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Cisco and SUSE: Your Trusted Partners for RISC/UNIX Migrations
November 2013
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Quotes taken from Cisco 2010 Global CIO Focus Groups
“I need to achieve greater cost efficiency
and increased IT agility…an elusive
combination…”
“…need a solution that enables us
to respond to customers within hours
instead of days”
“At the end of the day, I just want
to simply, confidently say “yes” to
my business.”
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• Five years ago, RISC/UNIX was the right choice
• Current challenges of RISC/UNIX implementations
High costs in the face of shrinking budgets
Poor price-to-performance ratio
Unable to meet business flexibility and agility needs
Environmental factors
Uncertainty about RISC/UNIX futures
But:
• Hesitant to migrate business-critical applications to a new operating system and platform
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Cost Reduction • IT budget constraints
• Increasing project
costs
• Support and
maintenance costs
Demand for Agile Performance • New projects
• User growth
• Regulatory
requirements
• Greater total capacity
Challenges and Opportunities • Server utilization
• Space and
consolidation
• Power and cooling
• Hardware, OS, and
application refresh
Platform Strategy • Standards-based
architecture
• Broadest solution
portfolio
• Leading platform for
innovation
• Fewer than 10% not
considering migration
(IDC)
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• We understand the scalability, security, availability, and reliability requirements of mission-critical applications in the data center
• We collaborate to deliver technology innovations and services to meet your needs
Cost reductions
Agile performance, scalability, and reliability
Simplified hardware, OS, and application refresh
Improved server utilization
Improved environmental capabilities
• We are industry leaders with vast mission-critical application experience
• Open, scalable and trusted platforms
• World-class services
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SUSE • Leading platform for SAP solutions
on Linux
• #1 recommended and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA
• Only Enterprise Linux optimized for all SAP solutions
• #1 Linux and UNIX development platform for SAP solutions
• First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for integration with SAP NetWeaver
Cisco UCS • Over 26,000 unique UCS customers
which represents 63% Y/Y growth
• More than 75% of all Fortune 500 customers have invested in UCS
• As of Q4FY13 we have over 11,000 repeat customers which represents 79% Y/Y growth
• #2 worldwide in x86 Blades
• In CY13 Q1 Cisco is one of the Top 5 Server Vendors based on Worldwide Revenue Share1
• 80+ World Record Performance Benchmarks to date
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• Linux is the operating system of choice for migrations to x86
• Thousands of enterprises host mission-critical workloads on SUSE Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise is highly optimized for Intel Xeon processors, providing:
Reliability and availability
Intelligent performance
Virtualization performance and efficiency
Automated energy efficiency
• Leverage Staff UNIX skills
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• Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) is highly available
Stateless computing characteristics of Cisco UCS significantly improve availability
Redundant, hot-plug power and cooling, hot-swap blades, and fabric extenders
• Intel Xeon processors have mission-critical RAS features
• SUSE Linux Enterprise has advanced RAS features
Service availability 24X7
Shared and Scaled data-access
Virtualization Agnostic
Disaster tolerance
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Unified Model-Based
Management
Significantly reduce OpEx
Eliminate a major source of errors that can cause downtime
Cisco® Fabric
Extender Architecture
Reduce costs by condensing three
network layers into one, eliminating
blade server and hypervisor-based
switches
Smart
Infrastructure
Improve business agility with quick,
accurate, and automatic server
deployments
Efficiently migrate applications through
automatic, programmed deployment
Unified Fabric
Drastically lower complexity and
management overhead with fewer
adapters, cables, and switches
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Built to reduce cost
• Fewer components
• Reduced complexity
• Single embedded management domain
• Rapid provisioning
• Lower power consumption
• Virtualization optimization
High reliability
• Built for redundancy
• Automated configuration
• Advanced processor reliability
Excellent Performance
• Broad range of servers
• More than 80 world performance records
XML API STANDARD
API’S
Fabric Extenders
(I/O modules)
UCS Manager
Blade Form Factor
Rack Form Factor
Industry
Standard APIs
FABRIC
INTERCONNECTS
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13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration
• Front runner technologies
‒ 1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP
‒ 1st validated open source HA
‒ 1st validated virtualization
• Strategic OS for:
‒ SAP HANA
‒ SAP BWA
‒ SAP Business ByDesign
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The only operating system optimized for SAP Applications
• Built in HA components to enable you to protect Mission Critical Applications
• Extended Update Cycle (18 months) to fit your needs
• Enables High Performance of Large Workloads
• Integrated Priority Support from both SUSE and SAP
• Enables Fast and Easy Deployment with Installation Wizard
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Migrations to Cisco Unified Computing System™ have achieved:
• CapEx and OpEx savings of more than US$7 million
• 93% reduction in floor space
• 69% reduction in power consumption
• 58% fewer cables
• 400% performance improvement over traditional systems
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“With Cisco UCS, for example, time to install a blade server has decreased by a factor of 10 compared with conventional rackmount systems.” - Gerd Neuland, Team Leader
CUSTOMER STATS
Industry: Machinery and
plant engineering
Location: Headquartered
in Neutraubling, Germany
Employees: 12,000
CHALLENGE
• Improve IT efficiency and agility
• Deliver technology migration while minimizing interference to other departments
WHY CISCO DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS
• Cisco Smart+Connected Manufacturing solution, based on Cisco Unified Data Center validated design and built using Cisco Unified Computing System with SUSE Linux and Cisco Nexus switches
BENEFITS
• Greater availability of IT solutions supporting business processes
• Server provisioning time improved by factor of 10
• 90 percent reduction in cabling and power supplies, with fewer ports
CISCO DATA CENTER
ENVIRONMENT
• Cisco UCS B230 and B440
servers
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Series
Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco Nexus 5000 and
7000 Series Switches
Operating System
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Applications
• Oracle Database
• SAP Netweaver (ABAP
and JAVA)
“Our initial estimates were based upon 350,000 SAPS, but with our Cisco UCS solution, we can scale to 600,000 if we need to.”- Gerd Neuland, Team Leader
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RISC/UNIX
Migration
Acceleration
RISC/UNIX
Migration Strategy
RISC/UNIX
Migration Planning
RISC/UNIX
Migration Execution
You are considering RISC/UNIX migration
You understand the benefits and
now want a migration strategy
You are ready to move and want help
with sizing and detailed planning
RISC/UNIX Migration Service
You engage Cisco’s
industry leading,
cost effective
Migration Factory
(COTS and Custom)
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