Automation Suite

for Data Centers

Cloupia Unified

Infrastructure Controller

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Build a Cloud on FlexPod

Validated Management Solutions

for Automation and Orchestration

Products for turnkey management

of all FlexPod components

Deploy IT services in minutes instead

of weeks using repeatable workflows

Adapt for semi-custom solutions

Validated in Cisco® and NetApp®

labs

Sell with confidence GaleForce Turnkey

Cloud for FlexPod®


FlexPod®

Cooperative Support Model


FlexPod®

Incident resolution

initiated, no extra

nontechnical 800#

required

Cisco®

First-Line

Support

If development or engineering escalation required

*Valid customer support contracts with all three companies required

Cooperative Support Model Process

Customer*

NetApp®

First-Line

Support

VMware®

First-Line

Support

Cisco Support

Escalation or

Engineering

Immediate problem

analysis and resolution

process

Customer-assisted

handoff for multivendor

issues

Coordinated engineering

escalation process

Collaborated cross-

company engineering

and development efforts

NetApp Support

Escalation or

Engineering

VMware

Support

Escalation or

Engineering

Vendor engagement and

ownership through resolution


FlexPod®

Customer Benefits

Flexible: no rigid configurations required

Experience faster time to resolution

Less stress through improved cross-company

collaboration

Vendors engage and take ownership of issues

through resolution

Global 24-hour-a-day support available


FlexPod®

Cooperative Support Lab Initial Capital Investment

VMware®:

vSphere® Enterprise Plus

vCloud® Director

View™

vShield™

And more

Cisco® servers:

Cisco UCS™ chassis

Cisco UCS 6120XP

2140 Fabric Extenders

Cisco UCS B-Series or C-Series

Servers

Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco integrated fabric:

Cisco Nexus® 7000

Cisco Nexus 5548

Cisco Nexus 1000, 1010v

NetApp® unified storage:

Storage system clusters:

3210

3240

3270

6280

Multiple OS and

application workloads


FlexPod®

FlexPod Support Experience

Virtualization

Server

Storage

Network

Workloads

FlexPod® Support Service

Partners

NetApp

Authorized Support

Partner (ASP)

Oracle®,

Microsoft®,

SAP®

Other

Oracle,

Microsoft,

SAP

TS

Anet S

upport

Coopera

tive

Support


FlexPod®

For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/

Lower risk with simplified, prevalidated, shared architecture

Greater Efficiencies Lower Risk Flexible IT

Flexible IT scalable to meet the needs of both today and tomorrow

Reduced TCO and better efficiency

Certified data center specialty partners and cooperative support

Executive Summary


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FlexPod®

Thank You

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