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Executive Summary Go to CVD sitemap
What are CVDs? What a CVD does:

• Provides a reference design for a
A Cisco Validated Design (CVD) is a specific
system architecture (A reference
bundle of products—Cisco products as well as
design is a general design that
products from our partners—designed to address
applies to 60 to 80 percent of
the business needs of customers. The CVDs are
enterprise customers.)
created based on Cisco’s observation of market
trends and inside knowledge of future directions • Documents a deployable system /
of Cisco and its partners. As a complete architecture
solution, each CVD consists of both hardware • Provides design recommendations
and software, and optimizes the capabilities that compare different design
of the Cisco components to maximize speed, options and trade-offs
performance, stability, and reliability of the CVD • Includes the most common
bundle. product scalability and
Most importantly, each CVD has been performance recommendations
extensively tested, validated, and documented. • Sets the “rules” for deploying a
The CVDs were designed to facilitate faster, system with confidence
more reliable, and more predictable customer
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deployments and are guaranteed to work as What a CVD does not do:
current set of validated designs: specified. • Document a specific customer
www.cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone
The initial sections of this playbook are implementation
educational. You can browse through them to • Advocate a technology / system
get up to speed on the market forces driving that is too early for deployment or
Cisco’s United Computing System (UCS) value one with major gaps
proposition and competitive differentiators, • Define how every Cisco product
and to learn about the benefits of using CVD will perform in the system
solutions. • Provide product-specific
performance limits (a.k.a. “drag
strip” numbers)
• Act as a comprehensive
troubleshooting guide
Executive Using Things to

Summary CVDs Benefits Know
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What’s in it for customers?

Two words: minimized risk. There is always risk
in any large-scale IT initiative, especially one that
involves switching out hardware and networking
equipment while implementing, migrating, or
upgrading mission-critical applications.
There are two types of risk: integration risk, risk that
products won’t work together, and performance risk,
risk that they won’t perform as promised.
Using a CVD minimizes both these risks. CVDs are not
simply an ad hoc group of products. Each CVD forms
an integrated, tested, and documented solution. Like
the reference architectures produced by other vendors,
CVDs incorporate best-of-breed combinations of
equipment and software to optimize the value of a
configuration for a customer. But unlike reference
architectures, CVDs are validated and supported. In
most cases, multiple technical teams, from both Cisco
and its partners, have put each CVD configuration
through rigorous testing to ensure that all products
work together to enable rapid deployment.
By implementing the solution presented in a CVD, you
are guaranteed to have a successful deployment for
the specific workload covered in the CVD. Of course,
each specific workload may vary.

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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

5-Year Total
5-Year Break-Even
ROI per Organization Period
483% $
13M 7 months
Key Performance Improvements Realized from Customers
Who Deployed Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Lower IT Reduction in
Infrastructure Costs Unplanned Downtime “Keeping the Lights on”
46% 89% 38%

per Organization over Five Years
Business User IT Infrastructure
Productivity Productivity Productivity Cost Reduction
$
1.44M $
1M 1.37M
$ $
0.15M
Document # #US41066816

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Building Momentum:
UCS Value Proposition
In today’s data center, a broad range of applications need to coexist: capital expenditures (CAPEX). In addition, emerging applications need to be
legacy, web, collaboration, and business-critical applications, as well as supported: Big Data and business analytics, and mobile, social media, and
test / development sandboxes and virtual client computing (VCC). All these back-end consumer applications.
applications are being virtualized, saving both operating expenses (OPEX) and
Data Center Virtualization New Emerging Applications
Legacy
Web Apps
Apps Private Public
HYBRID
Big Data & Business Analytics
Collaboration Business Mobile Applications

Apps Critical Apps
Social Media Applications
Back End Consumer Applications

Dev./Test Virtual Client
Sandboxes Computing

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Benefits of UCS CVD Solutions

Here are just some of the reasons you should use Cisco UCS CVDs are evidence that Cisco’s recommended solutions are credible.
CVDs: They are proof of Cisco’s commitment to these solutions and provide a viable path for
enterprises that depend on the Cisco technology roadmap.
Demonstrate best practices for
deploying Cisco products Offer flexibility through scalability options
These tested solutions use all the best practices Most Cisco UCS CVDs offer scalability options that allow customers to scale solutions
Cisco has internally identified for its products, as well to meet their specific needs. Customers still receive Cisco’s CVD guarantees for
the best practices recommended by Cisco partners. performance, even if they choose to adjust the scale of the solution.
By following the instructions in a CVD design,
customers can set performance expectations when
they deploy their desired solution.
Provide much greater efficiency

in deployment
Because CVDs provide everything—from designs to
configuration instructions to bill of materials (BOMs)—
enterprises require a much shorter time to deploy
their solutions. Everything is clearly and precisely laid
out; there are no surprises during the design phase.
And because CVD solutions are guaranteed to work,
Cisco provides 24/7 support for any issues that might
arise.
Demonstrate Cisco’s credibility and

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Using UCS CVD Solutions to

Meet Business Needs
CVDs are innovative, proven solutions to help address the business needs of customers. Benefits provided by CVDs
For implementations of Cisco solutions as infrastructure, CVDs can help customers realize
Cisco UCS CVDs provide customers with the following benefits:
optimal performance and optimization of Cisco UCS with hardware and software partners.
For implementations of Oracle, SAP, or other enterprise applications, CVDs incorporate • Removes risks. No one likes to be on the bleeding
Cisco’s expertise in both applications and infrastructure to provide detailed guidance for edge. CVDs show that the trail has been blazed. By
installing a particular application or suite at both the hardware and software levels. providing tested solutions, CVDs remove the risk from
By providing demonstrated solutions along with success stories from other customers, using Cisco UCS in a broad range of deployment
CVDs give enterprises that are Cisco customers—but haven’t yet shifted their servers to scenarios.
UCS—a level of confidence in the technology. • Proves Cisco is more than a networking vendor.
Although Cisco is predominantly a network provider,
CVDs is proof that Cisco is also a provider of a viable
server option, UCS.
• Demonstrates possibilities. Cisco has carefully
calculated which products are put in each solution
bundle based on its understanding of both customers’
existing needs and the direction its technology partners
are heading. Customers can use the CVDs as a
jumping-off point to design solutions that meet their
needs.
• Bridges multiple partners. If you have a customer
account that has already standardized on a particular
software or storage vendor, the CVDs show how well
Cisco UCS works with partners like Oracle, Red Hat,
NetApp, VMware, and others.

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Potential shortcomings
For all the benefits that CVDs provide, customers
should be aware of a few potential shortcomings:
• CVDs may not always be completely

up-to-date. The Cisco CVD teams can
only work so fast,and thus, there is always
newer code available that has not been
validated. It’s important to understand the
difference between what is supported and
what has been validated.
• CVDs probably won’t precisely match
a customer’s needs. The chances that
a CVD will meet a customer’s complete
requirements are slim. Instead, CVDs can
be used as a jumping-off point to discuss
designs that do fully match the customer’s
needs.

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Let’s Get Started Welcome to the DC Design library. Click on a section below or
the icons in the top header to see different tours of the CVDs.
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure CVDs
Big Data Common Platform Architecture (CPA) CVDs
Converged Oracle Data-Intensive Storage Analytics CVDs
Data Protection CVDs
Hyperconverged Scale-out Storage CVDs
Infrastructure Microsoft Automation CVDs
Infrastructure CVDs
INFRASTRUCTURE VMware Applications CVDs
Other CVDs
APPLICATIONS FlexPod Microsoft CVDs
Virtual Client Computing CVDs
Applications CVDs
Security SAP Infrastructure Other CVDs
Converged
VersaStack CVDs
OpenStack CVDs
EMERGING
FlashStack CVDs
TECHNOLOGIES
Hitachi
Desktop CVDs
Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs
Virtualization Security CVDs
DATA-INTENSIVE Virtual CVDs
Oracle
STORAGE Physical CVDs
VMware CVDs
Microsoft
Microsoft CVDs
SAP CVDs
Applications
VMware CVDs
Citrix
Virtual Client Computing Citrix CVDs
Big Data VMW View CVDs

Scale-out
Storage Emerging Technologies CVDs
Data
Protection
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DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE
A. Big Data 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
1 1 B H
1. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with MapR Data Platform - New 4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale 4 C S
5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Solution for Splunk Enterprise
(Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprises 5 5 F V
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR Converged Data Platform
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon
B
Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure - New
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI with Cloudera Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Hortonworks
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to 4400 users (Infrastructure, Application) - New
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with MapR
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise C
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with VMware (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
2. Common Platform Architecture (CPA) Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 2000 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Big Data Cisco ACI with Cloudera Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash with 1250 Citrix XenDesktop 7.16 Users & 1600 XenApp Sessions (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Pivotal HD and HAWQ
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Automation
Converged Oracle
Hyperconverged
Infrastructure Microsoft
INFRASTRUCTURE
APPLICATIONS
Security SAP
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES
Desktop
Virtualization
DATA-INTENSIVE
STORAGE
Big Data
Scale-out
Storage
Data
Protection
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DC Design Sitemap
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure CVDs
Big Data Common Platform Architecture (CPA) CVDs
Data-Intensive Storage Analytics CVDs
Data Protection CVDs
Scale-out Storage CVDs
Automation CVDs
Infrastructure CVDs
VMware Applications CVDs
Other CVDs
FlexPod Microsoft CVDs
Virtual Client Computing CVDs
Applications CVDs
Infrastructure Other CVDs
Converged
VersaStack CVDs
OpenStack CVDs
FlashStack CVDs
Hitachi CVDs
Hyperconverged Infrastructure CVDs
Security CVDs
Virtual CVDs
Oracle
Physical CVDs
VMware CVDs
Microsoft
Microsoft CVDs
SAP CVDs
Applications
VMware CVDs
Citrix
Virtual Client Computing Citrix CVDs
VMW View CVDs
Emerging Technologies CVDs

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Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies
CVD Outline
DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE
A. Big Data
1. Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with MapR Data Platform - New
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprises
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI with Cloudera
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Splunk Enterprise
2. Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera
Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack
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DATA-INTENSIVE STORAGE (CONT.)
A. Big Data (cont.)
3. Analytics
Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform
B. Data Protection
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection - New
Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS S3260 Servers - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite Deployment Guide for Single Data Center Deployment
FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
C. Scale-Out Storage
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage - New
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage Server with Scality RING - New
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage
Cisco UCS Storage Server with Scality Ring
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INFRASTRUCTURE
A. Automation
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
for Big Data and Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
B. Converged
1. FlexPod
a. VMware
I. Infrastructure
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI Multi-Pod, NetApp, MetroCluster IP, and VMware vSphere 6.7 - New
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware 6.5 Update1 and Cisco ACI 3.1
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and Fibre Channel
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI and VMware 6.0U1
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0 and Fiber Channel
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and vSphere 5.5U2
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and vSphere 5.5U1
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5U1
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INFRASTRUCTURE (CONT.)
a. VMware (cont.)
II. Applications
FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI
III. Other
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI
b. Microsoft
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 and Cisco ACI 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware vsphere 6.5
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
c. Virtual Client Computing
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 for 5000 Seats
FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
d. Applications
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp AFF A-Series - New
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 and Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series
e. Other
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
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B. Converged (cont.)
2. VersaStack
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode - New
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Private with Cisco UCS and IBM Storage
VersaStack with Cisco UCS M5 Servers, IBM SVC, and vSphere 6.5 U1
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
VersaStack with IBM Storwize v5000 and Cisco UCS Mini
VersaStack for Data Center with All Flash Storage
VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out
VersaStack for Data Center with Direct Attached Storage
3. OpenStack
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
4. FlashStack
FlashStack Datacenter with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats - New
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI - New
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 for 6000 Seats
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B. Converged (cont.)
4. FlashStack (cont.)
FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco ACI Multi-pod and Pure Storage ActiveCluster
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database
FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
5. Hitachi
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure - New
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI - New
C. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with VMware - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 upto 4400 users - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems with up to 2000 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Users - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V - New
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure 3.0 with Cisco ACI 3.2 and VMware vSphere 6.5 - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection - New
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C. Hyperconverged Infrastructure(cont.)
Cisco HyperFlex with Hyper-V 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 2000 VMware Horizon 7 users
Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 Citrix XenDesktop Users
Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix XenDesktop
Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments
SQL Server on HyperFlex All Flash
Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite
D. Security
Secure Enclave Architecture
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APPLICATIONS
A. Oracle
1. Virtual
2. Physical Server
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp AFF A-Series - New
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
B. Microsoft
1. VMware
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware vSphere 6.5
2. Microsoft
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with VMware - New
C. SAP
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI - New
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI - New
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI for SAP HANA - New
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series
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APPLICATIONS (CONT.)
D. Virtual Client Computing
1. Citrix
a. VMware
FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
b. Citrix
Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix XenDesktop
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
2. VMW View
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to 4400 users - New
FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats - New
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 for 5000 Seats
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APPLICATIONS (CONT.)
2. VMW View (cont.)
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Red Hat Openshift Container Platform on VMware vSphere - New
Cisco UCS Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
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Alphabetical CVDs
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15 1 B H
1
4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1 4 C S

5 5 F V

B
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure - New

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to 4400 users (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
C Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with VMware (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 VMware Horizon 7 Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users (Infrastructure, Applications)
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Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
1 B H
Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix XenDesktop 4 C S
(Infrastructure, Applications) 5 F V
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure 3.0 with Cisco ACI 3.2 and VMware vSphere 6.5 - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure) - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Hyper-V 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New
C Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center Deployment (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
Cisco SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform
Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS S3260 Servers - New
Cisco UCS Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Deployment Guide
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VMware vSphere - New
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale
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Alphabetical CVDs
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with MapR Data Platform - New
1 B H
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with SAP HANA Vora 4 C S
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA (Data-Intensive Storage, Applications)
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with ACI and Cloudera
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Hortonworks 5 F V
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and
Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
C
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage - New
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage Server with Scality RING - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprise
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database (Infrastructure, Applications)
F FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux (Infrastructure, Applications)
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FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 for 6000 seats (Infrastructure, Applications) 1 B H
FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 with Cisco UCS
Manager 3.2 for 6000 seats (Infrastructure, Application) - New
FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux (Infrastructure, Applications) 4 C S
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco ACI Multi-pod and Pure Storage ActiveCluster 5 F V
FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 and Cisco ACI (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series (Infrastructure, Applications)
F FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI Multi-Pod, NetApp MetroCluster IP, and VMware vSphere 6.7 - New
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1
for 6000 seats (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware vSphere 6.5 (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 and Cisco ACI 3.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and vSphere 5.5U1
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp Aff A-Series (Infrastructure, Applications) - New
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Alphabetical CVDs
1 B H
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and VMware vSphere 6.5U1 for 5000 seats
- (Infrastructure, Applications)
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0 4 C S
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and Fibre Channel
F FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage 5 F V
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco ACI (Infrastructure - Automation, Infrastructure - Converged)
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and IP-Based Storage
FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI (Infrastructure, Applications)
HaaS with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data and OpenStack
H Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI (Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure)

S
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

V VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director (Infrastructure - Automation, Infrastructure - Converged)
(Infrastructure - Automation, Infrastructure - Converged)
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Alphabetical CVDs
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode
1 B H
(Data-Intensive Storage, Infrastructure) - New
(Infrastructure, Emerging Technologies) 4 C S
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
V VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
(Infrastructure, Applications) 5 F V
VersaStack with Cisco UCS M5 Servers, IBM SVC, and vSphere 6.5 U1
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
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Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Cisco UCS S3260 Storage
Infrastructure for Big Data Infrastructure for BIG Solution for Splunk Server with Cloudera Server with Hortonworks
and Analytics with MapR Data and Analytics with Enterprise Enterprises Data Platform
Data Platform Cloudera for Data Science
at Scale
- New
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Hadoop as a Service on
Server with MapR Converged Infrastructure for Big Infrastructure for Big Data Infrastructure for SAP HANA BareMetal with UCS Diretor
Data Platform Data and Analytics with with SAP HANA Vora Express (UCSDE) for Big Data
Cloudera for Real-time on Cisco UCS Integrated
Analytics Infrastructure for Big Data and
Cisco ACI
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated
Integrated Infrastructure Infrastructure with Infrastructure with Infrastructure with Infrastructure with
for Big Data with IBM Application Centric Hortonworks MapR Splunk Enterprise
BigInsights for Apach Infrastructure (ACI)
Hadoop with Cloudera
Version 5.0
Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA
Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
Big Data 60 node Big Data Cisco Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2
Hadoop Cluster with Application Centric for Big Data with for Big Data with
EMC Isilon Infrastructure (ACI) Cloudera Hortonworks
with Cloudera
Hadoop-as-a-Service Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2

(HaaS) with Cisco for Big Data with for Big Data with
UCS CPA v2 for Intel Distribution Pivotal HD and
Big Data and HAWQ
OpenStack
Analytics
Cisco SAS Edge-to-

Enterprise IoT Analytics
Platform
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Data-Intensive Storage | DATA PROTECTION
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect

Data Protection with Cisco UCS S3260 Servers
- New - New
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam FlashStack VSI with
Availability Suite for Multisite Availability Suite Deployment Commvault for Data
Deployments Guide for Single Data Center Protection
Deployment
Version 5.0
Data-Intensive Storage | SCALE-OUT STORAGE
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage VersaStack for IBM Cloud
with Cloudian HyperStore Server with Scality RING Object Storage on Cisco UCS
Object Storage C240 for Concentrated
Dispersal Mode
- New - New - New
Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS S3260 Cisco UCS Storage
Storage Server with Storage Server with Storage Server Server with Scality Ring
IBM Cloud Object SwiftStack Software with Red Hat Ceph
Storage Defined Object Storage Storage
Version 5.0
Infrastructure | AUTOMATION
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal

with Cisco CloudCenter and with UCS Director Express
IBM Spectrum Copy Data (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco
Management Solution UCS Integrated Infrastructure for
Big Data and Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware VersaStack for Data Center with

vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco UCS Director
Cisco Application Centric
Infrastructure (ACI)
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

VMware
Infrastructure Applications Other
FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with Microsoft
Cisco ACI Multi-Pod, VMware 6.5 Update1 VMware vSphere 6.5, VMware vSphere 6.5, with Cisco ACI and
NetApp, MetroCluster NetApp AFF A-series Exchange 2013 on
and Cisco ACI 3.1 NetApp AFF A-series VMware 6.0U1 Cisco ACI
IP, and VMware vSphere and IP-Based Storage
6.7 and Fibre Channel
- New
FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod with All Flash
Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric with VMware vSphere with Cisco UCS Mini
Interconnect and and VMware vSphere FAS, Cisco ACI and
6.0 and Fiber Channel vSphere 5.5U2
VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 6.0 with IP-Based
Storage
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter

with VMware vSphere with vSphere 5.5 with VMware vSphere,
6.0 Cisco UCS Mini and Cisco UCS Director, FlexPod Datacenter
IP-Based Storage Cisco ACI with VMware vSphere,
Cisco UCS Director,
Cisco ACI
FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter
with Nexus 9000 with vSphere 5.5U1
Standalone and
vSphere 5.5U1
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

Virtual Client
Microsoft Computing Applications Other
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft FlexPod Datacenter with VMware FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid
Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 Horizon View 7.3 and VMware RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and
vSphere 6.5U1 for 5000 seats AFF A-Series
and Cisco ACI 3.0 NetApp Private Storage
- New
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix FlexPod Datacenter for SAP FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle
SQL Server 2016 and VMware XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and Solution with Cisco UCS Manager RAC on Oracle Linux
VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 3.2 and Cisco ACI
vSphere 6.5
1 for 6000 seats
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, FlexPod Datacenter for SAP FlexPod Datacenter with Red
Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0 NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix Solution with IP-Based Storage Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 using NetApp AFF A-Series Platform 6.0
FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange

2013 on Cisco ACI
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED
VersaStack
VersaStack for IBM VersaStack for IBM VersaStack with Cisco Cisco UCS S3260 VersaStack for Hybrid VersaStack with
Cloud Object Storage Cloud Private with UCS M5 Servers, IBM Storage Server with Cloud with Cisco Cisco UCS and IBM
on Cisco UCS C240 Cisco UCS and IBM SVC, and vSphere IBM Cloud Object CloudCenter and IBM FlashSystem A9000
for Concentrated Storage 6.5 U1 Storage Spectrum Copy Data Storage for 5000
Dispersal Mode Management Solution VMware Horizon
- New Users
VersaStack Data VersaStack VersaStack with Cisco VersaStack with VersaStack for
Center with Cisco with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware IBM Storwize Data Center with
Application Centric Application Centric vSphere 6.0 U2 with v5000 and Cisco All Flash Storage
Infrastructure Infrastructure and Direct Attached SAN UCS Mini
IBM SAN Volume Storage
Controller
VersaStack for VersaStack for VersaStack for

Data Center Data Center with Data Center with
Scale-out Cisco UCS Director Direct Attached
Storage
Version 5.0
Infrastructure | CONVERGED
OpenStack
Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated FlexPod Datacenter with

Infrastructure with Red Infrastructure with Red Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hat OpenStack Platform Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
8 and Red Hat Ceph OpenStack Platform and
Storage Red Hat Ceph Storage
7.0
FlashStack
FlashStack Datacenter FlashStack for SAP FlashStack Data FlashStack Data FlashStack Virtual 1250 Users on FlashStack Data
with VMware Horizon HANA TDI Center with Oracle Center with VMware Server Infrastructure FlashStack a Cisco Center with Oracle
7.4 and VMware RAC 12cR2 Database Horizon 7.4 for 6000 with Cisco ACI Multi- UCS Mini and Pure RAC 12cR2
VSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco on Pure Storage Seats pod and Pure Storage //m10, with Citrix Database
UCS Manager 3.2 for FlashBlade ActiveCluster XenDesktop and
6000 Seats - New - New XenApp 7.15
FlashStack for Oracle FlashStack VSI with 5000 Seat FlashStack 5000 Seat Mixed FlashStack Data Center FlashStack Virtual Server
12c RAC on Oracle Commvault for Data with Pure Storage Workload FlashStack with Oracle RAC on Infrastructure
Linux Protection FlashArray//m on VMware Solution with Oracle Linux
Horizon View 6.2 XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi
6.0U2
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Infrastructure | CONVERGED | HITACHI
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive

Solutions for Converged Solutions for SAP HANA TDI
Infrastructure
- New - New
Version 5.0
Infrastructure | HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for
All-Flash Systems for All-Flash Systems for All-Flash System with All-Flash Systems with up to Virtual Server Infrastructure
Deploying Microsoft SQL Deploying Microsoft SQL Horizon 7.6 upto 4400 users 2000 Citrix Virtual Apps and with Microsoft Hyper-V
Server with MS Hyper-V Server with VMware Desktop Users
- New - New - New - New - New
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Cisco HyperFlex with Cisco HyperFlex with Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash
Server Infrastructure 3.0 with Cohesity Data Protection Hyper-V 3.0 for Virtual Server Virtual Server Infrastructure Hyperconverged System with
Cisco ACI 3.2 and VMware Infrastructure with VMware ESXi up to 2000 VMware horizon
vSphere 6.5 7 users
- New - New - New
Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash
Hyperconverged System with Hyperconverged System with Virtual Server Infrastructure Virtual Server Infrastructure Hyperconverged System with
up to 600 Citrix XenDesktop Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop
Users XenDesktop 7.x Users
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam SQL Server on HyperFlex All Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual
Hyperconverged System with Hyperconverged System with Availability Suite for Multisite Flash Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a
up to 4000 VMware Horizon up to 600 VMware Horizon Deployments with All-Flash Storage
7 Users 7 Users
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam
Hyperconverged System with Availability Suite for Single Server Infrastructure Availability Suite
up to 2400 VMware Horizon Data Center Deployment
7 Users
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Infrastructure | SECURITY
Version 5.0
Applications | ORACLE
Virtual
FlexPod Datacenter
with Oracle RAC on
Oracle Linux
Physical Server
FlexPod Datacenter FlashStack Data Center FlashStack Data Center FlashStack for Oracle 12c FlashStack Data Center
with Oracle RAC on with Oracle RAC 12cR2 with Oracle RAC 12cR2 RAC on Oracle Linux with Oracle RAC on
Cisco UCS and NetApp Database on Pure Storage Database Oracle Linux
AFF A-Series FlashBlade
- New
Version 5.0
Applications | MICROSOFT
VMware
FlexPod Datacenter with FlexPod with Microsoft

Microsoft SQL Server Exchange 2013
2016 and VMware on Cisco ACI
vSphere 6.5
Microsoft
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash

Systems for Deploying Microsoft Systems for Deploying Microsoft
SQL Server with MS Hyper-V SQL Server with VMware
- New - New
Version 5.0
Applications | SAP
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI FlexPod Datacenter with
Solutions for SAP HANA TDI Cisco ACI for SAP HANA
- New - New - New
FlexPod Datacenter for Cisco UCS Integrated

SAP Solution with IP-Based Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Storage using NetApp AFF
A-Series
Version 5.0
Applications | VIRTUAL CLIENT COMPUTING
Citrix
VMware Citrix
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash
Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp Hyperconverged System with Systems with up to 2000 Citrix Hyperconverged System with
7.15 and VMware vSphere up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop Virtual Apps and Desktop up to 600 Citrix XenDesktop
6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats 7.x Users Users Users
- New
FlexPod Datacenter with 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/ Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash 1250 Users on FlashStack a
UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, XenApp 6.5 Solution on Hyperconverged System Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //
and Citrix XenApp/XenDesk- vSphere 5.1 with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix m10, with Citrix XenDesktop
top 7.7 XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
5000 Seat Mixed Workload

FlashStack Solution
with XenDesktop 7.9
on ESXi 6.0U2
Version 5.0
Applications | VIRTUAL CLIENT COMPUTING
VMW View
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash FlashStack Data Center with

System with Horizon 7.6 up to VMware Horizon 7.4 and
4400 users VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco
UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000
- New Seats - New
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash

VMware Horizon View 7.3 and Hyperconverged System with
VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 for up to 2000 VMware Horizon
5000 seats 7 Users
FlashStack Data Center with Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash
VMware Horizon 7.4 for 6000 Hyperconverged System with Hyperconverged System with
seats up to 4000 VMware Horizon 7 up to 600 VMware Horizon 7
Users Users
Cisco HyperFlex VersaStack with Cisco UCS and 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure
Hyperconverged System with IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage Storage FlashArray//m on
up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 for 5000 VMware Horizon Users VMware Horizon View 6.2
Users
Version 5.0
Emerging Technologies
Cisco UCS Infrastructure Cisco UCS Infrastructure for VersaStack for IBM Cloud
with Red Hat Openshift Red Hat OpenShift Container Private with Cisco UCS and
Container Platform on Platform IBM Storage
VMware vSphere
- New
Cisco UCS Infrastructure Cisco UCS Infrastructure FlexPod Datacenter with

with Contiv and Docker with Docker Datacenter for Docker Datacenter for
Enterprise Edition for Container Management Container Management
Container Management
Version 5.0
Data-Intensive Storage
BIG DATA
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Analytics with MapR Data Platform - New ll Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS
Analytics with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
ll Cisco UCS Petabyte-Scale Solution for Splunk ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
Enterprise IBM BigInsights for Apach Hadoop
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
Enterprises Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cloudera
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
Data Platform Hortonworks
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with MapR ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
Converged Data Platform MapR
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
Analytics with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics Splunk Enterprise
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with
SAP HANA Vora
The Big Data market continues to explode. Industry analysts project that it will exceed $210 billion by 2020, with a
whopping compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.9 percent. These estimates include hardware, software, and
services revenue. Source: IDC
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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics

with MapR Data Platform
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY
• Cisco UCS C240 M5 2U-Rack • Simplified management through Cisco UCSM and MapR Control System (MCS)
Mount Servers. • Ubiquitous high availability with no-NameNode architecture, YARN high availability, and NFS high
• Cisco UCSM 4.0(1d) availability
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Serve 12 • Ease of deployment
SP3 • Scalability for Big Data workloads
• MapR 6.1.0 Data Platform
• Installation and fine tuning
MapR on a 28 Node cluster via ARCHITECTURE
MapR WebUI Installer and high
availability
2 x Cisco UCS Fl 6332
Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Scalability and expansion of Big

Data Infrastructure
• Cost effective solution for the full
lifecycle of data, processing it as
application needed.
• Data storage and quality 16 x Cisco UCS
C240 M5 SFF
12 x Cisco UCS
C240 M5 SFF
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_MapR_610_
SUSE_28node.html
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with Cloudera for Data Science at Scale
• Cisco UCS Rack Mount Servers • Deep Learning with data in Hadoop
C240 M5 with C480 M5 with • GPU accelerated Deep Learning
GPUs
• Resource scheduling of GPU and CPU across multiple workloads
• CUDA enable containers
• Kubernetes managed Containers
• Deep Learning Frameworks such
as Tensorflow
ARCHITECTURE
Cloudera Data Science Workbench
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 2 x Cisco UCS 6332

Fabric Interconnect
• Enabling Deep Learning jobs to
use the massive amounts of data
ML/DL with data stored Self Service UI with Jupyter
stored in a Big Data lake on Hadoop notebook and to collaborate
• Enable Deep Learning jobs 16 x C240 M5

to make use of GPU for their 8 x C240 M5
processing GPU acceleration for All popular ML/DL
DL workloads frameworks
• Manage scheduling of multiple
jobs on both CPU and GPUs
4 x Cisco UCS C480

M5 with 6 x GPU each
Big Data DL with GPU
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_
Cloudera_28node.html
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• Peta-byte scale Splunk solution • Powered by Cisco UCS S-series Storage Servers, Splunk real-time collection and indexing of
(ITOA, ES and ITSI) on S-series machine data, and distributed high capacity and performance architecture
• Tiered storage comes standard:
SSDs for HOT+WARM data and
HDDs for COLD & Frozen
• Scales up to 8.9PB in single UCS
domain
ARCHITECTURE
Network Fabric:
· Two Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 6332
BUSINESS CHALLENGES · 32 40 Gigabit-Ethernet ports
Admin Servers:
Two Cisco UCS C220 M4 Servers with:
• Scale horizontally while · Splunk cluster master, deployer
continuously delivering Search Head Servers: · DMC, License Master, Deployment server
exceptional performance Three Cisco UCS C220 M4 Servers with:
· 28 cores, 256 GB RAM Indexers:
• Highly scalable infrastructure
Four Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Servers with:
ensuring rapid and predictable Total Storage:
· Two processing node (per server) with
delivery of insights · Hot/Warm Tier: 88-TB
· 28 cores (total 56 cores)
• Optimize application and · Cold Tier: 800-TB
· 16 SSDs for HOT/WARM, 40HDDs for COLD tiers
infrastructure performance · 4 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports
Total Storage:
· Hot/Warm Tier:88-TB
A single UCS domain can accomodate: · Cold Tier: 800-TB
· 25 indexers
Indexing Capacity:
· 275 TB of Hot/Warm storage
· Up to 2.4 terabytes (TB) per day
· 2.5 PB of Cold storage
· HOT/WARM: 30 days (1 month)
· COLD:300 days (10 months)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Petabyte_Scale_Solution_for_Splunk_Enterprise.pdf
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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Cloudera Enterprise

Configuration Details • Flexible Big Data platform powering the enterprise data hub with Cloudera Enterprise
• 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric
Interconnects
8 Cisco UCS S3260 Storage
Servers, each with 2 nodes with:
• 2 Intel Xeon processor
• E5-2680 v4 CPUs (14 cores on
each CPU) ARCHITECTURE
• 256 GB of memory
• Cisco 12-Gbps SAS Modular 2 Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects
RAID Controller with 4-GB FBWC
• 24 x 4-TB 7200-rpm LFF SAS
drives(1.54 petabytes [PB] total) 3 Cisco UCS C240 Servers
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

enterprise value SATA SSD
drives for boot
• Cisco UCS VIC 1387 (with 2 x 40
Gigabit Ethernet QSFP ports)
• 3 Cisco UCS C240 M4, as
master nodes
8 Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Bringing flexibility and scalability

to dense storage for Big Data
• Flexible modular architecture to
handle both high performance
and high capacity workloads
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_Cloudera_Enterprise_Data_Hub.pdf
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Configuration Details • Enterprise data lake using Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Hortonworks Data Platform
Interconnects
• E5-2680 v4 CPUs(14 cores on
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

drives for boot
** 3 Cisco UCS C240 M4, as
master nodes
BUSINESS CHALLENGES

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_Hortonworks_Data_Platform_final.pdf
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Configuration Details • Comprehensive integrated infrastructure for Big Data with MapR Converged Data Platform
Interconnects
• E5-2680 v4 CPUs(14 cores on
• 2 x 480-GB 6-Gbps 2.5-inch

drives for boot

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_S3260_Storage_Server_with_MapR_Converged_Data_Platform.pdf
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with Cloudera for Real-time Analytics
• Base configuration of 64 nodes with • Cisco and Cloudera provide companies with enterprise data management on a unified platform,
SFF (1.8TB) drives. This also offers with high performance, low cost, and help in utilizing data to drive better business insights
HA with 3 management nodes. This • This solution helps organizations exploit the valuable hidden potential of the data, regardless of
solution can be scaled further by whether it’s structured, semi-structured or unstructured. Cloudera 5.7-is the leading version of
adding data nodes, ideally in sets of enterprise-grade Hadoop infrastructure software and services along with a strong analytics stack
16 Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers.
• Up to 80 servers (5 racks) can
be supported with no additional
switching in a single Cisco UCS
domain with no network over-
ARCHITECTURE
subscription Cisco UCS with Cloudera and Apache Spark
• Offers scalable/sizable reference
architectures for Spark batch 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP
Fabric Interconnects
processing, and Spark Streaming
with Kafka, etc.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Kafka Nodes

8 Cisco UCS C240 M4
• Apache Spark brings batch and real-time
data processing together to offer deeper
and interactive insights to customers
• Spark Ecosystem offers a data-execution 16 x 10 Gigabit Links
engine for all workloads with Spark
Streaming, SparkSQL, and Spark Mlib
• Cloudera offers the fastest and easiest
secure-data platform for Hadoop, along
with Spark, and helps solves a magnitude of Handoop Clusters
business challenges (NameNodes/Resource Manager/Data Nodes/Spark Executors)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_Cloudera_and_Apache_Spark.html
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• Cisco Application Centric • Detailed procedure and documentation for building the solution with:
Infrastructure as the backbone of • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
the solution
• Cisco UCS Infrastructure
• FlexPod datacenter solution for
SAP HANA • SAP HANA Vora on Hortonworks Data Platform
• Cisco UCS integrated • Works with any SAP HANA datacenter solution implementation that connects to ACI infrastructure
infrastructure for big data - Up
to 80 servers per Cisco UCS
domain without network over- ARCHITECTURE
subscription
• SAP HANA Vora 40 Gig
N9508 N9508 10 Gig
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+Line card
• Data from various sources are 6 Links

6L
ink
s 6L
ink
s 6 Links
received and processed in their own

silos
2 Links
• Need correlation between various

data sources: enterprise data, 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links
2 Links 2 Links
APIC
unstructured/semi-structured big N9396 N9396
data(customer, partner, geo-location, 16 Links 16 Links

16 Links APIC 1
APIC APIC 3
mobile devices, social media), and

16 Links
APIC
newer sources like IoT sensors and APIC 2
smart devices
Cisco UCS B460 32 C240 M4
• Big data lives in Hadoop, enterprise SAP HANA Rack Servers
data lives in enterprise DB, need to Appliances • Handoop,
bridge the gap Shared Storage
Cisco UCS B460 SAP
• Spark,
Applications
• VORA
• Need an infrastructure that can scale- S4/HANA, BW
up and scale-out to break down this
digital divide Rack -1 Rack -2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_SAP_HANA_Vora.html
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• Seamless scalability of performance • A single platform built from unified compute, fabric and storage technologies, allowing you to scale
and capacity meeting required KPIs to large-scale implementations without architectural changes
for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also
• Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring high availability without
deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
performance compromise through
in-place software and hardware
upgrades
• Details the reference architecture
for SAP HANA TDI implementation
leveraging existing Cisco UCS
ARCHITECTURE
infrastructure and Pure Storage
• Sample SAP HANA scale-up and
3+1 scale-out system deployment Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch
best practices
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect
• SAP HANA TDI deployments

are complicated and generally
mission critical with high availability 4 x UCS C240 M5
(24 x 1.8 TB SAS drives)
8 x UCS C480 M5 Servers
requirements. Customers face

challenges maintaining these
landscapes both in terms of time,
available resources and operational
cost
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable
and best-in-class converged solution
stack for optimizing enterprise MapR based Storage HANA Servers
workloads running SAP HANA

database-based applications
CVD with MAPR: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_mapr.html
CVD with SLES: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_sles.html
CVD with RHEL: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_rhel.html
Version 5.0
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for

Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
• The base configuration consists • Cisco UCSDE provides centralized visibility into the complete infrastructure and big data application
of 1 UCSDE management node to identify potential failures and latent threats before they affect application and business
and 80 Hadoop nodes with SFF/ performance
LFF drives. This solution could • ACI provides centralized visibility to the entire network with deep telemetry and real-time network
be scaled further just by adding health status for each tenant
nodes ideally in sets of 16 Cisco • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with ACI, offers a linearly scalable architecture
UCS C240 M4 servers and simplification of essential operations for single-rack and multiple-rack deployments spanning
• Up to 80 servers (5 racks) can thousands of servers
ARCHITECTURE
subscription
APIC • Multi Tenancy
• Resource Fragmentation
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • Single point of management for Network
• Scale-Out Penalty-Free Overlay Network
• Data center’s biggest challenge • Single point of Management for Hadoop
is the provisioning and managing
of the large number of Hadoop
Cisco ACI Fabric
nodes
• Consolidating multiple-Hadoop
clusters in a single, centrally
managed physical cluster to
improve infrastructure utilization,
and provide access controls
and security isolation between UCS Director Express for Big-Data
UCS Domain
tenants Tenant 1
Tenant 1
Tenant 3 Tenant 5
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HaaS_on_Bare_Metal_with_UCSDExpress_on_Cisco_UCS_
Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_and_ACI.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with IBM

BigInsights for Apache Hadoop
• The base configuration consists • Cisco and IBM provide enterprises with transparent, simplified data as well as management
of 3 management nodes and integration with an enterprise application ecosystem
16 Data nodes with LFF (6TB) • This solution helps organizations to exploit the valuable business insights in all their data, regardless
drives. This solution could be of whether it’s structured, semi structured or unstructured. Big Insights 3.1 is the leading version of
scaled further just by adding enterprise-grade Hadoop infrastructure software and services along with a strong analytics stack
data nodes ideally in sets of 16 and machine learning capabilities
Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers
• Up to 80 servers (5 racks) can
ARCHITECTURE
subscription
2 X Cisco UCS 6296
Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 3 X Cisco UCS
C220 M4 Server
• Biggest challenge for data
scientists and analysts to reuse
their experience and tools in Big
Data landscape 64 X Cisco UCS
C240 M4 Servers
• IBM BigInsights offers BigSQL
a feature rich SQL engine on
Hadoop that can deliver analytic
capabilities on Hadoop
• IBM BigInsights introduces
enterprise capabilities for
Hadoop, including machine
learning with Big R to help
data scientists, analysts and
administrators accelerate
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_IBM.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure and Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) and Cloudera
• 160 UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) • Scaling to thousands of servers with no over-subscription within a UCS domain, and 5.7.1
servers with scale-out option over-subscription between domains
up to 5760 servers in a single • Radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle
switching domain
• The Cisco ACI policy model is designed top down using a promise theory model to control a
• Two Cisco N9K-C9508 scalable architecture of defined network and service objects
• 23 Cisco N9K-C9396PX • Centralized management for servers and network independently
• Three APIC-L1 • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Cloudera Hadoop 5.0
ARCHITECTURE
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 9396 Nexus 9396
40 Gig
Nexus 9508 Nexus 9508 10 Gig

• Scalability, performance and
support for multi-tenancy that 36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+Line card
enforces proper isolation and 6L s 6 Links
ink ink
SLA’s for workloads of different 6 Links s 6L
tenants
14 Links Port channel 2 Links
• Centralized network visibility
with real time application health 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links 6 Links
2 Links 2 Links
APIC
monitoring Nexus 9396 Nexus 9396
Fabric Interconnnect 14 Links

14 Links
APIC APIC 3
• Simplified automation through 14 Links
14 Links 14 Links
APIC 1
application driven policy model Fabric Interconnnect Fabric Interconnnect APIC

UCS Domain-1 APIC 2
• Best practices for installing

Cloudera Distribution for
Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
performance and scalability

E0 E1 UCS
Servers
Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5 Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5 Rack -1 Rack -2 . . . . . Rack -5

Cisco UCS C240 M45
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_
ACI_and_Cloudera.pdf
Version 5.0

• 64 UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) with • Committed to 100% open source distribution
four C3160 servers with scale- • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Hortonworks Data Platform offer
out option up to five racks in a comprehensive set of capabilities for data management, data access, data governance and
single switching domain integration and operations
• Cisco UCS® Director Express • Next version of Hadoop HDP 2.2 with enterprise SQL and tiered-storage support
for Big Data offers one-click
provisioning, installation, and
configuration
• HDP 2.2 includes HDFS tiered- ARCHITECTURE
storage support (with related
storage policies) to manage tiers 2 X Cisco UCS 6296
of hot, warm, and cold data. Fabric Interconnect
Solution focuses on moving
cold/archival data to Cisco UCS
C3160 through while maintaining
hot and warm data in faster Cisco 16 X Cisco UCS
UCS C240 M4 series servers C240 M4 Server
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS C3160

• Data lifecycle management for Server
Hadoop where usage and utility
of data can be categorized into
hot (recent data), warm (not-so-
recent) and cold (archival data)
• Cost-effective solution for the
full lifecycle of data, processing
it as applications demand
• Enterprise SQL on Hadoop
with cost optimizations and
interactive queries
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Bigdata_with_Hortonworks.pdf
Version 5.0
• Detailed instructions for installation • Multi-tenancy with MapR supports data and job placement control to isolate sensitive data and
and fine tuning MapR on a 64 node applications
UCS C240 M4 (SFF/LFF) cluster • Ubiquitous high availability with no-NameNode architecture, YARN high availability, and NFS high
• Detailed configuration of multi- availability
tenancy with:
• Simplified management through Cisco UCSM and MapR Control System (MCS)
• Data and compute isolation
• Enforced quotas • Ease of deployment
• High availability • Scalability for Big Data workloads
• Associating tenants with
volumes
• Ability to manage SLAs with
data placement and job ARCHITECTURE
placement control
2 X Cisco UCS 6296
Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Multi-tenancy is the capability of
a single instance of software to
serve multiple tenants. A tenant 16 X Cisco UCS C240
is a group of users that have the M4 Server
same view of the system
• Hadoop is an enterprise data
hub, and it demands multi-
tenancy. Big Data platforms are
increasingly expected to support
multi-tenancy by default
• Multi-tenancy requires isolation
of the distinct tenants: both the
data in the data platform and the
computing aspect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_MapR.pdf
Version 5.0

• 8 Cisco UCS C240 M4 rack servers • Built on the Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data for Splunk Enterprise distributed search
• 5 Cisco UCS C220 M4 rack servers with High Capacity reference architecture
• 1 Cisco UCS C3160 rack server • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure offers horizontal scalability for Splunk Enterprise clusters
• 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP fabric • Pre-validated configuration radically simplifies, and accelerates the entire Splunk distributed search
interconnects deployment process
• Splunk Enterprise 6.2.2 and greater • Cisco UCS C3160 rack server offers unmatched high density storage capacity in small form factor
to store frozen data that is readily accessible to Splunk Enterprise clusters
• Cisco UCS C220 M4 rack servers serve as
search heads to form the Splunk search • Best practices for highly available distributed search deployment using Splunk Enterprise
head cluster, providing a highly available
analytics interface for the end user ARCHITECTURE
• Cisco UCS C3160 rack server as NFS
server to archive frozen data
Search Heads: Master Mode: Admin servers
Network fabric
• Cisco UCS C240 M4 rack servers serve as Cisco UCS C220 M4
Cisco UCS C220 M4
Rack Server
• 2 Cisco UCS 6296UP
• 2 Cisco UCS C220 M4
Servers
indexers to form the Splunk indexer clus- Rack Server (x3)
Deployment Server:
fabric interconnects • Splunk master node
(for indexer clustering),
ter, providing industry-leading scalability Indexes Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server (x8)
Cisco UCS C220 M4
Rack Server Search heads License master
• Deployer, deployment
and reliability mission critical data storage • 3 Cisco UCS C220
M4 Servers(24 cores Server, distributed
256GB) management console
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Archival Node:

Cisco UCS C3160 A single UCS domain Indexers (configured
Rack Server with replication factor 2):
• Modern day datacenters generate Forwarders /Data Sources
can accomodate up to:
• Over 64 indexers - 1.8 • 8 Cisco C240 M4
Servers (24 cores, 256
machine data in the order of terabytes Fabric Interconnnect Fabric Interconnnect
petabytes of index
storage GB, 24 x 1.2TB SFF
(TBs) to hundreds of TBs every day. • 8TB/day indexing
capacity (replication-
• Up to 230 TB of index
storage
The organization needs to collect, factor:2) • 3 months retention
• Over 10 search heads
process, manage, derive business supporting hundreds
of simultaneous
insights from this large amount of data searches
• Up to 4 archival nodes
• Organizations need an integrated infra- • No network
oversubscription
structure for processing machine data E0 E1
that’s efficient, reliable and secure Archival node

• 1 Cisco UCS C3160
• Need to retain collected for longer server (24 cores, 256
GB, 60 x 4TB LFF
Cisco UCS C240 M45
term analysis, or need to put in
an integrated storage medium for
retrieval at a later point in time
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_with_Splunk.pdf
Version 5.0
BIG DATA
Common Platform Architecture (CPA)
ll Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon ll Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for
ll Big Data Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Big Data and OpenStack
with Cloudera ll Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Intel Distribution
ll Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Cloudera ll Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Pivotal HD and
ll Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data with Hortonworks HAWQ
Version 5.0
• Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis with • End-to-end installation virtualized Hadoop solution with predictable scalability implementing
2208XP fabric extender modules Business Data Lake architecture
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers • Unified compute for MapReduce and Isilon multi protocol scale-out NAS platform for distributed
• Cisco UCS 6296UP fabric NameNode and DataNode services
interconnects • Detailed instructions for installation and fine tuning for Big Data workloads
• EMC Isilon S200 with OneFS 7.2.0.0
• VMware vSphere 5.5, vCenter ARCHITECTURE
Server 5.5 with Big Data
extensions 2.1
• Cloudera Manager 5.2 with CDH
5.1.3
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Need to address scalability

and deployment challenges in
enterprise Hadoop deployments
8 X 10GigE 8 X 10GigE
to rapidly increase or decrease Uplink Uplink
the compute, storage and memory

allocated to the Hadoop nodes
• Best practices for creating a
virtualized enterprise grade Hadoop
solution using Cisco UCS, EMC
Isilon and Cloudera Distribution 8 X 10GigE 8 X 10GigE
Apache Hadoop to meet the
changing needs of enterprises,
while minimizing downtime
• Ability to scale compute nodes
and HDFS storage nodes
independent of each other
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_and_EMC_Isilon-with-Cloudera_CDH5.pdf
Version 5.0
Big Data Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

with Cloudera
• 42 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Scaling to thousands of servers with no network over-subscription

servers with scale-out option • Application centric management
up to 964 servers in a single
switching domain • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Two Cisco NK-C9508
• 23 Cisco N9K-C9396PX
ARCHITECTURE
• 12 Cisco N9K-C93128TX
• Three APIC-L1
40 Gig
• Cloudera Hadoop 5.0 N9508_A N9508_B
10 Gig
36 Ports 40 Gig QSFP+ Line card 1 Gig
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 1 Po
rt
or t
s 1P
6 Ports 6P 6P or t
s
or t
s 6 Ports
• Scalable performance and multi- ACI Scaling: Direct Connect
tenancy in hardware
• Centralized network visibility
with real time application health 6 Ports 6 Ports 6 Ports 6 Ports N93128TX
monitoring N9396_A N9596_B
• Simplified automation through

10Gx45 10Gx45 ts
application driven policy model 45
p or
Mgmt
• Best practices for installing P0/ P1
CIMC
45 ports
Cloudera Distribution for APIC APIC 1

Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for
APIC
APIC 2
APIC
APIC 3
14 Servers 14 Servers 14 Servers
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_ACI_Architecture_for_BigData_with_Cloudera.pdf
Version 5.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Next version of Hadoop Map/Reduce (Yarn)

servers with scale out option • End-to-end installation for Cloudera Distribution of Apache Hadoop for performance and scalability
up to 10 racks in a single
switching domain • Best practices for Hadoop 2.0 services tuning
• Detailed instructions for
installation and fine tuning for
Big Data workloads
• Detailed Raid configuration and
ARCHITECTURE
operating system tuning for
Big Data application
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
performance Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Extender 2232PP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Highly scalable architecture 16X Cisco UCS

C240M3 Server
designed to meet a variety of
scale-out application (Big Data)
demands with seamless data
integration and management 8 x 10 Gigabit
Links
• Support for multiple distributed
computational frameworks on
same Hadoop cluster
• Best practices for installing
Cloudera Distribution for
Apache Hadoop 5.0 tuned for
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_CPAv2_for_Big_Data_with_CDH_C5.pdf
Version 5.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Committed to 100% open source distribution

servers with scale-out option • End-to-end installation for Hortonworks HDP 2.0
switching domain • Next version of Hadoop Map/Reduce (Yarn)
installation and fine tuning for Big
Data workloads
ARCHITECTURE
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

Extender 2232PP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Highly scalable architecture 16X Cisco UCS

C240M3 Server
designed to meet a variety of
scale-out application (Big Data)
integration and management 8 x 10 Gigabit
Links
• Support for multiple distributed
computational frameworks on
same Hadoop cluster
• 100 percent open source
distribution with enterprise
support
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CPA2_for_BigData_with_Hortonworks.pdf
Version 5.0
Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS CPAv2 for Big Data

and OpenStack
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Self service provisioning of Hadoop

servers with scale-out option • Tuning OpenStack for Hadoop
switching domain • End-to-end installation for Hortonworks HDP 2.0 on VM’s managed by OpenStack
installation and fine tuning for Big
Data workloads
ARCHITECTURE
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Extender 2232PP
• Highly scalable architecture

offering Hadoop-as-a-Service 16X Cisco UCS
C240M3 Server
• Running Hadoop on OpenStack
• Enterprise-grade, hardened
Apache Hadoop distribution with 8 x 10 Gigabit
excellent support Links
• 100 percent open source

distribution with enterprise
support
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CPA2_for_BigData_with_Hortonworks_for_HaaS.html
Version 5.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 (SFF/LFF) • Focused on hardware-assisted encryption, security, fine-grained access control (ACL), role-based
servers with scale-out option access control, and Kerberos
for up to 10 racks in a single • End-to-end installation for Intel distribution 2.5
switching domain
• Detailed role-based access
control and other security setting
• Detailed RAID configuration and
operating system tuning for Big
ARCHITECTURE
Data application performance
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric


designed to meet a variety of 16X Cisco UCS
scale-out application (Big Data) C240M3 Server
integration and management
• Enterprise-grade, hardened 8 x 10 Gigabit
Apache Hadoop distribution with Links
excellent support
• Hardware-assisted encryption
using AES-NI technology
beneficial for HIPPA and
payment card industry (PCI) data
security
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CPA_for_BigData_with_Hortonworks.html
Version 5.0
• 64 UCS C240 M3 LFF servers • HAWQ with its parallel SQL processing is fully SQL compliant on Hadoop
with scale-out option of up to • End-to-end installation for Pivotal HD 1.1 and HAWQ 1.1
10 racks in a single switching
domain
• Apache Hadoop 2.0 distribution
with YARN
• Detailed RAID configuration and
operating system tuning for Big
ARCHITECTURE
Data application performance
2x Cisco UCS Fabric
Interconnect 6296UP
2x Cisco UCS Fabric

• Require highly scalable

architecture capable of meeting 16X Cisco UCS
scale-out application (Big Data) C240M3 Server
integration and management
• Need an enterprise-grade, 8 x 10 Gigabit
hardened Apache Hadoop Links
distribution with support

• Hadoop 2.0 with Yarn and
HAWQ, a 100 percent compliant
SQL query engine on Hadoop
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_UCS_CPA_for_Big_Data_with_Pivotal.html
Version 5.0
BIG DATA
Analytics
ll Cisco SAS Edge to Enterprise IoT Analytics Platform
Version 5.0
Cisco SAS Edge-to-Enterprise IOT Analytics Platform

• Multi-phase analytics at edge on • Industries first comprehensive solution encompassing Cisco routers and switches at edge and UCS
Cisco routers/switches and at data infrastructure at data center with SAS software enabling multi-phase analytics.
center on UCS infrastructure enabled • Provides end-to-end orchestration platform comprising off device, application and infrastructure
by SAS software
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco routers/switches, Cisco UCS infrastructure and SAS
• Complete orchestration of device software efficiencies for an optimal platform.
and application using Cisco Fog-
Director. Automation of infrastructure
and data platform with UCS Manager
and UCS Director Express
• Highly scalable architecture with
ARCHITECTURE
resiliency using a high-performance
gateway for sensor data ingest
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Edge-to-Enterprise – analyze local

and remote data in real time
• Insights - discover, understand, and
act in real time
• Scale - from POC to production
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Cisco_SAS_Edge_to_Enterprise_IoT_Analytics_Platform.html
Version 5.0
DATA PROTECTION
ll Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection - New
ll Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS S3260 Servers - New
ll Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments
ll Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite Deployment Guide for Single Data Center Deployment
ll FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection

• Cohesity cluster of 3 or more • Cohesity integration with Cisco HyperFlex via the HX API for snapshot controls
Cisco C240 M5L servers using a • Cohesity cluster provides policy based VM protection for HyperFlex clusters or other external
specific Cohesity BoM systems
• Servers are UCS Managed, not • Rapid mass restores and return to service
standalone
• On-prem cluster to cluster backup replication and archiving, and to cloud
• Solution based on 4th generation
FI 6454 and VIC 1457 • Test/Dev temporary VM cloning
• Cisco UCSM 4.0(1c)
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.5(2a) or later
required ARCHITECTURE
• Cohesity version 6.1.1a or later
required Fl 6454 Fl 6454 Cisco Nexus Switch Cisco Nexus Switch Fl 6248 Fl 6248
Cohesity Cluster Cisco HyperFlex Hybrid Cluster
Cisco UCS Domain Cisco UCS Domain
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fl 6332 Fl 6332
• Secondary storage systems
(backup/replication/test) are often
highly fragmented, using multiple
platforms
• Traditional secondary storage Fl 6332 Fl 6332 Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cluster
systems do not scale well,
leading to significant sprawl and
complexity Cisco HyperFlex Stretched Cluster

• Outdated architectures do not
work well with hyperconverged
virtual systems and cloud
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsc240_cohesity_dp.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS S3260 Servers

• Modular, scalable, and highly • Scale - Cut costs and reduce your hardware footprint by breaking down data silos.
resilient data management solution • Manage - Remove operational complexity and gain more value from your data with native
that is simple to install and manage. automation and orchestration capabilities.
• Turnkey Hyperconverged data • Optimize - Use operational metrics to tailor your service level agreements to your business
management solution. demands and take advantage of hybrid cloud integration capabilities with no added hardware or
• Cisco UCS S3260 Storage appliances.
Server with M5 Server Nodes.
• Cisco Nexus 9k Series Switches.
• Commvault Complete™ Backup
and Recovery v11 and Commvault
ARCHITECTURE
HyperScale Software. vPC peer link
Cisco Nexus 9000
series switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Challenge in protecting workloads Cisco UCS 6300 series
with traditional Scale-up Fabric Interconnects
architectures.
• Missing service level agreements
(SLAs) due to difficulty in ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS 40 GbE Converged
scaling backup infrastructure for
40 GbE Virtual Port-Channel
operational needs. Virtual Port-Channel
• Multiple data silos preventing the Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Port-Channel
integration of applications, data, Storage Servers

and infrastructure
• Complex data management and
operations.
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260m5_commvault_scaleprotect.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260m5_commvault_scaleprotect_designguide.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite

Deployments
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server and single Veeam console • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers and C240 M4 LFF rack
to manage backup and replication servers
of VM across several HyperFlex
clusters across geography • Best practices to deploy multisite HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage
server
• Storage integration of Cisco
HyperFlex with Veeam providing
HX native snapshots and higher
ARCHITECTURE
backup throughput through HX Remote Data Center Remote Replication Veeam Proxy &
WAN Accelerator
storage network vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
• All-in-one, scalable and easy- WAN
to-deploy validated design and

Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP
Fabric Interconnect A vPC vPC Fabric Interconnect B
deployment guide for multisite

HyperFlex, Veeam and Cisco UCS
S3260 storage server
BUSINESS CHALLENGES HyperFlex Cluster 1 Branch Office

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 HyperFlex Cluster
WAN
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours Primary Data Center WAN
of restore & backup time for 24/7 vPC Peer Link
business critical applications on Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP

• High OPEX in managing data

protection endpoints for HyperFlex
clusters in multiple sites across HyperFlex Veeam Veeam Proxy & Veeam Veeam Proxy & HyperFlex
geography Cluster Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Cluster
• Replication of application VM 4 x HX220C M4 Cluster

Backup Copy Jobs Local Replication
Local Backup
deployed across data centers on Primary DC Remote DC
HyperFlex clusters 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
Uplink to distribution switch
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/dataprotection_hx_veeam_multisite.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite Deployment Guide

for Single Data Center Deployment
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with Instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
manage backup and replication
of application VM across several
HyperFlex clusters ARCHITECTURE
• All-in-one, scalable and easy-
to-deploy validated design and Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372PX

deployment guide for Veeam, VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex and Cisco UCS S3260 vPC vPC
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
storage server
HX Data Platform Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fabric Fabric
Interconnect Interconnect
Secondary 4 x HX240C M4
HyperFlex Cluster Cluster
• High RPO/RTO with multiple Backup &

hours of restore time or data Replication
loss for 24/7 business critical VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

applications vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• High OPEX in managing data Backup &
protection endpoints for multiple HX Data Platform Replication Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric vPC vPC
Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
Interconnect A Interconnect B
HX clusters in remote offices
deployed across geography Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
Cisco UCS C3260
Storage Server
• Single solution to deploy,

configure and optimize HX
backup and replication with 4 x HX240C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server
Veeam 9.5 and Cisco S3260

Primary HyperFlex Cluster
Storage Server 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_AS902_design.html
Version 5.0

• High speed archive repositories using • Modern data protection delivered within the FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
the Cisco S3260 servers • Full deployment walkthrough along with feature validation
• VM data protection working with the • Total solution that brings together performance, efficiency, automation, availability, and
native FlashArray//m snapshots recoverability
• Local, remote site, and cloud
archiving options
• Live VM recovery and remote live
ARCHITECTURE
synch
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

6300 Fabric 6300 Fabric
Interconnects Interconnects
Cisco UCS servers Cisco UCS servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Business continuity
• Multi-site data protection
• Fast and reliable RPTO
Cisco S3260 MediaAgent Cisco S3260 MediaAgent
Cisco MDS 9000 Switches
Pure Storage Flash Array//m
40 GbE
40 GbE Converged
40 GbE
Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_commvault.html
Version 5.0
SCALE-OUT STORAGE
ll Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object Storage - New
ll Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage Server with Scality RING - New
ll VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode - New
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software Defined Object Storage
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with Red Hat Ceph Storage
ll Cisco UCS Storage Server with Scality Ring
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Server with Cloudian HyperStore Object

Storage
• End to end scale-out file and • Massively scalable, software-defined storage system that gives you unified storage to run
object storage offering with your business
Cloudian HyperStore 7.1.2 on • Cisco and Cloudian are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
UCS S3260 M5 storage Server unstructured data that is integrated with Cloudian HyperStore Storage
• Unified scale-out framework-- • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and
optimized to deliver compute, flexibility to your data center.
capacity and throughput
intensive workloads
• True scale-out storage with self- ARCHITECTURE
healing capabilities combined
with object and file services
(optional)
vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9332 - FabricA Cisco Nexus 9332 - FabricB
support
Cisco UCS 6332 - FabricA Cisco UCS 6332 - FabricB
BUSINESS CHALLENGES (optional)
HA Proxy
• IOT and digital transformation
is driving data growth and it is
putting tremendous pressure on 2 x Cisco UCS C220M5
IT 1 x 40GbE
• IDC shows that 80% of new 6 HyperStore Cluster Nodes 2 x 40GbE
data that is being generated is 1 x 40GbE
unstructured and it cannot be 1 x 1GbE
addressed by traditional storage.

• Capacity management with
seamless scaling to PBs in a cost
efficient manner
3 x Cisco UCS S3260 Chassis & 2 x S3X60 M5 Servers Per Chassis
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_cloudianhyperstore_s3260m5_design.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage Server with Scality RING

• End to end scale-out file and • Massively scalable, software-defined storage system that gives you unified storage to run
object storage offering with your business
Scality RING 7.4 on UCS S3260 • Cisco and Scality are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
M5 storage Server unstructured data that is integrated with Scality RING Storage
• Unified scale-out framework-- • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and
intensive workloads
with object and file services
(optional)
vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9332 - FabricA Cisco Nexus 9332 - FabricB
support
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS 6332 - FabricA Cisco UCS 6332 - FabricB
• IOT and digital transformation

is driving data growth and it is
putting tremendous pressure on Supervisor
IT
• IDC shows that 80% of new 1 x Cisco UCS C220M5
data that is being generated is 1 x 40GbE
6 Storage Nodes
unstructured and it cannot be 2 x 40GbE
addressed by traditional storage. 1 x 40GbE
1 x 1GbE

efficient manner
3 x Cisco UCS S3260 Chassis & 2 x S3X60 M5 Servers Per Chassis
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260_m5_scalityring.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260m5_scality_design.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for
Concentrated Dispersal Mode
• End to end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable,
Architecture delivers scalable reliable, secure, and cost-effective environment.
infrastructure starting with just • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
three C240 M5 nodes. unstructured data that is integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage.
• Unified scale-out framework - • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and
intensive workloads.
with object services support.
VM Manager IBM COS Manager
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Nexus 9332PQ
• Enterprises today struggle to use

scale-out storage solutions to • 2 x Nexus 9332
• 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects Fabric Interconnect 6332
start small and grow as needed. • Full Deployment UCS Managed
• 70% of IT decision maker • 40 GbE end-to-end

• Starting low with 72 TB usable – 6RU
believe that their current
storage systems will not be
able to handle the growth of
UCS C240
unstructured data. IBM COS Slicestor +
• Inadequate storage infrastructure Embedded Accesser
is considered to be a significant
pain point.
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_ibmcos_ucs240m5.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_c240_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 5.0

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable,
Architecture delivers high- reliable, secure, and cost-effective environment
throughput performance with • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
programmable QoS critical for unstructured data that integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage
scale-out storage solutions
• Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and flexibility
• Unified scale-out framework - to your data center
optimized to deliver compute,
intensive workloads ARCHITECTURE
• True scale-out storage with self-
with object services support
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects
• 1 x C220 M4 Server
• Enterprises today struggle to • Full Deployment UCS
• 1 x IBM COS Manager
manage the explosive growth of Managed
data while remaining agile and • 40 GbE end-to-end • 4 x C220 M4 Servers
cost competitive
• Up to 3.3 PB Raw Capacity in • 4 x IBM COS Accessers
• 70% of IT decision makers 6 S3260 – 24RU
able to handle next generation
workloads
• Inadequate storage infrastructure • 6 x S3260 Storage
is considered to be a significant Servers
pain point • 12 x M4 Server Nodes
• 12 x IBM COS Slicestors
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_dep.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with SwiftStack Software

Defined Object Storage
• Massive and highly configurable • Best-of-Breed scale-out storage solution by SwiftStack and Cisco UCS
scale-out storage solution • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and
designed for petabyte scalability flexibility to your data center
• Up to 600TB of RAW storage • Hybrid cloud storage solution for current and next generation applications
and 160Gb of network within
4RU rack space and end-to-end
40G capable UCS Architecture ARCHITECTURE
delivers high-throughput critical
for scale-out storage solutions SwiftStack Object Storage on Cisco UCS S3260 Object Storage Use Cases
• Delivers around 8,000 PUT and NX-PQ9332-A VPC Peer Link

NX-PQ9332-B
Unstructured data
consumes lots of storage
capacity
25,000 GET HTTP requests and
35 GB/s of external facing client 2
FI 6332-A 2 2 FI 6332-B
2
Unstructured data grows
network bandwidth very rapidly
Cluster Heart Beat Link • Data Repository
Swift 12 • Data Protection
Nodes Unstructured data rarely, if • Data Analysis
12 Active/Standby ever, changes
SwiftStack Controllers
2 2
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 2 x C220M4S Unstructured data must be

retained for the long-term
4
Optional Load Generating Clients
• Unstructured data is growing 2 4
at an exponential rate and it is
putting tremendous pressure SwiftStack System Architecture
on IT 8 x B200M4
The SwiftStack Controller manages
8
and monitors all of the storage
• Enterprises require cloud-scale 2 resources but it is not in the data path.
infrastructure that can scale 8 App/User
seamlessly without any limitation SwiftStack

Controller Data Access
• Legacy storage cannot address 6 x S3260 8 x C220M4S
(HTTP)
unstructured data challenges SwiftStack

Cluster
which requires cloud-like SwiftStack
Nodes
All links are 40Gb Ethernet
economies of scale The SwiftStack Cluster can have nodes
in multiple geographic regions to protect
and location-optimize your data.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ciscoswiftstack_ucs3260ss_deploy.html
Version 5.0

• 5 Cisco UCS S3260 servers with an • Software-defined storage solution for various workloads and large scale environments
operational guide to increase the • Unified, embedded management with UCS Manager for an easy-to-scale infrastructure
environment with further servers
• Operational guide to extend the solution with the help of UCS Manager
• Design and deployment guide for
Red Hat Ceph Storage on Cisco
UCS S3260
• Detailed instructions for installation
and fine tuning for Cisco UCS
ARCHITECTURE
S3260 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
2 Cisco Nexus 9332PQ
2 Cisco UCS 6332
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Enterprises today struggle to Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.1

manage the explosive growth of
data while remaining agile and cost 7 Cisco UCS C220 M4
as Ceph MON/RGW/ADM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
competitive
Cisco UCS Manager 3.1
• 70% of IT decision makers believe
that their current storage systems
will not be able to handle next
generation workloads
• Inadequate storage infrastructure is
considered to be a main pain point
6 Cisco UCS S3260
as Ceph OSD
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260_rhceph21.html
Version 5.0

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • Massively scalable, software-defined storage system that gives you unified storage to run your
architecture delivers high- business
throughput performance with • Cisco and Scality are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
programmable QoS critical for unstructured data that is integrated with Scality RING Storage
• Unified scale-out framework-- to your data center
capacity and throughput intensive
workloads
ARCHITECTURE
healing capabilities combined with Cisco Nexus 9332 - Fabric A vPC Peer Link Cisco Nexus 9332 - Fabric B
object and file services support
Cisco UCS 6332 - Fabric A Cisco UCS 6332 - Fabric B
Cluster Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• IoT and digital transformation

3 x Cisco UCS C220 M4 1 x 40 Gbe
is driving data growth, and it is
putting tremendous pressure on IT 2 x 40 Gbe
1 x 40 Gbe
• IDC shows that 80% of new
data that is being generated is 1 x 1 Gbe
unstructured and it cannot be

addressed by traditional storage
efficient manner
6 x Cisco UCS C3260 + 12 x M4 Server Node
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_s3260_scalityring.html
Version 5.0
Infrastructure | Automation
ll VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
ll Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated
Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
ll VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
Cisco is leading the market in converged infrastructure revenues. According to IDC, Cisco’s leadership is due to a variety of
reasons, including market leader/maturity, vendor familiarity, and quality product/brand/reliability.
Version 5.0
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM

Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
• VersaStack with Cisco ACI and SVC for • “Converged cloud” IT infrastructure that allows easy movement of applications across on-premises
private cloud and IBM Bluemix public and cloud environments
cloud • End-to-end copy data management to lower storage capacity requirements and accelerate
• Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, application development and testing
which includes CloudCenter to automate • IT as a service to balance user self-service on-demand deployment and management in
self-service application deployment to environments with central governance and control
users’ choice of on-premises or public
cloud environments • Capacity utilization optimization with automated standup and teardown of applications
• IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
that orchestrates the creation,
ARCHITECTURE
distribution, efficient use, and retention
Cisco CloudCenter
of application-aware copies of data,
both on-premises and in the cloud VersaStackTM
Solution
by Cisco and IBM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
SDX API SDX API
• Operational complexity: Ability to vCenter

deploy and run applications on-premises SDX API
or off-premises without modification
• Inconsistency: The different formats VMware
and opaque private and public UCS Servers Nexus Switches
cloud environments can induce

inconsistencies, and lack of consistent
policies which can further erode
MDS Switches
transparency
• Visibility and management: Having
same degree of visibility and SAN Volume Controller Storwize FlashSystem
management as the workloads migrate

from one environment to another VersaStack Data Center Public Clouds
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm_depguide.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm.html
Version 5.0
Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal with UCS Director Express (UCSDE) for

Big Data on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI
• The base configuration consists • Cisco UCSDE provides centralized visibility into the complete infrastructure and big data application
of 1 UCSDE management node to identify potential failures and latent threats before they affect application and business
and 80 Hadoop nodes with SFF/ performance
LFF drives. This solution could • ACI provides centralized visibility to the entire network with deep telemetry and real-time network
be scaled further just by adding health status for each tenant
nodes ideally in sets of 16 Cisco • Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with ACI, offers a linearly scalable architecture
UCS C240 M4 servers and simplification of essential operations for single-rack and multiple-rack deployments spanning
• Up to 80 servers (5 racks) can thousands of servers
domain with no network over- ARCHITECTURE
subscription
APIC • Multi Tenancy
• Resource Fragmentation
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • Single point of management for Network
• Scale-Out Penalty-Free Overlay Network
• Data center’s biggest challenge • Single point of Management for Hadoop
is the provisioning and managing
of the large number of Hadoop
Cisco ACI Fabric
nodes
• Consolidating multiple-Hadoop
clusters in a single, centrally
managed physical cluster to
improve infrastructure utilization,
and provide access controls
and security isolation between UCS Director Express for Big-Data
UCS Domain
tenants Tenant 1
Tenant 1
Tenant 3 Tenant 5
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
Tenant 4
Tenant 2
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HaaS_on_Bare_Metal_with_UCSDExpress_on_Cisco_UCS_
Integrated_Infrastructure_for_Big_Data_and_ACI.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director,

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
• Cisco UCS Director • End-to-end automation across complete physical and virtual infrastructure
• Cisco Application Infrastructure • Example customer use-cases and how to deliver automation through various Cisco UCS Director
Controller tools and features
• Cisco UCS Manager • Downloadable UCS Director workflows for quick enablement
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
• VMware vCenter server ARCHITECTURE
• Extension to FlexPod with Nexus
9000 ACI architecture
Cisco UCS Director Use-Cases Include:
• Tenant Infrastructure Configuration
• Enabling iSCSI Guest Attached Storage
• Virtual Machine Provisioning
VMware vCenter Server • Enabling Application Consistent SnapShots
• Publishing Self-service Capabilities
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager
• Complex infrastructures FlexPod

Cisco UCS
spanning physical and virtual Director Cisco Application
Management
Infrastructure Controller &
• Slow and costly provisioning and Automation
de-provisioning of application NetApp Clustered
infrastructure resources Data ONTAP
• Manual processes across end-

to-end converged infrastructure
elements
• Simplifying and extending
complex capabilities to end-
users through self-service
models
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_iaas_ucsd_52_aci.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_design.pdf
Version 5.0
• Supports Cisco and non-Cisco • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
devices and technologies in an • IaaS cloud delivery with features of orchestration, chargeback and self-service
agnostic manner
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco UCS and IBM Storwize efficiencies for an optimal platform
• IaaS cloud functionality for virtual
and physical server resources
with guided setup
• Scalable and shared architecture ARCHITECTURE
with resiliency and standard
API’s VM
Web
VM
App
VM
db
VM
Web
VM
App
VM
db
VM VM VM
A/D DNS SQL DB vCenter
OS OS OS ... OS OS OS ... DHCP
OS OS OS
VMware ESX VMware ESX
VMware ESX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS Servers
• Multiple element managers on

integrated stacks Common Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Efficient and accountable IT
resource use – service provider/ VPC VPC
cloud model
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
• API’s to integrate with enterprise VPC
tools for IT service management peerlink
(ITSM) Cisco MDS 9000 FC Switches
VPC VPC
IBM Storwize V7000 File Modules FC Fabric A
HA Interconnect FC Fabric A
IBM Storwize V7000 Controller 10G Ethernet
PortChannel PortChannel
Converged
Interconnect
VersaStack
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_ucsd.html
Version 5.0
Infrastructure | Converged
FLEXPOD
VMware: Infrastructure
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI Multi-Pod, NetApp, ll FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware
MetroCluster IP, and VMware vSphere 6.7 - New vSphere 6.0 with IP-Based Storage
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware 6.5 Update1 and ll FlexPod with All Flash FAS, Cisco ACI and
Cisco ACI 3.1 vSphere 5.5U2
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0
AFF A-series and Fibre Channel ll FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp and IP-Based Storage
AFF A-series and IP-Based Storage ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI and VMware 6.0U1 Director, Cisco ACI
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric ll FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone
Interconnect and VMware vSphere 6.0 U1 and vSphere 5.5U1
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0 and Fiber ll FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5U1
Channel
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI Multi-Pod, NetApp,

MetroCluster IP, and VMware vSphere 6.7
• Cisco ACI Multi-Pod using ACI 3.2 • Infrastructure high availability and disaster recovery in a metropolitan area
release • Interconnecting and centrally managing connectivity across two geographically dispersed
• Cisco UCS 3.2(3d) release; B200 datacenters using ACI Multi-Pod
M5 servers • Seamless workload mobility across the sites
• VMware vSphere 6.7 hypervisor • NetApp MetroCluster IP configuration using IP-only network to provide non-disruptive storage HA
• NetApp MetroCluster IP using in active-active configuration
ONTAP 9.4
• No single point of failure; redundant
devices and connectivity; ARCHITECTURE
expandable design
• Cisco ACI providing automation Inter Pod Network (IPN)
and orchestration capabilities for Nexus 7004 Nexus 7004
the design 75 KM
ACI APIC Cluster

Multicast enabled
ACI APIC Cluster
Network
75 KM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
ACI 93180 LC 2 x 10G Redundant Links between the two sites ACI 93180 YC
ACI 9504 ACI 9504
Protected by Leaf Leaf
Spines Spines
VMware HA
vCenter
• Typical high availability solutions 10 GbE
40 GbE
are limited to a single site and UCS - 6332 Fl UCS - 6248 Fl
therefore do not safeguard against

site failures UCS 5108
Chassis Nexux 3132 Nexux 3132
UCS 5108
Chassis
• Traditional multi-datacenter NetApp NetApp
solutions are complex and difficult A700 A700
to deploy and maintain

• Providing cross site high- NetApp MetroCluster IP
availability requires purchase of
additional technologies, features
and licensing
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi67_n9k_aci_metrocluster.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi67_n9k_aci_metrocluster_design.html
Version 5.0
• End-to-end IP design using a • Next Generation Data Center Infrastructure for Enterprise & Cloud deployments using Cisco UCS,
Cisco ACI fabric to provide 40GbE Cisco ACI and NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) for IP based storage
connectivity to compute and • Flexible, policy-based, programmable Infrastructure to simplify and accelerate deployment lifecycle
storage sub-system, and 10GbE to of new applications
outside networks
• Advanced Capabilities of Nexus 9000 Switches with Cisco ACI to provide a secure, multi-tenant
• Cisco UCS Manager 3.2(3a) data center platform with deep telemetry, centralized visibility and management
running on Cisco UCS 6332 FIs,
and UCS B- and C-series M5
servers running vSphere 6.5U1 ARCHITECTURE
• Cisco ACI 3.1(1i) using Nexus
9336PQ Spines and 9332PQ Leaf
switches to deliver a policy-based 40GbE - ACI Fabric
40GbE data center fabric

Nexus 9336PQ
ACI APIC Cluster ACI Spines
• NetApp AFF A300 arrays running
Clustered Data ONTAP 9.3 to
enable 40GbE connectivity to IP
based storage (iSCSI and NFS). Nexus 9332PQ
ACI Leafs
Optional support for 16G FC

access by connecting directly or via
SAN, to UCS FI.
40GbE 40GbE
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS 6332-16UP FI PC
• Provide a scalable, multi-tenant data 10GbE

PC
center platform with the flexibility 10GbE Cisco UCS C-Series M5
and agility to support rapidly PC PC

PC
evolving business requirements

Gateway Routers Management
• Improve IT agility and deployment Switch Cisco UCS B200 M5 NetApp AFF A300
time for new applications while Outside Networks - L3 Routed Domain Outside Networks - L2 Bridged Domain Compute Domain Storage Domain
minimizing integration costs
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65u1_n9k_aci.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65u1_n9k_aci_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF

A-series and Fibre Channel
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the next-generation data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
AFF-A300 providing 40 GE end-to-
end IP connectivity and 16 Gb FC • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
with MDS 9148s (10 GE and 8 Gb
FC with UCS 6200)
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF)
with Clustered Data ONTAP 9.1 ARCHITECTURE
delivering 8/16 Gb FC, 10 Gb FCoE UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
Direct Connect and 10/40 Gb NFS
storage solutions
UCS UCS
• New FlexPod Datacenter best

C-Series & C-Series &
B-Series B-Series
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5
UCS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6332-16UP
vPC vPC
• Improve utilization rates UCS

6248UP
• Reduce time to deployment of new Nexus

vPC vPC
applications
9332
• Ease infrastructure management Nexus

93180
burdens
vPC vPC
• Reduce risk of downtime
NetApp AFF
A300
vPC vPC
1 GbE Only NetApp AFF 1 GbE Only

A300
10 GbE Only 10 GbE Only
PC PC
40 GbE Only 8 GB FC
PC PC
16 Gb FC 16 Gb FC
MDS
40 GB Converged 9148S 10 GB Converged
MDS
9148S
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65u1_n9fc.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.5, NetApp AFF

A-series and IP-Based Storage
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the next-generation data center
AFF-A300 providing 40 GE end-
to-end IP connectivity (10 GE with • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
UCS 6200)
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) A300
with Clustered Data ONTAP 9.1
delivering ISCSI and NFS storage ARCHITECTURE
and 40 GE connectivity UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
• New FlexPod Datacenter best
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 UCS UCS
B-Series B-Series
UCS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6332-16UP
vPC vPC
• Improve utilization rates UCS

6248UP
vPC vPC
• Reduce time to deployment of new Nexus
applications
9332
• Ease infrastructure management Nexus

93180
burdens
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF
A300
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF
A300
1 GbE Only
40 GbE Only
1 GbE Only
40 Gb Converged
10 GbE Only
10 Gb Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65_n9kiscsi.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi65design.html
Version 5.0

• Developed with best practices • Proven and validated solution
from Cisco, NetApp, and • Streamlined installation following detailed CVD
VMware
• Secure tenant separation/security at every layer of the stack
• Scalable with any UCS blade
server and platform • Highly scalable
• Scalable across NetApp AFF/
FAS product family ARCHITECTURE
• Integrated physical and virtual
machine management
• Close integration with Cisco 10 GbE only
Cisco Unified Computing System
Application Policy Infrastructure Converged Interconnects
UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects & Standby Link
Controller (APIC) SFO Interconnect
5108 Blade Chassis with B200 M4
40 GbE only
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Spine Switches
Nexus 9336
• Provide a secure, shared APIC 1-3 vPC vPC
infrastructure
Cisco ACI Fabric
• Minimize operational expenses APIC, Nexus 9300
• Ability to rapidly and flexibly Nexus 93180
deliver IT services Nexus 9336
• Minimize integration and
configuration costs vPC vPC
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k_aci.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k_aci_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect and

VMware vSphere 6.0 U1
• UCS 3.1 unified software release • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
provides unified, embedded • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
management of all software and
hardware components of the • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
UCS system
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect
and Nexus 9000 providing 10
and 40 GE connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) with
clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.2
delivering ISCSI and UCS direct UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
attached fibre channel storage
solution UCS UCS
B-Series B-Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Po Po Po Po
UCS UCS
• Improve utilization rates Po Po

6332-16UP
Po Po
6248UP
VPC VPC VPC VPC

• Reduce time to deployment of
new applications
Nexus Nexus
• Ease infrastructure management

Po
Po
9372 9372
burdens
VPC VPC VPC VPC
ifgrp ifgrp ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF NetApp AFF

8040 8040
10GbE Only 40GbE Only 10GbE Only 40GbE Only
16Gb FC 40Gb Converged 8Gb FC 10Gb Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u1_n9k.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k_design.html
Version 5.0

• Addition of Cisco MDS to • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
FlexPod provides highly scalable • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
fiber channel switching for SAN
boot and application data • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
• UCS 6200 and 6300 Fabric
Interconnects and Nexus
9000 providing 10 and 40 GE
connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF)
with clustered Data ONTAP 9.0
delivering fiber channel and NFS Unified Computing Unified Computing 10GbE only
System System
storage capabilities UCS 6332-16UP UCS 6248 Fabric
10 GbE Converged
Fabric Interconnects Interconnects, SFO Interconnect

& UCS B and C Nexus 2232 Fabric
16Gb FC
Series Servers Extender & UCS
C and B Series 8Gb FC
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates vPC vPC
vPC vPC
• Reduce time to deployment of
new applications Nexus 9372PX
• Ease infrastructure management

burdens
vPC vPC vPC vPC
10GbE only
NetApp NetApp
40 GbE Converged
AFF 8040 AFF 8040
40 GbE only
SFO Interconnect
16Gb FC
MDS 9148S MDS 9148S
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u2_fc.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60u2_fc_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0
with IP-Based Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Consistent management with appropriate scale • FlexPod Data Center for Enterprises and Service
(Cisco UCS) Mini from the edge of the network to the data center Providers with small failure domain requirements
• New integrated Fabric • FlexPod Infrastructure for uses cases including
Interconnect and 110V power app workloads such as Exchange 2010, VCC,
supplies SAP, MS SQL
• Management, networking and
storage control embedded in the
chassis
ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp fabric-attached storage Direct Connect IP Solution IP Based Data Center Solution
(FAS) systems 2500 Series
directly connected
FlexPod FlexPod
Express Express
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Solution Solution
• Reducing cost: to reduce the time

and money spent on managing
servers, storage and applications.
Cisco Cisco
Nexus Nexus
9000 9000
This also includes power, space,
and cooling
Cisco Cisco
• Supporting business requirements: UCS
Mini
UCS
Mini
to create a more flexible and agile

infrastructure
Converged Converged
• Reducing time-to-market: to Services Services
enable rapid deployment of new 10 GbE

10 GbE vPC
services quickly Converged
NetApp Converged 10 GBE NetApp
vPC FAS2552 FAS2552
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_esxi60_ip.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdf
Version 5.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • High performance all flash storage
• Policy driven network Unified Data Center • Rapid Application deployment
configuration • Consistent network policies throughout the DC
• NetApp All Flash FAS 8000 with with enhanced automation capabilities
Cluster Data ONTAP 8.3
• UCS 2.2(3d) supporting direct ARCHITECTURE
Fabric Interconnect attached
C-series 10 GbE only
Unified Computing
• Direct Attached storage for Converged Interconnects
System
FCoE boot support Standby Link
SFO Interconnect
UCS 6248 Fabric
40 GbE only
UCS B-Series and Interconnects,
C-Series Nexus 2232 Fabric
Extender & UCS C and B Spine Switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Series Servers
3 Node APIC Cluster Nexus 9336
• Slow, complex, expensive APIC 1-3 vPC vPC
application deployment
9396 TOR Switches
• Isolated network control
• Inefficient orchestration and NetApp AFF 8040 Nexus 9396
cumbersome network automation Controllers
• Complex multi-tenancy support
• Applications requiring faster vPC vPC Nexus 9336
storage response and higher IOPs

NetApp Storage
Controller
AFF 8040
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_aff8040.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u2_n9k_aci_aff8040_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.0
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• UCS2.2(5b) • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• Nexus 9000 supports low • High performance, scalable and resilient system
latency 10 GE & 40 GE switching
• iSCSI solution ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 6.0 support
Cisco UCS C220 M4
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP C-Series Server(s)
8.3.1
Cisco UCS 5108 B-Series
Blade Chassis 2208XP
Chassis FEX Modules B260
and B460 M4 Blade(s)
Po Po
Cisco UCS 6248UP

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Fabric Interconnects Po Po
VPC VPC
• Siloed network, compute,
storage Cisco Nexus
Po
9372PX Switches
• Inefficient resources
• Slow, complex, expensive
operations VPC VPC
ifgrp ifgrp
• Application restraints NetApp All Flash FAS8060
Storage Controllers Controller 1
• Energy efficiency with HA Backplane in Controller 2
switchless configuration
10 GbE only
NetApp DS2246 SAS only
Disk Shelves
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi60_n9k_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with vSphere 5.5 Cisco UCS Mini and

IP-Based Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Consistent management with appropriate scale from the edge of the network to the data center
(Cisco UCS) Mini • FlexPod Infrastructure for uses cases including app workloads such as Exchange 2010, VCC, SAP, MS SQL
• New integrated fabric • FlexPod Datacenter for Enterprises and Service Providers with small failure domain requirements
interconnect and 110V power
supplies
• Management, networking and
ARCHITECTURE
storage control embedded in the
chassis FlexPod FlexPod
Express Datacenter
• NetApp fabric-attached storage Solution Solution
(FAS) systems 2500 Series
directly connected Direct Connect IP Solution Direct Connect IP Solution
Nexus Nexus
9000 9000
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Reducing cost: to reduce Cisco

UCS
Cisco
UCS
the time and money spent on Mini Mini
managing servers, storage and

applications. This also includes Cisco Cisco
power, space, and cooling

UCS Rack UCS Rack
Servers Servers
• Supporting business
requirements: to create a more NetApp
FAS
NetApp
FAS
flexible and agile infrastructure 2552 2552
• Reducing time-to-market:
to enable rapid deployment of 10 GbE 10 GbE
new services quickly Converged Converged
vPC vPC
CVD Datacenter: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_esxi55_ip.html

CVD Express: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_express_ucsmini_esxi55_ip.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdf
Version 5.0

• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS
Management

elements
models
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Nexus 9000 Standalone and

vSphere 5.5U1
• UCS 2.2(2c) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• Nexus 9000 supports low • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
latency 10 GE & 40 GE switching • High performance, scalable and resilient system
• iSCSI solution
• vSphere 5.5U1 support ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
8.2.1 Cisco UCS C220 M3 C-Series
Server(s)
Cisco UCS
5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
2208XP Chassis FEX Modules
B200 M3 B-Series Blade(s)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Po Po
Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric
• Siloed network, compute, Interconnects
Po Po
storage VPC VPC
Cisco Nexus 9396 Switches Po
operations
VPC VPC
• Application restraints ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp FAS8040 Storage

• Energy efficiency Controllers w/ High Availability
Controller 1
Controller 2
Backplane
Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster

Interconnects Po 10 GbE only
SAS only
NetApp DS2246 Disk Shelves
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_n9k.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_n9k_design.pdf
Version 5.0
• UCS 2.2(2c) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• Nexus 5672 supports low • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
latency 10 GE & 40 GE switching • High performance, scalable and resilient system
and FCoE, VXLAN ready, low
hop count
• Multi-hop FCoE ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 5.5U1 support
Cisco UCS C220 M3 C-Series
• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP Server(s)
8.2.1
Cisco UCS
2208XP Chassis FEX Modules
B200 M3 B-Series Blade(s)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Po Po
Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric
• Siloed network, compute, Interconnects
Po Po
storage Po VPC VPC Po
Cisco Nexus 5548UP or Po
• Slow, complex, expensive 5672UP Switches
operations
VPC VPC
• Application restraints ifgrp ifgrp
• Energy efficiency NetApp FAS8040 Storage Controller 1
Controllers w/ High Availability Controller 2
Backplane
Converged
Cisco Nexus 5596 Cluster
FCoE only
Interconnects
Po 10 GbE only
SAS only
NetApp DS2246 Disk Shelves
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1.pdf
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_esxi55u1_design.pdf
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
VMware: Applications
ll FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange 2013 on Cisco ACI
Version 5.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid Exchange application deployment
• Policy driven network Unified Data Center • Joint publication with Cisco-NetApp
configuration • Consistent network policies throughout the data • High-performance, scalable and resilient system
• NetApp FAS 8000 with cluster center with enhanced automation capability
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting ARCHITECTURE
direct fabric interconnect
attached C-series Unified Computing
System
Active Active Active Active Active
• vSphere 5.5 virtualization UCS 6248 Fabric
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook Active
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
platform Nexus 2232 Fabric
Spine Switches
Extender & UCS C and B Nexus 9508
• Microsoft Exchange 2013 Series Servers

Network Network
Network Network Network Network
APIC 1-3 vPC vPC LoadbalancerLoadbalancer
Loadbalancer Loadbalancer Loadbalancer Loadbalancer
Active Active
Active Active Act
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Directory Directory
Directory Directory Direc
Nexus 9396
• Scalability and performance

issues vPC vPC
• Challenges in business adjacency

Exchange Exchange
Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange
FAS Controller 8000 Nexus 9508 Servers Servers
Servers Servers Servers Servers
due to growing enterprises and

complexity in managing them iSCSI iSCSI
iSCSI iSCSI iSCSI iSCSI
Network Network
Nexus 5596
• Time consuming, convoluted, Cluster Interconnect
X8
expensive application deployment

• Isolated network regulation 10 GbE only
• Inefficient orchestration and Converged Interconnects

Standby Link
cumbersome network automation SFO Interconnect
• Complex multi-tenant environment 40 GbE only
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
VMware: Other
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Version 5.0

• NetApp clustered Data ONTAP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS
Management

elements
models
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
Microsoft
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 and Cisco ACI 3.0
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware vSphere 6.5
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 4.0
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server

2016 and Cisco ACI 3.0
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen Data Center
AFF-A300 providing 40 GE end-to-
end IP connectivity for CIFS/SMB • High performance, scalable and resilient systems
share for VM store and 16 Gb FC
with MDS 9148s for boot LUNs (10
GE and 8 Gb FC with UCS 6200). ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) UCS 6300 Implementation UCS 6200 Implementation
with clustered ONTAP Data 9.1
delivering 8/16 Gb FC, 10 Gb FCoE UCS UCS
Direct Connect and 10/40 Gb NFS C-Series &
B-Series
C-Series &
B-Series
storage solutions.
• New FlexPod Data Center Best
Practices for Microsoft Hyper-V UCS
6332-16UP
2016. with System Center 2016 vPC vPC
VMM. UCS
6248UP
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus
9332
• Improve utilization rates Nexus

93180
• Reduce time to deployment of new
vPC vPC
applications
NetApp
• Ease infrastructure management AFF

A300
vPC vPC
burdens
NetApp AFF 1GbE Only
• Reduce risk of downtime 1GbE Only A300

10GbE Only
10GbE Only PC PC
8GB FC
40GbE Only PC PC
16Gb FC
MDS
16Gb FC
9148S 10GB Converged
40GB Converged
MDS
9148S
ACI Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc_ws2016_aci_design.html

CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc_ws2016_aci.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and

VMware vSphere 6.5
• Scalable Architecture • To simplify the design and deployment of MS SQL server on a virtualized FlexPod Infrastructure
• 40GE End-to-End iSCSI • Maximize hardware utilization, reducing sprawl, power and cooling costs by consolidation
Connectivity • Virtualizing SQL server on the FlexPod (All Flash storage) infrastructure meets the most demanding
• NetApp AFF300 Series customers’ workloads
Storage • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps in deploying servers/solutions quickly & effectively.
• MS SQL Server 2016
• Nexus 9000 Series ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 6.5 Virtualization
Platform Virtual Machines
• High Availability with VMware SQL

Server
SQL
Server
SQL
Server
VMware vSphere 6.5 HA/DRS
VMware vSphere ESX 6.5 Infra

ESX1 ESX2
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Virtual

Center
SQL
Server
UCS B200 UCS B200

• Non-Standardization and M5 M5
Infra
decentralization SQL Server Virtual
Machines
Databases AD
Server
UCS 6332-16UP
• Slow, complex, expensive SQL
application deployments vPC vPC
• Scalability and performance 40 GbE Converged

Challenges 40 GbE Only
• Business Continuity challenges due Nexus 93180YC-EX 10 GbE Only
to growing environment complexity SFO Interconnect
• Reduce the number of management

domains – data center agility
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF A300
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/mssql2016_flexpod_vmware_cvd.html
Version 5.0
• Developed with best practices • Proven and validated solution

from Cisco, NetApp, and • Streamlined installation following detailed CVD
Microsoft
• Enhanced automation with System Center and PowerShell integration
• Scalable with any UCS blade or
rack server • Microsoft Azure Pack Integrated Infrastructure
• Scalable across NetApp FAS
product family ARCHITECTURE
• Integrated physical and virtual Cisco Unified Nexus 1110X
Computing System vP
machine management vP
C C
UCS 6248 Fabric
• Tight integration with Microsoft Interconnects & 5108
System Center Blade Chassis w/ B200 Nexus 9396 ACI
M4, UCS C-220 Capable Datacenter
• VMM SCOM Orchestrator Switches
vP C
C vP
PowerShell Microsoft Hyper-V vPC vPC
2012 R2
• Includes Windows Azure Pack
Unified Computing
and NLB deployment System
System Center UCS 6248 Fabric
2012 R2 Interconnects, UCS
C-220, B-200-Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Servers
Cisco Access Layer
• Reduce server sprawl Cisco Nexus 9396
Switch
• Minimize operational expenses FAS 8040 controller
• Ability to rapidly and flexibly Net App Storage
FAS 8000
deliver IT services
Nexus 5596 Cluster
• Minimize integration and Interconnect
Converged Interconnects
configuration costs
FCoE only
10 GbE only
Cluster Interconnect
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_mspc40_cmode_n9k.pdf
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
Virtual Client Computing
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 for 5000 Seats
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
ll FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and

VMware vSphere 6.5U1 for 5000 Seats
• Scalable architecture with UCS B200 M5 • High Density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
Chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 Mixed RDSH & VDI users Instant and • Very good end user experience measuring <1 second for both RDSH & VDI Users on cluster level
Full Clone combined and Infrastructure and 5000 users mixed workload level
Servers in four 5108 Blade Server Chassis
• FlexPod all flash storage technology delivering 16 GB FC/ 10 GB FCoE/ 10/40 GB NFS
• 5000 Combined RDS Hosted Server Sessions
& VDI users, Cisco Hardware, 3rd Gen 6300 • Converged Infrastructure for the NextGen Data Center
, 40GBE FIs, Nexus Switches, 9148S MDS
Switch 16 Gb FC, NetApp AFF A300 Storage ARCHITECTURE
System in 42 RU single rack solution
NetApp AFF A300
• Performance study with simulations of RDS 2 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MD5 Fabric Switch
Storage System
2 Storage Controllers
NetApp Stack – A single
rack solution for 5000 (RDSH
1 Disc Shelf D5224C
Hosted Server Sessions & VDI Instant non- to NetApp AFF A300 Storage System Controller
(2 Controller)
& VDI) Mixed Users
persistent Clones & Full Clone persistent

desktop workloads running knowledge Cisco-MD5 9148S-A Cisco-MD5 9148S-B
worker workload VPC Domain-Peer Link
Nexus 9372PX-A Nexus 9372PX-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
UCS 6332-16UP-FI-A UCS 6332-16UP-FI-B
Cluster Link
• Typical VMware Horizon Desktops & RDS

Hosted Server Sessions mixed workload 2 x 40 GB Connection from Infra Node-1 2 x 40 GB Connection from
each 2304 IO Module to Workload 1 each 2304 IO Module to
combined users 6332-16UP FI-A (4 Chassis) 6332-16UP FI-B (4 Chassis)
Fabric / Switching
2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Rapid workload changes (mostly 4 Cisco UCS Chassis
(27 Servers) 5K Mixed Infra Node-2
Switches
2 Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
unpredictable) and hence high demand on workload Configuration

Workload 2
2 Cisco MDS 9148S 16GB
quick H/W expansion flexibilities CH-1&2-BL8 (2 Infra

Servers)
Fibre Channel Switches
• Demand density when proposing RDSH &

CH-1-(6 Workload Servers) Compute
Workload 3 1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
CH-2-(6 Workload Servers)
VDI solutions
2 Cisco 2304 IO Modules
Upto 8 B200 M5 Blade Servers
• Different VDI end users (Non Persistent CH-4-(6 Workload Servers)
& Persistent and RDSH Server Sessions 8/16 GB FC Workload 4

Storage
1 NetApp AFF A300 Storage System
Users) connecting to newer/variety of end 40GB Ethernet (2x40GB each IOM)

2 Storage Controllers HA
1 Disk shelf (DS224C): 24 x 3.8TB
Cluster Link
point devises
Capacity: 65 TB (Usable Capacity)
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_vmware_horizon_n9k_aff_ucsm32.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and

VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
NetApp AFF A300
Storage System
1 Disc Shelf D5224C
(2 Controller)
& VDI) Mixed Users

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cluster Link

Fabric / Switching
Switches

Workload 2

Servers)

VDI solutions

Storage

Cluster Link
point devises
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd715esxi65u1_flexpod.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
• UCS 3.1(1e) • Day-zero workflow provisioning support • CVD introduction to UCS Performance Manager
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Hardware/software level redundancy using
• NetApp AFF8080EX-A storage Unified Data Center Cisco UCS and NetApp Availability features
system • Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
• NetApp clustered data ONTAP
8.3.2
• Nexus 9372 series switches
ARCHITECTURE
(standalone) FlexPod Datacenter with B200 M4 Blade Servers, AFF8080EX Storage,
vSphere 6 U1, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 for 5000 Seats
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
(7.7) XenApp 7.7 Cisco Unified
Workload
XenDesktop 7.7 Computing System
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 1a UCS 5108 Chassis w/
UCS B200 M4 Blade
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Network

2x Nexus 9372 Switches 10 GbE
Converged
2x Cisco UCS 6248 SAS
• Quick provisioning of VCC Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
solution environment 4x Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis Interconnects
Compute vPC (11) vPC (12)
28x Cisco UCS B200 M4
• Dynamic and agile expansion of Blade Server
Cisco Nexus
VCC solution
vPC (10)
9372PX Switches Peer Links
• Scalability of VCC to support

user demand at large scale NetApp AFF8080EX Storage28x 2x
ifgrp ifgrp
Storage NetApp DS2246 Disk
• Support for enterprise converged Shelves 48x 800GB SSDs
vPC vPC
VCC solution NetApp (13,17) (14,18)

Node 1
AFF 8080 EX Storage
w/ Single HA Pair Node 2
Cluster
Network
NetApp
DS2246 Disc Shelves
48x 800GB SSDs
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd77esxi60u1_flexpod.html
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
Applications
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp AFF A-Series - New
ll FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 and Cisco ACI
ll FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS

and NetApp AFF A-Series
• Cisco UCS 3.2(3c), Cisco UCS B200 • Integrated compute, network & storage solution
M5 Blade Servers and NetApp AFF • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
A700s with Oracle 12cR2 RAC and
Oracle Linux • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation
• A single platform built from unified • Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability
compute, fabric, and storage features
technologies, allowing you to scale • Faster deployments, greater flexibility of choice, efficiency, high availability and lower risk
to large-scale data centers without
architectural changes ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash Array powered by
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 9.3
and Cisco UCS running OLTP and DSS
Databases together NetApp AFF A700s
MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES LAN
VSAN-A 201 VSAN-B 202
• Balancing large and continually evolving N9K-C93180LC-EX-A vPC Peer Link 1
business requirement with a cost– vPC Domain 1
efficient, high performing and always- VLAN 135
available database infrastructure

VLAN 10 vPC Public & Private vPC Public & Private
for Failover Allowed VLAN 135,10 Allowed VLAN 135,10 for Failover
Networking
• Pre-tested, scalable and best in-class
Cluster Link
Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects
FI 6332-16UP-A FI 6332-16UP-B Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
converged solution stack for optimizing Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M5 Servers
Private Traffic Cisco MDS 9100 Series Fabric Switches
your most challenging Oracle RAC Compute

databases Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
Cisco UCS Blade Servers
Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 2
• Oracle RAC must exude the highest Swingbench Client

Storage
level of flexibility, performance, Oracle RAC Node 3
Chassis01: UCS Chassis 5108
Oracle RAC Node 4
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays
scalability and resilience

• Time consuming, convoluted, expensive 16G FC Storage Traffic
application deployment 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic

10/40 G Private Network Traffic
40 G Public Network Traffic
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orc12cr2_affaseries.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with Cisco UCS

Manager 3.2 and Cisco ACI
• Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen Data Center with FlexPod and Application driven policy
Interconnects running UCSM based approach to Solution deployment with Cisco ACI.
3.2 , Cisco Nexus 9000 series • High performance, scalable and resilient and multi-tenant network infrastructure centrally managed
ACI switches with 3-node and configured.
APIC cluster 3.2(2l)
• NetApp AFF-A300 providing
40 GE end-to-end IP
connectivity with NFS and
ARCHITECTURE
iSCSI options for boot as well Cisco UCS
as HANA persistence layer. 2304 Chassis FEX Modules
B480 M5 Blade Servers
• SAP HANA single host and Cisco UCS

scale-out implementation 5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
2304 Chassis FEX Modules
examples.
Cisco UCS C480 M5
Rack Server(s)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS C240 M5

Rack Server(s)
Cisco UCS C220 M5
• Reduce time to deployment of Rack Server(s)
Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects

business critical applications Po Po
like SAP HANA Cisco Nexus 9336PQ

Spine Switches
VPC VPC
• Ease infrastructure Cisco ACI APIC

Controllers
deployment and management
burdens
Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX
• Industry trends of Leaf Switches
management automation
and dynamic workload
provisioning NetApp AFF A300 Storage
Controllers w/ NetApp
DS224C Disc Shelves
SAS Only 40GbE Only 10GbE Only
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_aci_UCSM32.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using

NetApp AFF A-Series
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments. Nexus
AFF-A300 providing 40 GE end-to- switches used are leaf node supported; easing shift to ACI mode.
end IP connectivity
• High performance, scalable and resilient systems
with clustered data ONTAP 9.2
and 40 GE connectivity
12x Cisco UCS B480M5
• New FlexPod data center best or
40Gbps FCoE
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 12x Cisco UCS B200M5 40Gbps NFS
for virtualized implementations
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates 2x Cisco UCS C220M5
(Management Server)
applications Cisco UCS FI 6332-16UP
Cisco UCS FI 6332
• Ease infrastructure management vPC vPC
burdens
vPC-peer
Cisco Nexus
2348TQ
ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF A300
NetApp DS224C
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k_aff_ucsm.html
Version 5.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid Exchange application deployment
• Policy driven network unified data center • Joint publication with Cisco-NetApp
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting ARCHITECTURE
direct Fabric Inter connect
attached C-series Unified Computing
System
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook Active
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
Spine Switches

Network Network
Active Active
Active Active Act
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 9396

Directory Directory
• Scalability and performance

issues vPC vPC
• Challenges in business adjacency

Exchange Exchange
due to growing enterprises and

complexity in managing them iSCSI iSCSI
Network Network
Nexus 5596
X8
expensive application deployment

• Isolated network regulation 10 GbE only
• Inefficient orchestration and Converged Interconnects

Standby Link
cumbersome network automation SFO Interconnect
• Complex multi-tenant 40 GbE only
environment
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 5.0
FLEXPOD
Other
ll FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and NetApp Private Storage
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter

and NetApp Private Storage
• Cisco CloudCenter provides • Secure, high-performance integration between FlexPod and leading cloud providers
seamless application deployment in • Multi-cloud App deployment with automated data provisioning
DC, AWS and Azure
• Utilize the resources in public clouds while maintaining control of critical customer data
• FlexPod DC with ACI-based private • Seamless data mobility between on premise NetApp storage and NPS using secure encrypted
cloud to enable automated network communication
provisioning
• NetApp Private Storage hosted
in Equinix provides high-speed
ARCHITECTURE
connectivity to multiple clouds
including AWS and Azure
Private Cloud
Cloud
Private Service
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cloud Providers
• Simplify applications deployment

across multiple private and public
clouds Public Cloud
• Maintain control of critical customer

data and provide secure data
transfers
• Enable distributed applications Direct Connect
– application tiers running on IPsec Tunnel
different clouds Internet Co-Lo Facility
IPsec Tunnel
FlexPod Datacenter
NetApp Private Storage
Direct Connect DC
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_hybridcloud.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_hybridcloud_design.html
Version 5.0
• Cisco UCS 2.2(3a) and NetApp • Integrated compute, network & storage solution
FAS 8080 with Oracle 12c RAC • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation
and Oracle Linux
• Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability
• A single platform built from unified features
compute, fabric, and storage
technologies, allowing you to
scale to large-scale data centers ARCHITECTURE
without architectural changes
• NetApp FAS Hybrid Arrays FlexPod Data Center Solution with UCS
with Flash Pool™ and Cisco NetApp FAS 8080 — Controller
UCS running OLTP and DSS • Nexus 9000

databases together Cisco Nexus • Nexus 7000
• Nexus 5600
LAN Switch Family
• Nexus 5500
Configuration and Connectivity Best Practices

• Nexus 1110
vPC Storage A vPC Storage B
• And more
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
VLAN 20,30 VLAN 30,20
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchA
vPC Peer
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchB Cisco Unified
Link 1 Computing System • UCS 6200 FI
UCS FI-6200 • Cisco UCS 5108
• Balancing large and continually VLAN 10,30
vPC Domain 1
VLAN 135,20 B-Series Blades • UCS 2200 I/O
evolving business requirement for failover vPC Public & Storage

Allowed VLAN 135,20,10,30
vPC Private & Storage
for failover
Cisco C-Series
Module
• UCS B-Series
with a cost–efficient, high UCS 6248 UP Fab-A Cluster Link
UCS 6248 UP Fab-8
Rack Servers • UCS C-Series
• And more
performing and always-available UCS B460 Servers
database infrastructure NetApp FAS • FAS 8000
Storage Family • AFF 8000
• Pre-tested, scalable and best- Oracle RAC Node 1 •

•
FAS 2500
DS2246
in-class converged solution Oracle RAC Node 2 NetApp E-Series • DS4246
Storage Family
stack for optimizing your •
•
E5500 Series
And more
most challenging Oracle RAC Oracle RAC Node 3
database
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Oracle RAC must exude

the highest level of flexibility,
performance, scalability
and resilience
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcrac_12c_bm.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform 6.0
• UCS 2.2(3g) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• B200 M4 blade servers • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• NetApp E5500 and FAS 8040 • Highly available OpenStack Platform on Red Hat optimized Juno distribution
storage controllers • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• Nexus 9000 Series switch
ARCHITECTURE
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cisco Unified Computing System
OpenStack Platform 6.0 • Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders

OpenStack Installer • B200 M4 Server(s)
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Converged infrastructure Port Channel Port Channel
platform for OpenStack vPC vPC

NetApp FAS Storage vPC
• Trusted and supported Peer
Links
OpenStack Platform from • 1 NetApp FAS8040 Array
iSCSI/NFS iSCSI/NFS
industry leaders • 2 10GB NIC per Controller iSCSI iSCSI
• Scale up or out without VPC/IFGRP

disruption NetApp E-Series Storage
• Slow, complex, risky, and • 1 NetApp DE5560 Array VPC/IFGRP
expansive deployments and
• 2 NetApp E5500 4x 10Gb iSCSI Controller
operations
10 Gb Ethernet
• 2 10GB HIC per Controller
• Inflexible infrastructure
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6_design.html
Version 5.0
VERSASTACK
ll VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for Concentrated Dispersal Mode - New
ll VersaStack for IBM Cloud Private with Cisco UCS and IBM Storage
ll VersaStack with Cisco UCS M5 Servers, IBM SVC, and vSphere 6.5 U1
ll Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server with IBM Cloud Object Storage
ll VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
ll VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
ll VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
ll VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM SAN Volume Controller
ll VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with Direct Attached SAN Storage
ll VersaStack with IBM Storwize v5000 and Cisco UCS Mini
ll VersaStack for Data Center with All Flash Storage
ll VersaStack for Data Center Scale-out
ll VersaStack for Data Center with Cisco UCS Director
ll VersaStack for Data Center with Direct Attached Storage
Version 5.0
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Object Storage on Cisco UCS C240 for
Concentrated Dispersal Mode
• End to end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable,
Architecture delivers scalable reliable, secure, and cost-effective environment.
infrastructure starting with just • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
three C240 M5 nodes. unstructured data that is integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage.
• Unified scale-out framework - • Pre-validated scale-out storage solution backed by CVD to provide cloud-like agility and flexibility
optimized to deliver compute, to your data center.
intensive workloads.
• True scale-out storage with
self-healing capabilities ARCHITECTURE
combined with object services
support.
BUSINESS CHALLENGES VM Manager IBM COS Manager
• Enterprises today struggle Nexus 9332PQ

to use scale-out storage
solutions to start small and • 2 x Nexus 9332
grow as needed. • 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects Fabric Interconnect 6332
• Full Deployment UCS Managed
• 70% of IT decision maker • 40 GbE end-to-end
believe that their current • Starting low with 72 TB usable – 6RU

able to handle the growth of
unstructured data. UCS C240
IBM COS Slicestor +
• Inadequate storage Embedded Accesser
infrastructure is considered to
be a significant pain point.
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_ibmcos_ucs240m5.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_c240_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack for IBM Cloud Private with Cisco UCS

and IBM Storage
• VersaStack with Cisco UCS • Enterprise grade highly available and secure Infrastructure with VersaStack
M5 and IBM Storage for IBM • Persistent storage for application containers
Private Cloud.
• Multi-tenant containers and orchestration that is based on Kubernetes for creating microservices-
• IBM Cloud Private 2.1.0 based applications
Enterprise Edition
• A common catalog of enterprise and open services to accelerate developer productivity
• IBM Spectrum Connect 3.4.0
• Automatic horizontal and non-disruptive vertical scaling of applications
• IBM Storage Enabler for
Containers 1.0
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 ARCHITECTURE
IBM Storage Flex IBM Spectrum Connect
Volume for Kubernetes
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Spectrum

Connect backend
IBM Cloud
Private
• Operational complexity:
Ability to deploy and run cloud
VM
native microservices-based
IBM Storage Dynamic
applications on-premises. Provisioner for Kubernetes VM
High
• Compliance and Availability
management: Simplicity, ease High

IBM Storage Enabler for
Containers
of deployment and compliance Availability
requirements to keep VMware vSphere iSCSi
applications and data secure

with in enterprise’s control.
VersaStack
• Investment leverage: Ability to Infrastructure
leverage existing investments

across both middleware and
infrastructure.
VM VM VM VM VM
Master Master Master Worker Worker
1 2 3 1 2
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_icp_ucsm5.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS M5 Servers, IBM SVC, and

vSphere 6.5 U1
• UCS 6300 series Fabric • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
interconnect and M5 blade • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
support
• Versatile – dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
• Detailed instructions on
deploying VersaStack in Fibre
Channel & iSCSI environments
leveraging IBM SVC.
ARCHITECTURE
Implementation leverages
Cisco 9k 40G network and
MDS 9396S 16G fabric
switches Cisco Nexus 93180
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS 6332-16UP

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS C-Series

Rack Servers
• Operational Complexity and

increasing cost of people, Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Server Chassis
management, software, and
facilities 40GbE
10GbE
• Increased demand for new IBM SAN Volume Controller
40GbE Converged
services (e.g. mobility,
FC SAN A
social media, collaboration, FC SAN B
the Internet of Everything FC SAN A
Cisco MDS 9396S
(IoE), in-memory database FC SAN B
technologies)
IBM FlashSystem 900
• Shift toward heavily virtualized and Storwize V5030
private, hybrid, and public

cloud computing
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_svc_ucsm5_depguide.html
Version 5.0

• End-to-end 40G capable UCS • IBM COS provides the industry leading solution to manage unstructured data in a scalable,
Architecture delivers high- reliable, secure, and cost-effective environment
throughput performance with • Cisco and IBM are collaborating to offer customers a scalable object storage solution for
programmable QoS critical for unstructured data that integrates with IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Unified scale-out framework - to your data center
intensive workloads ARCHITECTURE
with object services support
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• 2 x 6332 Fabric Interconnects
• 1 x C220 M4 Server
• Enterprises today struggle to • Full Deployment UCS
• 1 x IBM COS Manager
manage the explosive growth of Managed
data while remaining agile and • 40 GbE end-to-end • 4 x C220 M4 Servers
cost competitive
• Up to 3.3 PB Raw Capacity in • 4 x IBM COS Accessers
• 70% of IT decision makers 6 S3260 – 24RU
able to handle next generation
workloads
• Inadequate storage infrastructure • 6 x S3260 Storage
is considered to be a significant Servers
pain point • 12 x M4 Server Nodes
• 12 x IBM COS Slicestors
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_dep.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_versastack_ibmcos_design.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud with Cisco CloudCenter and IBM

Spectrum Copy Data Management Solution
• VersaStack with Cisco ACI and SVC for • “Converged cloud” IT infrastructure that allows easy movement of applications across on-premises
private cloud and IBM Bluemix public and cloud environments
cloud • End-to-end copy data management to lower storage capacity requirements and accelerate
• Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite, application development and testing
which includes CloudCenter to automate • IT as a service to balance user self-service on-demand deployment and management in
self-service application deployment to environments with central governance and control
users’ choice of on-premises or public
cloud environments • Capacity utilization optimization with automated standup and teardown of applications
• IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management
that orchestrates the creation,
ARCHITECTURE
distribution, efficient use, and retention
Cisco CloudCenter
of application-aware copies of data,
both on-premises and in the cloud VersaStackTM
Solution
by Cisco and IBM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
SDX API SDX API
• Operational complexity: Ability to vCenter

deploy and run applications on-premises SDX API
or off-premises without modification
• Inconsistency: The different formats VMware
and opaque private and public UCS Servers Nexus Switches
cloud environments can induce

inconsistencies, and lack of consistent
policies which can further erode
MDS Switches
transparency
• Visibility and management: Having
same degree of visibility and SAN Volume Controller Storwize FlashSystem
management as the workloads migrate

from one environment to another VersaStack Data Center Public Clouds
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm_depguide.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_hc_ciscocloudcenter_cdm.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage

for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
• Scalable architecture with UCS • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
B200 M4 chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and VCC • Very good end-user experience measuring <1 second for both RDSH and VCC users on cluster
users combined and infrastructure level and 5000 users mixed workload level
servers in four 5108 blade server
chassis • IBM modular storage technology. Storage controller failure with 3 active grid controllers technology.
No business disruption resilient capability
• 5000 combined RDS-hosted server
sessions and VCC users, Cisco
hardware, FIs, Nexus switches, IBM ARCHITECTURE
A9000 FlashSystem Storage in 42
Physical Architecture
RU single rack solution
• Performance study with simulations 6 x 8 GB from each
MDS 9148S to IBM VersaStack – A single rack
of RDS-hosted server sessions and FlashSystem A9000 IBM FlashSystem
A9000 Storage
solution for 5000 (RDSH &
Connecting 3 Storage VCC) Mixed Users
VCC typical desktop workloads Grid Controllers
running knowledge worker Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B

workload
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
Cluster-Link VersaStack Components

• Typical VMware Horizon tops and
RDS-hosted server sessions mixed 4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-A:300
4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-B:301
Fabric
Infra Node-1 2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switches
workload combined users Workload 1 2 Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
4 x 10G Uplinks per 2 Cisco MDS 9148S 16Gb Fibre Channel / Switches
• Rapid workload changes (mostly chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high

4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Infra Node-2
Chassis (32 Blade)5K Mixed
Workload 2 4 x 10G Uplinks per
workload configuration chassis IOM Compute
demand on quick H/W expansion Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & RDSH
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
2 Cisco UCS 2208 IO Modules
flexibilities Servers (7)
Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
Up to 8 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
Chassis-2: Infra Server (1) & VCC
Workload
• Demand density when proposing Servers (6) RDSH Server (1)
RDSH and VCC solutions

Chassis-3: VCC Servers (7) & 8/16 Gb FC
RDSH Server (1) Storage:
Node-4 10 GB Ethernet 1 IBM FlashSystem A9000
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (7) & Workload Cluster Link 12 x1.2 TB MicroLatency
RDSH Server (1)
Modules (21.44 TB Raw capacity)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_horizon7_flasha9k_5k.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric

Infrastructure
• Nexus 9000 based ACI • Integration of latest Cisco ACI-based network functionality into the VersaStack architecture
Infrastructure • Highlight latest UCS hardware and software features
• Policy driven network • Consistent network policies throughout the DC with enhanced automation capabilities
configuration
• Rapid application deployment
• IBM Storwize V7000 Unified and
FlashSystem V9000 designs
• Fibre channel, NFS and iSCSI-
based storage connectivity ARCHITECTURE
• Cisco AVS and VMware
VDS-based virtual switching
Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
Cisco APIC 9336 Spines Cisco APIC 9336 Spines
architecture
Cisco Nexus 9372 Cisco Nexus 9372
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS 6248 Cisco UCS 6248 IBM Storwize V7000
Fabric Interconnects Fabric Interconnects Unified File Modules

Cisco UCS C220 M4 Cisco UCS C220 M4
application deployment Rack Servers Rack Servers
• Isolated network control

• Inefficient orchestration
and cumbersome network Cisco UCS 5108 Blade
Server Chassis
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade
Server Chassis
Legend
automation Legend 40GbE
10GbE
• Complex multi-tenancy support 40GbE

10GbE
Converged
Cisco MDS 9148S
10GbE
FC SAN A
10GbE
Converged
FC SAN B
Virtual
IBM FlashSystem Port-Channel IBM Storwize
V9000 V7000 Virtual
Port-Channel
Port-Channel
iSCSI based storage design with IBM FlashSystem V9000 FC and NFS based storage design with IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_vmw6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_vmw6_design.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and IBM

SAN Volume Controller
• Nexus 9000 based ACI • Integration of IBM SVC to support a tiered storage design based on IBM Storwize and FlashSystem
infrastructure • Highlight latest network and compute features and functionality by utilizing ACI version 2.x and
• IBM SAN Volume Controller UCS 3.1.2
(SVC) based single point of • Consistent network policies throughout the data center with enhanced automation capabilities
storage control for FC and iSCSI
based storage access • Rapid application deployment
• IBM FS900 and v5030 based
multi-tiered storage
• UCS C-series based dedicated ARCHITECTURE
management cluster
Physical Layout Logical Design
Cisco UCS Cisco APIC Cisco Nexus

C-Series Mgmt. 9336 Spines
BUSINESS CHALLENGES x2 UCS B200 M4 UCS C200 M4
Ethernet Data + iSCSI

x2
x2
x2
Cisco Nexus 93180
Nexus 93180YC
• Inefficient orchestration x2 x2
2145-DH8/SV1
and cumbersome network Cisco UCS 6248 x2 SVC-2145-DH1 SVC-2145-SV1
automation
Fiber Channel
Cisco UCS C220 M4 x2
SVC Cluster
• Inconsistent storage functions MDS 9396S
and lack of standardized storage

40GbE
support
10GbE
Cisco UCS 5108 Storwize v5030 FS 900
• Complex multi-tiered storage 10GbE
Converged
support Cisco MDS 9396S

FC SAN A
FC SAN B
x2 x2 x2 x2 Virtual
Port-Channel
Port-Channel
IBM FS900 IBM Storwize V5030
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_svc_vmw6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_aci_svc_vmw6_design.html
Version 5.0
VersaStack with Cisco UCS Mini and VMware vSphere 6.0 U2 with
Direct Attached SAN Storage
• Cisco Unified Computing System • Easy: Simple and flexible infrastructure platform – ideal for SMB or small deployments
(Cisco UCS) Mini with embedded • Efficient: Reduce provisioning time with unified management and seamless integration through
management, networking and the validated deployment
storage access
• Versatile: Dynamic, scalable infrastructure with Cloud compatibilities
• New integrated fabric
interconnect (Cisco UCS 6324)
with support for 2nd UCS chassis
• IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 ARCHITECTURE
system - directly connected
to Cisco UCS Mini using fibre
channel
Storwize V5000 Gen2 10 Gig E
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U2, Cisco FC Fabric A
UCS 3.1(2c), IBM Spectrum FC Fabric B
Virtualize V7.7.1 vPC

Converged
Peer Link
Nexus 9000 Series
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Reducing cost: to reduce

the time and money spent on UCS C-Series (Optional) vPC vPC
managing servers, storage and

applications. This also includes
Cisco UCS Mini Primary
• Supporting business Chassis with FI-6324 and
Blade Servers
requirements: to create a more
flexible and agile infrastructure
• Reducing time-to-market: to VersaStackTM
enable rapid deployment of new
services quickly
Cisco UCS Secondary
Chassis Solution
by Cisco and IBM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_n5k_2ndgen_mini.html
Version 5.0
• Cisco Unified Computing • Consistent management with appropriate scale from the edge of the network to the data center
System (Cisco UCS) Mini • VersaStack Infrastructure for use cases including Remote Office/Branch Office, Small Medium
• New integrated Fabric Business, VCC
Interconnect and 110V • VersaStack for Enterprises and Service Providers with streamlined architecture
power supplies
• Management, networking and ARCHITECTURE
storage control embedded in
the chassis
• IBM Storwize V5000 system Nexus Switches
Apps/Middleware
UCS Mini with

BUSINESS CHALLENGES 6324 FI’s
• Reducing cost: to reduce

the time and money spent on
managing servers, storage and Cisco UCS Servers UCS C-Series
applications. This also includes Rack Servers

• Supporting business Cisco Nexus
requirements: to create a more
flexible and agile infrastructure Node A Node B
IBM Storwize V5000
• Reducing time-to-market:
to enable rapid deployment of IBM Storwize V5000
new services quickly
Management Software 10 GbE
vPC
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n5k_mini.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n5k_mini_design.html
Version 5.0
• UCS M4 blade support • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
• Detailed instructions deploying • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
VersaStack in Fibre Channel • Versatile – dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
environment leveraging
IBM FlashSystem V9000.
Implementation leverages Cisco
9k network and MDS fabric
switches
ARCHITECTURE
• Nexus 9000 ACI ready
FlashSystem V9000
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco MDS
• Operational complexity and 9000 Series
increasing cost of people, Port Channel Port Channel
management, software, and Cisco Nexus vPC
facilities 9000 Series Peer Link
• Increased demand for new

vPC vPC
services (e.g. mobility, social
media, collaboration, the Internet
of Everything (IoE), in-memory
database technologies)
Cisco Unified 10 Gig E
• Shift toward heavily virtualized
Computing System FC Fabric A
private, hybrid, and public cloud
computing FC Fabric B
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_vmw55_v9kflash.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_vmw55_v9kflashdesign.html
Version 5.0
• IBM v7000 Storwize 7.4 with 4 • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
nodes scaling IO for Cisco UCS • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with Unified Management
• Mirroring with automatic failover- • Versatile – Dynamic, scalable simple infrastructure with cloud capabilities
VersaStack can provide no
downtime during a failure
• Storwize adds built-in encryption
and 16 gig FC connectivity new ARCHITECTURE
for 7.4
• Easy Tier and In-line hardware
compression
VersaStackTM Solution
by Cisco and IBM
• Cisco Nexus 9000 ACI ready
• UCS M4 support along with MDS
16 gig
Storwize V7000 Controller
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
IBM Storwize V7000 File
vPC
Modules Peer Link
• Operational complexity and
increasing cost of people,
management, software, and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
facilities
Port Channel vPC vPC Port Channel
• Increased demand for new

services (e.g. mobility, social Cisco MDS 9000 Series
of Everything (IoE), in-memory FC Fabric A
database technologies) Cisco Unified Computing
FC Fabric B
System
• Shift toward heavily virtualized Converged
private, hybrid, and public cloud
computing
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_scale.html
Version 5.0
• Supports Cisco and non-Cisco • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
devices and technologies in an • IaaS cloud delivery with features of orchestration, chargeback and self-service
agnostic manner
• CVD eliminates risk and leverages Cisco UCS and IBM Storwize efficiencies for an optimal platform
• IaaS cloud functionality for virtual
and physical server resources
with guided setup
• Scalable and shared architecture ARCHITECTURE
with resiliency and standard
API’s VM
Web
VM
App
VM
db
VM
Web
VM
App
VM
db
VM VM VM
A/D DNS SQL DB vCenter
OS OS OS ... OS OS OS ... DHCP
OS OS OS
VMware ESX VMware ESX
VMware ESX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS Servers
• Multiple element managers on

integrated stacks Common Infrastructure
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Efficient and accountable IT
resource use – service provider/ VPC VPC
cloud model
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
• API’s to integrate with enterprise VPC
tools for IT service management peerlink
(ITSM) Cisco MDS 9000 FC Switches
VPC VPC
IBM Storwize V7000 File Modules FC Fabric A
HA Interconnect FC Fabric A
IBM Storwize V7000 Controller 10G Ethernet
PortChannel PortChannel
Converged
Interconnect
VersaStack
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_ucsd.html
Version 5.0
• IBM v7000 Storwize storage • Easy – Seamless integration through the validated deployment
directly attached to the Cisco • Efficient - Reduce provisioning time with unified management
UCS fabric interconnects
• Versatile – Dynamic, scalable infrastructure with cloud capabilities
• Simplified and centralized
management via UCSM SAN and
LAN policies
• Nexus 9000 ACI ready ARCHITECTURE
• UCS M4 support
Storwize V7000 Controller
IBM Storwize V7000 File

Modules
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC vPC
• Operational complexity and Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric vPC

Peer Link
increasing cost of people, Interconnects
management, software, and
facilities
UCS5108 B-Series Blade
• Increased demand for new Chassis vPC vPC
services (e.g. mobility, social

B200 M3 and M4 B-Series
of Everything (IoE), in-memory Blade(s)
database technologies)
• Shift toward heavily virtualized
private, hybrid, and public cloud FC Fabric A
computing FC Fabric B
Converged
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/Versastack_n9k_vmw55_directattach.pdf
Version 5.0
OPENSTACK
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack

Platform 8 and Red Hat Ceph Storage
• UCS managed servers for • High performance, scalable and resilient solution
stateless computing and wire- • Complete automation of OpenStack deployment with Cisco plugins
once architecture
• Enterprise-level support from Cisco and Red Hat
• Scalable and highly available
architecture with UCS blades and • Turn key deployment of cloud platform targeting cloud-native apps
rack servers for storage • Jointly engineered with Cisco, Red Hat and Intel
• Integration of Red Hat OpenStack
- Liberty and Cisco plugins and an
end-to-end validated solution ARCHITECTURE
Cisco UCS, OSP, CEPH LAN CLOUD

Liberty
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Peer Links
Nexus 9372 PX Nexus 9372 PX
• Reduce shadow IT and emulate
cost savings of public cloud UCS 6248UP - Fab.A UCS 6248UP - Fab.B
• Provide infrastructure for cloud Cluster Heart Beat Link

applications 4 Compute 1 Compute 2
4
Compute 3
• Provide platform for transformation

of business critical applications
Controller 1 Controller 3
UCS 5108 Chassis01

• Simplify Devops Cisco PLUGINS 4 Compute 4 Compute 5
4
Compute 6
• Translated IT to internal service
provider Controller 2 OSP7 Director
UCS 5108 Chassis02

3 3
Ceph Node 1
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 2
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 3
UCS C240 M4L

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openstack_osp8.html
Version 5.0
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage 7.0
• UCS managed servers for • High performance, scalable and resilient solution
stateless computing and wire- • Complete automation of OpenStack deployment with Cisco plugins
once architecture
• Enterprise level support from Cisco and Red Hat
• Scalable and highly available
architecture with UCS blades • Turn key deployment of cloud platform targeting cloud-native apps
and RACK servers for storage • Jointly engineered with Cisco, RedHat, and Intel
• Integration of Red Hat
OpenStack- Kilo and Cisco
Plugins and an end-to-end
ARCHITECTURE
validated solution
Cisco UCS, OSP, CEPH Kilo

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 9372 PX
Provider Network
Nexus 9372 PX
vPC
Peer
Links
• Reduce shadow IT and emulate
UCS 6248UP - Fab.A UCS 6248UP - Fab.B
cost savings of public cloud Cluster
Heart
Beat Link
• Provide infrastructure for cloud 4 Compute 1 Compute 2

4
applications Compute 3
• Provide platform for Controller 1 Controller 3
transformation of business UCS 5108 Chassis01

4 4
critical applications Compute 4 Compute 5
Compute 6
• Simplify Devops
Controller 2 OSP7 Director
• Translated IT to internal service

UCS 5108 Chassis02
provider 3 3
Ceph Node 1
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 2
UCS C240 M4L

Ceph Node 3
UCS C240 M4L

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openstack_osp7.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/openstack_osp7_design.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack

Platform 6.0
• UCS 2.2(3g) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center

• B200 M4 blade servers • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
• NetApp E5500 and FAS 8040 • Highly available OpenStack Platform on Red Hat optimized Juno distribution
storage controllers • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• Nexus 9000 Series switch
ARCHITECTURE
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cisco Unified Computing System
OpenStack Platform 6.0 • Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux • Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders

OpenStack Installer • B200 M4 Server(s)
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Converged infrastructure Port Channel Port Channel
platform for OpenStack vPC vPC

NetApp FAS Storage vPC
• Trusted and supported Peer
Links
OpenStack Platform from • 1 NetApp FAS8040 Array
iSCSI/NFS iSCSI/NFS
industry leaders • 2 10GB NIC per Controller iSCSI iSCSI
• Scale up or out without VPC/IFGRP

disruption NetApp E-Series Storage
• Slow, complex, risky, and • 1 NetApp DE5560 Array VPC/IFGRP
• 2 NetApp E5500 4x 10Gb iSCSI Controller
operations
10 Gb Ethernet
• 2 10GB HIC per Controller
• Inflexible infrastructure
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_openstack_osp6_design.html
Version 5.0
FLASHSTACK
ll FlashStack Datacenter with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware VSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats - New
ll FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI - New
ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
ll FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 for 6000 Seats
ll FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco ACI Multi-pod and Pure Storage ActiveCluster
ll 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database
ll FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
ll FlashStack VSI with Commvault for Data Protection
ll 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
ll 5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
ll FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
Version 5.0
FlashStack Datacenter with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware

VSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats
• 30 UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers, • High density with a small footprint supporting mixed users workloads
(n+1) with scale out option in a • Very good end user experience on cluster level and 6000 users mixed workload testing
single UCS domain
• Live storage migration/upgrade or controller failure with no business disruption resilient capability
• Cisco UCSM 3.2(2f)
• Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• VMware Horizon 7.4
• Pure Storage FlashArray //
X70 with All-NVMe DirectFlash
Modules 4 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MDS Fabric Switch
Pure Storage
FlashArray//X70
to Pure //X70 Storage System (2 Controllers)
• Purity v5.0.2
Cisco-MDS 9148S-A Cisco-MDS 9148S-B
vPC Port-Channel
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nexus 93180YC-FX - A
vPC Peer Link
Nexus 93180YC-FX - B
• Typical VMware Horizon View vPC Port-Channel vPC Port-Channel

Desktops & RDS-hosted server Cluster Link
sessions mixed workload

Infra Node-1
combined users
2 x 40 GB Connection from 2 x 40 GB Connection from
6332-16UP FI-A (4 Chassis) 6332-16UP FI-B (4 Chassis)
• Rapid workload changes (mostly

4 Cisco UCS Chassis
unpredictable) and hence high (32 Servers) 5K Mixed workload
Configuration
Infra Node-2
demand on quick H/W expansion CH-1&2-BL8 (2 Infra Servers)

Workload 2
flexibilities CH01-1-7 (Workload Servers)
• Demand density when proposing CH02-1-7 (Workload Servers) Workload 3

CH03-1-8 (Workload Servers)
VDI and RDSH solutions CH04-1-8 (Workload Servers)
8/16 GB FC Workload 4
40GB Ethernet
1G Ethernet
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_horizon_6k.html
Version 5.0
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI

• Seamless scalability of performance • A single platform built from unified compute, fabric and storage technologies, allowing you to
and capacity meeting required KPIs scale to large-scale implementations without architectural changes.
for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also • Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring High availability without deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
performance compromise through in-
place software and hardware upgrades
• Details the reference architecture ARCHITECTURE
Pure FlashArray //X 50 R2
infrastructure and Pure Storage.
• Sample SAP HANA Scale-up and
3+1 Scale-Out system deployment
best practices with newer Purity RUN
platform enabled WFS based NFS
services providing for HANA shared MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
filesystem. Customer NW
vPC Peer Link 1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Nx9336C-FX2-A Nx9336C-FX2-B
• SAP HANA TDI deployments
are complicated and generally Cluster Link
mission critical with high availability Cisco UCS 6332-16UP Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
requirements. Customers face Inter-node and others NFSshared, Mgmt and others
challenges maintaining these

landscapes both in terms of time,
8/16G FC Storage Traffic
available resources and operational cost 10/40G Ether Traffic
10/40 G NFSshared, Mgmt Traffic
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable and 10/40 G Inter-node and other Traffic
best-in-class converged solution stack

for optimizing enterprise workloads
running SAP HANA database based Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with B480 M5 Servers
applications.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_saptdi.html
Version 5.0
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure

Storage FlashBlade
• 8 node Oracle RAC, validated • A pre-validated integrated system managed, serviced, and tested as a complete offering
performance of Server, Network • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
and NVMe all-flash Storage on a
per workload basis • Improved customer success back by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
• Seamless Oracle performance and
scalability with data reduction to
meet growth needs ARCHITECTURE
• Maintain highly available database
instances through software and Pure Storage
FlashArray//X70
Controller
hardware upgrades without
compromising performance
Storage VSAN-A 201 Storage VSAN-B 202
vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
• New design targets a variety of

scale-out application demands N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
for database consolidation,

vPC Public & Private vPC Private & Public
VLAN 10 for failover Allowed VLAN 134,10 Allowed VLAN 134,10 VLAN 134 for failover
40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+
management, and seemless date

Breakout Cable
Cluster Link
integration UCS FI 6332-16UP-A UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
• A cost–efficient, high performing

Public Traffic Private Traffic
and always-available
infrastructure that balances Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
16G FC Storage Traffic
enormous and evolving business Oracle RAC Node 3 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
requirements Oracle RAC Node 5
Oracle RAC Node 4
10/40 G Public Network Traffic
• Pre-tested converged
infrastructure that optimizes
your mission critical Oracle
performance and scalability Chassis02: UCS Chassis 5108
requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2_flashblade.html
Version 5.0

single UCS domain
• VMware vSphere 6.5 U1
ARCHITECTURE
• Pure Storage FlashArray //X70 with
All-NVMe DirectFlash Modules
• Purity v5.0.2 Pure Storage FlashArray//
4 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MDS Fabric Switch X70 Controller
Cisco-MD5 9148S-A Cisco-MD5 9148S-B
vPC Peer Link
Nexus 93180YC-FX - A Nexus 93180YC-FX - B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6332-16UP-FI-A

Cluster Link
UCS 6332-16UP-FI-B
• Typical VMware Horizon View 2 x 40 GB Connection from Infra Node-1 2 x 40 GB Connection from
Desktops and RDS-hosted server 6332-16UP FI-A (4 Chassis) 6332-16UP FI-B (4 Chassis)
sessions mixed workload combined 4 Cisco UCS Chassis

users (32 Servers) 5K Mixed workload
Configuration
Infra Node-2
Workload 2
• Rapid workload changes (mostly CH-1&2-BL8 (2 Infra Servers)
unpredictable) and hence high CH01-1-7 (Workload Servers)

demand on quick H/W expansion CH03-1-8 (Workload Servers)
Workload 3
• Demand density when proposing

VDI and RDSH solutions 8/16 GB FC
40GB Ethernet
Workload 4
1G Ethernet
Version 5.0
FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure with Cisco ACI Multi-pod

and Pure Storage ActiveCluster
• Cisco ACI 3.2(1l) implementing the • Uniform data center experience across differing sites with common network and storage availability.
Multi-Pod design, extending the • Best of breed products between Cisco and Pure Storage, bringing workload portability and
network between sites. business continuity.
• PureStorage 5.0.6 with • Documented in a detailed, easy to follow guide, of how to implement the architecture.
ActiveCluster for active/active,
synchronously replicated storage.
• UCSM 3.2(3d) and vSphere 6.5 U1
• Highly redundant throughout ARCHITECTURE
the design. Stateless servers,
implemented through policy
decisions, that are easily recovered Inter-Pod Network
from an iSCSI foundation. (dark fibre or multicast enabled L3 network)
Cisco UCS B200 M5 Cisco UCS B200 M5
Spine Switches Spine Switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 9504 Cisco UCS

PortChannel PortChannel PortChannel PortChannel
Cisco UCS Cisco Nexus 9504
6332-16UP 6332-16UP
• Consistent workload environment
regardless of the site.
vPC vPC vPC vPC
• Reliable, Flexible and Scalable

Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus
platform for mixed workloads. 93180YC-EX 93180LC-EX
Leaf Switches Leaf Switches
• Business continuity through site
availability issues. Cisco Nexus 9504 Cisco Nexus 9504
Pure Storage Pure Storage

40-Gbps Converged
FlashArray//X70 FlashArray//X70
APIC 1,3 40-Gbps Ethernet APIC 2
Site A 10-Gbps Ethernet
Site B
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_m5_multipod.html
Version 5.0
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with
Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
• Simple architecture with UCS B • High performance and scalability with simplicity
Series Servers • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• High performance SAN for desktop • Small footprint for SMB
workloads
• 1250 users per FlashStack Mini
solution ARCHITECTURE
• Performance study with simulations
of typical desktop workloads Physical Architecture Logical Architecture
Cisco UCS
Chassis 5108 User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer
Machine Catalogs for VCC and RDS Users
SSL HA Pair
DS for VCC Systems Citrix XenDesktop/ VCC VMs:
XenDesktop 7.15 (Win 10 VCC) XenApp 7.15 VDA 2vCPU/2GB RAM
Delivery Group Netscaler 1000v
for VCC Users (up
to 1000)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Load

FlashStack Mini
Balancer
Sync
• Typical end-user virtualization

workloads Storefront
Sync Control Layer Mirror
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Citrix XenApp 7.15 SQL Database
unpredictable) and hence high Deliver Controller
demand on quick H/W expansion Pure //m10 All

Flash Array Director Studio License Server Active Directory
flexibilities
VCC solutions
8GB FC (Pure Controller A)
8GB FC (Pure Controller B)
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_citrixmshyperv_1250.html
Version 5.0

performance of server, network and • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
NVMe all-flash storage on a per
workload basis • Improved customer success back by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
meet growth needs
ARCHITECTURE
hardware upgrades without FlashArray//X70
Controller
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Storage VSAN-A 201 Storage VSAN-B 202

N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
scale-out application demands VLAN 10 for failover
vPC Public & Private
Allowed VLAN 134,10
vPC Private & Public
Allowed VLAN 134,10 VLAN 134 for failover
for database consolidation, 40G QSFP to four 10G SFP+

Breakout Cable
management, and seamless date Cluster Link
integration UCS FI 6332-16UP-A

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

and always-available infrastructure
that balances enormous and Oracle RAC Node 1
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 7
10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
evolving business requirements Chassis01: UCS Chassis 5108
• Pre-tested converged Oracle RAC Node 7 Oracle RAC Node 8
infrastructure that optimizes your

mission critical Oracle performance
and scalability requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2.html
Version 5.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • A cohesive, integrated system that is managed, serviced and tested as a whole
and predict performance of server, • Leverage a pre-validated platform to minimize business disruption and improve IT agility and reduce
network and storage platform on a deployment time from months to weeks
per workload basis
• Guarantee customer success with prebuilt, pre-tested drivers, Oracle database software
• Seamless scalability of performance
and capacity to meet growth needs
of Oracle database
ARCHITECTURE
• High availability of database
instances without performance Pure Storage
compromise through software and FlashArray//m
Controller
hardware upgrades
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Storage VSAN-A 101 Storage VSAN-B 102
• Highly scalable architecture designed N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
to meet a variety of scale-out VLAN 10 for failover

Allowed VLAN 134,10
Allowed VLAN 134,10
VLAN 134 for failover
application demands with seamless

Breakout Cable
data integration and management

Cluster Link
UCS FI 6332-16UP-A UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
• Balancing enormous and evolving Public Traffic Private Traffic
business requirement with a cost–

efficient, high performing and Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
8/16 G FC Storage Traffic
always-available infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
• Pre-tested, scalable converged Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 6
Oracle RAC Node 4
Oracle RAC Node 8
solution for optimizing your

challenging Oracle RAC performance
and scalability
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC.html
Version 5.0

• High speed archive repositories using • Modern data protection delivered within the FlashStack Virtual Server Infrastructure
the Cisco S3260 servers • Full deployment walkthrough along with feature validation
• VM data protection working with the • Total solution that brings together performance, efficiency, automation, availability, and
native FlashArray//m snapshots recoverability
• Local, remote site, and cloud
archiving options
• Live VM recovery and remote live ARCHITECTURE
synch
Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches Cisco Nexus 9000 Switches
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS

6300 Fabric
Cisco UCS
6300 Fabric
Interconnects Interconnects
• Business continuity
Cisco UCS servers Cisco UCS servers
• Multi-site data protection
• Fast and reliable RPTO
Cisco S3260 MediaAgent Cisco S3260 MediaAgent
Cisco MDS 9000 Switches
Pure Storage Flash Array//m
40 GbE
40 GbE Converged
40 GbE
Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_commvault.html
Version 5.0
5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware

Horizon View 6.2
B200 M4 Chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH & VCC users • Very good end user experience measuring <1 second for both VCC and RDSH users on cluster level
combined and infrastructure and 5000 users mixed workload testing
chassis • Live storage migration/upgrade or controller failure with no business disruption resilient capability
• Nearly 1250 combined RDS-
hosted server sessions and VCC ARCHITECTURE
users in 2 RU data center foot Physical Architecture FlashStack Components
print
Network
• Performance study with 4 x 8 GB FC from MDS
Pure Storage
FlashArray//m50 2 Cisco 9372 PX Network Switches
9148 S to Puren//m50
simulations of RDS-hosted Storage
server sessions and VCC typical Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
2 Cisco 9148 S MDS Switches
desktop workloads
• Local resources replace SAN for
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B Compute
workload files 4 Cisco 5108 Blade Server Chassis
2 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Infrastructure
UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B 30 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Workload
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cluster-Link
4 x 8GB Uplink to 4 x 8GB Uplink to

• Typical VMware Horizon View Storage-VSAN-A:20 Infra Node-1
Workload 1
Storage-VSAN-B:30
Desktops & RDS-hosted server 4 x 10G Uplinks per

chassis IOM Storage
sessions mixed workload 4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Infra Node-2 Pure FlashArray//m50
combined users Server Chassis
chassis IOM 1 Base disck 40TB raw space
Cluster-1: Infra Server (1) & 1 external disk shelf with 44TB raw space
• Rapid workload changes (mostly VCC RDSH Servers (7)
4 x 10G Uplinks per
(Total 88TB disk space)
Cluster-2: Infra Server (2) & Node-3
unpredictable) and hence high VCC Servers (7)
Workload
chassis IOM
demand on quick H/W expansion Cluster-3: VCC Servers (7) &

RDSH Server (1) 8 Gb FC
flexibilities Cluster-4: VCC Servers (7) & Node-4 10 GB Ethernet
RDSH Server (1) Workload Cluster Link
VCC and RDSH solutions
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
Solution Brief: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
Version 5.0
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with

XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
• UCS 3.1(2b) with Broadwell support • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center and FlashStack architecture
• Cisco UCS Managed B 200 M4 (E5- • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
2680v4) 28 servers, four clusters, N+1 • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment with rapid boot, excellent end user experience
• Nexus 9172PX 7.0(3)I2(2e), Nexus • Mixed workload with pooled and persistent Windows 10 VCC and hosted shared server desktops
1000V 5.2(1), 10 GE and FC switching
• Higher VM density per ESXi cluster
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 2 • Supported NVIDIA M6 graphics
Hypervisor
• Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and PVS
7.9 ARCHITECTURE
• Pure Storage FlashArray//m50 84TB FlashStack 5000 Seat Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.9 Mixed Workload
raw flash storage

4 x 8 GB FC from each
Pure Storage FlashArray//m50
• NVIDIA M6 graphics mezzanine card MDS 9148S to Pure//m50
Storage
Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Siloed network, compute, and storage VPC Domain VPC Peer-Link
• Integration complexity
Nexus 9372 PX-A Nexus 9372 PX-B
• Inefficient human resource utilization
• Complex, expensive operations UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
• Large scale deployment building Cluster-Link

4 x 8GB Uplinks to
blocks needed Storage-VSAN-B:30
4 x 8GB Uplinks to
• Requirement for outstanding end-user Storage-VSAN-A:20 4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
experience 4-UCS 5108
Chassis 28 B200 4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
8 Gb FC M4 Blades
• Graphics support 10 GB Ethernet
Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & VCC RDSH Servers (5)
• Windows 10/Office 2016 transition Cluster Link Chassis-3: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_XD79_5k.html
Version 5.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, • Highly scalable architecture designed to meet a variety of scale-out application demands with
validate and predict performance seamless data integration and management
of server, network and storage • Balancing enormous and continually evolving business requirements with a cost–efficient, high
platform on a per workload basis performing and always-available database infrastructure
• Seamless scalability of • Pre-tested, scalable and best-in-class converged solution stack for optimizing your most
performance and capacity to challenging Oracle RAC database performance and scalability
meet growth needs of Oracle
Database
• High availability of DB
ARCHITECTURE
FlashArray//m
compromise through software Controller
and hardware upgrades
• A cohesive, integrated system

that is managed, serviced and

tested as a whole N9K-C9372PX-A
N9K-C9372PX-B
Allowed VLAN 134,10 Allowed VLAN 134,10
• Leverage a pre-validated
Breakout Cable
platform to minimize business Cluster Link

disruption, improve IT agility and Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M4 Servers
Private Traffic
reduce deployment time from

months to weeks
• Guarantee customer success
Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
with pre-built, pre-tested Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4
drivers, Oracle database Oracle RAC Node 6 Oracle RAC Node 8
software
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC.html
Version 5.0

• Highly redundant throughout • Simple, resilient and powerful solution of validated converged infrastructure
the design. Stateless servers, • Best of breed products between Cisco and Pure Storage
implemented through policy
decisions, that are easily • Documented in a detailed, easy to follow guide, of how to implement the architecture
recovered from a SAN
foundation
• APIs exposed at each layer
of the infrastructure for easy
ARCHITECTURE
management and integration
with automation and ITSM tools FlashStack
• High performance storage
implemented with default Nexus 93180YC-EX
compression and de-dupe vPC Peerlink
vPC vPC
UCS 6332-16UP FI
Port Channel Port Channel
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
40Gb Converged
• Reliable, flexible and scalable 40Gb Ethernet

UCS B200 M4
platform for mixed workloads 16Gb Fibre Channel
• Simple and secure infrastructure

10Gb Ethernet
that is easy to manage with Port Channel Port Channel
standard tools
MDS 9148S
• Efficient infrastructure with lower
total cost of ownership
FlashArray//m70
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_vm6.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_vsi_vm6_designs.html
Version 5.0
HITACHI
ll Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure - New
ll Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI - New
Version 5.0
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure

• UCS 4th gen Fabric Interconnect • Simple, resilient and powerful solution of a validated converged infrastructure.
as well as UCS 4th gen VIC. • Cisco and Hitachi Vantara collaboration of a unified reference architecture.
• 32G FC end to end. • Design Guide detailing the principles, with an easy to follow Deployment Guide of how to
• Validation of both vSphere 6.5 implement the design.
and 6.7 within the design.
• Next gen Hitachi VSP Storage
Systems with 100% data ARCHITECTURE
availability guarantee
• Hybrid or all-flash storage
configurations available
Nexus 9336C-FX2
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC
• Reliable, Flexible and Scalable VSP G1500 or G370 MDS 9706
platform for mixed workloads. UCS 6454

or
• High density server PortChannel 6332-16UP
requirements, along with robust
storage connectivity.
• A resilient, agile, and flexible
foundation for today’s business.
10/40-Gbps Converged
40-Gbps Ethernet
16/32-Gbps FC
16/32-Gbps FC
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci_design.html
Version 5.0
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI

• Supports Cisco blade series • The solution is designed and validated using compute, network and storage best practices for
servers B200 and B480 with all high performance, scalability, and resiliency throughout the architecture.
SAP supported Memory config • Run mission-critical applications efficiently by independently and automatically scaling compute
• Design document multiple OS and storage
SLES 12 SP4 and RHEL 7.5 • Unify and automate the control of server, network, and storage components to simplify resource
• Design Supports Hitachi VSP provisioning and maintenance.
Series storage.
• Provides detailed deployment
guide for SAP HANA, SAP
ARCHITECTURE
Nexus 9336C-FX2
BW powered by SAP HANA,
SAP Business Suite powered
by SAP HANA, SAP Business
Suite powered by SAP HANA,
S/4HANA scenarios
Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Need for scalable and reliable Cisco UCS B480-M5

infrastructure that can be MDS 9706
implemented in an intelligent,
policy driven manner
• Need for secured multi-tenancy
across Compute, Network and
Storage Cisco UCS B200-M5
• Need for proven end-to-end

implementation of SAP HANA
with resilient, agile, flexible VSP G370
infrastructure
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci_sap.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci_sap_design.html
Version 5.0
Infrastructure
HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server ll Cisco HyperFlex 2.6 for Virtual Server Infrastructure
with MS Hyper-V - New ll Cisco HyperFlex 2.5 for Virtual Server Infrastructure
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix
with VMware - New XenDesktop 7.x Users
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to 4400 users - New ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 VMware
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems with up to 2000 Citrix Virtual Apps and Horizon 7 Users
Desktop Users - New ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 VMware
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Horizon 7 Users
Hyper-V - New ll Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments
ll Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure 3.0 with Cisco ACI 3.2 and ll SQL Server on HyperFlex All Flash
VMware vSphere 6.5 - New
ll Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with All-Flash Storage
ll Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection - New
ll Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7
ll Cisco HyperFlex with Hyper-V 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure - New Users
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi ll Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data Center
ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 2000 VMware Deployment
Horizon 7 users ll Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure
ll Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 Citrix ll Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite
XenDesktop Users
ll Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and
Citrix XenDesktop
Security threats are real, growing in both complexity and sophistication. Such threats place a heavy burden on organizations that need to increase their security
resources to manage these risks. Organizations, however, find it challenging to find the best security solutions for their specific requirements and hate the
inefficiencies of buying components from a broad range of vendors.
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying

Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V
• HyperFlex 3.5 cluster with • Deployment best practices for hosting MS SQL databases on HyperFlex All Flash Systems with
Hyper-V Windows Hyper-V.
• 4 x HXAF240c M5 Nodes • HA deployment options – Always On Availability Group.
• Windows Server 2016 and MS • Test and performance validation of OLTP database workloads and DB maintenance tasks
SQL Server 2016 SP1
• Cisco UCSM 4.0 (1b)
• 2x Cisco Nexus 9396PX
ARCHITECTURE
HyperFlex Distributed Filesystem

Cisco Nexus Series Switches VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX
SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL
Boot Data Data Log Boot Data Data Log
SMB Datastore
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vS
vS
vS
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vS
vPC vPC
SQLVM SQLVM SQLVM SQLVM

Controller VM Controller VM
Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect
• MS SQL Servers on standalone

Hyper V Hyper V
3 to 8 Cisco HyperFlex HXAF240c
M5 Node
servers causing database sprawl
Network CPU/memory SSD SSD Network CPU/memory SSD SSD
• MS SQL Server 2008 End-of-

Support Shared
services
• Underutilized servers in traditional

infrastructure. AD/DNS/NTP
• Siloed and disintegrated DHCP

management in traditional 40G Converged
infrastructure SCVMM
40GbE
• Virtualization license/cost
challenges
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_hyperv_mssql.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying

Microsoft SQL Server with VMware
VMware ESXi 6.5 VMware ESXi.
SQL Server 2016 SP1 • Stretch Cluster deployment & validation for disaster recovery
• 2x Cisco Nexus 9396PX
• HX Stretched Cluster ARCHITECTURE
SQL Server VM
Customer Boot SQL data SQL data SQL Log

Network Volume volume volume volume
BUSINESS CHALLENGES LSI Logic SAS

SCSI Controller 0
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 1
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 2
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 3

3 to 32 Cisco HyperFlex All Flash
Nodes
servers causing database sprawl Hyperflex NFS Datastore(s)
• MS SQL Server 2008 End-of- Shared

Support services
Datastore-1
• Underutilized servers in traditional AD-DNS

infrastructure
Cisco Hyperflex HX Data Platform
• Siloed and disintegrated VCenter Compute Only Blade Servers
management in traditional
infrastructure NTP
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node 1

Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node n
DHCP
Compute Only Rack Mount Servers
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_esxi_mssql.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to

4400 users
• 32 Node All Flash Hyperflex Solution: • All Flash HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
16 UCS HXAF220C-M5SX rack • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
servers and 8 UCS 220C-M5 rack
servers + 8 UCS B200 M5 blade • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
servers (n+1 cluster) with scale out • Very good sub mil second knowledge worker workload End User Experience
option in a single UCS domain
• Cisco HyperFlex v3.5(1a), UCSM ARCHITECTURE
4.0(1b) Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Full Scale Single UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• Nexus 93180 YC switches, Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
Peer-Link
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
• VMware vSphere 6.5.2.U2, VMware

Horizon 7 .6
16 x Cisco HXAF C220-M55X Rack Servers
• 4400 User Windows Server 2016 Cisco UCS-FI-6332 vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332 Each Server Includes:
• 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6140 Scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz
RDS Sessions & Windows 10 mixed 16 x 40G 16 x 40G • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
Knowledge Worker workload density. • 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666 MHz
• 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM
• 1 x Cisco 12 GBPs Modular SAS HBA
• 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
Pool with drives listed below per node:
• Highly scalable architecture designed • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
to meet scale-out application (VDI) • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
demands with seamless datacenter

8 x Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Servers
integration and management, Energy Each server includes:
efficiency. • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
HX
Datastore • 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop • 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz

• 1 x Cisco VIC 1387
Infrastructure solution with excellent 8 x 40G 8 x 40G
End User Experience. 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers

Each server includes:
• Best practices for installation and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD

• 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
for VMware Horizon 7 tuned for 2 x 40G 2 x 40G
performance and scalability.
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx35_vdi_horizon76_4400.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems with up to 2000 Citrix

Virtual Apps and Desktop Users
• 8x UCS HX220-M5S rack • Hyperconverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
servers, & 8x B200M5 servers • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
for compute (n+1) with scale out
option in a single UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.5.1a, UCSM
4.0.1(b)
• Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops
ARCHITECTURE
1808 Cisco HyperFlex and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Single UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• Vmware ESXi 6.5
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
vPC vPC 8 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5SX or Cisco HXAF240C-M5SX Rack Servers

Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
Each Server Includes:
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz
• 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
• Highly scalable architecture 16 x 40 G 16 x 40 G

• 768 GB (24 x 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666 MHz
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x Cisco 12GBPs Modular SAS HBA
application (VDI) demands with • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
seamless datacenter integration HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
and management, Energy Pool with drives listed below per node:
• 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
efficiency. • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop

8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers
Infrastructure solution with Each server includes:
excellent End User Experience. • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
• 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD
• Best practices for installation and HX
Datastore
• 768 GB (24 x 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex
All-Flash system for Citrix Virtual
Desktop tuned for performance
and scalability 4 x 40 G 4 x 40 G
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx35_vdi_CitrixVAD_2000.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with

Microsoft Hyper-V
• Eight HX220 or HX240 M5 • First CVD release for Cisco HyperFlex platform with Hyper-V.
rackmount servers with scale out • Installation of standard HX Clusters using HyperFlex Installer appliance
• CVD highlights all product options, provides best practices, Installation and provides day two
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.0.1d, UCSM instructions for all core features
3.2(3g) and Microsoft Windows
Server 2016 Hyper-V
• High performance, scalable and ARCHITECTURE
resilient virtual environment
• Detailed UCS and HyperFlex
design descriptions, installation,
functional operation and best Infra Servers - AD/DNS,
practices HXHDP Installer, SCVMM
Peer-Link
• Legacy and traditional converged Cisco Nexus 9396PX Cisco Nexus 9396PX
environments rely on multiple

technology stacks 40G 40G
vPC vPC
Cisco UCS 6332 FI Cisco UCS 6332 FI
• Significant technical debt and
management silos
HXAF220c M5SX
• Companies need faster 40G 40G
deployment and more flexible HXAF220c M5SX

options
HXAF220c M5SX
HXAF220c M5SX
3-8 HX Hyper-V Nodes
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_0_hyperv.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex Virtual Server Infrastructure 3.0 with Cisco

ACI 3.2 and VMware vSphere 6.5
• Cisco HX220c M5 servers that • Next-generation Data Center Infrastructure for Enterprise & Cloud deployments based on Cisco
form the HyperFlex 3.0 cluster, HyperFlex, Cisco UCS, Cisco ACI and VMware vSphere
connect to Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric • Cisco HyperFlex delivers agility and simplicity of complete hyperconvergence with Cisco UCS based
Interconnects running Cisco UCS unified computing, fabric and management
Manager 3.2(3e)
• Cisco ACI brings software-defined networking solutions to deliver a programmable data center fabric,
• Cisco ACI fabric, built using with centralized management and application policy model to enable rapid deployment of applications
Nexus 9000 series switches and and improve application agility
managed by Cisco APIC running
3.2(2l) software, provides 40GbE • Cisco Nexus 9000 EX series cloud-scale switches used as ACI leaf switches provide a high-
connectivity to Cisco HyperFlex performance, low-latency platform with advanced capabilities that include deep telemetry and security,
cluster analytics and intelligent traffic management for maximizing application performance and visibility.
• Cisco ACI Virtual Edge (AVE)
running 1.2(2a) provides ACI vLeaf
ARCHITECTURE
and virtual switching functions Cisco APIC Cluster
• Cisco Intersight and Cisco

Umbrella provides cloud based
management security for the 10GbE
CISCO
solution Cisco Nexus

9504
Intersight
ACI Spines
Cisco ACI Fabric
(40GbE)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
40GbE
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Nexus
93180YC-EX
ACI Leafs
• Speed up deployment of
208.67.222.222
applications and services 40GbE

SCVM
by reducing infrastructure Cisco UCS 6332-16UP

Cisco
UCS
Fabric Interconnects Management IP

deployment times and increasing 40GbE Unified Fabric
Storage IP
operational efficiency 40GbE 10GbE
VMware vCenter
• Highly automated data center Hypervisor Cisco Nexus

7000 Gateways HX Installer VM
infrastructure with the operational HX Data

Platform
Internet & Other
Active Directory
agility to support rapidly evolving 4 x Cisco HX220c M5

Outside (ACI) Network - L3
Routed Domain
Internal Networks
(Camplus, WAN) ...
business needs Cisco HyperFlex Cluster ...
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx_30_vsi_aci_32.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection

• Cohesity cluster of 3 or more • Cohesity integration with Cisco HyperFlex via the HX API for snapshot controls
Cisco C240 M5L servers using a • Cohesity cluster provides policy based VM protection for HyperFlex clusters or other external
specific Cohesity BoM systems
• Servers are UCS Managed, not • Rapid mass restores and return to service
standalone
• On-prem cluster to cluster backup replication and archiving, and to cloud
• Solution based on 4th generation
FI 6454 and VIC 1457 • Test/Dev temporary VM cloning
• Cisco UCSM 4.0(1c)
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.5(2a) or later ARCHITECTURE
required
• Cohesity version 6.1.1a or later
required Fl 6454 Fl 6454 Cisco Nexus Switch Cisco Nexus Switch Fl 6248 Fl 6248
Cohesity Cluster Cisco HyperFlex Hybrid Cluster

BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco UCS Domain Cisco UCS Domain
• Secondary storage systems

(backup/replication/test) are Fl 6332 Fl 6332
often highly fragmented, using

multiple platforms
• Traditional secondary storage
systems do not scale well,
Fl 6332 Fl 6332
leading to significant sprawl and Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Cluster
complexity
Cisco HyperFlex Stretched Cluster
• Outdated architectures do not
work well with hyperconverged
virtual systems and cloud
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsc240_cohesity_dp.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Hyper-V 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure

• Eight HX220 or HX240 M5 • First CVD release for Cisco HyperFlex platform with Hyper-V.
rackmount servers with scale out • Installation of standard HX Clusters using HyperFlex Installer appliance
• CVD highlights all product options, provides best practices, Installation and provides day two
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.0.1d, UCSM instructions for all core features
3.2(3g) and Microsoft Windows
Server 2016 Hyper-V
• High performance, scalable and ARCHITECTURE
resilient virtual environment
design descriptions, installation,
functional operation and best Infra Servers - AD/DNS,
practices HXHDP Installer, SCVMM
• Legacy and traditional converged Cisco Nexus 9396PX

Peer-Link
Cisco Nexus 9396PX
technology stacks 40G 40G
• Significant technical debt and Cisco UCS 6332 FI

vPC vPC
Cisco UCS 6332 FI
management silos
• Companies need faster 40G
HXAF220c M5SX
40G
deployment and more flexible
options HXAF220c M5SX
HXAF220c M5SX
HXAF220c M5SX
3-8 HX Hyper-V Nodes
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_0_hyperv.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with

VMware ESXi
• New installation option for • Factory pre-integration work results in a rapid and simplified deployment.
stretched clusters spread across • Installation and expansion using the improved HyperFlex Installer OVA.
two physical sites.
• CVD highlights all product options, provides best practices, and provides day two instructions for all
• Logical Availability Zones feature core features.
provides enhanced failure
tolerance in larger clusters.
• Support for HyperFlex on Large ARCHITECTURE
Form Factor disks and Intel Optane
caching options.
• New GUI replication and recovery Standard Cluster Expanded Cluster Mixed M4/M5 Cluster Stretched Cluster
workflows.
• Scalable & flexible architecture: 64
node clusters, Expanded Clusters
with Compute-only Nodes, and
Mixed M4/M5 generation Clusters.
+ +
Site 1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Legacy and traditional converged

Site 1
technology stacks.
management silos.
VM Replication
• Companies need faster
deployment and more flexible
options.
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_30_vsi_esxi.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to

2000 VMware Horizon 7 Users Infrastructure, Applications
• 8 UCS HXAF220C-M5SX rack • All Flash HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
servers and 8 UCS B200 M5 blade • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
server (n+1) with scale out option
in a single UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.0.1a, UCSM • Very good sub mil second knowledge worker workload End User Experience
3.2(3a)
• Nexus 93180 YC switches
ARCHITECTURE
Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Full Scale UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware
Peer-Link
Horizon 7 Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
• 2000 User Windows 10 & Server

2016 RDSH sessions mixed
Knowledge Worker workload Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
density. 8 x 40G 8 x 40G

8 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5SX
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
• 768 GB (24 X 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
• Highly scalable architecture • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM

• 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
application (VDI) demands with
and management, Energy • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers Each server includes:
Infrastructure solution with • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
excellent End User Experience. • 120GB M.2 SATA SSD
HX • 768 GB (24 X 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
• Best practices for installation and Datastore
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex 4 x 40G 4 x 40G
for VMware Horizon 7 tuned for

CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx30_2kseat_ucs_horizon.html
Version 5.0
CiscoHyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlexM5 M5All-Flash
All-FlashHyperconverged
HyperconvergedSystem
Systemwith
withup to
up to
600 600XenDesktop
Citrix Citrix XenDesktop
Users Users
TECHNICAL
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY
SUMMARY
• 4• UCS
4 UCS HXAFC220-M5S
HXAFC220-M5S rack
rack • HyperConverged
• HyperConverged infrastructure
infrastructure based
based onon Cisco
Cisco HyperFlex
HyperFlex
servers, M5 rack server (n+1)
servers, M5 rack server (n+1) with with • Investment protection
scale • Investment protection in in high
high density
density and
and high
high performance
performance data
data center
center environments
environments
scale outout option
option in in a single
a single UCSUCS
domain
domain • High
• High performance,
performance, scalable
scalable and
and resilient
resilient virtual
virtual environment
environment
• Cisco
• Cisco HypperFlex
HypperFlex 2.6.1b,
2.6.1b, UCSM
UCSM
3.2(2d)
3.2(2d)
• XenDesktop
• XenDesktop 7.16
7.16
• VMware
• VMware vSphere
vSphere 6.56.5
U1U1 ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
Cisco HyperFlex and Citrix XenDesktop 7.16, Reference Architecture
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Peer-Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 93108 Cisco Nexus 93108

designed
• Highly to meet
scalable scale-out
architecture Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
application
designed (VDI)scale-out
to meet demands with 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers
seamless(VDI)
application datacenter
demands integration
with 4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
and management,
seamless datacenter Energy
integration • 120GB M.2 SATA SSD
andefficiency.
management, Energy • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
efficiency.
Infrastructure solution
• Enterprise-grade with
Virtual Desktop • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
excellent End
Infrastructure User Experieance.
solution with
excellent End User
• Best practices forExperieance.
installation and Pool with drives listed below per node:
Deployment
• Best of Cisco
practices for HyperFlex
installation and • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
All-Flash system
Deployment of CiscoforHyperFlex
VMware
Horizonsystem
All-Flash 7 tunedfor
forVMware
performance
HX
and scalability.
Horizon 7 tuned for performance Datastore
and scalability.
CVD:
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_citrix.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_citrix.html
Version 5.0
CiscoHyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlex M5M5 All-Flash
All-Flash Hyperconverged
Systemwith
withHyper-V
2016 and
Hyper-V Citrixand
2016 XenDesktop
Citrix XenDesktop
TECHNICAL
HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY
SUMMARY
• UCS
• 4 4 UCS HXAFC220-M5S
HXAFC220-M5S rack
based onon Cisco
Cisco HyperFlex
HyperFlex
scale out option in a single UCS • Investment protection in in high
high density
density and
and high
high performance
performance data
data center
center environments
environments
scale out option in a single UCS
domain
domain • High
scalable and
and resilient
resilient virtual
virtual environment
environment
• •Cisco
HypperFlex 3.0.1a,
3.0.1a, UCSM
UCSM
3.2(2d)
3.2(2d)
• XenDesktop
• XenDesktop 7.17
7.17
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Hyper-V
Hyper-V 2016
2016 ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE

designed
• Highly to meet
scalable scale-out
application
seamless(VDI)
demands integration
and management,
andefficiency.
efficiency.
• Enterprise-grade Virtual with
Desktop • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
excellent End
Infrastructure User Experience
solution with
excellent End User
• Best practices forExperience
installation Pool with drives listed below per node:
andpractices
• Best Deployment of Cisco
for installation • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
HyperFlex
and All-Flash
Deployment system for
of Cisco
Citrix XenDesktop
HyperFlex turned for
All-Flash system for
HX
performance
Citrix andturned
XenDesktop scalability.
for Datastore
CVD:
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx301a_vdi_hyperv_xd716.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx301a_vdi_hyperv_xd716.html
Version 5.0

• Support for HyperFlex on new M5 • Factory pre-integration work results in a rapid and simplified deployment
generation servers, including mixed • Installation and expansion using the improved HyperFlex Installer OVA
M4 and M5 clusters
• CVD highlights all product options, provides best practices, and provides day two instructions for all
• First CVD to highlight Cisco core features
Intersight cloud-based monitoring
and management
• Scalable and flexible architecture: ARCHITECTURE
Expanded clusters with compute-
only nodes, hybrid or all-flash
converged nodes, mixed clusters, Standard Cluster Expanded Cluster Mixed M4/M5 Cluster Cluster with SEDs
SED data-at-rest encryption, and
VM replication
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
+ +
technology stacks
management silos
• Companies need faster deployment
and more flexible options
VM Replication
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_26_vsi.html
Version 5.0

• New enterprise class features • Factory pre-integration work results in a rapid and simplified deployment
including native replication and • Installation and expansion using the improved HyperFlex Installer OVA
encryption
• CVD highlights all product options, and provides best practices and day two instructions for all core
• Hybrid or All-Flash models to suit features
the VM and application workloads
• Scalable architecture with
compute-only nodes creating
extended compute-intensive ARCHITECTURE
clusters
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Plus Compute-Only Nodes:

technology stacks
• Significant technical debt and Cisco Rack Cisco Blade
or
management silos Mount Servers Servers
• Companies need faster deployment Hybrid or All-Flash Clusters
and more flexible options
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_25_vsi.html
Version 5.0

4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
• 16 UCS HXAFC220-M4S rack • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
servers, 8 UCS B200 M4 blade • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
servers, 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (N+1) with scale out option • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
in a single UCS domain
• Cisco HyperFlex 2.1.1b, UCSM
3.1(2g)
ARCHITECTURE
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.13
Peer-Link
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.13
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC vPC
Cisco UCS-FI-6248UP Cisco UCS-FI-6248UP
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers 16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Each server includes:

• 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor processor
• Highly scalable architecture • 2 X 64GB SD card • 2 X 64GB SD card

• 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
application (VCC) demands with • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
seamless datacenter integration Each server includes:
and management, and energy • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor
efficiency • 2 X 64GB SD card
• 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x Cisco VIC 1340
Datastore HX Datastore configured with drives per converged node
• 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD
Computing solution with excellent for Cache
end-user experience • 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for

capacity
• Best practices for installation

and deployment of Cisco
HyperFlex All-Flash system for
4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
Citrix XenDesktop 7.x tuned for
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_XenDesk713.html
Version 5.0

4000 VMware Horizon 7 Users
servers and 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (n+1) with scale out option • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
3.1(2g) ARCHITECTURE
• VMware Horizon 7.1 Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
• Highly scalable architecture • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6. GHz processor
designed to meet scale-out • 2 X 64GB SD card
application (VCC) demands with • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM

seamless datacenter integration • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
and management, and energy • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
efficiency HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives

listed below per node:
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Perfomance (EP) SSD for Cache
Computing solution with excellent 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G

• 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Datastore
end-user experience 8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers
• Best practices for installation and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 2 x 64GB SD card
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
All-Flash system for VMware • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227
Horizon 7 tuned for performance 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers

and scalability 4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 512 GB (16 X 32 GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_Horizon71.html
Version 5.0

servers, M5 rack server (n+1) with • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
3.2(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7.3.1
Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
• Highly scalable architecture Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
designed to meet scale-out 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers

application (VCC) demands with 4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
seamless datacenter integration • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
and management, and energy • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
efficiency • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM

• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
Computing solution with excellent

end-user experience Pool with drives listed below per node:
• Best practices for installation and • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex
All-Flash system for VMware
HX
and scalability
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_horizon.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite

Deployments
• Integrated UCS Management for • Enable RPO/RTO’s < 15 minutes with instant VM Recovery™, Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server and single Veeam console • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers and C240 M4 LFF rack servers
to manage backup and replication
of VM across several HyperFlex • Best practices to deploy multisite HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
clusters across geography
• Storage integration of Cisco
HyperFlex with Veeam providing
HX native snapshots and higher
ARCHITECTURE
backup throughput through HX Remote Data Center Remote Replication Veeam Proxy &
WAN Accelerator
storage network vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
• All-in-one, scalable and easy- WAN
to-deploy validated design and

deployment guide for multisite

HyperFlex, Veeam and Cisco UCS
S3260 storage server
Branch Office
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
HyperFlex Cluster 1
4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 HyperFlex Cluster
WAN
• High RPO/RTO with multiple hours Primary Data Center WAN
of restore & backup time for 24/7 vPC Peer Link
business critical applications on Cisco Nexus 9372 PX Cisco Nexus 9372 PX
Cisco HyperFlex Cisco UCS 6248UP Cisco UCS 6248UP

• High OPEX in managing data

protection endpoints for HyperFlex
clusters in multiple sites across HyperFlex Veeam Veeam Proxy & Veeam Veeam Proxy & HyperFlex
geography Cluster Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Availability Suite WAN Accelerator Cluster
• Replication of application VM 4 x HX220C M4 Cluster

Backup Copy Jobs Local Replication
Local Backup
deployed across data centers on Primary DC Remote DC
HyperFlex clusters 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

4 x HX220C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/dataprotection_hx_veeam_multisite.html
Version 5.0

• Highly available and robust platform • CVD describing the best practices and recommendations for configuring and deploying SQL
for consolidating SQL databases databases on HyperFlex All Flash Systems
• Delivers consistent high performance • Deployment options for highly available SQL databases using AlwaysOn
with low latency, and scale the • SQL database performance numbers for workloads with medium and large working sets
performance with ease
• Designed to absorb ad-hoc
workloads
• Cisco Veeam integrated backup ARCHITECTURE
appliance for transactionally
consistent database backups
Read/Write Transaction
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Read/Write Transaction Read/Write Transaction
• SQL server database sprawl

• Need for consistent performance
with low latencies
• Ad-hoc database workloads SQL Server VM-1 SQL Server VM-n
• Need for robust and integrated

backup solution Cisco Hyperflex HX Data Platform
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node 1 Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node n
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Storage System
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_2_0_mssql_af.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex for Virtual Server Infrastructure 2.0.1a with

All-Flash Storage
• Creation of Cisco HyperFlex cluster • Introduction of the first release of Cisco HyperFlex all-flash systems
with HX-series all-flash or hybrid • Simplified procedure to connect HX cluster to external storage devices
nodes, plus option for hybrid cluster
using Cisco UCS compute-only • Best practice for HXDP software version 2.0.1a
servers
• Connecting Cisco HyperFlex cluster
to third-party FC or iSCSI storage
arrays ARCHITECTURE
• Detailed UCS and HyperFlex design Choice of Management Point for
descriptions, functional operation and Hardware and Sotware
best practices
Cisco UCS Management API Cisco HyperFlex Management
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Rapid deployment of virtual

environments using built-in server Cisco UCS 6200 Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M4 Nodes Small-Footprint Cluster
Series Fabric Interconnects
storage versus dedicated traditional Compute-Only Nodes
arrays
Cisco UCS B200 M4 Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 Nodes High-Capacity Cluster
• Software-defined all-flash storage

solution expands the applications for
performance-sensitive workloads Cisco UCS C220 M4
Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 All Flash Nodes High-Performance Cluster
• Complete end-to-end
hyperconverged solution with
enterprise class features Cisco UCS C240 M4
Cisco Hyperflex HX240c M4 All Flash Nodes High-Performance, High-Capacity Cluster
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_201a_vsi.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware

Horizon 7 Users
• 8 UCS HXC240-M4SX rack servers • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
and 8 UCS B200 M4 blade server • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
(n+1) with scale out option in a
single UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 1.8.1c, UCSM
3.1(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7 ARCHITECTURE
• VMware vSphere 6.0
Peer-Link
vPC vPC

designed to meet scale-out 8 x 10 G 8 x 10 G
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco HX240C-M4S Rack Servers

seamless data center integration Each server includes:
• 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
and management, and energy • 2 x 64GB SD card
efficiency • 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade virtual client • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
computing solution with excellent • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
end user experience HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives
• Best practices for installation and • 1 x 1.6TB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD for Cache
23 x 1.2TB 10K RPM SAS HDDs for capacity
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
performance and scalability 4 x 10 G HX
Datastore
4 x 10 G
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX18_VDI_2000seat_horizon.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Single Data

Center Deployment
HyperFlex and S3260 storage Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam repository on UCS Managed S3260 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS S3260 storage server
of application VM across several
to-deploy validated design and Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC Peer Link
Cisco Nexus 9372PX

deployment guide for Veeam, VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex and Cisco UCS S3260 vPC vPC
storage server
HX Data Platform Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Fabric Fabric

Interconnect Interconnect
Secondary 4 x HX240C M4
• High RPO/RTO with multiple

HyperFlex Cluster Cluster
hours of restore time or data Backup &

Replication
loss for 24/7 business critical
applications VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
vPC Peer Link

• High OPEX in managing data Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
protection endpoints for multiple HX Data Platform

Backup &
Replication Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
HX clusters in remote offices 6248UP Fabric vPC vPC 6248UP Fabric
Interconnect A Interconnect B
deployed across geography

Fabric Fabric Cisco UCS C3260
• Single solution to deploy,
Interconnect Interconnect Storage Server
configure and optimize HX

backup and replication with 4 x HX240C M4 Cluster Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server
Veeam 9.5 and Cisco S3260 Primary HyperFlex Cluster
Storage Server 40 Gigabit Ethernet Link to Cisco UCS C3260 M4 Chassis

10 Gigabit Ethernet Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html
Version 5.0

• 8 HX220 or HX240 rackmount • First CVD release for the new Cisco HyperFlex platform
servers, plus option for hybrid • Installation of standard and hybrid HX clusters using Springpath and Cisco developed tools
cluster using B200 compute-
only blades • Best practices for HX software version 1.7.1
design descriptions, functional
operation and best practices
ARCHITECTURE
• Manual installation guide for
systems not installed via factory
automated process
HX220c HX240c B200 & HX240c
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Rapid deployment of virtual
environments using built-in
server storage versus dedicated
traditional arrays
• Scalable virtual environments
that can grow on demand as
workloads dictate
• Enterprise class storage features
without purchasing traditional
arrays from legacy vendors
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX171_VSI_ESXi6U2.html
Version 5.0

HyperFlex and C3000 storage Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and SQL Server, Veeam Explorer for Oracle
server • Scalable Veeam Repository on UCS Managed C3000 storage servers
• Single Veeam console to • Best practices to deploy HyperFlex cluster with Veeam and Cisco UCS C3000 storage server
if application VM across several
to-deploy validated design Remote Data Center Remote Office / Brand Office
combining Veeam, HyperFlex VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
and Cisco UCS C3000 storage Backup & VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
for ROBO and distributed data Replication
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
center HX Data Platform
Cisco UCS C3260 HX Data Platform
or UCS C240
Backup Repository
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Fabric

Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric Fabric
LAN/SAN LAN/SAN Interconnect Interconnect
Frontend Frontend
• High RPO/RTO with multiple
hours of restore time or data
loss for 24/7 business critical Backup &
Replication
Backup &
Replication
applications
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
• High OPEX in managing data Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

protection endpoints for multiple VM VM VM VM
Replication
Backup &
Replication
HX clusters in remote offices Hypervisor HX Data Platform
deployed across geography Cisco UCS C3260
or UCS C240
Backup Repository
• Single solution to provision data Fabric
Interconnect
Fabric
Interconnect
protection for HyperFlex clusters Standalone

ESXi Cluster LAN/SAN LAN/SAN
deployed in ROBO or distributed Frontend Frontend
across multiple data centers Local Data Center
Deployment: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html
Version 5.0
Infrastructure
SECURITY
ll Secure Enclave Architecture
Security threats are real, growing in both complexity and sophistication. Such threats place a heavy burden on
organizations that need to increase their security resources to manage these risks. Organizations, however, find it
challenging to find the best security solutions for their specific requirements and hate the inefficiencies of buying
components from a broad range of vendors.
Version 5.0
• Extensions of Cisco’s integrated • Consistent approach to infrastructure deployment and security posture
systems built on Cisco UCS and • Flexible consumption model to meet application and business requirements
Nexus switching
• Addresses the attack continuum using a “Before, During and After” approach
• Integrates security products such
as Cisco TrustSec ASA, IPS, • Automation of well-known and well-understood resource pools
VSG, NGA, ISE and technology
partners
ARCHITECTURE
• Automation via UCS Director
Public Access Control
Load Balancing
Private Access Control
Application Database
Web Tier
Tier Tier
W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
Physical
and Threat TrustSec
VM VM
Defense
Cisco Integrated + Cisco and Partner

Server
Enclave Model
Infrastructures Security Technologies Virtualized and physical

Load Balancing
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense
• Changing Business Models

Enclave Model

Load Balancing
• T
ransition to cloud, Internet of
Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
UCS Director
Private Access Control W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Everything Single pane of glass for efficient Web Tier

Application
Tier
Cisco Cyber
Database
Security
and Threat
Tier
Defense
Cisco
TrustSec
Management
Compute and Hypervisor
Enclave Model
Management
• Dynamic Threat Landscape W1 WX App1 Appx DB1
DBX
Load Balancing
• No perimeter
Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
• Complexity and Fragmentation

Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense
A B C
Enclave Model Enclave Model
• Inconsistent security policy Network and Services

Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
and enforcement W1 WX App1 Appx DB1 DBX
Cisco Cyber
Security
and Threat
Defense
Cisco
TrustSec
Management
Tenant Tenant Tenant
A B C
Enclave Model
Load Balancing
Web Tier
Tier Tier
Cisco Cyber
Security Cisco
Management
and Threat TrustSec
Defense
Enclave Model
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-manager/whitepaper-c07-731204.html
FlexPod CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_sea.pdf
Version 5.0
Applications
ORACLE
Virtual
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Oracle Linux
Enterprises today feel an urgency to respond to fast-changing market and economic conditions by consolidating,
rationalizing, and transforming their mission-critical business applications in a way that supports growth.
Version 5.0
• Cisco UCS 2.2(3a) and NetApp • Integrated Compute, Network & Storage Solution.
FAS 8080 with Oracle 12c RAC • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation.
and Oracle Linux
• Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability
• A single platform built from unified features.
compute, fabric, and storage
technologies, allowing you to
scale to large-scale data centers ARCHITECTURE
without architectural changes.
• NetApp FAS Hybrid Arrays FlexPod Data Center Solution with UCS
with Flash Pool™ and Cisco NetApp FAS 8080 — Controller
UCS running OLTP and DSS • Nexus 9000

databases together. Cisco Nexus • Nexus 7000
• Nexus 5600
LAN Switch Family
• Nexus 5500
Configuration and Connectivity Best Practices

• Nexus 1110
vPC Storage A vPC Storage B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES N9K-Flexpod-SwitchA

VLAN 20,30 VLAN 30,20
vPC Peer
N9K-Flexpod-SwitchB Cisco Unified
• And more
Link 1 Computing System • UCS 6200 FI

UCS FI-6200 • Cisco UCS 5108
• Balancing large and continually VLAN 10,30
vPC Domain 1
VLAN 135,20 B-Series Blades • UCS 2200 I/O
evolving business requirement for failover vPC Public & Storage
vPC Private & Storage
for failover
Cisco C-Series
Module
• UCS B-Series
with a cost –efficient, high Cluster Link
Rack Servers • UCS C-Series
UCS 6248 UP Fab-A
performing and always-available
UCS 6248 UP Fab-8 • And more
UCS B460 Servers
database infrastructure. NetApp FAS • FAS 8000
Storage Family • AFF 8000
• Pre-tested, scalable and best- Oracle RAC Node 1 • FAS 2500
• DS2246
in-class converged solution Oracle RAC Node 2 NetApp E-Series • DS4246
Storage Family
stack for optimizing your •
•
E5500 Series
And more
most challenging Oracle RAC
database.
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Oracle RAC must exude

the highest level of flexibility,
performance, scalability
and resilience.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orcrac_12c_bm.html
Version 5.0
Applications
ORACLE
Physical Server
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and ll FlashStack for Oracle 12c RAC on Oracle Linux
NetApp AFF A-Series - New ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC on Oracle
ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Linux
Database on Pure Storage FlashBlade
ll FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2
Database
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Oracle RAC on Cisco UCS and NetApp

AFF A-Series
• Cisco UCS 3.2(3c), Cisco UCS • Integrated compute, network & storage solution
B200 M5 Blade Servers and • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
NetApp AFF A700s with Oracle
12cR2 RAC and Oracle Linux • Centralized, simplified management of infrastructure resources, including end-to-end automation
• A single platform built from unified • Hardware level redundancy for all major components using Cisco UCS and NetApp availability
compute, fabric, and storage features
technologies, allowing you to • Faster deployments, greater flexibility of choice, efficiency, high availability and lower risk
scale to large-scale data centers
without architectural changes
ARCHITECTURE
• NetApp All Flash Array powered
by NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
9.3 and Cisco UCS running OLTP
and DSS Databases together NetApp AFF A700s
BUSINESS CHALLENGES MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
LAN
• Balancing large and continually VSAN-A 201 VSAN-B 202
N9K-C93180LC-EX-A
evolving business requirement with
vPC Peer Link 1
a cost–efficient, high performing vPC Domain 1
and always-available database VLAN 10

for Failover
Allowed VLAN 135,10
Allowed VLAN 135,10
VLAN 135
for Failover
infrastructure Networking
Cluster Link
Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects
• Pre-tested, scalable and best in- FI 6332-16UP-A
UCS-B200-M5 Servers
FI 6332-16UP-B Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches
class converged solution stack for Public Traffic Private Traffic Cisco MDS 9100 Series Fabric Switches
optimizing your most challenging Compute

Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
Oracle RAC databases Cisco UCS Blade Servers
Swingbench Client
• Oracle RAC must exude the highest Chassis01: UCS Chassis 5108
Storage
NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays
level of flexibility, performance, Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 4
scalability and resilience

• Time consuming, convoluted, 16G FC Storage Traffic
10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
expensive application deployment 10/40 G Private Network Traffic
40 G Public Network Traffic
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_orc12cr2_affaseries.html
Version 5.0
FlashStack Data Center with Oracle RAC 12cR2 Database on Pure

Storage FlashBlade
performance of Server, Network • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
and NVMe all-flash Storage on a
per workload basis • Improved customer success back by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
FlashArray//X70
Controller
hardware upgrades without
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
LAN

for database consolidation,

management, and seemless date

Breakout Cable
Cluster Link
integration UCS FI 6332-16UP-A UCS FI 6332-16UP-B

UCS-B200-M4 Servers

and always-available
infrastructure that balances Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
enormous and evolving business Oracle RAC Node 3 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
requirements Oracle RAC Node 5
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Pre-tested converged
infrastructure that optimizes
your mission critical Oracle
performance and scalability Chassis02: UCS Chassis 5108
requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2_flashblade.html
Version 5.0

performance of server, network and • Minimizes business disruption and improves IT agility while reducing deployment time
NVMe all-flash storage on a per
workload basis • Improved customer success backed by Cisco Systems and Pure Storage
instances through software and
hardware upgrades without FlashArray//X with 100% NVMe
Pure Storage • Increased Performance
compromising performance FlashArray//X70
Controller • Lower Latency
• Greater Performance Density
• New design targets a variety of vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1

for database consolidation, VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
Allowed VLAN 134,10 VLAN 134 for failover
management, and seamless date

integration Cluster Link

UCS-B200-M5 Servers
• A cost–efficient, high performing Public Traffic Private Traffic
and always-available infrastructure

that balances enormous and
evolving business requirements Oracle RAC Node 1
Oracle RAC Node 3
Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
• Pre-tested converged Oracle RAC Node 5
Oracle RAC Node 6
infrastructure that optimizes your

mission critical Oracle performance

and scalability requirements
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_oracleRAC12cr2.html
Version 5.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, validate • A cohesive, integrated system that is managed, serviced and tested as a whole
and predict performance of server, • Leverage a pre-validated platform to minimize business disruption and improve IT agility and reduce
network and storage platform on a deployment time from months to weeks
per workload basis
• Guarantee customer success with prebuilt, pre-tested drivers, Oracle database software
• Seamless scalability of performance
and capacity to meet growth needs
of Oracle database ARCHITECTURE
• High availability of database
compromise through software and FlashArray//m
Controller
hardware upgrades
LAN
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
• Highly scalable architecture designed VLAN 10 for failover
Allowed VLAN 134,10
Allowed VLAN 134,10
to meet a variety of scale-out Breakout Cable
application demands with seamless

Cluster Link

data integration and management Public Traffic
UCS-B200-M4 Servers
Private Traffic
• Balancing enormous and evolving

business requirement with a cost– 8/16 G FC Storage Traffic
efficient, high performing and
Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
always-available infrastructure Oracle RAC Node 2
Oracle RAC Node 4
• Pre-tested, scalable converged

solution for optimizing your
challenging Oracle RAC performance
and scalability Chassis02: UCS Chassis 5108
Version 5.0

• 8 node Oracle RAC build, • Highly scalable architecture designed to meet a variety of scale-out application demands with
validate and predict performance seamless data integration and management
of server, network and storage • Balancing enormous and continually evolving business requirements with a cost–efficient, high
platform on a per workload basis performing and always-available database infrastructure
• Seamless scalability of • Pre-tested, scalable and best-in-class converged solution stack for optimizing your most
performance and capacity to challenging Oracle RAC database performance and scalability
meet growth needs of Oracle
Database
• High availability of DB ARCHITECTURE
instances without performance
compromise through software Pure Storage
FlashArray//m
and hardware upgrades Controller
BUSINESS CHALLENGES MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
LAN
• A cohesive, integrated system Storage VSAN-A 101 Storage VSAN-B 102
that is managed, serviced and vPC Domain 1 vPC Peer Link 1
tested as a whole N9K-C9372PX-A N9K-C9372PX-B
• Leverage a pre-validated
platform to minimize business

Breakout Cable
Cluster Link
disruption, improve IT agility and UCS FI 6332-16UP-A

UCS-B200-M4 Servers
UCS FI 6332-16UP-B
reduce deployment time from Public Traffic Private Traffic
months to weeks
• Guarantee customer success Oracle RAC Node 1 Oracle RAC Node 3
with pre-built, pre-tested Oracle RAC Node 5 Oracle RAC Node 7 10/40 GbE Uplinks Traffic
drivers, Oracle database
software
Version 5.0
Applications
MICROSOFT
VMware
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware vSphere 6.5
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and VMware

vSphere 6.5
• Scalable Architecture • To simplify the design and deployment of MS SQL server on a virtualized FlexPod Infrastructure
• 40GE End-to-End iSCSI • Maximize hardware utilization, reducing sprawl, power and cooling costs by consolidation
Connectivity • Virtualizing SQL server on the FlexPod (All Flash storage) infrastructure meets the most demanding
• NetApp AFF300 Series customers’ workloads
Storage • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps in deploying servers/solutions quickly & effectively.
• MS SQL Server 2016
• Nexus 9000 Series ARCHITECTURE
• vSphere 6.5 Virtualization
Platform Virtual Machines
• High Availability with VMware SQL

Server
SQL
Server
SQL
Server
VMware vSphere 6.5 HA/DRS
VMware vSphere ESX 6.5 Infra

ESX1 ESX2
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Virtual

Center
SQL
Server
UCS B200 UCS B200

• Non-Standardization and M5 M5
Infra
decentralization SQL Server Virtual
Machines
Databases AD
Server
UCS 6332-16UP
• Slow, complex, expensive SQL
application deployments vPC vPC
• Scalability and performance 40 GbE Converged

Challenges 40 GbE Only
• Business Continuity challenges due Nexus 93180YC-EX 10 GbE Only
to growing environment complexity SFO Interconnect
• Reduce the number of management

domains – data center agility
vPC vPC
NetApp AFF A300
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/mssql2016_flexpod_vmware_cvd.html
Version 5.0
• Nexus 9000 supporting ACI • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Rapid exchange application deployment
• Policy driven network Unified Data Center • Joint publication with Cisco-NetApp
Data ONTAP 8.2.1
• UCS 2.2 (1d) supporting direct ARCHITECTURE
fabric interconnect attached
C-series Unified Computing
System
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Outlook
Clients
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook
Clients
Outlook Active
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Sync
Clients
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Sync
Clients
Interconnects,
Spine Switches

Network Network
Active Active
Active Active Act
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Directory Directory
Nexus 9396
• Scalability and performance issues

• Challenges in business vPC vPC
adjacency due to growing

Exchange Exchange
enterprises and complexity in

managing them iSCSI iSCSI
Network Network
Nexus 5596
X8
expensive application
deployment
10 GbE only
• Isolated network regulation Converged Interconnects
Standby Link
• Inefficient orchestration SFO Interconnect
and cumbersome network 40 GbE only
automation
• Complex multi-tenant
environment
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/exchange2013_aci_flexpod_vmware_design.html
Version 5.0
Applications
MICROSOFT
Microsoft
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with MS Hyper-V - New
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with VMware - New
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft

SQL Server with MS Hyper-V
Hyper-V Windows Hyper-V.
SQL Server 2016 SP1
• 2x Cisco Nexus 9396PX ARCHITECTURE
BUSINESS CHALLENGES VHDX VHDX

HyperFlex Distributed Filesystem
VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX VHDX
Cisco Nexus Series Switches
SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL
Boot Data Data Log Boot Data Data Log
• MS SQL Servers on standalone SMB Datastore
l2
l1 3
rl 0
2 trl
1
trl
tr trl
tr
vPC Peer IC l3
trl
C
C
IC
IC
SI CS tr
vSCSI Ct
SI
CS
IC
vS IC
CS
C
C
vS vS CS
CS
vS
vS
vS
vS
• MS SQL Server 2008 End-of-
vPC vPC
SQLVM SQLVM SQLVM SQLVM

Controller VM Controller VM
Support Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect
Hyper V Hyper V
3 to 8 Cisco HyperFlex HXAF240c
• Underutilized servers in M5 Node
traditional infrastructure. Network CPU/memory SSD SSD Network CPU/memory SSD SSD
• Siloed and disintegrated Shared

management in traditional services
infrastructure
AD/DNS/NTP
• Virtualization license/cost
challenges DHCP
40G Converged
40GbE
SCVMM
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_hyperv_mssql.html
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft

SQL Server with VMware
VMware ESXi 6.5 VMware ESXi.
SQL Server 2016 SP1 • Stretch Cluster deployment & validation for disaster recovery
• 2x Cisco Nexus 9396PX ARCHITECTURE
• HX Stretched Cluster
SQL Server VM
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Customer Boot SQL data SQL data SQL Log
Network Volume volume volume volume

• MS SQL Server 2008 End-of- Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnect
LSI Logic SAS
SCSI Controller 0
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 1
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 2
Paravirtual
SCSI Controller 3
Support 3 to 32 Cisco HyperFlex All Flash

Nodes
• Underutilized servers in Hyperflex NFS Datastore(s)

traditional infrastructure
• Siloed and disintegrated Shared
services
Datastore-1
management in traditional
infrastructure AD-DNS
Cisco Hyperflex HX Data Platform
VCenter Compute Only Blade Servers
NTP
Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node 1

Cisco Hyperflex All Flash Node n
DHCP
Compute Only Rack Mount Servers
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_esxi_mssql.html
Version 5.0
Applications
SAP
ll Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI - New
ll FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI - New
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI for SAP HANA - New
ll FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using NetApp AFF A-Series
ll Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for SAP HANA
Version 5.0
Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI

• Supports Cisco blade series • The solution is designed and validated using compute, network and storage best practices for
servers B200 and B480 with all high performance, scalability, and resiliency throughout the architecture.
SAP supported Memory config • Run mission-critical applications efficiently by independently and automatically scaling compute
• Design document multiple OS and storage
SLES 12 SP4 and RHEL 7.5 • Unify and automate the control of server, network, and storage components to simplify resource
• Design Supports Hitachi VSP provisioning and maintenance.
Series storage.
• Provides detailed deployment ARCHITECTURE
guide for SAP HANA, SAP BW
Nexus 9336C-FX2
powered by SAP HANA, SAP
Business Suite powered by
SAP HANA, SAP Business Suite
powered by SAP HANA, S/4HANA
scenarios
Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Need for scalable and reliable Cisco UCS B480-M5

MDS 9706
infrastructure that can be
implemented in an intelligent,
policy driven manner
• Need for secured multi-tenancy
across Compute, Network and
Storage Cisco UCS B200-M5
• Need for proven end-to-end

VSP G370
with resilient, agile, flexible
infrastructure
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci_sap.html
Design: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_hitachi_adaptivesolutions_ci_sap_design.html
Version 5.0
FlashStack for SAP HANA TDI

• Seamless scalability of performance • A single platform built from unified compute, fabric and storage technologies, allowing you to
and capacity meeting required KPIs scale to large-scale implementations without architectural changes.
for SAP HANA TDI deployments; also • Leverage a secure, integrated, and optimized converged stack that is pre-sized, configurable and
ensuring High availability without deployable in a flexible manner for SAP HANA implementations.
performance compromise through
in-place software and hardware
upgrades ARCHITECTURE
• Details the reference architecture
Pure FlashArray //X 50 R2
infrastructure and Pure Storage.
• Sample SAP HANA Scale-up and
3+1 Scale-Out system deployment
best practices with newer Purity RUN
platform enabled WFS based NFS MDS-C9148S-A MDS-C9148S-B
services providing for HANA shared Customer NW
filesystem .
vPC Peer Link 1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Nx9336C-FX2-A Nx9336C-FX2-B
• SAP HANA TDI deployments are Cluster Link
complicated and generally mission Cisco UCS 6332-16UP Cisco UCS 6332-16UP
critical with high availability requirements. Inter-node and others NFSshared, Mgmt and others
Customers face challenges maintaining

these landscapes both in terms of time, 8/16G FC Storage Traffic
available resources and operational cost 10/40G Ether Traffic
10/40 G NFSshared, Mgmt Traffic
• Availability of pre-tested, scalable and 10/40 G Inter-node and other Traffic
best-in-class converged solution stack

for optimizing enterprise workloads
running SAP HANA database based Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with B480 M5 Servers
applications.
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_saptdi.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco ACI for SAP HANA

• Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen Data Center with FlexPod and Application driven policy
Interconnects running UCSM based approach to Solution deployment with Cisco ACI.
3.2 , Cisco Nexus 9000 series • High performance, scalable and resilient and multi-tenant network infrastructure centrally
ACI switches with 3-node managed and configured.
APIC cluster 3.2(2l)
• NetApp AFF-A300 providing
40 GE end-to-end IP ARCHITECTURE
connectivity with NFS and
iSCSI options for boot as well Cisco UCS
as HANA persistence layer. 5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
• SAP HANA single host and
Cisco UCS
scale-out implementation 5108 B-Series Blade Chassis
examples. B200 M5 Blade Servers
Cisco UCS
C480 M5 Rack Server(s)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cisco UCS C240 M5
Rack Server(s)
• Reduce time to deployment of Cisco UCS C220 M5
Rack Server(s)
business critical applications like
Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects
SAP HANA Po Po
Cisco Nexus 9336PQ VPC VPC
• Ease infrastructure deployment and Spine Switches
management burdens Cisco ACI APIC

Controllers
• Industry trends of management
automation and dynamic workload Cisco Nexus 93180LC-EX
provisioning Leaf Switches
NetApp AFF A300 Storage

Controllers w/ NetApp
DS224C Disc Shelves
SAS Only 40GbE Only 10GbE Only
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_aci_UCSM32.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter for SAP Solution with IP-Based Storage using

NetApp AFF A-Series
• UCS 6300 Fabric Interconnect, • Converged infrastructure for the NextGen data center
Nexus 9000, and NetApp • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments. Nexus
AFF-A300 providing 40 GE end-to- switches used are leaf node supported; easing shift to ACI mode.
end IP connectivity
• High performance, scalable and resilient systems
with clustered data ONTAP 9.2
and 40 GE connectivity
12x Cisco UCS B480M5
• New FlexPod data center best or
40Gbps FCoE
practices for VMware vSphere 6.5 12x Cisco UCS B200M5 40Gbps NFS
for virtualized implementations
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Improve utilization rates 2x Cisco UCS C220M5

(Management Server)
applications Cisco UCS FI 6332-16UP
Cisco UCS FI 6332
• Ease infrastructure management vPC vPC
burdens
vPC-peer
Cisco Nexus
2348TQ
ifgrp ifgrp
NetApp AFF A300
NetApp DS224C
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_saphana_n9k_aff_ucsm.html
Version 5.0
• Solution is designed with • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS Service Profile with 40Gb end-to-end network including
next gen Cisco UCS fabric Storage Network. Single management endpoint for compute and storage elements for SAP HANA
interconnect with 40Gb end-to- • Cisco UCS servers provides persistent storage with MapR Converged Data Platform, a modern
end network NFS-mountable distributed file-system with enterprise grade storage
• Persistent storage is configured • UCS integrated infrastructure provides policy-based models to deliver operational simplicity,
on UCS C240 C-series servers comprehensive and consistent performance to run SAP HANA
with MapR Converged Data
Platform
• MapR Data Platform provides
ARCHITECTURE
distributed, reliable, high
performance, scalable, and full
read/write NFS-based storage
for SAP HANA Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Provide an end-to-end
utilizing the capabilities of 4 x UCS C240 M4 8 x UCS B460 M4 Servers
the unified infrastructure for (24 x 1.8 TB SAS drives)
compute, network and storage

• Cisco’s integrated infrastructure
with policy-driven programmable
infrastructure enables customers
to better fit SAP applications into
their data center
• Provide a reliable, flexible and MapR based Storage HANA Servers
scalable reference design with
Cisco only hardware
CVD with MAPR: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_mapr.html

CVD with SLES: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_sles.html
CVD with RHEL: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucsii_saphana_rhel.html
Version 5.0
Applications
VIRTUAL CLIENT COMPUTING
Citrix: VMware
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
ll FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
ll 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.15 and

VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 for 6000 Seats
NetApp AFF A300
• Performance study with simulations of RDS Storage System
Hosted Server Sessions & VDI Instant non- 2 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MD5 Fabric Switch
to NetApp AFF A300 Storage System Controller
1 Disc Shelf D5224C & VDI) Mixed Users
(2 Controller)
desktop workloads running knowledge
worker workload
VPC Domain-Peer Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cluster Link

Fabric / Switching
Switches

Workload 2

Servers)

VDI solutions

Storage

Cluster Link
point devises
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd715esxi65u1_flexpod.html
Version 5.0

4000 Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Users
servers, 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (N+1) with scale out option • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
3.1(2g)
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.13
ARCHITECTURE
Peer-Link
• Citrix Provisioning Services 7.13
• VMware vSphere 6.0 U3 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Cisco Nexus 9372PX
vPC vPC
8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers 16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
Each server includes: Each server includes:
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
processor
processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card • 2 X 64GB SD card
• Highly scalable architecture • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
designed to meet scale-out • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227 mLOM
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
seamless datacenter integration • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz
and management, and energy processor
• 2 X 64GB SD card
efficiency • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G
Datastore HX Datastore configured with drives per converged node
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD
for Cache
Computing solution with excellent • 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for
end-user experience capacity
• Best practices for installation

and deployment of Cisco
HyperFlex All-Flash system for 4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G
Citrix XenDesktop 7.x tuned for

CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_XenDesk713.html
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with UCS, NetApp All Flash FAS, and Citrix
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7
• UCS 3.1(1e) • Day-zero workflow provisioning support • CVD introduction to UCS Performance Manager
• UCS B200 M4 blades • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco • Hardware/software level redundancy using
• NetApp AFF8080EX-A storage Unified Data Center Cisco UCS and NetApp Availability features
system • Mixed VCC and RDS workload scenarios
• NetApp clustered data ONTAP
8.3.2 ARCHITECTURE
• Nexus 9372 series switches
(standalone) FlexPod Datacenter with B200 M4 Blade Servers, AFF8080EX Storage,
vSphere 6 U1, and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.7 for 5000 Seats
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
(7.7) XenApp 7.7 Cisco Unified
Workload
XenDesktop 7.7 Computing System
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 1a UCS 5108 Chassis w/
UCS B200 M4 Blade
Servers
BUSINESS CHALLENGES 2x Nexus 9372 Switches 10 GbE

Network Converged
2x Cisco UCS 6248 SAS
• Quick provisioning of VCC Cisco UCS
6248UP Fabric
solution environment 4x Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis Interconnects
Compute vPC (11) vPC (12)
28x Cisco UCS B200 M4
• Dynamic and agile expansion of Blade Server
Cisco Nexus
VCC solution
vPC (10)
9372PX Switches Peer Links
• Scalability of VCC to support

user demand at large scale NetApp AFF8080EX Storage28x 2x
ifgrp ifgrp
Storage NetApp DS2246 Disk
• Support for enterprise converged Shelves 48x 800GB SSDs
vPC vPC
VCC solution NetApp (13,17) (14,18)

Node 1
AFF 8080 EX Storage
w/ Single HA Pair Node 2
Cluster
Network
NetApp
DS2246 Disc Shelves
48x 800GB SSDs
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/cisco_ucs_xd77esxi60u1_flexpod.html
Version 5.0
4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1
• Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(1a) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 with Intel • Investment protection in high-density and high-performance data center environments
E5-2690 • High-performance, scalable, and resilient system
• Cisco 6248UP fabric • Rapid boot, rapid login and support for 4000 mixed-use case virtual desktops and session users
interconnect, Nexus 5548UP
Layer 2 switch
• VMware vSphere 5.1 ARCHITECTURE
• Citrix ‑ 5.6 pooled and personal
vDisk, XenApp 6.5 hosted
shared desktops EMC VNX7500
• Nexus 1000v for VMware v

4.2(1)SV1(5.2) SP-A 8Gb FC DM-2 10GE DM-3 10GE DM-4 10GE DM-5 10GE SP-B 8Gb FC
2 x 8Gb FC 2 x 10GE 2 x 10GE 2 x 8Gb FC

• EMC VNX7500 with fast cache
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Peer Links

Cisco Nexus 5548UP Cisco Nexus 5548UP
4 X 10 Gbps 4 X 10 Gbps
• Siloed network, compute, and
storage 2 x 1 Gbps
Cisco UCS6248UP Cisco UCS6248UP
• Complex design and integration
4 Cisco UCS 5108
• Scale challenge Blade Chassis
• Differing user requirements 5 x 5200 M3
Infrastructure Cisco UCS Cisco UCS
• Low end-user adoption 2204XP 2204XP
4 Cisco UCS 5108
Blade Chassis
FC/FCoE
5 x 5200 M3
10 GE
Mixed Workload
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

2204XP 2204XP
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/citrix_emc_ucs_XDXAscale.pdf
Version 5.0
Applications
Citrix: Citrix
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems with up to 2000 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Users - New
ll Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 600 Citrix XenDesktop Users
ll Cisco HyperFlex M5 All-Flash Hyperconverged System with Hyper-V 2016 and Citrix XenDesktop
ll 1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10, with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
ll 5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems with up to 2000 Citrix

Virtual Apps and Desktop Users
• 8x UCS HX220-M5S rack servers, • Hyperconverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
& 8x B200M5 servers for compute • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
4.0.1(b)
• Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops ARCHITECTURE
1808
Cisco HyperFlex and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Single UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• Vmware ESXi 6.5
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
vPC vPC 8 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5SX or Cisco HXAF240C-M5SX Rack Servers

Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Each Server Includes:
• 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz
• 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
• Highly scalable architecture • 768 GB (24 x 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666 MHz
designed to meet scale-out 16 x 40 G 16 x 40 G • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM
application (VDI) demands with • 1 x Cisco 12GBPs Modular SAS HBA

seamless datacenter integration
and management, Energy HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
efficiency. • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Infrastructure solution with 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers

excellent End User Experience. Each server includes:
• Best practices for installation and • 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD
HX • 768 GB (24 x 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex Datastore
All-Flash system for Citrix Virtual
Desktop tuned for performance and
scalability
4 x 40 G 4 x 40 G
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx35_vdi_CitrixVAD_2000.html
Version 5.0
CiscoHyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlexM5M5All-Flash
Systemwith
withup
uptoto
600Citrix
600 CitrixXenDesktop
XenDesktopUsers
Users
TECHNICAL
HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY
SUMMARY
• 4• UCS
4 UCS HXAFC220-M5S
HXAFC220-M5S rack
based onon Cisco
Cisco HyperFlex
HyperFlex
scale • Investment protection in in high
high density
density and
and high
high performance
performance data
data center
center environments
environments
scale outout option
option in in a single
a single UCSUCS
domain
domain • High
scalable and
and resilient
resilient virtual
virtual environment
environment
• Cisco
HypperFlex 2.6.1b,
2.6.1b, UCSM
UCSM
3.2(2d)
3.2(2d)
• XenDesktop
• XenDesktop 7.16
7.16
• VMware
• VMware vSphere
vSphere 6.56.5
U1U1 ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Peer-Link
• BUSINESS CHALLENGES Cisco Nexus 93108 Cisco Nexus 93108

Highly scalable architecture
designed to meet scale-out
• Highly scalable
application architecture
(VDI) demands with Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
designed
seamless to datacenter
meet scale-out
integration 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers
application (VDI) demands
and management, Energywith
4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
seamless datacenter integration
efficiency. • 120GB M.2 SATA SSD
and management, Energy • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
efficiency. • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM
Infrastructure solution with • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA

• Enterprise-grade
excellent End User Virtual Desktop
Experieance.
Infrastructure solution with

• Best practices
excellent End User forExperieance.
installation and HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool or Server 2016 RDS
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
• Best practices
All-Flash for installation
system for VMware and • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Deployment of Cisco
Horizon 7 tuned for HyperFlex
performance
and scalability. HX
and scalability.
CVD:
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_citrix.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_citrix.html
Version 5.0
CiscoHyperFlex
Cisco HyperFlexM5
M5All-Flash
Systemwith
with
Hyper-V2016
Hyper-V 2016and
andCitrix
CitrixXenDesktop
XenDesktop
TECHNICAL
HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY
SUMMARY
• UCS
• 4 4 UCS HXAFC220-M5S
HXAFC220-M5S rack
based onon Cisco
Cisco HyperFlex
HyperFlex
scale out option in a single UCS • Investment protection in in high
high density
density and
and high
high performance
performance data
data center
center environments
environments
domain
domain • High
scalable and
and resilient
resilient virtual
virtual environment
environment
• •Cisco
HypperFlex 3.0.1a,
3.0.1a, UCSM
UCSM
3.2(2d)
3.2(2d)
• XenDesktop
• XenDesktop 7.17
7.17
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 ARCHITECTURE
• Microsoft Hyper-V 2016
ARCHITECTURE

designed
• Highly to meet
scalable scale-out
application
seamless(VDI)
demands integration
and management,
andefficiency.
efficiency.
• Enterprise-grade Virtual with
Desktop • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
excellent End
Infrastructure User Experience
solution with
excellent End User
• Best practices forExperience
installation Pool with drives listed below per node:
andpractices
• Best Deployment of Cisco
for installation • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
HyperFlex
and All-Flash
Deployment system for
of Cisco
Citrix XenDesktop
HyperFlex turned for
All-Flash system for
HX
performance
Citrix andturned
XenDesktop scalability.
for Datastore
CVD:
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx301a_vdi_hyperv_xd716.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx301a_vdi_hyperv_xd716.html
Version 5.0
1250 Users on FlashStack a Cisco UCS Mini and Pure //m10,

with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.15
• Simple architecture with UCS B • High performance and scalability with simplicity
Series Servers • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• High performance SAN for desktop • Small footprint for SMB
workloads
• 1250 users per FlashStack Mini
solution ARCHITECTURE
• Performance study with simulations
of typical desktop workloads Physical Architecture Logical Architecture
Cisco UCS
Chassis 5108 User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer
Machine Catalogs for VCC and RDS Users
SSL HA Pair
DS for VCC Systems Citrix XenDesktop/ VCC VMs:
XenDesktop 7.15 (Win 10 VCC) XenApp 7.15 VDA 2vCPU/2GB RAM
Delivery Group Netscaler 1000v
for VCC Users (up
to 1000)
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Load

FlashStack Mini
Balancer
Sync
• Typical end-user virtualization

workloads Storefront
Sync Control Layer Mirror
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Citrix XenApp 7.15 SQL Database
unpredictable) and hence high Deliver Controller
demand on quick H/W expansion Pure //m10 All

Flash Array Director Studio License Server Active Directory
flexibilities
VCC solutions
8GB FC (Pure Controller A)
8GB FC (Pure Controller B)
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_citrixmshyperv_1250.html
Version 5.0
5000 Seat Mixed Workload FlashStack Solution with

XenDesktop 7.9 on ESXi 6.0U2
• UCS 3.1(2b) with Broadwell support • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center and FlashStack architecture
• Cisco UCS Managed B 200 M4 (E5- • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
2680v4) 28 servers, four clusters, N+1 • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment with rapid boot, excellent end user experience
• Nexus 9172PX 7.0(3)I2(2e), Nexus • Mixed workload with pooled and persistent Windows 10 VCC and hosted shared server desktops
1000V 5.2(1), 10 GE and FC switching
• Higher VM density per ESXi cluster
• VMware vSphere 6.0 update 2 • Supported NVIDIA M6 graphics
Hypervisor
• Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and PVS
7.9
ARCHITECTURE
• Pure Storage FlashArray//m50 84TB FlashStack 5000 Seat Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 7.9 Mixed Workload
raw flash storage

4 x 8 GB FC from each
Pure Storage FlashArray//m50
• NVIDIA M6 graphics mezzanine card MDS 9148S to Pure//m50
Storage
Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Siloed network, compute, and storage VPC Domain VPC Peer-Link
• Integration complexity
Nexus 9372 PX-A Nexus 9372 PX-B
• Inefficient human resource utilization
• Complex, expensive operations UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
• Large scale deployment building Cluster-Link

4 x 8GB Uplinks to
blocks needed Storage-VSAN-B:30
4 x 8GB Uplinks to
• Requirement for outstanding end-user Storage-VSAN-A:20 4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
experience 4-UCS 5108
Chassis 28 B200 4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
8 Gb FC M4 Blades
• Graphics support 10 GB Ethernet
• Windows 10/Office 2016 transition Cluster Link Chassis-3: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (4) Persistent/ (4) Non-Persistent
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_XD79_5k.html
Version 5.0
Applications
VMW View
ll Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to 4400 users - New
ll FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats - New
ll FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and VMware vSphere 6.5U1 for 5000 Seats
ll Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Hyperconverged System with up to 2000 VMware Horizon 7 Users
ll FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 for 6000 seats
ll Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware Horizon 7 Users
ll VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
ll 5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware Horizon View 6.2
Version 5.0
Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash System with Horizon 7.6 up to

4400 users
• 32 Node All Flash Hyperflex Solution: • All Flash HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
16 UCS HXAF220C-M5SX rack servers • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
and 8 UCS 220C-M5 rack servers +
8 UCS B200 M5 blade servers (n+1 • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
cluster) with scale out option in a single • Very good sub mil second knowledge worker workload End User Experience
UCS domain
• Cisco HyperFlex v3.5(1a), UCSM ARCHITECTURE
4.0(1b) Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Full Scale Single UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• Nexus 93180 YC switches, Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
Peer-Link
Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
• VMware vSphere 6.5.2.U2, VMware

Horizon 7 .6
16 x Cisco HXAF C220-M55X Rack Servers
• 4400 User Windows Server 2016 Cisco UCS-FI-6332 vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332 Each Server Includes:
• 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6140 Scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz
RDS Sessions & Windows 10 mixed 16 x 40G 16 x 40G • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
Knowledge Worker workload density. • 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666 MHz
• 1 x Cisco 12 GBPs Modular SAS HBA
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
• Highly scalable architecture designed • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
to meet scale-out application (VDI) • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
demands with seamless datacenter

8 x Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Servers
integration and management, Energy Each server includes:
efficiency. • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
HX
Datastore • 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop • 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz

Infrastructure solution with excellent End 8 x 40G 8 x 40G
User Experience. 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers

• Best practices for installation and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 120Gb M.2 SATA SSD

• 768 GB (12 x 64GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
for VMware Horizon 7 tuned for 2 x 40G 2 x 40G
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx35_vdi_horizon76_4400.html
Version 5.0
FlashStack Data Center with VMware Horizon 7.4 and VMware

vSphere 6.5 U1 Cisco UCS Manager 3.2 for 6000 Seats
single UCS domain
Pure Storage
• Purity v5.0.2 4 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MDS Fabric Switch
FlashArray//X70
Cisco-MDS 9148S-A Cisco-MDS 9148S-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES vPC Port-Channel

vPC Peer Link
• Typical VMware Horizon View vPC Port-Channel vPC Port-Channel
Desktops & RDS-hosted server UCS 6332-16UP-FI-A

Cluster Link
UCS 6332-16UP-FI-B
sessions mixed workload combined

users 2 x 40 GB Connection from Infra Node-1 2 x 40 GB Connection from
• Rapid workload changes (mostly 6332-16UP FI-A (4 Chassis) 6332-16UP FI-B (4 Chassis)
unpredictable) and hence high 4 Cisco UCS Chassis

(32 Servers) 5K Mixed workload
demand on quick H/W expansion Configuration
Infra Node-2
Workload 2
flexibilities CH-1&2-BL8 (2 Infra Servers)
• Demand density when proposing CH02-1-7 (Workload Servers) Workload 3

VDI and RDSH solutions CH03-1-8 (Workload Servers)
40GB Ethernet
1G Ethernet
Version 5.0
FlexPod Datacenter with VMware Horizon View 7.3 and

VMware vSphere 6.5U1 for 5000 Seats
NetApp AFF A300
Storage System
1 Disc Shelf D5224C
(2 Controller)
& VDI) Mixed Users

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cluster Link

Fabric / Switching
Switches

Workload 2

Servers)

VDI solutions

Storage

Cluster Link
point devises
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_vmware_horizon_n9k_aff_ucsm32.html
Version 5.0

• 8 UCS HXAF220C-M5SX rack • All Flash HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
servers and 8 UCS B200 M5 blade • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
server (n+1) with scale out option
in a single UCS domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
• Cisco HyperFlex 3.0.1a, UCSM • Very good sub mil second knowledge worker workload End User Experience
3.2(3a)
• Nexus 93180 YC switches
ARCHITECTURE
Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Full Scale UCS Domain Reference Architecture
• VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware
Peer-Link
Horizon 7 Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX
• 2000 User Windows 10 & Server

2016 RDSH sessions mixed
Knowledge Worker workload Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
density. 8 x 40G 8 x 40G

8 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5SX
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
• 768 GB (24 X 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
• Highly scalable architecture • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM

designed to meet scale-out • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
application (VDI) demands with
and management, Energy • 1 x 400GB Toshiba Enterprise Performance (EP) SSD for Cache
• Enterprise-grade Virtual Desktop 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers Each server includes:
Infrastructure solution with • 2 x Intel© Xeon© Gold 6140 scalable family processor @ 2.3 GHz processor
excellent End User Experience. • 120GB M.2 SATA SSD
HX • 768 GB (24 X 32GB DDR4) RAM @ 2666MHz
• Best practices for installation and Datastore
Deployment of Cisco HyperFlex 4 x 40G 4 x 40G

CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx30_2kseat_ucs_horizon.html
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single UCS domain
ARCHITECTURE
• Purity v5.0.2 Pure Storage FlashArray//
4 x 16 GB FC from each 9148S MDS Fabric Switch X70 Controller
vPC Peer Link
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Cluster Link
• Typical VMware Horizon View

Desktops and RDS-hosted server 2 x 40 GB Connection from Infra Node-1 2 x 40 GB Connection from
sessions mixed workload combined 6332-16UP FI-A (4 Chassis) 6332-16UP FI-B (4 Chassis)
users 4 Cisco UCS Chassis

(32 Servers) 5K Mixed workload Infra Node-2
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Configuration
Workload 2
unpredictable) and hence high CH-1&2-BL8 (2 Infra Servers)

demand on quick H/W expansion CH02-1-7 (Workload Servers) Workload 3
• Demand density when proposing CH04-1-8 (Workload Servers)
VDI and RDSH solutions

40GB Ethernet
1G Ethernet
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servers and 8 UCS C220 M4 rack
servers (n+1) with scale out option • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
3.1(2g) ARCHITECTURE
• VMware Horizon 7.1 Cisco HyperFlex and VMware Horizon 7, Reference Architecture
Peer-Link
vPC vPC
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
16 x 10 G 16 x 10 G 16 x Cisco HXAF220C-M4S Rack Servers
• Highly scalable architecture • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.6. GHz processor
designed to meet scale-out • 2 X 64GB SD card
application (VCC) demands with • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM

seamless datacenter integration • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
and management, and energy • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
efficiency HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives

• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x 800GB Samsung Enterprise Perfomance (EP) SSD for Cache
Computing solution with excellent 8 x 10 G HX 8 x 10 G

• 10 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
Datastore
end-user experience 8 x Cisco UCS C220 M4S Rack Servers
• Best practices for installation and • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 512 GB (16 X 32GB DDR4) RAM
All-Flash system for VMware • 1 x Cisco VIC 1227
Horizon 7 tuned for performance 8 x Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers

and scalability 4 x 10 G 4 x 10 G • 2 x Intel© Xeon© CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.6 GHz processor
• 512 GB (16 X 32 GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HXAF211b_4Kseat_Horizon71.html
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servers, M5 rack server (n+1) with • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
domain • High performance, scalable and resilient virtual environment
3.2(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7.3.1
Peer-Link
• Highly scalable architecture Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP vPC vPC Cisco UCS-FI-6332-16-UP
designed to meet scale-out 4 x Cisco HXAF220C-M5S Rack Servers

application (VCC) demands with 4 x 40G 4 x 40G Each server includes:
seamless datacenter integration • 240GB M.2 SATA SSD
and management, and energy • 768 GB (12 X 64GB DDR4) RAM
efficiency • 1 x Cisco VIC 1387 mLOM

• Enterprise-grade Virtual Client • 1 x 240 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
Computing solution with excellent

end-user experience Pool with drives listed below per node:
• Best practices for installation and • 8 x 960GB Samsung SATA Enterprise Value SSDs for capacity
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex
HX
and scalability
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx26_vdi_600seat_horizon.html
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Cisco HyperFlex Hyperconverged System with up to 2400 VMware

Horizon 7 Users
• 8 UCS HXC240-M4SX rack servers • HyperConverged infrastructure based on Cisco HyperFlex
and 8 UCS B200 M4 blade server • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• Cisco HyperFlex 1.8.1c, UCSM
3.1(2b)
• VMware Horizon 7
ARCHITECTURE
• VMware vSphere 6.0
Peer-Link

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
vPC vPC

designed to meet scale-out 8 x 10 G 8 x 10 G
application (VCC) demands with 8 x Cisco HX240C-M4S Rack Servers

seamless data center integration Each server includes:
and management, and energy • 2 x 64GB SD card
efficiency • 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
• Enterprise-grade virtual client • 1 x Cisco 12Gbps Modular SAS HBA
computing solution with excellent • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
end user experience HX Datastore configured to host Windows 10 desktop pool with drives
• Best practices for installation and • 1 x 1.6TB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD for Cache
23 x 1.2TB 10K RPM SAS HDDs for capacity
deployment of Cisco HyperFlex • 1 x 120 GB Intel SATA Enterprise Value SSD
performance and scalability 4 x 10 G HX
Datastore
4 x 10 G
• 512 GB (16 x 32GB DDR4) RAM
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX18_VDI_2000seat_horizon.html
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VersaStack with Cisco UCS and IBM FlashSystem A9000 Storage

for 5000 VMware Horizon Users
B200 M4 chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and VCC • Very good end-user experience measuring <1 second for both RDSH and VCC users on cluster
users combined and infrastructure level and 5000 users mixed workload level
chassis • IBM modular storage technology. Storage controller failure with 3 active grid controllers technology.
No business disruption resilient capability
• 5000 combined RDS-hosted server
sessions and VCC users, Cisco
hardware, FIs, Nexus switches, IBM ARCHITECTURE
A9000 FlashSystem Storage in 42
Physical Architecture
RU single rack solution
• Performance study with simulations 6 x 8 GB from each
MDS 9148S to IBM VersaStack – A single rack
of RDS-hosted server sessions and FlashSystem A9000 IBM FlashSystem
A9000 Storage
solution for 5000 (RDSH &
Connecting 3 Storage VCC) Mixed Users
VCC typical desktop workloads Grid Controllers
running knowledge worker Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B

workload
VPC Peer-Link
Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B
Cluster-Link VersaStack Components

• Typical VMware Horizon tops and
RDS-hosted server sessions mixed 4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-A:300
4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-B:301
Fabric
Infra Node-1 2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switches
workload combined users Workload 1 2 Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnects
4 x 10G Uplinks per 2 Cisco MDS 9148S 16Gb Fibre Channel / Switches
• Rapid workload changes (mostly chassis IOM
unpredictable) and hence high

4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Infra Node-2
Chassis (32 Blade)5K Mixed
workload configuration chassis IOM Compute
demand on quick H/W expansion Chassis-1: Infra Server (1) & RDSH
1 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Chassis
2 Cisco UCS 2208 IO Modules
flexibilities Servers (7)
Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
Up to 8 Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Servers
Chassis-2: Infra Server (1) & VCC
Workload
• Demand density when proposing Servers (6) RDSH Server (1)
RDSH and VCC solutions

Chassis-3: VCC Servers (7) & 8/16 Gb FC
RDSH Server (1) Storage:
Node-4 10 GB Ethernet 1 IBM FlashSystem A9000
Chassis-4: VCC Servers (7) & Workload Cluster Link 12 x1.2 TB MicroLatency
RDSH Server (1)
Modules (21.44 TB Raw capacity)
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_horizon7_flasha9k_5k.html
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5000 Seat FlashStack with Pure Storage FlashArray//m on VMware

Horizon View 6.2
B200 M4 Chassis • UCS “Service Profile” approach helps faster flexible deployments in short notice
• 5,000 mixed RDSH and • Very good end user experience measuring <1 second for both VCC and RDSH users on cluster level
VCC users combined and and 5000 users mixed workload testing
infrastructure servers in four
5108 blade server chassis • Live storage migration/upgrade or controller failure with no business disruption resilient capability
• Nearly 1250 combined RDS-
hosted server sessions and VCC
users in 2 RU data center foot ARCHITECTURE
print
• Performance study with Physical Architecture FlashStack Components
simulations of RDS-hosted Network
Pure Storage
server sessions and VCC typical 4 x 8 GB FC from MDS
9148 S to Puren//m50 FlashArray//m50 2 Cisco 9372 PX Network Switches
desktop workloads Storage

2 Cisco 9148 S MDS Switches
• Local resources replace SAN for Cisco MDS 9148-A Cisco MDS 9148-B
workload files VPC Peer-Link

Nexus 9372 PX-A VPC Domain Nexus 9372 PX-B Compute
4 Cisco 5108 Blade Server Chassis
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
2 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Infrastructure
UCS 6248UP - Fab. A UCS 6248UP - Fab. B 30 Cisco B200 M4 Blade Servers For Workload
Cluster-Link
• Typical VMware Horizon View

Desktops and RDS-hosted 4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-A:20 Infra Node-1
4 x 8GB Uplink to
Storage-VSAN-B:30
server sessions mixed workload Workload 1
4 x 10G Uplinks per
combined users chassis IOM Storage
4 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Infra Node-2
• Rapid workload changes (mostly Server Chassis
chassis IOM
Pure FlashArray//m50
1 Base disck 40TB raw space
unpredictable) and hence high Cluster-1: Infra Server (1) &
VCC RDSH Servers (7)
1 external disk shelf with 44TB raw space
(Total 88TB disk space)
demand on quick H/W expansion Cluster-2: Infra Server (2) & Node-3
4 x 10G Uplinks per
chassis IOM
VCC Servers (7)
flexibilities Cluster-3: VCC Servers (7) &
Workload
RDSH Server (1) 8 Gb FC

• Demand density when proposing Cluster-4: VCC Servers (7) & Node-4 10 GB Ethernet
VCC and RDSH solutions RDSH Server (1) Workload Cluster Link
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
Solution Brief: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_flashstack_view62_5k.html
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Emerging Technologies
ll Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Red Hat Openshift Container Platform on VMware vSphere - New
ll Cisco UCS Infrastructure for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
ll VersaStack for IBM Cloud Private with Cisco UCS and IBM Storage
ll Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise Edition for Container Management
ll Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
ll FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container Management
The global cloud computing market is predicted to grow to $411.4 billion by 2020, up from just $37.8 billion in 2010,
according to Gartner. Source: Gartner (October 2017)
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Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Red Hat Openshift Container

Platform on VMware vSphere
• Powerful, web-scale container orchestration • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
and management with Kubernetes
• Enterprise-grade Kubernetes with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Cisco UCS Infrastructure
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, running containers with VMware vSphere
at scale with Security-enhanced Linux
enabled for strong isolation • Production-ready highly available PaaS solution for private cloud
• Multi-tenant native SDN plugin in CNI mode • A very good starting point for Enterprise IT to move on to DevOps & CI/CD based application
for application pod network environment
• Virtualized Red Hat OpenShift Container • Cisco UCS providing the converged computing, network, and storage platform
Platform nodes with VMware vSphere HA.
• Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
• Persistent storage using Red Hat GlusterFS,
running on Cisco UCS C240 M5 bare-metal
nodes for stateful cloud-native container ARCHITECTURE
applications
• OpenShift Container Platform deployment Compute
including scale-out operations through
Master - 01 Infra - 01 App Master - 02 App App
Public Network
• 1 x Cisco UCS 5108 40Gb Converged
Ansible Automation Engine B-Series Chassis

• 2 x Cisco UCS 2304XP 40GbE Ethernet
Master - 03 Infra - 02 App Infra-03 App vCENTER BASTION
ANSIBLE
LOAD BALANCER - VM
HAPROXY
DNS
Fabric Extenders
• End to end high available architecture from • 4 x B200 M5 Servers 10GbE iSCSI
software stack to infrastructure stack

Private Network
• 3 x C240 M5 Servers
16Gb FC Load Balanced Traffic
OpenShift SDN
10GbE Ethernet
B443
Network
BD.443
• 2 x Cisco UCS 6332UP
BUSINESS CHALLENGES
Master Nodes - VM Infrastructure Nodes - VM Application Nodes - VM Storage Nodes - Bare Metal
APP1 APP2 APP3
vPC vPC ETCD API ROUTER REGISTRY APP1 APP2
• 2 x Cisco Nexus vPC
Peer
Links Storage Request to
93180YC-EX
Heketi EndPoint: VDMK VDMK VDMK
http://int.IP:8080
• Application portability across Dev/Test and Storage Enterprise Storage Enterprise Storage
Production environments • 3 x Cisco UCS C240s are acting as compute nodes as well as providing Heketi
• Agile business application deployment workflow persistent storage to containers.
• Enterprise storage is providing Boot LUNs to all the servers via the boot
Servert
and turnaround time policy configuration in Cisco UCS Manager
• Enterprise storage also provides data stores to VMware vSphere

• Optimal infrastructural resource utilization at scale environment for VM virtual disks. GlusterFS Logical Volume
• Enterprise Grade Container & Associated Service

Orchestrator CNS
POD
CNS
POD
CNS
POD
• Security, Isolation and Multi-tenancy

Storage Node 1 Storage Node 2 Storage Node 3
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openshift_esxi.html
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Cisco
Cisco UCS
UCS Infrastructure
Infrastructure for
for Red
Red Hat
Hat OpenShift
OpenShift Container Platform
Container Platform
TECHNICAL
• Powerful, HIGHLIGHTS
web-scale container orchestration SUMMARY
• Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
and management with Kubernetes
• Powerful, web-scale container • • Enterprise-grade Kubernetes
Simple, efficient and scalable with Red for
solution Hatany
OpenShift Container Platform
converged/integrated stackon Cisco UCS Infrastructure
• Integrated Red
orchestration andHat Enterprise Linux
management withAtomic
Host, optimized for running containers • • Production-ready
Enterprise-grade Kubernetes with PaaS
highly available Red Hat OpenShift
solution Container
for private Platform on Cisco UCS Infrastructure
cloud
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at scale with •• A
Production-ready highly available PaaS solution for private cloud
• Integrated RedSecurity enhanced
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• Multi-tenant nativewith
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• Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
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• Persistent storage for stateful cloud-
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pod network ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
• • OpenShift
Persistent Container
storage Platformcloud-native
for stateful deployment
including scale-out
container applications operations through
Ansible Automation Engine
• OpenShift Container Platform deployment
• Infrastructure
including automation
scale-out operationswith UCS
through UCS C220M5
UCS C220M5
Ansible Automation
Manager Engine
built-in capabilities
Bastion Bastion
Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus

9396PX-A 9396PX-B 9396PX-A 9396PX-B
• Infrastructure automation
• End to end high availablewith UCS
architecture vPC vPC
Manager built-instack
capabilities
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Network Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Network
from software to infrastructure stack

FI 6332- FI 6332- FI 6332- FI 6332-
16UP-A 16UP-B 16UP-A 16UP-B
• End to end high available architecture from

software stack to infrastructure
BUSINESS CHALLENGES stack UCS C220M5
Master
• Application
BUSINESS portability across Dev/Test
CHALLENGES
4*App
Nodes
40Gbps 40Gbps
and Production environments 3*Master

Nodes Cisco UCS Chassis 5108/UCS B200M5 1GbE 1GbE
2*Infra
• Application portability
• Agile business across Dev/Test
Nodes
and Production environments

workflow and turnaround time Infra
• Agile business application deployment UCS
• Optimalandinfrastructural resource
AppNodes
workflow turnaround time *Co-hosted on

Infra+ Storage Storage
utilization at scale
Nodes
Container-Native
Storage Storage
• Optimal infrastructural resource utilization Container-Native

UCS C240M5
- 3 Node Cluster
• Enterprise Grade Container &

Storage
at scale
- 20x1.2TB HDDs
- 3 Node Cluster
Associated Service Orchestrator

- 20x3.8TB SSDs
• Enterprise Grade Container & Associated

• Security,
Service Isolation and Multi-tenancy
Orchestrator
• Security, Isolation and Multi-tenancy
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openshift.html
Design:
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openshift_design.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_openshift.html
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• VersaStack with Cisco UCS • Enterprise grade highly available and secure Infrastructure with VersaStack
M5 and IBM Storage for IBM • Persistent storage for application containers
Private Cloud.
• Multi-tenant containers and orchestration that is based on Kubernetes for creating microservices-
• IBM Cloud Private 2.1.0 based applications
Enterprise Edition
• A common catalog of enterprise and open services to accelerate developer productivity
• IBM Spectrum Connect 3.4.0
• Automatic horizontal and non-disruptive vertical scaling of applications
• IBM Storage Enabler for
Containers 1.0
IBM Storage Flex IBM Spectrum Connect
Volume for Kubernetes
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Spectrum

Connect backend
IBM Cloud
Private
• Operational complexity:
Ability to deploy and run cloud
VM
native microservices-based
IBM Storage Dynamic
applications on-premises. Provisioner for Kubernetes VM
High
• Compliance and Availability
management: Simplicity, ease High

IBM Storage Enabler for
Containers
of deployment and compliance Availability
requirements to keep VMware vSphere iSCSi
applications and data secure

with in enterprise’s control.
VersaStack
• Investment leverage: Ability to Infrastructure
leverage existing investments

across both middleware and
infrastructure.
VM VM VM VM VM
Master Master Master Worker Worker
1 2 3 1 2
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/versastack_icp_ucsm5.html
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Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Contiv and Docker Enterprise

Edition for Container Management
• CNM-based Contiv network plugin • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
integrated with Docker Enterprise • Cisco UCS infrastructure optimizes security, availability, performance and scale
Edition
• Native fabric visibility with L2 • Docker Enterprise Edition provides a single management control plane from runtime to container
VLAN forwarding mode lifecycle management
• Multi-tenancy and data path • Cisco UCS provides the converged computing, network, and storage platform needed to run the
segregation for application entire Docker Enterprise Edition
container/microservices I/O with • Contiv provides security for application containers through policy-based rich network features, built-in
Contiv service discovery and service routing
• High performance with near line • Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
rate networking for application
containers
• Infrastructure automation with UCS ARCHITECTURE
Manager built-in capabilities
• Docker EE with Contiv provisioning Topology 1 - Topology 2 -
through Ansible for scale-out With Cisco B-Series Servers With Cisco C-Series Servers
architecture
Cisco Nexus 9396PX - A Cisco Nexus 9396PX - B Cisco Nexus 9396PX - A Cisco Nexus 9396PX - B
BUSINESS CHALLENGES CiscoUCS

FI 6332-
VPC
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
VPC
Cisco UCS
FI 6332-
16UP-A 16UP-B 16UP-A 16UP-B
• Application portability across dev/

test and production environments Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
• Agile business application

deployment workflow and UCS C220M5
turnaround time
Cisco UCS Chassis 5108
• Optimal infrastructural resource
UCS C220M5
utilization at scale UCS C220M5
• Policy-based infrastructure
management including networking UCS C220M5
application containers and

microservices
• Security, isolation and multi-
tenancy
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_contiv_docker.html
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Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container

Management
• Policy-driven and programmable • Simple, efficient and scalable solution for any converged/integrated stack
infrastructure for ease of • Cisco UCS infrastructure optimizes security, availability, performance and scale
deployment and management
• Docker Datacenter provides a single management control plane from runtime to container lifecycle
• Microservices and cloud-native management
application architecture enabling
stateless application container • Cisco UCS provides the converged computing, network, and storage platform needed to run the
deployment entire Docker Datacenter
• Continuous integration and • Open APIs driven infrastructure provisioning through automation
continuous deployment(CI/CD)
enabling developers to develop and
test applications rapidly at scale ARCHITECTURE
• DevOps model breaks down Topology 1 - With Cisco B-Series Servers Topology 2 - With Cisco C-Series Servers Blade - 1 Blade - 2
barriers between development UCP Controller UCP Controller
and operations teams to improve Cisco Nexus 9372PX-A Cisco Nexus 9372PX-B Cisco Nexus 9372PX-A Cisco Nexus 9372PX-B
Blade - 3
DTR
Blade - 4
UCP Node
delivery of applications Blade - 5

VPC VPC UCP Node
Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
UCS F1 UCS F1 UCS F1 UCS F1
6248UP-A 6248UP-B 6248UP-A 6248UP-B UCS 5108 Chassis - 1
BUSINESS CHALLENGES Blade - 1 Blade - 2

DTR DTR
Cisco UCS Chassis 5108 Blade - 3 Blade - 4

• Application portability across dev/ UCP Controller UCP Node
test and production deployment UCS C220M4

Blade - 5
UCP Node
• Agile business application UCS 5108 Chassis - 2

UCS C220M4
deployment workflow and UCP Controller Pool
turnaround time Cisco UCS Chassis 5108

UCS C220M4
DTR Pool
UCP Node Pool
• Optimal infrastructural resource

UCS C220M4 Server - 1
utilization UCP Controller + DTR
Server - 2
• Policy-based management UCP Controller + DTR
10 Gbps
• Security and isolation
Server - 3
1 Gbps UCP Controller + DTR
Server - 4
UCP Node
Docker Pool
CVD: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_docker.html
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FlexPod Datacenter with Docker Datacenter for Container

Management
• UCS 3.1(2f) • Converged infrastructure based on Cisco Unified Data Center
• B200M4 Blade Servers • Investment protection in high density and high performance data center environments
• NetApp AFF 8040 with ONTAP 9.0 • Highly available Enterprise Docker Datacenter on Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution
• NetApp Docker Volume Plugin 1.4 • End-to-end hardware level redundancy using Cisco UCS and NetApp high availability features
• Nexus 9000 series switch • NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP) provides persistent NFS-based storage for containers
• Docker Engine 17.03.1-ee-3
ARCHITECTURE
• Docker Universal Control Plane Unified Computing System
(UCP) 2.1.2 UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects,

10 GbE Only
UCS 2204 Fabric Extender and
• Docker Trusted Registry (DTR) UCS B Series Servers 10 GbE Converged
SFO Interconnect
2.2.3 8 Gb FC
Cisco Unified Computing System
BUSINESS CHALLENGES • 2x Cisco Nexus 5108 B-Series UCS Chassis

• 4x Cisco 2204XP Fabric Extenders
• 10 x B200 M4 Server(s)
• Converged infrastructure platform • 2 x Cisco UCS 6248UP Fabric Interconnect
vPC vPC
for Docker
• Trusted and supported Docker
Datacenter platform from industry Nexus 93180YC-EX
2 x Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX
leaders
• Scale up or out without disruption
• Slow, complex, risky, and
vPC vPC
operations
NetApp AFF8040
• Inflexible infrastructure • 48 x 400 GB SSD (2 X Disk Shelves – DS2246)
NetApp
• 24 x SSDs/Shelves
AFF 8040
CVD: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_docker.html
Design: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_docker_deploy_design.html
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Information page
Additional Resources:
Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/cvd
Data Center Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/dcdesignzone
Virtual Client Computing (VCC) Design Zone: www.cisco.com/go/vccdesigns
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) support many Cisco Data Center and UCS Solutions. For more information
on Cisco Solutions broader than CVDs, use the following URLs:
• www.cisco.com/go/bigdata
• www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
• www.cisco.com/go/hyperflex
• www.cisco.com/go/microsoft
• www.cisco.com/go/oracle
• www.cisco.com/go/openstack
• www.cisco.com/go/sap
• www.cisco.com/go/vdi
• www.cisco.com/go/versastack
For more information on UCS and UCS Solutions, use the following URL: www.cisco.com/go/ucs
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Executive Summary Go to CVD sitemap

What are CVDs? What a CVD does:

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What’s in it for customers?

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Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

46% 89% 38%

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Data Center Virtualization New Emerging Applications

Big Data & Business Analytics

Collaboration Business Mobile Applications

Social Media Applications

Back End Consumer Applications

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Benefits of UCS CVD Solutions

Provide much greater efficiency

Demonstrate Cisco’s credibility and

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Using UCS CVD Solutions to

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• CVDs may not always be completely

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Library View Sitemap View

Infrastructure Microsoft Automation CVDs

Big Data VMW View CVDs

Outline View Alphabetical View

Data Center Design Library

VMW View CVDs

Emerging Technologies CVDs

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

Data-Intensive Storage Infrastructure Applications Emerging Technologies

4 4000 Seat XenDesktop 5.6/XenApp 6.5 Solution on vSphere 5.1 4 C S

Big Data 60 node Hadoop Cluster with EMC Isilon

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure - New

Secure Enclave Architecture

VersaStack Data Center with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure​

Data-Intensive Storage | BIG DATA

Common Platform Architecture (CPA)

Hadoop-as-a-Service Cisco UCS CPAv2 Cisco UCS CPAv2

Cisco SAS Edge-to-

Data-Intensive Storage | DATA PROTECTION

Cisco HyperFlex with Cohesity Cisco UCS for ScaleProtect

Data-Intensive Storage | SCALE-OUT STORAGE

VersaStack for Hybrid Cloud Hadoop as a Service on BareMetal

FlexPod Datacenter with VMware VersaStack for Data Center with

Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

Infrastructure Applications Other

FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter FlexPod Datacenter

Infrastructure | CONVERGED | FLEXPOD

FlexPod with Microsoft Exchange

VersaStack for VersaStack for VersaStack for

Cisco UCS Integrated Cisco UCS Integrated FlexPod Datacenter with

Infrastructure | CONVERGED | HITACHI

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure