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FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud DC Bootcamp
Microsoft Private Cloud
Sam Van den Abeele – NetApp
Mohamed Agzenay – Cisco Systems
2. NetApp: The Foundation of Agile IT
2
Applications/
Databases
Virtualization
Compute
Network
Data
Management
Multivendor SAN
4. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
FlexPod™ with Microsoft® Private Cloud,
an integrated NetApp® and Cisco®
solution for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast
Track, is a prevalidated Microsoft private
cloud reference implementation
First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design
− Fully integrated with System Center 2012
and the Cloud Services Process Pack
− Based on FlexPod, an industry-leading
packaged data center solution
− The most scalable Hyper-V™ platform on the
market; save 50% of storage capacity
guaranteed!
Accelerates private cloud deployments at
reduced risk
− All HW components are shipping now
− Reference implementation is available now
− Learn more:
− www.netapp.com/microsoftsolutions
− www.netapp.com/guarantee
Cisco® UCS™ B-Series
Blade Servers and
UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp® FAS
Storage Systems
4
5. FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud
Validated with Citrix XenDesktop
Citrix XenDesktop is the first validated
workload on FlexPod™ with Microsoft®
Private Cloud
First Fast Track 2.0 Validated Design
− Fully integrated with Microsoft System Center
2012 and Citrix XenDesktop 5.6
− Validated to run 2,000 virtual desktops
− The most scalable VDI solution on the market
− Save 50% of storage capacity, guaranteed!
Accelerates VDI deployments at reduced risk
− Provision and manage large VDI environments
quickly and efficiently
− Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with
traditional SAN
− All HW components are shipping now
− Reference implementation is available now
Learn more:
− www.netapp.com/microsoftsolutions
− www.netapp.com/guarantee
Cisco® UCS™ B-Series
Blade Servers and
UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp® FAS
Storage Systems
5
7. 7
A Perfect Compliment
Protocol Support Unified Storage
Industry Leadership Storage
Virtualization Focus
Leading Storage
Innovator
Ethernet Expertise
10GbE leader
1st FCoE Storage
Open Unified Management
Simplified
Data Management
Unified Fabric
Servers & Networking
1st Virtualized Severs
Ethernet
Market Leader
Simplified
Network Infrastructure
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What is Microsoft Private Cloud?
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The Microsoft Private Cloud Journey
Hybrid
Cloud
Virtualization
Microsoft Windows Server
Hyper-V
Private
Cloud
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Public
Cloud
Automation – Orchestration
Microsoft Private Cloud
Microsoft Windows Server
2008/2012 and System Center
Consolidation
“FlexPod”
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Simplify Your Journey to the Cloud
Cooperative Services and Support (geography dependant)
Microsoft Private
Cloud on FlexPod
Validated Data Center
Design
Enterprise
Apps
VDI Secure Multi-Tenancy
MS
Apps
Validated
Designs
SQL
Server
®
Exch
2010
Share
Point
® VDI
J
o
i
n
t
P
a
t
h
w
a
y
s
Storage
Servers
Apps
Network Hybrid
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Unification of Industry Leading Technologies
Prevalidated technologies from industry
leaders in computing, storage,
networking, and server virtualization
One platform built from unified
computing, fabric, and storage
technologies, with popular and trusted
software virtualization
Integrated components that help you
centrally manage all your
infrastructure pools
Open management framework that
integrates with your existing third-party
infrastructure management solutions
FlexPod – A Simple, Secure Microsoft Private Cloud Solution
Address current virtualization
needs and simplify the evolution
to ITaaS infrastructure
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End-to-end VLANs
Physical and virtual
resiliency
Path isolation from the
VM through the
network to the disk
Infrastructure
Tenant
No single point of
server, network, or
storage failure
Tenant
Tenant
Tenant
Cisco and NetApp Integration: Multi Tenants and
Resiliency
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Memory Optimized
Server – Max VM
Density
Virtual network connectivity
PCIe x16
10GbE/FCoE
vNICs
Eth
0
FC
1 2
FC
3
Eth
256 vnics
Unified Fabric with I/O
Virtualization and
Consolidation
VM Network Visibility
and Control
Cisco Nexus 1000V
High availability high
density blade
Higher density virtual
host means reduced
server cost
Provision SAN and LAN
connections similar to a
virtual machine
Return network
management to the
networking team
Cisco + Microsoft Integration: Smaller Hardware
Footprints, Virtual Network, and Control
Microsoft Windows Server/Hyper-V
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Integrated backup at
the VM and
application layer,
CVS 2.0 supported
SnapMirror enhanced with
Microsoft System Center
Unified backup and
business continuance
Production data
deduplication
NetApp Data deduplication
Efficient, automated,
and array base
Integrated backup, disaster
recovery and business
continuity solution
Half the disks and reduces
replication bandwidth
SnapManager for Hyper-V
(SMHV), Microsoft SQL,
Exchange, and SharePoint
NetApp and Microsoft Windows Server
Integration
Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Space Savings
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Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V on
FlexPod Virtualized Storage
Virtualization drives up hardware
requirements:
De-dupe saves up to 65% in
Virtual Desktop environment
De-dupe saves up to 50% in
Virtual Server environment
FlexClone for rapid, easy
deployment
Intelligent Cache–more I/Os,
less disk
Manage data not disks:
Single pane management with
Microsoft System Center
and/or PowerShell
Hyper-V Cluster
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V
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FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud Management
Integration – Key Components
Applications
Microsoft
Data ONTAP
PowerShell
toolkit for
integration
and automation
FlexClone
for rapid
provisioning
OnCommand
Plug-In for
Microsoft
SnapMirror for disaster recovery
SnapManager for backup and recovery
- SMHV, SMSQL, SMEXCH, SMSHPT
NetApp
18. Management
OnCommand 3.2 Plugin for Microsoft with SCOM
• Leverage your existing storage management tools and skills.
• Use the same consistent interface to manage all of your NetApp
storage systems.
• Simplify your data management through integration with
Microsoft technology.
• Support SNMP and MIB management standards
OnCommand 3.2 Plugin for Microsoft with SCVMM / SSP
• VM to storage mapping
• PRO tips
• Integration with Microsoft Self Service Portal
Management Manage processes
and operations
MPs, PRO Tips,
SSP 2.0 Scripts
23. SnapManager for Hyper-V
• Fast Backups and Restores
– Back up with automated, low
impact, policy-based data
protection.
• Simplified Disaster Recovery
– Automate remote replication for
streamlined disaster recovery.
• Reduced Storage Costs
– Deploy space-efficient backup and
cloning, data deduplication, and
volume thin provisioning to reduce
storage costs for your Microsoft
virtualized environment.
• Nondisruptive Operations
– Maintain operations during storage
infrastructure maintenance and
upgrades and easily scale storage
without taking systems offline.
25. Windows 2012, Hyper-V and NetApp
27
• Support for Hyper-V on SMB 3.0
– Data ONTAP Operating in Cluster-Mode
• Key Scenarios
– Data ONTAP Continuous Availability Shares
– Windows 2012 ODX
– Support for VSS for SMB file shares
CAshares
VSS for SMB
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Embedded in Cisco UCS products:
Provides end-to-end management of the Cisco UCS platform
Eliminates the need for an external management server
Enables rapid provisioning and scaling of IT infrastructure
Comprehensive XML API gives customers programmatic capability to choose or
build their management tools
UCS Manager
Cisco UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft
System Center tools such as Operations Manager,
Orchestrator, and Virtual Machine Manager
• Utilization of Cisco power to enhance your existing
management tools and skill sets
• Operation of a single Microsoft interface to manage,
monitor, measure and automate at every layer
• One management system for both of physical and
virtual machines
Cisco UCS and Microsoft System Center 2012
Measure and Automate at Every Layer
with
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Cisco UCS brings software control to hardware infrastructure that is
easily managed by Microsoft System Center 2012
UCS Manager
A single point of
management for the
entire system
IO Fabric
Chassis and Servers
Adapters and Virtual
I/O
Centralized
A policy-driven
device manager
Configuration
Fault
Monitoring
UCS Manager
Unified management
platform
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Inventory
Reporting
Data protection
Patching
Standardized
provisioning of
application services
Virtual machine
management
Process automation
tools
Cisco UCS and Microsoft System Center 2012
Provide A Powerful Solution
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Microsoft Operations Manager and Cisco UCS
Manager Simplify Monitoring
Holistic view of converged
infrastructure health
Monitor alerts and faults on
chassis, blades, fabric
interconnects, I/O power supply,
fan modules, etc.
Manage multiple Cisco UCS
domains with single management
pack
Simple and powerful
visualizations
Graphical views of Cisco UCS
topology
Graphical views of physical and
logical entities and relationships
Reliable information
Cisco UCS XML API provides a
powerful, supported interface for
Operations Manager
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FlexPod Management Architecture
System Center
Powershell
APIs
Cisco UCS
APIs
Cisco DCNM
APIs
NetApp
Manageability
APIs
System Center
Orchestration/ITSM
Management
Provisioning
Troubleshooting
Self-Service Portal
Cisco UCS Manager
NetApp Operations, Provisioning,, and Protection Managers “OnCommand”
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Microsoft Server Applications in Private Cloud
Environment
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Operations
Manager
Orchestrator
Management Pack Integration Pack
.NET Library
NetApp FAS Storage
Cisco Unified Compute System
Software
Integration
Infrastructure
UCS Manager + NetApp OnCommand
Physical Virtual
and
FlexPod and Microsoft System Center 2012 Are
Tightly Integrated
Ease IT management through a single interface
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COMPUTE
Logical View of the Cisco UCS
LAN
SAN A SAN B
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Mgmt Server
Cisco Unified Computing Solution
A single system that
encompasses:
Network: Unified fabric
Compute: Industry standard x86
Storage: Access options
Virtualization optimized
Unified management model
Dynamic resource provisioning
Efficient Scale
Cisco network scale and services
Fewer servers with more memory
Lower cost
Fewer servers, switches, adapters,
cables
Lower power consumption
Fewer points of management
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Service Profile
UUID, MAC,WWN
Boot info
firmware
LAN, SAN Config
LAN, SAN Counts
Firmware…
Stateless Computing
Service profiles simplify orchestration:
Server mobility
Detached from physical devices
Reusable configuration
Web Server
Hyper-V Host
File Server
Service
Profile
Migration
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Access Layer Consolidation with Cisco Unified
Computing System
Cisco UCS consolidates entire
Access Layer into a single point of
management
Reduction in real estate in data
center power and cooling
Reduction in time to deploy
Chassis Mgmt
Unified
Network Mgmt
LAN
SAN A
SAN B
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A Single, Logical, Expandable Blade Server
Chassis
Add One UCS Blade Chassis
Add One UCS Blade Chassis
Add One UCS Blade Chassis
Architectural limit of 320 supported
as of 2.0.2
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Cisco UCS Consolidated Rack and Blade
Management – Cisco UCM
Consolidates the server
provisioning process
onto a single tool
Role-based access
control (RBAC) allows
independent LAN,
SAN, and server
administrators
management domains
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Cisco UCS Management Ecosystem
Manage Cisco UCS with industry standard tools
Service Orchestration
Provisioning and Configuration
Monitoring and Analysis
Microsoft Systems Center and
PowerShell
Unified Control API
Service Profiles
Cisco UCS Pools
Cisco UCS Manager
Application
Stack
Cisco UCS
Visibility and
Control
Operating
System and
Software
Management
Cisco Intelligent
Automation for Cloud
NetApp OnCommand
Management
Microsoft PowerShell,
System Center
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42
Cisco UCS
Market
Momentum
$1.6 billion revenue run rate
+15 800 Customers
#3 market share in x86 blades; #2 in US
+2600 Channel Partners
>64 world record performance benchmarks
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NetApp and Microsoft Private Cloud
42. Unified: Much More than Multi-Protocol
One Architecture
One O/S
Low-to-High Scalability
Flash Cache
SSD
FlexCache
®
Multi-Vendor
Virtualisation
Cost/Performance
FC
FCoE
iSCSI
NFS
CIFS
HTTP
Protocols
Same tools &
processes:
learn once,
run everywhere
Integrated data
management
Integrated data
protection
Unified Management
43. Hardware is Merely a Means to Scale
46
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Natively multiprotocol
Architectural repeatability
Operational consistency
2.4 - 2.9PB
FAS6200
480TB – 1.9PB
FAS3200
68 - 272TB
FAS2000
Virtualize 3rd
Party Arrays
V-Series
X - YTB
VM
Ontap-v VSA
Data Ontap
NetApp® Storage Portfolio
44. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Decision Support
Business Processing
IT Infrastructure
Collaborative
Web Infrastructure
Application Development
Industrial R&D
Relentless Data Growth
NetApp Confidential – Limited Use
If you were storing 100TB of online data
in 2010, you will store:
1.1 PB in 2016 (11x)
2.5 PB in 2018 (25x)
5.8 PB in 2020 (58x)
47
Worldwide
Storage
Consumption
10 Exabytes
20 Exabytes
25 Exabytes
15 Exabytes
Projected Enterprise Workload Growth 2010-2015
A Decade of Monumental Growth*
Terabytes
Source: IDC Multi-Client Study, Storage Workloads 2011, September 2011
* Based on industry average 50% annual growth
45. Today’s Opportunity and Challenges
Data Growth Impact On Business
Unleashes new business innovation
Enables new products and services
Becomes a competitive advantage
Data Growth Impact On IT
Becomes harder to manage
at scale
Constant growth becomes cost
prohibitive
Rapid growth makes it harder for
IT to say “yes” to the business
48
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46. Storage Efficiency
Low-cost components
SATA drives
RAID-DP ®
Flash Cache
Data reduction
Deduplication
Compression
Increased utilization
Thin Provisioning
Unified architecture
Fewer full copies
FlexClone®
Deduped backup
49
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Benefit: Cost containment in an era of monumental growth
Uncontrolled
Data Growth
Snapshot™ Technology
SATA/ RAID-DP
Thin Provisioning
Cloning
Compression
Deduplication
Flash Cache
Cost
Data Growth Over Time
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Unix NFS Administration
NFS
NIS Server Oracle /home/dir
Windows CIFS Administration
CIFS
Microsoft Active
Directory
Windows
Clients
Exchange Server SQL Server
ISCSI
FC
Switch
Tier 1
/vol/exchlun
Synch
Replication
/vol/oracldata
/vol/eng/users
Tier 2
Tier 3
/vol/oraclmirror
Asynch
Replication
Backup and Administration
Ethernet
Switch
/vol/sqllun
/vol/sqllun
LUN Administration
FCoE FCP
/vol/exch/backup
/vol/orcl/backup
/vol/user/backup
Agile Data Infrastructure
Traditional Storage Infrastructure
Shared Storage Tiers
Workloads & Users
Big Data
Content Servers
Virtualized Servers
Non-virtualized
Servers
A B C D E
Policy-Based Data Management
B C D E
A
Unified Data Network
FCP FCoE iSCSI
CIFS/SMB NFS/pNFS
48. 51
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Agile Data Infrastructure
Workloads & Users
Big Data
Content Servers
Virtualized Servers
Non-virtualized
Servers
A B C D E
Policy-Based Data Management
Replication Copy Creation
- Workload A
Unexpected Growth
in Workload B
Backup Copy Creation
- Workload C
Performance Issue
- Workload D
Unexpected Growth
-Workload E
System Upgrade Needed
Performance Issue
Resolved
Capacity Expansion Needed
Growth Issue Resolved
All Actions Occur Without
Disruption to Users
A1
C1
B C D E
A
Unified Data Network
FCP FCoE iSCSI
CIFS/SMB NFS/pNFS
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Editor's Notes
Goal of slide: Highlight the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud entry on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track page.Key Points: FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is the NetApp reference implementation of Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track.Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track (also previously known as Hyper-V Fast Track) is a prevalidated, best-in-class Microsoft Private Cloud reference implementation.NetApp’s entry is the first multivendor private cloud reference implementation.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, and MicrosoftMicrosoft infrastructure software (Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Systems Center 2012 including SCVMM, SCOM, SCSM, Orchestrator, and App Controller)Cisco UCS servers and Nexus switchesNetApp storage and softwareAccelerates private cloud deployments at reduced riskTechnical reference architecture, design, build, and operate guidesLink to Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/private-cloud/buy.aspx#tabs-2
Goal of slide: Provide anoverview of the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud offering.Key Points:Prevalidated best-in-class private cloud reference implementationfrom Microsoft’s partners.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.Customer choice of best-in-class vendors for the compute, network, and storage components that make up a private cloud. (It'snot required to buy all products from the same vendor.)
Goal of slide: Provide an overview of the FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud Validated with Citrix XenDesktop offering.Key Points:Prevalidated best-in-class private cloud reference implementationfrom Microsoft’s partners.Joint collaboration among NetApp, Cisco, Citrix, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.Implementation is focused on virtual desktop infrastructure marketplace.Customer choice of best-in-class vendors for the compute, network, and storage components that make up a private cloud. (It'snot required to buy all products from the same vendor.) Provision 2,000 VMs 25 times faster than with traditional SAN.
Industry leadership:General expertise: storage vs Servers & networking. Core competency is storage with FAS Product line & V-Series in front of 3rd party for NetApp (NetApp) and Cisco UCS servers and Nexus Switches for (Cisco)10GbE leadership – storage / serversFCoE leadership – storage/ servers & networkingNetApp #2 in capacity shipped, growing faster than the market. Unified architecture Multiprotocol w/ single storage OS / unified fabric. Multiprotocol storage architecture - Multiprotocol fabric architectureVirtualization innovationstorage/ servers & networking – together, first secure multi-tenancy solutionSimplified data management - Simplified network infrastructureAPIs to leading management tools. NetApp and Cisco both have a simplified management framework that plug into high level management tools.Storage Efficiency - Compute and Network EfficiencyVirtualization optimized - Virtualization optimizedChange Data Center 3.0 to Data Center Business Advantage
Key Takeaway: What are the storage vendors doing in the virtualization space? The storage decisions to support virtualized environments–are supported by NetApp clusters.NetApp Virtual Storage Console is a vSphere plug designed to simplify storage administration within vSphere deployments; for example, reporting on storage utilization down at the vSphere level. There are tool sets to provide information on setting up optimal SCSI values for VMs and reporting on any mis-configurations or mis-alignments on storage connectivity settings between the NetApp storage controllers and the ESX servers. Settings can be corrected automatically at a click. It also collects troubleshooting support information about the ESX servers.VMware View Composerlinked clones allow you to create multiple identical virtual desktops from a single image–ideal in call centers and other environments where identical desktops are used. The desktop operating system and applications are stored separately from the user data. This allows the users desktop images that have been deployed from linked clones to be patched centrally from a master image without changing user settings or user data. This saves storage space centrally. The most space is used up by individual user data sets however, typically representing more than half of the storage requirement in virtualized installations. NetAppDedupe saves up to 65% with VMware View. In environments that do not support linked clones (operating system, or applications) users can use NetApp Flex-clone technology (a vCenter plug-in). This provides similar storage savings to linked clones of up to 90% on desktop images. NetApp has intelligent or dedupe aware cache, which improves performance that can be otherwise reduced due bottlenecks in desktop provisioning, such as at 9.am when workers boot up their systems. Traditional solutions are designed to augment the cache to compensate for performance bursts. If you reduce the number of drives you write to–you will need more cache at the front to write to or boot from.Dedupe aware cache means that the 100 desktops sharing a master image are loaded into cache only once–to be used 100 times–rather than being loaded into cache 100 times.
Combining the powerful Cisco UCS tools with System Center’s managing and provisioning tools allows businesses to monitor, provision, configure, and orchestrate their physical infrastructure and Microsoft server and application softwareat every level from one interface.T: All of this is what brings the true benefits for customers.
Cisco UCS is a powerful solution set. When Microsoft System Center 2012 is added, it enhances UCS in very compelling ways.Together, these technologies provide a unified architecture that help IT Administrators and IT Managers manage and orchestrate server and networking infrastructure as well as the software stack.T: Microsoft System Center functions can be categorized into three broad capabilities.
When you connect to Cisco UCS using System Center Operations Manager(SCOM), it provides you the complete picture of infrastructure health. You can start by look at the UCS domain at a very high level and continue all the way down to individual components in the UCS. For example, starting at the fabric interconnect you could be looking at the faults coming out of a blade, and follow it all the way down to CPU memory modules, power supplies, and fan modules.T: Management becomes easier when you can see a clear picture of the entire infrastructure.
Key Takeaway: The FlexPod architecture is designed to leverage third-party orchestration and ITSM tools via a robust suite of APIs at all levels.
You may recognize this slide from the sales training. The reason that this slide is here is the next 6 slides highlight how Cisco UCS Manager Management Pack and UCS Orchestrator Integration Pack work with System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Orchestrator to enhance the automation and monitoring of Cisco UCS.T: UCS Manager Management Pack enables Operations Manager to easily monitor the health of UCS.
Standardization are key in building internal DC cloud architectures for application and desktop. UCS places the entire Access Layer, server, LAN and SAN, under one pane of glass to profoundly reduce admin overhead. It exploits IO Consolidation (reducing infrastructure while providing direct SAN storage access), and provides robust servers whereby an enterprise can virtualize those same mid to low-end servers, further reducing CapEx and downtime, with faster provisioning, increased utilization:Unified Fabric: Provides dramatic reduction in network adapters, dramatically reducing the number of devices powered, cooled, secured, and managed.Embedded Multi-Role Management: Is embedded in the fabric interconnects, to manage all aspects of system configuration and operation, while eliminating the need to use separate element managers for each system component. This functionality provides a massive reduction in management modules and consoles while harmonizing data center roles for maximum productivity.VN Link Virtualization Support/Virtualization Adapter: Gives network links connected to VMs the same status as physical links. Now, virtual links can be centrally configured and managed without the complexity of traditional systems that interpose multiple switching layers in virtualized environments. I/O configurations and network profiles move along with the VMs, helping to increase security and efficiency while reducing complexity. This approach improves performance and reduces NIC infrastructure. Dynamic Provisioning with Service Profiles: UCS Manager implements role and policy-based management focused on service profiles and templates. As soon as the servers are in place they can be quickly provisioned for service using standard profiles, providing network and SAN connectivity in minutes, rather than hours or days.
Cisco UCS is unique in the industry: its open, XML API management interface delivers both the broadest options for third party management tools AND deep functional integration with capabilities only UCS can deliverAdministrators can manage UCS with their existing tools and gain the benefits that UCS provides without upending their IT Processes.Over 9000 objects in UCSM available to developers via XML APIBACKGROUND:It’s important to understand the differences between UCS Manager and third-party management software and how they integrate for a complementary solution. UCS Manager is embedded within every UCS instance at no cost and focuses on infrastructure-level control and configuration.Operating systems and application stacks sit atop UCS to deliver business services. IT manages these software layers within a datacenter and across multiple locations. This is where third-party management solutions come into play.Numerous management software products have built deep integrations to UCS, enabling users to take advantage of unique UCS capabilities within the context of existing IT processes.At its heart, UCS is a standard x86 platform, providing a seamless application management experience.UCS service profiles speed application provisioning and make datacenter automation tools more powerful by extending configuration management to the infrastructure layer.UCS works with IT’s monitoring and performance tools of choice so that administrators have a painless experience migrating from legacy platforms.Cisco’s UCS management ecosystem includes leading systems management vendors, big and small, allowing users to pick what is right for their environment.UCS helps IT migrate services from legacy infrastructure by providing a seamless management experience with monitoring and provisioning tools. Monitoring tools combine standard UCS interfaces with UCS’s unified view of the compute infrastructure for deep visibility into application health.Provisioning tools deploy standard x86 operating systems on UCS Service Profiles to quickly build new application instances.Workload agility seeks to match application capacity with demand, leading to repeated deployment and configuration of application stacks. Deployment and configuration tools can provision the complete hardware-software stack by leveraging Service Profiles in combination with existing OS-and-above capabilities. UCS Service Profiles provide policy-enforcement to guarantee consistently deployed infrastructure.IT is increasingly turning to pre-approved service offerings that users and administrators choose from a catalog.Whether in the context of cloud or self-service IT initiatives , users and administrators want integrated services spanning server, network, and storage.UCS’s comprehensive management API helps unify infrastructureelements with pools and service profiles to speed the service definition and orchestration process.To achieve service assurance, IT proactively identifies and monitors application infrastructure to ensure customer success. UCS provides monitoring tools with deep visibility into network and compute health to proactively avoid service disruptions caused by performance bottlenecks or other degradation.Analysis and performance tools can quickly identify infrastructure resources and map their relationships through UCS ‘s unified interface into the compute infrastructure.UCSM Release 1.4 includes support for C-SeriesThe UCS C-Series integration with UCS Manager fulfills Cisco’s commitment to providing an easy, incremental migration path from traditional, operationally intensive rack-mount architectures to unified computing. Now IT managers have a means of centrally managing all UCS blade and rack-mount servers in a UCS Manager domain, enjoying the Unified Computing System’s unique operational efficiency and agility regardless of form-factor. Integration of the UCS C-Series into UCS Manager helps create a standardized, form factor-neutral, efficient, agile and scalable application service delivery platform.
We are starting to see some announcements in the industry around unified storage. But unified is about being much more than multi-protocol.It’s about multiple profiles (performance, cost, etc.) being satisfied by the same architecture, without having to pick and choose and learn. Avoid rip and replace, etc. It’s about reducing complexity, and driving up utilization.You see, with our unified architecture, it’s a single operating system to give you control over your storage, regardless of how you access it in your data center.You have many applications in your data center, but many times in the past you have had to use different types of storage to satisfy the requirements of each application. With Data ONTAP, you can run the same operating system across a variety of storage controllers, taking advantage of a feature set that gives you the flexibility to virtualise storage on other vendor’s disk arrays, accelerate data sets with SSD’s, and operate it from a single pane of glass. This simplified management will allow you to focus on performance, growth, and efficiency.Next slide: One Architecture for many Workloads
Purpose of the slide: Discuss the current situation and the drivers behind monumental data growthKey points:A new abundance is data has been largely driven by two factors 1)machine generated data and 2)the consumerization of IT. Lets look at each, starting with machine generated data. By some estimates, there are nearly 1 trillion devices that can be connected to the internet. Many of these devices are data generators – smart meters, traffic sensors, and medical devices to name a few. Businesses love this new access to data because it provides levels of insight that were unheard of just a few years ago. Services can be enhanced, efficiencies can be increased – in short, data is becoming a competitive advantage.Next there is the consumerization of IT. It started with rich media attachments to email – a picture is worth a thousand words, right? Then came YouTube, and it seemed that every company started to create videos to promote themselves. Now we have Facebook, with 800 million users worldwide. Once people saw how easy it was to communicate with their friends outside work, they started to form online communities to connect with co-workers in the workplace.While the move to data-driven has created business opportunities, it is not without challenges. IT is now faced with ever-increasing demands to serve more data to more people, and to do this continuously. Storage capacity is fairly easy to scale, but data and more importantly data management is not so easy. Controlling costs and providing 100% online access to data becomes very difficult to scale.
Purpose of the slide: To explain how the storage efficiency capabilities of Data ONTAP® are second to none, delivering substantial savings to both capex and opex.Key points:Storage efficiency is something that a lot of people talk about, so let’s take a moment to discuss what’s so different about NetApp's approach. To us, storage efficiency is not a feature, it's a way of designing. It’s a commitment to a long-term technology agenda where we exploit every possible opportunity to drive the cost per gigabyte down.We employ multiple agendas. We design for using the lowest-cost components, like SATA drives, and we provide either a performance acceleration or a reliability profile to those SATA drives. This is very, very different from what the raw building block can do. The combination of SATA with software innovation in the brain like RAID-DP, while being able to apply Flash as a technology for performance acceleration, leads to an endpoint where, for half the cost, you get double the capacity for the same performance. When you talk about getting different results, “twice as much for half the cost” is a great example.We also employ a variety of data reduction techniques, including primary-level deduplication, compression, and more. The variety of data reduction techniques reduce the amount of data on the disk and traveling over the network. We also go after your raw utilization; if you have a bucket, you can force more into it. You can apply thin provisioning, you can apply the fact that with a unified architecture you don’t have stranded assets in the various silos driving overall utilization up.And finally, you can make fewer copies. One of the biggest cost drivers in the storage infrastructure is the fact that every time a primary copy of data is created, roughly about 20 to 25 copies of that data are also created — test and development copies, backup copies, and disaster recovery copies. These are full copies of data, and they all require raw storage. So if you can eliminate any of those copies by providing those copies to the applications in a virtualized environment, you reduce the cost of storage.So storage efficiency is a way of thinking. We seek every single way in which we can drive the dollar per effective gigabyte down. Our recent market share gains are proof that users like you are seeing these kinds of results and coming back for more. Once they're familiar with our storage efficiency story, they begin to realize that they can apply us in more applications, because they can get benefit of the lower dollar per gigabyte. That’s what a mature storage operating system can do.
Purpose of the slide:Compare a traditional storage infrastructure to an agile data infrastructureKey points:For decades, we’ve been deploying storage in silos – one silo for Financial Apps, one for Engineering, one for Email – all based on different technologies and the capabilities needed to support the requirements of that silo. Over time, we improved the capabilities of the silo, starting with SAN and NAS, and then Unified, shared storage – but as you can see, the data was still locked within its silo.
Purpose of the slide:Introduce the agile data infrastructureKey points:With today’s monumental data growth and the complexity of managing data at scale, the silo’d approach soon begins to break down. Each silo has specific characteristics that cannot be shared with other silos. On the other hand, an agile data infrastructure shares all characteristics between all storage devices in the infrastructure. One of the benefits of this is a single management layer that enforces policies for automated provisioning and protection throughout the infrastructure (intelligent.)Another benefit is continuous access to data from a single storage pool, regardless of the need for upgrades and replacements (immortal.)Finally, this infrastructure provides unlimited, seamless scaling in 3 dimensions – Capacity, Performance, and Operational (Infinite.)You’ll notice that there is a lot happening on this slide. Volumes are growing, copies are being made for backup and replication, performance bottlenecks are being addressed – its hard to keep up with it all – just like its hard to keep up with your IT operations. But you’ll notice that despite everything that’s changing, data is still being fed to and from users. That’s a key point in agility, to keep operations moving in spite of constant change.