Deploying UCS Mini in combination

with local storage

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Sascha Merg
Product Sales Specialist, Data Center Sales Germany
Agenda
Introduction
Second Title Goes Here
Third Title Goes Here
Fourth Title Goes Here
Fifth Title Goes Here
Conclusion

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UCS Mini
The power of UCS for SMB and Branch deployments

Scaleable solution for office IT

Proven management simplicity
Integration with standard
management tools
Simplified management for Central
IT
Simplified networking

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Typical Deployment Scenarios

SMB ROBO / Industry Mini Data Center

Verticals
Only need for 4-8 Managed Services
servers Large # of geographi- Onsite premises
Expand up to 20 cally dispersed sites Application migration
Not an IT shop Need centralized Security
Simplicity is key management & control DMZ
Consistency Hardware separation for
UCSM makes things Compliance compliances
easy
Firmware updates No local IT staff Smaller failure domains
Faulty blade replacement
UCS Central & UCS Mini
Managed Service Manage 100 sites like
Remotely managed managing 1
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SMB / Remote Office Environments
Complex
Multiple HW vendors
Physical sprawl
Multiple management tools
Inefficient
Higher costs
More downtime
Inconsistent with central IT
Rigid
No IT flexibility
Not easy to scale

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Product Concept
Based on current chassis
Embed Fabric Interconnect
Capability in the IOM slot
Match current UCS Network model
Ethernet End Host Mode
Common Management with UCS
UCSM, Service Profiles

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Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis: Fan, Power Inlet, and
Fabric Interconnect
Fabric Interconnect Fan
Integrated FI and IOM Redundant fans
Hot-swappable Variable speed
Unified port Hot-swappable

Power Inlet
Support for AC or DC

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Chassis and PSU Changes

+ =
N20-C6508 UCSB-5108-AC2
N20-C6508-UPG New backplane UCSB-5108-AC2-UPG
UCSB-5108-AC2=
UCSB-5108-DC 1-Gbps support for cluster interconnect UCSB-5108-DC2
UCSB-5108-DC-UPG 10-Gbps data x-link (post-FCS feature) UCSB-5108-DC2-UPG
Does not affect Cisco UCS 2208 and 2204 FEX UCSB-5108-DC2=
I2C reset: Cisco UCS Manager 2.2.1 feature Go-forward chassis for all Cisco
FRU write protect: Cisco UCS Manager 2.2.1 feature UCS deployments

Change to new PSU that supports 100 to

UCSB-PSU-2500ACPL UCSB-PSU-2500ACDV
120V and 200 to 240V; available now at 200
to 240V only Go-forward PSU for all Cisco
UCS chassis

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Cisco UCS or Cisco UCS Mini: Comparing
Components
Cisco
+ +
Cisco UCS 2204XP or
+ = UCS
Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric
Dual-voltage PSU 2208XP
Interconnect
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server (UCSB-PSU- Fabric Extender
Cisco UCS 6296 Fabric
Chassis with new backplane 2500ACDV)
Interconnect
Supports existing and future
blades

Cisco
+ Dual-voltage PSU
+ Cisco UCS 6324
= UCS
(UCSB-PSU- Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server
2500ACDV) Mini
Chassis
with new backplane

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Supported Blade Servers
No compromise compute capability
B200 M3 - feature rich, two-socket
half-width server
Support for all CPU configurations
Up to 768GB DDR memory
Up to 40Gbit Bandwidth per blade with
6324 Fabric Interconnect

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UCS Mini
Server and Adaptor support
Hardware Supported Model Timeline Hardware Supported Model Timeline
B200M3 FCS VIC1240 FCS
B22M3 Post-FCS Port Expander for
FCS
VIC1240
Blade B420M3 Post-FCS
VIC1280 FCS
B200M4 Post-FCS
QLogic-CNA (M73KR-Q) Post-FCS
B400M4 Post-FCS Adaptors
Emulex-CAN (M73KR-E) Post-FCS
C220M3 FCS
LSI 400GB SLC
C240M3 FCS Post-FCS
Warpdrive
C22M3 Post-FCS
Rack Fusion-IO 365GB FCS
C24M3 Post-FCS
Fusion-IO 785GB FCS
C220/C240M4 Post-FCS
C460M4 Post-FCS

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Expansion
Up to 8 Blades
Cisco UCS B200 M3
Up to 7 rack mount servers
C220M3
C240M3
Managed through UCSM

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Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
UCS-FI-M-6324
UCS-FI-6324

USB Port Management Port

For firmware upgrades 10/100/1000 Mbps

1 x 40-Gbps QSFP+ 4 x 10-Gbps SFP+

Eth/FCoE only Unified ports
4 x 10-Gbps break out or Uplink (Eth/FC/FCOE)
Scalability port Server: Direct-
Licensed attached only; no FEX
Direct-attached Cisco UCS Appliance port
C-Series, with no FEX Supports 1 or 10 Gbps
Appliance port
FCoE storage port Console Port
Only End-Host Mode; No
Switching Mode
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Supported Scale Numbers
Product Features and Specs Scale Numbers
Switch Fabric Throughput 500 Gbps
LAN 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 4
LAN 10 Gigabit Ethernet Port Density 4
Fibre Channel Ports 4 (8 Gbps/4 Gbps)
MAC Addresses 8000
Number of VLANs 200
Number of IGMP Multicast Groups 50
Virtual Interface Support 648
P,V count 1000
Maximum Frame Size 9000

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Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Optics Support

Transceiver Type Speed Cable Type Distance

QSFP-4SFP10G 40 Gbps DAC 1, 3, 5m

QSFP-4X10G-AC 40 Gbps DAC 7, 10m

SFP-10G-SR
10 Gbps MMF 300m
SFP-10G-SR-X
SFP+
SFP-H10GB-CU 10 Gbps DAC 1, 3, 5m

SFP-H10GB-AC 10 Gbps DAC 7, 10m

SFP GLC-T
1 Gbps Cat5 100m
GLC-GE-T
GLC-LH-SM 1 Gbps SMF 10 km
QSFP to 4 Copper
SFP FC
Direct Attach GLC-SX-MM 1 Gbps MMF 1 km

DS-SFP-FC 4, 8 Gbps MMF 150, 380m

* FCoE supported distance 100m

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Fabric Interconnect and Connectivity
Unified Scalability Link Unified Scalability Link
OOB OOB
Ports, to Optional Ports, to Optional
Mgmt Mgmt
SFP+ Secondary Chassis SFP+ Secondary Chassis

Same server-side connectivity as the CPU/PCH

FCoE/FC
Mapper
1-Gbps
Cluster
CPU/PCH FCoE/FC
Mapper
Cisco UCS 2204XP IOM Link
10Gb

16 x 10-Gbps KR links from each FI 1 GE 1 GE

100BASE-T FI-A 100BASE-T FI-B
to server Switch Switch

2 x 10 Gbps (20 Gbps) per half-width

blade
4 x 10 Gbps (40 Gbps) per full-width
blade
Automatic PortChannel configuration
Support for next-gen VIC Mezz mLOM
10-Gbps KR Links
Mezz Mezz mLOM
BMC Interfaces
Half-Wide Blade slot Full-Width Blade

Post-FCS Support

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 Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
Switch Software Feature Support
Feature Parity with Cisco UCS Manager
Features Not Supported at FCS
2.2(1b)

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server only Features that are coming in Cisco UCS
End-host mode Manager 2.2(2a)
NIV PVLAN
VLAN LACP enhancement (fast rate and
QoS
suspend-individual-links)
Cisco NetFlow+
SPAN (Ethernet only)
FC uplink (NPV)
FC/FCoE direct-attach storage ports
Port security
FC switching mode only
FC SPAN destination
VMFEX (Microsoft SCVMM)

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Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect
End-Host Mode

Follows the current end-host LAN

Spanning Server 2
mode forwarding logic Tree
Uplink Ports
Deja-Vu
No spanning tree RPF

FI6324 MAC
Deja vu check Learning

RPF check VLAN 10

vEth 1 vEth 3
Server pinning

No unknown unicast
VNIC 0 VNIC 0
forwarding
Server 2 Server 1

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UCS Mini Network Feature Support
Both static and dynamic vNICs
VMFEX support for VMWares ESX and Microsofts HyperV
vNIC Failover support in HA mode of deployment
Supported Cisco VIC Adaptors: VIC 1240, VIC 1280, VIC 1225

Network FI 6324 (Mini-UCS) FI 62xx (UCS classic)

features
FEX Not supported at FCS Supported
Rack Server Only single wire management Both single & dual wire
Adaptors Only VIC adaptors Both VIC and non-VIC adaptors supported
IP Multicast L3 FIB entries L2 MAC entries
Statistics Rx LIF Statistics not available Both Rx and Tx LIF stats available
Scale 648 VIFs 2750 VIFs

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6324 Fabric Interconnect FCS Post FCS
Expansion

FCS release
Up to 7 rack mount servers
C220M3 and C240M3

Post FCS Release

Connect up to 2 Chassis
2nd chassis is child (with
2204XP or 2208XP IOM)
Licensed 40G scalability port
Total 20 Servers
16 Blades
4 Rack Servers

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Supported Storage Topologies
Supported Topologies
IP-Based Connectivity

Ethernet Mode:
End-Host Mode
iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS iSCSI/NAS

Storage is connected on the

LAN ETH 1 ETH 2 ETH 1 ETH 2

PortChannel

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Supported Topologies
Direct-Attached Storage

Ethernet Mode:
End-Host Mode
iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE iSCSI/NAS/FC/FCoE

Storage Support
FC/FCoE Direct Connect ETH 1 ETH 2 ETH 1 ETH 2

NPV (post-FCS) PortChannel

Appliance Port

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Cisco UCS Mini: Storage Features Support
FC switching mode only; no NPV mode for first release
Both native FC/FCoE supported
FCoE support both local attach and remote target (VF/VE)
FC support both local attach and remote target (TF/TE)
FCoE PortChannel and FC SAN PortChannel supported

VFC over Ethernet (uplink port/storage port only)

VFC over vEthernet (blade VFC ports)
Uplink ports (1/1-4) can be FCoE uplink/FCoE storage
Scalability ports (1/5/1-4) can be FCoE storage only

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Scenario A Ethernet Direct Attach with C240/NAS
Fabric A Fabric B
1G Eth Mgmt 1G Eth Mgmt

1 2
10G Ethernet 10G Ethernet
10G Eth Uplink 3 4 10G Eth Uplink

1 2 3 4

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Scenario B FC Direct Attach with EMC VNX
Fabric A Fabric B
1G Eth Mgmt 1G Eth Mgmt

8G Fibre 1 2 8G Fibre
10G Eth Uplink Channel 3 4 Channel 10G Eth Uplink

SP-A SP-B

1 4 2 3

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Storage Support
Protocol Vendor Timeline

NetApp FAS FCS

EMC VNX FCS

iSCSI Nimble FCS

EqualLogic Post-FCS

Cisco UCS Invicta FCS

NetApp FAS FCS

Fibre Channel Cisco UCS Invicta FCS

EMC VNX FCS

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Management
 Unifying Branch and Datacenter Management
Centralizing Visibility and Control of UCS with UCS Central
UCS with 6324

Branch
Office

UCS UCS
Express
UCS Central
Data
UCS with 6324 UCS with 6324 Center

Branch Branch
Office Office

UCS UCS
Express Express

Extend Management to Centralize Control Streamline, Standardize, and

Branch Offices at Every Level of Virtual Automate
Infrastructure Remote Infrastructure
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Management Use Cases
Internet (VPN) / WAN
SMB /
Branch Cisco ISR SMB / Branch
Office Branch Office
Office HQ / Main
Router Cisco ISR Office Main Office
Branch Router
Office
Router Remote
Local
Admin Admin

UCS-Mini
UCS-Mini

Autonomous (Local Admin) Autonomous (Remote Admin)

Internet (VPN) /
WAN
SMB / Branch
WAN Link Characteristics:
Office
HQ / Main Main Office
Router
Cisco ISR Office T1-Link: 1.544 Mbits/secs
Branch
Mini-UCS Office UCS-Central (VM)
Router
Remote
Latency: 200-500ms
Admin

Jitter: 20 ms.
UCS-Mini

Packet Error rate : 0.1%

Centralized Management

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Cisco UCS Manager
Manage blade and rack servers,
networking and storage connectivity
from a single console
Cisco UCS Manager
Monitor and manage UCS servers
Built in management at no cost
Full API for 3rd part integration
Cisco Integrated Management
Controller
Agent-free management
No license required

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Cisco UCS Mini Ports
10-Gbps and 40-Gbps Ports

Port Roles
Uplink
Server port
FC/FCoE storage port

Port Roles
Server port
Appliance port
FCoE storage port

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Equipment View
During chassis and Cisco UCS Mini Fabric
Interconnect discovery, ports are discovered

4 SFP ports are numbered 1/1, 1/2, 1/3,

and 1/4

Breakout scalability ports are numbered 1/5/1,

1/5/2, 1/5/3, and 1/5/4

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Unified Port Configuration
4 SFP 10-Gbps unified ports
Can be configured as FC or Ethernet ports
Constraints:
All FC ports must be contiguous
All Ethernet ports must be contiguous
FC ports must come before the Ethernet ports in the order [1..to..4]

Ethernet 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
Possible Configurations
FC 1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4

This behavior is different from Cisco UCS, where Ethernet ports come before FC ports
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Unified Ports Configuration

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Unified Port Configuration (CLI)
FC ports must be configured before Ethernet ports are configured
Error

Success

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USB Support
USB can be hot inserted and removed. USB drive is auto-
mounted at /mnt/usbslot1
USB is supported only for firmware downloads
Boot from USB is not supported at FCS
Export/import to/from USB is not supported at FCS
CLI supports the capability to browse USB, but GUI does
not
Only Cisco USB key is officially supported

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USB Support - GUI
It can take up to 1 minute to detect insertion/removal of the USB key
Download will fail if user attempts to download immediately after removing the
USB key

When USB is not

inserted

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USB Support - CLI
Local management supports all file operations including browsing on usbdrive:/
Can download image from either side usbA or usbB

When USB is not

inserted

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Need for Power Cap Enhancements
Existing UCS power capping
Conservative algorithm and Static catalog/nameplate power capping values
Max server power consumption is much lower in most cases.

Need for Enhancements for Mini UCS

Dual Voltage PSU
High-line (220 V) and Low-line (110 V) mode
Less power available in low-line mode 1300 W per PSU
N+N = 2,600W not all blades can be powered up
N+1 = 3,900W most configs should power up
Need to allow installation of more servers efficiently in power constrained environments

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Power Profiling
The Max and Min power cap value of Blades can be measured during
discovery by profiling the server.
UCSM runs mprime in PNUOS for profiling.
CIMC returns profiled power values to UCSM at the end of discovery.
Profiling can be enabled/disabled using Global
Power Profiling Policy Disabled:
Min = 350 W,
Max = Sum(Components Catalog Max) / 550 W
Pre-discovery power = 350 W
Enabled:
Min, Max powercap will be measured on discovery.
Pre-discovery power = 500 W

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Measured Min and Max Power Cap per blade
At the end of
discovery, once
the server is
shutdown, profiled
power values from
CIMC are fetched
and stored as
Measured min,
max power cap
values in UCSM.

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Optimization with Power Profiling
Boot Staggering
UCSM will try to boot as many blades as possible given the available power.
Blade discovery and service-profile association will for available power, before powering on
the blades.
If required power is not available, then boot will be staggered using the FSM retry mechanism,
which will fail the discovery/association after 20 retries and then restart the FSM after 8 mins.

Budget Reclaim
At the end of blade discovery, blade is powered-off and the power budget allocated to the
blade is reclaimed.
This is done to allow other blades waiting on discovery or association to go through.

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FI-IOM High Availability (HA)
Background:
- Primary Heartbeat (HB) & Election Messages run over peer link (bond0).
- Secondary Heartbeat runs over chassis SEEPROM when primary HB fails.
- SEEPROM also maintains cluster, chassis, fabric & DB version info.
Functionally same as classic UCS with the exception of following differences:
- Peer link (bond0) consists of a single 1G link (eth2) on chassis backplane.
- Only Primary Chassis SEEPROM is used for secondary heartbeat. (Racks will not be
used for secondary heartbeat.)

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Online Insertion and Removal (OIR) of FI-IOM
FI-IOM can be hot inserted or removed.
Identical to classic UCS, during first setup, user must choose either standalone
or cluster configuration.
To fully setup a cluster configuration, user must setup both FI-IOMs. If only a
single FI-IOM is setup, it is an incomplete configuration and UCSM will not be
accessible.
Once fully setup, an FI-IOM can be pulled out. This would cause the existing FI-
IOM to become primary if it was secondary.
Note: This is meant to be only for transient condition till removed FI-IOM is replaced.

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Demo
Demo 1 Configure Fabric Interconnect via GUI

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Demo 2 Configure Fabric Interconnect via CLI
ucs-mini# scope eth-server
ucs-mini /eth-server # scope fabric a
ucs-mini /eth-server/fabric # scope interface 1 1
ucs-mini /eth-server/fabric/interface # disable
ucs-mini /eth-server/fabric/interface* # commit-buffer
ucs-mini /eth-server/fabric/interface #

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Demo 3 Connect to UCS Central

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Demo 4 Get Inventory with PowerShell

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Demo 5 Provide Storage via Server 2012 R2

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