Cisco at VMworld 2015

1. Cisco UCS E-series
Cisco UCS E-series+Stormagic
Hyper-converged solution

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• Cisco UCS E-series servers
• The converged branch office
• Hyper-Converged solution
Agenda

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Cisco UCS E-Series Single Wide Blade
Compact, Multipurpose Blade Housed in ISR | UCS-E140S M2
Up to 2 SATA, SAS
or SSD Hard Drives
Configuration and
Management Through CIMC
Intel Xeon E3 Family
Duo-Core and Quad-
Core Processor
On-Board Hardware RAID 0/1 with
Hot-Swap Capability
One External and Two
Internal GE Ports
USB 2.0 Port for External
Device Connectivity
8, 12 and 16 GB
DRAM Options
Maximum 65 W Power Draw
80 Percent Less than Server
Wire-Free, Plug-and-Play Modularity,
Low Shipping Weight (2.5 lb/1.1 kg)
Remote and
Schedulable Power
Management
10/100 Ethernet
Management Port
Two SD cards: One for the
CIMC and Temporary Storage
of OS and One
for a Blank Virtual Drive
KVM Console Connector

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Cisco UCS E-Series Double Wide Blade
Compact, Multipurpose Blade Housed in ISR | UCS-E140DM1/UCS-E160DM2/UCS-E180DM2
Up to 3 SATA, SAS, SSD Hard
Drives or 2 HDD and a PCIe Card
Out-of-Band Configuration and
Management Through CIMC
Intel Xeon E5-2400 Quad
Core, Six-Core or Eight-Core
Processor
On-Board Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 Configuration
Options with Hot-Swap CapabilityTwo External and Two Internal GE
Ports with TCP/IP Acceleration
Front-Panel VGA, 2 USB, and
Serial Console Connectors
8 GB - 48 GB
DRAM Options
Maximum 130 W Power Draw, 80
Percent Less than Server
Wire-Free, Plug-and-Play Modularity,
Low Shipping Weight (7 lb / 3.2 kg)
Remote and
Schedulable Power
Management
Two SD Cards: One for the CIMC
and Temporary Storage of OS and
One for a Blank Virtual Drive

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Cisco End-to-End Solution
UCS B-Series, C-Series and E-Series
for Data Center and Branch Locations
Location-Suitable Form Factors, Consistent Device Management
Cisco UCS B/C Series
Unified compute platform for infrastructure
consolidation in the data center and large
branch offices. Offers innovative
virtualization, memory, provisioning, I/O, and
management capabilities.
Cisco UCS E-Series Servers
Residual compute platform with
all-in-one device convergence that facilitates
centralization of small to mid
size branch office applications into the
data center.
Data Center/Cloud
Branch Office
WAN/Internet
Consolidate
Infrastructure
Centralize
Applications
Support User
experience
Address WAN-induced
performance, availability,
compliance challenges

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Cisco ISR as Blade Server Enclosure
Use Slots on Most Widely Deployed Branch Device
All-in-One Device for
Branch Services
Unified
Communications
Application Hosting
Wireless LAN/WAN
Routing/Switching
WAN Optimization
Security
Cisco Unified
Communications Network Path-Selection
Cisco IOS/IOS-XE security
L2/L3 switching
Visibility and Control
WAN LTE, T1, xDSL, Fiber, Ethernet
Desktop Virtualization
Business crtical apps
Virtual Network
functions
FW, IPS, WANopt
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Cisco Hyper-converged networking ROBO solution
(Cisco UCS E-series+UCSD+Stormagic)
• Manage server and storage using Cisco UCS Director or VMware VC
• Leverage Cisco ISR enterprise grade network platform with high MTBF
• Can Start with 4 core CPU (8 vCPU), 16GB DRAM and 3.2TB storage
• Configuration options can scale up to 64GB RAM, 12TB storage and 16 cores
• Delivers shared storage without expensive external storage device
• Supports High Availability and Fault Tolerance features
Management integration with Cisco UCS Director
Shared storage+resiliency with Stormagic
Converged branch services on Cisco ISR

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Cisco Hyper-Converged ROBO Single Box
Solution
Cisco ISR3945 chassis
• Full L3 routing, UC and security capabilities
• Full supports of Cisco IWAN features
Cisco UCS E-series compute power
• Scale up to 4 UCS-E140S-M2 servers
• Deliver up to 16 CPU cores, 64GB DRAM and 12.8TB storage
Shared
Storage
Stormagic SvSAN
• Stormagic VSA creates a single shared iSCSI storage target to
all participating servers
• Delivers synchronous mirroring of data across all participating
servers enabling HA/FT across the server cluster
• Can deliver high IOPS performance with an optional SSD
caching feature

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Cisco Hyper-Converged ROBO Two Box
Solution
• Provides Network Layer redundancy and active-active load balancing across two WAN links
• Cisco PfR manages each border router as one routing edge and configured policies decide how to route traffic based on
packet flow priority
• Each Cisco ISR houses a double-wide Cisco UCS E-series.
• Stormagic VSA runs on each UCS E-series to cluster DAS and create iSCSI target
• Compute resources scale up to 192GB RAM, 16 cores CPU, 10.8TB storage

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Lean Branch Office Applications
WAN EdgeApplications That Defy Centralization
• DNS and DHCP servers
• Microsoft active directory
• Windows print services
• Windows file services
• Others
Core Windows
Services
• Point-of-sale server
• Bank teller control point
• Electronic medical records
• Inventory management
• Others
Mission-Critical
Business Applications
• Software update service
• Client monitoring service
• Backup and recovery
• Terminal server gateway
• Others
Client Management
Services

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Nimble Delivery of WAN Services
Improves IT operations and efficiency
Network virtualization reduces Physical Appliances
WAN
Data Center/Cloud Branch Office
VNF
Voice
Systems
Storage Security
vWSA vWAAS
WAAS
ASAv
Third-
party

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Cisco converged branch office
solution for VDI
* WAAS is recommended for limited bandwidth/high-latency WAN links
Data Center
WAN
Remote Office Clients
Branch
Office
Cisco ISR G2 & Cisco UCS
E-Series server
• VDI and applications resiliency
• Best user experience
• Data center compute offloading
• Simplified management
• All or subset of desktops can be hosted on Cisco UCS E-Series
server
• Apps can be hosted centrally or run mission-critical apps on E-
series (e.g. POS, medical records)
• Virtualized desktops are managed by central server
• Applications can be accessed local or across the WAN
• WAN optimization provides performance upgrade to desktop
over apps across the WAN
WAAS
WAAS
Remote Office Desktop Master
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• Centrally Manage Distributed E-Series
• Platform Hardware Inventory
• Firmware lifecycle
• Hardware Health Status
• Detailed Fault Logging & History
• vKVM Launch
• UCSD Manages Stormagic VSA
UCS Director 5.5 / IMC Supervisor 1.1