Cisco UCS Performance Manager

Vish Jakka

Product Manager, UCS, Cisco Systems

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Common Converged Infrastructure Customer Questions

Compute StorageNetworkVirtualization Apps

How do I view UCS fabric utilization?

Can I reconfigure to use more of the capacity we

have?

My application is slow. Is it UCS? Network?

Storage?

Can we simplify the view of all the

converged infrastructure pieces?

Do I need to buy more capacity, or can

I just adjust how we’re using it?

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Typical Customer Pain Points

Typical Management Toolset• Windows SCOM• Linux Nagios and Cacti• VMware vCenter• Cisco UCS Manager• Cisco Prime Data Center

Network Manager• NetApp OnCommand

“Like five blind men describing an elephant”

What’s wrong with this?“I have five excellent monitoring tools that provide a wealth of information. They all report on different consoles. They are perfectly useless.” – Ops Manager, Telco Service Provider“We have fifteen different management vendors, each vendor and technology silo specific. Each silo brings their own tool set to the table and correlating all the data is impossible.” – IT Ops Manager, Financial Services Firm

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Common Converged Infrastructure Customer Questions

UCS Performance Manager

Compute StorageNetworkVirtualization Apps

How do I view UCS fabric utilization?

Can I reconfigure to use more of the capacity we

have?

My application is slow. Is it UCS? Network?

Storage?

Can we simplify the view of all the

converged infrastructure pieces?

Do I need to buy more capacity, or can

I just adjust how we’re using it?

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Cisco UCS Performance Manager

Automated Discovery

Out of the box monitoring rules and thresholds

UCS Integrated Infrastructure

VMsComputeNetwork Storage

UCS Performance Manager

OS and Virtual

Machines

Storage

Network

Compute

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

Network devices

VM VM BareMetal

Single Customizable Solution for UCS

Infrastructure Monitoring

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• Appliance for performance and capacity management for Cisco converged infrastructure

What

• Enables active performance monitoring of the entire converged infrastructure stack

Why

• Cisco converged infrastructures: VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod, EMC VSPEX, and custom

Who

Cisco UCS Performance Manager

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• Determine if IOM server ports, Ethernet Uplinks, FC Uplinks are congested now or historically

• Identify congestion sources and configuration fixes, such as moving a service profile between chassis

• Key point: This is invisible to most network management tools

Provides Visibility into UCS Fabric

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• Determine if workloads and applications are affected by UCS configuration or capacity constraints

• Compare current and historical performance across converged infrastructure components to find constraints

• Key point: This typically requires multiple, independent tools

Extend beyond the UCS Fabric

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Better understanding of UCS component level performance Service Profiles, Chassis, Fabric Extender, Adapters, VIC, ports, uplinks

Maintain SLAs with Optimal resource allocation Aid optimal deployment and use of Integrated Infrastructure Prevent under-provisioning and avoid performance degradation

Single pane of glass for end to end monitoring Monitor device health and performance from the same console Agentless architecture Physical infrastructure – Compute, Network, Storage Virtual infrastructure – Hypervisors

Value proposition

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• Works across compute, storage, network, and defined workloads

• Supports VCE Vblock, NetApp FlexPod, EMC VSPEX, and Cisco custom designs

Unified Infrastructure View

• Rapid deployment• No agents• Web user interface

Immediate Value

Pre-configured: Focused Analytics

• Optimized for UCS Fabric• Finds constrained resources and

identifies contributing components and configuration issues

Integrated Infrastructure Performance

Management and Assurance

UCS Performance Manager Differentiators

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Determine if components/application resources are congested

Understand fabric utilization for physical and logical components

Ports, aggregation pools, service profiles, organizations, IO modules, FEXs, chassis, blade and rack servers

Standard usage analysis identifies overload and out-of-balance conditions

Multiple notification methods

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Application view: physical/logical/virtual resources

• Define application as a set of operating systems

• Dynamic view shows which UCS components are supporting those servers

• Event rainbow shows components affected by fault issues or resource constraints

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UCS Performance ManagerConfigurations and Roadmap

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UCS Performance Manager packaging

Integrated Infrastructure performance package UCS, network, storage, virtualization (Flexpod/Vblock/VSPEX) Out-of-box performance management, recommendations for optimal

provisioning of resources and capacity expansion based on actual workload

Entry-level – “UCS Performance Manager Express” package In-depth coverage of UCS fabric, IOM, and adapters

Bundle with UCS Central/Director for infrastructure provisioning and performance management Bundle PIDs, ELA/VLA models

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Phase I

UCS-PM Compute Edition• Dashboard for health & performance monitoring• Infrastructure Topology view• Service profile specific views• Historic graphs/trends, usage reports• Out-of-the-box utilization/thresholdsUCS-PM II Edition• Converged/Integrated Infrastructure coverage• Compute, Network, Storage, Virtual Infra• End-to-End topology views

March 2015

Phase II

UCS-PM Compute Edition• Capacity planning• Higher scale support• Integration with UCS Central, Support for ACI/APIC• Dynamic device relationship view UCS-PM II Edition• Integration with UCS Director• Support for UCS Invicta• Application topology views

Sept 2014

UCS Performance Manager Roadmap

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UCS Performance Manager Compute Edition

Compute

UCS ManagerUCS Central

Integrated Infrastructure

Monitoring (Compute Edition)

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UCS Performance Manager Integrated Infrastructure Edition (IIE)

Compute

Physical Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure

Network

Storage

FlexPod

VSPEX

UCS ManagerUCS Central Integrated

Infrastructure Monitoring

(Integrated Infrastructure

Edition)

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UCS Performance Manager IIE w/ UCS Director

Compute

Physical Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure

Network

Storage

Integrated Infrastructure Provisioning/Configuration

FlexPod

VSPEX

UCS ManagerUCS Central

UCS Director

Integrated Infrastructure

Monitoring (Integrated

Infrastructure Edition)

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UCS Performance Manager SolutionFeatures and Capabilities Single console for device health and

performance monitoring (Compute, Network, Storage and Hosts)

Out of the box configurations, thresholds to prevent under provisioning and resource constraints

Quickly identify degraded/disabled components, Identify bottlenecks, detect performance anomalies

Converged Infrastructure Capacity planning

Trends/graphs, Reporting, filtering, search

Scalable and modular system for easy expansion

Simple to install, configure, use