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Data Center Server Architecture
Jim AndersonMike Wilson, Firefly
Cisco Unified ComputingSales Training Series
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Agenda
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O verview of the Server Market
What Drives Server O pportunities?
Server Technology O verview
Questions and Answers
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S erver ApplicationsWhat and Where
Web FarmWeb Farm
ManufacturingManufacturingCRMCRM
CloudCloud
HPCHPC
DatabaseDatabase
File/PrintFile/Print
E mailE mail
E mailCollaborationCollaboration
DATA CENTERDATA CENTER
File/PrintFile/Print
Appliances Appliances
DatabaseDatabase
BRANCH OFFICEBRANCH OFFICE
REGIONAL OFFICEREGIONAL OFFICE
BusinessIntelligence
BusinessIntelligence
Cisco UC
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Why Are S ervers Important to Cisco?
Source: IDC, Gartner
Relative Market Values for Data Center Purchasing
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Gartner Magic Quadrant
IBM 30.2%
HP 30.7%
Dell 12%
Fujitsu 5.1%
Others 12.4%
S un 9.5%
S ource: IDC, December 2008
Leaders offer a range of standardized optionsIBM and HP 80+ share of
blade server marketVisionaries focus on a singleapproach:
Data Warehouse appliances:T erada t a and Ne t ezzaDedicated rack/server solutions:E
g enera, Ra ck able Sy st em s
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O verview of the Server Market
What Drives Server O pportunities?
Server TechnologyO
verviewQuestions and Answers
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Increasing P ressures for the Data Center
Focus on Costs S LA MetricsGreen Initiatives Global Availability Compliance
New Business Requirements
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Increasing P ressures for the Data Center
Focus on Costs S LA MetricsGreen Initiatives Global Availability Compliance
New Business Requirements
P ower & Cooling P rovisioningAsset Utilization Threat P revention Bus. Continuance
Operational Limitations
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
Data Center 2.0
DecentralizedDecentralized
Client- S erver andDistributed ComputingDominant from the1990sthrough 2004In & out of the DCFocused now on SMB market
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
Data Center 2.0
DecentralizedDecentralized
Data Center 3.0
Virtualized andS ervice-Oriented$5 4B Server MarketIncreasing demandDriven by S O A concept
VirtualizedVirtualized
Client- S erver andDistributed ComputingDominant from the1990sthrough 2004In & out of the DCFocused now on SMB market
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
Data Center 2.0
DecentralizedDecentralized
Client- S erver andDistributed ComputingDominant from the1990sthrough 2004In & out of the DCFocused now on SMB market
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
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Data Center Evolution
Mainframe$5 B annual market in 1970sMaking a comebackIBM 90% market share
Data Center 1.0
Application Architecture Evolution
CentralizedCentralized
Data Center 2.0
DecentralizedDecentralized
Data Center 3.0
Virtualized andS ervice-Oriented$5 4B Server MarketIncreasing demandDriven by S O A concept
VirtualizedVirtualized
Client- S erver andDistributed ComputingDominant from the1990sthrough 2004In & out of the DCFocused now on SMB market
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S erver Consolidation
DC
E mail Manufacturing CRM E RP
DATA C EN TE R BRA NCH O FFIC E
RE GION AL O FFIC E
File/Print Database Sales
Web Farm HPC
Authentication
File Print
Authentication
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Benefits and Challenges with S erver Consolidation
Consolidation is a huge driver for server purchasing today:
80% of IT organizations activelyinvolved
$
25
B market in 2009 S tepping stone to virtualization
and the DC 3.0 vision
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P ower Requirements Continue to Grow
20002U servers
2kW
20021U servers
6kW
2006Blades24kW
2009Blades42kW
Heading towards 50kW
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Its not just about greening its about the bottom line.
P er Rack Watts per S q Ft
Energy Cost
2kW 67 $3 ,0944kW 1 33 $ 6,199
6kW 200 $12,064
24kW 800 $48,2 57
40kW 1 333 $ 98,9 55
% of WW electricity usagefor Data Centers 0.8 3%(Estimates vary)
Cost of electricityUS Commercial
S ector Avg(2008)
$ 0.0957/k WH
4,581
Total electricity consumption15 ,7 46 Worldwide (2007)
US (2008)
Billionk WH
Sample E nergy Costs Per Rack
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Its not just about greening its about the bottom line.
P er Rack Watts per S q Ft
Energy Cost
2kW 67 $3 ,0944kW 1 33 $ 6,199
6kW 200 $12,064
24kW 800 $48,2 57
40kW 1 333 $ 98,9 55
% of WW electricity usagefor Data Centers 0.8 3%(Estimates vary)
Cost of electricityUS Commercial
S ector Avg(2008)
$ 0.0957/k WH
Cost of powering Data CentersEstimated, U S only $2 .9 10.9 B
4,581
Total electricity consumption15 ,7 46 Worldwide (2007)
US (2008)
Billionk WH
Sample E nergy Costs Per Rack
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ConsolidationConsolidation
What is Driving and Enabling S erver Consolidation?
Multi-core Architecture
Blade Servers
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ConsolidationConsolidation
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What is Driving and Enabling S erver Consolidation?
Multi-core Architecture
Blade Servers Server Virtualization
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Increasing Adoption of S erver Virtualization
0%
20%
40%
60%
200 5 2007 2009 2011 201 3
VM P enetration of Installed Workloads
7%
61%
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Increasing Adoption of S erver Virtualization
VMs (finally) making inroadsinto the DC
The VM installed base was 2.9million in 2007 only about 7% of the total DC server market
Anticipated to be over 60% within 4years
Impact on server architectureVMs enable full usage of multicoreVMs driving higher memory and I/ O requirements
S ervers more commoditizedNo lock-in with workloadsBlades more attractive lock inwith technology
0%
20%
40%
60%
200 5 2007 2009 2011 201 3
VM P enetrationof InstalledWorkloads
7%
61%
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What Drives S erver P urchases?
?
More usersMore usersMore
serversneeded
Morepowerful
applications
Morepowerful
applications
Moreserversneeded
Rewrite Applications
Rewrite Applications
Moreserversneeded
Traditionally, application deployment but is that changing?
Virtualization
Multicore
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O verview of the Server Market
What Drives Server O pportunities?
Server Technology O verview
Questions and Answers
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Rack S erver Architecture
CPU
Memory
ChipsetChipset
I/O10Gig EPCI-X
SATA
Monolithic architectureCPU, memory, and I/ O areall integrated through on-board chipsets
Limited upgrade paths:CPUs can be upgraded(rarely done)Memory can be upgradedI/O cards can be added buton-board I/ O architecture isnot upgradeable
Not scalable or flexible asa data center solution
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Blade S erver Architecture
Decouples compute power from networkand storage I/ OO ffer customers more flexibility andscalability
Reduces cabling requirements
CPU
I/O
O nboard Admin Network Module
Power Backplane
Fans
Networking Midplane
Blades
Power Module
Memory
HBANIC
SA NLAN SA NLAN
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CPU Interconnect
Multi-core C P U Architecture
CP U
L1 L2
CP U
L1 L2
Application
Scheduler
Memory
I/O
Traditional S MP Multicore S ystem
MemoryController
L2 CacheSystem Memory ( NUMA)
X86 Core with L1 Cache
I/O
Core/Cache/Memory Footprint of a virtualized O S Instance
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P arallel LAN S AN infrastructure:Currently many DC servers have 5+connections per server
Virtualization drives higher bandwidth to the
server Leads to an inefficient and costly
network infrastructure:Higher adapter and cabling costs
Plus downstream port costsMultiple fault domains; complex diagnostics
Management complexity; firmware, driver patching, version management
S erver I/O Requirements
GE
GE
GE
GE
FC HBA
FC HBA
10/100
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S erver I/O Cabling
P edestalS ervers
1U P izza BoxS ervers
BladeS ervers
4-9 cables per server (LAN + S AN + K VM)
No cable pathways
4-9 cables per server Up to 336 cables per rack
Rack cable management
2-8 uplinks per chassis8-32 uplinks per rackUplinks are increasingly10GEhigher TCO vs GE
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Virtualization Drives 10GE and I/OConsolidation to the S erver
10GE
10GE
FC HBA
FC HBA
10/100
FCoE
FCoE
10/100
OS+App
Hypervisor
OS+AppOS+AppOS+App
OS+App
Hypervisor
OS+AppOS+AppOS+AppOS+AppOS+App
OS+AppOS+AppOS+AppOS+App
GE
GE
GE
GE
FC HBA
FC HBA
10/100
OS+App
Hypervisor
OS+App
Low C P U utilizationI/O capacity is thebottleneck
CP U utilized more10GE mitigates I/ObottleneckS till too many cables!
S ingle (redundant)I/O channel for LAN and S ANOptimized system
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S erver Management Challenges
DiscoveryDiscovery
P rovisioningP rovisioning
InventoryInventory
S oftwareDistribution
S oftwareDistribution
S ystemMonitoring
S ystemMonitoring
ManageLAN/ S AN
P orts
ManageLAN/ S AN
P orts
In-Band/Out-of-Band
Management
In-Band/Out-of-Band
Management
BladeChassis
Management
BladeChassis
Management
ReportingReporting
S erver Management
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S ummary
The server market is undergoing a major paradigm shiftTraditionally, simple scaling drove server purchases: Number of users, new application deployments
Today, server consolidation is driving the market: Logical architectureenabled by virtualization Physical architectureDC facilities requirements 60% of deployed servers are opportunities for DC consolidation
Blade servers are becoming dominant in the DCBlade servers are the only growing server segment: Agilityindependently scale compute, memory, and I/ O
Simplified managementservice-oriented provisioning
The server market is undergoing a major paradigm shiftTraditionally, simple scaling drove server purchases: Number of users, new application deployments
Today, server consolidation is driving the market: Logical architectureenabled by virtualization Physical architectureDC facilities requirements 60% of deployed servers are opportunities for DC consolidation
Blade servers are becoming dominant in the DCBlade servers are the only growing server segment: Agilityindependently scale compute, memory, and I/ O
Simplified managementservice-oriented provisioning
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O verview of the Server MarketWhat Drives Server O pportunities?
Server Technology O verview
Questions and Answers
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