UCS System Architecture
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The document outlines Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) architecture, emphasizing the challenges of traditional server and network management with multiple points of management. Cisco UCS aims to streamline this process by integrating compute and network resources into a single system, promoting ease of management, virtualization optimization, and resource provisioning. Key features include centralized management through UCS Manager and UCS Central, which provides a unified approach to handling servers, policies, and resource allocation across multiple data centers.
UCS System Architecture
- 1. © 2011 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 11© 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Toronto, Canada May 30, 2013 UCS System Architecture Roger Andersson Director Technical Marketing, SAVTG
- 2. Agenda • Cisco UCS Architecture Design Aspects • Cisco UCS Manager Architecture Policies, Pools, Templates, Identifiers Service Profile • Cisco UCS Central High level Overview • Live Demo UCS Manager and UCS Central
- 3. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 3 Cisco UCS
- 4. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 4 Too Many Points of Management… Mgmt Server M M M M M M M M MM M M M M M MM M M M M M M M M M M Over the past 20 years • An evolution of size, not thinking • More servers and switches than ever Traditional architectures have multiple points of management: • Each blade • Each chassis • Each LAN switch in chassis • Each SAN switch in chassis • LAN and SAN switches at TOR/EOR M M M MM M M M M M MM M M M M M M M M M M M = Point of Management
- 5. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 5 Mgmt Server Common Server Deployment Architecture An accidental architecture • Still a 1980’s PC model Result: Complexity • More points of management • More difficult to maintain policy coherence • More difficult to secure • More difficult to scale
- 6. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 6 Mgmt Server UCS Solution Mgmt Server• Embed management • Unify fabrics • Optimize virtualization • Remove unnecessary switches, adapters, management modules • Less than 1/3rd the support infrastructure for a given workload Mgmt Server
- 7. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 7 Mgmt Serve Our Solution: Cisco UCS • A single system that encompasses: Network: Unified fabric Compute: Industry standard x86 Virtualization optimized • Unified management model Dynamic resource provisioning • Efficient Scale Cisco network scale & services Fewer servers with more memory • Lower cost Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables Lower power consumption Fewer points of management
- 8. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 8 SAN B Our Solution: Cisco UCS • Single, scalable integrated system • Network + compute virtualization • Stateless Dynamic resource provisioning Mgmt SAN ALAN
- 9. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 9 UCS Manager
- 10. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 10 § Reduced management costs § Easier to integrate with existing frameworks – Single consistent API for all managed objects UCS, Consolidated Management Cisco Solution Mgmt ServerMgmt Server Today Blade Manager Chassis Manager Connectivity Manager Multi-Chassis Connectivity Manager Single Embedded Device Manager
- 11. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 11 Both GUI and CLI are built on a comprehensive XML API XML API - Access to 100% of UCM Components UCS
- 12. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 12 UCS Manager… Common Information Model Map (CIM-MAP) Management Information Tree (MIT) Transaction Control CIM-Object Manager (CIMOM) SMASH Command Line Protocol (CLP) Common Information Model XML (CIM-XML) UCS Command Line Interface (UCSCLI) UCS Object API Data Management Engine (DME) Customer specific systems management tool CMDB Power Tool Existing CIM XML tools Embedded Manager Read/Write Interface Read-Only Interface Internal Component Native XML API Custom Scripts
- 13. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 13 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC MAC Address Pool Server Pool 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 5080020000075740 WWN Address Pool 08:00:69:02:01:FC08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… UUID Pool UCS System Pool Types Server Resources Identities Resources Server Pool 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC MAC Address Pool 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 5080020000075740 WWN Address Pool 08:00:69:02:01:FC08:00:69:02:01:FC 08:00:69:02:01:FC 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… UUID Pool … … … …
- 14. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 14 Manual Pool Assignment Server Pool: Application_A Server Pool: ESX VMs Server Pool: Application_B
- 15. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 15 Automatic Pool Assignment Server Pool: Application_A Server Pool: ESX VMs Pool Policy: App_Pool_A Qualification: APP Pool: Application_A Pool Policy: ESX_Pool Qualification: ESX Pool: ESX_VMs Server Pool: Application_B Pool Policy: App_Pool_B Qualification: APP Pool: Application_B Qualification Policy: ESX Min 32 GB RAM 2 CPU’s Qualification Policy: APP Min 8 GB RAM Max 16 GB RAM
- 16. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 16 § Separate firmware, identifiers, and settings from server hardware § Physical servers become interchangeable hardware components § Easy to move OS and applications across server hardware State abstracted from hardware LAN Connectivity SAN ConnectivityOS & Application Chassis-1/Blade-2 LAN SAN UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN BMC FirmwareMAC Address NIC Firmware NIC Settings Drive Controller F/W Drive Firmware UUID BIOS Firmware BIOS Settings Boot Order WWN Address HBA Firmware HBA Settings Hardware “State” Abstraction, SP
- 17. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 17 Server Profile and Templates Server Profile Template Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot Parameters WWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes Server Name UUID Boot Order Boot ParametersWWN/WWPNMAC Address SAN Attributes LAN Attributes
- 18. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 18 • Server identity no longer has to be tied to physical server hardware – Profiles provide identity – Seamless server mobility – Stateless components • Boot over network (LAN or SAN) – Boot order and boot devices are part of the pre- defined logical server profile – On-board disks can be used for temp, swap, etc. • LAN and SAN connectivity – # of NICs – # of HBAs Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN Chassis-1/Blade-1 Chassis-9/Blade-5 Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FD MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FE MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FF WWN: 5080020000075740 WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN § No changes to infrastructure changes needed when moving a service profile UCS, Stateless Computing, Benefits SAN LAN
- 19. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 19 Cisco UCS Central
- 20. Compute Capacity: Units of Scale Server Chassis Domain Single Datacenter Global Datacenters UCS Manager
- 21. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 21 This is an upcoming product—Feature set for first release subject to change Unified Management at Scale UCS Manager UCS Manager Data Center 1 UCS Manager UCS Manager Data Center 2 UCS Manager Data Center 3 UCS Central • Unifies management of multi UCS domains • Leverages UCS Manager technology • Simplify global operations with centralized inventory, faults, logs and server consoles • Delivers global policies, service profiles, ID pools and templates • Foundation for high availability, disaster recovery and workload mobility • Model based XML API for large scale automation UCS Central
- 22. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 22 UCS Central Summary, Version 1.0 § Inventory § Audit, Fault, Event Log Aggregation § Global ID Pools § Firmware Updates § Backups § Global Administrative Policies § UCS Manager & KVM Launch § Domain Groups 22
- 23. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 23 UCS Central Summary, Version 1.1 § Deep Inventory § HA, UCS Central § Statistics Aggregation § Global VLAN’s (with Aliases) § Global Policies § Global Templates § Global Server Pools § Global Service Profiles § Licensing 23
- 24. © 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Connect 24 Live Demo
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