Cisco UCS Director for the Public Sector

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Cisco UCS Director Kevin T. Park

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Consulting Systems Engineer

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77%

23%

Maintain

Value-Add

• 24% pre-system deployment

• 23% turning on and preparing

for applications

• 29% monitoring, update and

patch management, health

monitoring, troubleshooting

• Organizational effectiveness hinges on IT efficiency

• IT environment increasingly complex

Source: IDC, 2011


Source: IDC, 2011

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Server Spending Mgmt. and Administration—Standalone Servers Mgmt. and Administration—Virtual Servers Power and Cooling Expense


Converged Infrastructures

• Converged Infrastructure

Provide part of the solution

Have direct impact on OpEx

Indirect increase of CapEx

• Net Result – TCO Increases Power

Cooling

60%

Cost Reduction

Application

Performance

30%

Faster Execution

Infrastructure

Costs

30%

Cost Reduction

Management and

Automation Are Key


Value

High Business

Change = Need to

Smooth Disruption to IT

Customers Gain

Most Advantage

Seamless Management

Integration

Across Converged,

Heterogeneous and Hybrid

Virtualization Environments

Business

Drivers

Faster Time to

Service/Market

Increased Cost

Advantage/IT Efficiency

Greater Infrastructure and

Operational Improvements

Management

Is Key

Single Orchestration,

Provisioning and

Monitoring is Essential

Highly Prescriptive

Framework and

Configuration Templates

Source: IDC 2012, 2011


Self-service Delivery

Policy Driven Provisioning

Cisco UCS Director

Unified Service Delivery

Secure Cloud

Container

VMs vCompute vNetwork Storage

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Model-based Management

Virtual

Platform

Storage

Network

Compute


Cloud Services

Ecosystem of

Service Providers

Cisco® Virtual Application

Container Services

Cisco Prime™ Service Catalog Self-Service Portal

Integrated Infrastructure Management Cisco

UCS® Director

Multivendor Computing, Network, Storage, and Virtualization

Hybrid Cloud

Management

Cisco Intercloud Fabric

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API to Cisco UCSM

Enterprise Systems Integration

LDAP, CMDB,

Metering DB • Single, unified product built

from the ground up

• Modular architecture

• Extensibility through APIs

• Deployed as an on-premise

Virtual Appliance(s)

UCS Director

Network

Services

Agent

Virtual

Infrastructure

Management

vCenter SCVMM Blade Server Managers Network API/CLI Storage APIs RM

Provides: • Policy-Driven

• Self-Service Infrastructure

• Lifecycle Management

Physical Infrastructure Virtual Infrastructure

Cisco UCS Director Multi-tenant Infrastructure Management Platform

Mobile Platform

IT Admins IT Operations End Users

UCS Director Provides Unified, Centralized Management of Physical and Virtualization Infrastructure in Private and Hybrid Clouds

VMware Hyper-V KVM

Other

Providers

Savvis VPDC,

Terremark

Amazon, Entel,

Rackspace

Self Service

Catalog

Admin

Console Dashboard

Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus


Solutions Overview

Self-Service Infrastructure Policy-Driven Lifecycle Management

Virtual Infrastructure

UCS Director

Physical Infrastructure

Network Compute Storage Customer Choice

Self Service Console

ID & Access Manager

OS Provisioning

Mobile

Platform

CloudGenie

Admin Console

Policy Manager

Database

Dashboard

Resource Pools

Event Manager

IT Admins IT Operations End Users


Key-Summary

End-to-End Automation • Unified policy-driven provisioning • Model-based automation – no need for scripting • Ongoing lifecycle management

Turn-Key Solution – Ready to Use in Hours • Unified, integrated and out-of-the-box solution • Seamless physical and Virtual resource pooling • Hypervisor agnostic

Customers are increasingly buying compute, network, storage, and virtualization as a single, converged system

Virtualization

Manager

Storage

Manager

Network

Manage

Compute

Manager

C A B

Virtualization

Compute

B C A

Network

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Storage

Single Panel- of-Glass for End-to-

End Management and Automation


Architect Design Where

Can We

Put It?

Procure Install Configure Secure Is It

Ready?

Manual

Capacity On-Demand

Policy-Based Provisioning

Built-In Governance

Weeks Days and Hours


Access configuration, VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and Hardening

Operating System Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level, Settings

Network interface card (NIC)

configuration: MAC address,

VLAN, and QoS settings;

host bus adapter HBA configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs), VSANs,

and bandwidth constraints;

and firmware revisions

Unique service ID,

Application revisions,

and Storage settings

Application resources: Server, Storage,

Network

Security, OS

VI SME

Storage SME

Server SME

Network SME

Access configuration,

VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration

OS Type, Patch Level,

Settings




host bus adapter HBA

configuration:

worldwide names (WWNs),

VSANs,







configuration:


VSANs,







configuration:


VSANs,







configuration:


VSANs,




VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration


Settings


VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration


Settings


VLAN,

VSAN, Security, and

Hardening

Operating System

Configuration


Settings

Subject matter experts define policies

1 Policies used to create Infrastructure

2 Pools, policies, templates

All are used to build Infrastructure from templates

3 Associating application profiles with fabric configures all needed application resources automatically

4


Challenges: • Many groups • Many human

interfaces • Manual steps

Result: High latency

Virtual Admins Network Admins Server Admins Storage Admins

Approvals

Define

Cost

Models

Setup

VDC

Add

Users

and Groups

IT

Planning

Business Application

Requirements

Configure

SAN Zoning

Create UCS

Service Profiles

Create

Network Policies

Update

Trunks

Create

VLANs

Add VLAN to

Service Profile

Create

VLAN

Create Storage

Resources (LUNs

and Volumes)

Configure

Servers

Bare metal

Provisioning (PXE

Boot with ESXi 4.1)

Setup

Servers

UCS Blade

Power On

Create

Storage Policy

Map

NetApp LUN

Add vFilers

to Group

Create

vFilers

Create

IP space

Send Complete

Notifications

Register

Host Node

Weeks


End-to-End Operations and Provisioning

• Single-click provisioning • Intelligent resource allocation • Automated, controlled delivery

Result: Improved time to market

Minutes


Architect Design Where

Can We

Put It?

Procure Install Configure Secure Is It

Ready?

Manual

Capacity On-Demand

Policy-Based Provisioning

Adaptive

From Weeks to Minutes

Automated Self-Service Provisioning


• Unified end-to-end management and automation

Model-based orchestration

• Multi-vendor; multi-protocol support of converged infrastructures

Virtualization

Storage

Network

Manage

Cisco UCS

Manager

C A B

Virtualization

Compute

B C A

Network

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Storage


Self-Service

• What to offer

• How to deliver

• Who’s using what?

Manual Resource Request Automated Resource Request

Automation delivers:

Speed

Consistency

Network

Compute

Storage

I Need Stuff


Rapid Creation of Orchestration Workflows

• Over 467 tasks across industry standard devices

• Drag ‘n drop creation

UCS Tasks

• Select UCS Server

• Reset UCS Server

• Power On UCS Server

• Power Off UCS Server

• Create UCS Service

Profile from Template

• Create UCS Service

Profile

• Select UCS Service

Profile

• Modify UCS Service

Profile Boot Policy

• Delete UCS Service

Profile

• Associate UCS Service

Profile

• Disassociate UCS

Service Profile

• Create UCS Boot Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy

LUN ID

• Clone UCS Boot Policy

• Modify UCS Boot Policy

WWPN

• Add VLAN

• Delete UCS Boot Policy

• Delete UCS VLAN

• Add VLAN to Service

Profile

• Add iSCSI vNIC to Service

Profile

• Add vNIC to Service Profile

• Delete vNIC from Service

Profile

• Create Service Profile

iSCSI Boot Policy

• Modify Service Profile Boot

Policy to Boot from iSCSI


• Rapid configuration and monitoring

• Customizable view

• Quick status across critical components


Rapidly View Converged Infrastructure Stacks


Comprehensive View of Utilization and Consumption


Drill Down for Granular Detail on Each Component


Workflow Service Status

Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations


Utilization Reports

VM Count by Group

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

55

Default Group DEMO-Group<20% 20%-40% 40%-60% 60%-80% 80%-100%

VM Utilization % by Group

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

55

60

65

Default Group DEMO-GroupInactive VMs Active VMs


Technical User Perspective

• Self-serve provisioning of IT infrastructure

• Role-based access for technical users


Validated Management Solution for FlexPod

Policy Driven Provisioning

Secure Cloud

Container

Self-service Delivery

Model-based Management

VM Manager

Storage

Manager

Network

Manager

Compute

Manager

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• Unified model-based management • Delivering secure multi-tenancy

Plug-ins C A B

Virtualization

Compute

B C A

Network

Tenant

B Tenant

C Tenant

A

Storage

Single

Panel- of-

Glass for

End-to-End

Management

and

Automation

VMs vCompute vNetwork Storage vFiler®


• Consistent quality of service (QoS) at each layer

• Manage each resource pool independently

• Reduce risk and cost while boosting IT agility

• Certified with Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards (for Homeland Security) and passed the International Computer Security Association (ICSA) audit

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Resource

Pool Settings

Platinum

Tenant

Gold

Tenant

Silver

Tenant

Reservation Reserved Reserved No

reservation

Limits Unlimited Limited Limited

Shares High Medium Low

Expandable

Reservation Enabled Disabled Disabled


• Single-click provisioning

• Single management interface

Physical and virtual infrastructure

• Model-based orchestration

• Converged infrastructure management

Self-service portal

Multi-tenant security

Cisco

UCS

Director

End-to-End

Infrastructure

Management

Application

Hypervisor

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Network

Storage

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Cisco

UCS

Director

End-to-End

Infrastructure

Management

Single-Click Provisioning

Single Management Interface

• Physical and Virtual Infrastructure

Model-Based Orchestration

Converged Infrastructure Management

• Self-service portal

• Multi-tenant security


End-to-End Functionality

• Support for both virtual and physical infrastructures

• Multi-vendor public cloud support

• Hypervisor agnostic

• Single pane of glass management, automation and orchestration

• Self-service, integrated monitoring and chargeback

• Includes task library with over 400+ tasks for easy drag and drop workflow creation

Simple and Easy to Deploy

• A single, integrated,

out-of-the-box solution

• Install in the morning, provision

in the afternoon

Integrated Compute Stacks

• FlexPodTM

• Vblock

• VSPEX

Flexibility

• Model-based orchestration

eliminates need for scripting

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