Vblock Technical Presentation

VCE TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS:
VBLOCK 720, VBLOCK 320, AND VCE

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VBLOCK SYSTEM 720
The Worlds Most Advanced Converged Infrastructure
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VBLOCK SYSTEMS UNIQUELY
SOLVE KEY IT CHALLENGES
Business Challenges
SLAs and
Speed to deliver high availability for Running IT
mission-critical apps
Roadmap planning
New feature adoption
Operational Challenges Upgrades 23%
Interoperability Overworked Strategic
Management and
operational complexity
Vendor management Patches IT staff 77%
Change management
Maintain
Performance envelopes
Compliance
Financial Challenges Security
etc.
Environmental and Investment Lifecycle
facilities costs Protection (TCO)
Source: IDC Converged
Infrastructure Survey, Dec. 2011
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 720
Enterprise- and Service

Provider-class, mission-critical
system
Fastest path to mission-critical cloud

Engineered to support mixed workloads and SLAs
Five 9s availability built-in
Integrated, best-of-breed products
Greater configuration choices supporting growth

NEW IN THIS RELEASE
Greater flexibility, agility
Configured by customer workloads and SLAs
Greater performance and scale

2X performance and scale
MODULAR
Flexible storage
All array options (10K, 20K, 40K)
More features and functionality
Denser compute SCALABLE

2X more server blades in a single domain
Converged SAN/LAN networks

Segregated and Unified network topologies
Ethernet and Fibre Channel ready design
Optimized for Virtualization
Support for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 in Q1, 2013

CUSTOMER VALUE
Features Customer Benefits

Support for VMAX 40K 2X the storage capacity
More blade servers per 2X the compute performance
Vblock System
Unified datacenter network
More simplicity, reduced complexity
fabric option
I/O performance enhancement
option More compute and memory
2.5 and 3.5 drive mix option intensive applications
More capacity choices for customer

VBLOCK 720 ARCHITECTURE
Multi-controller, scale-out architecture,

designed for cloud infrastructures
Mission-critical workloads that require large-scale
consolidation and remote replication
2X performance and scale
Up to 384 compute half-width blades
or 194 full-width blades
48 chassis maximum
Maximum 5 domains (16 chassis per domain)
Flexible EMC Symmetrix VMAX Storage Configuration
VMAX 40K up to 3200 drives

WHAT WE DO WHEN WE BUILD SYSTEMS
Vblock System Physical Build VMware Hypervisor
Logical Build Customization

What equipment is used in system
How equipment is racked in system
Storag Networ Comput
Base Logical Build e k e
What software is used on system components

Base Logical Build
How software base configuration is deployed
How equipment is connected in system
Logical Build Customization
~95% Factory
How the systems advanced configuration is ~5% Onsite
implemented for customer standards/requirements
How the systems advanced configuration is
optimized for customer application/workload
Vblock System Physical Build

VBLOCK SYSTEM 720 COMPONENTS
COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS
6246/6296UP
B-Series Blades
Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

5108 Blade 2204XP/2208XP
Server Chassis Fabric Extenders

NOW SUPPORTS M3 BLADES NEW
COMPUTE
Vblock System 700 already supports M2 Blades, and now

Cisco UCS B200 M3 B200 M3 well suited for
Two processors from Intel Xeon Virtualized workloads
E5-2600 product family IT and web infrastructure
2, 4, or 8 cores Virtual desktops
Up to 768 GB of RAM with 24 DIMM Databases
VIC1240 mLOM (Dual 2x10GB adapter) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) applications
Cisco UCS B22 M3
Up to two processors from Intel Xeon B22 M3 well suited for NEW
E5-2400 product family Web infrastructure
Up to 192 GB of RAM with 12 DIMM slots IT infrastructure
VIC 1240 mLOM Distributed applications
Workloads that require balanced
price-to-performance metrics

VIC-1280 NEW
COMPUTE
Mezzanine card
Provides 40GB BW from Blade
to IOMs
Can be paired with 1240
2 links from 1240 to each IOM (20GB)
Provides redundancy
Supported in all M2 Blades
except for B250

VIC-1240 NEW
COMPUTE
1240 Virtual Interface Card (VIC)

Exclusively designed for the M3
generation of Blade Servers
256 dynamic virtual adapters
and interfaces
40 GB bandwidth to the FIs
20GB per fabric
40GB per server
1240 Port Expander
Additional 4 channels of IO
Mezzanine card

CISCO UCS 6200 SERIES NEW
COMPUTE
FABRIC INTERCONNECTS
Provide uniform access for Vblock System 720
to networks and storage
Deployed in redundant pairs
Centralized unified management with Cisco UCS Manager
Leverages either 6248UP or 6296UP
6248UP supports 48 ports with bandwidth up to 960 GBPS
6296UP supports 96 ports with bandwidth up to 1920 GBPS
Scales up to 48 Chassis in a single unified system
Eliminates dedicated chassis management and blade switches
Provides visibility between physical and virtual environments
Simplifies enforcement of security and network policy when
moving virtual machines across hosts

IO-MODULES NEW
COMPUTE
2204/2208 IOM IO Modules are an

2204 4 port IO Modules implementation of the Cisco
Brings 80GB of BW to FIs (40/IOM)
Each IOM has 16 BE ports
Fabric Extender (FEX)
2208 8 port IO Modules architecture
Each IOM has 32 BE ports
Operates as a remote line card to the
Fabric Interconnect
NIF HIF HIF/slot
Network Facing Interfaces (NIF) connect
the IOM to the Fabric Interconnect
2204 4 16 16 Host Facing Interfaces (HIF) connect
2208 8 32 32 the IOM to the adapters on the Blades
All interfaces are 10Gb DCE
(Datacenter Ethernet)

COMPUTE FLEX LINK NEW
COMPUTE
Cisco USC 10 GbE ports Cisco USC 10 GbE ports Cisco USC 10 GbE ports Cisco USC 10 GbE ports Cisco USC 10 GbE ports Cisco USC 10 GbE ports
Fabric Fabric Fabric Fabric Fabric Fabric
8 Gb FC ports 8 Gb FC ports 8 Gb FC ports 8 Gb FC ports 8 Gb FC ports 8 Gb FC ports
Interconnect Interconnect Interconnect Interconnect Interconnect Interconnect
x8 x8
Converged Converged Converged Converged Converged x8 Converged
x8
Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet
Cisco USC Cisco USC Cisco USC Cisco USC Cisco USC Cisco USC
2204 2204 2204 2204 2204 2204 2204 2204 2208 2208 2208 2208
5108 5108 5108 5108 5108 5108
IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM IOM
Chassis Chassis Chassis Chassis Chassis Chassis
FCoE Port-Channel FCoE Port-Channel FCoE Port-Channel
Compute Compute Compute
2 Link Capacity 4 Link Middle 8 Link Performance

2-link is considered the capacity 4-link is considered middle of the 8-link is considered a performance
option, where a chassis has 20Gb road configuration, having both option, where a chassis has 80Gb
per side 40Gb total bandwidth capacity and performance, where a per side and 160Gb total bandwidth
Will be offered on 2204 IOM chassis has 40Gb per side and Will only be offered on the 2208
80Gb total bandwidth
Offered on the 6248, due to the IOM
Will only be offered on the 2204
6296 FI 16 chassis is possible with Will be offered on both FIs, 6248
IOM (high possible OV on vNIC with
4-link (2204) ensuring a better in- and 6296
2208)
chassis oversubscription
Will be offered on the 6248 and the
6296 FIs
I/O BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT NEW
COMPUTE
FC Bandwidth Enhancement LAN Bandwidth Enhancement

Additional ports configured Additional ports configured
between between FI and Nexus 55xx
FI and SAN switch Additional ports configured for
Array and SAN switch Network uplinks
Not available with Unified Can be paired with FC BW
Storage arrays enhancement
Requires additional expansion Requires additional expansion
modules in both FI & Nexus 55xx modules in both FI and Nexus 55xx

DISJOINT LAYER 2 SUPPORT NEW
COMPUTE
UCS Blade/VM can access multiple discrete

layer 2 networks via the Fabric Interconnect
VLANs can be selectively assigned to uplinks
for connectivity to a discrete layer 2 network
Allocation of a designated broadcast and
multicast receiver per VLAN
Separate VNICs required
Overlapping VLANs are not allowed
Not supported with EMC UIM/P


SOFTWARE
Cisco Nexus
1000V Virtual Switch
Cisco MDS
9148 FC Switch or 9513
Cisco Nexus
5548UP & 5596UP Switch

CISCO NEXUS 5500 SERIES NEW
NETWORK
NETWORK SWITCHES
Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5596UP
Up to 960 Gbps throughput Up to 1920 Gbps throughput
32 base ports 48 base ports
1 expansion slot 3 expansion slots
16UP module (N55-M16UP) 16UP modules (N55-M16UP)
Licensing Licensing
All ports licensed for Ethernet All ports licensed for Ethernet
SAN usage requires SAN SAN usage requires SAN license
license enabler
Packs of 8 Packs of 8

CISCO NEXUS 7010 NEW
NETWORK
F1 Line Card F2 Line Card

32 Fixed Ports 48 Fixed Ports
Line rate Line rate
Hardware capable of 1/10 Gigabit Hardware capable of 1/10 Gigabit
Ethernet Ethernet
Two Supervisors
Slots 5 and 6
Sup 1E with 8GB memory default
Slots 1 thru 4 or 5 thru 8
F1 Line Cards (32 1/10 GE Ethernet)
F2 Line Cards (48 1/10 GE Ethernet)
Have to be ordered in pairs
5 x F2 Fabric Modules Standard
2 x 6KW Power Supplies Standard
(Max 3 as shown in Figure)

CURRENT ARCHITECTURE NETWORK
External SAN
IP SAN backup and access
backup common services (migration)
Business Continuance
Supports Unified Storage
Network
today
EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint
Customer IP (Transceiver choice*)
network
(Transceiver choice*) Cisco MDS

Cisco Nexus switch Cisco Nexus switch switch
Cisco MDS
switch SAN connectivity through
Cisco UCS fabric 10 GbE ports
interconnects 8 Gb FC ports
Cisco UCS fabric
interconnects
10 GbE ports
8 Gb FC ports
X-Blade X-Blade Cisco MDS 9148 switches
Network connectivity
FC interface card
Converged Converged
Ethernet Ethernet 6Gb SAS
Storage processor
FEX FEX FEX FEX
Cisco UCS Chassis Cisco UCS Chassis FC interface card
through Cisco Nexus

containing Cisco Blades containing Cisco Blades 6Gb SAS
Storage processor
Compute
Disk array enclosure
*Customer selectable: 1 GbE, 10 GbE, copper or optical, SW or LW

Storage EMC VNX 55xx switches

NX 5548UP
NX 5596UP

UNIFIED NETWORKING NEW
NETWORK
External
IP SAN backup and SAN access
Now supports Unified Networks
Unified Network EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint
Through the Cisco Nexus

(Transceiver choice*)
Customer IP
network
Cisco Nexus unified Cisco Nexus unified
5548UP or Cisco Nexus

networking switch networking switch
Cisco UCS fabric 10 GbE ports

interconnects 8 Gb FC ports
Cisco UCS fabric
interconnects
10 GbE ports
8 Gb FC ports
X-Blade X-Blade 5596UP series switches
FC
SAN connectivity through

FC interface card
Converged Converged 6Gb SAS
Ethernet Ethernet Storage processor
FEX FEX FEX FEX FC
FC interface card
the same NX 5500

Cisco UCS Chassis Cisco UCS Chassis
containing Cisco Blades containing Cisco Blades
Storage processor
Compute 6Gb SAS


Storage EMC VNX

series switches

SEGREGATED VS. UNIFIED NETWORKING NETWORK
Segregated Architecture Unified Networking

SAN NETWORK NETWORK & SAN
MDS 9148 Nexus 5500UP Nexus 5500UP
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
UCS Chassis UCS Chassis

CISCO MDS 9148 FABRIC SWITCH
Cisco MDS 9148 multilayer fabric switch

provides fiber channel connectivity
between the compute and storage
layers of the Vblock System
Supports connectivity for backup,
business continuity (EMC RecoverPoint)
and storage federation requirements
Provides 16-48 line-rate ports for
non-blocking 8 Gbps throughout

CISCO MDS 9500 MULTILAYER DIRECTOR
Provides connectivity between the

compute-layer components and the
storage-layer components as well as
connectivity for backup and business
continuity
256 Gbps of back-panel throughput
32 port line cards with up to 8 Gbps per port
Supports additional 32 port line cards MDS 9513


SOFTWARE
VMAX
EMC VMAX (Optional)

Storage
EMC RecoverPoint
(10K, 20K, 40K)

VMAX HARDWARE OVERVIEW STORAGE
VMAX 10K VMAX 20K VMAX 40K
Max. Engines 4 8 8 Max. Engines

Max. Drives 1,560 2,400 3,200 Max. Drives
Drive Types FC, SAS, SATA, Flash FC, SAS, SATA, Flash FC, SAS, SATA, Flash Drive Types
I/O Ports 16-64 32-128 32-128 I/O Ports

File
4 x quad-core processors
2 x 6-core processors 4 x 6-core processors
X-Blades X-Blades
(8 max) (32 max)
(32 max)
System Memory 512GB 1TB 2TB System Memory
Block
Protocols NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS Protocols
SPs 4 8 8 SPs
System Memory 512GB 1TB 2TB System Memory
Protocol FC FC FC Protocol

VMAX 10K SUPPORT NEW
STORAGE
Base configuration is 1 engine/maximum is 4 engines VMAX 10K

Engines can be added one at a time
96 and 128GB Cache
16 8GB Multimode FC ports per engine
Minimum of 24 drives/maximum of 1560 Drives
Supports 2 drives, 3 drives and mixed drives
Minimum of 1 rack and a maximum of 6 racks
Engine Dispersion (only between engines 2 and 3)
D@RE is optional (must be configured at time of installation)
Integrated EMC RecoverPoint Splitter is optional
NEW
VMAX 20K SUPPORT STORAGE
Base configuration is 2 engine/maximum is 8 engines VMAX 20K

128 GB Cache
Minimum of 88 drives/maximum of 2400 drives (3 only)
Minimum of 2 racks and a maximum of 11 racks
Storage Bay Dispersion

VMAX 40K SUPPORT NEW
STORAGE
Base configuration is 2 engine/maximum is 8 engine VMAX 40K

96, 192 and 256GB Cache
Minimum of 88 drives/maximum of 2400 3 drives, 3200 2
drives or 3040 mixed
Choice between 2 , 3 or both drive support Storage Bays,
mixing is allowed (but not in the same Storage Bay)
Minimum of 2 racks and a maximum of
12 racks with 3 drives
10 racks with 2 drives or mixed
System Bay Dispersion up to 25 Meters (between engines 3, 5 or 7)
NEW
DRIVE SUPPORT AND CONFIGURATION STORAGE
Disk-Drive Support
Tier 1 Drives 100/200/400 GB
Tier 2 Drives 146/300/450/600 GB
Tier 3 1/2/3 TB
Supported Capacity and Drive size vary by Array types
Refer to EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K Series storage arrays
for a list of supported drives by array type
Supported RAID Types

Tier 1: RAID 1, RAID 5
Tier 2: RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6
Tier 3: RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6
RAID 10 striping is accomplished through striped meta
volumes and striped virtual pools
Refer to Scaling up storage resources
STORAGE SOFTWARE OVERVIEW STORAGE
Virtual provisioning simplifies Fully Automated Storage Centralized storage management

storage management Tiering (FAST) automatically with EMC Unisphere
Removes data placement optimizes physical disks Standard look and feel
requirements from administrators Contextual, simple to navigate
Moves the highly active Data
to the faster tier disk drives
Easily provision, manage,
Supports both fully allocated
and monitor
or over subscription Monitoring thousands of systems
deployment methods in the Mainframe Private Cloud
is unrealistic


SOFTWARE
VMware
ESXi
VMware
vSphere Server Enterprise Plus
VMware
vCenter Server Standard

VCE VIRTUALIZATION OVERVIEW
Core components include Virtualization platform

VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi
VMware vCenter Server for management that provides the
Streamlined administration and management foundation for
Faster more efficient configurations due to
deep integrations
cloud infrastructures
Improved performance
VMs scale to 32 virtual CPUs, 1 TB RAM
4x improvement
Enhanced security and compliance

VMware ESXi firewall for access control
to services running on ESXi
Currently supports vSphere 5.0

Support for vCloud Suite 5.1 forthcoming in 2013


SOFTWARE
Cisco Data Center EMC VMAX Local Protection Suite,

Network Manager Remote Protection Suite, Application
Protection Suite, Security,
and Compliance Suite
EMC
Unisphere
EMC VMAX FAST Suite,
Cisco EMC Secure Remote Support,
UCS Manager and EMC PowerPath/VE

VCE MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
Management Framework Choice
VCE Vision Intelligent

Operations Software
Vblock System Visibility

(API)
Integration
Partner Portfolio

ELEMENT MANAGERS INCLUDED
Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Data Center Network Manager
EMC Unisphere Manager
VMware vSphere Server Enterprise Plus
EMC PowerPath/VE
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS)
EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) on Windows

ADVANCED MANAGEMENT POD (AMP) MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
All Vblock System 700 models MiniAMP

require an AMP HA-AMP
Manages the Vblock System
By the customer
Remotely by VCE management
Mini-AMP
Two configurations 3 RU in size
One C200 Server
Mini AMP default Two Catalyst 3560s
ESXi 5.0
HA AMP optional
HA-AMP
AMP can be configured with Internal 8 RU in size
or SAN storage Two C200 Servers
Two Catalyst 3560s
Cisco UCS C220 servers VNXe 3100 Series Storage
ESXi 5.0
Cisco Catalyst 3560x Ethernet switch
EMC VNXe 3150
VCE DATA PROTECTION & MOBILITY OVERVIEW
Right level of Data Protection and Mobility for
each customer application
One-stop shopping
VCE has a complete portfolio of solutions
Deploy faster, with less effort
Product integration design work already completed
Hardware and cabling installed at the VCE
Manufacturing factory
Performance
Predictable and reliable recovery performance,
plus high level of VMware integration
Support
Rapid problem resolution. Eliminate cross-vendor
problem management
VCE SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE OVERVIEW
Build assurance of confidentiality, integrity, and
availability into your IT infrastructure
Extensible Architecture: Simplify integration
into existing security frameworks and
adoption of new capabilities
Compliance Ready: Facilitates meeting
compliance control objectives
Secure by Default: Hardening for all
Vblock Systems components
Controlled Change: Mitigate risk
Partner Ecosystem: Enable secure business

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION
Space and power efficient

Optimized architectures
Balanced power
Operationally efficient
More efficient than traditional
segmented architectures
Validated thermal performance
Purpose-built for virtual workloads
Minimizes downtime and reduces cost

BARE-METAL SUPPORT 50% MAXIMUM COMPUTE
Vblock System 720 blades can be deployed with

non-virtualized operating system and application
configurations
Bare-metal workloads require separate physical
spindles, disk groups, and pools
Bare-metal deployment must comply with the
following requirements
Adheres to VCE published, tested, and validated
hardware and software components
Application and operating system must be included
in the published support matrices for tested Vblock
System software
For both compute and storage components

POWER OPTIONS
North America power options Power options outside of North America

Vblock System 720 System Cabinets Vblock System 720 System Cabinets
POU Power Specifications Number per CN or S POU Power Specifications Number per CN or S
IEC 309 3P+PE 3-phase delta/60A/208V 2 POUs per cabinet IEC 309 3P+N+PE 3-phase wye/32A/230/400V 2 POUs per cabinet
Hubbell CS8365 3-phase delta/50A/208V 2 POUs per cabinet IEC 309 2P+E 1-phase/32A/230/400V 2 POUs per cabinet
NEMA L15-30P 3-phase delta/30A/208V 4 POUs per cabinet IEC 60309 2P+E Single phase/32A/230V 6 POUs per cabinet
IEC 6039 3-phase delta/60A/208V 2 POUs per cabinet IEC 60309 3-phase wye/32A/230/400V 2 POUs per cabinet
IEC 60309 Single phase/60A]208V 4 POUs per cabinet IEC 60309 3-phase wye/16A/230/400V 4 POUs per cabinet
NEMA L6-30P Single phase/30A/208V 6 POUs per cabinet
Vblock System 720 Symmetrix 40K Vblock System 720 Symmetrix 40K
POU Power Specifications Number per CN or S POU Power Specifications Number per CN or S
Hubbell CS8365C 3-phase delta/50A/208V 2 POUs per cabinet ABL Sursum P/N S52.30 3-phase wye/32A/230/400V 2 POUs per cabinet
NEMA L6-30P Single phase/30A/208V 4 POUs per cabinet

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TECHNICAL RESOURCES
Vblock System 700 Administration Guide
Vblock System 700 Architecture Overview
Cabinet Elevations
Vblock System 700 Physical Planning Guide
Vblock System 700 Port Assignments Reference
Vblock System 700 Release Notes
Release Certification Matrix for the refreshed Vblock 700
Vblock Systems Site Survey
eLearning Module: Deployment & Implementation
eLearning Module: Administration & Management
eLearning Module: Architecture Refresh

OTHER USEFUL LINKS
Resource Link
ACT Resources http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/vce-act.asp
Customer-facing Presentation http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=1329
Data Protection Playbook http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=2298
Vblock System 300 and Vblock System 700 Playbook http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=2260
Vblock System 300 and Vblock System 700 QRC http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=1868
Technical Documentation Website http://vblockproductdocs.dc.vce.com/vce_docs_1/TechDocsHome/series_300.htm
Vblock System 300 Interactive (Kaon) Demo http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=2019
Instructions and FAQ
Vblock Systems Competitive Overviews http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?sid=15
Vblock Systems vs. Reference Architecture QRC http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=1407
VMware Opt Out Sales Process http://www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?id=2157
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SUMMARY
PURPOSE BUILT 2X Server and Storage capacity for

FOR GREATER ultimate in investment protection
CAPACITY 2X Performance for demanding workloads
More Flexibility in configurations
SCALABILITY
More Price/Performance choices
PERFORMANCE More Efficiency

VBLOCKTM SYSTEM 320
Engineered for Greater Capacity, Scalability, and Performance
Rich Villalobos
Principal Product Marketing Manager

TODAYS IT
Compute Storage Network Virtualization
Storage Compute Network Virtualization Application

Support teams
70% 20% 10%
Maintaining Operations New Software New Hardware
Cost Investments Investments
VCE DIFFERENTIATION
Application
Optimization
Lifecycle
System
Assurance
API Enabled, Customer Experience

Converged
Management
Fastest
Fastest Time-to-Business
Time-to-Business
Integrated Protection
and Workload Highest
Highest Performance
Performance
Mobility Solutions
Highest
Highest Availability
Availability
Pre-engineered,
Pre-validated,
Pre-tested Converged
Converged Management
Management
Best-of-breed Lowest
Lowest Risk
Risk
Technology
Lowest
Lowest TCO
TCO

VCE CUSTOMER RESULTS
Compute Storage Network Virtualization
5X Faster
deployment
Better
availability 83X
4X Less staff
resource time
Lower
cost 3X
Converged Operations
Source: May 2012 report by IDC entitled "Converging the Datacenter Infrastructure: Why, How, So What"

THE INDUSTRYS BROADEST PORTFOLIO
DRIVING IT SIMPLICITY AND EFFICIENCY
SOLUTIONS
VCE & PARTNER SERVICES

Now Now
Now Now
2X 2X New
New
2X
Performance 2X
Performance
Performance Performance
New
SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM SPECIALIZED

100 200 320 720 SYSTEMS
VCE Vision Intelligent Operations software
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VBLOCKTM SYSTEM 320
THE FASTEST PATH TO CLOUD

Optimized to meet any workload processing,
Modular
capacity and transactional requirements
Engineered for ease of growth
and expansion
Simplified deployment,
management, and ongoing Scalable
operations
Optimized for virtualization

VBLOCK 320: SUPERIOR CAPACITY,
SCALABILITY & PERFORMANCE
COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE

2 to 16 UCS Chassis Segregated or Unified 125 to 1000 disk drives
2 to 128 Cisco Blade Networking 2 to 8 Unified Storage X-
Servers Supports 2 or more Blades
Up to eight 10 GbE FEX discrete Ethernet clouds 100 GB, 10K RPM to 3 TB
ports FC channel bandwidth 7.2 K RPM
Up to 768 GB with 24 DIMM can be doubled Up to 256 NFS datastores
slots Up to 1920 Gbps per host
throughput 360 TB to 2,970 TB storage
6 RAID configuration options
2048 to 8192 SAN Hosts
N+N or N+1 Redundancy 6 to 24 GB Intel Xeon 5600
CPU/Memory
1 to 8 Enclosure Cabinets
VBLOCK SYSTEM 320 OVERVIEW
The Vblock System 320
addresses the enterprise
data center converged VBLOCK
infrastructure needs SYSTEM 320
Addresses the need for
unified storage; provides
support for high-
bandwidth applications
and ease of use
Available with the EMC
VNX Storage Array EMC
VNX5300
EMC
VNX5500
EMC
VNX5700
EMC
VNX7500
Family

CURRENT ARCHITECTURE
External SAN
IP SAN backup and access
Network EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint

network
(Transceiver choice*) Cisco Nexus Cisco Nexus Cisco MDS

switch switch switch
Cisco MDS
switch
Cisco UCS fabric 10 GbE ports Cisco UCS fabric 10 GbE ports
X-Blade X-Blade
interconnects 8 Gb FC ports interconnects 8 Gb FC ports
FC interface card
Converged Converged
Ethernet Ethernet Storage processor 6Gb SAS
FEX FEX FEX FEX

FC interface card
Cisco UCS Chassis Cisco UCS Chassis
containing Cisco Blades containing Cisco Blades 6Gb SAS
Storage processor
Compute
Storage EMC VNX



SOFTWARE
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS
6246/6296UP
B-Series Blades
Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

5108 Blade 2204XP/2208XP
Server Chassis Fabric Extenders

CISCO UCS FOR VBLOCK SYSTEMS COMPUTE
AT A GLANCE
Single Management Domain
UCS Manager
Embedded management
Open API
UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnect

Fabric Extender is a logical part of the
Fabric Interconnect
Connectivity to IP Aggregation layer
UCS 2204/2208 IOM FC connectivity to Storage
Inserts into Blade Chassis
Chassis is logical part of the IOM
UCS 5108 Blade Chassis

Blade inserts into the Chassis
Flexible bay configuration
Up to 20 Chassis per environment
UCS Blade Server
x86 platform support
industry-standard architectures
UCS Mezzanine Adapters

10GB, CAN, and Virtualized

COMPUTE-LAYER CONFIGURATION COMPUTE
Base Chassis Blade Fabric Interconnect

Configuration
System 300 with 2x Cisco 5108 Chassis 4-8 Cisco UCS Blades per Chassis, Cisco UCS 6248UP
EMC VNX5300 (2x FEXs, 4x power supplies) up to 16 Blades in the base config
System 300 with 2x Cisco 5108 Chassis 4-8 Cisco UCS Blades per Chassis, Cisco UCS 6248UP or UCS
EMC (2x FEXs, 4x power supplies) up to 16 Blades in the base config 6296UP
VNX5500
VNX5700
VNX7500
Vblock Systems powered by Cisco UCS feature

Built-in redundancy for high availability
Hot-swappable components for serviceability, upgrade, or expansion
Fewer physical components than in a comparable system built piece-by-piece
Reduced cabling
Improved energy efficiency over traditional Blade Server Chassis

CISCO UCS B-SERIES BLADE SUPPORT
VBLOCK SYSTEM 320 CURRENTLY SUPPORTS M2 BLADES AND NOW:
B200 M3 B200 M3 well suited for

COMPUTE
Two processors from Intel Xeon Virtualized workloads
E5-2600 product family IT and web infrastructure
2, 4, 8 two, four, or eight cores Virtual desktops
Up to 768 GB of RAM with 24 DIMM
NEW
Databases
VIC1240 mLOM (Dual 2x10GB Enterprise Resource Planning
adapter) (ERP) and Customer
B22 M3 Relationship Management
Up to two processors from Intel (CRM) applications
Xeon E5-2400 product family B22 M3 well suited for
Up to 192 GB of RAM with 12 DIMM Web infrastructure
slots IT infrastructure
VIC 1240 mLOM Distributed applications
Workloads that require
balanced price-to-performance
metrics
VIC-1280 NEW
COMPUTE
Mezzanine card
Provides 40GB BW from Blade
to IOMs
Can be paired with 1240
Provides redundancy
Supported in all M2 Blades
except for B250

VIC-1240 NEW
COMPUTE
1240 Virtual Interface Card (VIC)

Exclusively designed for the M3
generation of Blade Servers
256 dynamic virtual adapters
and interfaces
40 GB bandwidth to the FIs
20GB per fabric
40GB per server
1240 Port Expander
Additional 4 channels of IO
Mezzanine card

BARE-METAL SUPPORT COMPUTE
Vblock System 320 Blades can be deployed

with non-virtualized operating system and
application configurations
Bare-metal workloads require separate physical
spindles, disk groups, and pools
Bare-metal deployment must comply with the
following requirements
Adheres to VCE published, tested, and validated
hardware and software components
Application and operating system must be included in
the published support matrices for tested Vblock System
software
For both compute and storage components

CISCO UCS 6200 SERIES COMPUTE
FABRIC INTERCONNECTS
Provide uniform access for Vblock System 320
to networks and storage
Deployed in redundant pairs
NEW
Centralized unified management with Cisco UCS
Manager
Scales up to 16 Chassis in a single unified system
Eliminates dedicated chassis management and blade switches
VM-FEX technology helps enable a consistent
operational model and visibility between physical
and virtual environments
Simplifies enforcement of security and network policy when
moving virtual machines across hosts

IO-MODULES COMPUTE
IO Modules are an implementation

2204/2208 IOM NEW of the Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX)
2204 4 port IO Modules
architecture
Each IOM has 16 BE ports Operates as a remote line card to the
2208 8 port IO Modules Fabric Interconnect
Each IOM has 32 BE ports Network facing interfaces (NIF) connect
Brings 160GB of BW to FIs (80/IOM) the IOM to the Fabric Interconnect
NIF HIF HIF/slot Host facing interfaces (HIF) connect the
IOM to the adapters on the Blades
2204 4 16 16
All interfaces are 10Gb DCE
2208 8 32 32 (Data Center Ethernet)


SOFTWARE
Cisco Nexus
1000V Virtual Switch
Cisco MDS
9148 FC Switch
Cisco Nexus
5548UP & 5596UP Switch

CISCO NEXUS 5500 SERIES NETWORK
NETWORK SWITCHES
Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5596UP
Up to 1920 Gbps throughput Up to 960 Gbps throughput
48 base ports 32 base ports
3 expansion slots 1 expansion slot
16UP modules (N55-M16UP) 16UP module (N55-M16UP)
Licensing Licensing
All ports licensed for Ethernet All ports licensed for Ethernet
SAN usage requires SAN SAN usage requires SAN
license enabler license
Packs of 8 Packs of 8

CURRENT ARCHITECTURE NETWORK
IP
backup
SAN backup and
common services
External SAN
access
(migration)
Can support Unified Storage
Network
EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint

Cisco MDS 9148 switches
network
(Transceiver choice*) Cisco MDS

Cisco Nexus switch Cisco Nexus switch switch
Network connectivity through

Cisco MDS
switch
Cisco Nexus 55xx switches

X-Blade X-Blade
FC interface card
Converged Converged
Ethernet
FEX FEX
Ethernet
FEX FEX
Storage processor
6Gb SAS
NX 5548UP
containing Cisco Blades
Compute
containing Cisco Blades
Storage processor
6Gb SAS
NX 5596UP
Storage EMC VNX


UNIFIED NETWORKING NETWORK
IP
backup
SAN backup and
External
SAN access
Can support Unified Storage
common services (migration)
Through the Cisco Nexus
Customer IP
network
(Transceiver choice*) Unified Network EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint
5548UP or Cisco Nexus
5596UP series switches
Cisco Nexus unified Cisco Nexus unified
networking switch networking switch

the same NX 5500

X-Blade X-Blade
FC
FC interface card
series switches
Converged Converged 6Gb SAS
Ethernet Ethernet Storage processor
FEX FEX FEX FEX FC
containing Cisco Blades containing Cisco Blades
Storage processor
Compute 6Gb SAS

Storage EMC VNX


SEGREGATED VS. UNIFIED NETWORKING
NETWORK
Segregated Architecture Unified Networking

SAN NETWORK NETWORK & SAN
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS Cisco UCS

Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B Fabric Interconnect A Fabric Interconnect B
UCS Chassis UCS Chassis

VBLOCK SYSTEM STORAGE LAYER

SOFTWARE
EMC VNX & EMC VMAX EMC RecoverPoint

Unified Storage
EMC Avamar plus

Data Domain EMC VPLEX

EMC VNX SERIES STORAGE
HARDWARE OVERVIEW
EMC VNX5300 EMC VNX5500 EMC VNX5700 EMC VNX7500

Max. Drives 125 250 500 1000
Drive Types SAS, NL-SAS, Flash SAS, NL-SAS, Flash SAS, NL-SAS, Flash SAS, NL-SAS, Flash
I/O SLICs/SP 1 1 5 5
File
X-Blades 1 or 2 1 or 2 or 3 2 or 3 or 4 2 to 8
System Memory 6 GB/Blade 12 GB/Blade 12 GB/Blade 24 GB/Blade
Protocols NFS, CIFS NFS, CIFS NFS, CIFS NFS, CIFS
Block
SPs 2 2 2 2
System Memory 8 GB/SP 12 GB/SP 18 GB/SP 24 or 48UPGB/SP NEW
Protocol FC FC FC FC

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS STORAGE
RAID configurations Mixed RAID configuration

RAID 5: (4+1) in virtual pools NEW
RAID 5: (8+1) NEW Each tier in a thin pool can
RAID 6: (6+2) have different RAID protection
NEW Example
RAID 6: (14+2)
RAID 1/0 for the Performance
RAID 1/0: (4+4) Tier
RAID 5 or RAID 1/0 for the
Extreme Performance Tier
RAID 6 for the Capacity Tier


SOFTWARE
VMware
ESXi
VMware
vSphere Server Enterprise Plus
VMware
vCenter Server Standard

VCE VIRTUALIZATION AT-A-GLANCE
Core components include Virtualization platform
VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi that provides the
VMware vCenter Server for management
foundation for
Streamlined administration and management cloud infrastructures
Faster more efficient configurations due to deep integrations
Improved performance
VMs scale to 32 virtual CPUs, 1 TB RAM 4x improvement
Enhanced security and compliance
VMware ESXi firewall for access control
to services running on ESXi
Currently supports vSphere 5.0
Support for vCloud Suite 5.1 forthcoming in 2013


SOFTWARE
EMC Ionix
EMC VNX Local Protection Suite,
Unified Infrastructure
Remote Protection Suite, Application
Manager/P
Protection Suite, Security
and Compliance Suite
EMC
Unisphere
EMC VNX FAST Suite,
Cisco EMC Secure Remote Support,
UCS Manager and EMC PowerPath/VE

ADVANCED MANAGEMENT POD (AMP) MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
The Vblock System 300 requires an AMP

Used to manage the Vblock System
Two configurations
mini-AMP
HA AMP
AMP can be configured with Internal or SAN

storage
RAID controllers on Cisco UCS C220 M3 servers
LSI 1064e controller cards
LSI MegaRAID controller cards
HA AMP uses VNXe 3150 for shared storage

ADVANCED MANAGEMENT POD MANAGEMENT
SINGLE PLACE FOR VBLOCK SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SOFTWARE
THE AMP IS A ONE OR TWO-
SERVER SYSTEM USING
LOCAL DISK TO MiniAMP
BOOT ESXI. IT IS INTENDED TO HA-AMP
BE A BASIC OUT-OF-BAND
MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT.
Mini-AMP
IT IS BUILT WITH A SET OF 3 RU in size
CORE MANAGEMENT One C200 Server
Two Catalyst 3560s
SYSTEMS. THESE ESXi 5.0
MANAGEMENT VMS ENABLE
VBLOCK SYSTEMS TO BE HA-AMP
8 RU in size
LOGICALLY CONFIGURED Two C200 Servers
IN VCE MANUFACTURING AND Two Catalyst 3560s
VNXe 3100 Series Storage
PROVIDES ONGOING ESXi 5.0
MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONALITY.
EMC UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE
MANAGER / PROVISIONING SUMMARY
IT process transformation provisioning tool
Applications
Purpose-built for Vblock Systems
Policy-based, automated, converged Storage Network Compute
infrastructure provisioning
Deliver new services Speed
Five times faster
Assurance
80% more efficiently Optimization
With complete Vblock System compliance
Ensure process transformation and feature set fit with customer requirements
Expand capabilities with VMware integration

81
UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Purpose-built for Vblock System

Deliver new services
Five-times faster
80% more efficiently
With complete Vblock System compliance
Maximize service uptime
Centralized event management of Vblock System components
Reduce MTTI with automated root-cause analysis and impact
analysis
Optimize Resources and Control Costs

ENABLING CONVERGED OPERATIONS
NEW
Management Tools
OPEN API
Customer Choice
VCE Vision Intelligent Operations software

VBLOCK SYSTEM
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
Every Vblock System is

shipped with the same
rack model.
Rule-based elevations
84 Tall
provide multiple
options based on
power, weight, and
density factors.
28 Wide 48 Deep

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
OPTIMIZATION
Space and power efficient
Optimized architectures
Balanced power
Operationally efficient
More efficient than traditional
segmented architectures
Validated thermal performance
Purpose-built for virtual workloads
Minimizes downtime and reduces cost

POWER OPTIONS
NORTH AMERICA POU Power Specification Number Per Cabinet
NEMA L15-30P 3-phase delta/30A/208V 2/4 POUs per cabinet
IEC 60309 3-phase delta/60A/208V 2 POUs per cabinet
IEC 60309 Single phase/60A/208V 2/4 POUs per cabinet
NEMA L6-30P Single phase/30A208V 4/6 POUs per cabinet
OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA POU Power Specifications Number Per Cabinet
IEC 309 32A 3P+N+PE 3-phase wye/32A/230/400V 2 POUs per cabinet
IEC 60309 3P+N+E 3-phase wye/16A/230/400V 2/4 POUs per cabinet
IEC 60309 2P+E Single phase/32A/230V 4/6 POUs per cabinet

VBLOCK SYSTEM 320
VBLOCK VBLOCK VBLOCK VBLOCK

SYSTEM 320 SYSTEM 320 SYSTEM 320 SYSTEM 320
with EMC VNX5300 with EMC VNX5500 with EMC VNX5700 with EMC VNX7500
Base configuration Multi-rack solution Expandable Scale up

in single rack multi-rack solution

VBLOCK SYSTEM 320 WITH EMC VNX5300

6248UP Fabric Nexus 5548UP EMC VNX5300
Interconnects Nexus 1000v Block or Unified Storage
Two Chassis maximum Up to 125 drives
Expansion to 16 Blades FAST cache
(100GB standard)
SAN
9148UP (Segregated)
5548UP
(Unified Networking)


6248UP or 6296UP Nexus 5548UP EMC VNX5500
Fabric Interconnects or 5596UP Block or Unified Storage
Maximum of 8 Chassis Nexus 1000v Up to 250 drives
(100GB standard)
SAN
9148UP (Segregated)
5548UP or 5596UP

VBLOCK SYSTEM 320 WITH EMC VNX 5700

(100GB standard)
SAN
9148UP (Segregated)
5548UP or 5596UP


(100GB standard)
24GB or 48GB memory
per SP NEW
SAN
9148UP (Segregated)
5548UP or 5596UP

VBLOCK SYSTEM 320 OVERVIEW
System 320
System 320 with System 320 with System 320 with
with EMC
EMC VNX5500 EMC VNX5700 EMC VNX7500
VNX5300
UCS Fabric Interconnect UCS 6248 UCS 6248UP or 6296UP UCS 6248UP or 6296UP UCS 6248UP or 6296UP
Min/Max Chassis 2/2 2/8 2/16 2/16

Min/Max Blades 2/16 2/64 2/128 2/128
Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5548UP Nexus 5548UP
Network Switch Nexus 5548
or 5596UP or 5596UP or 5596UP
Storage Array EMC VNX5300 EMC VNX5500 EMC VNX5700 EMC VNX7500
Storage Capacity 125 Drives 250 Drives 500 Drives 1000 Drives
Eth IO BW Capable No Yes Yes Yes
FC IO BW Capable No Yes Yes Yes
Unified Storage X-Blades 2 2-3 2-4 2-8
Enclosure Cabinets 1-2 2-4 2-8 2-8

DATA ON THAT NEW VBLOCK SYSTEM
WILL NEED PROTECTION
10% of Business VCE Supported
customer data Continuity VPLEX Solution
Data Loss exposure: 0
Recovery time: near zero
20% of Replication VCE Supported

customer data Data Loss exposure: 0 seconds hours RecoverPoint
Recovery time: hours to days Solution
Backup & Recovery VCE Supported

100% of Avamar and
customer data Data Loss exposure: 24 hours maximum
Recovery time: hours to weeks Data Domain
Solution

SERVICES PORTFOLIO
Professional Services Support Services
ADVISORY TECHNOLOGY MANAGED LIFECYCLE ASSURANCE

Consultative expertise to Expertise to deploy, migrate, Ongoing management World-class seamless
accelerate transformation and implement Vblock; and operation of support and proactive
integration of solutions infrastructure lifecycle assurance
Roadmap and metrics Rapid time-to-solution Applies operational Experts in all Vblock
Business case development Accelerates return on best practices components and their
investment Fills skills gaps interoperability
Governance, operations,
and facilities planning Minimizes risk Knowledge transfer State-of-the-art support and
collaboration processes with
Cisco, EMC, and VMware
Accelerates time-to-resolution
Proactive customer advocacy

SUMMARY
Cisco UCS Blade servers with higher performance levels
ENGINEERED Increased compute density, 2X server capacity, for the
FOR GREATER ultimate in investment protection
CAPACITY Larger Virtual Machines 2X compute capacity
and greater CPU and RAM
SCALABILITY Greater scalability for unified fabric expansion
and I/O throughput
PERFORMANCE Unified LAN/SAN for simplified networking
Support for new VNX operating environment providing
more features
More VNX storage RAID protection configurations
Simplified operational model for security and network
policy enforcement
Optimized for performance and efficiency ideally suited
96
for a broad range of data center production workloads
VCE DOCUMENTATION
http://vblockproductdocs.ent.vce.com/

HUNTER FAN COMPANY
Hunter Fan is the worlds premier designer Situation
and manufacturer of ceiling fans. The
company also manufactures air purifiers, Hunter Fan needed to position itself for an expected
humidifiers, portable fans, and energy- rebound of the U.S. housing market. The existing
saving thermostats. infrastructure could not support new business
requirements and critical business applications were
Manufacturing
vulnerable in the event of a disaster.
Solution Business Benefit

To support its business objectives, Hunter Fan Approximately 40 percent performance improvement enables
consolidated its IT infrastructure on the faster access to business intelligence data and quicker
Vblock System 300, leading to increased forecasting and decision-making
performance and availability of critical Data analysis completed in one-third the time, providing results
business applications, enhanced agility, to business analysts long before the work day begins
and simplified administration.
VCEs support model has greatly exceeded our expectations. Having a single line of support to handle all three aspects of our
infrastructure is tremendous, saving countless hours we can now spend on activities to help the business grow. We were
thoroughly impressed with the attention and follow-up we have received from the VCE team.
Rick Brandl, IT director and acting CIO

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
Molina Healthcare is a FORTUNE 500 Situation
company that arranges the delivery of
healthcare services or provides health Molinas previous infrastructure was not allowing for their
information management solutions for company to grow as quickly as they needed. Molina
nearly 4.3 million people in 16 states. wanted to be able to deliver an agile infrastructure that
Employs 5,200 people would rapidly meet increased demand for services
supporting government-funded healthcare programs.
$4.7 billion in revenues
Solution Business Benefit

Molina decided to standardize on Has become more agile in responding to growth while increasing
Vblock System 700 and application performance and availability
Vblock System 300. A 4:1 reduction in data center footprint and decreased power
and cooling usage
Improved total cost of ownership due to minimized requirements
for implementation, administration, and support resources
Were more competitive because we can provision new infrastructures right away and handle spikes in processing loads by the
states without burdening our engineers. Our partnership with VCE has been very powerful. Everyone from their engineers to
professional services to project managers is a member of our team and meets our expectations 110 percent.
Marivi Stuchinsky, Asst. Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Services

ACCESSING VCE DOCUMENTATION
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Role Resource
Support.vce.com
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A valid username and password are required.
www.vcepartnerportal.com/resourcelib-vce.asp?loc=331
VCE Partner
A valid username and password are required.
Cisco, EMC, VCE, or VMware employee www.vceportal.com/solution/68580567.html
www.vceview.com/solutions/products/ or
VCE employee
vblockproductdocs.ent.vce.com

VCE VISION
INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS
TDM
<your name>
<date>

TODAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION
STORAGE COMPUTE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION APPLICATION

SUPPORT TEAMS
70% 20% 10%
Operations New Software New Hardware
Cost Investments Investments
MANAGEMENT TOOLS VARY WIDELY
Home-grown Overlay
Complex
Physical Inconsistent Virtual
Costly
Element Off-the-shelf

A NEW ANSWER A DIFFERENT SOLUTION
Software to your management about your

dynamically applications Vblock Systems
inform

CONVERGED OPERATIONS
Customer Choice VCE Vision
Intelligent Operations software
Intelligently
Informs
OPEN API
Real-Time Data

VCE VISION INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS
TWO PATHS TO INTEGRATION
Discovery
VCE Developed
VMware Virtualization
Identification 1 and Cloud Management
Plugins and Adapters
Validation API
Health Industry Data Center

2 Management Tools
RESTful Web Services API
Logging
Partner and Customer Developed

PACKAGING OF VCE VISION SOFTWARE
VCE Vision VCE Vision VCE Vision VCE Vision

System Library for Software Plugin for Adapter for VMware
Vblock Systems Development Kit VMware vCenter vCenter Operations
Manager
Discovery engine APIs with Vblock System Troubleshooting
Object model documentation inventory with virtual
Compliance engine Sample code Health diagnostics and physical
Java Binding Compliance Capacity monitoring
Vblock System reporting Performance
simulator monitoring

CUSTOMER PRAISE
VCE's new software offers a compelling value
proposition to the private cloud and converged
infrastructure spaces.
We were going to tie it to a single Vblock

Systembut we found it so useful we tied it to
all of our Vblock Systems It has already
provided valuable insight.
Compliance auditing section looks quite

good very helpful to keep things in a
consistent and up-to-date manner. That's
proven difficult when you get above [multiple]
Vblock Systems.

6 NEW CAPABILITIES FOR VBLOCK SYSTEMS
Discovery Health Monitoring
Identification Logging
Validation API Open API
Converged Operations

SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS

Vblock System Object Model
Physical Cisco UCS objects
Physical storage objects
VMware vSphere host object
Network device objects

Element APIs
Inventory
CIMC VCE Capacity
System
CIM indications
Library Health
Log messages
Logs
SNMP traps and gets
Events
SMI-S

VMware Third Party
App App App App App App App
vCenter vCOps Config Partner Middle-

NMS LMS
Plugin Plugin Collector Plugin ware
SNMP
REST
REST SNMP
SNMP AMQP
AMQP Syslog
Syslog
VCE SYSTEM LIBRARY

CIM
CIM TFTP
TFTP REST
REST SNMP
SNMP SMI-S
SMI-S Syslog
Syslog CIMC
CIMC
vCenter UCS Nexus and Storage UCS

Server Manager MDS Switches Processor Server
VIRTUAL FORM FACTOR
AMP or LAMP
New
Plugin
VMware
VCE System Library
vCenter Server
VM VM
Adapter
Customer-provided server:
VMware vCenter The VMware vCenter Operations
Operations Manager server must be installed as a
Manager server virtual machine within the Vblock
System itself, or on an external server.
The server must not be a part of an
AMP.
DISCOVERY

COMPONENT DISCOVERY
Description Benefits
Two aspects of discovery Insulates system operators from complexity
logical and physical Reduces the time spent searching for physical assets by
Time-based rediscovery mapping the physical components within the Vblock System
Initial discovery Concentrates attention on the most important aspects of
performed in factory the system
Periodic rediscovery
performed during
operations
Agentless process
Maintains object model
and health state

AGENTLESS DISCOVERY
Need-to-know points Runs every 15 minutes
Blade
Requires that systems are
set up prior to production
Time-based UCS Chassis connected to UCS manager
System determines best discovery DAE connected to existing array
way to get info Disks connected to existing array
RCM and platform driven
Linecards connected to Cisco Nexus/MDS
for component
interoperability:
select versions on the
Detects configuration changes when
3.0, 3.5, 4.0 trains they occur
Core component removed
Available for net-new
system orders
Event-based Port disabled
Populates and maintains discovery Network cable disconnected
a persistent system Device access change e.g.,
object model zoning/masking

SYSTEM INITIALIZED AT BUILD TIME
Manufacturing engineer inputs System cabling and port map

access details for each described in an XML file
element manager

MAINTAINING THE OBJECT MODEL
Eventing system
Updates health state data immediately
Other events relayed immediately
Periodic rediscovery updates the tree
Tree built from a single, generalized model
One codebase that covers all Vblock Systems
Allows for developing new entities rapidly, repeatedly
Plug-n-play for engineering to add new attributes
Covers all core platform components

CONFIGURATION COLLECTION
Addresses a critical Saves time planning, building, testing, and implemented
element of collecting automatic collection of system configurations
and archiving system Aids in rapid troubleshooting by providing a before-and-after
configurations reference of changes to configurations
Periodically creates a Supports rapid replacement and reconfiguration of any/all
package containing the failed Vblock System components
configuration of each
element within Vblock
Systems
Uses a well-defined and
standardized location for
configuration data

PROTECT AGAINST FAILURE AND ERROR
Create full backups

Conducted twice per day 1:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M.
Protects against sequential operator error
Download config file archive via REST API
Able to satisfy recovery objectives
RPO determined by last backup on record
RTO specific to the failed component

ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
VNX: NavCLI; VMAX: SynCLI
XML API
NXOS commands
Storage
Nexus switches UCS
https://192.168.101.74:8443/fm/configcollector controller
Host firewall
TFTP
Configuration server
collector Backup depot API
VCE Vision System Library

ZERO CLIENT SOFTWARE TO INSTALL

IDENTIFICATION

IDENTIFICATION
Understands Provides single-system perspective
configuration without user Increases information consistency
interaction Decreases complexity by creating a Vblock Systems
Presents a unique identity reference point
for the Vblock System
Provides detail on This one!
platform physical Serial # 123
attributes from software
Virginia
Tiles 12-15
Exchange,
SharePoint,
SQL Server

HOW IT WORKS
1. Elements configured at build time

Serial number
Base system properties (model, location)
2. Properties and capabilities cataloged
Maintained in the Vblock System object model
Updated periodically by (re)discovery process
3. Information made available for consumers
API
Plugins and adapters

ELEMENTS OF IDENTITY
System-specific information
Serial number
Model
Location
Structured relational info

Root-level entity
Relations among elements
Qualities and properties
that define the
Vblock System

IDENTITY PROPERTIES
Table index Root level object
(Vblock System)
Parent object
Object
description Object type
SNMP table
Info available via REST too
VALIDATION

SYSTEM ASSURANCE
Automated system Ensures reliability and performance of Vblock System
assurance checks for Accelerates resolution of problems reported to VCE
VCE Release Validates successful application of upgrades to
Certification Matrix Vblock System software
Establishes baselines for
converged infrastructure
Provides a standards-
based means to
audit baselines
Full-featured API for
partner integration

ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM
XCCDF and OVAL Results SCAP Content (XCCDF/OVAL)
Release
vCenter ISV
Certification
plugin application
Matrix
API Client Packaged Kit
Compliance
API I/O
Tests to perform,
comparison values
XCCDF OVAL
Test results
Interpreter Interpreter
Vblock System
VCE Vision Compliance Checker target
<switch_test>
<computesystem_test>
VCE Vision System Library
WHAT IT DOES
Provides a public API
Exposes methods for out-of-the-box system assurance checks
Customize or add new benchmarks
Schedule scans to occur at a desired interval
Obtain previous scan results using search criteria
Event integration
Creates event notification upon scan start and completion
vCenter integration
System assurance scan wizard implementing API functionality
Graphical representation of why a given rule passed/failed

VCE IMPLEMENTATION
Built to deliver VCE-generated content (RCMs now)
Leverages the Security Content Automation Protocol
(SCAP) standard
VCE implementation uses XCCDF and OVAL to define system
assurance checks
Presents output in standard XCCDF and html for easy integration
into other services, or consumption by IT staff

INITIATE A SCAN VIA VCENTER PLUGIN

VIEW COMPLIANCE RESULTS VIA VCENTER PLUGIN

DETAILED COMPUTE SECTION

VIEW REPORT CATALOG

HEALTH MONITORING

HEALTH MONITORING
Provides a health score Expedites diagnosis and remediation
that incorporates VCE Streamlined information flow just one to listen to
design principles
Single stream of data for
upstream consumption
Identifies current issues
OOTB dashboards
Views for Admins
and Operators

HEALTH STATUS VIA VCENTER PLUGIN
Consolidated health status
Displayed at Vblock System level
With ability to drill down into component-level issues
Status information is received from System Library
Short list of available health

status information
Compute Disks
Cisco UCS Fabric Storage Processors
Interconnect
Switches
Cisco UCS Chassis
Cisco Nexus 1000V
Cisco UCS Blade
Storage Array Cisco MDS 9148
DAE Cisco Nexus 5K
DPE

HEALTH STATUS
State Description
Operable Vblock System working as intended
Minor Non-normal issue detected in one of the components
Degraded At least one of the Vblock System components is currently detected as degraded
Major Major issue with at least one component. Vblock System at serious risk if another failure is detected
Critical Serious or fatal issue was detected with a component of Vblock System

HEALTH STATE CHANGES
UCS Chassis 1 UCS Chassis 1 UCS Chassis 1 UCS Chassis 1
Operable Degraded Degraded Major

VCOPS ADAPTER VBLOCK HEATMAP

VCOPS ADAPTER ARCHITECTURE
vCOps Adapter
Event interface
Discovery
Collector
VCE Vision
System Library
VMware vCOps
API
Analytics VM

VCE VISION ADAPTER FOR VCOPS
INTRO
Predictive Analytics and Capacity Management tool
What is vCOps? from VMware
Key component of Operations Management Suite
Operations Dashboards
What do you get with Performance Analytics and Capacity Optimization
vCOps? capabilities
Correlation of events
What do you get with System information based on Vblock Systems identity
Four dashboards to visualize resources
VCE Adapter for VCE recommended thresholds
vCOps? Visualization of system component relationships
LOGGING

LOGGING
Forwards aggregated log Expedites data collection for troubleshooting
data from VCE Vision Consolidates information flows from multiple
System Library to other component streams
syslog hosts Standardizes events
Transcodes events from
vendor formats and
protocols to standardized
protocols
Segregated application
logs from AAA logs

SMI-S
SNMP traps
SNMP Eventing
Traps and gets
System
CIM Indications
AMQP
CIMC
Component
log messages rsyslog
Facility Syslog
VCE Vision
software system
log messages
SYSTEM LIBRARY EVENT MONITOR

OPEN API

VCE VISION API
Access all the data VCE Allows for integration with existing datacenter tooling
Vision Intelligent Basis for partner-built products
Operations software Easily extended to development environment of choice
knows
RESTful, SNMP,
and AMQP
First place that features
and functions are added
Open and public API

REST API
Each element in the model represented as a resource
Element-specific attributes attached
Quick and easy integration

VCE DEVELOPER PROGRAM
Create new management Create tools and applications to monitor and report
tools, applications, and Vblock System performance and health using the
software services using SNMP or REST interface
the SDK Respond to system events reported on the AMQP bus
Quickly address Automate creation of reports using real-time and historical
customer-specific data captured by the Discovery Service
deployment needs
Access a Vblock System-
centric development
community
Develop tools and
applications for the
Vblock System, without
needing to purchase a
Vblock System
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER KIT
Documentation
JAVA Libraries
VCE Vision Intelligent Operations simulator
Includes object model data for all Vblock Systems
(Re)discovery bypassed prepopulated static data
Sample code
REST interface
AMQP client and publisher
System assurance examples
Distributed via our developer portal

VCE DEVELOPER PORTAL
Primary interface between VCE
and the VCE developer community
Read wikis, blogs, and articles
Download SDK
Search code samples
Share your example code
Post to Twitter, LinkedIn
http://www.vce.com/developer

CONVERGED OPERATIONS
Customer Choice VCE Vision
Intelligent Operations
Intelligently
Informs
OPEN API Intelligently

Controls
Real-Time Data
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KEY TERM
SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol)
A government-sponsored collection of languages with independent testing

and validation
An open-source collection of interoperable specifications for the

automation of gathering security and compliance information from
one or more target systems
Contains a versioned set of languages, enumerations, and metrics
External validation available/required depending on use
http://scap.nist.gov/ (Current version is 1.2)

KEY TERM
OVAL (Open Vulnerability & Assessment Language)
An XML language defining specific attributes of a system that should be

checked against a specified value
An information security community effort to standardize how to assess and

report upon the machine state of computer systems
Includes an XML-based language to encode system details, and an
assortment of content repositories held throughout the community
Along with XCCDF, widely used for checking compliance state
http://oval.mitre.org/ (Current version is 5.10.1)

KEY TERM
XCCDF (eXtensible Configuration Checklist Description Format)
An XML language for compliance documents containing information on what

rules to check
Defines a data model and format for storing compliance or benchmark

test results
A specification language for writing security checklists, benchmarks,
and related kinds of documents
Designed to support information interchange, document generation,
organizational and situational tailoring, automated compliance testing,
and compliance scoring
http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/xccdf/ (Current version is 1.2)
VMWARE VCOPS KEY CONCEPTS
A numerical value representing how close a resource is to its normal value
Normal value is a dynamic number that changes based on historical and
incoming data
Health Scores Health score of a resource based on its own health and the health
of its children
Health calculated based on resource metrics as well as internally
generated metrics
Generated to signal an issue based on a set of anomalies

Alerts Smart Alerts indicate an issue that is likely to occur in the future
Change Events
Events Threshold Events
Notification Events
Capacity Analysis
Top-N Analysis
Forensic Tools Fingerprint Analysis
Cross-silo Analysis

THRESHOLDS AND ANOMALIES
Anomaly Anomaly
Dynamic Threshold
vCOps continually calculates a dynamic threshold and a degree of

abnormality for every metric
Metric values falling outside the threshold and degree of abnormality
generate an anomaly
An anomaly or group of anomalies may result in an alert
KPI metrics always generate an alert when they violate thresholds
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Denser compute SCALABLE

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