High Performance Scalable Solutions

1 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

High Performance Scalable Solutions with Cisco Unified Data Center and EMC

Siva Sivakumar Director, UCS Performance and Solutions Cisco Systems


Agenda

Changing data center economics

Cisco Unified Data Center

Cisco and EMC: Leading IT transformation

Q&A


Business Challenges

Technology Trends

Cloud Data Deluge

Budget Constraints

Security and Compliance 24x7 Business

Business Agility

Proliferation of Devices

Business And Technology Impacting The Data Center

Energy Efficiency


SERVER-RELATED SPEND (CAPEX+OPEX) WW Spending on Servers, Power & Cooling and Mgmt. /

Administration

OVERALL SPEND DISTRIBUTION

29%

22% 12%

11%

10%

7%

7% 2%

People Software

Energy / Facilities Servers Networking Storage Disaster Recovery Overhead

Source: Gartner—Cisco IT, ―Data Center Cost Portfolio‖ Source: IDC, ―New Economic Model for the Datacenter‖

Data Center Economics

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

$300

Power & Cooling Expense

Mgmt. & Administration—Virtual Servers

Mgmt. & Administration—Standalone Servers

Server Spending

High OPEX

IDC, 2011

Custo

mer

Spendin

g (

$B)


The Goal—Delivering IT as a Service

Business

Objectives

Traditional Business

Applications

Virtualized Applications

Cloud Computing

End-User Computing

IT Service Offerings

On-Demand Services

PEOPLE, PROCESS, TECHNOLOGY


Delivering IT as a Service

INFRASTRUCTURE TO DELIVER IT AS A SERVICE

Business

Objectives

IT Service Offerings

On-Demand Services

THINK UNIFICATION


Infrastructure Solutions Designed For IT-As-A-Service & Cloud

Cisco Unified Data Center

UNIFIED FABRIC

UNIFIED COMPUTING

Highly Scalable, Secure Network

Fabric

Modular Stateless Computing Elements

UNIFIED MANAGEMENT

Automated Resource

Management

(Physical and Virtual)


Cisco Unified Fabric Delivering Architectural Flexibility

Consolidated Infrastructure Simplified Management

Reduced Cost

Investment Protection Evolves With Business

Geographic Span

Integrated Application Delivery Seamless VM Networking

VM-aware Security

Ethernet Network

Data Center

OS & Management

Storage

Network

Scale

Convergence

Intelligence


Cisco Unified Computing System Built From The Ground Up For Physical, Virtual And Cloud

Efficient Scaling Simplified Management

Consistent Alignment Of Policy, Configuration And Workload

Fabric-based x86 computing architecture optimized for virtualization and cloud

Intelligence

Convergence

Automation

Superior IT Productivity Orchestration Ready


Automated Self-Service Provisioning

Architect Design Where

Can We

Put It?

Procure Install Configure Secure Is It

Ready?

Manual

Capacity

On-Demand

Policy-Based

Provisioning

Built-In

Governance

FROM 8 WEEKS TO 15 MINUTES

Cisco Unified Management Automated Self-Service Provisioning


Cisco Unified Data Center Industry-Leading Innovation

Unified Data Center

2008

• Nexus • MDS

• Nexus 1000V • VM-FEX • VSG

• UCS B-series • UCS C-series • FEX

• UCS Manager

• Service profiles • NX-OS Open API • NSM/CIAC

Open Resilient Secure Scalable

Network Convergence

VM-Fabric Integration

Fabric-Based Compute

Infrastructure Automation

Multi-Dimensional Fabric Span

•FabricPath/FEX •OTV/LISP •VXLAN


Cisco UCS Leadership And Momentum

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

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

• Ideal for enterprise apps: Proven for bare metal and virtualized enterprise deployments

• Design flexibility: Scale across systems and data centers

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

91% year over year growth FY12

$1.3 billion annualized

revenue run rate (CQ4-2011)

11,000 UCS customers

Nearly half of all Fortune 500

customers invested in UCS

2,000 UCS channel partners,

838 achieved Data Center

Specialization Certification

44 ISVs writing to Cisco UCS API

63 world record performance

benchmarks

Technical Leadership Market Momentum


UCS Ecosystem

Database & Middleware

Enterprise Applications

Operating Systems

Virtualization

Storage

Management

Vertical Markets

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Cisco UCS Performance-63 Records A History Of World Record Performance On Industry Standard Benchmarks

Best CPU Performance

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

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



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


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


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


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

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

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



SPECompMbase2001

2-socket C240 M3

VMmark 2.1 2-socket B200 M3

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


C220 M3

SPECfp_base2006 X86 2-socket

C220 M3

TPC-H 100GB VectorWise C250 M2

TPC-H 300GB VectorWise C250 M2

Cisco and EMC Transforming To The Cloud, Jointly

―With a shared vision for virtualized IP-based, networked data centers, EMC is a key strategic partner for Cisco. Together, Cisco and EMC are helping customers create and deploy data centers that are more efficient, easier to manage, and more dynamic.‖

―The Cisco and EMC alliance is dedicated to helping customers create and deploy next-generation data centers that offer greater scalability, security, flexibility, and functionality. We are delivering these capabilities to customers as a seamless set of solutions and services.‖

John Chambers Chairman, President and CEO, Cisco Systems

Joe Tucci Chairman, President and CEO, EMC Corporation


Why Cisco & EMC For Your Journey?

• Best In Class Products

• Flexibility And Control In

Your Cloud Infrastructure

• World-Class Partnership

With Shared Vision

Cisco and EMC Deep Technical Alignment

VCE

VSPEX

Reference Architectu

res

Appliances

Bench

Marks

Microsoft HyperV

VMWare Vsphere

Citrix XenDesktop

VMware View

Industry

Leading

benchmarks

Microsoft FastTrack

SAP HANA & BWA

GreenPlum

CLOUD VISION

Oracle DB

Oracle Apps

Microsoft

SAP

Citrix VDI

RISC migration


A NEW WAY TO DELIVER IT VblockTM Infrastructure

Platforms

• Management and

Orchestration: Unified

Infrastructure Manager

(UIM) framework

• Virtualization: VMware

• Compute: Cisco UCS

• Network: Cisco Nexus and

MDS switching

• Storage: EMC Symmetrix

VMAX or Unified

Solutions and Services

• Accelerate time to value of

business applications

• Seamless Support

EMC VSPEX With Cisco.

Simple. Efficient. Flexible.

Proven By EMC & Cisco.

Packaged By Your Chosen Partner.

Cisco and EMC Three Paths To The Private Cloud

Build Your Own Vblock

Converged Infrastructure

Best Of Breed Infrastructure Components

VSPEX

Proven Infrastructure

EMC VSPEX Solutions With Cisco

SMB SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

MIDRANGE SERVER VIRTUALIZATION

MIDRANGE END USER COMPUTING

• vSphere 5 or Hyper-V

• 50 & 100 VM Configs

• Integrated Dedup Backup

• vSphere 5

• 125 & 250 VM Configs


• XenDesktop & vSphere

• 250, 500, 1000 or 2000 Desktop Configurations



Cisco Industry Benchmarks On EMC

VMmark

Virtualization Performance

SPEC Java

Java Application

Server Performance

Oracle E-Business

Suite

2009 2010 2011 2012

VMmark 1.1 UCS B200 M1



VMmark 1.1 UCS C460 M1




SPECjApp Server2004

UCS C250 M2

SPECjApp Server2004

UCS B230 M1

XL Payroll Batch

UCS B200 M2

Medium Payroll Batch UCS B200 M2

Order-to-Cash Medium

UCS B200 M2





4-node



SPECj Enterprise2010 UCS B440 M2

SPECj Enterprise2010 UCS B440 M1

Medium Payroll Batch UCS B200 M2

XL Payroll Batch

UCS B230 M2 Order-To-Cash Large

UCS B200 M3

XL Payroll Batch

UCS B200 M3

VNX series

CX-4 series

Cisco and EMC Deep Technical Alignment

VCE

VSPEX

Reference Architectu

res

Appliances

Bench

Marks

Microsoft HyperV

VMWare Vsphere

Citrix XenDesktop

VMware View

Industry

Leading

benchmarks

Microsoft FastTrack

SAP HANA & BWA

GreenPlum

CLOUD VISION

Oracle DB

Oracle Apps

Microsoft

SAP

Citrix VDI

RISC migration


Cisco-EMC joint Solution highlights – recently published

• Oracle RAC certification and deployment

• Oracle Data Warehousing solution

• Oracle Siebel Study

• Oracle PeopleSoft Study

• Microsoft Private Cloud Certification – FastTrack 2.0

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 multi-site scenario

• Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 scalability study

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data warehousing study (FastTrack)

• SAP HANA scale-out certification

• SAP ACC certification with Vmware

• Multiple Desktop Virtualization solutions (VDI)

• Greenplum reference architecture

• RISC migration studies


Storage Layer

EMC® VNX 5300 with MPFS

Network Layer

Cisco Nexus 5500

Application Layer

SAP® HANA

Operating System Layer

Suse Enterprise Linux

Compute Layer

Cisco® Unified Computing System™


Cisco SAP HANA Scale-out

Appliance with EMC Storage • Based on B440M2 and VNX5300

– 1 VNX5300 per 4 Servers

• Certified for 16 nodes as of March 2012 – 4 VNX5300s

– Scale out and High Availability

• Unified Storage Connectivity – NFS storage for boot and software load

– Multi-Path File System for HANA logs/data files

– MPFS is ~3x faster vs. NFS

– MPFS shared storage enables scale out and HA

– IP and FC connectivity

– Solution uses all GA components

• VNX5300, MPFS Linux client

• Backup via the HANA Studio

SAN delivery

Application servers

Fibre Channel

IP network

NAS request

MPFS



• EMC / CISCO solution

• Scalable: 8 – 16 B200/M2 node implementation

• VNX 5300 array – FC & iSCSI

• Multi Protocol Support • Nexus converged SAN/Network • Boot from SAN • Converged FC/FCoE • iSCSI – HA VM storage

Full Microsoft integration – PowerShell for all components – SCOM 2012 management packs – SCO 2012 integration pack

‗Virtualized‘ hardware through UCS service profiles

• 22 to 75TB RAW storage for Server Applications / VDI solutions

UCS – B series

Cisco Nexus 5K

EMC VNX 5300

EMC/ Cisco Fast Track 2.0 Solution


Solution differentiation

– Minimize cabling with converged network (FC, iSCSI, FCOE)

– ‗Virtualized‘ hardware through service profiles

– Full redundancy in all components

– Full Microsoft integration

▪ PowerShell for all components

▪ SCOM 2012 management packs

▪ SCO 2012 integration pack

Modular growth for scaling up

Available through Cisco, EMC, and their partners by TechEd

EMC/ Cisco Fast Track 2.0 Solution


Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track: Joint solution with EMC • Accelerate your data warehouse roadmap with reference

configurations

• Reduce hardware testing and tuning with better Data

Warehouse performance out-of-the-box

• Enjoy a lower cost of ownership through better price

performance, manageability, rapid deployment and

industry-standard hardware

• Based on Cisco UCS C-Series rack-mount servers,

designed to operate both in standalone environments and

as part of Cisco Unified Computing System

• Powered by EMC VNX Series, achieve new levels of

performance, protection, compliance, and ease of

management


Medium Enterprise

Large Enterprise

Nexus 5K

1 x EMC VNX5300

Nexus 5K

2 x EMC VNX5300

Cisco-EMC Fast Track Reference Configurations

Cisco UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack-Mount Server

Cisco UCS C460 M1 Rack-Mount Server

Industry’s first Unified Fabric based Fast Track Configuration

Up to 40 TB User Data Capacity

Up to 20 TB User Data Capacity

Update in progress with UCS C260 M2

and VNX 5500

Update in progress with UCS C460M2

and VNX 5500


Cisco CVD on Siebel CRM

Published April 2012

Setup for Small, Medium,

Large Siebel Implementations

Siebel 8.1.1.4 with Oracle

11gR2 on UCS B-Series

Servers (RHEL 5.4) with EMC

VNX5500

Performance Study


Siebel CRM Scalability on UCS/EMC VNX5500

RAID 10

Oracle Backup

RAID 1

Boot Lun

Fast Cache

Siebel FileSystem

NFS (RAID 10)

RAID 10

Oracle log

100GB Flash Drive

200GB Flash Drive

2TB, 7200 SAS

600GB,15K SAS

600GB,15K SAS Flare DiskHot Spare

RAID 5 – Storage Pool Oracle Data + Application Binaries

CONSOLE

Cisco UCS 6120XP

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20L1 L2 MGMT0 MGMT1

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

1/2/4G FIBRE CHANNEL

N10-E0440

SLO

T2

PS2 PS1

3

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STAT

ID

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CISCO NEXUS N5548P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

STAT

ID

FI-B6120

FI-A 6120

CONSOLE

Cisco UCS 6120XP

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12341234

1/2/4G FIBRE CHANNEL

N10-E0440

SLOT2

PS2PS1

Nexus-B 5548

Nexus-A 5548

EMC VNX5500

vPC vPC

SP-A SP-B

SLOT

1

SLOT

5

SLOT

3

SLOT

7

SLOT

2

SLOT

6

SLOT

4

SLOT

8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

! !

UCS B200 M1

! ResetConsole

! !

UCS B200 M1

SLOT

1

SLOT

5

SLOT

3

SLOT

7

SLOT

2

SLOT

6

SLOT

4

SLOT

8

!

UCS 5108

OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL

! ResetConsole

! !

UCS B200 M1

! ResetConsole

! !

UCS B200 M1

! ResetConsole

! !UCS B250 M1

! ResetConsole

! !UCS B250 M1

! ResetConsole

! !

UCS B200 M1

B200 M2 2xXeon 5620@ 2.4Ghz/

4C, 24GB

Web Server-1

2xB250 M2 2xXeon 5680@ 3.33Ghz/

6C, 192GB

DB Server 1& 2

B200 M2 2xXeon 5620@ 2.4Ghz/

4C, 24GB

Gateway Server

B200 M2 2xXeon 5690@ 3.46Ghz/

6C, 96GB

App Server-1

B A

01

23

01

23

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23

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23

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23File Access

Block Access

B200 M2 2xXeon 5620@ 2.4Ghz/

4C, 24GB

Web Server-2

B200 M2 2xXeon 5690@ 3.46Ghz/

6C, 96GB

App Server-2

FAST VP

FAST CACHE

Unified Storage

Unified Storage


Why Siebel CRM on UCS/EMC VNX5500

Cisco UCS

Performance & Scalable Architecture

Easy & Quick resource provisioning (UCS Manager)

Ability to Integrate UCS Manager with Oracle OEM

EMC VNX5500

Unified Storage – simplified SAN management

FAST VP/FAST Cache - better performance


Cisco Reference Architecture for Greenplum MR

Purpose-Built, Highly Scalable, Easy To Manage, Fast To Deploy

Next Generation enterprise-ready Hadoop reference architecture

Hardware and software validated

Greenplum MR Hadoop software

Red Hat Linux OS

Cisco C-Series rack mount servers

Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and Nexus Fabric Extenders

Cisco UCS Manager


Cisco GPMR Reference Architecture: Compute Unit UCS C210 M2 Rack Mount Server

• Intel Xeon Westmere EP based high performance processors

• Up to 192GB of memory supported

• Small form factor (SFF) disk drives

– Higher density

– 50% lower power consumption

– 33% more capacity

• Redundant hot swap power supplies and fans

• Cisco UCS Management

– Cisco Integrated Management Controller

– One click management

• 2 x LOM ports

Cisco UCS C210 M2 Server •2 x 3.06GHz 6-core Xeon X567595W •6 x 8GBDDR3-1333MHzRDIMM/PC3-10600 (48GB) up to 192GB •1 x LSI 6GMegaRAID 9261-8i card •1 x Cisco UCSP81E Virtual Interface Card (10GbE Dual Port) •Drive options

• 10K - 16 x 900 GB SAS SFF • 15K - 16 x 300 GB SAS SFF • 7.2K -16 x 1TB SATA SFF


EMC Storage for Cisco VXI with Citrix XD

Cisco

MDS9000

Family

Unified Management

Unified Computing

Unified Fabric

Unified Storage

Virtualized Data Center

Desktop Virtualization S/W

Hypervisor

Desktop O/S

App App Data

• EMC Unified Storage part of

Cisco VXI 2.5 validated design

for Citrix XenDesktop

• Advanced failover and fully

automated storage tiering to

virtual desktop environments


Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite Replatforming – EMC IT case study One Of The Largest Single Global Instances Of Oracle 11i

Core Mission-Critical Applications:

– Direct Express (DXP) | Channel Express (CXP)

– Oracle Sales (CRM) | Service

– Contracts | Projects

70+ Application Tiers—VMware / Linux

Oracle Database 10g R2

12 TB Database; 8.8 Billion Rows Of Data

52 Million Transactions Per Day


• Cisco UCS B440

• Intel Nehalem EX Processor

• CPU—192 Cores

• CPU Utilization 10%

• OS—Red Hat Linux/ Vmware vSphere

• Storage—Symmetrix VMAX

• Sun Fire E25K

• UltraSPARC IV Processor

• CPU—224 Cores

• CPU Utilization 80%

• OS—Solaris 10

• Storage—Symmetrix DMX-3

Vblock Reference Architecture Sun Fire Server


*Based on EMC IT Internal Testing

PERFORMANCE GAIN*

60-90% Productivity Gains

$7 Million Saved

10x


Market Leaders in Storage and Networking

Shared Vision

Deep Technology Alignment

Cooperatively Developed Offerings— Products, Services, and Solutions

Integrated Routes to Market

Joint Venture—VCE

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