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Objectives
Describe the logical view of the Cisco UCS architecture from various perspectives
Describe the Cisco UCS management architecture
Describe the Cisco UCS C-Series models, options, and management
Describe the Cisco UCS C-Series models, options, and management
Describe the Cisco UCS B-Series fabric components
Describe the Cisco UCS B-Series models and options
Describe UCS B-Series Power

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Cisco UCS Overview

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Cisco UCS Building Blocks

UCS Manager

Embedded manages entire system

UCS Fabric Interconnects

6248/96 48 & 96 Port 10Gb Unified Ports
6324 UCS Mini (IOM Form Factor)

UCS IO Module
Remote line card

UCS Blade and Modular Server Chassis

Flexible bay configurations

UCS Blade, Rack, or Modular Servers

Industry-standard architecture

UCS Virtual Adapters

Choice of multiple adapters

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Cisco UCS Management

Architecture
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Cisco UCS Management Architecture

Management is performed via the XML-API via CLI commands, Cisco UCS Manager GUI or
third party applications.

XML-API Runs on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects.

Access via management IP address on mgmt0 port.

Management IO traverses FI-Chassis links over dedicated VLANs.

CLI

XML API

Dedicated VLAN over

Chassis-link

mgmt0 Port

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Cisco UCS Manager: Rapid, Stateless

Provisioning
UCSM embedded on the Fabric Interconnects:
Inventory Discovery
LAN/SAN/Compute Object Configuration
Resource Pools and Policies
Monitoring, diagnostics, statistics collection, fault detection . . .
Auditing with RBAC

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Cisco UCS Service Profiles

A Service Profile is a logical representation of a bare-metal server, specifying:
UUID, MAC, WWN, etc.
Boot order, firmware, etc.
VLAN, VSAN, QoS, etc.

Resource
Pools

Service
Profile
Template

Policies
Each node must be associated with a service profile to
be rendered as a bare-metal server.
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Resource Pools for Service Profiles

Pools ensure uniqueness of identities:
MAC Pool
ORACLE
ESXi
LINUX
EXCHANGE

Start
00:25:b5:11:a1:01
00:25:b5:11:a2:01
00:25:b5:11:a3:01
00:25:b5:11:a4:01

Size
32
96
100
8

WWN Pool
ORACLE
ESXi
LINUX
EXCHANGE

Start
20:00:00:25:b5:11:a1:01
20:00:00:25:b5:11:a2:01
20:00:00:25:b5:11:a3:01
20:00:00:25:b5:11:a4:01

Size
32
48
100
8

ESXi Profile

UUID Pool
ORACLE
ESXi
LINUX
EXCHANGE

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MAC
WWN
UUID
Boot info
firmware
Start
BIOS
20000025-b511-a101-0000-000000000001
20000025-b511-a201-0000-000000000001
20000025-b511-a301-0000-000000000001
20000025-b511-a401-0000-000000000001

Size
8
12
50
4

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Service Profile Policies

Policies ensure consistent configuration settings
vNIC Policy: vNIC selection and properties
ESXi Profile
MAC
WWN
UUID
Boot info
firmware
BIOS

Management Firmware Package Policy: Firmware level

requirements for Service Profiles

Disk Policy: Boot order and disk selection

BIOS Policy: BIOS settings
IPMI Policy: Remote management settings
Scrub Policy: Actions performed on disassociation
Template Policy: Definitions for template use

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Cisco UCS HX-Series

Fabric Interconnects
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Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects

Cisco UCS 6248UP
48 Unified Ports (32+16)
960 Gb/S Switch throughput

10 GE - 2000 VLANS - 2750 VIFs - 2 us Port-to-Port latency

Cisco UCS 6296UP

96 Unified Ports (48+48)
1920 Gb/S Switch throughput

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Cisco UCS HX-Series

Converged Nodes
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Cisco UCS HX-Series Rack Servers

Specifications

HX220c M4

HX240c M4

E5-2600 v3

E5-2600 v3

Cores

Up to 16

Up to 16

DIMMS

24 DDR4 @ 2133 MHz

24 DDR4 @ 2133 MHz

768 GB

768 GB

SSD Disk

1 x 120 GB SSD and 1 x 480 GB SSD

1 x 120 GB SSD and 1 x 1.6 TB SSD

HDD Disk

Up to 6 x 1.2 TB,10K RPM SAS

Up to 23 x 1.2 TB,10K RPM SAS

Flex Flash

2 x 64 GB SD

2 x 64 GB SD

Cisco 12-Gbps Modular SAS (HBA)

Cisco 12-Gbps Modular SAS (HBA)

2x1 Gbps and VIC 1227

4x1 Gbps and VIC 1227

RU
CPU

Max Memory

Storage Controller
Integrated I/O

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Cisco UCS C-Series VIC Adapters

UCS VIC 1227

Max Interfaces (vNIC or vHBA)
Interface Type
VM-FEX
Failover Handling
Form Factor
NW Throughput

Dynamic
Hardware
Hardware
mLOM
2 x 10 Gbps

Next-Generation Data Center Features

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256

Adapter FEX, low-latency for usNIC and RDMA, VMQ, DPDK

and Cisco Netflow, SR-IOV, 600K IOPS

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Cisco UCS VIC Adapter Virtualization

Policy-based, stateless, agile, interface card
Present up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host.
Independent NIC paths for Functions, Tenants or L2 Domains:
- Ex: Management, vMotion, Storage, VM Data
Supports VMDirectPath

22 to
to many
many
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Single-Wire Management with Cisco VIC

1227
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
Consolidate
management and data
connections:
Connect directly to Fabric
Interconnect or use
2232PP Fex

Nexus 2232

PCIe Adapter

Cisco IMC

OS or Hypervisor

Mgmt Traffic
Data Traffic

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Cisco UCS B-Series

Components
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Cisco UCS 5100 Series Front View

32

Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis

Both full-width
and half-width
blades are
supported in any
viable
combination.

6U

Four Slots for Power Supplies

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Cisco UCS 5100 Series Rear View: Cabling

Fabric Interconnect
A

Fabric Interconnect
B

Eight Fan
Modules

Small FormFactor Pluggable

Plus (SFP+)
Fabric Ports
IO Module A

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Four Power Entries

IO Module B

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Cisco UCS 2200 Series Fabric Extenders

2nd Generation I/O Module
Cisco UCS 2204XP

4x 10GE FCoE-capable,
enhanced (SFP+) uplink
ports
Total 40Gbps bandwidth
to Fabric Interconnect
16 x 10GE ports to
midplane
No local switching is performed on FEX
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Cisco UCS 2208XP

8x 10GE FCoE-capable,
enhanced (SFP+) uplink
ports
Total 80Gbps bandwidth to
Fabric Interconnect
32 x 10GE ports to midplane
Requires select Cisco UCS
VICs for full server
bandwidth

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Cisco UCS B-Series Blade

Server
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Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

Scale Compute Only Nodes

B200 M4

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Slots

CPU

1 or 2 E5-2600 v3

Cores

4, 6, 8. 10, 12, 16, 18

DIMMs

24 DDR4 @ 2133 MHz

Max GB

768 GB

Disk

2 SAS, SSD, SATA

RAID

0,1 Flex Storage

Integrated I/O

VIC 1340 mLOM

Mezz

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Cisco UCS B-Series Virtual Interface Card

UCS VIC 1380

Max Interfaces (vNIC or vHBA)
Interface Type
VM-FEX
Failover Handling
Form Factor
NW Throughput
UCS Server Compatibility
Next-Generation Data Center Features

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UCS VIC 1340

256

256

Dynamic
Hardware
Hardware
Mezzanine
80 GB (x16 PCIe Gen3)

Dynamic
Hardware
Hardware
Modular LOM
40-80 GB (x16 PCIe Gen3)

M4 Blades

M4 Blades

NVGRE, VXLAN, low-latency for usNIC and RDMA, VMQ, DPDK and Cisco
Netflow

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UCS B-Series Power

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Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis Power Supply

Redundancy modes:

Nonredundant mode

N+1 redundancy

Grid redundancy

Input power lead failure: Power loss on associated power supply

All active power supplies available for all components
AC and DC options
Interconnected
Not
Interconnected

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Cisco UCS Power Calculator

Powerful RESTful API can be used to import existing configuration data from other
sources.
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Summary

UCS architecture adds value by building in the network, policy, and

single plane of management.

HyperFlex brings with it the HX 220c and the HX 240c.

HyperFlex uses the UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis to hold
compute only nodes.

Power requirements of the Cisco UCS B-Series are simple and

redundant.

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Thank you.

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