UCS System Architecture Overview

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UCS System and Connectivity View Single Management Interface for up to 160 blade servers Role Based Access for LAN, SAN, and Server Administrators Clustered for fault tolerance and no single point of failure for any chassis Open APIs for third party integration

SAN Network

LANServer

SAN A SAN B

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Single Point(UCS) of Management Unified Computing System

Reduced # of management points Reduced firmware management Reduced time to resolve issues Reduced complexity

Single Point of Management

Unified Fabric

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Unified Computing System (UCS) Unified Fabric Reduced # of adapters Reduced # of switches Single Point of Management Reduced LAN and SAN edge ports Reduced cabling costs Reduced power due to less H/W

Unified Fabric

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Unified Computing System (UCS)Single Point of Management

Unified Fabric

Large Memory Reduced server costs Reduced power and cooling costs Reduced software costs

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Unified Fabric

Virtualization & Stateless Servers Reduced type of servers via H/W virtualization Reduced # of standby servers for HA Reduced downtime due to service profiles Reduced time to resolve issues with VM’s

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Wire for Bandwidth, Not ConnectivityUplinks

20Gb/s

40Gb/s

80Gb/s

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Building BlocksUCS Manager Embedded in Fabric Interconnect UCS Fabric Interconnects 6100 6200UCS Fabric Extenders Logically part of Fabric Interconnect Inserts into Blade Enclosure UCS Blade Server Chassis Flexible bay configurations Logically part of Fabric Interconnect UCS Blade Servers Different blade types Mix blade types within enclosure UCS Rack Servers Different server types Standalone or UCSM integrated UCS Adapters Three adapter options Mix adapters within blade

Unified Computing System Manage

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UCS Manager Single point of management for UCS system of components

GUI CLI

Custom Portal or Tools

- Adapters, blades, chassis, fabric extenders, fabric interconnects

Systems Management Software

Embedded device manager- Discovery, Inventory, Configuration, Monitoring, Diagnostics, Statistics Collection

UCS Manager

- Coordinated deployment to managed endpoints

APIs for integration with new and existing data center infrastructure- SMASH-CLP, IPMI, SNMP- XML-based SDK for commercial & custom implementations

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Management ProtocolsSNMP SMASH CLP CIM XML syslog

IPMI Call-home

Remote KVM

UCS CLI and GUI

Serial Over LAN

UCS XML API

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UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects

6100 Series Fabric Interconnects 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE capable, SFP+ ports 20 and 40 fixed port versions with Expansion slots for additional Fiber Channel and 10 GE connectivity Upto to 1.04 Tbps of throughput Hot pluggable fan and power supplies Hardware based support for Cisco VN-Link technology Fully managed by UCS Manager through Fabric InterconnectCisco Plus Greater China 2012

UCS 6248UP Fabric InterconnectBenefit Scalable platform for high density, high performance, unified infrastructure Platform for future app and virtualization needs

Feature details UCS 6248UP chassis

32 fixed Unified Ports 1 expansion module slot (16 ports) Double the port density in 1RU Foundation for future network scalability 1.92 Tbps throughput

4096 VLANs Dual power supplies for both AC and DC

Unified PortsDynamic Ports Allocation: Lossless Ethernet or Fibre Channel Convert protocol support on the same port dynamically All ports on UCS 6200 Series 16-port Expansion Module for 6248UP and 6296UP

Unified Port

Native Fibre Channel Benefits Simplify switch purchase remove ports ratio guess work Increase design flexibility

Lossless Ethernet:

1/10GbE, FCoE, iSCSI, NASUse-cases Flexible LAN & storage convergence based on business needs Service can be adjusted based on the demand for specific traffic

Remove bandwidth bottlenecks

Unified Port Management