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A World Wide Technology Solution Guide

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Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Solution Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

World Wide Technology’s Approach to Cloud . . . . . . . . 11

Solution Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Converged Infrastructure Using NetApp FlexPod . . . . . . 15

Cisco Unified Compute System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Cisco Nexus Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

NetApp Storage Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Virtual Infrastructure Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Element Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Cloud Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Cloud Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Cloud Operations Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Cloud Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Let’s Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Appendix A: Hardware Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Appendix B: Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Appendix C: Order Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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In support of these technology solutions we have developed guides that provide a summary of our approach, the specific products we employ, and the benefits of the solution in a cross-vendor fashion. This Solution Guide provides a single source for high-level product specifications, environmental requirements, and solution kitting information.

More detailed configuration steps, component design best practices, and in-depth configuration metrics can be found in the comprehensive reference architectures (many of which we helped create) provided by our vendor partners.

Transformational Data Center ArchitectureWWT sees a large data center transformation occurring in our client base, moving toward the sharing of infrastructure across business units, as well as bursting out into the public cloud for specific application use cases.

Our customers—representing some of the largest enterprise, service provider, and government entities—are moving away from silos of IT operation, and instead choosing to implement more cost-effective, agile, automated data centers . This leads to the use of cloud computing as a tool to increase agility and reduce operational costs .

The business term “cloud,” is often misunderstood as specific technologies or solutions that can be acquired and deployed to address a pain point . These technologies, such as virtualization, are at the core of what enables new cloud business concepts. WWT views cloud as an advanced method of architectural thinking, one that is rapidly becoming the new de-facto standard for business IT. Cloud computing uses the virtualization-enabled abstraction of traditional applications from the underlying infrastructure to provide a differentiated IT service delivery model, which is scalable, efficient, and elastic.

This method of thinking improves efficiency by enabling the pooling and on-demand allocation of IT resources so that a business can meet its needs in a more agile, predictable, and cost-effective manner. The ability for a business unit or similar entity to selectively consume elements of compute, storage, and network resources as required promotes agility, efficiency, and affordability.

While there is considerable content in the marketplace around building automation and orchestration within the IT environment, there is little that focuses on finding what parts are

necessary to complete it efficiently with a degree of immediate impact. Planning for and deploying multiple technology layers can be complex.

Standardization begins with an identification of the foundational elements of the solution. WWT believes an organization cannot effectively automate an operational process or procedure unless it is first standardized and decoupled from the traditional physical limitations of the data center.

In this guide we present the solution, beginning with a standardized product set, and advancing to an integration stage. We also include a sample Bill of Materials (BOM), for review.

The struggle between rapidly evolving business models and elevated operational costs related to legacy infrastructure requires a new approach to deploying technology in the data center, one which connects IT agility with the mission and business model of the enterprise . World Wide Technology (WWT) takes this approach—and addresses the associated challenges—by investigating and assembling best-of-breed technology solutions that our clients can employ to produce outstanding business outcomes.

Executive Summary

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Managing agility means delivering immediate impact, while also maintaining operational focus in support of business and IT processes . WWT understands that accelerating our customer cloud deployments requires a model and a guide to that model . Solution Guides are foundational components in our solution framework . In this Solution Guide, you will find a description of our cloud model and an in-depth look at the VMware® Enterprise vCloud Suite on the NetApp® FlexPod® converged infrastructure platform .

Solution Highlights

As a key to IT agility, this guide reduces the complexity of the first steps your organization will take in evolving to the next-generation data center . Those steps toward cloud will incorporate software definitions of your data center environment.

The software-defined data center represents a model for efficiency and cost-effectiveness . It integrates with all enterprise operational activities, while providing service flexibility and the potential to pivot in support of business

growth opportunities and management requirements.

The VMware® vCloud Suite is a collection of core technologies that enable a software-defined data center. By abstracting the components normally managed separately, VMware is able to comprehensively automate and operate a virtual data center within the software stack. This Solution Guide explores the suite and touches on the separate areas of virtualization, cloud service components, and operational management of the cloud.

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IT AS A SERVICE (ITAAS)

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THE NEXT GENERATION DATACENTER

IT AS A SERVICE (ITaaS)

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NetApp FlexPod is a predesigned, best practice data center infrastructure architecture built on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco Nexus switches, and NetApp fabric-attached storage. FlexPod is able to scale up for greater performance or capacity, or scale out using a block-by-block methodology for consistent multiple deployments. This solution guide provides a baseline FlexPod configuration, with the flexibility to be sized and optimized based on productivity needs.

By incorporating the products of these vendors we will demonstrate how to obtain the foundational cloud capabilities of scalability, secure multitenancy, efficiency, performance, ease of manageability, automation, chargeback, high availability, and integrated data protection.

Intended Solution Use CaseThe cloud solution showcased in this Solution Guide presents a flexible use case with multiple tenants requiring multiple virtualized application sets. In all cases, the ability to self-provision resources on demand is fundamentally required to take full advantage of the cloud’s agility and readiness. This IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) solution supports multi-tenant, hybrid cloud computing for all forms of virtual x86 workloads.

Deep security is an inherent characteristic of this solution . As with the rest of the architecture, this solution enables the provisioning and control of security perimeters, virtual private local networks (VPNs), and policies by both the cloud administrator and cloud consumer. Security resources are pooled such that they are able, by default, to be managed at the virtual data center layer.

WWT’s end-to-end cloud architectural solution uses the integrated components from industry leaders to expand virtualization to a cloud environment. This environment abstracts infrastructure from its delivery and consumption, enabling IT to manage the operations of a next-generation data center more efficiently. By eliminating traditional manual provisioning, remediating, controlling virtual machine sprawl, and ending ad-hoc service development and deployment, our solution streamlines IT tasks and costs within a truly agile IT service design .

“By eliminating traditional manual provisioning, remediating, controlling virtual machine sprawl, and ending ad-hoc service development and deployment, our solution streamlines IT tasks and costs within a truly agile IT service design .”

“We will demonstrate how to obtain the foundational cloud capabilities of scalability, secure multitenancy, efficiency, performance, ease of manageability, automation, chargeback, high availability, and integrated data protection .”

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• Secure multitenancy provides isolated pools of resources independently for compliance with organizational policies, but without the traditional overhead

• Dramatically simplify security and be assured security policies can be rapidly implemented and monitored for IT compliance, while maintaining the relevant levels of control and ownership visibility

• Make security agile, so that IT can use dynamic capabilities in the cloud, while being assured security policies follow the IT service

• Better-than-physical security for infrastructure, applications, and data

• Align general computing controls to logical security measures resulting in verifiable compliance

See Appendix A

Focus on Security: Solution Benefits

NetApp FlexPod Converged InfrastructureProvisioning cloud begins with the buildout of storage, server, and networking infrastructure . This process can take weeks or months if the service requirement has large enough scope. By acquiring a converged infrastructure platform instead of performing manual, piecemeal procurement, and implementation of components, your team will immediately create time for work on other projects . WWT likes to look at this result from a project plan perspective: literally “removing” a large chunk of the staging, configuration, and testing required to begin configuration tasks .

NetApp’s FlexPod lowers total cost of ownership for your cloud infrastructure platform by providing a repeatable, flexible, and scalable converged infrastructure solution with NetApp storage, the Cisco Unified Compute System, and Cisco networking technologies . The purchase cost, deployment time, and provisioning time are lowered by moving configuration and validation of the components to a standardized production process for each pod of infrastructure . This is an important step in the standardization process and impacts time spent training support staff, thus increasing their ability to work on business unit requirements.

• Repeatable: The FlexPod reference architectures aid customers, partners, and field staff with new FlexPod deployments. This configuration provides detailed sizing documentation and environmental requirements for outstanding facilities planning within the data center . It allows for a precertified configuration, which does not require the customer to perform testing and validation for the infrastructure platform’s integration .

• Flexible: A founding principle of the FlexPod program is flexibility. While the reference architectures serve as a starting point for various workloads, they are not mandated . You may choose to create a specific standardized pod for your environment with configurations based on your specific needs.

• Scalable: The sizing of the FlexPod reference architecture is based on the principle of supporting concurrent workloads on a right-sized platform with shared management characteristics . By standardizing the management tools across various scales of FlexPod, your organization can choose the appropriate hardware for deployments without changing operations . Additional blocks are also easily added to scale out the overall solution .

WWT uses best-in-class technology from NetApp and Cisco in a unified architecture. This step enables engineering teams to run fully tested, standardized configurations that accelerate deployment, while reducing risk and cost . The reduction of infrastructure management complexities and improvement in overall IT efficiency provides an increased ability to reduce operational costs through automation.

“WWT uses best-in-class technology from NetApp and Cisco in a unified architecture. The reduction of infrastructure management complexities and improvement in overall IT efficiency provides an increased ability to reduce operational costs through automation .”

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VMware vCloud Enterprise SuiteThe VMware vCloud Suite is designed to be a complete, extensive, integrated cloud infrastructure and cloud operations stack that builds upon a VMware vSphere virtualized infrastructure. VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite provides the basic building blocks for the software-defined data center, along with the features to manage the next-generation data center. In addition, vCloud Suite provides areas of cloud service provisioning for both the physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as application lifecycle management.

In contrast to limiting virtualization to compute resources, the software-defined data center introduces the concept of virtualizing all components of the data center. This “decoupling” of data center resources from physical hardware creates the potential for automatic, policy-based provisioning, dynamic balancing, and more preemptive management of all data center resources as required by consumer workloads.

The VMware vCloud Suite is comprised of several key layers:

1 . Cloud Infrastructure

2 . Cloud Operations Management

3 . Cloud Service Management

The suite uses these three layers to deliver automation and operational insight into private cloud workloads, providing your organization a foundational Infrastructure-as-a-Services (IaaS) model.

The suite offers unusually comprehensive capabilities in areas

such as integrated disaster recovery automation through vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager, and provides extensive networking and security features for multiple internal or external tenants with vCloud™ Networking and Security. Specific networking features—like the Cisco Nexus 1000v, VMware vShield™ Edge, and technologies such as VXLAN—provide scalable, secure multitenancy.

Optional comprehensive service management using vCloud Automation Center rounds out the long-term strategy for cloud service management. Optional cloud-enabled application provisioning using vFabric™ Application Director complements the solution with application blueprints and

their associated workload configuration requirements, but does require a high degree of customization and programming skill.

In combination with physical and virtual infrastructure software from NetApp, Cisco, and VMware, the automation provided by the VMware vCloud Suite is used to create a service-oriented set of physical and virtual technology resources that can be provisioned on demand through a self-service portal interface .

The FlexPod converged infrastructure, powered by vCloud infrastructure components, thus manages pools of resources as virtual data centers that can be independently allocated by disparate business entities.

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Cloud InfrastructureBuilding from a foundational layer of VMware vSphere virtualized infrastructure, the cloud infrastructure layer is based on vSphere ESXi, VMware’s trusted hypervisor layer. Including best-of-breed virtual infrastructure management features, like vSphere DRS and HA, allows this core layer to meet SLAs for the most demanding business-critical applications at the lowest TCO .

Building on vSphere Virtual Infrastructure, VMware vCloud Director provides the provisioning and base management required to allow the abstraction and pooling of infrastructure resources into virtual data centers .

WWT’s solution harnesses the capabilities of VMware vCloud Director to pool storage, compute, and network resources from multiple clusters into an organizational-level unit, which is then consumable on a fully measurable basis

by individual and collaborative business entities. For instance, business units can employ multiple virtual machines as a single container, called a vApp, which serves as a portable application service stacks. Such stacks enable easy sharing of applications between virtual data centers, or between clouds as a whole .

vCloud Director is critical in transforming your IT service and delivery process. It is the tool we use to begin standardizing an environment for shared infrastructure across an environment (versus only across a particular organizational unit) . Immediate benefits are realized in terms of management and maintenance tasks required from your staff.

In addition to vCloud as a primary provisioning engine for the virtual data center, the cloud infrastructure also includes VMware’s vCloud Networking and Security, which is founded on the VMware vShield technologies. VMware

vShield works in conjunction with vSphere to address the challenges related to securing applications and data in the cloud. The vShield technologies provide assurance that your applications and data can be properly segmented and maintained into a trusted zone for network isolation .

• Create a zero-touch infrastructure, optimizing operational efficiency with built-in automation to make smarter and better use of virtual and cloud infrastructure

• Dynamically assure performance in the face of growing service level expectations and accelerated change—delivering self-service with control

• Ensure choice through management interoperability with VMware, NetApp, and Cisco ecosystem partners with an API-based virtualization approach

• Move to more predictable operational spending with enhanced automation and multitenancy with the common automation umbrella necessary to manage a complex, dynamic IT environment

• Have visibility into the capacity requirements and demands allowing the ability to know when to add capacity or leverage unused resources

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Cloud Operations ManagementCloud operations represents a distinct form of IT management. Built on the foundation of VMware’s vSphere, vShield, and vCloud Director products, WWT’s solution handles cloud operations by employing VMware’s new breed of management components, designed specifically for dynamic cloud environments.

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite replaces inefficient, manual operational processes with policy-driven automation. WWT’s design integrates this as a key part of our solution—not as an afterthought. With a more modern approach to operations, vCenter Operations supplies the information necessary for better decision making in the efficiency, control, and compliance aspects of the next-generation data center . These updated operational processes allow you to move IT from a cost center to a business service provider.

The operations suite from VMware contains not only core monitoring and alerting, but also detailed configuration and compliance management through vCenter™ Configuration Manager. Further, application dependencies and discovery can be found with vCenter™ Infrastructure Navigator, allowing a unique and comprehensive view for service level and business continuity planning. Lastly, vCenter™ Chargeback Manager provides metered chargeback reporting and upstream accountability to an organization .

Cloud Service ManagementService management contains two components aimed at future-proofing VMware’s strategy around cloud. By including true cloud self-service and policy-enabled cloud service provisioning with VMware vCloud Automation Center, as well as automated application provisioning with vFabric Application Director, a comprehensive business-oriented IT service approach can be provided.

vCloud Automation Center represents the next step in the journey to cloud, beyond the core data center-level infrastructure provisioning provided by vCloud Director. Automation Center enables rapid deployment

and provisioning of both physical and virtual IT services. With Automation Center providing cross-cloud capable Infrastrucure-as-a-Service, an organization can use a storefront to help enforce business and IT policy through the service lifecycle.

vFabric Application Director is the entry to an intuitive drag-and-drop application canvas supporting quick creation of visual blueprints of application deployment topologies. Overall, VMware’s vFabric Suite is a comprehensive application development framework for cloud application . Application Director is the integration point with the actual cloud infrastructure for the vFabric framework.

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Cloud Infrastructure

vCloud™ Director Provides the overall automation and management required to allow the abstraction and pooling of infrastructure resources into virtual data centers running on VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure.

vCloud™ Connector Provides a single user interface for overseeing multiple public and private clouds and for transferring cloud content from one cloud to another.

vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager Provides disaster recovery and extensive networking and security features for multiple internal or external tenants.

vCloud™ Networking and Security Works in conjunction with vSphere to address the challenges related to securing applications and data in the cloud. VMware vShield technology provides assurance that applications and data can be properly segmented and maintained into a trusted zone for compliance.

VMware® vCloud Enterprise Suite Flexpod Converged Infrastructure

A complete, extensive, integrated cloud infrastructure and management stack that builds upon a VMware vSphere virtualized infrastructure. VMware vCloud Suite provides the building blocks for a self-service automated data center.

This pretested, validated platform delivers integrated networking, computing, and storage. A flexible IT architecture combines with support for efficient, streamlined management.

Cloud Service Management

vCloud™ Automation CenterVMware vCloud Automation Center provides the self-service portal “storefront,” and the orchestration engines necessary to enforce business and IT policy throughout the service lifecycle.

vFabric™ Application DirectorVMware vFabric Application Director is an application provisioning solution that simplifies creating and standardizing application deployment topologies on infrastructure clouds.

Cloud Operations Management

vCenter™ Operations Management SuiteSupplies the efficiency, control, and compliance required to move IT from a cost center to a business service provider.

vCenter™ Infrastructure NavigatorProvides a unique and comprehensive view for service-level and business continuity planning.

vCenter™ Chargeback ManagerProvides metered chargeback reporting and upstream accountability with actionable data.

Converged Infrastructure

Cisco Unified Compute SystemA next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, and storage access into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost and increase agility of the software-defined data center.

Cisco UCS ManagerA robust device management software embedded in every Cisco UCS deployment. Allows the management of the entire environment from a highly available single pane of glass.

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface CardProvides both network connectivity and management capabilities. The Fabric Interconnects are the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, the Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, and C-Series Rack-Mount Servers (connected through Nexus 2232PP Fabric Extenders).

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface CardProvides acceleration for the various new operational modes introduced by server virtualization.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Series NetworkingThe networking foundation for any FlexPod deployment. Enables any transport over Ethernet, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic and storage traffic, on one common data center-class platform.

NetApp® Unified Storage Architecture Provides the cloud infrastructure with an agile and scalable storage platform. A foundation for providing unified storage through multiprotocol support on every platform.

NetApp® OnCommand®

Management software that improves storage and service efficiency through functions that help control, automate, and analyze shared storage infrastructures.

NetApp® Virtual Storage Console (VSC)Delivers storage configuration and monitoring, data-store provisioning, VM cloning, and backup and recovery of VMs and datastores. VSC also includes an API for automated control.

PRODUCTS AT A GLANCEWWT provides robust, integrated, manageable enterprise solutions based on best-of-breed technologies from our industry-leading vendors. Here is a brief summary of the product mix in this cloud solution.

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WWT has found it is most cost-effective to leverage private cloud, while closely evaluating the economies of scale that public cloud can provide for the long term .

World Wide Technology’s Approach to Cloud

Public cloud is clearly not the only way to realize the benefits of cloud technology. In fact, for many organizations, the security, governance, and compliance aspects of data access create significant obstacles to attaining a public cloud model. Furthermore, application characteristics often have specific extensibility requirements for integration with the rest of the compute environment, making it difficult to move an application out of the data center .

Our solution takes a blended approach, focused on an application-by-application view of business requirements, which is required to extract maximum return from cloud architectures . Often a particular application will be better suited to private cloud—as long as key attributes enabling service-based delivery are in place—versus sending that application out to a public cloud provider. Alternatively, there may be specific applications that should be fully extracted from the existing data center and hosted externally.

By taking an extremely pragmatic approach to cloud, WWT works with customers on planning cloud strategically—with concurrent tactical execution. We recommend a step-by-step, project-by-project phased approach for cloud, not “rip-and-replace” or “your mess for less” using outsourcing .

The perception of cloud computing as a game-changing development in IT is attractive for a variety of reasons—

however, not necessarily for the right reasons . Due to the scale of operations for our enterprise clients, we take a step back from the marketplace buzz of “cloud as a utopian solution that solves all IT challenges,” and start by assessing real requirements.

Cloud does not exist with a fundamental state of standardization within the architecture. The term “cloud” is a business decision to “do things differently” inside of an organization, rather than a specific technology choice. This decision begins with a plan to accomplish standardization as a part of a simplification of IT architecture, operations, and administration requirements.

Four Stages of Cloud AdoptionWWT helps organizations adopt cloud in four stages . The orchestration phase embodies the business decision to “go cloud,” because orchestration deployment substantially affects business workflow, decision making, and reporting . It produces a degree of business dexterity that is greater than the sum of the parts—those particular process inputs, tools, and architectural components generated up front.

This is not unlike an ERP implementation, where the time necessary to extract value is significant, but the long-term investment can bring substantial rewards both in IT cost savings, as well as directly to the organization’s marketplace or mission agility.

1. Define the current state of your organization and document your starting point

2. Agree to a 2- to 3-year vision and current organizational maturity

3. Approach cloud by considering (a) people, (b) process, (c) technology, and (d) architecture

4. Build success incrementally, project by project

5. Continually validate ROI and TCO

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FOUR STAGES OF CLOUD ADOPTiON

SimplificationMinimizes and standardizes IT operations and administration

Baseline initiatives, including:• Implementation of a converged infrastructure• Reduction of IT redundancies• Platform consolidation• Data center centralization• Core IT process understanding

Virtualization Decreases cap-ex and op-ex by reducing physical infrastructure needs, power, and cooling

The foundation of service provision, including:• Virtualization to break the 1:1 relationship between servers and applications• Hypervisor enabling for pooling computing resources, partitioning individual systems into

many, and decreasing data center footprint

AutomationProvides enhanced operational expense reduction by automating provisioning and management of application workloads

Matures management of virtualization and infrastructure, and minimizes manual touch points for IT staff, including:

• Core virtualization management functions • Aligning processes and procedures with new capabilities• Stack automation (automating specific areas vs. the more costly ERP-for-IT type of service

management system)• Able to provide core cloud features for cost savings and business agility

OrchestrationFocuses on core business needs and applications

Supports improved business decision making, for example:• Creates self-service capabilities• Uses workflow built from business processes to orchestrate the component parts of the

cloud architecture, across domains and business units• Supports the key business decision to “go cloud.” However, if cloud is to be deployed

comprehensively, planning should be similar to that required by an ERP implementation.

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• Reduce time to market for critical business services and initiatives

• Gain the agility to anticipate and exploit market opportunities ahead of your competition

• Make infrastructure optimization decisions at a business level

• Create an interoperable service delivery model and approach that provides the full flexibility of cloud computing, while preserving control

• Increase IT responsiveness by managing efficient pools of IT resources with layered elements of automation, enabling service requests to be fulfilled much more rapidly

• Standardized compute, storage, networking, and virtualization allows IT administrators to shift from managing a discrete component of IT to managing pools of application and infrastructure resources

Focus on Enterprise Agility: Solution Benefits

Defining an Action PlanWWT recommends a modular approach to cloud decision making and implementation. By deploying cloud in carefully planned stages, organizations can realize immediate benefits and ease changes to the infrastructure, as well as transition IT tasks and priorities .

Each area of the WWT cloud framework has a correlated type of technology that provides the best measurable ROI.

We look at our framework as a modular design process for the technology decision-making process. For private cloud, these technology layers contain:

1 . Converged infrastructure

2 . Infrastructure software

3 . Stack automation

4 . Service management systems

The solution in this guide contains components addressing the stages of simplification, virtualization, and automation. These components begin the process for true IT service management in the orchestration phase .

In our cloud workshops, we start the process by viewing cloud along two tracks:

1 . Short-term cloud success: Achieved through building up a pilot “cloud in the corner” that showcases the benefits of cloud . A new cloud model is put in place, without requiring integration with previous process or enterprise architectural strategies .

2 . Long-term cloud planning: This starts with a Cloud Agility or Cloud Application Assessment, and assists in the full planning, design, implementation, and operational effort associated with building an organizational “IT as a service” model .

By using a WWT Cloud-in-a-Box as depicted in this solution guide, an organization can dramatically accelerate short-term cloud success.

Additional information on planning specific strategy and actions to accelerate your cloud strategy can be found in World Wide Technology’s Cloud Guide. If you would like an in person review of your cloud strategy please contact us at cloud@wwt .com .

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Let’s take a closer look at the individual component technologies within the two primary product suites in this solution . Technologies within each product suite are used selectively to construct an optimal baseline for cloud, and can be modified depending on your organization’s specific usage model requirements .

Solution Components

SOLUTION COMPONENTS

• Shared, secure, networked storage infrastructure

• Helps eliminate storage silos associated with various application tiers

• Ef�cient storage architecture • Lowers data centers costs for power,

cooling, and space utilization

• Integrates servers, network, and I/O resources into one system

• Improves enterprise application availability and performance

• Scales service delivery to increase business agility

• Streamlines data center resources to reduce total cost of ownership

• Radically reduces the number of devices requiring setup, management, power, cooling, and cabling

• Consolidate data centers and deploy workloads on shared infrastructure

• Provide built-in security and role-based access control

• Migrate workloads between different clouds and integrate existing management systems using customer extensions, APIs, and open cross-cloud standards

• Industry-leading virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures

• Accelerates the shift to cloud computing for existing data centers

• Supports hybrid cloud models

• Integrates storage and data networking • Transparent convergence• Multidimensional scalability• Sophisticated intelligence

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• Global self-service IT service management portal interface

• Policy-based approach automation of infrastructure and desktop services

• Accelerates cloud services across multivendor virtual and physical infrastructures in private and public clouds)

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As mentioned previously, converged infrastructure solutions streamline the deployment and management of virtualization environments at scale . The so-called next-generation data center, also referred to as the software-defined data center, requires foundational elements to be successful in the form of a strong foundational core infrastructure .

Converged Infrastructure Using NetApp FlexPod

In WWT’s view, converged infrastructure is defined as a prebuilt technology stack of servers, storage, and networking components. Converged infrastructure can be as small as a half-rack, or as large as a fully inclusive pod of infrastructure in a 20-40’ shipping container called the MDC, or Mobile Data center, which WWT builds in-house. The MDC is within our FAST line (flexible, adaptable solutions and technology). We pride ourselves on the resale of our vendor partner solutions, including customized converged offerings such as the FAST MDC, or similarly customized “PODs” of converged infrastructure we produce with our global supply chain operation.

IT infrastructure too often suffers from over-segmentation of server, networking, and storage resources . Each organization or customer purchases and uses its own equipment, which leads to low utilization, inefficiency, and the inability to scale properly and to respond quickly to changing business needs. Although virtualization of server and network environments has been effective in increasing the use of storage and network resources, the adoption of cloud computing to deliver ITaaS in data centers promises to complete the vision of a fully virtualized environment.

The biggest obstacle to the adoption of ITaaS has been a lack of confidence that data and applications are securely isolated in a cloud-based infrastructure in which servers, networks, and storage are all shared resources . To address this need, Cisco, NetApp, and VMware have joined together to develop secure multitenancy (SMT) in a virtualized data center, which is a carefully designed and lab-validated solution for the next-generation data center .

FlexPod is a converged infrastructure offering built based on a predesigned set of technologies, including Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco Nexus data center switching, and NetApp FAS storage components. FlexPod is able to scale up for greater performance, or can scale out for environments that need modular, consistent “pods” of infrastructure. This Solution Guide contains a sample configuration for FlexPod: the solution has the flexibility to be sized to properly accommodate various usage models without destroying the overall design and approach .

“In WWT’s view, converged infrastructure is defined as a prebuilt technology stack of servers, storage, and networking components .”

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NetApp FlexPod FlexPod includes storage, networking, and compute components. It can be scaled while maintaining its integrity, by increasing the core elements of a single FlexPod or by using the port density of the Cisco Nexus 7000 series platform to accommodate multiple FlexPods.

This type of flexibility allows many solutions to be built on top of one or more FlexPods, giving enterprises flexibility, supportability, and manageability for both virtualized and nonvirtualized workloads .

We’ll now dive into the various elements that make up the networking, storage, and compute layers of a FlexPod environment.

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Cisco UCS is a next-generation data center platform that combines compute, network, and storage access into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost and increase agility of the software-defined data center. The unified system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class x86-based servers. It delivers an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.

The system is inherently stateless, with Cisco service profiles dictating every aspect of physical server provisioning, from I/O configurations to firmware revisions and settings .

A Cisco UCS deployment contains Cisco UCS fabric interconnects, blade server chassis, B-series blades, and C-series rackmount servers for special workload requirements.

Cisco UCS Manager controls the overall UCS system, and is an element manager embedded within the UCS fabric interconnects. Cisco UCS Manager is the key single pane of glass that allows for management of the service profiles.

Cisco UCS Fabric InterconnectsThe Cisco UCS 6100 or 6200 series Fabric Interconnects are core parts of the Cisco UCS, providing both network connectivity and management capabilities. Deployed as a clustered pair of appliances, the Fabric Interconnects offer line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10-gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) functions .

The Fabric Interconnects are the management and communication backbone for the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, the Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, and C-Series Rackmount Servers (connected through Nexus 2232PP Fabric Extenders). All chassis, blades, and rackmounts connected to the Fabric Interconnects become part of a single, highly available management domain. In addition, by supporting a unified fabric, the Fabric Interconnects provide both the LAN and the storage area network (SAN) connectivity for all blades within their domain.

Cisco UCS B-Series Blades and Blade Server ChassisThe Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is a crucial building block of the Cisco UCS, delivering a scalable and flexible blade server chassis for today and tomorrow’s data center, while helping reduce total cost of ownership .

• Improve utilization and lower capital spending with an efficient, pretested, and standardized shared storage, compute, and server virtualization foundation

• Standardized server, storage, networking, and virtualization provide a dramatic increase in management efficiency.

• Storage efficiency enabled by NetApp unified share storage architecture provides a common framework to control, automate, and analyze organizational data .

• Significant savings in operational and maintenance costs

• Significantly improved application performance and availability

• Improved scalability to meet ongoing demands and growth

Focus on ROI: Solution Benefits

Cisco Unified Compute System

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Cisco’s first blade server chassis offering, the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, is six rack units high and can be mounted in an industry-standard 19-inch rack . A chassis can house up to eight half-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and can accommodate both half- and full-width blade form factors. There are currently seven blade server options from which to choose:

• Cisco UCS B200 M2 blade server







Four single-phase, hot-swappable power supplies are accessible from the front of the chassis . These power supplies are 92% efficient and can be configured to support nonredundant, N+1-redundant, and grid-redundant configurations. The rear of the chassis contains eight hot-swappable fans, four power connectors (one per power supply), and two I/O bays for either the Cisco UCS 2104XP or 2208XP Fabric Extenders .

A passive midplane provides up to 20Gbps of I/O bandwidth per half-width server slot and up to 40Gbps of I/O bandwidth per full-width server slot. The chassis is capable of supporting future 40 GbE standards.

Cisco UCS C-Series Rackmount ServersCisco UCS C-Series Rackmount Servers extend unified computing innovations to an industry-standard form factor, while still providing the stateless benefits of UCS. The innovations within the C-Series include a standards-based unified network fabric, Cisco VN-Link virtualization support, and Cisco Extended Memory Technology. These servers support an incremental deployment model and protect customer investment with a migration path to unified computing.

There are currently seven rack mount server options from which to choose:

• Cisco UCS C200 M2 rack server







Each server model addresses varying workload challenges through a balance of processing, memory, I/O, and internal storage resources .

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface CardCisco virtual interface cards (VICs) were developed from the ground up to provide acceleration for the various new operational modes introduced by server virtualization. The VICs are highly configurable, self-virtualized adapters that can create up to 256 PCI Express (PCIe) endpoints per adapter . These PCIe endpoints are created in the adapter firmware and present fully compliant standard PCIe topology to the host OS or hypervisor. Versions of the VIC are available for both the B-Series Blades and the C-Series Rackmount Servers.

Each of the PCIe endpoints created by the virtual interface card can be configured individually for the following attributes:

• Interface type . FCoE, Ethernet, or Dynamic Ethernet interface device

• Resource maps that are presented to the host . PCIe base address registers, interrupt arrays

• Network presence and attributes . Maximum transmission unit, VLAN membership

• Quality of service parameters . 802 .1p class, enhanced transmission selection (ETS) attributes, rate limiting, and shaping






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The networking foundation for any FlexPod deployment is the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series family of switches . Nexus switching enables any transport over Ethernet, including Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic and storage traffic, on one common data center-class platform . Nexus helps transform the data center with a standards-based, multipurpose and multiprotocol Ethernet-based fabric . The Cisco Nexus family of switches consists of the Cisco Nexus 5010, 5020, 5548UP, and 5596UP, and the NX-OS operating system .

Cisco Nexus Networking

Cisco Nexus switches are ideal for enterprise-class data center server access layer and smaller scale, midmarket data center aggregation layer deployments. These multipurpose, multilayer switches can be deployed across a diverse set of traditional, virtualized, unified, and high-performance computing environments.

As part of the foundation for FlexPod, these switches help address business, application, and operational requirements of evolving data centers.

They provide:

• Architectural flexibility to support diverse business and application needs

• Infrastructure simplicity to decrease TCO

• Agility for traditional deployments, with easy migration to virtualized, unified, or HPC environments

• Enhanced business resilience with greater operational continuity based on the modular Cisco NX-OS operating system

• Ability to use existing operational models and administrative domains for easy deployment

• Nonblocking, resilient architecture based on virtual PortChannel (vPC), which removes the dependency on spanning tree

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series also expands Cisco Fabric Extension technology into the servers and virtual machines with Cisco Adapter FEX and Cisco VM-FEX.

The switch family’s rich feature set makes the series ideal for rack-level, access-layer applications. It protects investments in data center racks with standards-based Ethernet and FCoE features that allow IT departments to consolidate networks based on their own requirements and timing.

The combination of high port density, wire-speed performance, and extremely low latency makes the switch an ideal product to meet the growing demand for 10 GbE at the rack level. The switch family has sufficient port density to support single or multiple racks that are fully populated with blade and rackmount servers.

Built for today’s data centers, the switches are designed just like the servers they support. Ports and power connections are at the rear, closer to server ports, helping to keep cable lengths as short and efficient as possible. Hot swappable power and cooling modules can be accessed from the front panel, where status lights offer an at-a-glance view of switch operation. Front-to-back cooling is consistent with server designs,

supporting efficient data center hot- and cold-aisle designs. Serviceability is enhanced, with all customer-replaceable units accessible from the front panel. The use of Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) ports offers increased flexibility to use a range of interconnect solutions, including copper for short runs and fiber for long runs .

FCoE and IEEE Data Center Bridging features support I/O consolidation, simplify management of multiple traffic flows, and optimize performance. Although implementing SAN consolidation requires only the lossless fabric provided by the Ethernet pause mechanism, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series offers additional features that create an even more easily managed, high-performance, unified network fabric.


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The NetApp® Unified Storage Architecture provides the cloud infrastructure with an agile and scalable storage platform . All NetApp storage systems use the Data ONTAP operating system to provide SAN (FCoE, FC, iSCSI), NAS (CIFS, NFS), and primary and secondary storage in a single unified platform, so that all data components can be hosted on the same storage array .

NetApp Storage Infrastructure

WWT leverages the system’s single process for activities such as installation, provisioning, mirroring, backup, and upgrading, which is applicable throughout the entire product line, from entry level to enterprise-class controllers . Having a single set of software and processes brings great simplicity to the challenge of managing complex enterprise data sets. Unifying storage and data management software and processes reduces the complexity of data ownership, enabling the WWT solution to adapt to changing business needs without interruption, and resulting in reduced total cost of ownership .

NetApp’s cluster-mode storage allows for enterprise-ready, unified, scale-out storage. Cluster Mode is a critical building block for large virtualized shared storage infrastructures that are architected for nondisruptive operations over the system’s lifetime.

In a shared infrastructure, the availability and performance of the storage infrastructure are critical because storage outages or performance issues can affect thousands of users . The storage architecture within the WWT cloud platform has been integrated to provide a high level of availability and performance.

NetApp Unified Storage Architecture

Data ONTAP is NetApp’s foundation for providing unified storage through multiprotocol support on every platform. The FlexPod converged infrastructure platform can use both the FAS3000 and FAS6000 series to build efficient infrastructures.

RAID-DP With any shared infrastructure deployment, data protection is critical because any RAID failure could result in hundreds to thousands of end users being disconnected from their virtual desktops or applications and significant loss in productivity. WWT utilizes the NetApp RAID-DP offering due to its ability to perform comparable to that of RAID 10, while requiring fewer disks to achieve equivalent protection. RAID-DP protects against double disk failure, as compared to RAID 5, which can protect against only one disk failure per RAID group .

Storage Efficiency The critical barrier to adopting shared infrastructure is increased cost related to using shared storage to obtain a highly available, enterprise-quality infrastructure. In order to overcome this barrier, WWT employs the NetApp’s thin provisioning, data deduplication, and FlexClone thin-cloning technologies . These offerings provide our solution with multiple levels of storage efficiency across the virtual desktop OS data, installed applications, and user data .

For example, virtual desktop and other enterprise deployments can create a high level of data redundancy, especially for the virtual machine (VM) OS data. With traditional storage, the total storage required equals the sum of the storage required by each VM. For example, if each VM is 20 GB in size, and there are 1,000 VMs in the solution, it would require at least 20 TB of usable data on the shared storage .

“Having a single set of software and processes brings great simplicity to the challenge of managing complex enterprise data sets . Unifying storage and data management software and processes reduces the complexity of data ownership, enabling the WWT solution to adapt to changing business needs without interruption, and resulting in reduced total cost of ownership .”

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NetApp Thin ProvisioningThin provisioning is a way of logically presenting more storage to hosts than is physically available. With thin provisioning, the storage administrator can access a pool of physical disks, or aggregate, to create logical volumes for different applications to use, while not preallocating space to those volumes. The space is allocated only when the host needs it . The unused aggregate space is available for the existing thin-provisioned volumes to expand or for use in the creation of new volumes.

There are many situations in which you can end up allocating a lot of storage, only to have it sit unused for a long time. For example, one design college estimated that it needed 27.5 TB of storage just for the storage allocations of its students and faculty, but most of them use little or none of that storage.

NetApp thin provisioning is designed to present more logical storage to hosts or users than you actually have in your physical storage pool. Instead of allocating space up front, storage space is dynamically allocated to each volume or LUN as data is written. In most configurations, free space is also released back to your common storage pool when data in the volume or LUN is deleted (and is not being held by any Snapshot™ copies).

There are many benefits in this approach to storage provisioning:

• As the example above suggests, it can save you from having a large amount of allocated but unoccupied storage .

• Higher utilization leads to a reduction in the amount of storage you need, lowering your direct capital expenses (capex) .

• Operating expenses (opex) are reduced because your storage occupies less data center space and requires less electricity and cooling .

• Because storage prices continue to drop, when you do have to purchase additional capacity it will likely be cheaper than if you had purchased that capacity up front .

• Capacity planning is simplified because you are able to manage a single pool of free storage . Multiple applications or users can allocate storage from the same free pool, avoiding the situation in which some volumes are capacity constrained while others have capacity to spare .

• Your storage environment becomes more agile and it becomes easier to react to change .

Flexible Volumes and AggregatesThe WWT cloud architecture develops pooled disk resources, including IOPS, by tapping into aggregates, or the NetApp virtualization layer, which abstracts physical disks from logical datasets, referred to as flexible volumes (also known as FlexVol volumes). The flexible volumes contained in each aggregate have their own unique logical capacity. Flexible volumes can be thin-provisioned and the logical capacity resized as needed .

FlexVol volumes are shared out as file-level (NFS or CIFS) mount points or are further allocated as LUNs for block-level (iSCSI or FCP) access. FlexVol volumes can be readily offered to the VMware environment as datastores. WWT follows NetApp in recommending one-to-one alignment between the FlexVol volume and VMware vSphere datastore assets. Using VMware as an example, alignment makes mapping easy between the VMware server administrator’s view and the storage administrator’s view of the virtual environment. NetApp also suggests large aggregates to support most VMware environments. VMware environments often have random I/O requirements; large aggregates provide maximum flexibility to VMware administrators because a large pool of I/O resources is made readily available. With NetApp’s inherent storage virtualization techniques, which apply to all hypervisors, all datasets or virtual machines housed in a shared storage infrastructure take advantage of RAID-DP from a performance and protection standpoint .


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NetApp DeduplicationNetApp deduplication saves space on primary storage by removing redundant copies of blocks in a volume with significant virtual machine hosting potential at scale. The benefit of the deduplication process for WWT’s cloud solution is that the process is transparent to the application and user, and can be enabled and disabled on the fly. In a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, for instance, deduplication provides significant space savings, given that each virtual machine has an identical copy of the OS, applications, and patches . The savings are also achieved for the user data hosted on CIFS home directories .

Using NetApp deduplication and file FlexClone technology can reduce the overall storage footprint of VDI desktops and improve performance by leveraging transparent storage cache sharing . Data that is deduplicated (or nonduplicated, in the case of file FlexClone data) on disk exists in the storage array cache only once per volume. All subsequent reads from any of the virtual machine disks of a block that is already in cache are read from cache and not from disk, thus improving performance tenfold. Any nondeduplicated data not in cache must be read from disk. Data that is deduplicated—but does not have as many block references as a heavily deduplicated virtual machine disk (VMDK)—appears in cache only once, but based on the frequency of access might be evicted earlier than data that has many references or is heavily used.

Deduplication guidelines:

• Deduplication is configured and operates on the flexible volumes only .

• Data can be deduplicated up to 255:1 without consuming additional space .

• Each storage platform has different deduplication limits .

• Each volume has dense and non-dense size limits .

Transparent Storage Cache SharingTransparent storage cache sharing (TSCS) allows customers to benefit from the storage efficiency of NetApp and at the same time significantly increase I/O performance. TSCS is natively built into the Data ONTAP operating system and works by leveraging block-sharing technologies—such as NetApp primary storage deduplication and file or volume FlexClone—to reduce the amount of cache required and eliminate duplicate disk reads. Only one instance of any duplicate block is read into cache, thus requiring less cache than traditional storage solutions .

Again, in implementations such as those deploying VDI, organizations can see up to 99% initial space savings (validated in the NetApp solutions lab) by using space-efficient NetApp cloning technologies . This translates into higher cache deduplication and high cache hit rates. TSCS is especially effective in addressing the simultaneous system boot, or “boot storm,” of hundreds to thousands of virtual desktop systems that can overload a traditional legacy storage system.

Here are some important aspects to consider for transparent storage cache sharing:

• Requires Data ONTAP 7 .2 .5 .1, 7 .3P1, or later

• Both a_sis and NearStore must be licensed for deduplication to work

• Run deduplication before creating Snapshot copies or running SnapMirror® or SnapVault® updates



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NetApp Flash Cache and FlexScale NetApp® Flash Cache is a hardware device that extends the native Data ONTAP TSCS capabilities. Flash Cache increases the amount of available cache, which helps to reduce virtual desktop storm activities.

NetApp® FlexScale is the tunable software component of Flash Cache. It is a licensed feature of Data ONTAP 7.3 and later. FlexScale allows three different caching modes to be used, based on the type of workload:

• Metadata only

• Normal user data

• Low-priority blocks

For example, FlexScale allows system administrators to tune the VMware vCloud environments of their NetApp controllers .

NetApp Virtual Storage Console and Operations Manager To provide operationally agile management of storage on the VMware Virtual Infrastructure software platform, the NetApp Virtual Storage Console integrates directly into VMware vCenter for rapidly provisioning, managing, configuring, and backing up a cloud implementation. NetApp Operations Manager offers a comprehensive monitoring and management solution for the storage infrastructure . It provides comprehensive reports of utilization and trends for capacity planning and space usage. It also monitors system performance, storage capacity, and health to resolve potential problems.

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Virtual Infrastructure Components

VMware vSphere ESXiVMware vSphere ESXi is a lightweight hypervisor that is installed directly onto the physical servers, enabling the abstraction and distribution of compute resources such as memory, CPU, network attachment, and storage allocations into logical workloads called virtual machines (VMs). Multiple ESXi hosts can be aggregated with shared infrastructure resources to create host “clusters,” which simplify the management of virtualized resources and enable enhanced features such as VMware vMotion, VMware HA, and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

VMware ESXi is the core abstraction layer that separates the workload from the physical environment and allows extensive workload flexibility.

Cisco Nexus 1000vThe Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch is an optional software virtual switch that can be used in place of the VMware® vSwitch or Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS). The 1000v provides enterprise-class Cisco Nexus switching capabilities to the virtual access layer of the VMware vSphere environment. VM network ports are individually connected through software to the Cisco Nexus 1000v, enabling per-port granularity for configuration and security control .

Two main components make up the Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch:

• The Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)

• The Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM)

The VSM serves as a single management interface for the entire distributed virtual switch, similar to a supervisor module in a physical, Cisco enterprise-class switch chassis . The VEM modules are installed on each host and serve as the software access layer within the virtual network. VM virtual network ports and physical uplink ports both link to the VEM modules on their respective virtual hosts. The VSM and VEMs all operate in concert to provide a complete virtual distributed Cisco Nexus switch within VMware vSphere.

VMware vShield EdgeVMware vShield Edge, part of the VMware vShield family, delivers an operationally efficient, simple, and cost-effective security services gateway to secure the perimeter of virtual data centers. The solution’s virtual security appliance delivers gateway services such as firewall/NAT, load balancer, VPN, and DHCP and is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and VMware vCloud Director.

• Safely share cloud infrastructure by creating logical security zones that provide complete network isolation for virtual data centers

• Easily support multi-tenant IT environments

• Enable role-based access control and separation of duties as part of a unified framework for managing virtualization security

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Element Managers

Cisco UCS ManagerThe element manager of Cisco’s unified compute platform, Cisco UCS Manager (UCSM), is robust device management software that is embedded in every Cisco UCS deployment and can support up to 160 individual servers. Cisco UCSM allows the management of the entire environment from a highly available single pane of glass .

Cisco UCS Manager provides the flexible role- and policy-based management of hardware resources through the use of service profiles and templates. This abstraction of the actual hardware from standard elements that typically define server personality, such as MAC address, WWPN, system UUID, and firmware revisions, allows the compute resources to be highly portable. Since the hardware configuration is moved into software, the firmware, boot order, NIC and HBA settings, boot targets, and so forth are no longer tired to a particular physical component.

This approach enables the typical physical IT infrastructure to be deployed in minutes rather than days, and allows organizations to remove focus from monotonous maintenance tasks.

NetApp OnCommand™NetApp OnCommand management software improves storage and service efficiency through functions that help control, automate, and analyze shared storage infrastructures .

Only NetApp OnCommand unified manager delivers a unified experience to manage physical and virtual storage environments using

integrated workflows and policy-driven automation. From a single interface, OnCommand enables the consolidation and simplification of shared IT storage management, delivering significant flexibility and efficiency.

OnCommand manages shared storage resources using policy-based automation for provisioning and data protection, resulting in up to 50% savings in storage costs. OnCommand integrates with third-party management suites, providing a unified storage management approach, while still allowing flexibility in the data center.

NetApp Virtual Storage ConsoleThe NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) software delivers storage configuration and monitoring, datastore provisioning, VM cloning, and backup and recovery of VMs and datastores. VSC also includes an API for automated control .

VSC is delivered as a vCenter Server plug-in that provides end-to-end VM lifecycle management for VMware environments leveraging NetApp storage. It is available to all vSphere Clients that connect to the vCenter Server. This is different from a client-side plug-in that must be installed on every vSphere Client. The VSC software can be installed either on the vCenter Server or on a separate Microsoft Windows server or VM.

VMware vCenter ServervCenter Server provides a scalable extensible platform for proactive virtualization management, delivering deep visibility into vSphere virtual infrastructure and an important

interface for the VMware vCloud Suite to obtain access to key features of the virtualization stack . vCenter centralizes virtualization management for the entire virtualization infrastructure layer, and is a key component of VMware Cloud features such as VMware vMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), and VMware High Availability (HA).

By allowing element management of the entire virtualization stack in a centralized, highly available management console, VMware vCloud Director is able to automate key features of the workload placed in the next-generation data center .

• Analyze and remediate issues quickly with deep visibility into vSphere and its underlying infrastructure .

• Improve IT responsiveness by proactively managing vSphere environments with provisioning, and automated load balancing of virtual machine workloads including storage, compute, and memory utilization .

• Quickly deploy vCenter Server and manage vSphere using a Linux*-based virtual appliance with the vCenter Server Appliance .

• Scale to meet the needs of the most demanding enterprise environments and manage up to 10,000 virtual machines .



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VMware’s vCloud Suite is crucial to the software-defined data center solution, as it allows your IT team to manage and automate the decoupled virtual data center resources . Essentially, the suite provides for automation of technology resources, resulting in IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) based on models of operation and consumption defined to address organizational conditions.

Cloud Services

In addition to the core vSphere enterprise element tools, the VMware vCloud Suite contains products that address three general areas:

1 . Cloud Infrastructure

1 . Cloud Operations Management

2 . Cloud Service Management

While suited together and OEM-supported as a product, some instances of deployment of an overall VMware vCloud Suite will require functional validation as a custom integration. Native capabilities of the products within the suite are fundamentally valuable for establishing the cloud service potential of our solution, and WWT expects integration of the suites within the product will accelerate and offer substantial benefits.

In total, this lineup represents VMware’s design objective for a range of intrinsically open, and interoperable data center functions operating largely virtualized within a software-defined space, with features including availability, scalability, security, and service-level guarantees .

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VMware vCloud Infrastructure

vCloud DirectorVMware vCloud Director takes management of virtual resources to the data center level, harvesting the mesh of features the solution architecture offers to build pools of compute, storage, and network resources .

With the FlexPod in place, the instrument of vCloud director provides a layer of abstraction between the consumer of the virtual resources and the virtual infrastructure itself . With this layer in place it allows the underlying technology to provide Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) in shared infrastructure units that end-users consume through role-based access policies.

Using the vCloud objects of Organizations and Organization Virtual Data Centers and Provider Virtual Data Centers, vCloud Director provides the virtualization automation capabilities needed to enable self-provisioning and management of workloads across one or more vSphere environments. This enables our solution to help businesses migrate gradually to cloud computing while continuing to leverage existing vSphere investments.

By allowing users to encapsulate multiple virtual machine (VM) services and associated networking policies into vApps—which are portable packaged units—vCloud Director makes it easy to share services between clouds, instead of locking them into specific deployments. These packaged units are manipulated through open APIs and can be deployed on any cloud compatible with VMware vCloud.

vCloud Connector vCloud Connector is an enterprise product that provides a single user interface for overseeing multiple public and private clouds and for transferring cloud content from one cloud to another. It allows you to connect multiple clouds, both internal and external, in a single user interface .

Using vCloud Connector, you can stop and start virtual machines, check their performance, and transfer virtual machines, vApps, and templates from one cloud to another .

vCloud Connector consists of three distinct components:

• vCloud Connector UI

• vCloud Connector Server

• vCloud Connector Nodes

vCloud Networking and SecurityVMware’s roadmap for networking and security is evolving to provide adaptive and cost-effective services within a single management framework for securing virtual data centers and networking cloud environments at all levels (host, application, data and endpoint). WWT’s solution is primed to take advantage of this evolution and our engineering teams are tightly aligned with VMware’s product strategy and roadmap for vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS).

Our specific product focus begins with VMware vCNS Edge as a foundational technology for the IaaS Cloud solution.

VMware vCNS Edge This product provides private cloud firewall, VPN, routing, and NAT services, and facilitates secure isolation of workloads from each other as well as from external networks.

As part of the VMware vCloud Networking and Security family, Edge delivers an operationally efficient, simple and cost-effective security services gateway to secure the perimeter of virtual data centers . The solution’s virtual security appliance delivers gateway services such as firewall/NAT, load balancer, VPN and DHCP and is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server and VMware vCloud Director.

Key capabilities include:

• Safely share cloud infrastructure by creating logical security zones that provide complete network isolation for virtual data centers .

• Easily support multitenant IT environments

• Enable role-based access control and separation of duties as part of a unified framework for managing virtualization security

VMware vCNS App Firewall vShield App with Data Security adds Sensitive Data Discovery across virtualized resources, enabling IT organizations to quickly assess the state of compliance with regulations from across the world. It scans within virtualized workloads for sensitive data—such as credit card information—and reports violations of regulations (such as PCI-DSS), enabling IT organizations to quickly assess the state of compliance with regulations from around the world.

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• Identification and protection of sensitive business information

• Predefined templates for country and industry-specific regulations, to quickly identify and reports on sensitive data exposures

• Improving performance by offloading data discovery functions to a virtual appliance

VMware vCNS ManagerIncluded with all vShield products, vShield Manager provides a central point of control for managing, deploying, reporting, logging and integrating vShield as well as third-party security services. Working in conjunction with vCenter Server, vShield Manager enables role-based access control and separation of duties as part of a unified framework for managing virtualization security.


• Simplifying provisioning with VMware vCenter integration and programmable management

• Simplifying IT compliance with centralized logging and reporting

• Integrating VMware vShield with third-party solutions

VMware vShield EndpointVMware vShield Endpoint provides industry standard APIs to optimize antivirus and antimalware security for virtual environments via integration with VMware partners. VMware vShield Endpoint allows security technology partners to offer more efficient antivirus and antimalware protection for virtual hosts, including VMware View desktops .


• Offload antivirus and antimalware functions from individual virtual machines to a centralized secure virtual appliance

• Streamline security management and protect against antivirus “storms,” performance bottlenecks, and botnet attacks

• Increase consolidation ratios and performance

• Satisfy compliance and audit requirements through logging of antivirus and antimalware activities

• Ensure the compliance objectives for critical applications, with VMware vShield™ App with Data Security, part of the VMware vShield family of virtualization security products

vCenter Site Recovery ManagerVMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that provides disaster recovery capabilities to VMware customers.

SRM enables integration with array-based replication, as well as the use of a native VMware vSphere-based replication engine, discovery and management of replicated datastores, automated migration of inventory vCenter environments, automated re-protection, and failback of environments.

SRM servers coordinate the operations of the VMware vCenter Server at multiple sites, so that as virtual machines at one site (the protected site) are shut down, copies of these virtual machines at the other site (the recovery site) start up and, using the data replicated from the protected site, assume responsibility for providing the same services.

Migration of protected inventory and services from one site to the other is controlled by a recovery plan that specifies the order in which virtual machines are shut down and started up, the resource pools to which they are allocated, and the networks they can access. SRM enables the testing of recovery plans, using a temporary copy of the replicated data, in a way that does not disrupt ongoing operations at either site .

SRM runs in conjunction with the vSphere platform, extending the feature set of the virtual infrastructure platform to provide for rapid business continuity through partial or complete site failures.

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VMware vCloud Operations Management

Designed for VMware vSphere and being built for cloud long term, vCenter Operations Management Suite sets the industry standard in operational efficiency and allows you to proactively ensure virtual/cloud infrastructure performance of your Microsoft® Exchange, Oracle®, and SAP, provide continuous compliance with operational and regulatory requirements, and optimize resource utilization and cost .

Performance, capacity, and configuration management are aligning due to the nature of converged infrastructure . Traditional tools and processes designed for siloed, static physical infrastructures don’t provide the automation, management, and control required to effectively manage highly virtualized and private cloud environments.

VMware vCenter Operations is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere and designed for dynamic environments to simplify and automate Operations. The integrated approach uses VMware’s patented analytics to provide intelligence and visibility required to meet or exceed service levels, reduce risk of downtime, and optimize environments for efficiency and cost. VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite is designed for VMware vSphere and built for cloud to dramatically simplify and automate operations management.

vCenter Ops aims to automate performance, capacity, and configuration management with specific analytics and an integrated approach to management. This helps to eliminate finger pointing, and improves team collaboration by reducing manual problem-solving efforts with automated root-cause analysis.

vCenter Operations Management SuiteVMware vCenter Operations Manager builds on the revolutionary VMware approach to converging real-time performance, capacity, and configuration management of your IT infrastructure . With vCenter Operations Manager, virtual infrastructure administrators and enterprise operations center teams are able to identify, diagnose, and repair poor operation and high-risk situations as well as identify opportunities to improve infrastructure efficiency problems.

vCenter Operations Manager is designed for vSphere and cloud environments to drive operating efficiencies through:

• Smart Alerts, which inform you when to pay attention to emerging problems and what to pay attention to in order to avoid major performance problems

• Intelligent operations management automation to maximize efficiency and agility

• Proactive performance management across the virtual and physical IT infrastructure

• On-demand analytics for long-term system capacity planning and optimization

vCenter Operations Manager delivers these benefits via a robust architectural platform; exceptional data aggregation capabilities; sophisticated, learning-based analytics; and elegant, easy-to-use Web-based interface.

The platform enables high scalability for inclusion of diverse time-series data and dispersed environments. With tight integration with vSphere and the ability to leverage existing classic monitoring tool platforms, vCenter Operations Manager reveals insightful information through patented algorithms. These algorithms analyze performance data to discover data trends and are agnostic of the source. By combining these attributes, vCenter Operations Manager creates the capability to correlate performance data to conduct holistic analysis of your environment for real-time performance, risk, and capacity management.

vCloud Operations Management ensures service levels, optimum resource usage, and configuration compliance in virtual and cloud environments with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite .

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vCenter Configuration ManagerVMware vCenter Configuration Manager automates configuration management across virtual and physical servers and desktops, increasing efficiency by eliminating manual, error-prone, and time-consuming work. This allows enterprises to maintain continuous compliance by detecting changes and comparing them to configuration and security policies. Configuration Manager remediates problems and automates provisioning of VMware vSphere, operating systems, and software for complete virtualized data center control .

Configuration Manager ensures the integrity of your virtualized data center and lowers IT audit costs by providing automated compliance assessments against VMware and Microsoft security best practice guides, industry best practices, and your own policies.

• Gain configuration insight and agility and avoid configuration drift by automating discovery, collection, change detection, and policy violation identification for more than 80,000 configuration settings .

• Maintain continuous compliance with out-of-the-box templates that contain policy-driven rules, reports and dashboards that ensure security, regulatory, and operational compliance .

• Perform physical and virtual system provisioning via a centralized mechanism . With Configuration Manager, you can deploy vSphere to “bare metal” and then load operating systems into virtual machine containers or to “bare metal” systems .

• Automate software provisioning and integrate it into compliance enforcement processes . Configuration Manager allows users to easily create software packages, push packages to systems and guests, automatically find missing software (e.g., antivirus), and remediate to install required software to non-compliant systems . This same compliance methodology can also be used to remove unwarranted or unsafe software from your systems (e .g ., Kazaa) .

vCenter Chargeback ManagervCenter Chargeback Manager is an end-to-end cost reporting solution for virtual environments that use VMware vSphere. This Web-based application interacts with the vCenter Server Database to retrieve usage information, calculates the cost by using the defined chargeback formulas, and generates cost and usage reports. Chargeback allows for accurate cost measurement, analysis, and reporting of virtual machines within the environment. This provides business unit application owners and IT teams visibility into the actual cost of the virtual infrastructure and operations required to support an actual business service.

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Chargeback provides:

• Agility to configure VM cost models to meet your organization’s unique structure, needs, and policies

• IT cost visibility with simplified analysis and reporting

• End user accountability for VMs in a self-service private cloud environment

• Abstract and move data into management application for better decision making

VMware’s vCenter Chargeback allows organizations to improve utilization of virtual infrastructure with visibility into their true costs of virtualized workloads . vCenter Chargeback enables line-of-business owners to have full cost transparency and accountability for self-service resource requests.

Additionally, VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager allows cost models to be customized to the process and policies of organizations . Virtual machine resource consumption data is collected from VMware vCenter Server ensuring a comprehensive and accurate tabulation of resource costs. Integration with VMware vCloud Director also enables automated chargeback for private cloud environments.

Additionally, having a chargeback model allows the business to understand the cost of deploying and maintaining business services while eliminating the perception that virtual machines are “free.”

vCenter Chargeback can also integrate with existing IT Financial Management (or IT Business Management) or complete cost visibility across physical and virtual resources for an end-to-end financial model.

A viable business unit service model likely will include steps to:

• Configure the base costs, fixed costs, one-time costs, multiple rate factors, and overage fees to model accurate costs associated with virtual machines

• Track costs for power, cooling, real estate, software licenses, and maintenance associated with virtual infrastructure deployments

• Maintain reusable cost templates that allow the process of adding cost models to VMs to be standardized .

Lastly, steps should be taken to use vCenter Chargeback to schedule and distribute reports on a periodic basis to communicate usage and costs to business owners. This will help your organization drive better decision making and planning for infrastructure budget requirements by optimizing the use of your shared virtual infrastructure.

vCenter Infrastructure NavigatorVMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator offers application context to virtual infrastructure administrators to provide better monitoring and management of the virtual infrastructure inventory. The Navigator is used as a plug-in to the vCenter Server virtualization element manager, and provides dependency mapping of applications. VMware administrators can work with the Navigator to understand the impact of change on the virtual environment in the actual application infrastructure .

Infrastructure Navigator provides various high-level functions:

• Maps virtual infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, Web servers, mail servers, database servers, application servers, messaging servers, application management servers, and virtualization management servers

• Displays the relationships between virtual machines and external machines through services

• Detects inconsistencies from a baseline

• Allow you to take advantage of integration with other VMware products such as VMware vCenter Server and VMware® vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager

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VMware vCloud Service Management

vCenter Automation CenterThe new centerpiece of the VMware cloud message, vCenter Automation Center is the result of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps. A true service management framework, vCenter Automation Center elevates VMware’s cloud service management to include rapid deployment and provisioning across private and public clouds, physical infrastructure, and multivendor hypervisors.

Automation Center allows access to standardized IT services through a role-based, self-service portal, acting as a governing framework to enforce business and IT policy throughout a service lifecycle. By evolving existing infrastructure, particularly the vCloud Director virtualization automation messaging, VMware’s approach to cloud service orchestration brings a measured approach and immediate results .

• Gain business agility and operational efficiency with a policy-based approach to automating the governance and delivery of infrastructure and desktop services

• Accelerate the deployment of business relevant cloud services across multivendor virtual and physical infrastructures in private and public clouds

• Leverage vCloud Director environments to benefit from policy-based virtual data centers built on pooled infrastructure resources and software-defined networking, security, storage, and availability services

• Quickly demonstrate the value of a cloud infrastructure deployment to secure organizational buy-in and management commitment

vFabric® Application™ DirectorVMware vFabric Application Director is an application provisioning solution that simplifies creating and standardizing application deployment topologies on infrastructure clouds . Application architects can use a graphic-based canvas with a drag-and-drop interface to create application deployment topologies called application blueprints.

These application blueprints define the structure of the application, enable the use of standardized application infrastructure components, and include installation dependencies and default configurations for custom and packaged enterprise applications . Application blueprints are logical deployment topologies that are portable across VMware-based IaaS clouds.

These blueprints standardize the structure of the application, including software components, dependencies, and configurations, for repeated deployments. With a prepopulated, extensible catalog of standard virtual machine templates, application infrastructure components, and scripts, architects can create a blueprint very quickly.

• vCloud Director provides virtualization automation while the vCloud Automation Center provides overall IT automation . Though both products provide a level of self-service, Automation Center is considerably more comprehensive .

• vCloud Automation Center automates vCloud Director’s resource elasticity, multitenancy, and vSphere federation using virtual data centers . It enables business policies to control provisioning and lifecycle management across the organization .

• In a production deployment of vCloud Enterprise Suite, the primary self-service portal interface would be provided by vCloud Automation Center .

How is vCloud Automation Center different from vCloud Director?

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Let’s Talk

No single box or software package will address all the concerns of an enterprise IT organization . Even with the advantages of a pretested, integrated set of components for converged infrastructure and a robust software stack to deliver an IaaS Cloud, an organization will still need to consider how an efficient IT environment will best meet its particular business needs. World Wide Technology has specific methodologies built to identify business requirements and develop an efficient IT delivery model for your organization.

World Wide Technology can help you plan, design, implement, and

workshops designed to meet your specific objectives. Leveraging an ecosystem of hundreds of experts and dozens of top tier partners, WWT offers critical Next-Generation Datacenter Assessments, Cloud Business Agility Assessments, and other related assessments across the technology stacks such as networking, security, collaboration, storage, disaster recovery, and operations. WWT has the expertise and operations to provide and execute a comprehensive solution from a single vendor customized to your organization.

We look forward to talking with you about your next-generation data center requirements.

operate the best cloud solution for your organization. Our state of the art Advanced Technology Center (ATC) goes far beyond the “PowerPoint”—allowing us to showcase our solution offerings anywhere in the world and proactively demonstrate how a solution can work for you. An extensive supply chain operation includes our Integration Technology Center—a testing and integration facility within one of our largest warehouses at over 1,000,000 square feet.

With an architectural, independent, multivendor approach, we offer next-generation data center, cloud, and converged infrastructure

Contact us at: cloud@wwt .comLearn more at: www .wwt .com/cloud

WWT’s “Plan, Design, Implement, and Operate” methodology plugs into this Solution Guide within each phase as shown here .

WWT has a variety of Advisory, Demonstration, and Professional Services for Every Phase of a Customer’s Solution

Technical Workshops • Converged Infrastructure • Cloud Enablement • Virtualization • Networking and Security • Uni�ed Compute

Assessments • Cloud Business Agility • Next-Generation Datacenter • Virtualization • Cloud Readiness

Hands-On Test Drives • Flexpod Converged • vCloud Automation • vCenter Operations • Virtual Infrastructure

Architectural Assessments

Proofs of Concept

Technical Architectures

Project Launch Workshops

Integration Advice • Cisco UCS • VMware® vCloud™

• NetApp® Storage

FlexPod® Integration

Preinstallation Staging and Integration

Procurement of Solution

Con�guration and Imaging

Hands-On and/or On-the-Job Training

VMware Software Integration

Maintenance Contract Management

Managed Services

Remote Monitoring and Management (NOC)

On-the-Job Training

Hands-On Training Sessions

Plan

Design

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Layer ComponentTotal Rack Units (RUs) Typical Watts

Typical BTUs Max. Watts

Max. BTUs Weight

Compute Qty 2: Cisco UCS 6120 2 633 (100 to 240VAC) 2,159 786 2,680 68lb (30.84kg)

Qty 3: Cisco UCS Chassis 18 5,433 (200 to 240VAC)

18,528 8,423 (200 to 240VAC)

28,724 663lb (301kg)

Network Qty 2: Cisco Nexus 5548 2

1,560 (100 to 240VAC)

5,195 2,400 7,992 64lb (29.03kg)

Qty 2: Cisco Nexus 1010 2 1,080 (115 to 230VAC)

3,684 1,472 (115 to 230VAC)

5,028 64.4lb (29.2kg)

Storage NetApp FAS3210 HA + (2) DS2246 Disk Shelves with 450 GB SAS Drives

11 1,373 (200 to 240VAC)

4,688 4,182 (200 to 240VAC)

14,222 275.5lb (125kg)

Totals 35 10,079 34,254 17,263 58,646 1,135 lb (515kg)

Appendices

Appendix B: Environmental Requirements

Component Details

FlexPod Cisco Unified Computing System Components

Cisco UCS B250M2 Extended Memory Blade Server 9 with 192GB of RAM each

Cisco UCS B200M2 Blade Server 6 with 48GB of RAM each

Number of CPUs 30 Intel 3.33GHz Intel® Xeon® X56806-core CPUs

Total CPU cores 180

Total RAM 2 terabytes (TB)

FCoE bandwidth (servers to fabric) 120Gbps: 12X 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Ethernet uplink bandwidth 40Gbps: 4X 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Fibre Channel uplink bandwidth 16Gbps: 4X 4Gbps

Number of blade chassis 3 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

FlexPod Nexus Fabric (2 Cisco Nexus 5548P Switches)—Port counts in use

10 Gigabit Ethernet ports 80Gbps: 8X10 Gigabit Ethernet

Fibre Channel ports 32Gbps: 8X 4Gbps

FlexPod Storage Array (NetApp FAS3210A)

RAM 8GB

NVRAM 1GB

Number of SAS drives 96 with 450GB each

Number of disk shelves 4

Total storage 42TB

10 Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth 40Gbps: 4X10 Gigabit Ethernet

Fibre Channel bandwidth 16Gbps: 4X 4Gbps

Flash Cache (PAM II) 512GB: 2X 256GB cards

Appendix A: Hardware SpecificationsTable 1: System specification for a one-rack configuration

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Part Number Part Description Total Needed

UCS-FI-6248UP-UPG UCS 6248UP 1RU Fabric Int/No PSU/32 UP/ 12p LIC-22 2

UCS-FI-E16UP 16-port 10Gb Unified Port/Expansion module/UCS 6200 Series 2

UCS-LIC-10GE UCS 6200 Series Fabric Int ONE PORT 1/10GE/FC-port license 56

UCS-PSU-6248UP-AC UCS 6248UP Power Supply/100-240VAC-26 4

CAB-C13-C14-JMPR Recessed receptical AC power cord 27in-27 4

UCS-ACC-6248UP UCS 6248UP Chassis Accessory Kit-28 2

UCS-BLKE-6200 UCS 6200 Series Expansion Module Blank-29 2

UCS-FAN-6248UP UCS 6248UP Fan Module-30 4

UCS-FI-DL2 UCS 6248 Layer 2 Daughter Card-31 2

N10-MGT010 UCS Manager v2.0-32 2

SFP-10G-SR 10GBASE-SR SFP Module-24 0

DS-SFP-FC8G-SW 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC-25 12

SFP-H10GB-CU1M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 1 Meter-8 6

SFP-H10GB-CU3M 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Cable 3 Meter-49 12

CON-UCS7-FI6248UP UC SUPPORT 24X7X4OS UCS 6248UP 1RU Fabrc Intercnnct/2 PSU/2-33 (Service Item—site information 2

CON-UCS7-FIE16UP Cisco Unified Computing Support Service Onsite—Extended service agreement—replacement—1 year 2


N20-C6508 UCS 5108 Blade Svr AC Chassis/0 PSU/8 fans/0 fabric extender-2 1

N20-PAC5-2500W 2500W AC power supply unit for UCS 5108-12 4

CAB-C19-CBN Cabinet Jumper Power Cord, 250 VAC 16A, C20-C19 Connectors-13 4

N20-FAN5 Fan module for UCS 5108-14 8

N01-UAC1 Single phase AC power module for UCS 5108-15 1

N20-FW005 UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis FW package-16 1

N20-CAK Access. kit for 5108 Blade Chassis incl Railkit, KVM dongle-17 1

N20-I6584 UCS 2104XP Fabric Extender/4 external 10Gb ports-11 2

CON-UCS7-2C6508 UC SUPPORT 24X7X4OS 5108 Blade Server Chassis-52 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 1

Tables 3 through 13 provide ordering information for the VMware vSphere built on FlexPod one-rack solution .

Appendix C: Order Information

Table 3: 6248 Fabric Interconnects

Table 4: 5108 Chassis with 2104 Fabric Extenders

Appendices

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N20-C6508 UCS 5108 Blade Svr AC Chassis/0 PSU/8 fans/0 fabric extender-2 1

N20-PAC5-2500W 2500W AC power supply unit for UCS 5108-12 4


N20-FAN5 Fan module for UCS 5108-14 8

N01-UAC1 Single phase AC power module for UCS 5108-15 1

N20-FW010 UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis FW package-16 1

N20-CAK Access. kit for 5108 Blade Chassis incl Railkit, KVM dongle-17 1

UCS-IOM-2208XP UCS 2208XP I/O Module (8 External, 32 Internal 10Gb Ports) 2

CON-UCS7-2C6508 UC SUPPORT 24X7X4OS 5108 Blade Server Chassis-52 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 1


N20-B6625-2 UCS B250 M2 Blade Server w/o CPU, memory, HDD, mezzanine-3 1

N20-BHTS4 CPU heat sink for UCS B250 M2 Blade Server-5 2

N20-BBLKD HDD slot blanking panel for UCS B-Series Blade Servers-4 2

A02-M308GB1-2 8GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/2x4GB 2R Kit-6 24

A02-MEMKIT-004A Bundle component for A02-M308GB1-2-7 48

A01-X0115 Intel Xeon X5690 3.46GHz /6c/130W/12MB cache/DDR3 1333MHz-13 2

N20-AC0002 UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card/PCIe/2-port 10Gb-8 2

CON-UCS7-B66252 UC SUPPORT 24X7X4OS UCSB250 M2 Blade Svr w/o CPU Mem HDD Mez-53 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 1


N20-B6625-1 UCS B200 M2 Blade Server w/o CPU, memory, HDD, mezzanine-28 1

N20-BHTS1 CPU heat sink for UCS B200 Blade Server-29 2

N20-BBLKD HDD slot blanking panel for UCS B-Series Blade Servers-30 2

N01-M308GB2 8GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/dual rank 2Gb DRAMs-31 6

A01-X0115 Intel Xeon X5690 3.46GHz /6c/130W/12MB cache/DDR3 1333MHz-13 2

N20-AC0002 UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card/PCIe/2-port 10Gb-34 1

CON-UCS7-B66251 UC SUPPORT 24X7X4OS UCSB200 M2 Blade Svr w/o CPU Mem HDD Mez-59 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 1

Table 5: 5108 Chassis with 2208 Fabric Extenders

Table 7: B250 M2 Blade Servers

Table 6: B200 M2 Blade Servers

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N1K-C1010 Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance—Application accelerator—6 ports—Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet—1U—rack-mountable 2

N01-M304GB1 Cisco—Memory—4 GB—DIMM 240-pin—DDR3—1333 MHz / PC3-10600—registered—ECC 8

R2XX-RAID1 Cisco Enable RAID 1 Setting—RAID controller upgrade key 2

R2XX-PSUBLKP Cisco—Power supply blank panel 2

R200-BHTS1 Cisco—Processor heatsink 4

R200-BBLKD Cisco—HDD filler panel 4

R200-PCIBLKF1 Cisco—Card slot filler panel 2

N2XX-ABPCI03 Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709—Network adapter—PCI Express x4 low profile—Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet—10Base-T, 100Base-TX, 1000Base-T—4 ports 2

R2X0-ML002 LSI 1064E Controller-Based Mezzanine Card—Storage controller (RAID)—4 Channel—SATA-300 / SAS—300 MBps—RAID 0, 1, 1E 2

R200-SASCBL-001 Cisco—Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) internal cable 2

A01-X0105 Processor upgrade—1 x Intel Xeon X5650 / 2.66 GHz—LGA1366 Socket—L3 12 MB 4

R200-D500GCSATA03 Cisco—Hard drive—500 GB—internal—3.5"—SAS—7200 rpm 4

N1K-VLCPU-32 Cisco Nexus 1000V—License—32 CPU 2

N1K-VLCPU-01 Cisco Nexus 1000V—License—1 CPU 64

R2X0-PSU2-650W-SB Cisco—Power supply—hot-plug/redundant ( plug-in module )—AC 115-230 V—650 Watt 2

R2XX-G31032RAIL Cisco G3 shorter stronger Rail Kit—Rack rail kit 2

R2XX-CMAG3-1032 Cisco Cable Management Arm for G3 10-32 Rail Kit—Cable management arm 2

N1K-C1010NAM51-K9 Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software for Nexus 1010—( v. 5.1 )—license—1 appliance 2

CAB-C13-C14-JMPR Cisco Jumper Power Cord—Power cable (250 VAC)—IEC 320 EN 60320 C14 (M)—IEC 320 EN 60320 C15 (F)—2.3 ft 2

CON-OSP-N1010 Cisco SMARTnet Onsite Premium—Extended service agreement—replacement—on-site—24x7—4 h 2

CON-SAU-VLCPU Cisco Software Application Support Plus Upgrades (SASU)—Technical support—phone consulting—1 year—24x7—for L-N1K-VLCPU-04 64

CON-SAS-NC10NAM Cisco Software Application Support—Technical support—phone consulting—1 year—24x7—for Cisco WAAS Network Analysis Module Virtual Service Blade Software ( v. 5.1 ) 2

CON-SAU-VLCP32 Cisco Software Application Support Plus Upgrades (SASU)—Technical support—phone consulting—1 year—24x7—for Nexus 1000V eDelivery CPU—32 CPU 2

L-N1K-VLCPU-01= Cisco Nexus 1000V—License—1 CPU—delivered via electronic distribution 0

CON-SAU-L-VLCPU Cisco Software Application Support Plus Upgrades (SASU)—Technical support—phone consulting—1 year—24x7—for L-N1K-VLCPU-01 0


Table 8: Nexus 1K Environment

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N5K-C5548UP-FA Nexus 5548 UP Chassis, 32 10GbE Ports, 2 PS, 2 Fans-66 2

N5548P-FAN Nexus 5548P and 5548UP Fan Module, Front to Back Airflow-67 4

N55-PAC-750W Nexus 5500 PS, 750W, Front to Back Airflow(Port-Side Outlet)-68 4


SFP-10G-SR 10GBASE-SR SFP Module-70 6

GLC-T 1000BASE-T SFP-71 4

DS-SFP-FC8G-SW 8 Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC-25 4

N55-DL2 Nexus 5548 Layer 2 Daughter Card-73 2

N55-8P-SSK9 Nexus 5500 Storage License, 8 Ports-74 2

CON-SNTP-C5548UP SMARTNET 24X7X4 Nexus 5548 UP Chassis, 32 10GbE Ports-75 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 2

Table 9: Nexus 5548UP Infrastructure:

FAS3210-R5 NetApp FAS3210—NAS—rack-mountable—RAID 4, 6, DP—Gigabit Ethernet / 4Gb Fibre Channel—iSCSI—3U 2

DS4243-1511-24S-R5-C NetApp StorageShelf DS4243—Storage enclosure—24 bays ( SAS )—24 x HD 450 GB—rack-mountable—4U 8

FAS-V32XX-CHASSIS-R6-C NetApp—Rack chassis 2

FAS3210A-IB-BASE-R6 NetApp FAS3210 HA—NAS—rack-mountable—RAID 4, 6, DP—Gigabit Ethernet / 4Gb Fibre Channel—iSCSI—3U 2

SW-3210A-COMP-BNDL-C NetApp Select Complete Bundle—License—1 license 4

SW-3210A-ONTAP8-C Data ONTAP Essentials—License—1 license 4

SW-DFM-MGMTSVR-S SW,DFM Management Server, Special 2

X1937A-R5-C NetApp Performance Acceleration Module II, 256GB—Cache accelerator 2

X1139A-R6-C ADPT 2-Port Unified Target 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 2

X6553-R6-C NetApp—Network cable—LC multimode (M)—LC multi-mode (M)—6.6 ft—fiber optic—50 / 125 micron 2

X6557-R6-C NetApp—Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) external cable—QSFP—QSFP—1.6 ft 4



X6560-R6-C NetApp—Network cable—RJ-45 (M)—RJ-45 (M)—1.6 ft—( CAT 6 ) 64



X800-42U-R6-C NetApp—Power cable 2

X870C-R6-C Cab,Deep,Empty,No PDU,No Rails,-C 2

X8712C-R6-C NetApp—Power distribution unit—12 output connector(s) 2

X8778-R6-C NetApp—System mounting bracket 2

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Table 10: NetApp FAS3210 Storage Solution:Part Number Part Description Total Needed

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X877B-R6-C NetApp—Rack rail kit 64

DOC-32XX-C NetApp FAS32xx—documentation kit 2

SW-3210A-PAMII-C Performance Acceleration Module (PAM) II—License—1 license 2

CS-O2-NOINSTALL-4HR NetApp SupportEdge Premium—Extended service agreement—parts and labor—onsite—24x7—4 h 0


PROFSERVICES FlexPod Integration, Installation, and Deployment 1

PROFSERVICES VMware Virtual Infrastructure Accelerator 1

PROFSERVICES VMware vCloud Accelerator 1

PROFSERVICES VMware vCenter Operations Accelerator 1

Table 10: NetApp FAS3210 Storage Solution: (continued)

Table 12: Integration, Installation and On-site Implementation


VMW-VCS-3A VMware vCenter Server Standard, 3yr support required-25 2

CON-ISV1-VCS3A ISV 24X7 VMware vCenter Server Std 3 Yr RQD-57 (Service Item—site information required) 3 YEARS 2

VMW-CS-CSENTP3A VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite 30

Table 11: VMware Licensing

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